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24. Jump-Up

March 24, 1971

After stopping in the town of Jump-Up to see an old girlfriend, Tate is cheated in a card game by a gambler, and then framed by town boss John Timothy Driscoll and his son for killing the man, and forced into a hard labor camp.

23. Wolf Track

March 17, 1971

After being mauled by a cunning wolf he has been tracking, and then robbed of his horse, gun, and other possessions by a stranger on the road, Col. MacKenzie is taken in by a homesteader and her young son. The wolf, however, is still at large and MacKenzie is determined to hunt him down.

22. The Town Killer

March 10, 1971

Ben Hunter is a sophisticated outlaw whose control of a frightened community is challenged in a showdown with the Virginian.

21. The Regimental Line

March 3, 1971

When an Army troop arrives looking for a group of marauding Indians who have gone on the warpath, both Colonel MacKenzie and Parker recognize one of the sergeants as a lancer from the British Army whom they believed to have been killed in India ten years ago - and who was supposed to have been leading MacKenzie's brother when he was captured and killed. The man deserts when he recognizes Parker, and MacKenzie goes out after him, with the Indians following behind.

20. Tate, Ramrod

February 24, 1971

Tate is hired by his friend Joe Benson to work on his ranch and watch over his teenage son and daughter while he's away on business. This puts Tate squarely in the middle of a dispute with a big rancher over a fence Benson wants to build, as well as with a woman who arrives claiming to be Benson's fiancée, the children's rebelliousness, and a hired gun who comes to town with a wanted poster on Tate.

19. Flight from Memory

February 17, 1971

Colonel MacKenzie finds a woman unconscious on a remote mountain trail on the way to visit his hermit friend Muley. He takes her to Muley's cabin and they wait for her to recover as no help is available. She wakes up but is slow to communicate and recover her memory. At the same time another visitor arrives with a lame horse asking to stay until his horse can travel again. As the woman recovers she is attracted to the Colonel in a romantic manner, thinking he is someone she knows, but remembers no details.

18. The Angus Killer

February 10, 1971

The Virginian arrives at Laura Duff's ranch to buy her Angus cattle, only to find that she has lost her head steer due to someone cutting her fence. While she suspects a hostile rancher who wants her land, her son insists that a friendly neighbor is responsible, not only for the cattle but also for the death of his father several months earlier.

17. The Legacy of Spencer Flats

January 27, 1971

Stopping in nearly abandoned Spencer Flats, Trampas is held by sisters Della and Annie Spencer, who accuse him of being outlaw Deke Slaughter, though their handyman is not so convinced. Then the real Slaughter rides into the town, claiming to be a sheriff.

16. The Animal

January 20, 1971

Tate comes across a deaf and mute Indian boy, who is being hunted by a posse for the killing of a respected rancher. To prevent his being lynched, Tate brings the boy into town himself, and hopes to somehow learn his side of the story. But just about everyone in the town, including the judge, is too anxious to hang the boy quickly, so Tate finds he has to take on the role of defense counsel himself.

15. The Politician

January 13, 1971

When he is appointed to the Senate Foster Bonham decides to sell his ranch to Shiloh. The Virginian arrives at the Bonham ranch to finalize the sale, but Foster's drunken, irresponsible brother Jack is determined to stop the sale any way he can. When a murder is committed the Virginian searches for Jack, and Foster must decide between his brother and his Senate seat.

14. Nan Allen

January 6, 1971

Upon arriving for a business appointment with a friend, MacKenzie learns that the man was killed by the brother of Nan Allen, a young woman he was in the act of assaulting. He finds this hard to believe, but upon getting to know Nan, he takes a strong liking to her. When her brother Bobby is injured from an avalanche, MacKenzie brings both him and Nan to Shiloh while he recuperates. As he and Nan begin to fall in love, MacKenzie starts to wonder why more than one man in her past has died violently, and if Bobby's strangely possessive attitude has something to do with it.

13. Hannah

December 30, 1970

After a precocious young girl's father is stricken with a heart attack while traveling on the train he is on, Trampas decides to help the girl find her estranged mother. He has a hard time keeping the girl, Hannah, from trying to do everything by herself. Unfortunately, Hannah's mother has been manipulated by her boyfriend into participating in a bank robbery.

12. Last of the Comancheros

December 9, 1970

While on a trip to buy cattle, Colonel MacKenzie becomes involved in the affairs of a woman reporter and a group of former Comancheros who are now trying to make an honest living raising sheep. In writing a story about the group, the reporter has mentioned their hunting down of a maverick steer. Gossip in the nearby town fails to note that the steer was a maverick, and a group of cattle ranch workers respond by killing the sheepherders' entire herd. The leader of the former Comancheros, Sosentes, responds by kidnapping the reporter and holding her for ransom. Unfortunately, MacKenzie finds that the local sheriff's hatred of Comancheros far exceeds his concern for the woman's safe return.

11. Follow the Leader

December 2, 1970

Ritter Miley, the leader of an unschooled backwoods clan of thieves, kills a cousin who wanted to go straight. Colonel MacKenzie finds that the type of gun used in the killing was sold to only two men, Ritter and Trampas. Trampas thus tries to prove his innocence by bringing Ritter in and locating his gun, but Ritter's brothers come up with their own ideas to force his release.

10. Experiment at New Life

November 18, 1970

The Virginian comes to the communal village of New Life, looking for a number of Shiloh cattle that have strayed. At the commune council meeting, the members agree to let him take his cattle back. After the Virginian leaves, however, the council makes another vote---to start "complex" or group marriage in the community, meaning that every woman will be considered married to every man. Given an unreasonably short time by the acting leader to round up his cattle, the Virginian appeals to the widow of the commune's original leader for help, but when he learns of the new marriage rule he decides to help her and her daughter escape the commune.

