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The Best Episodes of The Virginian Season 8

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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...

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  1. Background image for Long Ride Home
    8.6/10(73 votes)

    #1 - Long Ride Home

    S8:E1

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for A Flash of Darkness
    8.2/10(88 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Halfway Back from Hell
    7.3/10(66 votes)

    #3 - Halfway Back from Hell

    S8:E3

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for The Power Seekers
    7.9/10(66 votes)

    #4 - The Power Seekers

    S8:E4

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for The Family Man
    8.5/10(72 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.

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    Director:Joseph Pevney
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for The Runaway
    8.1/10(66 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.

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    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for A Love to Remember
    7.3/10(62 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for The Substitute
    8.1/10(66 votes)

    #8 - The Substitute

    S8:E8

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    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for The Bugler
    8.0/10(63 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.

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    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Home to Methuselah
    7.5/10(50 votes)

    #10 - Home to Methuselah

    S8:E10

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    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for A Touch of Hands
    7.8/10(57 votes)

    #11 - A Touch of Hands

    S8:E11

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    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Journey to Scathelock
    7.6/10(57 votes)

    #12 - Journey to Scathelock

    S8:E12

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for A Woman of Stone
    8.2/10(75 votes)

    #13 - A Woman of Stone

    S8:E13

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    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Black Jade
    6.7/10(74 votes)

    #14 - Black Jade

    S8:E14

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    Director:Joseph Pevney
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for You Can Lead a Horse to Water
    7.8/10(56 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.

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    Director:Joseph Pevney
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Nightmare
    5.8/10(249 votes)

    #16 - Nightmare

    S8:E16

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for The Holocaust
    8.6/10(65 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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Train of Darkness
    8.1/10(68 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for A Time of Terror
    7.9/10(67 votes)

    #19 - A Time of Terror

    S8:E19

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for No War for the Warrior
    7.9/10(61 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for A King's Ransom
    7.7/10(59 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for The Sins of the Fathers
    8.8/10(74 votes)

    #22 - The Sins of the Fathers

    S8:E22

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    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Rich Man, Poor Man
    7.4/10(56 votes)

    #23 - Rich Man, Poor Man

    S8:E23

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    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Gift
    8.1/10(70 votes)

    #24 - Gift

    S8:E24

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Season 8 Ratings Summary

"Long Ride Home" is the best rated episode of "The Virginian" season 8. It scored 8.6/10 based on 73 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/17/1969. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "A Flash of Darkness".