The Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail: Season 1

Air Date

September 21, 1977

Episodes

13 episodes

The Oregon Trail

Season 1

Episodes

1. Hard Ride Home

September 21, 1977
60 min

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

September 21, 1977
60 min

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

September 28, 1977
60 min

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

October 12, 1977
60 min

5. The Army Deserter

October 19, 1977
60 min

6. Hannah's Girls

October 26, 1977
60 min

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

60 min

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

60 min

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

60 min

10. The Return of the Baby

60 min

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

11. Evan's Vendetta

60 min

12. Suffer the Little Children

60 min

13. Wagon Race

60 min