Charles Napier
Luther Sprague
The Oregon Trail (1977)
Season 1
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.
Released Sept. 21, 1977
Episode 60 min
10+
Keywords: tmdb.emigration, tmdb.period-drama, tmdb.19th-century, imdb.child, imdb.classical-western, imdb.oregon-trail
Production Companies: Universal Television
Network: NBC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Hard Ride Home
We meet the Wagon train . They are heading to the west coast to start a better life for themselves. Character and plot descriptions revealed.
Sept. 21, 1977, midnight
S1E2 - The Last Game
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.
Sept. 21, 1977, midnight
S1E3 - The Waterhole
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.
Sept. 28, 1977, midnight
S1E4 - Trapper's Rendezvous
Oct. 12, 1977, midnight
S1E5 - The Army Deserter
Oct. 19, 1977, midnight
S1E6 - Hannah's Girls
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.
Oct. 26, 1977, midnight
S1E7 - Return From Death
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.
Nov. 2, 1977, midnight
S1E8 - The Scarlet Ribbon
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.
Nov. 9, 1977, midnight
S1E9 - The Gold Dust Queen
Nov. 16, 1977, midnight
S1E10 - The Return of the Baby
An Indian woman gives birth to a baby after her village is destroyed.
Nov. 23, 1977, midnight
S1E11 - Evan's Vendetta
Nov. 30, 1977, midnight
S1E12 - Suffer the Little Children
Dec. 7, 1977, midnight
S1E13 - Wagon Race
Dec. 14, 1977, midnight
Network: NBC
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 60 min.
Released: Sept. 21, 1977
Last Air Date: Dec. 14, 1977, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
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