The Virginian
Season 8
1969 • 24 Episodes
Episodes
1. Long Ride Home
September 17, 1969
No overview available.
2. A Flash of Darkness
September 24, 1969
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.
3. Halfway Back from Hell
October 1, 1969
No overview available.
4. The Power Seekers
October 8, 1969
No overview available.
5. The Family Man
October 15, 1969
Jim 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.
6. The Runaway
October 22, 1969
A runaway boy is found on Shiloh who won't talk. They wonder about his parents becoming gravely concerned when they discover he has been severely beaten. No one realizes how close his dad is as the orphanage manager wants him back.
7. A Love to Remember
October 29, 1969
The 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.
8. The Substitute
November 5, 1969
No overview available.
9. The Bugler
November 19, 1969
A 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.
10. Home to Methuselah
November 26, 1969
No overview available.
11. A Touch of Hands
December 3, 1969
No overview available.
12. Journey to Scathelock
December 10, 1969
No overview available.
13. A Woman of Stone
December 17, 1969
No overview available.
14. Black Jade
December 31, 1969
No overview available.
15. You Can Lead a Horse to Water
January 7, 1970
The 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.
16. Nightmare
January 21, 1970
The Virginian helps the widow of a local businessman prove her innocence when first her husband is killed in a fire followed by his right hand man who names her as he dies. She has a history of mental illness after her first husband died.
17. The Holocaust
January 28, 1970
An 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.
18. Train of Darkness
February 4, 1970
On 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.
19. A Time of Terror
February 11, 1970
No overview available.
20. No War for the Warrior
February 18, 1970
The 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.
21. A King's Ransom
February 25, 1970
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
March 4, 1970
No overview available.
23. Rich Man, Poor Man
March 11, 1970
No overview available.
24. Gift
March 18, 1970
No overview available.