Season 1
26 episodes · Sep 15, 1963
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- S1E1
The Day of Leaving
Sep 15, 1963Jaimie is chased by his father's creditors while traveling on a riverboat. After falling overboard, he is then captured and held for ransom by a pair of rascals.
- S1E2
The Day of the First Trail
Sep 22, 1963This episode concerns a gun-happy youth who kills an Indian woman.
- S1E3
The Day of the First Suitor
Sep 29, 1963The Beaver Company stops at Whiskey springs during a July Fourth celebration, and Jenny receives her first marriage proposal from a young stranger.
- S1E4
The Day of the Golden Fleece
Oct 6, 1963Special guest star James Whitmore plays Foxy Smith, a swindler (with a heart of gold) holed up in a cave hiding from Indians who want his scalp. Jaimie offers to help him.
- S1E5
The Day of the Last Bugle
Oct 13, 1963The wagon train finds an entire Army regiment wiped out by Indians, except for a wounded young lieutenant, and Coulter wonders how he alone was able to survive the attack.
- S1E6
The Day of the Skinners
Oct 20, 1963A girl runs away from a band of buffalo skinners and seeks shelter with the wagon train. The ruthless leader of the skinners demands her return, but Coulter refuses. Then an old nemesis of Doc and Jaimie comes upon the skinners' camp and offers to get the girl for them---and hopes to get his revenge in the process.
- S1E7
The Day of the Taboo Man
Oct 26, 1963When Jaimie finds an old Indian staked out and left for dead, Doc insists on bringing him in and trying to save his life, though Coulter warns him that interfering with tribal custom by doing so could put the lives of everyone on the wagon train at risk.
- S1E8
The Day of the Giants
Nov 3, 1963Coulter meets some old acquaintances from his past, who try to use an old secret to weaken his leadership of the wagon train when the threat of Indian attack compels him to make difficult demands of the other passengers.
- S1E9
The Day of the Long Night
Nov 10, 1963Jaimie and a young girl befriend a big, simple-minded man named Angus, who is traveling alone with his sister. Unfortunately Angus, though gentle with children and animals, has a problem controlling his temper and does not know his own strength.
- S1E10
The Day of the Killer
Nov 17, 1963Jaimie finds a man with a bullet wound, and the wagon takes him in, though he is still being hunted by the bandits who shot him.
- S1E11
The Day of the Flying Dutchman
Dec 1, 1963In a lighter episode, Jaimie, stricken with a high fever due to chicken pox, conjures up the story of a sea captain and his converted ship traveling through the West, guided by only the stars at night and his wife's astrological expertise. Unfortunately the captain makes a deal with the unscrupulous Murrel and his cohort Shep which could get him into deep trouble---with the Indians as well as the crooks. Buck Coulter appears for the last time here despite his fate in the previous episode.
- S1E12
The Day of the Homeless
Dec 8, 1963When Jaimie encounters a runaway boy, they are both captured and taken to a run-down orphanage where all the boys are shackled together, beaten, and forced to work the fields. Only the female indentured servant of the ruthless headmaster is able to get to Doc and Linc and try to let them know what is going on. Linc Murdock becomes the new wagon train guide beginning with this episode.
- S1E13
The Day of the Misfits
Dec 15, 1963A group of miners come to Doc with gold nuggets and offer to show him the location of the mine if he will attend to the pregnant daughter of the camp's leader. When he hesitates, their guns give him no choice in the matter. Jaimie secretly follows him to the camp, where Doc learns that the young woman is four months from giving birth, and that the miners want him to stay with her for at least that long.
- S1E14
The Day of the Pawnees: Part One
Dec 22, 1963Jaimie is captured by the Pawnee. Murrel and Shep come across the band and devise a scheme to sell Jaimie back to his father.
