The Virginian (1962)

Name: The Virginian
Genre: Western
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Doug McClure, James Drury, Lee Majors, Stewart Granger

Western

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.

IMDb rating: 7.6 (3,713 votes)
Episode average: 7.8 ↑ +0.2 vs IMDb
Seasons: 9
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1962)

7.66 avg 30 episodes 7.8 → 7.8 75 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Executioners	7.8	242
2	Woman from White Wing	7.9	167
3	Throw a Long Rope	8.0	166
4	The Big Deal	7.5	135
5	The Brazen Bell	7.8	160
6	Big Day, Great Day	7.2	123
7	Riff-Raff	7.0	143
8	Impasse	7.6	144
9	It Tolls for Thee	7.6	147
10	West	6.9	145
11	The Devil's Children	7.9	151
12	50 Days to Moose Jaw	8.0	141
13	The Accomplice	8.6	453
14	The Man from the Sea	6.9	133
15	Duel at Shiloh	8.0	151
16	The Exiles	7.6	136
17	The Judgment	8.1	137
18	Say Goodbye to All That	7.6	124
19	The Man Who Couldn't Die	7.2	127
20	If You Have Tears	7.8	132
21	The Small Parade	7.9	137
22	Vengeance Is the Spur	7.3	128
23	The Money Cage	7.7	124
24	The Golden Door	7.7	126
25	A Distant Fury	7.8	127
26	Echo of Another Day	7.7	113
27	Strangers at Sundown	7.7	124
28	The Mountain of the Sun	7.4	129
29	Run Away Home	7.8	121
30	The Final Hour	7.8	109

Season 2 (1963)

7.85 avg 30 episodes 8.7 → 7.9 75 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Ride a Dark Trail	8.7	144
2	To Make This Place Remember	7.9	113
3	No Tears for Savannah	7.9	133
4	A Killer in Town	8.4	119
5	The Evil That Men Do	8.1	171
6	It Takes a Big Man	7.8	123
7	Brother Thaddeus	7.7	108
8	A Portrait of Marie Valonne	7.1	113
9	Run Quiet	8.3	143
10	Stopover in a Western Town	7.5	112
11	The Fatal Journey	8.3	114
12	A Time Remembered	7.3	108
13	Siege	8.3	116
14	Man of Violence	7.8	112
15	The Invaders	7.9	98
16	Roar from the Mountain	6.9	106
17	The Fortunes of J. Jimerson Jones	7.8	101
18	The Thirty Days of Gavin Heath	7.3	86
19	The Drifter	8.4	141
20	First to Thine Own Self	8.3	112
21	A Matter of Destiny	8.1	113
22	Smile of a Dragon	8.3	119
23	The Intruders	8.3	111
24	Another's Footsteps	8.3	131
25	Rope of Lies	7.8	105
26	The Secret of Brynmar Hall	6.5	122
27	The Long Quest	7.8	96
28	A Bride for Lars	6.9	110
29	Dark Destiny	7.9	104
30	A Man Called Kane	7.9	93

Season 3 (1964)

7.92 avg 30 episodes 7.9 → 7.1 75 min avg

Bad finale

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Ryker	7.9	135
2	Dark Challenge	8.2	105
3	The Stallion	8.2	107
4	The Hero	7.9	101
5	Felicity's Spring	8.0	149
6	The Brazos Kid	7.7	116
7	Big Image... Little Man	8.2	128
8	A Father for Toby	8.0	114
9	The Girl from Yesterday	8.1	108
10	Return a Stranger	8.0	93
11	All Nice and Legal	8.1	110
12	A Gallows for Sam Horn	8.1	97
13	Portrait of a Widow	7.9	105
14	The Payment	8.0	99
15	A Man of the People	7.8	82
16	The Hour of the Tiger	7.7	85
17	Two Men Named Laredo	7.6	90
18	Hideout	8.1	95
19	Six Graves at Cripple Creek	7.6	88
20	Lost Yesterday	7.8	93
21	A Slight Case of Charity	7.4	87
22	You Take the High Road	8.0	95
23	Shadows of the Past	8.0	89
24	Legend for a Lawman	7.8	91
25	Timberland	7.9	89
26	Dangerous Road	8.3	92
27	Farewell to Honesty	8.4	97
28	Old Cowboy	7.4	93
29	Showdown	8.5	115
30	We've Lost a Train	7.1	128

