• Air date: 17 Sep '69 24 episodes
      The Virginian is an American Western television series starring James Drury and Doug McClure, which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 episodes. It was a spin-off from a 1958 summer series called Decision. Filmed in color, The Virginian became television's first 90-minute western series. Immensely successful, it ran for nine seasons—television's third longest running western. It follows Bonanza at fourteen seasons and 430 episodes, and Gunsmoke at twenty seasons and 635 episodes.
  • List of Episodes (24)
    • 1. Long Ride Home

      17 Sep '69
    • 2. A Flash of Darkness

      24 Sep '69
      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 le
    • 3. Halfway Back from Hell

      01 Oct '69
    • 4. The Power Seekers

      08 Oct '69
    • 5. The Family Man

      15 Oct '69
    • 6. The Runaway

      22 Oct '69
    • 7. A Love to Remember

      29 Oct '69
    • 8. The Substitute

      05 Nov '69
    • 9. The Bugler

      19 Nov '69
    • 10. Home to Methuselah

      26 Nov '69
    • 11. A Touch of Hands

      03 Dec '69
    • 12. Journey to Scathelock

      10 Dec '69
    • 13. A Woman of Stone

      17 Dec '69
    • 14. Black Jade

      31 Dec '69
    • 15. You Can Lead a Horse to Water

      07 Jan '70
    • 16. Nightmare

      21 Jan '70
    • 17. The Shiloh Years

      28 Jan '70
    • 18. Train of Darkness

      04 Feb '70
    • 19. A Time of Terror

      11 Feb '70
    • 20. No War for the Warrior

      18 Feb '70
    • 21. A King's Ransom

      25 Feb '70
      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.
    • 22. The Sins of the Fathers

      04 Mar '70
    • 23. Rich Man, Poor Man

      11 Mar '70
    • 24. Holocaust

      18 Mar '70