The Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail

1977
The Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail

7.2 | TV-PG | en | Western

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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Seasons & Episodes

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EP13  Wagon Race
Jan. 01,0001
Wagon Race

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EP12  Suffer the Little Children
Jan. 01,0001
Suffer the Little Children

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EP11  Evan's Vendetta
Jan. 01,0001
Evan's Vendetta

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EP10  The Return of the Baby
Sep. 04,2022
The Return of the Baby

An Indian woman gives birth to a baby after her village is destroyed.

EP9  The Gold Dust Queen
Jan. 01,0001
The Gold Dust Queen

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EP8  The Scarlet Ribbon
Nov. 30,1977
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.

EP7  Return From Death
Jan. 01,0001
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.

EP6  Hannah's Girls
Oct. 26,1977
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.

EP5  The Army Deserter
Oct. 19,1977
The Army Deserter

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EP4  Trapper's Rendezvous
Oct. 12,1977
Trapper's Rendezvous

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EP3  The Waterhole
Sep. 28,1977
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.

EP2  The Last Game
Sep. 21,1977
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.

EP1  Hard Ride Home
Sep. 21,1977
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.

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7.2 | TV-PG | en | Western | More Info
Released: 1977-09-21 | Released Producted By: Universal Television , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
Synopsis

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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Cast

Charles Napier , Andrew Stevens , Darleen Carr

Director

Michael Gleason

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Reviews

typoking-95576 The writers should have set this show a few years later than 1842. In one episode they have deserters from the Mexican War of 1846. In another they're racing a California bound wagon train to a supply post. No wagons went to California in 1942. Setting it in 1850 would have made the whole series more believable. The writers should have read their history first.
bkoganbing Ever since Pierre Radisson for the British and Lewis&Clark for the Americans, the Oregon territory was the preserve of the fur industry where solitary mountain men trapped beaver pelts to be made into warm hats for easterners. The boundary was more or less unsettled. But before it was in 1846 the USA won the race to flood the area with settlers who wanted to have farms in that rich and untapped soil that never saw a plow.Rod Taylor starred in this sadly limited western series where he plays a typical Oregon pioneer traveling west with his kids, Andrew Stevens, Tony Becker, and Gina Smiku Hunter and a new wife, Blair Brown in the pilot and Darleen Carr in the series. The usual problems of settling and travel to the frontier were explored thoroughly.Sadly like many series it did not find its audience. I think it should have been given a better chance with a few more stories. Taylor and the kids were engaging and the stories for the episodes filmed were fine.
revdrcac This ambitious series starring the great Rod Taylor was unique and ambitious, but unfortunately was produced at a bad time for the genre.....Having elements of Wagon Train, mixed with a little of Little House on the Prairie, this finely cast series was interesting and action-filled. Rod Taylor was the rugged, dependable lead and the scripts were well-suited to this era of television.It is sad that Westerns were on the endangered list around this time ---this one was very good and had great potential.It bit the dust way too soon .