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The Worst Episodes of Wagon Train

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The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 17 - The Isaiah Quickfox Story
    4.6/10(439 votes)

    #1 - The Isaiah Quickfox Story

    S8:E17

    Coop and Charlie ride into a small village for supplies finding it deserted. There is an Indian who stays hidden and later three men and a woman ride into town. They have been looking for the woman's father in a cave filled with bats.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 6 - The Princess of a Lost Tribe
    5.6/10(157 votes)

    #2 - The Princess of a Lost Tribe

    S4:E6

    Ordered by Major Adams to guide three passengers to a campsite up a haunted mountain, Flint does so but with caution: rumours that an escaped group of Aztecs now live there, almost 400 years after Cortez wiped them all out.

    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Jean Holloway

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  3. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 22 - The Betsy Blee Smith Story
    6.1/10(87 votes)

    #3 - The Betsy Blee Smith Story

    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
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 37 - The Ah Chong Story
    6.3/10(70 votes)

    #4 - The Ah Chong Story

    S4:E37

    Dissatisfied with Charley Wooster, Hale and Hawks push for a new cook - a Chinese cook named Ah Chong.

    Director:Virgil W. Vogel
    Writers:Sheldon Bonnewell, Terry Wilson

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  5. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 13 - The Hector Heatherton Story
    6.4/10(69 votes)

    #5 - The Hector Heatherton Story

    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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  6. Wagon Train Season 1 Episode 23 - The Mark Hanford Story
    6.5/10(123 votes)

    #6 - The Mark Hanford Story

    S1:E23

    Jack Hanford built his wealth to give his son. He turns it all down to honor his Cheyenne heritage when his mother dies. To make matters worse in his son's eyes, he had sent for a woman he briefly met to replace her even before she died.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Wagon Train Season 2 Episode 32 - The Steve Campden Story
    6.7/10(128 votes)

    #7 - The Steve Campden Story

    S2:E32

    Flint must find a way to get the wagon train around a snow covered pass. On a scouting trek, he meets a father and son who are willing to help him but they want to hike up the mountain. The adventure ahead has surprises for them all.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 7 - The Cappy Darrin Story
    6.8/10(97 votes)

    #8 - The Cappy Darrin Story

    S3:E7

    Old salt Cappy Darrin is on the train with his orphaned grandson Tuck. But Cappy's daughter granted custody of Tuck to his uncle, and as their parting nears Cappy finds he is reluctant to let Tuck go.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 20 - The Ricky and Laurie Bell Story
    6.8/10(106 votes)

    #9 - The Ricky and Laurie Bell Story

    S3:E20

    Laurie and Ricky Bell uproot and go West, leaving their comforts in Baltimore. When she announces she is pregnant, he is less than happy as he feels she has just made their lives more complicated especially where it concerns his needs.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 25 - The Silver Lady
    6.9/10(78 votes)

    #10 - The Silver Lady

    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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  11. Wagon Train Season 2 Episode 11 - The Beauty Jamison Story
    7.0/10(103 votes)

    #11 - The Beauty Jamison Story

    S2:E11

    Flint, at a grave, sees a man stabbed in the back with a note saying Deliver to Beauty Jamison. As that is the daughter of the man interred he pays a visit and sees a woman trying to continue a legacy with the locals trying to break her.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 2 - The Horace Best Story
    7.0/10(135 votes)

    #12 - The Horace Best Story

    S4:E2

    Adams' "distant" cousin Horace arrives hoping to be a wagon master. His trading skills allow him to steal the crew and vendors from Adams but when Adams confronts him with the decisions he must make on the trail, there are second thoughts.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 26 - The Tiburcio Mendez Story
    7.0/10(81 votes)

    #13 - The Tiburcio Mendez Story

    S4:E26

    Bill Hawks is leading four wagons through to California when they are stopped by Tiburcio Mendez and his band of renegades, who demand they turn back. Mendez and his group claim that California is their land and that it was stolen by the later settlers. A judge traveling with Hawks' group believes that Mendez has a legitimate grievance which could be addressed by the legislature in Sacramento, and against Hawks' warning goes in to Mendez' camp to talk with him. When Hawks follows, both he and the judge are taken prisoner.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Wagon Train Season 6 Episode 7 - The Lisa Raincloud Story
    7.0/10(115 votes)

