Continuing in their great tradition of classic TV westerns, NBC Universal and Timeless Media Group now bring you the complete, uncut Wagon Train - The Complete Third Season, one of the most enduring and sought after westerns of all time. Direct from the vaults at Universal, these 37 episodes have been re-mastered and presented on 10 dual layered DVDs in a special edition tin box, with a handsome DVD booklet complete with all the episodes synopses, the guest stars and more.
Inspired by the classic western film Wagonmaster, directed by John Ford (The Searchers,
Stagecoach), Wagon Train debuted on Wednesday, September 18, 1957 on the NBC Television Network. The ensemble acting, wonderful scripts and great western scenery soon made Wagon Train a fixture in American homes on Wednesday nights, as millions of Americans of all ages tuned in to NBC for great family entertainment.
Ward Bond, who starred in Wagonmaster, recreated his role from the film as Major Seth Adams. He was joined by costars Robert Horton as Head Scout Flint McCullough, Frank McGrath as the cook Charlie Wooster, and Terry Wilson as Assistant Wagonmaster Bill Hawks, who all brought their skills as horsemen as well as wonderful actors to the show, giving Wagon Train a special, western flavor.
Each well crafted episode focused on a personal story of courage and perseverance of not just the main cast, but of the westward-bound emigrants as they made the perilous journey by Contestoga wagon from the banks of the Mississippi to California's Pacific shores, in the face of great odds. Their heart-warming (and sometimes heartbreaking) sagas tell the tale of how the American West was truly won, by hard-working and determined people driven by the promise of freedom and prosperity, and by those who saw them through the hardest of landscapes to the golden land that beckoned them.
Guest stars making appearances in Season 3 include Debra Paget, Claire Trevor, Bette Davis, Warren Oates, Ed Wynn, Andy Devine, Brandon DeWilde, James Franciscus, Peter Lorre and many more!
This 10 DVD collector's edition of Wagon Train - The Complete Third Season, including all 37 great episodes, is sure to please both fans of the original broadcast, and newcomers who are seeing it fro the first time. As Major Adams says as he leads his charges westward and they roll their Conestoga wagons out onto the prairie, "WAGONS, HO!"
Disc 1
The Stage Coach Story Original Air Date 9/30/1959
After a memorable time in San Francisco, the Major, Hawks and Wooster return to St. Louis via stagecoach, driven by none other than Flint McCullough
Guest Stars Clu Gulager and Debra Paget
The Gentlemen Story Original Air Date 10/7/1959
A young Easterner joins the train, but his naivety creates problems for the Major and the other emigrants
Guest Stars Mickey Rooney, Ellen Corby
The C. L. Harding Story Original Air Date 10/14/1959
A newspaper reporter traveling with the train tries to enlist the other wives to start a woman's suffragette movement.
Guest Star Claire Trevor
The Estaban Zamora Story Original Air Date 10/21/1959
Estaban Zamora joins the train to rendezvous with this three sons, only to discover that his youngest son is the victim of foul play.
Guest Stars Ernest Borgnine, Leonard Nimoy
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Disc 2
The Elizabeth McQueeny Story Original Air Date 10/28/1959
A group of lovely young women, being escorted to a finishing school by McQueeny, joins the train, but things may not be what they seem.
Guest Star Bette Davis
The Martha Barham Story Original Air Date 11/4/1959
The daughter of an outpost's commander enlists Flint's help when her fiancé is captured by native Americans.
Guest Stars Ann Blyth, Warren Oates and Read Morgan
The Cappy Darrin Story Original Air Date 11/11/1959
Cappy Darrin, an older riverboat captain, joins the train with his grandson Tuck.
Guest Star Ed Wynn
The Felizia Kingdom Story Original Air Date 11/18/1959
Flint rides to the ranch of Felizia Kingdom to ask permission for the wagon train to cross her land, and is taken hostage by the strong willed woman.
Guest Star Judith Anderson
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Disc 3
The Jess MacAbbee Story Original Air Date 11/25/1959
Jess MacAbbee seems to have something to hide when Flint arrives at his ranch; turns out old Jess has five beautiful daughters he doesn't want Flint to know about.
Guest Star Andy Devine
The Danny Benedict Story Original Air Date 12/2/1959
An overly strict father threatens to punish his son in public, and the boy runs away from the wagon train.
Guest Star Brandon DeWilde
The Vittorio Bottecelli Story Original Air Date 12/16/1959
An Italian Duke tries to work his romantic wiles on some of the married women on the train, and the Major must intervene before their husbands do.
Guest Stars Gustavo Rojo, Elizabeth Montgomery
The St. Nicholas Story Original Air Date 1/23/1959
A story of two cultures develops on Christmas Eve as the wagon train makes it's holiday encampment.
Guest Stars Johnny Bangert and Edward Vargas
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Disc 4
The Ruth Marshall Story Original Air Date 12/30/1959
Flint is enlisted to help a man find his daughter Ruth, captured by Native Americans many years before. mcCullough is rescued by a blue-eyed woman who lives with wolves.
Guest Star Luana Patten
The Lita Foladaire Story Original Air Date 1/6/1960
Major Adams comes upon a dying woman and discovers she is the wife of his friend Foladaire.
