Episode guide
The Virginian: Season 3
30 episodes · premiered Sep 16, 1964
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- Episode 1: Ryker Sep 16, 1964 · 1h 30m 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…
- Episode 2: Dark Challenge Sep 23, 1964 Carl Hendricks (Victor Jory), with his son Arnie (Chris Robinson) and daughter Jenny (Katharine Ross), buys a local ranch. Trampas is embarrassed when he tries to get Jenny to dance at a…
- Episode 3: The Stallion Sep 30, 1964 A wild stallion escapes its owner, John Slaughter (Don ""Red"" Barry), killing a handler in the process. The animal injures itself and is found by Randy Benton who takes him to the nearby…
- Episode 4: The Hero Oct 7, 1964 Posing as a newspaper man, James Templeton (Steve Forrest) comes to Medicine Bow to interview Judge Garth who is a leading candidate for territorial senator. Betsy Garth is smitten with…
- Episode 5: Felicity's Spring Oct 14, 1964 Felicity Andrews (Katherine Crawford), the new Medicine Bow school teacher, lives with her older sister Kate (Mariette Hartley) and grandfather Jonah (Carl Benton Reid). Everyone raves…
- Episode 6: The Brazos Kid Oct 21, 1964 Samantha Frye (Barbara Eden), who has been fired from many newspapers for her exaggerated stories, arrives in Medicine Bow where she begins working for the newspaper and becomes courted by…
- Episode 7: Big Image . . . Little Man Oct 28, 1964 Millionaire Paul Leland (Linden Chiles) treats everyone like dirt and ends up in the desert after getting shoved off a train by a disgruntled employee. He is found and taken on by the…
- Episode 8: A Father for Toby Nov 4, 1964 At the Medicine Bow orphanage Toby Shea (Kurt Russell) makes up stories about his great father which none of the other boys believe, so he befriends Trampas and tells the other boys…
- Episode 9: The Girl from Yesterday Nov 11, 1964 · 1h 30m Steve Hill is asked to go under cover by a US Marshall (Don Collier) by renewing his relationship with a former girlfriend, Jane Carlisle (Ruta Lee),who is a new dance hall girl at the…
- Episode 10: Return a Stranger Nov 18, 1964 An old friend of Judge Garth named Charlie Ryan (Leif Erickson) revives the low grade silver Gloria Mine with help from his mining college-trained son Craig (Peter Brown) and a new partner…
- Episode 11: All Nice and Legal Nov 25, 1964 · 1h 30m Victoria Greenley (Anne Francis) comes to Medicine Bow to set up a law practice but encounters resistance from those who do not think law a suitable profession for a woman. Although…
- Episode 12: A Gallows for Sam Horn Dec 2, 1964 Widower Sam Horn (John Lupton) comes into conflict with the railway headed by Colonel John Briscoe (Edward Binns). Part of his land had been expropriated as a railway right of way and the…
- Episode 13: Portrait of a Widow Dec 9, 1964 French-accented portrait painter Charles Boulanger (John Gavin) says goodbye to Betsy Garth and Maggie Mencken (Vera Miles) who have been visiting Chicago. Maggie is a good friend of Judge…
- Episode 14: The Payment Dec 16, 1964 Ryker invites the man who raised him to come to Medicine Bow after being released from 10 years in prison. When Ryker finds Abe has invited his family to join him, he knows there are…
- Episode 15: Man of the People Dec 23, 1964 · 1h 30m Trouble comes to Medicine Bow in the form of a number of settlers who camp on land they say has been promised to them but that Judge Garth and others traditionally have leased from the…
- Episode 16: The Hour of the Tiger Dec 30, 1964 A landslide blocks the pass needed to drive the Shiloh cattle to the rail line. The only alternative route would have to cross the property of Junius Antlow (Tom Tully), an arch enemy of…
- Episode 17: Two Men Named Laredo Jan 6, 1965 The Virginian hires some workers to help drive some cattle to Shiloh from Cheyenne, among whom is an easy going and timid hand who reads Shakespeare named Eddie Laredo (Fabian). Eddie…
- Episode 18: Hideout Jan 13, 1965 Betsy Garth investigates rumours of wild broncos in the mountains and while there she encounters a young man, Clint (Andrew Prine) and his father Martin (Forrest Tucker) living in an…
- Episode 19: Six Graves at Cripple Creek Jan 27, 1965 Emmett Ryker learns that a man named McMasters, who had killed his good friends, a rancher and his daughter, two years before, was one of six men supposedly killed by Indians. Believing…
- Episode 20: Lost Yesterday Feb 3, 1965 A man dies due to a gunshot wound but not before he reveals to his sweetheart, Clara Malone (Shirley Knight), that robbery money is hidden near Medicine Bow. Faking suicide to escape the…
- Episode 21: A Slight Case of Charity Feb 10, 1965 Trampas is in Albuquerque to pick up some money on behalf of the cattlemen's association. He encounters and is robbed of some of the money by Charity (Kathryn Hays). She was in love with a…
- Episode 22: You Take the High Road Feb 17, 1965 The Virginian makes the acquaintance of a young man, Mark Shannon (Richard Beymer), who along with his sister (Diana Lynn) and her love interest, trail boss Jack Slauson (Myron Healey), is…
- Episode 23: Shadows of the Past Feb 24, 1965 Emmett Ryker's good friend, storekeeper John Conway (Jack Warden), is to marry a woman he met in San Francisco and has known for only a very short time, Rita Boland (Marilyn Erskine). When…
- Episode 24: Legend of a Lawman Mar 3, 1965 In Cobb's Run, Kansas, while waiting for the Virginian, Randy Benton is framed for a $50,000 payroll robbery. His defence, that the legendary but aging town marshall, Floyd Buckman (Ford…
- Episode 25: Timberland Mar 10, 1965 Local ranchers are upset with the lumbering of Charles Daniels (Arch Johnson) which they believe will destroy a valuable watershed area and ruin grazing land. Daniels refuses to listen to…
- Episode 26: Dangerous Road Mar 17, 1965 Trampas escorts a murderer back to a town where he knew the sheriff. There is a question of the man's innocence plus Trampas learns the sheriff died in a horse accident two days later. He…
- Episode 27: Farewell to Honesty Mar 24, 1965 A deputized Virginian arrives in the very misnamed Honesty, Wyoming looking for Major Ralph Forrester (Richard Carlson) who had defrauded Judge Garth. However, the local judge is in the…
- Episode 28: Old Cowboy Mar 31, 1965 An older man, Murdoch (Franchot Tone), and his young grandson Willie (Billy Mumy), arrive at Medicine Bow on foot. Much to the Virginian's chagrin, Trampas feels sorry for Murdoch and…
- Episode 29: Showdown Apr 14, 1965 The Virginian is forced to take sides in a bitter dispute between a family of ranchers and two domineering marshals.
- Episode 30: We've Lost a Train Apr 21, 1965 In this pilot episode for the Laredo TV series, Trampas must pick up a bull for Shiloh Ranch in Mexico, and along the way he runs into Texas Rangers Reese, Joe, and Chad. Trampas ends up…