Episode
Wagon Train: The Mary Ellen Thomas Story
Overview
Mary Ellen is an orphan traveling west to join family, but members of the train reject her due to her surly disposition. Her only friend is Sally Mayhew, another girl traveling west with her family dying of consumption.
Details
- Series
- Wagon Train
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1958-12-24
- Runtime
- 51 min
Episode context
The Mary Ellen Thomas Story is Episode 12 in Season 2 of Wagon Train. It aired on 1958-12-24. The runtime is 51 min.
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Episode 11: The Beauty Jamison Story
Flint, at a grave, sees a man stabbed in the back with a note saying Deliver to Beauty Jamison. As that is the daughter of the man interred he pays a visit and sees a woman trying to continue a legacy with the locals trying to break her.
Episode 13: The Dick Richardson Story
When the wagon horses start to die of a disease, Adams is forced to send two men who are feuding to buy new horses with his emergency money. One of the men's horse returns without him making Adams wonder if he made a mistake.
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Episode 14: The Kitty Angel Story
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Episode 9: The Sakae Ito Story
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Episode 15: The Flint McCullough Story
Flint, in love with a Mormon girl he can't marry, joins the confederate army. When he finds out that he won't be joining any battles and what their real purpose is, it may be too late for him and the girl he loves.
Episode 8: The Millie Davis Story
Millie Davis reluctantly takes in an orphaned baby girl. Eight years later the girl's grandmother arrives to retrieve her. But Millie doesn't want to give up the child, so she claims that she and Flint are the parents.
Episode 16: The Hunter Malloy Story
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Episode 7: The Bije Wilcox Story
After advertising to look for his brother Charles and offering a $5,000 reward, a member of the wagon train gets a response from someone who walks through an Indian party that's pinning them all down. What he finds is not what he expected.
Episode 17: The Ben Courtney Story
The sheriff of Bitter Springs feels he has lots of reasons to hate. When settlers from the south want to live there, he tries to take a black child he says they are just using for free labour but his reasons go much deeper than that.
Episode 6: The Doctor Willoughby Story
Concerned by one of the passengers on the wagon train, a woman doctor tries to help even though she's hampered further by everyone else who shuns her. Meantime an Indian chief needs doctoring and they don't believe in female medicine men.
Episode 18: The Ella Lindstrom Story
Ella Lindstrom loses her husband on the wagon train ride west from Boston. With her seven children she decides to stay the course against the wishes of Major Adams. It gets more complicated when she thinks she is expecting number eight.