Browse episode ratings trends for The Oregon Trail. Simply click on the interactive rating graph to explore the best and worst of The Oregon Trail's 13 episodes.
Best Episodes of The Oregon Trail
The Last Game
S1 Ep2
6.3
21st Sep 1977
We meet the Wagon train . They are heading to the west coast to start a better life for themselves. Character and plot descriptions revealed. This one picked up where last week's left off.
Hard Ride Home
S1 Ep1
6.3
21st Sep 1977
We meet the Wagon train . They are heading to the west coast to start a better life for themselves. Character and plot descriptions revealed.
Worst Episodes of The Oregon Trail
The Waterhole
S1 Ep3
5.5
28th Sep 1977
After hours in the desert, the Wagon Train comes upon a watering hole in the desert. After everyone drinks the water, they fall ill. IT takes some smart thinking to figure out what caused the sickness - and to save the people on the Wagon Train.
Hannah's Girls
S1 Ep6
5.5
26th Oct 1977
Hannah Morgan (Stella Stevens) is the leader of a group of mail-order brides (who actually are a group of ""showgirls"") who join the wagon train. Romance percolates, but mutual respect arises instead as Hannah helps nurse Evan's daughter back from a bout of cholera.
The Oregon Trail Episode Guide
Hard Ride Home
S1 Ep1
6.3
21st Sep 1977
We meet the Wagon train . They are heading to the west coast to start a better life for themselves. Character and plot descriptions revealed.
The Last Game
S1 Ep2
6.3
21st Sep 1977
We meet the Wagon train . They are heading to the west coast to start a better life for themselves. Character and plot descriptions revealed. This one picked up where last week's left off.
The Waterhole
S1 Ep3
5.5
28th Sep 1977
After hours in the desert, the Wagon Train comes upon a watering hole in the desert. After everyone drinks the water, they fall ill. IT takes some smart thinking to figure out what caused the sickness - and to save the people on the Wagon Train.
Hannah's Girls
S1 Ep6
5.5
26th Oct 1977
Hannah Morgan (Stella Stevens) is the leader of a group of mail-order brides (who actually are a group of ""showgirls"") who join the wagon train. Romance percolates, but mutual respect arises instead as Hannah helps nurse Evan's daughter back from a bout of cholera.
Return From Death
S1 Ep7
5.5
Evan Thorpe serves as defense attorney for a mysterious man suspected of killing a member of the wagon train. Frontier justice was never so just.
The Scarlet Ribbon
S1 Ep8
5.5
A bullet-ridden wagon reveals that gun-runners are supplying rifles to the Redskins and Evan is detemined to run them to earth whatever the risk.
The Return of the Baby
S1 Ep10
5.5
An Indian woman gives birth to a baby after her village is destroyed.
The Oregon Trail is a 14-episode NBC western television series starring Rod Taylor as the widower Evan Thorpe, who leaves his Illinois farm in 1842 to take the Oregon Trail to the Pacific Northwest. The show also starred Andrew Stevens, Tony Becker, and Gina Marie Smika as Thorpe's children. Darleen Carr starred as Margaret Devlin, one of the passengers on the wagon train, and Charles Napier portrayed Luther Sprague, a frontier scout recruited by Thorpe. The series was filmed in the Flagstaff, Arizona area.
The best rated episodes of The Oregon Trail are:
The Last Game S1E2 rated 6.3
Hard Ride Home S1E1 rated 6.3
The lowest rated episodes of The Oregon Trail are:
The Waterhole S1E3 rated 5.5
Hannah's Girls S1E6 rated 5.5
The first episode of The Oregon Trail aired on September 21, 1977.
The last episode of The Oregon Trail aired on October 26, 1977.
