1 Season
12 Episode
Centennial - Season 1 Episode 3 The Wagon and the Elephant
Their Passion Blazed Across Seven Generations
1845: In Lancaster, Pennsylvania, young Mennonite Levi Zendt heads out west with his bride-to-be Elly Zamm. On the wagon train and in St. Louis they meet young English writer Oliver Seccombe and Army Captain Maxwell Mercy - who is married to Lisette, Pasquinel's daughter. McKeag weds Clay Basket and adopts her half-breed daughter Lucinda. While on the wagon train, guide Samuel Purchase tries to rape Elly, causing Levi and Elly to leave it, meeting McKeag and later establish the settlement of the town Centennial.
- Year: 1979
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Action & Adventure, Drama, Western
- Studio: NBC
- Keyword: based on novel or book, colorado, fur trapping, epic, miniseries, wild west, family saga
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- Cast: Robert Conrad, Richard Chamberlain, Raymond Burr, Sally Kellerman, Barbara Carrera, Richard Crenna