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Wagon Train is an American Western television series that was produced by Revue Studios. [1] The series was inspired by the 1950 John Ford film Wagon Master . [ 2 ] It ran for eight seasons, with the first episode airing in the United States on September 18, 1957 ( 1957-09-18 ) and the final episode on May 2, 1965 ( 1965-05-02 ) . [ 3 ]
Terry W. Wilson (September 3, 1923 – March 30, 1999) [1] was an American actor most noted for his role as "Bill Hawks", the assistant trail master, in all 267 episodes of the NBC and ABC western television series, Wagon Train, which aired from 1957 to 1965.
Gene Roddenberry said he pitched Star Trek as "Wagon Train to the stars", referring to the concept of a recurring cast on a long journey with famous guest stars becoming the focus of various stories. In his March 11, 1964, initial pitch document, he wrote, " Star Trek is a Wagon Train concept—built around characters who travel to worlds ...
Barbara Stanwyck, Michael Burns, and Colleen Dewhurst in The Big Valley episode "A Day of Terror" (1966). Michael Thornton Burns (born December 30, 1947) is an American professor emeritus of history at Mount Holyoke College, [2] and a published author and former television and film teen actor, most known for the television series Wagon Train.
Twenty-one of Engstrom's thirty-seven roles were in television westerns.She appeared three times each on Have Gun, Will Travel, and Wagon Train, as well as Rawhide, twice each on Bonanza, Gunsmoke, and Laramie, and once each on The Tall Man, Death Valley Days, Frontier Circus, and Outlaws, as well as her final performance as an actress in The Virginian.
Joshua is a 2002 American drama film based on the novel of the same name by Joseph F. Girzone. It was produced by Crusader Entertainment LLC and directed by Jon Purdy. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
In 1950, Leslie was cast as Cornelia Otis Skinner in The Girls, a television series based on the author's Our Hearts Were Young and Gay. She departed the show after two months to appear with Helen Hayes in the play The Wisteria Trees, adapted from Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, by Joshua Logan. [citation needed]
Benjamin Franklin "Frank" McGrath (February 2, 1903 – May 13, 1967) was an American television and film actor and stunt performer who played the comical, optimistic cook with the white beard, Charlie B. Wooster, on the western series Wagon Train [1] for five seasons on NBC and then three seasons on ABC. McGrath appeared in all 272 episodes in ...