Wagon Train

1)      The Stagecoach Story (Sept 30, 1959): Maj. Adams, Bill Hawks and Charlie Wooster, decide to return to St. Joe via stagecoach. They are dismayed to find the driver is none other than their scout, Flint McCullough. However, their fellow traveling companion, a lovely Mexican dancer, brightens the trip. GS: Debra Paget, Clu Gulager, Abraham Sofaer, Lalo Rios. (A)  

2)   The Estaban Zamora Story (Oct 21, 1959): Immigrant, Estaban Zamora, is traveling west to join his three sons who are working for a sheep farmer. When he arrives, he finds that his youngest son has been killed and he vows revenge. Flint tries to help him. GS: Ernest Borgnine, Leonard Nimoy, Phillip Pine, Robert Armstrong, Stuart Randall, James Griffith, David McMahon, Jeanne Bates. (CH)  

  3)   The Martha Barham Story (Nov 4, 1959):  Flint and a Sioux friend of his arrive at an army post, where the commander’s daughter accuses Flint of being a renegade. But when she is the only survivor of an Indian attach on the fort, she asks Flint for help in finding her fiancé, believed captured by the Indians. GS: Ann Blyth, Dayton Lummis, Read Morgan, Mike Road, Henry Brandon, Warren Oates, Larry Blake, John Damler. (A)  

4)   The Felizia Kingdom Story (Nov 18, 1959): When Flint goes to the ranch of Felizia Kingdom to ask for permission for the wagon train to cross her land, he finds himself taken captive by the strong-willed woman. GS: Dame Judith Anderson, Larry Perron. (W)

5)      The Jess MacAbbee Story (Nov 25, 1959): Flint comes upon a small valley and the home of Jess MacAbbee, who appears to be hiding something: his five lovely daughters. The girls, never having never met another man before, promptly believe themselves in love with the scout. A truly delightful story. GS: Andy Devine, Glenda Farrell, Carol Byron, Karen Green, Terry Burnham, Tammy Marihugh, Ray Teal, Bill St. John. (A)  

6)      The Ruth Marshall Story (Dec 30, 1959): As a favor to a passenger on the wagon train, Flint agrees to search for his daughter, who was captured by Indians many years before. He finds a girl, living in the forest with wolves, who the Indians believe to be a powerful medicine woman. To save Flint’s life, she agrees to stay with the Indians. GS: Launa Patten, Mike Keene, Fred Sherman, Bob Bice, Sam Capuano. (A) 

7)      The Colonel Harris Story (Jan 13, 1960):  Flint takes a few days to travel to Fort Harris to see some old friends, he finds that they are about to start a war with one another over the death of the colonel’s wife. It is up to Flint to avert the senseless bloodshed. GS: John Howard, James Best, Nestor Paiva, Ken Mayer, Irene Windust, Jacqueline DeWitt. (A)  

8)   The Larry Hanify Story (Jan 27, 1960): As he is dying, an old friend of Flint’s asks him to find his son and take him to California with the wagon train. Though Flint is warned by the townspeople that the boy is a liar and a thief, he agrees to be responsible for him. GS: Tommy Sands, Gene Roth, Cindy Robbins, Wally Moon, Orville Sherman, Olan Soule, Edith Evanson, Dan Riss, Joseph Mell. (A)  

9)   The Benjamin Burns Story (Feb 17, 1960): Old mountaineer, Benjamin Burns, is the trains only hope to find water and with Flints help leads a party of men to go searching for a legendry mountain spring. But when the old man is smothered after he takes a bad fall, Flint, who was delirious from a rattlesnake bite, fears he might be the killer. A powerful episode. GS: James Franciscus, J. Carrol Nash, Olive Sturgess, Jack Lambert. (CH)  

10) The Alexander Portless Story (Mar 16, 1960): Flint is kidnapped by an outlaw gang, headed by an aging British archaeologist, who need Flint to help guide them to a lost Aztec treasure. GS: Peter Lorre, Morgan Woodward, Sherwood Price, Bern Hoffman. (A)

11) The Maggie Hamilton Story (Apr 6, 1960): A spoiled young woman, runs away from the wagon train, and Flint is sent to find her. GS: Susan Oliver, Les Tremayne, Sylvia Marriott, Orville Sherman, Frank Wofll, Leonard Nimoy. (CH)  

12) The Amos Gibbon Story (Apr 20, 1960): Amos Gibbon and his gang have been kidnapping men and forcing them into slave labor, but they’ve captured the wrong man when they capture Flint. GS: Arthur Shields, Francis J. McDonald, Charles Aidman, Bob Hopkins, William Schallert, John Ashley, Darlene Fields, Mickey Finn. (A)  

13) The Countess Bananof Story (May 11, 1960): Countess Baranoff is in a hurry to reach Alaska before it’s rumored sale to the United States. She tries to talk Flint into deserting the train and guiding her by a faster route. GS: Taina Elg, Simon Oakland, Peter Leads, Ann B. Davis, Roy Engel, Ethel Shutta. (A)  

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