    #14 - The Lisa Raincloud Story

    S6:E7

    Bill Hawks is caught with three Indian grave robbers being chased by the Indians. He is the only one captured and is to be killed until he and the Chief's daughter fall in love. However, the leading brave has other ideas for her and Bill.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 6 - The Martha Barham Story
    7.1/10(107 votes)

    #15 - The Martha Barham Story

    S3:E6

    Flint and a long time Sioux Indian friend reunite but trouble is brewing as the Cheyenne are on the warpath and in their way is Fort Hastings, an old flame of his and her new Army Captain fiancé.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 16 - The Marie Brandt Story
    7.1/10(110 votes)

    #16 - The Marie Brandt Story

    S3:E16

    Trying to give her son a chance, Maidie Brant is found by the wagon train. Needing fresh horses after a cougar attack, she is reluctant to say why she won't go back to town and buy some but would rather pay top dollar for the Major's.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 16 - The Patience Miller Story
    7.1/10(119 votes)

    #17 - The Patience Miller Story

    S4:E16

    A Quaker schoolteacher heads to the Arapaho nation on the wagon train when her husband is killed. She meets the Chief and his willingness to fight another Indian nation puts her right in the middle of each tribe's pride and customs.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Wagon Train Season 4 Episode 32 - The Jim Bridger Story
    7.1/10(90 votes)

    #18 - The Jim Bridger Story

    S4:E32

    An Army general announces he is taking over the wagon train and requiring all members to act as soldiers in helping him rescue a trapped cavalry garrison of 120 men who are otherwise likely to be slaughtered by hostile Utes. Flint, temporarily in charge of the wagon train, has little choice but to agree to the general's demand, as much as he hates it and his passengers want him to fight back. Particularly upsetting to Flint is learning that the man who recommended this takeover was Jim Bridger, a legendary frontiersman and scout who mostly raised Flint and whom he idolized.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Wagon Train Season 6 Episode 20 - The Hollister John Garrison Story
    7.1/10(90 votes)

    #19 - The Hollister John Garrison Story

    S6:E20

    Bitter alcoholic Stevenson Drake develops a dislike for the even tempered John Hollister, a fellow Southerner, when he learns he didn't fight for the Confederacy. He also is bothered by the friendliness between his wife and Hollister.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Wagon Train Season 8 Episode 21 - The Captain Sam Story
    7.1/10(74 votes)

    #20 - The Captain Sam Story

    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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  21. Wagon Train Season 1 Episode 16 - The Luke O'Malley Story
    7.2/10(121 votes)

    #21 - The Luke O'Malley Story

    S1:E16

    Luke O'Malley is running from an outlaw who said he would kill him for turning him into the law. Since he won't believe he didn't do it, he takes his two kids and joins Adams' wagon train disguised as a parsons, who doesn't act like one.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Wagon Train Season 1 Episode 19 - The Honorable Don Charlie Story
    7.2/10(118 votes)

    #22 - The Honorable Don Charlie Story

    S1:E19

    Don Charlie is a gambler and womanizer and makes no excuses for it. When he meets a woman who wants to marry him there may be trouble because the Major promised her uncle that she would make it safely to San Francisco.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Wagon Train Season 1 Episode 25 - The Marie Dupree Story
    7.2/10(126 votes)

    #23 - The Marie Dupree Story

    S1:E25

    A beautiful woman riding with the train likes flirting. When she gets mixed up with the wrong man, she strings along a boy on the train in order to make him jealous, playing one man's love against another's.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Wagon Train Season 2 Episode 20 - The Old Man Charvanaugh Story
    7.2/10(119 votes)

    #24 - The Old Man Charvanaugh Story

    S2:E20

    Flint escorts a wagon, leaving the train, to their new home. When they meet an old man with a wagon load of uncured buffalo skins he's trying to sell, they invite him along as he appears friendly enough. But Flint feels he's too friendly.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Wagon Train Season 3 Episode 3 - The C.L. Harding Story
    7.2/10(119 votes)

    #25 - The C.L. Harding Story

    S3:E3

    A reporter has joined the wagon train. When the Major finds out he is a she, he finds his hands full especially when her looks and curiosity jeopardize everyone's safety and their right to vote.

    Director:Herschel Daugherty
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Isaiah Quickfox Story" is the worst rated episode of "Wagon Train". It scored 4.6/10 based on 439 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/31/1965. This episode scored 1.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Princess of a Lost Tribe".