TV Show Details
Air Date:September 21st, 1977
Last Air Date:September 4th, 2022
Network:NBC
Status:Ended
Genres:Western
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Universal Television
The Oregon Trail (1977-2022)
NBC
Scripted
Audience Score
DirectorsJohn C. ChampionHollingsworth Morse
WritersMichael Gleason
Plot
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.
