Wagon Train Season 3

(1959) October - June | # of Episodes : 37

Ratings

6.4

7.5

Series Details

Seasons: 8

Total Episodes: 284

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Networks: NBC , ABC

Status: Ended

First Air Date: Sep 18, 1957

Recent Air Date: May 2, 1965

Run Time: m

In Production: No

Original Language: English

Age Rating: TV-PG

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Production Companies: Universal Television , Revue Studios

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Main Cast

Ward Bond

Major Seth Adams

Age : N/A | Popularity : 66%

Robert Horton

Flint McCullough

Age : 100 | Popularity : 30%

Frank McGrath

Charlie Wooster

Age : 64 | Popularity : 39%

Episodes

Episode 1

30 September 1959 - The Stagecoach Story

The men are returning to St. Louis by stagecoach except for Flint - until he becomes the driver to help a friend. They are forced to take a detour to Mexico by other passengers - one of whom denies knowing Flint who is in love with her.

Episode 2

07 October 1959 - The Greenhorn Story

At the beginning of any wagon train trip, the challenges faced by everyone turns a greenhorn into a seasoned veteran, even if those may mean death of those they love or some other loss.

Episode 3

14 October 1959 - The C.L. Harding Story

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.

Episode 4

21 October 1959 - The Estaban Zamora Story

Flint find a young man bleeding to death and a knife nearby. He takes the body to sheriff who identifies the man as the youngest Zamora brother. His father is on the train from Spain. He feels duty bound to kill the murderer.

Episode 5

28 October 1959 - The Elizabeth McQueeny Story

Elizabeth McQueeny is traveling with her girls, heading to a finishing school in the West. When her real purpose becomes known, all the females want her gone but her worth to all shows itself before that can happen.

Episode 6

04 November 1959 - The Martha Barham Story

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.

Episode 7

11 November 1959 - The Cappy Darrin Story

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.

Episode 8

18 November 1959 - The Felizia Kingdom Story

Tough as nails Felizia Kingdom controls an enormous amount of land by force, and no one is good enough to inherit the responsibility. When Flint handles her henchmen with ease, she decides he's the man for the job.

Episode 9

25 November 1959 - The Jess MacAbee Story

Flint, scouting ahead of the wagon train, is in search of fresh meat. With prospects none too good he comes upon a hidden paradise, green and lush and offering far more than he expected especially for a single man.

Episode 10

02 December 1959 - The Danny Benedict Story

He says his name is Tom Smith but a young man Major Adams meets on the trail refuses to join the wagon train and won't say why. When he does find out he meets an old friend and why the boy is so tortured.

Episode 11

16 December 1959 - The Vittorio Bottecelli Story

The King orders his womanizing nephew to San Francisco. He joins the wagon train but causes the Major problems as the husbands are complaining but he may have lost his heart to someone who understands.

Episode 12

23 December 1959 - The St. Nicholas Story

Almost Christmas eve, the wagon train deals with a happy time, the perils that go with hostile Indians and a little lost boy who may have already been captured by those same hostiles.

Episode 13

30 December 1959 - The Ruth Marshall Story

As the wagon train moves through Sioux territory, a man named Marshall asks for help in finding his daughter, Ruth, who apparently was taken by Indians following a raid eleven years ago. The girl would now be 19 years old. Flint McCullough goes in search of the girl, is injured in an ambush by a lone Indian, and is treated by a blue-eyed white woman living with four wolves. The woman communicates only through sign-language and is held in reverence by the local Sioux. Meanwhile the Indian who ambushed Flint and was wounded in the process reports back to his father, Red Cloud. Red Cloud learns that the ""Woman Who Lives with Wolves"" is treating a white man and orders Flint to be brought to his camp for possible punishment. The Wolf Woman intervenes and has Flint returned to the wagon train along with a book which bears the name ""Ruth Marshall"" on its flyleaf.

Episode 14

06 January 1960 - The Lita Foladaire Story

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.

Episode 15

13 January 1960 - The Colonel Harris Story

Flint goes to Fort Young to see the Harris family and Bowman Lewis who were friends from his youth. He finds Mrs. Harris dead and her husband swearing to wipe out all Indians including Lewis who leads the Comanche and his mother, Princess. English

Episode 16

20 January 1960 - The Marie Brandt Story

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.

Episode 17

27 January 1960 - The Larry Hanify Story

On his deathbed, Joe asks Flint to look after his 17-year old son Larry Hanify and get him to California. There was one catch. His latest escapade put him in jail awaiting trial for armed robbery.

