Wednesday, July 26, 2023

The Virginian - Season 1, episodes 1-10


The Virginian (later renamed The Men from Shiloh in its final year) was an American Western television series starring James Drury in the title role, along with Doug McClure, Lee J. Cobb, and others. It originally aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971, for a total of 249 episodes. Drury had played the same role in 1958 in an unsuccessful pilot that became an episode of the NBC summer series Decision. Filmed in color, The Virginian became television's first 90-minute Western series (75 minutes excluding commercial breaks). Cobb left the series after four seasons, and was replaced over the years by mature character actors John Dehner, Charles Bickford, John McIntire, and Stewart Granger, all portraying different characters. It was set before Wyoming became a state in 1890, as mentioned several times as Wyoming Territory, although other references set it later, around 1898. The series was loosely based on The Virginian: Horseman of the Plains, a 1902 Western novel by Owen Wister that Hollywood had previously adapted for movies. Percy Faith composed the show's original theme. The series ran for nine seasons, making it network television's third-longest running Western series, behind Bonanza at 14 seasons and 430 episodes, and Gunsmoke at 20 seasons and 635 episodes.

Main cast

James Drury as The Virginian (249 episodes)
Doug McClure as Trampas (249 episodes)
Lee J. Cobb as Judge Henry Garth (120 episodes)
Sara Lane as Elizabeth Grainger (105 episodes)
Clu Gulager as Emmett Ryker (104 episodes)
Randy Boone as Randy Benton (70 episodes)
Roberta Shore as Betsy Garth (70 episodes)
John McIntire as Clay Grainger (65 episodes)
Gary Clarke as Steve Hill (63 episodes)
Ross Elliott as Sheriff Mark Abbott (61 episodes)
Don Quine as Stacey Grainger (55 episodes)

Recurring cast

Harper Flaherty as Harper (53 episodes)
Charles Bickford as John Grainger (46 episodes)
Diane Roter as Jennifer Sommers (30 episodes)
David Hartman as David Sutton (27 episodes)


Episode 1 - The executioners

Description: Although some question his guilt, a man is hanged in Medicine Bow when a woman denies being with him at the time. A stranger with many talents arrives in Medicine Bow taking a job at Shiloh who takes a keen interest in the main players.

Episode 2 - Woman from White Wing

Description: A man at the unfinished White Wing cabin on Shiloh asks Judge Garth to meet him. Garth tells The Virginian the troubled history of his arrival at Shiloh. Garth's future with Betsy is threatened by the man and his desire for revenge.

Episode 3 - Throw a long rope

Description: The ranchers losing cattle with homesteaders the prime suspects nearly hang an innocent man. The Judge's decision to apply the law of the range to the suspected cattle thieves drives a wedge into the loyalty of his foreman.

Episode 4 - The big deal

Description: Judge Garth has a visitor from South America who inherited a critical piece of property in the middle of Shiloh used to move cattle. When he learns Garth has held back information on it, he decides to put crippling pressure on Garth.

Episode 5 - The brazen bell

Description: A timid easterner and his wife arrive in Medicine Bow looking for a job as a teacher. Two escaped convicts come through Medicine Bow taking the new teacher, his wife, and students hostage while The Virginian is the temporary sheriff.

Episode 6 - Big day, great day

Description: The Fourth of July finds Judge Garth, Steve and Trampas in Casper, Wyoming to pick up a bed for Betsy. The Judge meets a friend wrestling in a title match and Steve becomes infatuated with a girl. Intrigue follows.

Episode 7 - Riff-raff

Description: Trampas and Steve decide to join up with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders. Comedy ensues with the boys wanting to do it their way. The Virginian shows up and among other things shows the easterners how to "play" polo western style.

Episode 8 - Impasse

Description: The Virginian, Trampas, and Steve are capturing wild horses in the mountains for sale to the Army. The Kroeger clan claims all horses as theirs. When Kroeger can't scare the Virginian out, he resorts other tactics.

Episode 9 - It tolls for thee

Description: The Judge, believing violence in the West is disappearing, creates a rift with the Virginian when he stops a violent fight involving the Virginian. When the Judge is kidnapped, the Virginian goes to his rescue from violent captors anyway.

Episode 10 - West

Description: Trampas becomes involved with 3 good old fun loving guys. The four of them meet up with a gang of real bad guys. When Trampas and friends volunteer to go after the bad guys they get an awakening from the townsfolk.


Video and audio information (average):

Video : 3.40 GB, 6463 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1456x1080 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 198 MB, 368 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = FLAC, CBR


Download link (torrent file)

https://ufile.io/r2z8apb6

1 comment:

Cassio said...

Wonderful. Thank you so much. And I love Percy Faith's theme song.