The Oregon Trail
series not in production
Ended
Western
Seasons | 1
Episodes | 13
avg.Runtime | 60 min
First EP | 1977-09-21
Last EP | 1977-10-26
Overview
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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.
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Universal Television
Season List
season 1 || Season 1
Relesed on | 1977-09-21
1
Hard Ride Home
1977-09-21
We meet the Wagon train . They are heading to the west coast to start a better life for themselves. Character and plot descriptions revealed.
2
The Last Game
1977-09-21
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.
3
The Waterhole
1977-09-28
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.
4
Trapper's Rendezvous
1977-10-12
5
The Army Deserter
1977-10-19
6
Hannah's Girls
1977-10-26
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.
7
Return From Death
1977-11-02
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.
8
The Scarlet Ribbon
1977-11-09
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.
9
The Gold Dust Queen
1977-11-16
10
The Return of the Baby
1977-11-23
An Indian woman gives birth to a baby after her village is destroyed.
11
Evan's Vendetta
1977-11-30
12
Suffer the Little Children
1977-12-07
13
Wagon Race
1977-12-14
CAST
charactor: Luther Sprague
Original: Charles Napier
Total EP: 13
charactor: Andrew Thorpe
Original: Andrew Stevens
Total EP: 13
charactor: Margaret Devlin
Original: Darleen Carr
Total EP: 13
charactor: Evan Thorpe
Original: Rod Taylor
Total EP: 13
charactor: William Thorpe
Original: Tony Becker
Total EP: 13
charactor: Hannah Morgan
Original: Stella Stevens
Total EP: 13
charactor:
Original: Wilford Brimley
Total EP: 2
charactor:
Original: John Vernon
Total EP: 2
charactor:
Original: William Windom
Total EP: 2
charactor:
Original: Kim Hunter
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Claude Akins
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Clu Gulager
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Billy Green Bush
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Jack Hogan
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Donna Mills
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: William Smith
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Robert Fuller
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: William Phipps
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Kevin McCarthy
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Mills Watson
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Beth Brickell
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Bill Bixby
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Mariette Hartley
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Nicholas Hammond
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Richard Jaeckel
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: Robert Pine
Total EP: 1
charactor:
Original: William Shatner
Total EP: 1
charactor: Amelia McKay
Original: Susan Howard
Total EP: 1
CREW
Herb Wallerstein
Director
Directing
Lewis Allen
Director
Directing
Bill Bixby
Director
Directing
William Wiard
Director
Directing
John C. Champion
Director
Directing
Hollingsworth Morse
Director
Directing
Paul Stanley
Director
Directing
Richard Benedict
Director
Directing
Michael Gleason
Executive Producer
Production
Robert Pirosh
Writer
Writing
Michael Gleason
Writer
Writing
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