Wagon Train – Season 4 (1960-1961) Episode Guide

SEASON FOUR 1960-1961

Wednesdays 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM on NBC

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October 1960 – April 1961
1. Gunsmoke 2. Wagon Train 3. Have Gun Will Travel 4. The Andy Griffith Show 5. The Real McCoys 6. Rawhide 7. Candid Camera 8. The Untouchables 9. The Price is Right 10. The Jack Benny Show 11. Dennis the Menace 12. The Danny Thomas Show 13. My Three Sons	14. 77 Sunset Strip 15. The Ed Sullivan Show 16. Perry Mason 17. Bonanza 18. The Flintstones 19. The Red Skelton Show 20. Alfred Hitchcock Presents 21. Celebrity Talent Scouts 22. General Electric Theatre 23. Checkmate 24. What’s My Line 25. Many Lives of Dobie Gillis

Episode Guide – Season 4

TITLE	SYNOPSIS	GUEST STARS	COMMENTS
Wagons Ho! (ep. #4.1) 9/28/1960	Before leaving San Francisco to go back to Missouri, Flint finds the book written by passenger Sam Evans, which tells the tale of a greenhorn on Major Adam’s wagon train.	Mickey Rooney as Samuel T. Evans Ellen Corby as Aunt Em Olive Sturgess as Melanie Evans Henry Corden as Black Feather Carlos Romero as Indian #1 Peter Mamakos as Chief	Robert HortonA delightful episode in which Mickey Rooney reprises his role from Greenhorn Story (ep. #3.2)
Horace Best Story (ep. #4.2) 10/5/1960	While preparing for a new trip West, Adams is confronted by a young man who says he is his distant cousin and who wants to be a wagonmaster. The Major is in for lots for trouble when he takes him under his wing.	George Gobel as Horace Best Ken Curtis as Pappy Lightfoot Mary Field as Mrs. Gillespie Allen Jenkins as Mr. Gillespie Joe Flynn as Edwin Crook Otto Waldis as Osterloh	Robert HortonKen Curtis would go on to play Festus Haggen on Gunsmoke (1964-75)
Albert Farnsworth Story (ep. #4.3) 10/12/1960	A British Army surgeon traveling with the train is convinced that the British way of life is the only way.	Charles Laughton as Colonel Albert Farnsworth Robert Brown as Tim O’Toole Terence de Marney as Mike O’Toole James Fairfax as Jeremy Oakes Jan Arvan, Gina Gillespie, Kathleen O’Malley, Orville Sherman, Quintin Sondergaard	Ward Bond
Allison Justis Story (ep. #4.4) 10/19/1960	Flint finds out that the horse thief that he shot was a highly respected mayor and the husband of a childhood friend of McCullough’s. Suspicious of the situation and the victim’s brother, Flint sets out to find the truth.	Gloria De Haven as Allison Justice Michael Burns as Billy Justis Gregg Stewart as Bert Justis Kenn Hooker as Ira Dan Tobin as Sheriff Edward G. Robinson Jr. as Deputy	A strong Robert Horton episodeMichael Burns would later join the cast as Barnaby West
Jose Morales Story (ep. #4.5) 10/26/1960	Leading three wagons into Sioux territory, Hawks is captured by a Mexican bandito and his henchman who are determined to pirate the wagons. Things get complicated when the Indians attack.	Lee Marvin as Jose Morales Lon Chaney Jr. as Louis RoqueSteve Darrell as Dr. Stern Charles Herbert as Joseph Clark Howat as Aaron Oliver Gregg Palmer as Raleigh Aline Towne as Patience	Terry Wilson
Princess of a Lost Tribe (ep. #4.6) 11/2/1960	In search of a man’s father Flint McCullough and three men become virtual prisoners in a hidden Aztec city ruled by Montezuma IX. Flint falls in love with the ruler’s daughter, who is about to be sacrificed to a god.	Raymond Massey as Montezuma IX Linda Lawson as Lia Raymond Greenleaf as Jerald Frank Jenks as Dutch Anders Edward Mallory as Mike Kelly Chet Stratton as John Miller	An odd story starring Robert HortonRaymond Massey would go on to play Dr. Leonard Gillespie in Dr. Kildare (1961-66)