Season 4 (1965)

7.62 avg 30 episodes 8.0 → 7.5 75 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Brothers	8.0	113
2	Day of the Scorpion	7.6	93
3	A Little Learning	8.3	99
4	The Claim	7.7	94
5	The Awakening	8.2	123
6	Ring of Silence	7.6	94
7	Jennifer	7.6	93
8	Nobility of Kings	8.1	105
9	Show Me a Hero	8.6	106
10	Beyond the Border	8.2	101
11	The Dream of Stavros Karas	7.0	97
12	The Laramie Road	7.9	104
13	The Horse Fighter	7.7	82
14	Letter of the Law	7.8	89
15	Blaze of Glory	7.9	95
16	Nobody Said Hello	6.8	79
17	Men with Guns	7.5	88
18	Long Ride to Wind River	7.7	95
19	Chaff in the Wind	8.1	89
20	The Inchworm's Got No Wings at All	8.0	79
21	Morgan Starr	7.6	90
22	Harvest of Strangers	6.7	91
23	Ride a Cock-Horse to Laramie Cross	8.3	108
24	One Spring Like Long Ago	6.5	78
25	The Return of Golden Tom	6.8	84
26	The Wolves Up Front, the Jackals Behind	7.5	84
27	That Saunders Woman	7.8	87
28	No Drums, No Trumpets	6.7	84
29	A Bald-Faced Boy	7.0	85
30	The Mark of a Man	7.5	76

Season 5 (1966)

7.95 avg 29 episodes 8.2 → 7.8 75 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Legacy of Hate	8.2	92
2	Ride to Delphi	8.2	84
3	The Captive	7.5	78
4	An Echo of Thunder	8.2	86
5	Jacob Was a Plain Man	8.4	86
6	The Challenge	8.3	84
7	The Outcast	7.3	69
8	Trail to Ashley Mountain	7.7	77
9	Dead-Eye Dick	7.6	95
10	High Stakes	7.9	77
11	Beloved Outlaw	7.7	78
12	Linda	7.9	88
13	The Long Way Home	8.1	85
14	Girl on the Glass Mountain	7.8	78
15	Vengeance Trail	8.5	79
16	Sue Ann	8.0	77
17	Yesterday's Timepiece	7.8	77
18	Requiem for a Country Doctor	8.3	97
19	The Modoc Kid	7.8	103
20	The Gauntlet	7.4	79
21	Without Mercy	7.6	78
22	Melanie	8.3	98
23	Doctor Pat	8.4	85
24	Nightmare at Fort Killman	7.7	78
25	Bitter Harvest	8.3	84
26	A Welcoming Town	8.3	90
27	The Girl on the Pinto	8.1	69
28	Lady of the House	7.5	89
29	The Strange Quest of Claire Bingham	7.8	72

Season 6 (1967)

8.02 avg 26 episodes 8.3 → 8.1 75 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Reckoning	8.3	90
2	The Deadly Past	8.5	76
3	The Lady from Wichita	8.3	87
4	Star Crossed	8.4	83
5	Johnny Moon	6.8	91
6	The Masquerade	7.5	77
7	Ah Sing vs. Wyoming	8.2	78
8	Bitter Autumn	8.3	73
9	A Bad Place to Die	7.8	93
10	Paid in Full	7.8	67
11	To Bear Witness	8.2	72
12	The Barren Ground	7.7	76
13	Execution at Triste	7.9	82
14	A Small Taste of Justice	8.3	80
15	The Fortress	8.2	87
16	The Death Wagon	6.5	70
17	Jed	8.4	81
18	With Help from Ulysses	8.3	82
19	Gentle Tamers	8.0	68
20	The Good-Hearted Badman	8.0	83
21	The Hell Wind	7.8	78
22	The Crooked Path	7.9	65
23	Stacey	7.8	64
24	The Handy Man	8.7	98
25	The Decision	8.7	91
26	Seth	8.1	63

