Category:The Virginian – Season 1

Season 1 (Episode 20)

Air Date: 13 February 1963

Teleplay: Frank Fenton and Frank Chase

Story: Thomas Fitzroy and Howard Browne

Director: Richard L. Bare

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Roberta Shore (Betsy)

Guest Stars
Dana Wynter (Leona Kelland), Robert Vaughn (Simon Clain), Phyllis Avery (Martha Clain), Gene Lyons (Ballard), Britt Lomond (Kyle Lawson), John Milford (Perry Allen), Frank Ferguson (Dunson), Tol Avery (The Coroner), Stacy Harris (The Gambler), Guy Wilkerson (The Old Timer), Frances Morris (Mrs. Hoferkamp), Jeanne Evans (The Waitress), Nancy Sinatra (Cary)

Production Notes

• Lee J. Cobb and Gary Clarke do not appear in this episode

Episode Notes

• Featured Character: The Virginian
• Location: Mount Corpus, Montana

Season 1 (Episode 19)

Air Date: 30 January 1963

Teleplay: Harry Kleiner

Story: John Francis O’Mara

Director: David Friedkin

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Roberta Shore (Betsy)

Guest Stars
Vera Miles (Miss Wallace), Jeff Morrow (William Bradford), David White (Paul J. Willson), Walter Brooke (Lt. Paul Kenner), Pat McCaffrie (Tom Rodell), James Doohan (George Mitchell), Brendan Dillon (Mr. Bemis), E.J. Andre (Alex), Max Slaten (The Cabbie), Anne Loos (Kitty Rodell), Ollie O’Toole (The Ticketman).

Episode Notes

• Featured Character: Judge Garth
• Location: San Francisco Police Department; San Francisco Railroad Terminal; Mar Vista Apts. (19 Kearney)
• Business: Bradford and Wilson Transportation Co. – San Francisco Office

Season 1 (Episode 18)

Air Date: 23 January 1963

Writer: Al C. Ward

Director: William Witney

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Roberta Shore (Betsy)

Guest Stars
Fabian (Martin Belden), Charles McGraw (Big John Belden), Royal Dano (Faraway MacPhail), Robert Brubaker (Trent), Roy Engel (Wilkins), Paul Langton (Bartlett), Robert Christopher (Rick), James Beck (Hank), John Bryant (Doctor Morris), Howard Wright (Coozie), Meg Wyllie (Sarah Belden), Katherine Crawford (Alice Lawford)

Production Notes

• Lee J. Cobb does not appear in this episode

Season 1 (Episode 17)

Air Date: 16 January 1963

Teleplay: Bob and Wanda Duncan

Director: Earl Bellamy

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Roberta Shore (Betsy)

Guest Stars
Clu Gulager (Jake Carewe), Patricia Barry (Alice Finley), John Kerr (Oliver Smith), David McLean (Burt Adams), Gilbert Green (Mercer), Patrick McVey (Clyde Carey), Regis Toomey (Joseph Denton), John Litel (Finley), Conlan Carter (Lennie Carewe), Stevan Darrell (Johnson), Steve Harris (Billy Carewe), Harlan Warde (The Hotel Owner), George Wallace (Wilkie Carewe), Charles Wagenheim (Piney), Walter Woolf King (The Doctor), Robert G. Anderson (Harvey Carewe), Lillian Bronson (Mrs. McCleary), Chris Alcaide (The Cowhand), Wilton Graff (Arnold Tucker), Mark Tapscott (Hartley), Michael Keith (Williams), Thomas McBride (The Prosecutor)

Production Notes

• Based on Screen Play by Lawrence Roman
• Film: Day of the Badman (1958)
• Doug McClure, Gary Clarke and James Drury do not appear in this episode

Episode Notes

• Featured Character: Judge Henry Garth

Season 1 (Episode 16)

Air Date: 9 January 1963

Teleplay: William P. McGivern and Howard Browne

Story: Thomas Fitzroy

Director: Bernard Girard

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Ross Elliott (Sheriff Mark Abbott)

Guest Stars
Tammy Grimes (Angela Clark), Ed Nelson (Ralph Slocum/Johnny Grey), Brad Weston (Fred Daly), Ken Lynch (Sheriff Tony Morino), Frank Cady (Mr. Hardy), Herbert Rudley (Mark Gates), Addison Richards (Morrison), Stafford Repp (Bartender Hugh), Allyson Ames (Vivian Gates), Herb Vigran (The Drummer), Ben Wright (Hotel Clerk Moore)

Production Notes

• Lee J. Cobb and Doug McClure do not appear in this episode
• Song: Hello My Baby by Ida Emerson and Joseph E. Howard (1899)
• Song: My Sweetheart’s the Man in the Moon by James Thornton (1892)

Episode Notes

• Featured Character: The Virginian
• Towns: Jefferson City; Culver Junction; North Bend, Montana
• Business: North Bend Hotel

Season 1 (Episode 15)

Air Date: 2 January 1963

Teleplay: Don Ingalls

Director: Jerry Hopper

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Roberta Shore (Betsy)

Guest Stars
Brian Keith (Johnny), Geraldine Brooks (Georgia Price), Ben Johnson (Spinner), DeForest Kelley (Ben Tully), Russell Thorson (Sheriff Tybee), Mort Mills (Deputy Bender), Roy Engel (Loomis), Perry Cook (Cook), John Day (Brakeman), Lew Brown (Dowdy), Richard Garland (Texan)