- S1E15
The Day of the Pawnees: Part Two
Dec 29, 1963After escaping from the Pawnees, Jaimie is again captured by Murrel. Meanwhile, the wagon train is held up when a passenger is mauled by a rabid wolf, giving Doc some time to try and find his son.
- S1E16
The Day of the Toll Takers
Jan 5, 1964The boss of a river town refuses to let the wagon train use his ferry service unless Doc can cure his wife, who has been mentally disturbed since the death of her son.
- S1E17
The Day of the Wizard
Jan 12, 1964A traveling fortune teller plans to pass off Jaimie as the long-missing son of a couple who is offering a large reward for his return. To do this, he convinces Jaimie that he is destined to accidentally kill his own father unless he comes away with him and participates in the fraud.
- S1E18
The Day of the Search
Jan 19, 1964Jaimie and Linc come across a bounty hunter and his prisoner, a mountain man who he is bringing in to hang. The mountain man talks Jaimie into releasing him with a tall tale of a fortune in gold over the hill.
- S1E19
The Day of the Haunted Trail
Jan 26, 1964Doc and Jaimie find a diary in an old wrecked stagecoach, which gives apparent instructions about how to find the way out of the dry valley in which the wagon train is trapped with Linc way overdue to return. Then Jaimie decides to go looking for the mysterious robed figure that is occasionally seen up on the hill. Jaimie, and Doc following after him, discover an amazing secret.
- S1E20
The Day of the Tin Trumpet
Feb 2, 1964Seeing an old derelict being harassed by thugs, Doc and Jaimie invite the man to join them on the wagon train. The old codger interests Jaimie and the other kids with his stories about past adventures on the frontier. But he doesn't tell anyone that he recognizes the "U.S. Marshal" who stops by with his wounded prisoner as a killer outlaw, because the outlaw knows a secret about the old man that he'd rather not have revealed as well.
- S1E21
The Day of the Lame Duck
Feb 9, 1964When Jaimie stops Piggy Trewblood from hanging himself, he doesn't realize the mess that it all leads to. Piggy hopes to buy back his wife, Zoe Pigalle, who he gambled away for 700 dollars. But his efforts to do this land himself, Linc, and Doc in jail, and Jaimie being held as ransom for the money.
- S1E22
The Day of the Picnic
Feb 16, 1964In a light episode, Jaimie relates the story of the time he worked to save a strong, simple-minded young man from a hanging by finding the real perpetrator of the attempted murder.
- S1E23
The Day of the 12 Candles
Feb 23, 1964Jaimie finds a baby Arapaho boy near the body of his dead mother, one of many slaughtered by an Army contingent. In spite of Linc's warning that bringing the baby on the wagon train will further aggravate the tribe which is seeking revenge, Jaimie hides him in a wagon. A bigoted member of the train demands that the baby be taken back and left to the elements, but his own wife feels otherwise.
- S1E24
The Day of the Pretenders
Mar 1, 1964After the wagon train stops an attack on an old European and his nephew, Jaimie is then taken by men who have mistaken him for the boy, who is apparently really a prince who they hope to trade for a very valuable chest.
- S1E25
The Day of the Dark Deeds
Mar 8, 196460mDoc and Jaimie come across a wounded Army lieutenant, who begs Doc to deliver the pouch he is carrying to Fort Dexter. The pouch contains money to be paid to the Nez Perce for food. But when Doc arrives at the fort, the money is gone from the pouch, and the Indians feel they have been lied to and threaten war. The fort's colonel believes Doc stole the money and sentences him to be executed the next day. Reluctantly, Doc agrees to escape with the prisoner in the adjacent cell his old nemesis Murrel.
- S1E26
The Day of the Reckoning
Mar 15, 1964Stopping with Jaimie in a dusty old town, Linc meets up with his old flame Maria, whom he had thought was dead. She is now married to a bitter enemy of his, one of three crooked brothers who control the town. Linc also learns that in his last gun battle with him, he cost Maria's husband his right arm, for which he is determined to exact revenge.