The Virginian - Season 8

1. Long Ride Home

Aired: 9/17/1969

2. A Flash of Darkness

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.

3. Halfway Back from Hell

Aired: 10/1/1969

4. The Power Seekers

Aired: 10/8/1969

5. The Family Man

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.

6. The Runaway

Aired: 10/22/1969

7. A Love to Remember

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.

8. The Substitute

Aired: 11/5/1969

9. The Bugler

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.

10. Home to Methuselah

Aired: 11/26/1969

11. A Touch of Hands

Aired: 12/3/1969

12. Journey to Scathelock

Aired: 12/10/1969

13. A Woman of Stone

Aired: 12/17/1969

14. Black Jade

Aired: 12/31/1969

15. You Can Lead a Horse to Water

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.

16. Nightmare

Aired: 1/21/1970

17. The Holocaust

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.

18. Train of Darkness

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.

19. A Time of Terror

Aired: 2/11/1970

20. No War for the Warrior

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.

21. A King's Ransom

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.

22. The Sins of the Fathers

Aired: 3/4/1970

23. Rich Man, Poor Man

Aired: 3/11/1970

24. Gift

Aired: 3/18/1970