Episode
Wagon Train: The Annie Duggan Story
Overview
An elderly couple and then a young girl become ill with typhoid fever on the wagon train. A young servant girl has attended to them all in isolation. One of the women on the train has an idea about the cause but no one wants to listen.
Details
- Series
- Wagon Train
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 25
- Air date
- 1963-03-13
Episode context
The Annie Duggan Story is Episode 25 in Season 6 of Wagon Train. It aired on 1963-03-13.
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Episode 24: The Emmett Lawton Story
Duke Shannon stops in the town High Times and almost right away gets into a fight with, and accidentally kills, one of the gunmen who are essentially holding the town hostage. Then he finds his horse missing and ignores advise to leave.
Episode 26: The Michael McGoo Story
When four brothers are orphaned, no one on the train wants all four. Charlie is determined to find a home for the four together and even proposes to a spinster who wants the boys but turns him down so he looks for a husband for her.
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Episode 27: The Adam MacKenzie Story
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Episode 22: Charlie Wooster - Outlaw
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Episode 28: The Tom Tuesday Story
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Episode 21: The Lily Legend Story
While riding through the desert plains, Duke and Charlie come across a sheriff as he is about to die of a heart attack and his female prisoner, Lily Legend, a childhood sweetheart of Duke who the sheriff is taking to be hanged for murder.
Episode 29: The Heather and Hamish Story
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Episode 20: The Hollister John Garrison Story
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Episode 30: The Blane Wessels Story
Duke and three women under attack by Cheyenne Indians are helped by a stranger who has a fatalistic attitude toward life. They take refuge in a relay station where the stranger slowly relays his past to the others while they hope for help.
Episode 19: The Naomi Kaylor Story
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Episode 31: The Tom O'Neal Story
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