The Virginian

Col. Mackenzie, new owner of the Shiloh Ranch, becomes embroiled in a controversy with the cattlemen's association when he insists on investigating the hanging of an accused cattle rustler.

A Mexican girl's indecision over whether to marry Trampas' friend or her father's aide threatens to touch off a gunfight between the two.

The Virginian rescues a woman and renews an old friendship with her, only to discover she has been dishonest with him when outlaws attack the stage they are riding.

A captain's plan to buy back his lost riverboat from lucky gambler Trampas falls into disarray when a train robbery gang commandeers the vessel in question for a getaway.

A man Mackenzie rescues from a lynch mob becomes an unexpected hero when kidnappers strike aboard the train they are all riding.

Two brothers accuse the Virginian of being the man who widowed their mother, and a judge seems eager to agree with them.

A group of German immigrants is repeatedly threatened by night riders who want them out due to prejudice. Tate becomes involved after the daughter of the leader of the immigrants mistakes him for the gunman they hired to protect them.

Accused of murdering a gold mine owner over a poker debt, Trampas finds himself in the capable hands of a woman lawyer. The law seems primarily interested in wrapping up the trial as quickly as possible so they can go fishing.

MacKenzie is injured saving Tate on a cattle drive. Tate takes him to Concho for help only to find the doctor there is in jail and to hang the next day. Tate is able to secure his release but finds that it comes with some high costs.

After locating supposedly lost Shiloh cattle in the possession of an unfriendly commune, the Virginian is asked for help by two women members being forced into a multiple marriage.

At the same time the Colonel's niece is visiting from England, Trampas is one of the suspects in the killing of a fellow ranch hand based on his custom gun. Trampas believes four brothers killed their cousin but how can he prove it?

MacKenzie is in New Mexico to buy cattle when he meets a female New York writer who takes an interest in the local Comancheros who are hated locally and especially by the Sheriff. Her story results in her kidnapping and trouble for all.

Aboard a train headed for a Western town, Trampas meets a girl and her ailing father who are tracking down a lead on their missing mother and wife.

A jealous man who admits to killing his sister's alleged attacker, a Shiloh employee, recuperates from injuries at the ranch, but his sibling's romance with Mackenzie causes anger to resurface.

A trip to buy land for grazing puts the Virginian in the middle of a murder mystery involving a Senate hopeful, his ambitious wife, and hard drinking brother.

Tate rescues a deaf Indian boy from a posse, then comes to his defense when a kangaroo court seems determined to convict the lad of homicide.

In nearly abandoned Spencer Flats, Trampas is held by Della and Annie Spencer, who accuse him of being outlaw Deke Slaughter, though their handyman is not so convinced. Then the real Slaughter rides into the town, claiming to be a sheriff.

The Virginian seeks the identity of the person responsible for the mysterious killing of a widow's herd of cattle.

Mackenzie tends to a young woman injured in a fall from a horse, only to have a cowboy arrive and claim she is wanted for murder.

Tate, on leave from Shiloh, discovers that building a barbed wire fence for a widower rancher and his children may involve more than stringing wire and sinking posts.

Mackenzie faces bad weather, rough terrain, Indians and cavalrymen when he pursues a man he thinks deserted his regiment.

The Virginian challenges a sophisticated outlaw who controls a frightened community.

After being mauled by a cunning wolf he has been tracking, and then robbed of his possessions by a stranger, MacKenzie is taken in by a homesteader and her son. The wolf, however, is still at large and MacKenzie is determined to kill him.

After stopping in the town of Jump-Up to see an old girlfriend, Tate is cheated in a card game by a gambler, and then framed by town boss John Timothy Driscoll and his son for killing the man, and forced into a hard labor camp.

Holly finds two cowboys who are looking for work. The younger hand Jim looks up to Ben as the only father he has ever known as the two roam around looking for a place to settle. Ben isn't ready to settle down but Jim may have found a home.

Blinded after a fall, the Virginian strays to the home of a horse thief and his two sons, fired earlier from Shiloh.

In Arizona, Trampas is forced to work as foreman on a ranch staffed by men on probation from prison. The locals want them removed and the US Marshal in charge of the area is less than enthusiastic about them being there as well.

Clay discovers politics' unsavory side when he runs against an ambitious opponent for the territorial legislature.

Jim delivers the baby of a woman whose fugitive husband has run out on her, then cares for her and her property in addition to his responsibilities at the ranch.

A boy fleeing a reform school operator shelters at Shiloh Ranch while the Virginian and Trampas try to find his father.

Reporter/artist Julie Oakes arrives in Medicine Bow from Boston to do a story on the west. She falls in love with The Virginian but her interest in another man upsets him and results in problems due to her complicated past in Boston.

