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Incredibly successful [[NBC]] western about a group of pioneers heading out west after the [[American Civil War]]. The show lasted eight years, in part thanks to the broad range of story lines that its [[Walking the Earth]] format provided. These days, however, it's more well-known for being the first two of those [[Wagon Train to Thethe Stars|five famous words]] Gene Roddenberry used to pitch ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series]]''.
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=== Provides Examples Of: ===
* [[Adventure Towns]]
* [[Actor Existence Failure]]: Ward Bond unexpectedly died of a heart attack in 1961, necessitating a change to John [[Mc Intyre]]McIntyre as the new lead. Interestingly, no episode actually deals with Maj. Adams' (Bond's character) leaving/retiring/dying, and so the next episode is [[Mc Intyre]]McIntyre's character taking over from a tyrranical replacement played by [[Lee Marvin]].
* [[Fair for Its Day]]: While still painting the settlers as mostly heroic people taming a wilderness, the show did not generally trade in "savage scalping redskin" depictions of Indians, and most characters were written as real people and not as national/ethnic stereotypes.
* [[Instrumental Theme Tune]]
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