2024-08-17
News of a blind artist's exhibition moves the girl's natural mother to renew contact with her. Annie Crane: Madeleine Stowe. Caroline: Karen Grassle. Helen Crane: Mariclare Costello. Nellie: Alison Arngrim. Sorrell Crane: Paul Napier. Charles: Michael Landon. (Repeat).
A jealous Laura moves back with her parents when a pretty acquaintance reenters Almanzo's life. (Repeat).
Albert lies to impress a pen pal, unaware that she's confined to a wheelchair and doing the same. Suzy Gilstrap, a paraplegic, plays the girl. Mrs. Barton: Diane Shalet. Charles: Michael Landon. Dr. Marx: Martin Rudy. Laura: Melissa Gilbert. McGinnis: Olan Soule. (Repeat).
Freight-hauling partners Charles and Almanzo agree on a race to decide the better route between Walnut Grove and Sleepy Eye. Michael Landon. Kavendish: Eddie Quillan. Almanzo: Dean Butler. Horace Choate: Terrence Evans. (Repeat).
Shadrack Bennington has been a cavalier of the open road, not wanting to be tied down until he joins the wagon train, heading for San Francisco and a future even he couldn't anticipate. (Repeat).
While preparing to return to St. Joseph, the men read the story "Wagon Ho" written and printed by Samuel T. Evans about his trip as a naive young Irishman headed west and his experiences and adventure on the trail. (Repeat).
Adams' "distant" cousin Horace arrives hoping to be a wagon master. His trading skills allow him to steal the crew and vendors from Adams but when Adams confronts him with the decisions he must make on the trail, there are second thoughts. (Repeat).
Col. Albert Farnsworth, a British surgeon traveling with the wagon train, is convinced that the British way of life is the only way---for everyone. Farnsworth: Charles Laughton. Adams: Ward Bond. Jeremy Oakes: James Fairfax. Flint: Robert Horton. Mike: Terrence de Marney. Tim O'Toole: Robert Brown. Peggy O'Toole: Gina Gillespie. Sharry O'Toole: Kathleen O'Malley. Wooster: Frank McGrath. (Repeat).
When someone yells horse thief, Flint shoots a man only to find he is the husband of a childhood friend. Flint learns the man is mayor and highly respected. The question of whether he killed an innocent man bothers him and the man's son. (Repeat).
Bill Hawkes is leading 3 wagons through Indian territory. They run into trouble with Mexician bandits lead by Lee Marvin. When the 2 groups must band together to fight off an Indian attack, certain biases & assumptions are thrown away. (Repeat).
Ordered by Major Adams to guide three passengers to a campsite up a haunted mountain, Flint does so but with caution: rumours that an escaped group of Aztecs now live there, almost 400 years after Cortez wiped them all out. (Repeat).
One murder begets a second murder while a treacherous journey awaits the wagon train. An unknown scout and Kiowa Indians threaten the pass. Now there may be a renegade and murderer in their midst which Adams must resolve before continuing. (Repeat).
Heed the signs! Or so says Samuel Bleymier. When the rains won't stop a splintered group of the wagon train has to travel through a Sioux Indian burial ground. That may have consequences all its own but what of the signs? (Repeat).
Dr. Craven feels he can't perform surgery any longer. When he joins the wagon train and his services are desperately needed, he realizes he may be wrong after Major Adams gives him a history lesson. (Repeat).
Flint discovers a badly wounded waitress on the range and takes her to a doctor, where he finds the evil town's owner wants to hang her without trial, because he suspects she murdered his son. (Repeat).
Gabe Henry and his son have been sorely missing the female touch over five years now. Finding a wife during a stopover is his top priority but his choice is known to Major Adams and he does not approve. (Repeat).
The wagon train faces two problems: a swollen river and a threatened Comanche attack. Adams: Ward Bond. Flint: Robert Horton. Indian Scout: X Brands. Dark Eagle: Michael Keep. Buckner: Charles Aidman. Mrs. Moore: Claudia Bryar. Moore: Robert J. Wilke. Wooster: Frank McGrath. (Repeat).
Roger Bigelow turns to the ministry with his father's help when he realizes what he might become without it. He gets the chance to help someone else on the wrong path but Major Adams is not sure the reverend is helping the right person. (Repeat).
Drifter Jeff Durant, hired to drive the Millikan's wagon, hears a disturbing story from Clete Millikan's stepson (Michael Burns). Durant: Leslie Nielsen. Adams: Ward Bond. Clete: James Lydon. Hester: Mari Aldon. Iron Hand: John War Eagle. Jubal: Morgan Woodward. Wooster: Frank McGrath. (Repeat).
Flint is baffled: why is Sheriff Bill Strode trying to elude bounty hunter Earl Packer? Strode: Edward Binns. Flint: Robert Horton. Adams: Ward Bond. Harry: Rex Holman. Girl: Jane Burgess. Wooster: Frank McGrath. (Repeat).
A Quaker schoolteacher heads to the Arapaho nation on the wagon train when her husband is killed. She meets the Chief and his willingness to fight another Indian nation puts her right in the middle of each tribe's pride and customs. (Repeat).