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(L-R) Robert Horton and Ward Bond 1962 cast. Top: John McIntire, Terry Wilson. Bottom: Scott Miller, Frank McGrath. Robert Fuller Wagon Train is an American Western television series that was produced by Revue Studios. The series was inspired by the 1950 John Ford film Wagon Master. It ran for eight seasons, with the first episode airing in the United States on September 18, 1957 (1957-09-18 ...
When the original Ward Bond episodes were broadcast weekday afternoons on ABC beginning in 1963, a new series title "Seth Adams Trailmaster" was given to the episode to avoid viewer confusion because Wagon Train was still on the ABC evening schedule. A new theme song, the "Trailmaster Theme", written and conducted by Stanley Wilson, was used ...
Wardell Edwin Bond (April 9, 1903 – November 5, 1960) [1] was an American character actor who appeared in more than 200 films and starred in the NBC television series Wagon Train from 1957 to 1960. Among his best-remembered roles are Bert the cop in Frank Capra 's It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Captain Clayton in John Ford 's The Searchers ...
John Herrick McIntire (June 27, 1907 – January 30, 1991) was an American character actor [1] who appeared in 65 theatrical films and many television series. McIntire is well known for having replaced Ward Bond, upon Bond's sudden death in November 1960, as the star of NBC's Wagon Train.
Ben Johnson, Harry Carey, Jr. and Ward Bond in John Ford's Wagon Master (1950), one of the primary cinematic inspirations for the Wagon Train series. John Ford dressed Ward Bond identically to this, with the black hat and checkered shirt, in the Wagon Train episode that Ford later directed titled "The Colter Craven Story" featuring many regulars from Ford films as well as some stock footage ...
Jean Hagen (born Jean Shirley Verhagen; [a] August 3, 1923 – August 29, 1977) was an American actress best known for her role as Doll Conovan in The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and as Lina Lamont in Singin' in the Rain (1952), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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After the producer of Wagon Train accepted her first script submission in 1958, he put her under contract to continue writing for the show. [5] She wrote more than 500 episodes of The First Hundred Years , [ 9 ] wrote for Peyton Place , and developed The Ghost & Mrs. Muir for television in the late 1960s.