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Wagon Train debuted on September 18, 1957 and reached the top of the Nielsen ratings. It is the fictional adventure story of a large westbound wagon train through the American frontier from Missouri to California. Its format attracted famous guest stars for each episode appearing as travelers or residents of the settlements that the regular ...
"The Colter Craven Story" (spelled as The Coulter Craven Story in the episode but with the first name somehow winding up more commonly spelled as "Colter" in countless publications and references) is the November 23, 1960 black-and-white episode of the American television western series, Wagon Train, which had an eight-season run from 1957 to ...
The Saturday Afternoon Matinee on the radio were a pre-television phenomenon in the US which often featured Western series. Film Westerns turned John Wayne, Ken Maynard, Audie Murphy, Tom Mix, and Johnny Mack Brown into major idols of a young audience, plus "singing cowboys" such as Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Dick Foran, Rex Allen, Tex Ritter, Ken Curtis, and Bob Steele.
The program attracted an audience of 60 million viewers. Forty years after the broadcast, television critic Tom Shales recalled it as both "a landmark in television" and "a milestone in the cultural life of the '50s". [7] In 1959, Cox was featured in the guest-starring title role in "The Vincent Eaglewood Story" on NBC's Western series Wagon Train.
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 ]
Wagon Train: Wagon Driver episode: Bije Wilcox Story 1959 Border Patrol: Hank Colman Everglades Story (Season 1, Episode 1) 1960–1961 Laramie: Various Seasons 1–2; 3 episodes 1961–1962 Route 66: Various Seasons 1–2; 2 episodes 1960–1962 Have Gun – Will Travel: Various Seasons 4–6; 3 episodes 1962 Stoney Burke: Rex Donally
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.
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.