Cathy Eckhart Story (ep. #4.7) 11/9/1960	When Major Adams is warned by a cavalryman to avoid a pass where trains have recently disappeared, he investigates the theory that a white renegade has been turning them over to the Indians and in doing so, he solves the murder of a a young woman passenger.	Susan Oliver as Cathy Eckhardt Martin Landau as Preacher Ron Hayes as Whitey John Larch as Ben Harness Gregory Walcott as Jeff Miller Brad Johnson as Lt. Vivi Janiss as Sarah Harness Claire Carleton	Ward BondClick for Trivia Info
Bleymier Story (ep. #4.8) 11/16/1960	Flint and a small party of settlers on their way to Dakota homesteads are bogged down by torrential rains, and one man fears that the raging skies are an omen of catastrophe.	Dan Duryea as Samuel Bleymier James Drury as Justin Claiborne Ellen Willard as Belle Juney Ellis, John McLiam, David McMahon	Robert HortonJames Drury, who also starred in the Cole Crawford Story (ep. #5.28) would go on to become the Virginian (1962-71)Dan Duryea also appears in the Cliff Grundy Story (ep. #1.15); the Sacramento Story (ep. # 1.39); the Last Man (ep. #2.19); Joshua Gillam (ep. #3.25); the Wagon Train Mutiny (ep. #6.1); and the Race Town Story (ep. #8.4)
Colter Craven Story (ep. #4.9) 11/23/1960Click for Pictures	When their wagon is disabled, a former Army doctor and his wife join the train in exchange for the doctor’s services. But when he’s needed for surgery, he admits to the Major that since the Civil War he has been unable to pick up a scalpel. This prompts the Major to recount his own personal war story, and of another drinker, Ulysses S. Grant.	John Wayne as Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman ( credit as Michael Morris) Carleton Young as Colter Craven Anna Lee as Mrs. Craven Paul Birch as Sam Grant Annelle Hayes as Mrs. Grant Willis Bouchey as Jesse Mae Marsh as Mrs. Jesse Grant Ken Curtis as Kyle Cliff Lyons as Creel Jack Pennick as Drill Sgt. John Carradine as Park Cleatus Charles Seel as Mort Hank Worden as Shelley Chuck Robertson as Junior Richard Cutting as Col. Lollier Dennis Rush as Jamie	Ward BondDirected by John Ford and perhaps the most famous WT of them all.Click for Trivia InfoBy some miracle, does anyone have the cut 15 minutes?
Jane Hawkins Story (ep. #4.10) 11/30/1960	Flint gives sanctuary to a girl wounded by the hired gun of a feared town dictator, who believes the girl killed his son. But the girl is innocent and Flint sets out to learn the truth and crush the tyrant’s empire.	Myrna Fahey as Jane Hawkins Whit Bissell as Doc Hicks Kathie Browne as Laura Mattox Edgar Buchanan as Ben Mattox Nestor Paiva as Bartender Sherwood Price as Jesse Kay Stewart as Evy	Robert Horton
Candy O’Hara Story (ep. #4.11) 12/7/1960	A widower with a young son is anxious to find a new wife, and he sets his sights on a woman Adams has known in the past and who’s not exactly the wife and mother type.	Joan O’Brien as Candy O’Hara Jim Davis as Gabe Henry Teddy Rooney as Luther Lane Bradford as Marshal Richard H. Cutting as Parson Edith Evanson as Granny Robert Lowery as Marty Fred Sherman as Proprietor Connie Van as Annabelle Robert Lowery as Marty Craig Duncan as Miner	Ward BondJim Davis would become Jock Ewing on Dallas from 1978 until his death in 1981.Davis also appears in the Eve Newhope Story (ep. #6.12) and the Melanie Craig Story (ep. #7.22)
River Crossing (ep. #4.12) 12/14/1960	On a storm threatened dusk, the wagons are forced to wait until morning to cross a dangerously swollen river, but Flint finds that the Comanches are on the warpath and will attack the wagons at dawn.	Robert J. Wilke as Jabez Moore Claudia Bryar as Mrs. Moore Charles Aidman as Col. Buckner Ron Harper as Lt. Beyins X. Brands as Pawnee Scout Colette Jackson as Gray Sparrow Allen Jaffe as Black Forest Michael Keep as Dark Eagle Marshall Reed as Tom Dennis McCarthy as Hawkins	A good Robert Horton episode
