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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 ]
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Episode: "The Ginnie Littlesmith Story" 1962 Buttons and Her Beaus: Buttons Television film 1963 The Eleventh Hour: Joan Clayton Episode: "Where Ignorant Armies Clash" 1963 The Lieutenant: Nan Hiland Episode: "The Two Star Giant" 1964 Dr. Kildare: Student Nurse #1 Episode: "A Nickel's Worth of Prayer" 1965 Wagon Train: Martha Temple Episode ...
The Lone Ranger - episode - The Banker's Son (1957) as Bruckner; Rawhide - episode - Incident of the Devil and His Due (1960) as Joe Wendell; Wagon Train - episode - The Colter Craven Story (1960) as Hank (uncredited) Wagon Train - episode - The Nellie Jefferson Story (1961) as Trader; Bonanza - episode - The Stranger (1960) as Station Attendant
A Man Called Horse by Dorothy M. Johnson was originally published as a short story in Collier's magazine, January 7, 1950, [1] and was reprinted in 1953 as a short story in her book Indian Country. It was later made into a Wagon Train episode in 1958 [2] and into a film in 1970 with Richard Harris in the lead role as John Morgan and Manu Tupou ...
Lewis played a widow courted by two muleskinners in the 1964 episode "Graydon's Charge" of the syndicated series Death Valley Days. [25]: 126 In 1965 Lewis played steamboat Captain Samantha Stewart in a season 8 Wagon Train episode titled ‘The Captain Sam Story’. The episode aired on March 21.