Episode
Wagon Train: The Liam Fitzmorgan Story
Overview
Liam Fitzmorgan has come from Ireland on a mission to kill an informer he believes is traveling with the train. However, his mission is complicated when he falls in love with his target's daughter.
Details
- Series
- Wagon Train
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 1958-10-28
- Runtime
- 50 min
Episode context
The Liam Fitzmorgan Story is Episode 5 in Season 2 of Wagon Train. It aired on 1958-10-28. The runtime is 50 min.
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Episode 4: The Tobias Jones Story
Major Adams allows two stowaways, Tobias Jones and his young friend Midge, to stay with the train. But Tobias is in trouble due to his drinking, and things get worse when he's accused of murder.
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.
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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 2: The Juan Ortega Story
Juan awakens to the sound of three men hanging his beloved father. Joining the wagon train, he comes across one of the three, tortured by Indians. He nurses him back to health but only under the guise of looking for the other two killers.
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.
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Episode 9: The Sakae Ito Story
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Episode 10: The Tent City Story
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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 12: The Mary Ellen Thomas Story
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Episode 13: The Dick Richardson Story
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