S8 E1 • Long Ride Home

The close friendship and free life of teenage cowhand Jim Horn and an old wrangler are put at risk when they both sign on the Shiloh. Young Jim takes a liking to his new surroundings, and to Elizabeth.

Première diffusion : 17 septembre 1969

S8 E2 • A Flash of Darkness

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.

Première diffusion : 24 septembre 1969

S8 E3 • Halfway Back from Hell

Trampas takes the job as teaching foreman at a rehabilitation ranch in Arizona. The group of prisoners which has been selected to start the ranch are having more problems with the nearby town than in learning how to work a ranch.

Première diffusion : 1 octobre 1969

S8 E4 • The Power Seekers

The territorial representative resigns so Clay is drafted to run against a local man. Once in the race Clay learns the dirty side of politics including being lied to about who drafted him. He runs an honest contest but will the other side.

Première diffusion : 8 octobre 1969

S8 E5 • The Family Man

Jim becomes farmhand, midwife and friend to a pregnant teen whose husband is on the lam from the law.

Première diffusion : 15 octobre 1969

S8 E6 • The Runaway

The Graingers become stand-in parents for a boy running away from an orphanage.

Première diffusion : 22 octobre 1969

S8 E7 • A Love to Remember

The Virginian becomes attracted to Julie Oakes, an Eastern reporter whose mysteriously tragic past may doom their relationship.

Première diffusion : 29 octobre 1969

S8 E8 • The Substitute

Trampas' vacation takes a nightmarish turn when he's jailed in a small town on a trumped-up murder charge.

Première diffusion : 5 novembre 1969

S8 E9 • The Bugler

A story of alienation between a veteran Army officer and his son, a deserter.

Première diffusion : 19 novembre 1969

S8 E10 • Home to Methuselah

The Virginian becomes involved in a lawman's obsessive search for two surviving members of a gang.

Première diffusion : 26 novembre 1969

S8 E11 • A Touch of Hands

A pig tailed brat returns home from finishing school for a two week vacation as a beautiful woman catching Trampas' eyes again. They fall in love as she remembers the good times but her father wants her to return to school in the east.

Première diffusion : 3 décembre 1969

S8 E12 • Journey to Scathelock

Jim is in North Dakota to purchase ponies when he tangles with a pair of sharp operators after his $4000 bank roll.

Première diffusion : 10 décembre 1969

S8 E13 • A Woman of Stone

The Shiloh people unwittingly stir up the past when they shelter the son and white widow of a Shoshone.

Première diffusion : 17 décembre 1969

S8 E14 • Black Jade

A bigoted gambler and his outlaw gang force Trampas and a black recluse into an alliance for survival.

Première diffusion : 31 décembre 1969

S8 E15 • You Can Lead a Horse to Water

The accent is on comedy as a proper Southern woman, aided by Trampas and old Luther, goes after robbers who took her dowry.

Première diffusion : 7 janvier 1970

S8 E16 • Nightmare

When the wife of a prominent Medicine Bow business man arrives, smoldering jealousies quickly rise to the top.

Première diffusion : 21 janvier 1970

S8 E17 • Holocaust

The Shiloh ranch is burned down after Clay joins with his fellow ranchers to oppose an Eastern combine trying for a land-grab. This leaves Clay with only has one chance for survival of the ranch, get a herd to Denver in record time.

Première diffusion : 28 janvier 1970

S8 E18 • Train of Darkness

On a train to Cheyenne, Clay, Elizabeth and Jim become involved in a fellow traveler's efforts to escape a vengeful family.

Première diffusion : 4 février 1970

S8 E19 • A Time of Terror

Two young men and a girl take over the Shiloh ranch and hold the Graingers captive. They are setting up a trap for a close friend of Clay's, Judge Will McMasters.

Première diffusion : 11 février 1970

S8 E20 • No War for the Warrior

A man signs on to work a cattle drive for the Shiloh ranch putting the other hands in danger. He is a fugitive Indian caught between the white world and his Kiowa roots. Things get heated when they come to a small, bigoted town.

Première diffusion : 18 février 1970

S8 E21 • A King's Ransom

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.

Première diffusion : 25 février 1970

S8 E22 • The Sins of the Fathers

Adam Randall is hired on as a Shiloh hand despite his being a gunfighter. Despite his being a troublemaker, the Virginian, whose life he saved, and Clay, for unknown reasons, stand behind him.

Première diffusion : 4 mars 1970

S8 E23 • Rich Man, Poor Man

A farmer who has been poor his entire life suddenly comes into a lot of money. He goes on a spending spree giving large parties, buying luxury items, and a ranch hand more than willing to help him spend it.

Première diffusion : 11 mars 1970

S8 E24 • The Gift

A saloon singer finds herself the target of killer after his partner dies in her room.

Première diffusion : 18 mars 1970