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The Best Episodes of Wagon Train Season 8

Every episode of Wagon Train Season 8 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Wagon Train Season 8!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 3 - The John Gillman Story
    8.9/10(172 votes)

    S8:E3

    John Gillman being chased and shot in the leg by a posse escapes via a river. He is found downriver nearly passes out by a young orphan girl Abigail. She takes a liking to him but he tries to rebuff her. However, events cause a change.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 18 - Herman
    8.9/10(147 votes)

    S8:E18

    The wagon train comes across old Jamison Hershey and Herman, his 3000 pound Belgian horse. The old man has made it safely through hostile Indian territory because the tribes are so in awe of his horse. Hershey and Herman are invited to ride with the train, though it becomes apparent that Herman is not able to travel very fast and may hold back the entire group.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 12 - Little Girl Lost
    8.7/10(170 votes)

    S8:E12

    A little girl, crying each night, appears to be a ghost from The Donner Party. Many people hear her, but she appears each night to Charlie, who questions his own sanity.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 14 - The Echo Pass Story
    8.4/10(120 votes)

    S8:E14

    While out looking for water Coop and Charlie are stopped by a gang of five, including two women, who are on the run after robbing a bank and killing three lawmen. The leader of the gang shoots Charlie after tying him up, and they take Coop to lead them through a mountain pass to get to California.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 16 - The Wanda Snow Story
    8.3/10(87 votes)

    S8:E16

    Wanda Snow has several times seen events before they have happened, causing several people on the wagon train to accuse her of being a witch. A medicine show peddler/magician gets the idea to use her in his act, but this creates friction between him and his devious partner.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 23 - The Katy Piper Story
    8.3/10(88 votes)

    S8:E23

    Barnaby is forced to shot and kill a boy his own age who took a woman and her daughters hostage. He is cleared of any wrongdoing but cannot shake the blood he feels is on his hands plus the judge wants him to inform the boy's mother.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 24 - The Indian Girl Story
    8.3/10(91 votes)

    S8:E24

    A white renegade rides into the wagon train camp with an Indian girl tied to a rope and forced to walk without food or water. He says that he is bringing her back to the tribe where she will be tortured and killed for killing the chief's son. Hawks, in charge of a smaller group until Hale and Coop meet them with the rest of the train, decides to forcibly take the girl from her sadistic captor and keep her with his group, even knowing that this may lead to an attack from the chief's tribe.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 1 - The Bob Stuart Story
    8.1/10(117 votes)

    S8:E1

    Ex-Marshal Bob Stuart and his new wife are among three wagons joining Chris Hale's wagon train. Scout Cooper Smith is assigned to escort the new wagons to join up with the main train but there is blood, bad blood, between the scout and the ex-lawman. Entering the mix are old friends from Cooper Smith's past who also have an ax to grind against Bob Stuart. Coop soon becomes caught in between the man he was and the man he's become as his friends set out to destroy Bob Stuart and anyone who gets in the way.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 2 - The Hide Hunters
    8.1/10(87 votes)

    S8:E2

    Hide hunters, hunters who kill buffalo for their hides only, have temporarily joined up with the wagon train. One of their number, Gib Ryker, is a sociopath who enjoys antagonizing young Barnaby West. With the train desperately needing fresh meat, Cooper Smith, along with Barnaby, sets off with the hide hunters to look for buffalo. Along the way Gib continues to bait Barnaby, much to Coop's dismay until Barnaby is forced to defend himself, with disastrous results. Now Barnaby has to face Gib's brother Zach, who's out for revenge.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 4 - The Race Town Story
    8.1/10(89 votes)

    S8:E4

    Bill accompanies Barnaby to Sam Race's tent city of "entertainers", where a girl from the train that Barnaby likes has taken a job, not as a singer, as she had thought, but as a saloon girl. Bill hopes to keep Barnaby out of trouble with the gambling and con games Race runs, but trouble and humiliation is just what they both find.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 7 - The Alice Whitetree Story
    8.1/10(94 votes)

    S8:E7

    Coop falls for a young half-Indian woman wandering alone in the wilderness. He brings her to the wagon train, where Hale discovers she is a survivor of a tribe totally massacred ten years earlier. A sheriff says she has killed two people.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 8 - Those Who Stay Behind
    8.1/10(97 votes)

    S8:E8

    Hale is unable to take everybody on the next phase and has to turn down some of those applying. One is Ben Campbell, an ex-convict who is being hunted by his escaped former partner, who believes Ben turned him in to the law among others.

