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The Oregon Trail
When Evan Thorpe and his family make the decision to "go west" they get much more than they bargained for on the perilous 2000-mile journey along the Oregon trail from the Missouri River to the Williamette valley.
1 :01x01 - Hard Ride Home
Writer: Michael Gleason, Eugene Price
Director: Burt Brinckerhoff, Herb Wallerstein
Guest star: Wilford Brimley (Unknown), William Windom (Packy), Carole Tru Foster (Effie), John Vernon (Charles Shrigley), Ken Swofford (Cutler), Hoke Howell (Vaughn)
A widower with three kids, Taylor's Evan Thorpe leads a wagon train through Indian country, during which he lands a mountain man as his scout, puts up with a peppery lady schoolteacher, and manages to keep his kids from being scalped. Evan Thorpe is appointed wagon master after the original leader is killed in an Indian attack which was precipitated by 12-year-old William Thorpe's theft of a spear from a secret burial ground.
2 :01x02 - The Last Game
Writer: Eugene Price
Director: Herb Wallerstein
Guest star: Carole Tru Foster (Effie), William Windom (Packy), Hoke Howell (Vaughn), Wilford Brimley (Unknown), Ken Swofford (Cutler), John Vernon (Charles Shrigley)
Thorpe's 12-year-old son (Tony Becker) inadvertently defiles Indian burial ground.
3 :01x03 - The Waterhole
Director: Virgil Vogel
Guest star: William Phipps (Hayes), Lonny Chapman (Coe Webster), Jean Rasey (Elie Webster), Kim Hunter (Liz Webster)
Wagonmaster Evan Thorpe and his scout, Luther Sprague, battle dust storms, intense heat and injury in their search for water to relieve their drought-plagued pioneers.
4 :01x04 - Trapper's Rendezvous
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Guest star: Claude Akins (Lemus Harker), Ted Gehring (Tobias)
The wagon train's scout is captured by hostile mountain men and Evan Thorpe must fight their leader in order to win his freedom.
5 :01x05 - The Army Deserter (aka The Deserter)
Director: Herb Wallerstein
Guest star: Nicholas Hammond (Unknown), Clu Gulager (Harris), Kevin McCarthy (Levering)
Andy Thorpe helps protect an army deserter who, in turn, holds Andy hostage when soldiers come to get him.
6 :01x06 - Hannah's Girls
Writer: Nicholas Corea
Director: Don Richardson
Guest star: Roy Gaintner (Mr. Stewart), Suzanne Hunt (Kate Bowles), Maxine Olmstead (Mrs. Stewart), Denise Galik-Furey (Libby Owens), Mills Watson (Dixie Long), Stella Stevens (Hannah Morgan), Billy Green Bush (Niles Sharpe)
A group of shady ladies liven up Evan Thorpe's Oregon bound wagon train until they come under the harassment of their deranged ex-employer.
7 :01x07 - Return From Death
Director: Richard Benedict
Guest star: James Wainwright (Ephraim), Beth Brickell (Martha), Jack Hogan (Unknown)
A jury trial halts the wagon train as Thorpe (Rod Taylor) plays defense attorney for the accused slayer of a relentless lady's man.
8 :01x08 - The Scarlet Ribbon
Director: Bill Bixby
Guest star: Bill Bixby (Unknown), William Shatner (Buford Cole), Richard Jaeckel (Jess Smith), Donna Mills (Unknown)
While investigating a bullet riddled wagon, Evan is taken prisoner by embittered soldiers when he discovers their gunrunning operation. Evan tangles with a pair of gun-smugglers (Bill Bixby, Donna Mills).
9 :01x09 - The Gold Dust Queen
Writer: Richard Collins
Director: William Wiard
Guest star: Susan Howard (Unknown)
12 :01x12 - Suffer the Little Children
Thorpe (Rod Taylor) and his convoy face starvation when a larger wagon train threatens to purchase all the available supplies in the next town.
13 :01x13 - Wagon Race
Writer: Elizabeth Wilson
Director: Lewis Allen
Guest star: Elizabeth Cheshire (Jenny Hancock), Robert Fuller (Matthew Hancock), Mariette Hartley (Susan), Jean Rasey (Elie Webster), Robert Pine (Unknown)
Thorpe (Rod Taylor) has to deal with a religious zealot who refuses treatment for his daughter when she's hurt in a wagon accident.