The BEST episodes written by Calvin Clements Sr.
#1 - The John Gillman Story
Wagon Train - Season 8 - Episode 3
John Gillman being chased and shot in the leg by a posse escapes via a river. He is found downriver nearly passes out by a young orphan girl Abigail. She takes a liking to him but he tries to rebuff her. Wowever, events cause a change.
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#2 - The Bob Stuart Story
Wagon Train - Season 8 - Episode 1
Coop has to escort an ex-marshal and his wife who once shot Coop in the back to the wagon train. In addition he hires three men temporarily who hate the marshal but have more extreme plans for the man without Coop's knowledge.
#7 - The Echo Pass Story
Wagon Train - Season 8 - Episode 14
While out looking for water Coop and Charlie are stopped by a gang of five, including two women, who are on the run after robbing a bank and killing three lawmen. The leader of the gang shoots Charlie after tying him up, and they take Coop to lead them through a mountain pass to get to California.
#8 - Not in Our Stars
Daniel Boone - Season 1 - Episode 12
Mingo plans to do more than protest a new treaty when he and Boone visit Virginia's governor general (Walter Pidgeon)
#9 - Deputy Festus
Gunsmoke - Season 10 - Episode 17
On their way out of town, some cousins of Festus come across a badly injured man whom they assume is dead, so they flee, pursued by Festus, who believes his cousins attacked the man.
#10 - Death Watch
Gunsmoke - Season 11 - Episode 16
Two Bounty hunters bring in a wounded Mexican bandit worth $30,000 and find out the Mexican government might not pay for a man who dies a natural death, so they get the idea of shooting him dead.
#11 - The Newcomers
Gunsmoke - Season 12 - Episode 11
Petter Karlgren, a Swedish immigrant, and his father arrive in the untamed west to settle in Dodge. When Petter is baited into a fight, they will find that the west is more untamed and unforgiving than they ever thought.
#12 - Killer at Large
Gunsmoke - Season 11 - Episode 20
In Matt's absence, Festus is accused of drawing first on a drunken man. Though innocent, Festus leaves town to avoid Matt having to arrest him, and takes refuge across the border with a widow and her son.
#13 - The Hanging
Gunsmoke - Season 12 - Episode 15
Dodge City is the site where notorious outlaw, Billy Boles, is set to hang. However, the town is occupied by people determined for their own kind of justice.
#14 - Clayton Thaddeus Greenwood
Gunsmoke - Season 11 - Episode 3
Thad, son of and deputy to an Oklahoma sheriff, arrives in Dodge pursuing vandals on his father's warrant, not realizing the Oklahoma warrant isn't executable in Dodge.
#15 - The Pariah
Gunsmoke - Season 10 - Episode 30
A mousy local man is hailed as a hero when he shoots and kills a man wanted for murder. Then a newspaper reporter interviews him and uncovers facts that cast a very different light on the shooting.
#16 - The Pretender
Gunsmoke - Season 11 - Episode 10
An elder brother took the blame for the younger as both were sent away for cattle rustling. When they return home, the younger is not done with doing wrong, nor with asking his brother to cover his tracks.
#17 - Mail Drop
Gunsmoke - Season 12 - Episode 19
A young boy comes to Dodge looking for his father. What he finds is that his father is a wanted outlaw on the run.
#18 - The Indian Girl Story
Wagon Train - Season 8 - Episode 24
A white renegade rides into the wagon train camp with an Indian girl tied to a rope and forced to walk without food or water. He says that he is bringing her back to the tribe where she will be tortured and killed for killing the chief's son. Hawks, in charge of a smaller group until Hale and Coop meet them with the rest of the train, decides to forcibly take the girl from her sadistic captor and keep her with his group, even knowing that this may lead to an attack from the chief's tribe.
#19 - The Jarbo Pierce Story
Wagon Train - Season 8 - Episode 26
The series' final episode begins and ends with the two characters who stayed with it from beginning to end, as Charlie tells Hawks about his earlier days working for trading post operator Jarbo Pierce. Jarbo, once a wild, hard-drinking man, had become a minister, though he could still take on any man who tried to fight him. When his younger brother Adam arrived at the post Jarbo found himself at odds with him as Adam preferred the wilder ways of life and didn't understand Jarbo's concerns for the Indians he traded with, and began working with a man who wanted to use ...
#20 - The Race Town Story
Wagon Train - Season 8 - Episode 4
Bill accompanies Barnaby to Sam Race's tent city of "entertainers", where a girl from the train that Barnaby likes has taken a job, not as a singer, as she had thought, but as a saloon girl. Bill hopes to keep Barnaby out of trouble with the gambling and con games Race runs, but trouble and humiliation is just what they both find.