Wagon Train
The Second Season
1)
The Jennifer Churchill Story (Oct 15, 1958): Beautiful and rich Jennifer
Churchill runs away from her father and a marriage she doesn’t want and joins
the wagon train. Flint tries to help her escape when he learns her father has
offered a reward for the return of his daughter, knowing that every bounty
hunter in the territory will be after her. A delightful romance. GS: Rhonda
Fleming, Andy Clyde, Eddy Waller, Paul Maxey. (A)
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2)
The Millie Davis Story
(Nov 26, 1958): While riding through a town ahead of the wagon train, Flint
encounter’s friends Millie Davis and her adopted daughter, Penny. Afraid that
a woman who has just arrived in town claiming to be Penny’s maternal
grandmother will take the child away, Millie claims she and Flint are the
parents of the little girl. GS: Nancy Gates, Evelyn Rudie, Eleanor Audley, Whit
Bissell, Irving Bacon, Chubby Johnson, Harry Hines, Amzie Strickland, James
Coburn. (W)
3)
The Tent City Story (Dec 10, 1958): Major Adams fires Flint after an
argument concerning a member of the train who shot a buffalo on Indian hunting
grounds. When the wagon train gets to Tent City, the Major finds that Flint is
the new town marshal. GS: Wayne Morris, Audrey Totter, Slim Pickens, Dennis
McCarthy, Yvonne White, Juney Ellis, Peter Coe, Bill Henry, Earl Hansen, Carol
Henry. (CH) NOTE: For those of us who might think the acting industry is
‘glamorous,’ Mr. Horton tells the following story: At the end of this
episode, Flint fights the Indian chief over the right to his prisoner. The fight
takes place in the mud. However, there were a lot of horses standing around,
“doing what animals will do and it was a lot more than mud!” Now if that
wasn’t bad enough, they thought the filming was finished on Friday afternoon,
only to get to work on Monday morning to find the director wanted to re-shoot
part of that scene, only now the ‘mud mixture’ had ripened, but into it they
went all over again! Now that is dedication to your craft!
 
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4)
The Beauty Jamison Story (Dec 17, 1958): A woman ranch owner, who
controls the largest ranch in the territory, refuses Flint permission to let the
wagon train cross her land, claiming he is sympathetic to the small ranch owners
she is trying to force out. GS: Virginia Mayo, Russell Johnson, Ken Mayer, Frank
Gerstle, Phil Chambers, Charles Tannen, May Lee, Pete Dunn, Jim Bannon. (A)
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5)
The Mary Ellen Thomas
Story (Dec 24, 1958): Mary Ellen is an orphan girl traveling west to join
family, but members of the train reject her due her to surly disposition. Her
only friend is Sally Mayhew, another little girl traveling west with her family,
but who is dying of consumption. With Flint’s help, Mary Ellen provides Sally
a white Christmas. GS: Patty McCormack, Jenny Hecht, Claudia Bryar, Dick
Cutting, Vernon Rich, Barbara Pepper, Clifford Botelho. (A)
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6)
The Flint McCullough Story (Jan 14, 1959): Flint arrives at Fort
Bridger, his hometown, only to find that Jase Taylor, a former Confederate
colonel is living there. Flint has sworn to kill the man. GS: Everett Sloane,
Rebecca Wells, Charles Cooper, Theodore Newton, Milton Frome, Logan Field, Buzz
Martin, Joel Ashley. (A)
7)
The Ben Courtney Story (Jan 28, 1959): Flint escorts two families
from the wagon train to their new home, only to find that the sheriff refuses to
let them settle there unless one of the families gives up one of their two
adopted sons, who happens to be a young Negro boy. GS: Stephen McNally, Kay
Stewart, John Larch, Darryl Glenn, Roger Mobley, Phillip Pine, Judith Ames,
Richard Hale, Arthur Space, Tom McKee. (A)
8)
The Old Man Charvanaugh Story (Feb 18, 1959): While escorting Mrs.
Lerner and her to children to meet her husband, Flint and the family are robbed
by Charvanaugh and his brutish sons. Barely escaping with their lives, Flint
goes back to track down Charvanaugh before he robs again. GS: J. Carrol Nash,
Dorothy Green, Bernadette Withers, Ricky Klein, L. Q. Jones, Jeff Daley, Mickey
Finn, Quentin Sondergaard. (A)
9)
The Annie Griffith Story (Feb 25, 1959): While scouting for a pass
through the snow-covered mountains, Flint is ambushed and badly wounded. He is
found and nursed back to health by a rugged mountain woman who hopes to trade
him to the Indians for help in getting back to civilization. GS: Jan Sterling,
John Dehner, Clem Bevins, Robert Anderson. (A)
10) The
Vivian Carter Story (Mar 11, 1959): Flint escorts Vivian Carter to a nearby town
where she is planning to be married. However when she finds her husband-to-be is
already married, she returns to the train embittered and shunning everyone,
including the man who truly loves her. GS: Phyllis Thaxter, Lorne Greene, Patric
Knowles, Jane Darwell. (CH)
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11) The
Conchita Vasquez Story (Mar 18, 1959): Conchita lures Flint into trap, where he
is captured by a band of renegades and held for ransom for a shipment of Army
rifles being transported by the wagon train. She later helps him to escape. GS:
Anna Maria Alberghetti, Carlos Romero, Joyce Meadows, William Lundmark, Alan
Reynolds, John Goddard. (A)
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12) The
Sister Rita Story (Mar 25, 1959): Three nuns are aided by Flint while on their
way to Nevada to start an Indian Mission School. Though each find the ways of
the other strange, they develop a deep friendship. The St. Christopher's medal,
given to him by Sister Rita, is worn by Flint throughout the rest of the series.
GS: Vera Miles, Sylvia Marritt,
Frances Bavier, Lalo Rios. (A)
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13) The
Clara Duncan Story (Apr 22, 1959): The fiancée and father of a missing artist
are traveling west to find him. Aided by Flint and a newspaperman they discover
a painting by the missing man that might put his life in jeopardy. GS: Angie
Dickinson, Eduardo Ciannelli, William Reynolds, Robert Clark, Myron Healey,
Rusty Lane, Robert Easton. (CH)
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14) The
Duke LeMay Story (Apr 29, 1959): LeMay, an escaped convict traveling with the
wagon train, kills a deputy sheriff who was tracking him. It is up to Flint to
bring LeMay to the nearest fort for justice. GS: Cameron Mitchell, Edward C.
Platt, Joan Evans, Terry Kelman. (A)
15)
The Steve Campden Story (May 13, 1959): Scouting a pass through the snow
blocked mountains; Flint meets Steve Campden and his son. They are all forced to
take refuge in a cave. GS: Ben Cooper, Torin Thatcher. (W)