Roger Bigelow Story (ep. #4.13) 12/21/1960	A young clergyman on his way to California with his bride and his life savings, intent on establishing a new church, offers refuge to a wounded bandit, against the Major’s warnings that he’s a dangerous criminal	Robert Vaughn as Roger Bigelow Claude Akins as Wes Varney Audrey Dalton as Nancy Bigelow Ronnie Rondell Jr. as Henry Tate	Ward BondRobert Vaughn also appears in the John Wilbot Story (ep. #1.37)Vaughn became Napoleon Solo on the Man From U.N.C.L.E. (1964-68)
Jeremy Dow Story (ep. #4.14) 12/28/1960 6/28/1961 (rerun)	Hired to drive a couple’s wagon, a drifter strikes up a friendship with their son and grows uneasy when the boy starts telling him about his real father, who died a hero.	Leslie Nielsen as Jeremy Dow/Jeff Durant Mari Aldon as Hester Millikan Michael Burns as Bruce Millikan Jimmy Lydon as Clete Millikan Dal McKennon as Clerk John War Eagle as Iron Hand Morgan Woodward as Jubal David Garcia as Brave	Robert HortonMichael Burns would later join the cast as Barnaby West
Earl Packer Story (ep. #4.15) 1/4/1961	A sheriff, well-known as a fearless, heroic lawman, ask Flint’s help in eluding a bounty hunter who’s been after him since he was framed by gamblers. But face to face to the bounty hunter accuses im of slaying a lady.	Ernest Borgnine as Earl Packer Ed Binns as Sheriff Bill Strode Jane Burgess as Girl Rex Holman as Harry	Robert HortonErnest Borgnine also appears in the Willy Moran Story (ep. #1.1); Around the Horn (ep. #2.1); the Estaban Zamora Story (ep. # 3.4); and in the Indian Girl Story (ep. #8.24)
Patience Miller Story (ep. #4.16) 1/11/1961	A Quaker missionary lady, widowed by an Indian attack, carries on her husbands work, holding school for Indian children. She becomes involved in a war between the Comanches and he Arapahos.	Rhonda Fleming as Patience Miller Michael Ansara as North Star Terry Burnham as Prudence E.J. André as Mr. Wise Henry Brandon as Dark Eagle Bart Braverman, Jason Robards Sr. as White Hawk Morgan Woodward as Spotted Horse Bart Bradley as Evening Star Tammy Windsor as Brown Robin Robert Bice as Windy Hill Charlotte Fletcher as Morning Song	Rhonda Fleming also appears in the Jennifer Churchill Story (ep. #2.3) and in the Sandra Cummings Story (ep. #7.11)Michael Ansara would star in Broken Arrow (1956-60)
Sam Elder Story (ep. #4.17) 1/18/1961 7/5/1961 (rerun)	Hawks allows a retired Army captain and his group of orphaned boys to join the train, but the man is met by animosity from one traveler, who suspects his Civil War conduct caused the death of the man’s son.	Everett Sloane as Sam Elder Ray Stricklyn as Sgt. Perks Roberta Shore as Millie Allen Adrienne Marden as Lila Allen Walter Coy as Ben Allen Roger Mobley as Tod	Terry Wilson
Weight of Command (ep. #4.18) 1/25/1961	After he and two travelers are attacked in an adobe hut, Hawks makes his way back to the train for help. But Adams refuses fearing an uprising that would kill far more people and he insists on moving on.	Dan Riss as George Gentry Jeanne Bates as Hester Gentry Tommy Rettig as Billy Gentry Henry Wills as Indian Leader Richard Crane as Dan Foster Nancy Rennick as Judith Foster Jan Arvan as Charlie Clancy Cooper as Henry Dana Dillaway as Prudence Wilton Graff as ColonelDenny Miller as Duke Shannon	Terry WilsonDenny Miller would appear in this story before his character was formally introduced in The Duke Shannon Story (#4.30)
Prairie Story (ep. #4.19) 2/1/1961 7/12/1961 (rerun)	Beset by dust, disease and Indians of the prairies, the train’s women grow fearful and restless. One woman, a pillar of strength, keeps up morale but ultimately is worn down by the prairie.	Beulah Bondi as Grandma Jan Clayton as Charity Kirby Virginia Christine as Clara Ilana Dowding as Patience Diane Jergens as Sally John Archer as Matt Jack Buetel as Jack Mickey Sholdar as Garth William Herrin as Tom	A good Robert Horton episodeThis is a good story depicting life on the wagon trains as it must have really existed.
