2024-08-18
Sam Elder joins the wagon train with a group of orphan boys in an attempt to escape his past---but it soon catches up with him. Perks: Ray Stricklyn. Millie: Roberta Shore. Hawks: Terry Wilson. Allen: Walter Coy. Tod: Roger Mobley. Lila: Adrienne Marden. Wooster: Frank McGrath. (Repeat).
Hawks and two men are exploring the ruins of an adobe hut when renegade Cheyennes attack. Adams: Ward Bond. Billy: Tommy Rettig. Foster: Richard Crane. Judith: Nancy Rennick. Shannon: Denny Miller. George: Dan Riss. Hester: Jeanne Bates. (Repeat).
Charity Kirby loses her resolve to continue when the wagon train enters prairies swarming with Indians. Grandma: Beulah Bondi. Matt: John Archer. Wooster: Frank McGrath. Patience: Ilana Dowding. Sally: Diane Jergens. Garth: Mickey Sholdar. Clara: Virginia Christie. (Repeat).
Mountaineer Ruddy Blaine offers to help a young girl reach her father, who's dying in Indian-infested territory. Flint: Robert Horton. Penelope: Melinda Plowman. Serpent: Jay Silverheels. Hawks: Terry Wilson. Taylor: Robert Harland. Huntington: Paul Burke. Adams: Ward Bond. (Repeat).
"First to Thine Own Self" introduces series regular Randy Boone as a young wanderer accused of murdering a prospector who struck it rich. Melanie: Claire Wilcox. Virginian: James Drury. Burkett: Frank Maxwell. Alma: Mary La Roche. Betsy: Roberta Shore. (Repeat).
Trampas finds himself in the wrong corner of a romantic triangle when his girlfriend falls for a suave financier (Peter Graves). Janet: Jean Hale. Wade: Richard Jaeckel. Trampas: Doug McClure. Garth: Lee J. Cobb. Virginian: James Drury. Wingate: Roy Engle. Betsy: Roberta Shore. (Repeat).
Shot during a stagecoach robbery, Trampas is jailed by a sheriff who thinks he's one of the outlaws. Kim Ho: Miyoshi Umeki. Umber: Frank Overton. Sheriff: Richard Carlson. Trampas: Doug McClure. (Repeat).
Outlaw Mark Troxel, who stands to profit from an Indian war, maps plans to kill a visiting Sioux chief. Garth: Lee J. Cobb. Billings: Hugh Marlowe. Eddie: David Macklin. Virginian: James Drury. Black Feather: Iron Eyes Cody. Randy: Randy Boone. Betsy: Roberta Shore. (Repeat).
The Virginian's friend, young Dan Grant (Paul Petersen), is killed in a bank robbery. The three robbers escape a posse but the Virginian is more persistent and tracks them to Montana. Two of the robbers are captured and the Virginian tracks the third (Johan Agar) to a farmstead occupied by a young boy and his mother (Sherree North), and suspects the absent husband is the third gunman. As he waits
Steve becomes tangled in a "Rope of Lies" when he leaves the Shiloh to become foreman for Alva Lowell (Diana Millay). Carver: Peter Breck. Makely: Henry Hunter. Betsy: Roberta Shore. Virginian: James Drury. Randy: Randy Boone. Sheriff: Ross Elliott. Steve: Gary Clarke. (Repeat).
A nightmare unfolds for Betsy in a sprawling mansion where one of her friends was murdered. Sarah: Jane Wyatt. Richard: Mark Goddard. Jenny: Brooke Bundy. Betsy: Roberta Shore. Paul: Tom Skerritt. Virginian: James Drury. Brynmar: Ed Platt. (Repeat).
The Virginian is friends with Mary Ann Martin (Patricia Breslin) and her young son Cricket (Casey Peters) who live near Shiloh ranch. A detective named Corbett (Joseph Campanella) and his client, Judith Holly (Ruta Lee), claim that Cricket is actually Holly's son and that she wants him back. The Virginian attempts to ferret out the truth of the situation in order for Mary Ann to retain custody of
Comic complications multiply when an injured Lars Holstrum sends Trampas to fetch his mail-order bride. Anna: Katherine Crawford. Trampas: Doug McClure. Steve: Gary Clarke. Virginian: James Drury. Betsy: Roberta Shore. Sven: Ricks Falk. (Repeat).
Steve, Randy and other hands capture two horse rustlers, Frank Conrad (Robert Wilke) and Striker (Edward Faulkner), and kill a third. They also find Conrad's daughter, Billie Jo (Brenda Scott) and she is taken to Shiloh until the court can decide her custody and the rustler's fate. There she nurses Randy Benton who has hurt his back and lost the feeling in his legs. (Repeat).
One thousand dollars in coins and the arrival of his long-lost brother equal trouble for Randy. Kane: Jeremy Slate. Randy: Randy Boone. Duggan: Dick Foran. Virginian: James Drury. Donna: Merry Anders. Betsy: Roberta Shore. Steve: Gary Clarke. (Repeat).
A former law man and now hired gun, Emmett Ryker (Clu Gulager), heads to Medicine Bow at the request of Hagen (Leslie Nielsen). Hagen holds a mortgage on the ranch of Hale (Russ Conway), a friend of Judge Garth, and wants to run the rancher off the property. Being a man of some morals, Ryker refuses to become involved but when Hale is killed he is suspected of the crime. Ryker becomes friends with