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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
Episodes
24
Avg. Rating
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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".

  • Long Ride Home
    8.6/10(72)

    #1 - Long Ride Home

    Season 8 Episode 1

    Aired 9/17/1969

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Flash of Darkness
    8.2/10(85)

    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Halfway Back from Hell
    7.3/10(65)

    #3 - Halfway Back from Hell

    Season 8 Episode 3

    Aired 10/1/1969

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Power Seekers
    8.0/10(64)

    #4 - The Power Seekers

    Season 8 Episode 4

    Aired 10/8/1969

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Family Man
    8.5/10(71)

    #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

  • The Runaway
    8.1/10(64)

    #6 - The Runaway

    Season 8 Episode 6

    Aired 10/22/1969

    No description available

    Director: Anton Leader

    Writer: N/A

  • A Love to Remember
    7.4/10(60)

    #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

    Writer: N/A

  • The Substitute
    8.1/10(65)

    #8 - The Substitute

    Season 8 Episode 8

    Aired 11/5/1969

    No description available

    Director: Anton Leader

    Writer: N/A

  • The Bugler
    8.1/10(62)

    #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

  • Home to Methuselah
    7.5/10(50)

    #10 - Home to Methuselah

    Season 8 Episode 10

    Aired 11/26/1969

    No description available

    Director: Abner Biberman

    Writer: N/A

  • A Touch of Hands
    7.8/10(56)

    #11 - A Touch of Hands

    Season 8 Episode 11

    Aired 12/3/1969

    No description available

    Director: Anton Leader

    Writer: N/A

  • Journey to Scathelock
    7.6/10(56)

    #12 - Journey to Scathelock

    Season 8 Episode 12

    Aired 12/10/1969

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Woman of Stone
    8.2/10(73)

    #13 - A Woman of Stone

    Season 8 Episode 13

    Aired 12/17/1969

    No description available

    Director: Abner Biberman

    Writer: N/A

  • Black Jade
    6.7/10(73)

    #14 - Black Jade

    Season 8 Episode 14

    Aired 12/31/1969

    No description available

    Director: Joseph Pevney

    Writer: N/A

  • You Can Lead a Horse to Water
    7.8/10(54)

    #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

  • Nightmare
    5.8/10(247)

    #16 - Nightmare

    Season 8 Episode 16

    Aired 1/21/1970

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Holocaust
    8.7/10(64)

    #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

  • Train of Darkness
    8.2/10(67)

    #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

    Writer: N/A

  • A Time of Terror
    8.0/10(66)

    #19 - A Time of Terror

    Season 8 Episode 19

    Aired 2/11/1970

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • No War for the Warrior
    7.9/10(60)

    #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

    Writer: N/A

  • A King's Ransom
    7.7/10(58)

    #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

    Writer: N/A

  • The Sins of the Fathers
    8.8/10(72)

    #22 - The Sins of the Fathers

    Season 8 Episode 22

    Aired 3/4/1970

    No description available

    Director: Walter Doniger

    Writer: N/A

  • Rich Man, Poor Man
    7.4/10(54)

    #23 - Rich Man, Poor Man

    Season 8 Episode 23

    Aired 3/11/1970

    No description available

    Director: Anton Leader

    Writer: N/A

  • Gift
    8.1/10(68)

    #24 - Gift

    Season 8 Episode 24

    Aired 3/18/1970

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A