Disc 1
Pilot "The Oregon Trail"
The pilot movie opens on Thorpe's wedding day. He marries Jessica (Blair Brown), two years after the death of his first wife, Mary. The next day, farmer Thorpe, his new bride and his three children head off to join a wagon train that's headed to Oregon for better land and a better life.
Guest star Blair Brown, G.D. Spradlin, Linda Purl
Hard Ride Home
Thorpe and his family join the wagon train and hit the trail for California.
Guest starring Wilford Brimley, William Windom
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Disc 3
The Army Deserter
An injured young man is taken in and cared for by the Thorpe's, who have no way of knowing that he is a deserter from the Army.
Guest starring Kevin McCarthy, Clu Gulager
Hannah's Girls
The wagon train picks up a group of women who say they are mail-order brides. As it turns out, they are actually prostitutes on their way west to get away from their owner.
Guest starring Stella Stevens, Billy Green Bush
The Scarlet Ribbon
A couple of gun smugglers are selling rifles to the Indians and Evans has made it his mission to stop the supply, no matter what happens.
Guest starring Richard Jaeckel, Donna Mills, Bill Bixby, William Shatner
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Disc 5
Return for the Baby
An Indian woman gives birth to a child after her village is destroyed.
Guest starring Kim Darby, Gerald McRamey
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
(aka Return from Death)
A jury trial halts the wagon train as Thorpe plays defense attorney for the accused slayer of a relentless lady's man.
Guest starring Beth Brickell, James Wainwright
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Disc 2
The Last Game
Thorpe's young son accidentally wanders into a burial ground and brings the wrath of Indians against the wagon train.
Guest starring Wilford Brimley
The Waterhole
As the pioneers push westward, the search for water becomes desperate when a dust storm hinders their ability to see.
Guest starring Lonny Chapman, Kim Hunter
Trapper's Rendezvous
The Thorpe family inadvertently makes friends with a trapper who has the secret mission of murdering his old friend Luther.
Guest starring Claude Akins
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Disc 4
Wagon Race (aka The Race)
A woman on the train faces the wrath of her fellow travelers after she strikes up a friendship with Thorpe.
Guest starring Mariette Hartley, Andrew Prine, Morgan Woodward
The Gold Dust Queen
Horse rustlers raid the wagon's remuda and Thorpe finds himself attracted to a beautiful woman.
Guest starring Susan Howard
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Disc 6
Evan's Dilemma
Thorpe and his son are bush-whacked while looking for a source of water for the train.
Guest starring William Smith, Ed Lauter
Suffer the Little Children
Thorpe has to deal with a religious zealot who refuses treatment for his daughter when she's hurt in a wagon accident.
Guest starring Robert Fuller, Elizabeth Cheshire
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