The Charlene Brenton Story

This episode starts when Ward Bond sends Frank McGrath and Terry Wilson into town for supplies and there's a great debate over at Sean McClory's saloon about an orphan newborn that might have been exposed to plague. Saloon entertainer Jean Willes takes the kid to her room, but when Frank McGrath hears someone say that they will kill the kid, meaning a baby goat, he gallantly kidnaps the baby and puts it on the supply wagon.

After that grizzled old Charlie Wooster just revels in the thought of fatherhood at his time of life, but he keeps it all a secret until the arrival of Raymond Bailey, the baby's grandfather.

Frank McGrath who always made me laugh watching Wagon Train as a lad, shows some real pathos in a story that he dominates. The title of the story is the name for the little infant when all is said and done.

A nice story about a kid who gets a rough start in life.