The Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail is a 14-episode NBC western television series starring Rod Taylor as the widower Evan Thorpe, who leaves his Illinois farm in 1842 to take the Oregon Trail to the Pacific Northwest. The show also starred Andrew Stevens, Tony Becker, and Gina Marie Smika as Thorpe's children. Darleen Carr starred as Margaret Devlin, one of the passengers on the wagon train, and Charles Napier portrayed Luther Sprague, a frontier scout recruited by Thorpe. The series was filmed in the Flagstaff, Arizona area.
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- Ep 1
1.Hard Ride Home
21-09-197760mWe meet the Wagon train . They are heading to the west coast to start a better life for themselves. Character and plot descriptions revealed.
- Ep 2
2.The Last Game
21-09-197760mWe 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'...
- Ep 3
3.The Waterhole
28-09-197760mAfter 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 wh...
- Ep 4
4.Trapper's Rendezvous
12-10-197760m - Ep 5
5.The Army Deserter
19-10-197760m - Ep 6
6.Hannah's Girls
26-10-197760mHannah 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 re...
- Ep 7
7.Return From Death
02-11-197760mEvan Thorpe serves as defense attorney for a mysterious man suspected of killing a member of the wagon train. Frontier justice was never so just.
- Ep 8
8.The Scarlet Ribbon
09-11-197760mA 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.
- Ep 9
9.The Gold Dust Queen
16-11-197760m - Ep 10
10.The Return of the Baby
23-11-197760mAn Indian woman gives birth to a baby after her village is destroyed.
- Ep 11
11.Evan's Vendetta
30-11-197760m - Ep 12
12.Suffer the Little Children
07-12-197760m - Ep 13
13.Wagon Race
14-12-197760m
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