Path of the Serpent (ep. #4.20) 2/8/1961	A young passenger on her way to see her Army sergeant father, learns he’s dying after a Ute attack. A mountain man is sent to bring her to her father quickly through a risky mountain trail.	Jay Silverheels as the Serpent Noah Beery Jr. as Ruddy Blaine Melinda Plowman as Penelope Paul Birch as Sgt. Huntington Robert Harland as Cpl. Clay Taylor Paul Burke	Terry Wilson Robert HortonYes, Jay Silverheels was Tonto (1949-1957)Did you know that Robert Horton did a Lone Ranger episode with Silverheels?
Odyssey of Flint McCullough (ep. #4.21) 2/15/1961	On his way for supplies, Flint encounters the sad survivors of an Indian attack, an old man, and his grandchildren. As he leads them to safety, he encounters more lost children until eventually he is responsible for a rag-tag group of a baby, a bunch of kids and the grandfather.	Henry Hull as Gideon Michael Burns as Homer Suzi Carnell as Kathy Dana Dillaway as Cassie Laurie Mains Priest Tony Maxwell as Sweeney Clay Randolph as Kenny Bryan Russell as Timmy Milan Smith as Indian Scout	A strong Robert Horton episodeThis is a fun, light-hearted episodeMichael Burns would later join the cast as Barnaby West
Beth Pearson Story (ep. #4.22) 2/22/1961	Major Adams is shaken by the resemblance of a widow to Raine Webster, the woman he once loved. He falls for the woman, but she wnats him tio be sure that it is she, and not a ghost he’s fallen in love with.	Virginia Grey as Beth Pearson Johnny Washbrook as Ron Pearson Del Moore as Johnson	Ward BondThis is the last episode taped by Bond. He was never written out of the show. According to Terry Wilson, we were supposed to assume he left of a broken heart after this story.
Jed Polke Story (ep. #4.23) 3/1/1961 8/2/61 (rerun)	A woman and her son are brought to the train from a damaged wagon. When her husband who had gone for help is found, a doctor and his three friends want to kill the man to avenge a wrong done at Andersonville.	John Lasell as Jed Polk Joyce Meadows as Rheba Polke Willard Waterman as Dr. Day Morgan Woodward as Keene Dennis Holmes as Cotton Juney Ellis as Kate Frank Gerstle as Otto Ron Hayes as Ross Perry Lopez as Jeff	Robert Horton
Nancy Palmer Story (ep. #4.24) 3/7/1961	A woman’s kindnesses endear her to the other travelers and offsets her husband’s surly nature. After a bank robbery they flee with stolen water and horses, and the travelers know they were deceived.	Audrey Meadows as Nancy Palmer Jack Cassidy as Mr. Palmer Jeanne Bates as Mrs. MacGregor Bern Hoffman as MacGregor Elisha Cook Jr. as Lem Salters Med Flory as Sheriff Gile Vivi Janiss as Madge Harry Lauter as Will Davidson Roger Mobley as Freddie Rory Stevens as Billy Laurie Perreau as Doreen	Robert HortonAudrey Meadows would become Alice Kramden in the Honeymooners
Christopher Hale Story (ep. #4.25) 3/15/1961	Flint meets a retired wagonmaster who’s overcome with grief after the massacre of his family by Indians. Meanwhile the company who owns the train has hired a new wagonmaster, who arrives to put things in order with the help of four gun-toting associates.	John McIntire as Christopher Hale Lee Marvin as Jud Benedict Charles Horvath as Muerto L.Q. Jones as Lenny Wesley Lau as Lenny Claire Carleton as Mrs. Hennessey Boyd ‘Red’ Morgan, Nancy Rennick	Robert Horton John McIntireThis episode introduces the new wagonmaster, Chris HaleDoes anyone have a copy of this episode? Please contact me.
