8.6/1072 votes#1 - Long Ride Home
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1969
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Director: N/A
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8.2/1084 votes#2 - A Flash of Darkness
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1969
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.
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7.3/1065 votes#3 - Halfway Back from Hell
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1969
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- 8.0/1064 votes
#4 - The Power Seekers
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1969
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Director: N/A
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- 8.5/1071 votes
#5 - The Family Man
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1969
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.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: N/A
8.1/1063 votes#6 - The Runaway
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1969
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Director: Anton Leader
Writer: N/A
7.4/1060 votes#7 - A Love to Remember
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1969
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.
Director: N/A
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8.1/1065 votes#8 - The Substitute
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/1969
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Director: Anton Leader
Writer: N/A
8.1/1061 votes#9 - The Bugler
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/1969
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.
Director: Anton Leader
Writer: N/A
7.6/1049 votes#10 - Home to Methuselah
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 11/26/1969
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Director: Abner Biberman
Writer: N/A
7.8/1056 votes#11 - A Touch of Hands
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 12/3/1969
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Director: Anton Leader
Writer: N/A
7.6/1055 votes#12 - Journey to Scathelock
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 12/10/1969
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Director: N/A
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8.2/1073 votes#13 - A Woman of Stone
Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 12/17/1969
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Director: Abner Biberman
Writer: N/A
6.6/1072 votes#14 - Black Jade
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 12/31/1969
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Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: N/A
7.8/1054 votes#15 - You Can Lead a Horse to Water
Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 1/7/1970
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.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: N/A
5.8/10247 votes#16 - Nightmare
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 1/21/1970
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Director: N/A
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8.7/1064 votes#17 - The Holocaust
Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 1/28/1970
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.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: N/A
8.1/1066 votes#18 - Train of Darkness
Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 2/4/1970
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.
Director: N/A
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8.0/1066 votes#19 - A Time of Terror
Season 8 Episode 19 - Aired 2/11/1970
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Director: N/A
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7.9/1060 votes#20 - No War for the Warrior
Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 2/18/1970
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.
Director: N/A
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7.7/1058 votes#21 - A King's Ransom
Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 2/25/1970
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.
Director: N/A
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8.8/1072 votes#22 - The Sins of the Fathers
Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 3/4/1970
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Director: Walter Doniger
Writer: N/A
7.4/1054 votes#23 - Rich Man, Poor Man
Season 8 Episode 23 - Aired 3/11/1970
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Director: Anton Leader
Writer: N/A
8.1/1068 votes#24 - Gift
Season 8 Episode 24 - Aired 3/18/1970
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Director: N/A
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The Best Episodes of The Virginian Season 8
Every episode of The Virginian Season 8 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Virginian Season 8!
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...
Genres:WesternDrama
Network:NBC
Season 8 Ratings Summary
"Long Ride Home" is the best rated episode of "The Virginian" season 8. It scored 8.6/10 based on 72 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/17/1969. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "A Flash of Darkness".