The Virginian (1962)
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.
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Episode 1 - Long Ride Home
Release Date: 1969-09-17 -
Episode 2 - A Flash of Darkness
Release Date: 1969-09-24During a cattle drive, a rattler startles the Virginian's horse while he is chasing a stray, and he is thrown and hits his head on a rock causing temperary blindness. As he wanders in the darkness, he stumbles upon a young lady who lives with her father (James Whitmore)and brother, whom the Virginian had just fired. The daughter wants to help the Virginian though the men protest. The two men tell her that they are returning the blind man to his friends but actually plan to kill him. After leaving the house, the Virginian somehow manages to escape and makes it back to the house where he wanders into the corral and is nearly trampled by the horses until Trampas and Jim Horn rescues him from the corral and the two men.
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Episode 3 - Halfway Back from Hell
Release Date: 1969-10-01 -
Episode 4 - The Power Seekers
Release Date: 1969-10-08 -
Episode 5 - The Family Man
Release Date: 1969-10-15Jim becomes farmhand, midwife and friend to a pregnant teenager whose husband is on the lam from the law. Anna: Darlene Carr. Obie: Frank Webb. Jim: Tim Matheson. Rigby: John Pickard. Trampas: Doug McClure. Sheriff: Ross Elliott. Virginian: James Drury.
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Episode 6 - The Runaway
Release Date: 1969-10-22 -
Episode 7 - A Love to Remember
Release Date: 1969-10-29The Virginian is attracted to Julie Oakes, an Eastern reporter whose mysteriously tragic past may doom their relationship. Glover: Fred Beir. Virginian: James Drury. Barton: George Murdock. Holly: Jeanette Nolan. Grainger: John McIntire.
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Episode 8 - The Substitute
Release Date: 1969-11-05 -
Episode 9 - The Bugler
Release Date: 1969-11-19A story of alienation between a veteran Army officer and his son, a deserter. Toby: Michael Burns. Hamilton: Morgan Woodward. O'Rourke: Alan Hale. Grainger: John McIntire. Virginian: James Drury. Holly: Jeanette Nolan. Elizabeth: Sara Lane.
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Episode 10 - Home to Methuselah
Release Date: 1969-11-26 -
Episode 11 - A Touch of Hands
Release Date: 1969-12-03 -
Episode 12 - Journey to Scathelock
Release Date: 1969-12-10 -
Episode 13 - A Woman of Stone
Release Date: 1969-12-17 -
Episode 14 - Black Jade
Release Date: 1969-12-31 -
Episode 15 - You Can Lead a Horse to Water
Release Date: 1970-01-07The accent is on comedy as a proper Southern woman, aided by Trampas and old Luther, goes after robbers who took her dowry. Luther: Strother Martin. Trampas: Doug McClure. Baxter: Noah Beery. Kendrick: Anthony Eisley.
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Episode 16 - Nightmare
Release Date: 1970-01-21 -
Episode 17 - The Holocaust
Release Date: 1970-01-28An eastern combine wants to take over the Wyoming cattle market with Shiloh in the middle of their sights. A burned Shiloh and delayed cattle drive leads to a loss on the sale of cattle resulting in all the Shiloh hands being laid off.
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Episode 18 - Train of Darkness
Release Date: 1970-02-04On a train to Cheyenne, Grainger, Elizabeth and Jim become involved in a fellow traveler's efforts to escape a vengeful family. Jed: Dennis Weaver. Lotte: Charlotte Stewart. Neeley: John Larch. Grainger: John McIntire. Elizabeth: Sara Lane. Jim: Tim Matheson. Evangeline: Barbara Werle.
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Episode 19 - A Time of Terror
Release Date: 1970-02-11 -
Episode 20 - No War for the Warrior
Release Date: 1970-02-18The drama of a fugitive caught between his Kiowa heritage and the demands of the white world. John: Charles Robinson. Virginian: James Drury. Jim: Tim Matheson. Trampas: Doug McClure. William T. Webb: Charles Aidman. Ned Cochran: Henry Jones. Cully: David Sheiner.
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Episode 21 - A King's Ransom
Release Date: 1970-02-25Clay Grainger is kidnapped and held for ransom by a gang hired by an Englishman (Patrick Macnee)who has posed as a friend of the Graingers. However, his true intentions are later revealed by his wife (Jackie DeShannon) but not before the Virginian follows the kidnappers - after the ransom drop-off - captures them, and convinces them to tell him where Grainger is stashed.
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Episode 22 - The Sins of the Fathers
Release Date: 1970-03-04 -
Episode 23 - Rich Man, Poor Man
Release Date: 1970-03-11 -
Episode 24 - Gift
Release Date: 1970-03-18