Episode
Wagon Train: The Tom Tuckett Story
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Wagon Train
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 21
- Air date
- 1960-03-02
- Runtime
- 50 min
Episode context
The Tom Tuckett Story is Episode 21 in Season 3 of Wagon Train. It aired on 1960-03-02. The runtime is 50 min.
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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 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.
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Episode 19: The Benjamin Burns Story
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Episode 23: The Alexander Portlass Story
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Episode 18: The Clayton Tucker Story
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Episode 24: The Christine Elliott Story
Her father on his deathbed, Christine Elliot decides to fulfill his dream of a boys school and joins the wagon train. A good start: the eleven boys he already has. One man is determined to stop her unless he collects his pound of flesh.
Episode 17: The Larry Hanify Story
On his deathbed, Joe asks Flint to look after his 17-year old son Larry Hanify and get him to California. There was one catch. His latest escapade put him in jail awaiting trial for armed robbery.
Episode 25: The Joshua Gilliam Story
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Episode 16: The Marie Brandt Story
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.
Episode 26: The Maggie Hamilton Story
When their daughter runs away from the wagon train, the Hamiltons hire Flint to bring her back. With renegades in the area, he soon discovers how spoiled Maggie really is and they still manage to make it back in one piece.
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 27: The Jonas Murdock Story
Out of meat and low on food, the wagon train must not kill any wildlife or all will face the wrath of the local Indians. The one holdout is Jonas Murdock who has always lived outside the rules and doesn't consider a rabbit an issue.