Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Captain Sam Story (1965)

Cathy Lewis: Captain Samantha Stewart

Quotes 

• Captain Samantha Stewart : [singing]  Many, many years went past, nice and fast, nice and slow. I found a man who's just like Pop. Now the search can stop. Ah. I'll get you a man with whiskers, whiskered men are best. There's lots of pride that the whiskers hide they bravely underdress. Look at a man with whiskers. He never is depressed. Never sad and knows no bad, his face is so well-dressed.

• Captain Samantha Stewart : The only sea he ever sailed was the 8th sea.

  Christopher Hale : Eighth Sea?

  Captain Samantha Stewart : Sea of Imagination where the heroes are larger than life performing heroic deeds with no danger at all because it's just a dream. He used to say that dreams are what little children are made of and grown up people live for.

• Captain Samantha Stewart : You ever been to sea, Charlie?

  Christopher Hale : Charlie's most always at sea about something or other.

• Captain Samantha Stewart : Pretty as the figure on the prow of a sailing ship. Welcome to the Sea Witch, Mary Anne.

• Captain Samantha Stewart : Get up, you hulking hooligan! You can't drown in four feet of water!

• Charlie Wooster : Well, I'll be doggone. Did Captain Sam ever write to you about the time she fought her way upstream with the river in full flood, taking medicine and doctoring to the people stranded up there.

  Johnny Stewart : No.

  Charlie Wooster : Or about the time she evacuated all those women and children from a settlement surrounded by a whole Sioux nation? Shooting fire arrows at the Sea Witch from both sides of the bank

  Captain Samantha Stewart : I'm not much for writing, Charlie.

• Captain Samantha Stewart : Last time Charlie had one for the gangway, he missed it and fell in the river. Remember?

• Bill Hawks : How many knots does a contraption like this do anyway?

  Captain Samantha Stewart : Oh, we make anything from 10 to 15 miles a day.

  Bill Hawks : A day! A ship would do 10 knots an hour.

  Captain Samantha Stewart : Except when it's becalmed.

  Bill Hawks : And another thing, that scout of yours is taking you off course.

  Captain Samantha Stewart : Coop? He's pretty good, I reckon.

  Bill Hawks : He's dead wrong. According to my calculations, he's got you so far off course, you'll liable to end up in Mexico.

• Charlie Wooster : Anyway, I talked to a certified Ar-che-ologist about it.

  Captain Samantha Stewart : A what?

  Charlie Wooster : That's a man who looks for arks. He'd told me he's been searching for years for this Spanish galleon, sunk, full of treasure too.

• Christopher Hale : Storm?

  Charlie Wooster : The bottom fell out of her glass.

  Christopher Hale : Her what?

  Captain Samantha Stewart : My barometer. It says we're in for some dirty weather.

  Christopher Hale : Oh well, maybe your barometer is wrong.

  Captain Samantha Stewart : It hasn't been wrong in 30 years!

• Captain Samantha Stewart : Oh, the lily-livered landlubbers. Look at them run.

• Captain Samantha Stewart : A new life, that's what you've given me.

  Johnny Stewart : Ma.

  Captain Samantha Stewart : Let me say it. For all my life I've had a dream. And it was always out of reach. Like those crazy mirage things. And now, everyday the dream is coming closer. Because of you, Johnny. How do you say it? How do you say it when your heart is bursting with pride, love, and gratitude.

• Captain Samantha Stewart : Who gave him the right to interfere in my life?

  Christopher Hale : You did. When you took on a foundling, shaped him into the image you wanted to be.The family tradition. You sent him to sea.

• Captain Samantha Stewart : And give the compass to Bill. It'll help him to know where he is. I've not been too sure of that.

• Mary Anne : He had to lie because you wouldn't listen to reason. You've never in your whole life taken orders or advice. You've been too busy giving them. He lied to you because he couldn't leave you there to die. Because he loves you and wants you to live.

  Captain Samantha Stewart : Well, you're right about one thing. I'd never have left the sea if it wasn't for the lies. But you're wrong if you think I'm going to drop anchor here and dry up like the bones of that old boat. I'm going to make the lie the truth.