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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!

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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Virginian Season 8 Episode 1 - Long Ride Home
    8.5/10(82 votes)

    #1 - Long Ride Home

    S8:E1

    Holly finds two cowboys who are looking for work. The younger hand Jim looks up to Ben as the only father he has ever known as the two roam around looking for a place to settle. Ben isn't ready to settle down but Jim may have found a home.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Virginian Season 8 Episode 2 - A Flash of Darkness
    8.2/10(92 votes)

    #2 - A Flash of Darkness

    S8:E2

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Virginian Season 8 Episode 3 - Halfway Back from Hell
    7.5/10(73 votes)

    #3 - Halfway Back from Hell

    S8:E3

    In Arizona Trampas is forced to work as foreman on a ranch staffed by men on probation from prison. The locals want them removed and the US Marshal in charge of the area is less than enthusiastic about them being there as well.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Virginian Season 8 Episode 4 - The Power Seekers
    8.0/10(70 votes)

    #4 - The Power Seekers

    S8:E4

    After the territorial representative resigns, Clay is drafted to run against a local man. Clay soon learns the dirty side of politics, including being lied to about who drafted him. He runs an honest contest, but will the other side?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Virginian Season 8 Episode 5 - The Family Man
    8.5/10(76 votes)

    #5 - The Family Man

    S8:E5

    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:Unknown

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  6. The Virginian Season 8 Episode 6 - The Runaway
    8.1/10(72 votes)

    #6 - The Runaway

    S8:E6

    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.

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Virginian Season 8 Episode 7 - A Love to Remember
    7.4/10(67 votes)

    #7 - A Love to Remember

    S8:E7

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Virginian Season 8 Episode 8 - The Substitute
    8.1/10(71 votes)

    #8 - The Substitute

    S8:E8

    Trampas leaves on vacation but his plans go astray when he is picked up by a bounty hunter for murdering a popular doctor. He has to contend with a hostile town, planted evidence, and a saloon girl who swears she saw him commit the murder.

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Virginian Season 8 Episode 9 - The Bugler
    8.1/10(68 votes)

    #9 - The Bugler

    S8:E9

    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:Unknown

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  10. The Virginian Season 8 Episode 10 - Home to Methuselah
    7.6/10(55 votes)

    #10 - Home to Methuselah

    S8:E10

    An old lawman friend of The Virginian comes to Shiloh to see him and ask him to go on a hunting trip. However, he doesn't say the prey is two outlaws. Once The Virginian learns the truth, he decides to help but is surprised by the target.

    Director:Abner Biberman
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Virginian Season 8 Episode 11 - A Touch of Hands
    7.8/10(60 votes)

    #11 - A Touch of Hands

    S8:E11

    A pig tailed brat returns home from finishing school for a two week vacation as a beautiful woman catching Trampas' eyes again. They fall in love as she remembers the good times but her father wants her to return to school in the east.

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Virginian Season 8 Episode 12 - Journey to Scathelock
    7.7/10(60 votes)

    #12 - Journey to Scathelock

    S8:E12

    An emergency recalls The Virginian so he allows Jim Horn to go alone with $4000 to complete a purchase of horses. Everyone takes Jim for a wet behind the ears youngster including the woman and her partner who steal the money he carries.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Virginian Season 8 Episode 13 - A Woman of Stone
    8.2/10(78 votes)

    #13 - A Woman of Stone

    S8:E13

    A white woman and her son are forced to leave the Shoshone reservation when her Shoshone husband dies. She is found sick on Shiloh. Unknown to everyone her white husband and now engaged daughter live in Medicine Bow thinking she is dead.

    Director:Abner Biberman
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Virginian Season 8 Episode 14 - Black Jade
    6.7/10(79 votes)

    #14 - Black Jade

    S8:E14

    Trampas decides to track down where Cobey Jade obtained a silver watch that belonged to a friend. While with Jade who lives in an abandoned mining town, they are taken captive by a band of roving outlaws who believes Jade found gold there.

    Director:Joseph Pevney
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Virginian Season 8 Episode 15 - You Can Lead a Horse to Water
    7.9/10(60 votes)

    #15 - You Can Lead a Horse to Water

    S8:E15

    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:Unknown

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  16. The Virginian Season 8 Episode 16 - Nightmare
    5.9/10(254 votes)

    #16 - Nightmare

    S8:E16

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Bethel Leslie

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  17. The Virginian Season 8 Episode 17 - The Holocaust
    8.7/10(70 votes)

    #17 - The Holocaust

    S8:E17

    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:Unknown

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  18. The Virginian Season 8 Episode 18 - Train of Darkness
    8.2/10(73 votes)

    #18 - Train of Darkness

    S8:E18

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Virginian Season 8 Episode 19 - A Time of Terror
    8.0/10(71 votes)

    #19 - A Time of Terror

    S8:E19

    The Graingers are taken hostage by two brothers and their sister to get access to a friend of Clay who is a Judge running for the legislature. They blame him for killing their father and stealing their family farm for a railroad.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Virginian Season 8 Episode 20 - No War for the Warrior
    8.0/10(66 votes)

    #20 - No War for the Warrior

    S8:E20

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Virginian Season 8 Episode 21 - A King's Ransom
    7.8/10(62 votes)

    #21 - A King's Ransom

    S8:E21

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Virginian Season 8 Episode 22 - The Sins of the Fathers
    8.6/10(81 votes)

    #22 - The Sins of the Fathers

    S8:E22

    The Virginian and Shiloh money are rescued by a lone man who he rewards with a job at Shiloh. He rubs the other men the wrong way, works hard, but is obviously a gunman. Clay Grainger soon realizes who he is but won't let him be fired.

    Director:Walter Doniger
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Virginian Season 8 Episode 23 - Rich Man, Poor Man
    7.5/10(61 votes)

    #23 - Rich Man, Poor Man

    S8:E23

    Poor Harve Yost turns into rich Harve when he finds a dying man with a saddle bag full of money and gets a $10000 reward. Never a man to manage money or time The Virginian advises him to buy a ranch but Harve tries to rival Shiloh

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Virginian Season 8 Episode 24 - Gift
    8.2/10(74 votes)

    #24 - Gift

    S8:E24

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 8 Ratings Summary

"Long Ride Home" is the best rated episode of "The Virginian" season 8. It scored 8.5/10 based on 82 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/17/1969. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "A Flash of Darkness".