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The Worst Episodes of Wagon Train

Every episode of Wagon Train ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Wagon Train!

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...
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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Isaiah Quickfox Story" is the worst rated episode of "Wagon Train". It scored 4.2/10 based on 414 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/31/1965. This episode scored 1.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Princess of a Lost Tribe".

  • The Isaiah Quickfox Story
    4.2/10414 votes
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    #1 - The Isaiah Quickfox Story

    Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 1/31/1965

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Princess of a Lost Tribe
    5.5/10134 votes
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    #2 - The Princess of a Lost Tribe

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1960

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Ah Chong Story
    6.3/1051 votes
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    #3 - The Ah Chong Story

    Season 4 Episode 37 - Aired 6/14/1961

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Betsy Blee Smith Story
    6.3/1066 votes
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    #4 - The Betsy Blee Smith Story

    Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 3/28/1965

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Hector Heatherton Story
    6.6/1052 votes
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    #5 - The Hector Heatherton Story

    Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 12/20/1964

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Mark Hanford Story
    6.7/1098 votes
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    #6 - The Mark Hanford Story

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/26/1958

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Cappy Darrin Story
    6.7/1080 votes
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    #7 - The Cappy Darrin Story

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1959

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Ricky and Laurie Bell Story
    6.7/1090 votes
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    #8 - The Ricky and Laurie Bell Story

    Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/24/1960

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Beauty Jamison Story
    7.0/1084 votes
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    #9 - The Beauty Jamison Story

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/1958

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Silver Lady
    7.0/1058 votes
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    #10 - The Silver Lady

    Season 8 Episode 25 - Aired 4/25/1965

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Steve Campden Story
    7.1/10107 votes
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    #11 - The Steve Campden Story

    Season 2 Episode 32 - Aired 5/13/1959

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Marie Brandt Story
    7.1/1092 votes
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    #12 - The Marie Brandt Story

    Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/20/1960

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Patience Miller Story
    7.1/10101 votes
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    #13 - The Patience Miller Story

    Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 1/11/1961

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Lisa Raincloud Story
    7.1/1095 votes
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    #14 - The Lisa Raincloud Story

    Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1962

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Captain Sam Story
    7.1/1052 votes
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    #15 - The Captain Sam Story

    Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 3/21/1965

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Honorable Don Charlie Story
    7.2/1097 votes
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    #16 - The Honorable Don Charlie Story

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/22/1958

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Martha Barham Story
    7.2/1089 votes
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    #17 - The Martha Barham Story

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1959

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Clayton Tucker Story
    7.2/10100 votes
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    #18 - The Clayton Tucker Story

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/10/1960

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Horace Best Story
    7.2/10116 votes
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    #19 - The Horace Best Story

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/1960

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Tiburcio Mendez Story
    7.2/1063 votes
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    #20 - The Tiburcio Mendez Story

    Season 4 Episode 26 - Aired 3/22/1961

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Jim Bridger Story
    7.2/1071 votes
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    #21 - The Jim Bridger Story

    Season 4 Episode 32 - Aired 5/10/1961

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Maud Frazer Story
    7.2/10102 votes
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    #22 - The Maud Frazer Story

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1961

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Hollister John Garrison Story
    7.2/1068 votes
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    #23 - The Hollister John Garrison Story

    Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 2/6/1963

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Melanie Craig Story
    7.2/1062 votes
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    #24 - The Melanie Craig Story

    Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 2/17/1964

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Old Man Charvanaugh Story
    7.3/1098 votes
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    #25 - The Old Man Charvanaugh Story

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/18/1959

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A