    Director:Virgil W. Vogel
    Writer:John McGreevey

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  13. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 20 - The Miss Mary Lee McIntosh Story
    8.1/10(89 votes)

    S8:E20

    Teacher Mary Lee McIntosh refuses to pay what she feels is an excessive fee to join the wagon train, so she decides instead to follow behind it in her wagon alone, and refuses help from Hale. But after her wagon overturns, things change.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 6 - The Brian Conlin Story
    8.0/10(101 votes)

    S8:E6

    Brian Conlin walks into Hale's camp, delirious and dehydrated. After he recovers, he leads Coop to his group of Irish immigrants, whose wagons have broken down, and Hale invites them to join the wagon train. However, having been repeatedly turned away from place after place, most members of Conlin's group are slow to trust anyone or accept help.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 11 - The Clay Shelby Story
    7.9/10(80 votes)

    S8:E11

    With Hawks ill and Comanches threatening to attack, an Army troop meets up with the wagon train. The Indians appear to greatly outnumber the soldiers, so to give the train hope the troop's lieutenant falsely tells Hale and Coop that there is also a relief column headed their way. Complicating matters even more, a sergeant from the troop recognizes Clay Shelby, a young man on the wagon train traveling with his pregnant wife, as a deserter from back in the Civil War whom he blames for the death of his brother.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 5 - The Barbara Lindquist Story
    7.8/10(93 votes)

    S8:E5

    Cooper Smith is on his way to the town of Washburn to pick up long awaited mail for the wagon train when he stumbles upon a stagecoach robbery in progress. The very proper Miss Barbara Lindquist is on her way to meet her fiancé, mistakes Coop for one of the robbers and ends up forcing him to help her. Further misadventures see Coop wounded and both he and Barbara struggling to get to back to the wagon train for help. Believing his wound will end his days as a scout, Coop finds himself falling in love with Barbara and she with him. But will their love stand the test ...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 19 - The Bonnie Brooke Story
    7.7/10(82 votes)

    S8:E19

    Don Brooke is desperate for money for his pregnant wife Bonnie, who's condition is too delicate for the long trip without more medical care so he seeks a bank loan. When he sees an opportunity at the bank, it leads to tragedy.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 26 - The Jarbo Pierce Story
    7.6/10(97 votes)

    S8:E26

    The series' final episode begins and ends with the two characters who stayed with it from beginning to end, as Charlie tells Hawks about his earlier days working for trading post operator Jarbo Pierce. Jarbo, once a wild, hard-drinking man, had become a minister, though he could still take on any man who tried to fight him. When his younger brother Adam arrived at the post Jarbo found himself at odds with him as Adam preferred the wilder ways of life and didn't understand Jarbo's concerns for the Indians he traded with, and began working with a man who wanted to use ...

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 9 - The Nancy Styles Story
    7.5/10(114 votes)

    S8:E9

    Spoiled Nancy Styles, claiming to be the daughter of the owner of the company that owns the wagon train, is determined to get to Denver by forcing her way onto it and then Hale makes it clear he plans to bypass the city due to early snow.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 10 - The Richard Bloodgood Story
    7.5/10(85 votes)

    S8:E10

    A blind man called Sangre has joined the wagon train along with his guide. He is actually Coop's boyhood blood brother Richard Bloodgood, and he openly states his plan to kill Coop. Coop gets very hostile and refuses to discuss it whenever Charlie or Barnaby ask the reason Richard wants to kill him, but they know it has to do with the death of a beautiful woman long ago.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 15 - The Chottsie Gubenheimer Story
    7.3/10(74 votes)

    S8:E15

    Hale finds his old flame Chottsie Gubenheimer working in a gambling house and in an argument with the owner, so he asks her to come with him and join the wagon train. He comes to realize that he's getting more problems than he bargained for.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 21 - The Captain Sam Story
    7.1/10(77 votes)

    S8:E21

    Tough and headstrong female ferryboat captain Samantha Stewart is asked by her son Johnny and his bride to accompany them on the wagon train to California, where they will board a ship for a Pacific voyage. But actually, Johnny is not telling his proud mother that her doctor has told him that she must stay with a dry climate on land or she will die.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 25 - The Silver Lady
    6.9/10(79 votes)

    S8:E25

    Coop tells Bill the story of the Earp brothers and the Silver Lady, a woman who was encased in a coffin of sliver coins that melted around her after the stagecoach she was riding on and guarded by Morgan Earp had an accident and burned.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 13 - The Hector Heatherton Story
    6.5/10(74 votes)

    S8:E13

    Charlie has finally found someone else who shares his dream of man being able to fly, henpecked inventor Hector Heatherton, who has been working on an idea for building a flying machine so Charlie volunteers to build a machine for Hector.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 22 - The Betsy Blee Smith Story
    6.2/10(90 votes)

    S8:E22

    Despite the advice of some Coop decides to visit former girlfriend Eloise Blee, but finds Eloise gone, and instead winds up being talked into posing as her twin sister Betsy's missing husband and father of her baby daughter.

    Director:Unknown
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Season 8 Ratings Summary

"The John Gillman Story" is the best rated episode of Wagon Train season 8. It scored 8.9/10 from 172 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on October 4, 1964.