Tiburcio Mendez Story (ep. #4.26) 3/22/1961 7/26/61 (rerun)	As Hawks leads four wagons to Los Angeles, he’s halted by a band of renegades devoted to keeping “gringos” out of California. A judge on the border wants to act as intermediary.	Nehemiah Persoff as Tiburcio Mendez Leonard Nimoy as Joaquin Delgado Russell Collins as Judge Alfred Black David Garcia as Providencio Garcia Orville Sherman as Smathers Lisa Gaye as Alma Lane Bradford as Cross	Terry WilsonLeonard Nimoy also boldly goes in the Estaban Zamora Story (ep. #3.4) and the Maggie Hamilton Story (ep. # 3.26)
Pre-empted 3/29/1961
Nellie Jefferson Story (ep. #4.27) 4/5/1961 8/9/1961 (rerun)	Chris and Flint are perturbed by the prima dona behavior of a famous actress on the train, but Wooster is enthralled with her and waits on her hand and foot.	Janis Paige as Nellie Jefferson Dennis Rush as Homer Hank Worden as Trader Don C. Harvey as Marshal Don Megowan as Sean Hennesssey Gail Bonney as Mrs. Schroeder H.M. Wynant as Bart Haskell Ralph Sanford as Manager Vince Williams as Knight	Robert Horton John McIntire
Saul Bevins Story (ep. #4.28) 4/12/1961 8/16/1961 (rerun)	A blind man must prove he’s capable of caring for his sister and his son during their planned trip to California. Turned down by several wagonmasters, he persuades Hale to give him a chance.	Rod Steiger as Saul Bevins Charles Herbert as Job Vivi Janiss as Martha I. Stanford Jolley as Jed Willard Waterman as Andrew Harley Rachel Ames as Jane Harley Charles Carson as Lloyd	John McIntire
Joe Muharich Story (ep. #4.29) 4/19/1961 8/23/61	A Polish immigrant who recently lost his wife and son, befriends a rebellious youth, and later, in trying to help the boy when he lands in jail, ends up killing two men himself.	Akim Tamiroff as Joe Muharich Robert Blake as Johnny Kamen Tristram Coffin as Whittaker Susan Silo as Betty Whitaker Kelton Garwood as Claude Stacy Harris as Sheriff Doodles Weaver as Efen Ken Mayer as Jones Ken Hooker as Ed	Robert Blake would go on to play Det. Tony Baretta (1975-78)
Duke Shannon Story (ep. #4.30) 4/26/1961 9/6/1961	Duke Shannon joins up with the train as scout. His grandfather, a prospector, has map for a lost gold mine and he talks Wooster into helping him find the treasure. Three shady characters overhear this and attempt to foil them.	Frank McHugh as Henry Shannon James Griffith as Sterkel John L. Cason as Jeff Leonard P. Geer as Clay Maudie Prickett as Ethel	Denny MillerThis episode introduces the character of Duke Shannon
Will Santee Story (ep. #4.31) 5/3/1961 9/13/1961 (rerun)	A young man with his mother and sister join the train. His conscience is bothering him and he confides in Hale that they’re using an alias because his brother was involved in a scandal.	Dean Stockwell as Will Sheridan/Santee Virginia Christine as Amanda Millie Perkins as Jessie McDermott Jocelyn Brando as Agnes McDermott Harry Von Zell as Fred McDermott Barbara Beaird as Wendy John Crawford as Stranger Dal McKennon as Lee	Dean Stockwell would star as Al Calavicci in Quantum LeapStockwell also played in the Ruth Owens Story (ep. #1.4); the Juan Ortega Story (ep. #2.2); the Rodney Lawrence Story (ep. #2.36); and the Richard Bloodgood Story (ep. #8.10)
Jim Bridger Story (ep. #4.32) 5/10/1961	In temporary charge of the wagons, Flint McCullough meets his foster father who along with an Army general, orders him to take the train back to hostile Ute territory to help rescue a trapped Cavalry garrison.	Karl Swenson as Jim Bridger John Doucette as Gen. Jameson Hank Brandt as Gray Beddoe Jackie Russell as Mavis Beddoe Brian Hutton as Clark Gary Hunley as Tony Francis De Sales as Mark Nestor Paiva as Sgt. Hoag Barbara Woodell as Millie Glen Strange as Capt. Fox	Robert HortonDoes anyone have a copy of this episode? Please contact me.
