Episodes
1. Hard Ride Home
September 21, 1977
60 min
We meet the Wagon train . They are heading to the west coast to start a better life for themselves. Character and plot descriptions revealed.
Guest Stars:
Wilford Brimley, John Vernon, William Windom
2. The Last Game
September 21, 1977
60 min
We meet the Wagon train . They are heading to the west coast to start a better life for themselves. Character and plot descriptions revealed. This one picked up where last week's left off.
Guest Stars:
Wilford Brimley, John Vernon, William Windom
3. The Waterhole
September 28, 1977
60 min
After hours in the desert, the Wagon Train comes upon a watering hole in the desert. After everyone drinks the water, they fall ill. IT takes some smart thinking to figure out what caused the sickness - and to save the people on the Wagon Train.
Guest Stars:
Kim Hunter, William Phipps
5. The Army Deserter
October 19, 1977
60 min
Guest Stars:
Clu Gulager, Kevin McCarthy, Nicholas Hammond
6. Hannah's Girls
October 26, 1977
60 min
Hannah Morgan (Stella Stevens) is the leader of a group of mail-order brides (who actually are a group of ""showgirls"") who join the wagon train. Romance percolates, but mutual respect arises instead as Hannah helps nurse Evan's daughter back from a bout of cholera.
Guest Stars:
Billy Green Bush, Mills Watson
7. Return From Death
November 2, 1977
60 min
Evan Thorpe serves as defense attorney for a mysterious man suspected of killing a member of the wagon train. Frontier justice was never so just.
Guest Stars:
Jack Hogan, Beth Brickell
8. The Scarlet Ribbon
November 9, 1977
60 min
A bullet-ridden wagon reveals that gun-runners are supplying rifles to the Redskins and Evan is detemined to run them to earth whatever the risk.
Guest Stars:
Donna Mills, Bill Bixby, Richard Jaeckel, William Shatner
10. The Return of the Baby
November 23, 1977
60 min
An Indian woman gives birth to a baby after her village is destroyed.