The Worst Episodes of Wagon Train

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   4.5/10(429 votes)

   #1 - The Isaiah Quickfox Story

   S8:E171/31/1965

   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.

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   5.5/10(148 votes)

   #2 - The Princess of a Lost Tribe

   S4:E611/2/1960

   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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   6.2/10(62 votes)

   #3 - The Ah Chong Story

   S4:E376/14/1961

   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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   Director:Virgil W. Vogel

   Writers:Sheldon Bonnewell, Terry Wilson
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   6.2/10(81 votes)

   #4 - The Betsy Blee Smith Story

   S8:E223/28/1965

   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.

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   6.5/10(63 votes)

   #5 - The Hector Heatherton Story

   S8:E1312/20/1964

   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.

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   6.6/10(113 votes)

   #6 - The Mark Hanford Story

   S1:E232/26/1958

   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.

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   6.7/10(96 votes)

   #7 - The Ricky and Laurie Bell Story

   S3:E202/24/1960

   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.

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   6.8/10(118 votes)

   #8 - The Steve Campden Story

   S2:E325/13/1959

   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.

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   6.8/10(88 votes)

   #9 - The Cappy Darrin Story

   S3:E711/11/1959

   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.

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    7.0/10(94 votes)

    #10 - The Beauty Jamison Story

    S2:E1112/17/1958

    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.

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    7.0/10(128 votes)

    #11 - The Horace Best Story

    S4:E210/5/1960

    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.

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    7.0/10(109 votes)

    #12 - The Patience Miller Story

    S4:E161/11/1961

    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.

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    7.0/10(74 votes)

    #13 - The Tiburcio Mendez Story

    S4:E263/22/1961

    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.

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    7.0/10(73 votes)

    #14 - The Silver Lady

    S8:E254/25/1965

    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.

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    7.1/10(98 votes)

    #15 - The Marie Brandt Story

    S3:E161/20/1960

    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.

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    7.1/10(82 votes)

    #16 - The Hollister John Garrison Story

    S6:E202/6/1963

    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.

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    7.1/10(72 votes)

    #17 - The Melanie Craig Story

    S7:E222/17/1964

    Everyone wants to help pretty Melanie Craig after her husband is killed in an accident so four men fight over who will be the one to court and marry her. Also, Rudd Basham, father of three boys, uses the wrong ideas about women to win her.

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    7.2/10(109 votes)

    #18 - The Honorable Don Charlie Story

    S1:E191/22/1958

    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.

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    7.2/10(113 votes)

    #19 - The Old Man Charvanaugh Story

    S2:E202/18/1959

    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.

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    7.2/10(99 votes)

    #20 - The Martha Barham Story

    S3:E611/4/1959

    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.

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    7.2/10(94 votes)

    #21 - The Lita Foladaire Story

    S3:E141/6/1960

    Never having met Lita Foladaire, Major Adams learned a lot about her past, the town she grew up in, the people who loved her and most importantly what happened to her surrounded by those same people.

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    7.2/10(106 votes)

    #22 - The Clayton Tucker Story

    S3:E182/10/1960

    Taking a dangerous route through the desert to join up with the wagon train, a small band of settlers take a turn for the worse when they lose the one man leading them, their scout, and now differ on where they need to go now.

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    7.2/10(125 votes)

    #23 - The Maggie Hamilton Story

    S3:E264/6/1960

    When their daughter runs away from the wagon train, the Hamiltons hire Flint to bring her back. With renegades in the area, he soon discovers how spoiled Maggie really is and they still manage to make it back in one piece.

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    7.2/10(109 votes)

    #24 - The Maud Frazer Story

    S5:E310/11/1961

    Maud Frazer takes command of her wagon train after all the men are killed. Flint tries to dissuade Maud from going through hostile Indian country where there is gold.. She proceeds anyway but is forced to change plans.

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    7.2/10(105 votes)

    #25 - The Lisa Raincloud Story

    S6:E710/31/1962

    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.

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