9. The Price of the Hanging

November 11, 1970

After Colonel MacKenzie is seriously injured in an accident, Tate brings him into the nearest town looking for a doctor. He finds that the only doctor in town is in jail, scheduled to be hanged the next morning. Though Tate finally persuades the sentencing judge to let the doctor out under guard to treat the colonel, when Tate investigates he learns that the judge may have been motivated more by a desire for vengeance than for justice.

8. Lady at the Bar

November 4, 1970

Trampas is arrested for the murder of a man he argued with over ownership of a mine. The judge and marshal seem primarily interested in wrapping up the trial as quickly as possible so they can go fishing. Trampas's hope lies with his attorney, Frances B. Finch.

7. Crooked Corner

October 28, 1970

A group of German immigrants is repeatedly threatened by night riders who want them out. The night riders are working for a blacksmith who should know only too well the evils of prejudice. Tate becomes involved after the daughter of the leader of the immigrants mistakes him for the gunman they hired to protect them.

6. Gun Quest

October 21, 1970

The Virginian is taken by a posse, brought into a saloon in a small town, tried before an incompetent drunken judge, convicted of murder, and taken out to be hanged, all in a span of a couple hours. The only evidence allowed is the accusation of the dead man's son, who claims The Virginian is a notorious hired killer known as Boss Cooper, and that he saw him kill his father. The Virginian escapes from the lynch mob and determines to clear his name by finding the real Boss Cooper, though the dead man's sons are trailing him.

5. The Mysterious Mr. Tate

October 14, 1970

Colonel MacKenzie is traveling on a train with Lark Walters, the young and sheltered daughter of a wealthy friend of his. At a stop in a town, he sees a young man shoot another man in self-defense. Later, MacKenzie saves the same young man from being lynched, and brings him onto the train, where the overly romantic Lark falls for the young stranger. MacKenzie tries to keep them apart, but Lark won't give up. Meanwhile, other men on the train hatch up a scheme to kidnap Lark and hold her for ransom, and try to get the young man, Tate, to join with them. This episode introduces Tate as a series regular.

4. With Love, Bullets, and Valentines

October 7, 1970

Trampas wins a riverboat from an old man named Skeet in a poker game. He also wins a substantial amount of money, which two railroad detectives confiscate as it was previously stolen. He finds his new boat very dilapidated, and works to fix it with the help of Skeet and his granddaughter. But two aging outlaw brothers and their gang also want to use the riverboat to stage one last big crime.

3. Jenny

September 30, 1970

The Virginian comes to the aid of a woman being attacked in a hotel, and finds that it's an old flame, Jenny Davis, who says three men have been following her though she doesn't know why. The next day, she and The Virginian are on a stage with another man and a young woman when the three men chase after them and cause the stage to break down in the desert. Jenny is slow with telling the whole truth, but finally admits that the men are the partners of her late outlaw husband who are looking for money he hid before he was imprisoned. A mysterious man riding alone is also following both the stage and the three outlaws.

2. The Best Man

September 23, 1970

Trampas and his friend Pick Lexington visit some old friends in Mexico. But Trampas is caught between Pick and one of his Mexican friends as both men fall for the same girl, and he hopes to stop them from dueling each other while the girl chooses between them.

1. The West vs. Colonel MacKenzie

September 16, 1970

Colonel Alan MacKenzie takes over ownership of the Shiloh Ranch and the series also changes its name to The Men from Shiloh for its ninth and final season.

Description

The television series entitled the Virginian is centered on a wide variety of events and reported stories that took place at a popular ranch in Wyoming known as the Shiloh Ranch. The ownership of the ranch went through different people including individuals like Judge Garth, two brothers who also managed it for sometime known as the Grainger brothers and also MacKenzie.

However two people remained at the ranch for all the seasons of the series and they were the Virginian as he was referred to throughout the series and Trampas his very close associate.

The Virginian saw himself struggling to live a responsible life during his stay at the ranch. He went through a series of challenging experiences in his attempts to achieve what he wanted.

The series was written by True Boardman based on inspiration he got from a novel written by Owen Wister. As such the series is made up of different events featuring different people.

The very first episode of the series in season one was entitled the executioners. This story saw a man hanging himself to death because a lady whom he loved and wanted to be with rejected him.

The second episode saw the discussions between Garth and a newcomer at the ranch who shared his experiences with Barth telling him all he had gone through during his stay there. Other episodes followed suit with different interesting story lines.

The characters in the series included those who featured in all the seasons like Lee Cobb featuring as Henry Garth, Roberta Shore featuring as Betsy, James Drury featuring as the Virginian, Doug McClure Trampas and Gary Clarke featuring as Steve Hill. Others included Bette Davis, George Scott, Myrna Loy, Ricardo Montalban, Ulla Jacobssen, Franchot Tone.

The series which comprised 249 episodes was broadcast on NBC. Each episode aired for 75 minutes per broadcast and this went on for all nine seasons that the show lasted.

It was produced by joint collaboration of Revue Studios and Universal Studios.

The Virginian is a series that is currently running and has 9 seasons (474 episodes). The series first aired on September 19, 1962.

Where to Watch The Virginian

The Virginian is available for streaming on the NBC website, both individual episodes and full seasons. You can also watch The Virginian on demand at Apple TV+, Amazon Prime, Philo, Starz and Sling.

Genres

Action & Adventure
Cast

James Drury
Doug McClure
Lee J. Cobb
Charles Bickford
John McIntire
Channel

NBC

Premiere Date

September 19, 1962
IMDB Rating

7.6 (2,819)

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