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Wagon Train: Season 7

32 episodes Premiered Sep 16, 1963 Updated Sep 25, 2026
Previously on Wagon Train

Season 7 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Wagon Train Season 6.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 7 Episodes

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Season 7: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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S7·E1 Mytharc

The Molly Kincaid Story

Sep 16, 1963

Having just left St. Joseph, Hale tells everyone there are no Indians when in fact two escaped Comanche captives steal two horses and show up at the wagon trains first stop. The fe

S7·E2 Core

The Fort Pierce Story

Sep 23, 1963 · 60 min

As the wagon train reaches Fort Pierce it is in dangerous Indian country. Chris is hoping the Army will provide an escort when they leave, but the Colonel refuses due to Army order

S7·E3 Core

The Gus Morgan Story

Sep 30, 1963

A tough railroad executive and his younger college educated brother are guided by Chris up a mountain to scout a route. When is accidentally shot by the younger brother, the older

S7·E4 Core

The Widow O'Rourke Story

Oct 7, 1963

When Duke and Charlie do not return from a scouting assignment, Chris sends Cooper who has a pretty good idea what lays ahead. The Chinese widow of an Irish Ship Captain wants Coop

S7·E5 Core

The Robert Harrison Clarke Story

Oct 14, 1963

Chris and Cooper along with a British journalist accompany civilians surveying for the Army when they come across an Army troop that has been massacred except for two survivors. Th

S7·E6 Core

The Myra Marshall Story

Oct 21, 1963

Coop accompanies Grace Marshall to visit her sister Myra whom, traumatized by an upbringing by an abusive father, Grace finds living a life of addiction and infidelity for which Gr

S7·E7 Core

The Sam Spicer Story

Oct 28, 1963

After witnessing a bank holdup, Barnaby is taken hostage by outlaws Sam Spicer and Reno Sutton. Sam takes a liking to the boy as he reminds him of himself when Reno first made him

S7·E8 Core

The Sam Pulaski Story

Nov 4, 1963

On the train Coop is falling for the sister of the man running a gang who beat and robbed Coop in Hell's Kitchen in Brooklyn. Coop believes the man who says he is going west to cha

S7·E9 Core

The Eli Bancroft Story

Nov 11, 1963

Eli Bancroft became an outlaw looking for revenge raising his three sons as such after a town's citizens banded together and forced his entire family to uproot, fearing they would

S7·E10 Core

The Kitty Pryer Story

Nov 18, 1963 · 60 min

Kitty Pryer finds herself in a bigamous marriage to Victor Harp who asks her to join him on the wagon train posing as the wife of a friend until he can divorce his wife. However, V

S7·E11 Core

The Sandra Cummings Story

Dec 2, 1963

After escaping from a Confederate prison for being a spy, Sandra Cummings, becomes the lead in a musical troupe in the west. When she joins the wagon train, Cooper Smith takes an i

S7·E12 Core

The Bleeker Story

Dec 9, 1963

The Bleecker gang disguised as farmers with several wagons seek Hale's wagon train to join but they actually carry a wagon of weapons and plan to hijack the train and use it and th

S7·E13 Mytharc

The Story of Cain

Dec 16, 1963

While scouting Coop nearly dies after finding a man near death from lack of water who has found a major gold strike. The man decides to let the wagon train share in his windfall bu

S7·E14 Core

The Cassie Vance Story

Dec 23, 1963 · 60 min

Cassie Vance is accused of theft when money and items belonging to a woman on the train that she nursed turn up missing, and especially after another woman recognizes Cassie as hav

S7·E15 Core

The Fenton Canaby Story

Dec 30, 1963

Canaby, who is unjustly reputed to have led a wagon train to disaster in the desert, becomes unexpectedly part of Hale's train as Hale has some of the same problems Canaby had and

S7·E16 Core

The Michael Malone Story

Jan 6, 1964

Julie Holland is falling for Michael Malone, a man haunted by the death of his sister. Meanwhile, the marriage of Ben and Beth Mitchell is strained because of Beth's increasing bit

