The BEST episodes of Wagon Train season 6
Every episode of Wagon Train season 6, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Wagon Train season 6!
Wagon Train followed the trials and tribulations of pioneering families as they set out from the East to carve out a new life in the West soon after the American Civil War. For some of the travelers it was a happy ending, but not for all, which only heightened the drama along the way.
#1 - The Mavis Grant Story
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1962
In the midst of a dry spell and desperately in need of water, the wagons stop at Mavis Grant's station, the only source of water for miles. But Miss Grant is a bitter and cold hearted woman who demands an outrageous price for the water.
#2 - The Levy-McGowan Story
Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1962
When the Levy family joins the wagon train, the tranquility becomes less so as the fathers compete in checkers, young sons fight, and son and daughter fall in love. Lastly, a settler who tries to shake down the train to cross his property.
#3 - The Martin Gatsby Story
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1962
Wealthy merchant Martin Gatsby, a man with little room for compassion for others, wants the wagon train to keep rolling and demands that Hale leave Caleb Lefton and his family behind, because the inexperienced Lefton is causing delays.
#4 - The Hollister John Garrison Story
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/6/1963
Bitter alcoholic Stevenson Drake develops a dislike for the even tempered John Hollister, a fellow Southerner, when he learns he didn't fight for the Confederacy. He also is bothered by the friendliness between his wife and Hollister.
#5 - Charlie Wooster - Outlaw
Season 6 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/20/1963
Bella McKavitch wants to kidnap Chris Hale, in order to find out about a gold shipment which she thinks the wagon train is carrying, but her dimwitted sons nab Wooster instead. To stop them, Wooster pretends to be a robber himself.
#6 - The Naomi Kaylor Story
Season 6 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/30/1963
Hawks rides to the John Kaylor ranch to buy horses for the train but John just died. His widow Naomi refuses to sell the horses at the price John had promised. Naomi shows no sorrow over her husband's death, only wanting to sell the ranch.
#7 - The John Augustus Story
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/1962
John Augustus in a game of cards with a Chinese merchant wins a beautiful Chinese girl. But when he takes her on the wagon train, other passengers ask Hale to have him and the girl kicked off the train for their "indecent" relationship.
#8 - The John Bernard Story
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/21/1962
Indians kidnap an elderly lady on the train. They will return her when the train takes the Chief's son to the doctor and cure him. However, some on the train don't want to help. The task becomes harder when they learn what the illness is.
#9 - The Kurt Davos Story
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/1962
Kurt Davos, a highly respected man, is badly injured while trying to save Florence Hastings trapped in a runaway wagon. Florence, scared of dogs had once tried to kill Kurt's dog, volunteers to live with and care for Kurt, now paralyzed.
#10 - The Antone Rose Story
Season 6 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/22/1963
Invalid rancher Henry Ludlow is so determined that daughter Judy not marry Basque sheepherder Antone Rose that he sells his land and joins the wagon train to head west. When Antone learns of this, he joins the train as well to marry her.
#11 - The Madame Sagittarius Story
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1962
Madam Sagittarius has a reputation as a con woman. The rest of the passengers on the train snub her because of this. Charley Wooster, often left out on a limb himself, feels sorry for her and takes her under his wing. It is the beginning of a close relationship.
#12 - The Wagon Train Mutiny
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1962
The wagon train comes across a devastated wagon party where they find Renaldo, a wounded member of the attacking comancheros who was left to die by his comrades.
#13 - The Donna Fuller Story
Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/19/1962
A woman and three companions in a runaway wagon are rescued by a winemaker and Charlie. They are against the consumption of alcohol and join the wagon train. However, she begins to fall for the winemaker until she learns his trade.
#14 - The Sam Darland Story
Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/26/1962
The wagon train finds Sam Darland with orphan boys in an old ghost town. Hale tries to convince Darland that it is not safe to stay in the town, as it in the midst of Indian territory and the leader of the tribe has been on the warpath.
#15 - The Sara Proctor Story
Season 6 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/27/1963
When children's dolls are found mutilated in her possession, passengers believe that Sara Proctor is either deranged or practicing witchcraft. Hale slowly arrives at the real story after Sara confides to him and Charlie's snooping.
#16 - The Annie Duggan Story
Season 6 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/13/1963
An elderly couple and then a young girl become ill with typhoid fever on the wagon train. A young servant girl has attended to them all in isolation. One of the women on the train has an idea about the cause but no one wants to listen.
#17 - The Caroline Casteel Story
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1962
Indian captive Caroline Casteel is traded to a man who brings her to the wagon train. She encounters prejudice and hostility from many of the train members. But her biggest hurdle comes when her family, who had long given up hope, arrives.
#18 - The Barnaby West Story
Season 6 - Episode 37 - Aired 6/5/1963
Bill meets young Barnaby West, who claims he is traveling west to see his father, a famous frontiersman. Bill invites him to join the wagon train. But he and the others wonder just how much, if any, of young Barnaby's story is really true.
#19 - The Eve Newhope Story
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/1962
Patrick O'Shaughnessy has come to visit his daughter Eve, believing her to be a respectable married woman. Knowing that Eve actually is the popular owner of a saloon, Hawks, Wooster, Duke, and Eve's favorite patrons decide to change Eve.
#20 - The Jim Whitlow Story
Season 6 - Episode 36 - Aired 5/29/1963
Duke Shannon returns to check on his small ranch he split evenly with a childhood friend. When he arrives he finds tenant farmers being bull-whipped and a ruthless foreman his partner does not want to fire claiming he is needed.
#21 - The Emmett Lawton Story
Season 6 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/6/1963
Duke Shannon stops in the town High Times and almost right away gets into a fight with, and accidentally kills, one of the gunmen who are essentially holding the town hostage. Then he finds his horse missing and ignores advise to leave.
#22 - The Lisa Raincloud Story
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1962
Bill Hawks is caught with three Indian grave robbers being chased by the Indians. He is the only one captured and is to be killed until he and the Chief's daughter fall in love. However, the leading brave has other ideas for her and Bill.
#23 - The David Garner Story
Season 6 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/8/1963
Hale is entrusted to deliver $8,000 to a bank. Young David Garner is determined to steal it and he stows along on the wagon train, along with a girl who's in love with him. Following them is a shady man who seems to have a hold over David.
#24 - The Davey Baxter Story
Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/9/1963
When his wagon falls down a cliff, Davey Baxter's mother is killed, and his arm is crushed. The doctor is unavailable, so Chris is forced to make the decision to amputate. This changes everything for Davey and the girl he plans to marry.
#25 - The Tom Tuesday Story
Season 6 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/3/1963
While scouting in Wyoming territory, Duke is forced by outlaw Tom Tuesday to act as his guide to an important rendezvous in Ruby City, Idaho. Tuesday is going blind from a gunshot wound, and Duke is able to turn the tables on him.