TV series
The Oregon Trail
1977 · 1 season
A gentle, old-fashioned wagon-train drama that moves at a steady pioneer pace, offering wholesome frontier hardship and family warmth.
- Created by
- Bill Bixby, Herb Wallerstein
- Genres
- Western
- Starring
- Charles Napier, Andrew Stevens, Darleen Carr
- Overview
- 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.
- How it feels
- Earnest, warm and melancholic. Measured and easy to follow.
- About
- Family, survival, grief, isolation
- Content
- Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Created by
- Bill Bixby, Herb Wallerstein
- Genres
- Western
- Starring
- Charles Napier, Andrew Stevens, Darleen Carr