S7·E17 Core

The Jed Whitmore Story

Jan 13, 1964

Jed Whitmore, one of three brothers that committed an infamous train robbery, is now town sheriff Frank Lewis but his brother released from prison comes to town with a fellow inmat

S7·E18 Core

The Geneva Balfour Story

Jan 20, 1964

Hale's train must take a dangerous desert route due to hostilities which danger grows when spoiled Geneva Balfour starts a fire destroying supplies to get her husband to return eas

S7·E19 Core

The Kate Crawley Story

Jan 27, 1964

When Hale begins to romance tough, independent freight line operator Kate Crawley, the others begin to fear she will wind up dominating Chris, and try to encourage her adoring assi

S7·E20 Core

The Grover Allen Story

Feb 3, 1964

After being fired and setting a bomb which kills his tyrannical boss, Grover Allen joins the wagon train and heads west with his widowed daughter-in-law Della and grandson Jeff. A

S7·E21 Core

The Andrew Elliott Story

Feb 10, 1964

Duke Shannon, arrested by the Cavalry, is charged with criminal negligence as leader of an expedition into the badlands, from which he alone has returned. He must retrace his steps

S7·E22 Core

The Melanie Craig Story

Feb 17, 1964

Everyone wants to help pretty Melanie Craig after her husband is killed in an accident so four men fight over who will be the one to court and marry her. Also, Rudd Basham, father

S7·E23 Core

The Pearlie Garnet Story

Feb 24, 1964

Beautiful but shrewd Pearlie Garnet was forced to leave the wagon train after she was found to be a liar, manipulator, and thief who stole from everyone on the train.

S7·E24 Core

The Trace McCloud Story

Mar 2, 1964

A strangler is loose in the town of Bedrock so when the wagon train comes through it is joined by a good percentage of the town's population which it becomes apparent includes the

S7·E25 Core

The Duncan McIvor Story

Mar 9, 1964 · 60 min

Duke and Bill are rescued from Indians by a stranger. He joins the train which is headed to Fort Chacon. Unknown to them he is an Army officer. Members of the train are offered sto

S7·E26 Core

The Ben Engel Story

Mar 16, 1964 · 60 min

Wealthy Engel has used psychopathic Harry Diel as a proxy during the Civil War to save Diel from jail but Diel plots on the train as Engel's employee to usurp Engel's business by m

S7·E27 Core

The Whipping

Mar 23, 1964 · 60 min

With Chris gone Bill is in charge of the train when Barnaby goes overboard in his pranks. After messing with a wagon wheel, Bill orders him to fix it by himself causing Barnaby to

S7·E28 Core

The Santiago Quesada Story

Mar 30, 1964 · 60 min

Kim Case is returning home during Indian wars after schooling in the east although her parents have died. She is anxious to return to the man she loves, Lance Starbuck, who is an I

S7·E29 Core

The Stark Bluff Story

Apr 6, 1964

Duke stops by the town of Stark Bluff looking for a friend and his wife who had formerly been on the wagon train. He finds out that the friend is dead, and his wife has been forced

S7·E30 Core

The Link Cheney Story

Apr 13, 1964 · 60 min

Coop brings Link Cheney to the wagon train after the professional gambler is wounded by sore losers in a game. Link is nursed back to health by Dorthea Gillford, and the two fall i

S7·E31 Mytharc

The Zebedee Titus Story

Apr 20, 1964 · 60 min

Barnaby and Charlie talk Chris Hale into hiring legendary mountain man Zebedee Titus as a scout. The nearly 80 year old Zeb's failing eyesight leads to problems including Coop's be

S7·E32 Mytharc

Last Circle Up

Apr 27, 1964 · 60 min

As the wagon train approaches the end of the trail, Hale's crew and passengers deal with birth, death, romance, a clash of different faiths, anger, gambling, a medical emergency, a

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