Wagon Train

About Wagon Train

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr.

NBC's Wagon Train is a western series. Its themes are american history, post civil war, classic western, and historical.

Its 8 seasons and 284 episodes aired between September 1957 and May 1965. Seasons run to about 36 episodes.

John McIntire appears as Christopher Hale, Robert Fuller as Cooper Smith, Michael Burns as Barnaby West, and Frank McGrath as Charlie Wooster.

It streams on Philo, Spectrum On Demand, and Starz in the United States. Hell on Wheels, The Big Valley, and The Queen's Gambit make useful companions to Wagon Train, all filed under 19th century. It carries a TV-PG rating.