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The Oregon Trail

5.7·1 season·13 episodes·60 min avg.

The Oregon Trail is a 14-episode NBC western television series starring Rod Taylor as the widower Evan Thorpe, who leaves his Illinois farm in 1842 to take the Oregon Trail to the Pacific Northwest. The show also starred Andrew Stevens, Tony Becker, and Gina Marie Smika as Thorpe's children. Darleen Carr starred as Margaret Devlin, one of the passengers on the wagon train, and Charles Napier portrayed Luther Sprague, a frontier scout recruited by Thorpe. The series was filmed in the Flagstaff, Arizona area.

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Hard Ride Home
Hard Ride HomeUp next
Sep 21, 1977

We meet the Wagon train . They are heading to the west coast to start a better life for themselves. Character and plot descriptions revealed.

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The Last Game
The Last Game
Sep 21, 1977

We meet the Wagon train . They are heading to the west coast to start a better life for themselves. Character and plot descriptions revealed. This one picked up where last week's left off.

03
The Waterhole
The Waterhole
Sep 28, 1977

After hours in the desert, the Wagon Train comes upon a watering hole in the desert. After everyone drinks the water, they fall ill. IT takes some smart thinking to figure out what caused the sickness - and to save the people on the Wagon Train.

04
Trapper's Rendezvous
Trapper's Rendezvous
Oct 12, 1977
05
The Army Deserter
The Army Deserter
Oct 19, 1977
06
Hannah's Girls
Hannah's Girls
Oct 26, 1977

Hannah Morgan (Stella Stevens) is the leader of a group of mail-order brides (who actually are a group of ""showgirls"") who join the wagon train. Romance percolates, but mutual respect arises instead as Hannah helps nurse Evan's daughter back from a bout of cholera.

07
Return From Death
Return From Death
Nov 2, 1977

Evan Thorpe serves as defense attorney for a mysterious man suspected of killing a member of the wagon train. Frontier justice was never so just.

08
The Scarlet Ribbon
The Scarlet Ribbon
Nov 9, 1977

A bullet-ridden wagon reveals that gun-runners are supplying rifles to the Redskins and Evan is detemined to run them to earth whatever the risk.

09
The Gold Dust Queen
The Gold Dust Queen
Nov 16, 1977
10
The Return of the Baby
The Return of the Baby
Nov 23, 1977

An Indian woman gives birth to a baby after her village is destroyed.

11
Evan's Vendetta
Evan's Vendetta
Nov 30, 1977
12
Suffer the Little Children
Suffer the Little Children
Dec 7, 1977
13
Wagon Race
Wagon Race
Dec 14, 1977

Cast

6 credited
Charles Napier
Luther Sprague
Andrew Stevens
Andrew Thorpe
Darleen Carr
Margaret Devlin
Rod Taylor
Evan Thorpe
Tony Becker
William Thorpe
Stella Stevens
Hannah Morgan

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