Season 7 (1968)

7.82 avg 26 episodes 7.3 → 7.8 75 min avg

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Saddle Warmer	7.3	72
2	Silver Image	7.7	66
3	The Orchard	7.6	78
4	Vision of Blindness	7.8	82
5	The Wind of Outrage	7.7	72
6	Image of an Outlaw	7.6	67
7	The Heritage	7.7	64
8	Ride to Misadventure	8.2	74
9	The Storm Gate	7.7	74
10	Dark Corridor	8.0	84
11	The Mustangers	7.3	63
12	Nora	8.3	67
13	Big Tiny	7.1	78
14	Stopover	8.4	94
15	Death Wait	7.9	71
16	Last Grave at Socorro Creek	8.6	84
17	Crime Wave in Buffalo Springs	7.0	114
18	The Price of Love	8.3	81
19	The Ordeal	7.4	61
20	The Land Dreamer	8.2	69
21	Eileen	7.8	73
22	Incident at Diablo Crossing	7.4	61
23	Storm Over Shiloh	8.0	63
24	The Girl in the Shadows	8.3	74
25	Fox, Hound and the Widow McCloud	8.3	75
26	The Stranger	7.8	68

Season 8 (1969)

7.80 avg 24 episodes 8.3 → 8.0 75 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Long Ride Home	8.3	91
2	A Flash of Darkness	8.2	101
3	Halfway Back from Hell	7.5	80
4	The Power Seekers	7.9	76
5	Family Man	8.4	81
6	The Runaway	8.1	79
7	A Love to Remember	7.3	76
8	The Substitute	8.1	76
9	The Bugler	8.0	73
10	Home to Methuselah	7.6	62
11	A Touch of Hands	7.7	68
12	Journey to Scathelock	7.6	66
13	A Woman of Stone	8.2	86
14	Black Jade	6.5	87
15	You Can Lead a Horse to Water	7.7	65
16	Nightmare	5.9	261
17	Holocaust	8.7	77
18	Train of Darkness	8.1	80
19	A Time of Terror	8.1	78
20	No War for the Warrior	7.9	71
21	A King's Ransom	7.7	66
22	The Sins of the Fathers	8.5	91
23	Rich Man, Poor Man	7.3	66
24	The Gift	8.0	80

Season 9 (1970)

7.27 avg 24 episodes 7.3 → 7.4 75 min avg

Season 9 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The West vs. Colonel MacKenzie	7.3	90
2	The Best Man	5.2	77
3	Jenny	7.8	61
4	With Love, Bullets and Valentines	6.7	60
5	The Mysterious Mr. Tate	7.4	68
6	Gun Quest	7.7	68
7	Crooked Corner	7.4	53
8	Lady at the Bar	8.3	67
9	The Price of the Hanging	7.4	58
10	Experiment at New Life	7.7	54
11	Follow the Leader	6.8	52
12	Last of the Comancheros	7.3	49
13	Hannah	7.4	64
14	Nan Allen	7.7	53
15	The Politician	7.7	51
16	The Animal	7.9	59
17	The Legacy of Spencer Flats	5.9	64
18	The Angus Killer	7.5	60
19	Flight from Memory	6.7	56
20	Tate: Ramrod	7.1	54
21	The Regimental Line	7.2	46
22	The Town Killer	7.8	64
23	Wolf Track	7.2	50
24	Jump-Up	7.4	59

The Virginian (1962)

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