Season
Episode
- Episode 1: The Bob Stuart Story
- Episode 2: The Hide Hunters
- Episode 3: The John Gillman Story
- Episode 4: The Race Town Story
- Episode 5: The Barbara Lindquist Story
- Episode 6: The Brian Conlin Story
- Episode 7: The Alice Whitetree Story
- Episode 8: Those Who Stay Behind
- Episode 9: The Nancy Styles Story
- Episode 10: The Richard Bloodgood Story
- Episode 11: The Clay Shelby Story
- Episode 12: Little Girl Lost
- Episode 13: The Hector Heatherton Story
- Episode 14: The Echo Pass Story
- Episode 15: The Chottsie Gubenheimer Story
- Episode 16: The Wanda Snow Story
- Episode 17: The Isaiah Quickfox Story
- Episode 18: Herman
- Episode 19: The Bonnie Brooke Story
- Episode 20: The Miss Mary Lee McIntosh Story
- Episode 21: The Captain Sam Story
- Episode 22: The Betsy Blee Smith Story
- Episode 23: The Katy Piper Story
- Episode 24: The Indian Girl Story
- Episode 25: The Silver Lady
- Episode 26: The Jarbo Pierce Story
Wagon Train Season 8 The Hector Heatherton Story
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. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.