Production Notes

• Based on a Screenplay by Borden Chase and D.D. Beauchamp and the novel Man Without a Star by Dee Linford
• Film: Man Without a Star (1955)
• Doug McClure does not appear in this episode

Episode Notes

• Featured Character: Steve Hill
• Most the episode is told in flashback
• Location: Walking Butte Ranch

Season 1 (Episode 14)

Air Date: 26 December 1962

Writers: Morton Fine and David Friedkin

Director: Herschel Daugherty

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Pippa Scott (Molly)

Guest Stars
Carol Lynley (Judith), Tom Tryon (Kevin Doyle), Shirley Knight (Susan), Larry Blake (Fight Manager), Jan Arvan (The Mayor), Russ Whiteman (The Sheriff), John McKee (The Man), Curt Barrett (The Conductor), Dyke Johnson (The Cowhand), Dick Wilson (The Bartender)

Production Notes

• Final appearance of Pippa Scott as Molly Wood

Episode Notes

• Event: Medicine Bow Silver Jubilee

Season 1 (Episode 13)

Air Date: 19 December 1962

Teleplay: Howard Browne and William P. McGivern

Story: Winston Miller

Director: Maury Geraghty

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Roberta Shore (Betsy), Ross Elliott (Sheriff Mark Abbott)

Guest Stars
Bette Davis (Delia Miller), Lin McCarthy (Malcolm Brent), Gene Evans (Luke Donaldson), Woodrow Parfrey (Joe Darby), Noah Keen (Samuel Cole), Byron Morrow (Judge Cornwall), Ken Mayer (Clay Friendly), Bryan O’Byrne (Ned Carlin), Harold Gould (Tom Finney), Alice Backes (Coralee Darby), Victor French (Roy), Tim Graham (The Telegrapher), Christopher Dark (Walt Gleason)

Production Notes

• Lee J. Cobb does not appear in this episode
• The famous quote from the novel The Virginian is said at the end of this episode – “When you call me that, smile.” – The Virginian

Episode Notes

• Date: 21 May 1897 – 1898
• Town: Rocky Point
• Businesses: Rocky Point Savings Bank; Rocky Point Hotel
• Newspaper: Rocky Point Gazette

Season 1 (Episode 12)

Air Date: 12 December 1962

Writers: Maxwell Shane and Donald S. Sanford

Director: Maxwell Shane

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Roberta Shore (Betsy)

Guest Stars
Brandon de Wilde (James Cafferty), James Gregory (Slim Jessup), Frank Overton (Sam Cafferty), H.M. Wynant (Dalton Lacey), Harry Swoger (Squat), Midge Ware (Regina Lacey), Dennis Cross (Boyd Lacey), Neson Booth (Come Along), Paul Birch (Sheriff Halsey), Willis Bouchey (Henry Mulford), Charles Briggs (Hard Pan)

Production Notes

• Lee J. Cobb does not appear in this episode

Episode Notes

• Date: 9 July 1890

Season 1 (Episode 11)

Air Date: 5 December 1962

Writers: John and Ward Hawkins

Director: William Witney

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Roberta Shore (Betsy)

Guest Stars
Charles Bickford (Tucker McCallum), Burt Brinckerhoff (Dan Flood), Carl Reindel (Bruce McCallum), Russell Thorson (Sheriff Stan Evans), Joan Freeman (Tabby McCallum), Charles Aidman (Sam Hicks), Vivi Janiss (Ivy Flood), Ed Prentiss (Simon Pingree), Pitt Herbert (Emmet Delaney), Russ Bender (Todd), Dan White (Fox), Maurice Manson (Judge Hanson), Katherine Squire (Sophie McCallum)

Production Notes

• Lee J. Cobb does not appear in this episode

Season 1 (Episode 10)

Air Date: 28 November 1962

Teleplay: Douglas Heyes

Story: Irwin R. Blacker

Director: Douglas Heyes

Synopsis

Guest Stars
Steve Cochran (Jamie Dobbs), Claude Akins (Lump), Allen Case (Sheriff Blade), James Brown (Lucky), Russell Thorson (Sheriff Stan Evans), Richard Reeves (Munsy), Raymond Guth (Klotz), William Gordon (Blench), James Anderson (Otie), Hal Hopper (Joe), Leo Gordon (Scratch)

Production Notes

• Lee J. Cobb and Gary Clarke do not appear in this episode

Episode Notes

• Narration by The Virginian at the start of this episode
• Wyoming, 1897
• Business: First Territorial Bank of Flagstop

Season 1 (Episode 9)

Air Date: 21 November 1962

Writer: Samuel Fuller

Director: Samuel Fuller

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Pippa Scott (Molly Wood), Roberta Shore (Betsy Garth)

Guest Stars
Lee Marvin (Martin Kalig), Albert Salmi (Quinn), Warren Kemmerling (Sharkey), Michael Mikler (Cord), Jan Stine (Eddie), Brendan Dillon (Mr. Bemis), Sydney Smith (Drummond), Stuart Nisbet (Nelson), John Zaremba (Stone), Ron Soble (Mungo)

Production Notes

• According to writer and director Samuel Fuller, this was the pilot for the series
• Poem: For Whom the Bell Tolls by John Donne