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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 Jean LeBec Story" is the worst rated episode of "Wagon Train". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/25/1957. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "The John Cameron Story".

  • The Jean LeBec Story
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    #1 - The Jean LeBec Story

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1957

    The train cannot get supplies after a member kills the son of the man who owns most of St. Joseph in self-defense. He escapes with the help of Flint but when he learns the train is still being denied supplies he returns to face hanging.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The John Cameron Story
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    #2 - The John Cameron Story

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1957

    John Cameron, from Philadelphia, heads west with his wife to start a new life. Her flirtatious ways may get the better of her when three trappers come into camp offering fresh buffalo and thinking she might be more available than she is.

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  • The Ruth Owens Story
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    #3 - The Ruth Owens Story

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1957

    Ruth Owens remarries and is moving west with her new husband. When her brother comes looking for her, he stirs up trouble for her about her past and himself because he just killed a man.

    Director: N/A

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  • The Les Rand Story
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    #4 - The Les Rand Story

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1957

    Les Rand, just released from prison for murder, goes back home to kill the man he held responsible; his father, the doctor. Meanwhile, Flint is there to fetch the doctor to help someone injured. Les vows that no one will stand in his way.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Nels Stack Story
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    #5 - The Nels Stack Story

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/1957

    A pacifist since the war, Nels Stack stands up to any man prejudiced against another. When his own beliefs are tested in the face of an impending Indian attack against the wagon train, he has to decide who he is going to defend.

    Director: N/A

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  • The Emily Rossiter Story
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    #6 - The Emily Rossiter Story

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1957

    Emily Rossiter had a young daughter to care for. She met and married someone she felt she could trust. When she found out this was misplaced, getting the daughter away from him and into a better life becomes her main goal.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The John Darro Story
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    #7 - The John Darro Story

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1957

    When the train picks up an abandoned drunk on the trail, he exposes John Darro to be the reviled coward John Thurman who abandoned a previous train during a massacre. Darro's young son Tommy is unable to cope with the truth.

    Director: N/A

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  • The Charles Avery Story
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    #8 - The Charles Avery Story

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1957

    Lieutenant Avery has a mission. Deliver a peace treaty and the chief's daughter. But he has a secret vendetta that may jeopardize everyone's hope for peace.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Mary Halstead Story
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    #9 - The Mary Halstead Story

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1957

    Mary Halstead is in search of a son she gave up a long time ago. With months to live, she comes west on the trail of someone who could be her son, but he may also turn out to be a notorious outlaw.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Zeke Thomas Story
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    #10 - The Zeke Thomas Story

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1957

    The wagon train stops in a newly built town to get water they had always been able to get before for free. Wanting money now, and at a steep price, has the Major upset. Sending Flint also uncovers a wife of a passenger thought dead.

    Director: N/A

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  • The Riley Gratton Story
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    #11 - The Riley Gratton Story

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/1957

    Riley Gratton has always drifted from here to there, a smooth tongue getting him whatever he needed. When he tries to do the same with some folks on the Major's wagon train, what comes next may be the least of his worries.

    Director: N/A

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  • The Clara Beauchamp Story
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    #12 - The Clara Beauchamp Story

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1957

    When a new officer and troops kill an Indian brave and the post commander's drunken bored wife insults the Chief, Flint is forced to act as a neutral agent between the Army and Indians and save the wagon train.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Julie Gage Story
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    #13 - The Julie Gage Story

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/1957

    A head strong Julie Gage is determined to ride her wagon to California. Losing her pa to fever, many suitors step up to help but she'll have none of it until one comes down with fever himself and she's the only one who will tend to him.

    Director: N/A

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  • The Cliff Grundy Story
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    #14 - The Cliff Grundy Story

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/25/1957

    Mortally wounded in a buffalo stampede, Cliff Grundy's friend Flint stays when the wagon train leaves. Manson says he will help but his reasons for staying become clear as Cliff keeps saying he has a goldmine somewhere and he's recovering.

    Director: N/A

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  • The Luke O'Malley Story
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    #15 - The Luke O'Malley Story

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/1/1958

    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: N/A

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  • The Jesse Cowan Story
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    #16 - The Jesse Cowan Story

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/8/1958

    The Cowans and Beals have been feuding a long time. Bob and Jesse return from the war and find their family dead and the Beals have joined a wagon train. Revenging their family is just the start of what Major Adams must now deal with.

    Director: Sidney Lanfield

    Writer: Dwight Newton

  • The Gabe Carswell Story
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    #17 - The Gabe Carswell Story

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/15/1958

    Gabe Carswell wants his son to join the whites because of what he sees coming for the Indians. When his son refuses he takes him to the wagon train heading for California but the Arapaho are getting set to attack.

    Director: N/A

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  • The Honorable Don Charlie Story
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    #18 - 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

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  • The Dora Gray Story
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    #19 - The Dora Gray Story

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/29/1958

    Dora Gray has made some poor choices in her life. Just wanting to get to San Francisco, her latest one involves someone who sells army guns to the Indians and Flint finds himself right in the middle of it.

    Director: N/A

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  • The Annie MacGregor Story
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    #20 - The Annie MacGregor Story

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/5/1958

    The MacGregor clan decides to come to America and start a new life. The wagon trains going to California have had a hard time dealing with their different customs. Can Major Adams' be any different?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Bill Tawnee Story
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    #21 - The Bill Tawnee Story

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/12/1958

    Bill Tawnee served his country heroically. When Major Adams recognizes him on the trail and sees he is unable to wake, he asks his wife to join his wagon train even though there is plenty of anti-Indian sentiment afloat.

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  • The Mark Hanford Story
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    #22 - 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.

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  • The Bernal Sierra Story
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    #23 - The Bernal Sierra Story

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/12/1958

    Revolutionary Bernal Sierra joins the train finding the wife of his dead friend married to Casey Reardon who sold guns to the Mexican revolutionaries. Bernal is suspicious of Casey, his brothers, and Perdita over missing gold.

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  • The Marie Dupree Story
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    #24 - The Marie Dupree Story

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/19/1958

    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: N/A

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  • A Man Called Horse
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    #25 - A Man Called Horse

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/26/1958

    Horse, a name he comes to be called, is searching for himself. Since he doesn't feel that he found it in Boston, where he grew up, he tries out west, under the watchful eye of a small tribe of Crow.

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