Episode 18

10 February 1960 - The Clayton Tucker Story

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.

Episode 19

17 February 1960 - The Benjamin Burns Story

One dry water hole is normal but when the wagon train has two, Flint and Ben Burns lead a party to find a legend that only the Indians speak of, Shining Water. Troubles await them but the worst may be a too green city boy.

Episode 20

24 February 1960 - The Ricky and Laurie Bell Story

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.

Episode 21

02 March 1960 - The Tom Tuckett Story

Ever since he was young, Tom Tuckett has been sent to good schools and looked after by an unknown benefactor. When he joins the wagon train he feels he's about to find out who that is but it isn't who he imagined.

Episode 22

09 March 1960 - The Tracy Sadler Story

David Forest always believed his father to be as he claimed. When Tracy Sadler joins the wagon train his beliefs are altered when he slowly and painfully learns the truth about his past.

Episode 23

16 March 1960 - The Alexander Portlass Story

Kidnapped, Flint is forced to scout and find a lost Aztec treasure. As some of the men were previously thrown off the wagon train, their unfriendliness is certain unless he can help them find the lost treasure of Montezuma.

Episode 24

23 March 1960 - The Christine Elliott Story

Her father on his deathbed, Christine Elliot decides to fulfill his dream of a boys school and joins the wagon train. A good start: the eleven boys he already has. One man is determined to stop her unless he collects his pound of flesh.

Episode 25

30 March 1960 - The Joshua Gilliam Story

Bill and the Major find a man lying hurt, a meal for the buzzards. When he meets an innocent woman on the wagon train who has an inheritance waiting for her, he shows other skills besides being just a schoolteacher and her mother is wary.

Episode 26

06 April 1960 - The Maggie Hamilton Story

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.

Episode 27

13 April 1960 - The Jonas Murdock Story

Out of meat and low on food, the wagon train must not kill any wildlife or all will face the wrath of the local Indians. The one holdout is Jonas Murdock who has always lived outside the rules and doesn't consider a rabbit an issue.

Episode 28

20 April 1960 - The Amos Gibbon Story

After an argument with Major Adams, Flint leaves the wagon train and mozies up to a bar at a nearby town. What he doesn't know is the locals are shanghaiing strangers for slave labour in the mine and no one on the train knows where he went.

Episode 29

27 April 1960 - Trial for Murder (1)

When a well thought of member of the wagon train is found dead, Adams needs to prevent mob rule and make sure a lawful trial takes place. The accused who was not well liked is found passed out with the rifle used in the murder.

Episode 30

04 May 1960 - Trial for Murder (2)

When the deceased's wife arrives, the people on the wagon train learn that the murdered man has a dark past, and this could be a case of Cain & Abel - or perhaps something or someone in the dead-man's past came home-to-roost.

Episode 31

11 May 1960 - The Countess Baranof Story

Countess Baranof is desperate to get to Alaska to claim her family fortune, and with no horses she applies her considerable charms on Flint. But she's not the one Flint should worry about, as her bodyguard has a more sinister agenda.

Episode 32

18 May 1960 - The Dick Jarvis Story

A boy hurt in a crippling accident and a domineering mother meet a runaway boy who she feels is making him do things outside his capabilities. Another accident reveals something unexpected since it may pit two friends against each other.

Episode 33

25 May 1960 - Dr. Swift Cloud

Thinking he is not welcome by the white man or his people, an educated Chiracua Indian returns to find prejudices among both of them and must find a way to overcome all of them before it is too late.

Episode 34

01 June 1960 - The Luke Grant Story

Luke Grant is found wandering the desert with one wish on his mind - kill me! Turned over to the wagon train by some friendly Chiracawa Indians, they slowly discover his identity and that there are Apaches on the war path and nearby.

Episode 35

08 June 1960 - The Charlene Brenton Story

A baby girl sure has a rough start when she arrives on the stage with her dead mother. Plague is what people think killed her and then Charlie Wooster steps in to try to help - and well, you can imagine where it went from there.

Episode 36

15 June 1960 - The Sam Livingston Story

Abigail has lost her driver to the better paying mines. Her new driver says he owns a bank and a pig. The ride West reveals another side of him that takes at least the pig to change both heart and mind.

Episode 37

22 June 1960 - The Shadrack Bennington Story

Shadrack Bennington has been a cavalier of the open road, not wanting to be tied down until he joins the wagon train, heading for San Francisco and a future even he couldn't anticipate.

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