Eleanor Culhane Story (ep. #4.33) 5/17/1961 8/30/1961	Flint goes to visit an old girlfriend and finds she’s now the widow of a notorious gunman. His love for her begins to return, but so does her supposedly dead husband.	Felicia Farr as Eleanor Culhane John Lasell as Riker Culhane Renata Vanni as Inez Hank Patterson as Old Man Orville Sherman as Bartender Russell Thorson as Harris	An unusual and odd Robert Horton episode.Culhane lives in the house used in Psycho. ‘Nuff said.
The Chalice (ep. #4.34) 5/24/1961	A family going to California to plant a vineyard needs help transporting water to keep the young plants alive. Two men offer the use of their wagon, but their motives are not altruistic.	Lon Chaney Jr. as Carstairs Richard Jaeckel as Barker Argentina Brunetti as Lisa Canevari Harold Heifetz as Marcello Canevari Edward Colmans as Padre	Richard Jaeckel would later appear in the movie Green Slime with Robert Horton
Janet Hale Story (ep. #4.35) 5/31/1961 9/20/1961	Flashbacks to Chris Hale’s past tell the story of how his duties as wagonmaster kept him away from his prairie home. He thought that his truce with an Indian chief would keep his family safe during his absences.	Jeanette Nolan as Janet Hale Charles Aidman, Claudia Bryar, Richard H. Cutting, Bobby Hyatt, Bethel Leslie	John McIntireThis story develops the character of Chris Hale by telling some of his history. The episode stars McIntire’s re-life wife, Jeanette Nolan.
Wagon to Fort Anderson (ep. #4.36) 6/7/1961	Flint McCullough takes on a deaf girl, her sister and two soldiers who’ve survived an Indian attack. One man, who secretly plans to desert the Army makes the dangerous trip back unpleasant with his surly attitude.	Don Rickles as Joe Carder Albert Salmi as George Carder Charles Drake as Sam Livingston Carol Eve Rossen, as Fay Ellison Candy Moore as Sue Ellison Hal Needham as Warrior Lou Webb as Broken Nose	Robert HortonAlbert Salmi later played Yadkin on Daniel Boone (1964-65)
Ah Chong Story (ep. #4.37) 6/14/1961	When Wooster develops a “take it or leave it” attitude about his cooking, Hale promotes his Chinese helper to chief cook.	Arnold Stang as Ah Chong Frank Ferguson as Sheriff Jess Kirkpatrick as Proprietor	This episode written by Terry WilsonClick for Trivia Info
Don Alvarado Story (ep. #4.38) 6/21/1961	In response to a promise made to a dying man, Flint poses as Don Alvarado in order to claim the dead man’s family rights to California land. But there is trouble as many do not want to honor the old Spanish land grants.	Vladimir Sokoloff as Felipe Andra Martin as Teresa Gervado Minerva Urecal as Maria Michael Forest as Julio David Faulkner as Rudolfo Ed Nelson as Donovan Ken Terrell as Hayes Armand Alzamora	A different and dashing Robert Horton story
Reruns 6/28/1961-9/20/1961

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