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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 ]
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 ...
Horton in Wagon Train, 1957 Horton and Ward Bond in Wagon Train, 1957 Horton in A Man Called Shenandoah, 1965 Horton and Jill St. John in The Spy Killer (1969) Horton, Angie Dickinson and Earl Holliman in Police Woman, 1976. Mead Howard "Robert" Horton Jr. (July 29, 1924 – March 9, 2016) was an American actor and singer.
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 ...
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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.
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 ...
Meadows was born in Arrowwood, Alberta, later moving with her family to Montana and then California. [1] [5] She worked as a singer while in high school, and was a winner of the Miss Sacramento pageant, after which she moved to Hollywood, California.