The BEST episodes of Wagon Train season 7
Every episode of Wagon Train season 7, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Wagon Train season 7!
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 Santiago Quesada Story
Season 7 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/30/1964
Kim Case is returning home during Indian wars after schooling in the east although her parents have died. She is anxious to return to the man she loves, Lance Starbuck, who is an Indian raised by an Army Major from a young age.
#2 - The Trace McCloud Story
Season 7 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/2/1964
A strangler is loose in the town of Bedrock so when the wagon train comes through it is joined by a good percentage of the town's population which it becomes apparent includes the strangler.
#3 - The Jed Whitmore Story
Season 7 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/13/1964
Jed Whitmore, one of three brothers that committed an infamous train robbery, is now town sheriff Frank Lewis but his brother released from prison comes to town with a fellow inmate and a reporter to get paid for the Jed Whitmore story.
#4 - The Gus Morgan Story
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1963
A tough railroad executive and his younger college educated brother are guided by Chris up a mountain to scout a route. When is accidentally shot by the younger brother, the older brother is forced to make a tough decision he may regret.
#5 - The Widow O'Rourke Story
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1963
When Duke and Charlie do not return from a scouting assignment, Chris sends Cooper who has a pretty good idea what lays ahead. The Chinese widow of an Irish Ship Captain wants Coop to carry on her husband's empire.
#6 - The Fort Pierce Story
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1963
As the wagon train reaches Fort Pierce it is in dangerous Indian country. Chris is hoping the Army will provide an escort when they leave, but the Colonel refuses due to Army orders. In fact, he wants the lone woman there to leave with the train.
#7 - The Geneva Balfour Story
Season 7 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/20/1964
Hale's train must take a dangerous desert route due to hostilities which danger grows when spoiled Geneva Balfour starts a fire destroying supplies to get her husband to return east and Hale lies to train members about the danger's extent.
#8 - The Story of Cain
Season 7 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/16/1963
While scouting Coop nearly dies after finding a man near death from lack of water who has found a major gold strike. The man decides to let the wagon train share in his windfall but later reneges resulting in disaster for him and Coop.
#9 - The Sam Spicer Story
Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/28/1963
After witnessing a bank holdup, Barnaby is taken hostage by outlaws Sam Spicer and Reno Sutton. Sam takes a liking to the boy as he reminds him of himself when Reno first made him a partner but Reno doesn't trust Barnaby.
#10 - The Kitty Pryer Story
Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/18/1963
Kitty Pryer finds herself in a bigamous marriage to Victor Harp who asks her to join him on the wagon train posing as the wife of a friend until he can divorce his wife. However, Victor's change of plans puts Kitty in unique peril.
#11 - The Eli Bancroft Story
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1963
Eli Bancroft became an outlaw looking for revenge raising his three sons as such after a town's citizens banded together and forced his entire family to uproot, fearing they would catch their illness. Coop and others become his victims.
#12 - The Sandra Cummings Story
Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/2/1963
After escaping from a Confederate prison for being a spy, Sandra Cummings, becomes the lead in a musical troupe in the west. When she joins the wagon train, Cooper Smith takes an interest in her daughter Paula against Sandra's wishes.
#13 - The Andrew Elliott Story
Season 7 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/10/1964
Duke Shannon, arrested by the Cavalry, is charged with criminal negligence as leader of an expedition into the badlands, from which he alone has returned. He must retrace his steps with the Army and one of the victim's father.
#14 - Last Circle Up
Season 7 - Episode 32 - Aired 4/27/1964
As the wagon train approaches the end of the trail, Hale's crew and passengers deal with birth, death, romance, a clash of different faiths, anger, gambling, a medical emergency, and a cooking contest as they prepare to separate.
#15 - The Pearlie Garnet Story
Season 7 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/24/1964
Beautiful but shrewd Pearlie Garnet was forced to leave the wagon train after she was found to be a liar, manipulator, and thief who stole from everyone on the train.
#16 - The Melanie Craig Story
Season 7 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/17/1964
Everyone wants to help pretty Melanie Craig after her husband is killed in an accident so four men fight over who will be the one to court and marry her. Also, Rudd Basham, father of three boys, uses the wrong ideas about women to win her.
#17 - The Kate Crawley Story
Season 7 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/27/1964
When Hale begins to romance tough, independent freight line operator Kate Crawley, the others begin to fear she will wind up dominating Chris, and try to encourage her adoring assistant to better himself so that she'll notice him instead.
#18 - The Michael Malone Story
Season 7 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/6/1964
Julie Holland is falling for Michael Malone, a man haunted by the death of his sister. Meanwhile, the marriage of Ben and Beth Mitchell is strained because of Beth's increasing bitterness toward her husband and her feeling of unworthiness.
#19 - The Cassie Vance Story
Season 7 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/23/1963
Cassie Vance is accused of theft when money and items belonging to a woman on the train that she nursed turn up missing, and especially after another woman recognizes Cassie as having served time in prison for theft when young.
#20 - The Sam Pulaski Story
Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1963
On the train Coop is falling for the sister of the man running a gang who beat and robbed Coop in Hell's Kitchen in Brooklyn. Coop believes the man who says he is going west to change but his goons are still plying their scam on the train.
#21 - The Link Cheney Story
Season 7 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/13/1964
Coop brings Link Cheney to the wagon train after the professional gambler is wounded by sore losers in a game. Link is nursed back to health by Dorthea Gillford, and the two fall in love, but Dorthea hopes Link will quit gambling.
#22 - The Robert Harrison Clarke Story
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1963
Chris and Cooper along with a British journalist accompany civilians surveying for the Army when they come across an Army troop that has been massacred except for two survivors. This opens the journalist's eyes to the real America.
#23 - The Myra Marshall Story
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1963
Coop accompanies Grace Marshall to visit her sister Myra whom, traumatized by an upbringing by an abusive father, Grace finds living a life of addiction and infidelity for which Grace wrongfully blames husband Vern.
#24 - The Duncan McIvor Story
Season 7 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/9/1964
Duke and Bill are rescued from Indians by a stranger. He joins the train which is headed to Fort Chacon. Unknown to them he is an Army officer. Members of the train are offered stolen Army supplies creating a problem for the officer.
#25 - The Zebedee Titus Story
Season 7 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/20/1964
Barnaby and Charlie talk Chris Hale into hiring legendary mountain man Zebedee Titus as a scout. The nearly 80 year old Zeb's failing eyesight leads to problems including Coop's being captured by the Comanche Zeb couldn't see.