THE VIRGINIAN

NBC TELEVISION

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Information From IMDb

Series Directed by
Don McDougall (42 episodes, 1963-1971)
Abner Biberman (25 episodes, 1966-1971)

and many others

Plot Summary

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Col. MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western. Written by Ed Stephan

Series Cast

James Drury ... The Virginian / ... (136 episodes, 1962-1970)
Doug McClure ... Trampas / ... (95 episodes, 1962-1970)
Lee J. Cobb ... Judge Henry Garth / ... (55 episodes, 1962-1966)
Roberta Shore ... Betsy Garth / ... (55 episodes, 1962-1965)
Ross Elliott ... Sheriff Abbott / ... (54 episodes, 1962-1971)
Clu Gulager ... Emmett Ryker / ... (48 episodes, 1963-1968)
Randy Boone ... Randy Benton (45 episodes, 1963-1966)
Gary Clarke ... Steve Hill / ... (45 episodes, 1962-1964)
Harper Flaherty ... Harper / ... (38 episodes, 1962-1970)
Frank Sully ... Danny / ... (23 episodes, 1962-1967)
John Bryant ... Dr. Spaulding / ... (23 episodes, 1963-1968)
L.Q. Jones ... Belden / ... (22 episodes, 1963-1967)
Sara Lane ... Elizabeth Grainger (21 episodes, 1966-1970)
Roy Engel ... Barney Wingate / ... (19 episodes, 1963-1970)
Stuart Nisbet ... Bartender / ... (16 episodes, 1962-1970)
Don Quine ... Stacey Grainger / ... (15 episodes, 1966-1968)
John McIntire ... Clay Grainger (13 episodes, 1967-1970)
Pitt Herbert ... Telegrapher / ... (12 episodes, 1962-1971)
Lew Brown ... Dink / ... (12 episodes, 1962-1970)
Russell Thorson ... Judge / ... (11 episodes, 1962-1970)
Edward Faulkner ... Proctor / ... (11 episodes, 1963-1970)

and including a few of Duke's 'Pals' and others notably

John Mitchum, William Fawcett,Leslie Nielsen
Leo Gordon, Ricardo Montalban, Slim Pickens
Arthur Hunnicutt, Vera Miles, Lloyd Nolan, Leonard Nimoy
Paul Fix, George Kennedy, Bruce Dern
Leif Erickson, Noah Beery Jr.Jay C. Flippen
Victor French, Bradford Dillman, Yvonne De Carlo
Philip Carey, Ida Lupino, John Agar
Kurt Russell,Neville Brand, Strother Martin
William Shatner, Michael Ansara, Pernell Roberts
Andy Devine, Robert Fuller,Burgess Meredith
Pete Duel, Ben Murphy, Alan Hale Jr.
Stewart Granger

and even Harrison Ford

Series Writing credits
Owen Wister (225 episodes, 1962-1970)
and others

Trivia

* The name of the town in Wyoming where the Shiloh Ranch is located is Medicine Bow.

Filming Locations

Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA
Iverson Ranch, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, USA
Lone Pine, California, USA
Republic Studios/CBS Studio Center - 4024 Radford Avenue, Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA
(as Revue Studios)
Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

This series differed from other TV westerns,
in that it concentrated more on the characters and relationships.
great solid and credible acting by it's main stars,
James Drury asThe Virginian
Doug McClure as Trampas
and Lee J. Cobb as the Judge.
The series was also helped by the multidude of
well known support actors, some of which, I listed.
Lasting 9 years, making it one of the longest,
it was revamped in 1971, as The Men From Shiloh
but failed to rekindle it's fanbase.

The Virginian was one of the better western shows on tv. Of course it fell into NBC's western stable of the late 50's to the early 70's along with Bonanza and High Chaparall and all in glorious living color. It wasn't till a few years after it was on that I saw the Joel McRea movie version, that I found out that the Trampas character was really the villain of the story but, they made him a good guy for tv. And in the tv version, there was no girl for The Virginian. It was still an enjoyable show and I watched it quite abit.

When I saw the title of the thread I thought you mean one with Gary Cooper. This one seems to be a remake of it, because of the similiar list of caracters.

Senta, as far as I know, there's been at least three versions of The Virginian as a movie. The first was with Gary Cooper back in the early 30's, the next was with Joel McCrea in the 40's and, then there was a made for tv version on TNT just a few years back that starred Bill Pullman in the title roll. There may have been others but, those are the three that I remember.

Ok, I just checked the imdb.com site and the Gary Cooper version was made in 1929 and there were two versions before that. One in 1914 and another in 1923 and the latest version was made in 2000 and James Drury, the tv Virginian had a small role in it.

Thank you Jim, It is mighty interesting information.
Unfortunatly I saw only one. With Gary Cooper.

Hi all

If anyone this side of the pond can
get the Irish tv channel TG4, they
are showing "The Virginian" at 5.00pm
every evening.

I have fond childhood memories of this show, as my mom watched it regularly through about 1969.

My biggest memory of it, I feel silly to say, is that I had a major crush on Doug McClure (where is a blushing smiley when I need one??).

Mrs. C :angel1:

My biggest memory of it is that I had a major crush on Doug McClure

Mrs. C :angel1:

A lot of young girls/women did, Sue. That's what I was trying to get across to Vera - that Trampas was one of the most appealing characters on the TV show, which is why I couldn't understand why his character wore a black hat in the films.

Maybe that's why my mom watched it :biggrin:!

This way looked main heroes of Gary Cooper The Virginian version.
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I've only seen a very few episodes of this show but remember liking it very much. I don't know the episodes title that sticks out in my mind but, it was the last one I got to see before it was taken off our cable tv line-up. Anyway, I do remember that Lee J. Cobb, Doug McClure and John Banner (pre-Sgt. Schultz of Hogan's Heroes fame) who was a Waiter at some very fancy hotel that the Lee J. Cobb character stayed in..

Don't remember to many of this shows eposodes, but then, I was bobbing around the south western Pacific for most of the years this was on TV.:yeaahh:

Chester :newyear:

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Another one I got a notice for that scoming oput or is aleady out is: The Virginian. I've never seem more than a few episodes and one I do remember watching had Lee J. Cobb in it and he was staying at some fancy Hotel/Restaurant and the head waiter was Sergeant Schultz himself: John Banner.

Just to let everybody know, The Virginian, The Complete First Season will be released on DVD on May 25th. It'll be 10 discs and over 39 hours long.

The Virginian complete season 1 is now out on 12 dvds in a tin can and has bonus's.

Does anyone know why John Dehner didn't keep Lee J. Cobbs part? He was in 4 episodes in '66 after Cobb left.

I always liked Dehner as Morgan Starr, but Bickford was a great addition also. Heck I even like Stewart Granger when it became The Men From Shiloh-wish it had run longer.

i also liked john mcintire a great actor but when i was in my teens i liked Clu Gulager as Emmett Ryker.i taught he was so cool.the virginian was a great western series.they showed the complete series on the irish tv channel about 3 years ago and it never really dated.

They are showing it in Australia every morning on one of our free to air digital ch followed by Wagon train with Ward Bond, and yes, i do have to admit recording them every day, we like them a lot.

And now i have been watching it since the start of the year, and from not ever watching it, to now, i really love it so much.

There is something really special about it !