Episode
Wagon Train: The Marie Brandt Story
Overview
Trying to give her son a chance, Maidie Brant is found by the wagon train. Needing fresh horses after a cougar attack, she is reluctant to say why she won't go back to town and buy some but would rather pay top dollar for the Major's.
Details
- Series
- Wagon Train
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 1960-01-20
- Runtime
- 50 min
Episode context
The Marie Brandt Story is Episode 16 in Season 3 of Wagon Train. It aired on 1960-01-20. The runtime is 50 min.
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Episode 15: The Colonel Harris Story
Flint goes to Fort Young to see the Harris family and Bowman Lewis who were friends from his youth. He finds Mrs. Harris dead and her husband swearing to wipe out all Indians including Lewis who leads the Comanche and his mother, Princess.
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Episode 13: The Ruth Marshall Story
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Episode 19: The Benjamin Burns Story
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Episode 12: The St. Nicholas Story
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Episode 20: The Ricky and Laurie Bell Story
Laurie and Ricky Bell uproot and go West, leaving their comforts in Baltimore. When she announces she is pregnant, he is less than happy as he feels she has just made their lives more complicated especially where it concerns his needs.
Episode 11: The Vittorio Bottecelli Story
The King orders his womanizing nephew to San Francisco. He joins the wagon train but causes the Major problems as the husbands are complaining but he may have lost his heart to someone who understands.
Episode 21: The Tom Tuckett Story
Ever since he was young, Tom Tuckett has been sent to good schools and looked after by an unknown benefactor. When he joins the wagon train he feels he's about to find out who that is but it isn't who he imagined.
Episode 10: The Danny Benedict Story
He says his name is Tom Smith but a young man Major Adams meets on the trail refuses to join the wagon train and won't say why. When he does find out he meets an old friend and why the boy is so tortured.
Episode 22: The Tracy Sadler Story
David Forest always believed his father to be as he claimed. When Tracy Sadler joins the wagon train his beliefs are altered when he slowly and painfully learns the truth about his past.