The Oregon Trail

1h

Western

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.

Episodes

Cast

Hard Ride Home

1. Hard Ride Home

1h

21st Sep 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.

The Last Game

2. The Last Game

1h

21st Sep 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.

The Waterhole

3. The Waterhole

1h

28th Sep 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.

Trapper's Rendezvous

4. Trapper's Rendezvous

1h

12th Oct 1977

The Army Deserter

5. The Army Deserter

1h

19th Oct 1977

Hannah's Girls

6. Hannah's Girls

1h

26th Oct 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.

Return From Death

7. Return From Death

1h

2nd Nov 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.

The Scarlet Ribbon

8. The Scarlet Ribbon

1h

9th Nov 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.

The Gold Dust Queen

9. The Gold Dust Queen

1h

16th Nov 1977

The Return of the Baby

10. The Return of the Baby

1h

23rd Nov 1977

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

Evan's Vendetta

11. Evan's Vendetta

1h

30th Nov 1977

Suffer the Little Children

12. Suffer the Little Children

1h

7th Dec 1977

Wagon Race

13. Wagon Race

1h

14th Dec 1977

First air date

21st Sep 1977

Last air date

14th Dec 1977

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks