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The Virginian

Season 8 1969 - 1970
TV-PG

  • 1969-09-17T04:00:00Z on NBC
  • 1h 5m
  • 1d 7h 37m (24 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Western, Drama
The Virginian was the very first 90 minute western on prime-time television, and is about a man, only known as "the Virginian" who served as foreman on the Shiloh Ranch (owned in sequence by Judge Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Col. MacKenzie) in 19th century Medicine Bow, Wyoming. James Drury starred as the title character with the likes of Doug McClure, Lee J. Cobb, John McIntire, and Clu Gulager co-starring. It is in these settings that a variety of stories, much more based on character and relationships than the usual westerns, take place.

24 episodes

Season Premiere

1969-09-17T04:00:00Z

8x01 Long Ride Home

Season Premiere

8x01 Long Ride Home

  • 1969-09-17T04:00:00Z1h 16m

The close friendship and free life of teenage cowhand Jim Horn and an old wrangler are put at risk when they both sign on the Shiloh. Young Jim takes a liking to his new surroundings, and to Elizabeth.

1969-09-24T04:00:00Z

8x02 A Flash of Darkness

8x02 A Flash of Darkness

  • 1969-09-24T04:00:00Z1h 16m

During 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.

1969-10-01T04:00:00Z

8x03 Halfway Back from Hell

8x03 Halfway Back from Hell

  • 1969-10-01T04:00:00Z1h 16m

Trampas takes the job as teaching foreman at a rehabilitation ranch in Arizona. The group of prisoners which has been selected to start the ranch are having more problems with the nearby town than in learning how to work a ranch.

1969-10-08T04:00:00Z

8x04 The Power Seekers

8x04 The Power Seekers

  • 1969-10-08T04:00:00Z1h 16m

The territorial representative resigns so Clay is drafted to run against a local man. Once in the race Clay learns the dirty side of politics including being lied to about who drafted him. He runs an honest contest but will the other side.

1969-10-15T04:00:00Z

8x05 The Family Man

8x05 The Family Man

  • 1969-10-15T04:00:00Z1h 30m

Jim becomes farmhand, midwife and friend to a pregnant teen whose husband is on the lam from the law.

1969-10-22T04:00:00Z

8x06 The Runaway

8x06 The Runaway

  • 1969-10-22T04:00:00Z1h 16m

The Graingers become stand-in parents for a boy running away from an orphanage.

1969-10-29T05:00:00Z

8x07 A Love to Remember

8x07 A Love to Remember

  • 1969-10-29T05:00:00Z1h 30m

The Virginian becomes attracted to Julie Oakes, an Eastern reporter whose mysteriously tragic past may doom their relationship.

1969-11-05T05:00:00Z

8x08 The Substitute

8x08 The Substitute

  • 1969-11-05T05:00:00Z1h 16m

Trampas' vacation takes a nightmarish turn when he's jailed in a small town on a trumped-up murder charge.

1969-11-19T05:00:00Z

8x09 The Bugler

8x09 The Bugler

  • 1969-11-19T05:00:00Z1h 30m

A story of alienation between a veteran Army officer and his son, a deserter.

1969-11-26T05:00:00Z

8x10 Home to Methuselah

8x10 Home to Methuselah

  • 1969-11-26T05:00:00Z1h 5m

The Virginian becomes involved in a lawman's obsessive search for two surviving members of a gang.

1969-12-03T05:00:00Z

8x11 A Touch of Hands

8x11 A Touch of Hands

  • 1969-12-03T05:00:00Z1h 16m

A pig tailed brat returns home from finishing school for a two week vacation as a beautiful woman catching Trampas' eyes again. They fall in love as she remembers the good times but her father wants her to return to school in the east.

1969-12-10T05:00:00Z

8x12 Journey to Scathelock

8x12 Journey to Scathelock

  • 1969-12-10T05:00:00Z1h 16m

Jim is in North Dakota to purchase ponies when he tangles with a pair of sharp operators after his $4000 bank roll.

1969-12-17T05:00:00Z

8x13 A Woman of Stone

8x13 A Woman of Stone

  • 1969-12-17T05:00:00Z1h 16m

The Shiloh people unwittingly stir up the past when they shelter the son and white widow of a Shoshone.

1969-12-31T05:00:00Z

8x14 Black Jade

8x14 Black Jade

  • 1969-12-31T05:00:00Z1h 16m

A bigoted gambler and his outlaw gang force Trampas and a black recluse into an alliance for survival.

8x15 You Can Lead a Horse to Water

  • 1970-01-07T05:00:00Z1h 30m

The accent is on comedy as a proper Southern woman, aided by Trampas and old Luther, goes after robbers who took her dowry.

1970-01-21T05:00:00Z

8x16 Nightmare

8x16 Nightmare

  • 1970-01-21T05:00:00Z1h 16m

When the wife of a prominent Medicine Bow business man arrives, smoldering jealousies quickly rise to the top.

1970-01-28T05:00:00Z

8x17 Holocaust

8x17 Holocaust

  • 1970-01-28T05:00:00Z1h 16m

The Shiloh ranch is burned down after Clay joins with his fellow ranchers to oppose an Eastern combine trying for a land-grab. This leaves Clay with only has one chance for survival of the ranch, get a herd to Denver in record time.

1970-02-04T05:00:00Z

8x18 Train of Darkness

8x18 Train of Darkness

  • 1970-02-04T05:00:00Z1h 30m

On a train to Cheyenne, Clay, Elizabeth and Jim become involved in a fellow traveler's efforts to escape a vengeful family.

1970-02-11T05:00:00Z

8x19 A Time of Terror

8x19 A Time of Terror

  • 1970-02-11T05:00:00Z1h 16m

Two young men and a girl take over the Shiloh ranch and hold the Graingers captive. They are setting up a trap for a close friend of Clay's, Judge Will McMasters.

1970-02-18T05:00:00Z

8x20 No War for the Warrior

8x20 No War for the Warrior

  • 1970-02-18T05:00:00Z1h 30m

A man signs on to work a cattle drive for the Shiloh ranch putting the other hands in danger. He is a fugitive Indian caught between the white world and his Kiowa roots. Things get heated when they come to a small, bigoted town.

1970-02-25T05:00:00Z

8x21 A King's Ransom

8x21 A King's Ransom

  • 1970-02-25T05:00:00Z1h 16m

Clay 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.

1970-03-04T05:00:00Z

8x22 The Sins of the Fathers

8x22 The Sins of the Fathers

  • 1970-03-04T05:00:00Z1h 16m

Adam Randall is hired on as a Shiloh hand despite his being a gunfighter. Despite his being a troublemaker, the Virginian, whose life he saved, and Clay, for unknown reasons, stand behind him.

1970-03-11T05:00:00Z

8x23 Rich Man, Poor Man

8x23 Rich Man, Poor Man

  • 1970-03-11T05:00:00Z1h 16m

A farmer who has been poor his entire life suddenly comes into a lot of money. He goes on a spending spree giving large parties, buying luxury items, and a ranch hand more than willing to help him spend it.

Season Finale

1970-03-18T05:00:00Z

8x24 The Gift

Season Finale

8x24 The Gift

  • 1970-03-18T05:00:00Z1h 16m

A saloon singer finds herself the target of killer after his partner dies in her room.

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