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The Oregon Trail is an American western television series that aired on NBC from September 21 until October 26, 1977, starring Rod Taylor as widower Evan Thorpe who leaves his Illinois farm in 1842 to take the Oregon Trail to the Pacific Northwest. The show also stars Andrew Stevens, Tony Becker, and Gina Marie Smika as Thorpe's children. Darleen Carr stars as Margaret Devlin, one of the passengers on the wagon train, and Charles Napier portrays Luther Sprague, a frontier scout recruited by Thorpe. The series was filmed in the Flagstaff, Arizona area.
Original Release
01/10/1976 on NBC
Cast
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Pilot | Saturday, 10 January 1976 |
| 1 | Hard Ride Home | Wednesday, 21 September 1977 |
| 2 | The Last Game | Wednesday, 21 September 1977 |
| 3 | The Waterhole | Wednesday, 28 September 1977 |
| 4 | Trapper's Rendezvous | Wednesday, 12 October 1977 |
| 5 | The Army Deserter | Wednesday, 19 October 1977 |
| 6 | Hannah's Girls | Wednesday, 26 October 1977 |
| 7 | The Man Who Wouldn't Die | |
| 8 | The Scarlet Ribbon | |
| 9 | The Gold Dust Queen | |
| 10 | Return of the Baby | |
| 11 | Evan's Vendetta | |
| 12 | Suffer the Children | |
| 13 | Wagon Race |
Directors
Herb Wallerstein, Bill Bixby, Paul Stanley, William Wiard, Don Richardson, Alan J. Levi, Burt Brinckerhoff, Boris Sagal, John C. Champion, Lewis Allen, Richard Benedict, Virgil W. Vogel, Hollingsworth Morse
Writers
Nicholas Corea, Eugene Price, E. Jack Neuman, Michael Gleason, Stanley Roberts, Burt Arthur, S.S. Schweitzer, Norman Jolley, William Kelley, Robert Hamilton, Parker Browning, Robert Boxberger, Budd Arthur, John Austin, Richard Collins, Richard Bartlett, John W. Bloch, Robert Pirosh
