The BEST episodes written by Leonard Praskins
#1 - The Richard Bloodgood Story
Wagon Train - Season 8 - Episode 10
A blind man called Sangre has joined the wagon train along with his guide. He is actually Coop's boyhood blood brother Richard Bloodgood, and he openly states his plan to kill Coop. Coop gets very hostile and refuses to discuss it whenever Charlie or Barnaby ask the reason Richard wants to kill him, but they know it has to do with the death of a beautiful woman long ago.
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#2 - The Kitty Angel Story
Wagon Train - Season 2 - Episode 14
Kitty Angel finds herself not welcome on the wagon train due to her past. When Flint returns to the train toting a sick Indian baby, she has everyone's prejudices to deal with as well as this life threatening illness.
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#3 - The Levi Hale Story
Wagon Train - Season 5 - Episode 29
Chris Hale is traveling to the Wyoming prison to pick up his brother Levi---who's about to be released from prison. Chris assumed Levi was pardoned but he was paroled to Chris. He must keep Levi out of Wyoming or he will be hanged.
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#4 - Charlie Wooster - Outlaw
Wagon Train - Season 6 - Episode 22
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.
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#5 - The Widow O'Rourke Story
Wagon Train - Season 7 - Episode 4
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.
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#6 - The Matthew Lowry Story
Wagon Train - Season 2 - Episode 26
Matthew Lowry seems timid to everyone especially a bully on the wagon train. Riding upon some cholera sick wagons in a pass, they find out who he really is and why he has been acting this way.
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#7 - The Kate Parker Story
Wagon Train - Season 2 - Episode 31
The wagon train pushes ahead when one of the passengers has an accident. With only a wagon between two couples, one person decides to leave with money including some gold coins. They have an accident and the storm's only getting worse.
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#8 - Little Girl Lost
Wagon Train - Season 8 - Episode 12
A little girl, crying each night, appears to be a ghost from The Donner Party. Many people hear her, but she appears each night to Charlie, who questions his own sanity.
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#9 - The Madame Sagittarius Story
Wagon Train - Season 6 - Episode 3
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.
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#10 - The Odyssey of Flint McCullough
Wagon Train - Season 4 - Episode 21
Looking forward to some time off, Flint heads towards the town of Monument but runs into an old man and some kids whose parents were just massacred by some Mescaleros and they're running low on supplies especially milk for the baby.
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#11 - The Dick Pederson Story
Wagon Train - Season 5 - Episode 15
Overwhelmed girl takes on her father's responsibility as man of the house after he passes. She cares for her pregnant mother and 5 sisters and is suspicious of a young drifter who joins the train and pays too much attention to the girls.
#12 - The Sara Proctor Story
Wagon Train - Season 6 - Episode 23
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.
#13 - The Pearlie Garnet Story
Wagon Train - Season 7 - Episode 23
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.
#14 - The Marquesa
Maverick - Season 3 - Episode 16
Bart Maverick wins big, when he wins the "Lucky Lady" saloon in a card game. When Bart goes to Santa Leora to stake his claim, a beautiful Marquesa refuses to relinquish the property to him. Maverick encounters hurling knives, flurry of bullets and pounding fists when he tries to hold onto his newly acquired saloon.
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#15 - Guatemala City
Maverick - Season 3 - Episode 20
Maverick tries to straighten out his romance with Ellen Johnson and at the same time solve a million dollar jewel theft. When Bret finds out that his ardor has cooled, he also finds that he has become the prime target for a ruthless murderer and a man who refuses to stay dead.
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#17 - A Cure for Johnny Rain
Maverick - Season 3 - Episode 15
After saving Bret's life, Johnny Rain (William Reynolds) is arrested for robbing a stage coach. While Bret goes to his rescue he becomes ensnarled in a plot that involves a case of split personality - a dance hall wench and a mild-mannered tinhorn gambler who likes to leave 'em laughing... with hysteria.
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#18 - The Tom Tuesday Story
Wagon Train - Season 6 - Episode 28
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.
#20 - The Alexander Portlass Story
Wagon Train - Season 3 - Episode 23
Kidnapped, Flint is forced to scout and find a lost Aztec treasure. As some of the men were previously thrown off the wagon train, their unfriendliness is certain unless he can help them find the lost treasure of Montezuma.
#21 - The Hell Wind
The Virginian - Season 6 - Episode 21
Trampas, Stacey, and Elizabeth are transporting a bull back to Shiloh when they encounter a massive sand storm. They find a deserted homestead to take shelter in while waiting out the storm. While there others start showing up beginning with the Van Owens who are on vacation. Trampas recognizes her as as a crooked dealer from years back with a different name and her husband is the president of the local bank. When the bull knocks a hole in the wall, Trampas and Stacey discover $10,000 in gold coins and wonder who to trust.
#22 - The Katy Piper Story
Wagon Train - Season 8 - Episode 23
Barnaby is forced to shot and kill a boy his own age who took a woman and her daughters hostage. He is cleared of any wrongdoing but cannot shake the blood he feels is on his hands plus the judge wants him to inform the boy's mother.
#23 - The Felizia Kingdom Story
Wagon Train - Season 3 - Episode 8
Tough as nails Felizia Kingdom controls an enormous amount of land by force, and no one is good enough to inherit the responsibility. When Flint handles her henchmen with ease, she decides he's the man for the job.
#24 - The Lily Legend Story
Wagon Train - Season 6 - Episode 21
While riding through the desert plains, Duke and Charlie come across a sheriff as he is about to die of a heart attack and his female prisoner, Lily Legend, a childhood sweetheart of Duke who the sheriff is taking to be hanged for murder.
#25 - The Jeff Hartfield Story
Wagon Train - Season 5 - Episode 20
Jeff Hartfield becomes concerned when his sister Jenny begins dating Dallas who threatens him with an orphanage at journey's end. Jeff takes off but Dallas follows with deadly intent, believing Jeff knows the location of $30,000.
#26 - The Whipping
Wagon Train - Season 7 - Episode 27
With Chris gone Bill is in charge of the train when Barnaby goes overboard in his pranks. After messing with a wagon wheel, Bill orders him to fix it by himself causing Barnaby to break his leg causing a major rift between them.