Wagon Train
Television Show
Star Trek: The Original Series...less Hornblower in space. Roddenberry had extensive experience in writing westerns that were particularly popular television fare at the time, and pitched the show to the network as a "Wagon Train to the stars." In 1964, Roddenberry... In this article: Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry, Mr. Spock, NBC, James Kirk, Enterprise, DVD, Blu-Ray, and Leonard Nimoy |
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BBC News | January 27, 2009
Space travel for Star Trek couple
...the couple's ashes is set to launch in 2012. Boldly going Gene Roddenberry came up with the concept for Star Trek in 1964 under the original title of Wagon Train to the Stars. It was not a great success initially and was cancelled due to...
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Wikipedia | October 19, 2009
Space Western
...can be seen in the series' opening narration: "Space, the final frontier ...". Roddenberry pitched ''Star Trek to network executives as "Wagon Train to the stars." George Lucas attributes the character of Boba Fett to The Man with No Name in...
In this article: Gene Roddenberry, Joss Whedon, Star Trek, Firefly, DVD, Serenity, Star Wars, Han Solo, and Boba Fett
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Norway Corporation
...deal with Roddenberry in April of 1964. Roddenberry pitched the show as "Wagon Train in space," even though it owed more to C. S. Forrester's writings about Horatio Hornblower than to any western. Having squandered money on a series of...
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Wagon Train
...United States. Selected episodes have also been released on budget DVD releases. Wagon Train partially served as inspiration for Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek. When pitching the idea, he described it as a "Wagon Train to the Stars". In the...
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Boston Globe -- Globe Magazine | April 25, 2009
Spock Value
...and place in which that series was launched. Roddenberry always claimed that he was just trying for an outer-space version of Wagon Train, the hit Western that ran for eight years starting in 1957. However, when he sent the Enterprise off on...
In this article: Spock, James T. Kirk, Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry, Gorn, Enterprise, and Tonto
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kottke.org | May 11, 2009
Star Trek
...a Western cop show. In fact, Roddenberry pitched the series to NBC as "Wagon Train" to the stars; and, as Captain Kirk noted in his log, the ship would venture out on "patrol," cruising the galaxy like a city beat. By Jason Kottke • May...
In this article: Star Trek, Time travel, J.J. Abrams, RSS, Gene Roddenberry, Liberal arts, Enterprise, and Romulan
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TV Squad | March 09, 2009
I'm trying to be excited about the new Star Trek trailer - VIDEO
...it the hopes and fears of Trekkers worldwide. I'm one of those longtime fans who is both excited and apprehensive about J.J. Abrams' take on Gene Roddenberry's vision of Wagon Train to the stars. Yes, that was once all it aspired to be. It...
In this article: J.J. Abrams, Star Trek, Star Wars, Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry, Leonard Nimoy, Filed, and Entertainment Weekly
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IGN TV | May 29, 2008
IGN: Star Trek 101: The Other Gene
...season, however, using the penname Lee Cronin. Coon had worked on such staple series of the era as The Wild Wild West, Bonanza, and Wagon Train, with the latter title perhaps resonating with Trek fans the most if only because of...
In this article: Gene L. Coon, Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry, IGN, Leonard Nimoy, Captain Kirk, Enterprise, God, and I Am Spock
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Wagon Train is a television Western series on NBC from 1957-1962 and then on ABC from 1962-1965. The show debuted at #15 in the Nielsen Ratings, rose to #2 in the next three seasons, and peaked at #1 in the 1961-1962 television season. After moving to ABC in the autumn of 1962, the ratings began to decline, and Wagon Train did not again make the Top 20 listing.
The show was based on the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., and Ward Bond.
The show chronicles the adventures of a wagon train as it makes its way from Missouri to California. There were 284 episodes: the first aired on September 18, 1957, and the final segment was broadcast on May 2, 1965. Some of the actors appearing on Wagon Train included Ward Bond as wagon master Major Seth Adams (seasons 1-4), Robert Horton as scout Flint McCullough (seasons 1-5), John McIntire as wagon master Christopher Hale (seasons 4-8), Robert Fuller as scout Cooper Smith (seasons 7-8), Denny Scott Miller as Duke Shannon (seasons 5-7), Michael Burns as Barnaby West (seasons 4-8), Frank McGrath as Charlie Wooster (cook, seasons 1-8), and Terry Wilson as Bill Hawks. McIntire replaced Bond as wagon master upon Bond's death, and Fuller replaced Horton as scout when Horton opted to depart, an obvious choice since Fuller had already played a lead in another western series (Laramie on NBC) and physically resembled Horton. The eight-season one-hour show was filmed in black and white except for its seventh season, which was 90 minutes and in color.
- Name:
- Wagon Train
- Country of Origin:
- United States
- Starring:
- Theme Composer:
- Stanley Wilson
- Length:
- 60 or 90 mins.
- Format:
- Western
- First:
- January 01, 1957
- Last:
- 1965
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