Guest Stars Diane Brewster and Tom Drake
The Colonel Harris Story Original Air Date 1/13/1960
Anticipating a friendly reunion with two old friends at Fort Harris, Flint discovers instead that his two old friends are about to start a senseless war.
Guest Stars John Howard and James Best
The Marie Brant Story Original Air Date 1/20/1960
Marie Brant, distrustful of men, brings disharmony to the wagon train along with her son, whom she has taught to be contemptuous of the weak and helpless.
Guest Stars Jean Hagen and Edward Platt
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Disc 5
The Larry Hanify Story Original Air Date 1/13/1960
On his deathbed, Joe Hanify asks Flint to look after his son Larry, a liar and a thief,
Guest Stars Tommy Sands and Gene Roth
The Clayton Tucker Story Original Air Date 2/10/1960
Making their way through the desert to meet up with the wagon train, a small party of travelers is left stranded when their scout dies of a snakebite.
Guest Stars Jeff Morrow and Dorothy Greene
The Benjamin Burns Story Original Air Date 2/17/1960
A dried-up river leaves the wagon train short of water, and Flint leads a search for a legendary spring. When Burns is killed on the search, Flint is blamed for his death.
Guest Stars James Franciscus and J. Carrol Nash
The Ricky and Laura Bell Story Original Air Date 2/24/1960
Moving west with his wife and newborn son, Ricky Bell becomes jealous of the attention his wife lavishes on their infant son.
Guest Stars James Gregory and June Lockhart
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Disc 6
The Tom Tuckett Story Original Air Date 3/2/1960
A hunted traitor risks capture to see a youth who once helped him escape.
Guest Stars Robert Middleton and Ben Cooper
The Tracy Sadler Story Original Air Date 3/9/1060
A woman who's son was born in prison and taken from her joins the wagon train in hopes that her long-lost child is with the train.
Guest Stars Elaine Stritch and Elisha Cook, Jr.
The Alexander Portlass Story Original Air Date 3/16/1960
Flint McCullough is kidnapped by an English archeologist and a band of outlaws who want him to guide them on a misbegotten search for Aztec treasure.
Guest Stars Peter Lorre and Morgan Woodward
The Christine Elliot Story Original Air Date 2/23/1960
A dozen boys seeking to escape the confines of an orphanage join the train with their accomplice Christine Elliot, but someone is in hot pursuit!
Guest Stars Phyllis Thaxter and Donald Woods
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Disc 7
The Joshua Gilliam Story Original Air Date 3/30/1960
The Major comes upon a man beaten and left for dead on the trail. Not suspecting that the man is a con artist, the Major agrees to let him join the train as a school teacher.
Guest Star Dan Duryea
The Maggie Hamilton Story Original Air Date 4/6/1960
A spoiled young woman rides away from the train in a huff, only to be confronted by a band of outlaws.
Guest Stars Susan Oliver, Leonard Nimoy and Les Tremayne
The Jonas Murdock Story Original Air Date 4/13/1960
A rabbit-hunting mountaineer creates problems for the wagon train by defying the no-hunting edict of a local Native American chieftain.
Guest Stars Noah Berry, Jr. and Joe Bassett
The Amos Gibbon Story Original Air Date 4/20/1960
Flint is captured by Amos Gibbon and his ruthless gang of slave-traders.
Guest Star Charles Aidman
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Disc 8
Trial for Murder Pt. 1 Original Air Date 4/27/1960
A passenger on the wagon train is found clubbed to death, and suspicion points to a surly, friendless drunk, Brad Mason.
Guest Stars Henry Daniell and Henry Hull
Trial for Murder Pt. 2 Original Air Date 5/4/1960
The trial of Mason takes a strange turn after his seeming confession, when the dead man's wife takes the stand.
Guest Stars Henry Daniell and Henry Hull
The Countess Baranof Story Original Air Date 5/11/1960
In a race to reach Alaska before the Russians sell it to America, the Countess uses all of her womanly charms to lure Flint into being her guide.
Guest Star Taina Elg
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Disc 9
The Dick Jarvis Story Original Air Date 5/18/1960
The Major takes a fatherly interest in young Dick Jarvis, a crippled boy on the train.
Guest Stars Tom Nolan and Bobby Diamond
The Dr. Swift Cloud Story Original Air Date 5/25/1960
Swift Cloud returns from medical school in the East to discover his tribesmen are attacking the wagon train.
Guest Stars Rafael Campos and Phillip Pine
The Luke Grant Story Original Air Date 6/1/1960
Friendly Mojave Indians find a man dying in the desert. They bring him to the wagon train, where he is recognized as being a former minister.
Guest Stars Donald Woods and Joan O'Brien
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Disc 10
The Charlene Brenton Story Original Air Date 6/8/1960
A dead woman and her healthy infant daughter are the only passengers on a stage arriving in Apache Flats.
Guest Stars Sean McClory and Jean Willes
The Sam Livingston Story Original Air Date 6/22/1960
Sam Livingston arrives in Carson City, Nevada with a fortune in gold and a plot for revenge against his old partner, now the town banker.
Guest Stars Charles Drake and Onslow Stevens
The Shad Bennington Story Original Air Date 6/22/1960
An itinerant medicine man joins the wagon train with a performing lion as the final leg of the long journey begins.
Guest Stars David Wayne, Maggie Pierce and Charles Herbert
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Thanks to James Rosen, author of
"Wagon Train - The Television Series" |
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