Wagon Train
The Captain Sam Story
Season 8, Episode 21 · Aired 1965-03-21
Synopsis
Tough and headstrong female ferryboat captain Samantha Stewart is asked by her son Johnny and his bride to accompany them on the wagon train to California, where they will board a ship for a Pacific voyage. But actually, Johnny is not telling his proud mother that her doctor has told him that she must stay with a dry climate on land or she will die.
In the series
This episode is part of Wagon Train (1957–1965) on NBC/ABC.
A moving town of guest stars — the prairie as anthology stagecoach.
Key cast
- Ward Bond as Major Seth Adams
- Robert Horton as Flint McCullough
- John McIntire as Christopher Hale
- Frank McGrath as Charlie Wooster