Trampas leaves on vacation but his plans go astray when he is picked up by a bounty hunter for murdering a popular doctor. He has to contend with a hostile town, planted evidence, and a saloon girl who swears she saw him commit the murder.

After being whipped, an Army private deserts the post commanded by his father and is found unconscious and injured on Shiloh property.

An aging sheriff arrives to visit old friend the Virginian, then invites him on a hunting trip that is actually a cover for tracking the last of a desperate band of bank robbers.

A pigtailed 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.

An emergency recalls The Virginian so he allows Jim Horn to go alone with $4000 to complete a purchase of horses. Everyone takes Jim for a wet behind the ears youngster including the woman and her partner who steal the money he carries.

A long time captive of an Indian tribe returns to the husband who deserted her during an Indian raid, only to find her desire for revenge could destroy her daughter's wedding.

Trampas decides to track down where Cobey Jade obtained a silver watch that belonged to a friend. While with Jade who lives in an abandoned mining town, they are taken captive by a band of roving outlaws who believes Jade found gold there.

A stagecoach robbery interferes with the plans of a Southern belle who is traveling to Clearwater to marry her childhood sweetheart.

A newly married woman faces many problems, including a murder charge, after her husband's injury sets off a bid for power in his company.

An eastern combine wants to take over the Wyoming cattle market with Shiloh in the middle of their sights. A burned Shiloh and delayed cattle drive leads to a loss on the sale of cattle resulting in all the Shiloh hands being laid off.

Clay, Elizabeth, and Jim along with a small number of other passengers ride the train from Cheyenne to Medicine Bow. During the trip they get to know each other only to learn one is hiding a past that causes the train to be stopped.

A family takes over Shiloh at gunpoint, then lures the Graingers' friend, a Congressional candidate, to the ranch for revenge.

Jim's life is endangered after an Indian running from authorities hides out with the Shiloh wranglers on a cattle drive.

Clay is kidnapped by three gang members for a $20,000 ransom or the threat of his death and the burning of Medicine Bow. Adding to the situation is the wife of the gang leader staying at Shiloh in order to escape him but he wants her back.

Clay awaits a showdown with a young gunslinger, hired as a Shiloh ranch hand, who blames his father's death 20 years earlier on Grainger and refuses to listen to any explanation.

Poor Harve Yost turns into rich Harve when he finds a dying man with a saddle bag full of money and gets a $10,000 reward. Never a man to manage money or time, The Virginian advises him to buy a ranch but Harve tries to rival Shiloh.

A wounded bank robber hides his loot and dies in a saloon girl's room, making her the target of his partner.

A former medical student drifting west feels responsible for a broken leg suffered by Trampas and offers to take the ranch hand's place until he recovers. He has a hard time fitting in with the other hands while a girl he met earlier tracks him down to help her.

Photographer Dan Sheppard arriving at Shiloh to take pictures of western life finds a neighbor ranch is owned by an old girlfriend. She is in a tug of war between an oil speculator and the local ranchers afraid of polluted water.

Tim Bradbury wants to recreate the cattle ranch he had in Texas and feels Clay Grainger owes him the help. His son Walt wants to farm instead while his son Mike who works at Shiloh puts the family in financial peril with his gambling.

An ex-convict seeking to take revenge on Trampas for his brother's death finds Elizabeth, left blinded and helpless after a stagecoach accident.

In Montana on business, The Virginian and Trampas stay at the inn run by Louis Boissevain, an exiled Canadian revolutionist, and his wife, Suzanne Mayo whom Trampas recognizes as a former love interest. The Shiloh duo find that some of Louis' former confreres want him to return to Canada to lead another revolution, but that there are traitors in the group who plan to hand Louis over to the Canadian government for execution.

An innocent ranch hand is mistaken for a wanted criminal and later sees advantages in assuming the fugitive's identity.

The Shoshone girl Nai'Be returns to Medicine Bow from an eastern school as a young lady but conflicted on her future. Her childhood sweetheart Tza'Wuda is waiting for her as is a conflict with a rancher forcing her tribe to move its camp.

The Virginian teams with a bounty hunter to find the gang responsible for robbing gold and cattle vaccine from the Medicine Bow stage.

While visiting in a Nebraska town, Trampas comes into conflict with a childhood friend, an engineer who has gotten the town's cooperation to build an irrigation dam.

A young woman found unconscious on the trail awakens with amnesia and a romantic interest in the Virginian.

The Virginian and David are to pick up a herd of horses Shiloh needs for a cattle drive. The horses are stolen from the seller so they must catch and break a new herd but a conflict between a father and his son over his future intervenes.

Clay's old friend Nora and her Army officer husband cut a visit short after Indians kill a soldier

David poses as the fiancée of a young woman with a persistent suitor, then discovers her admirer is a giant.

The moment he steps from the stagecoach, a gunslinger has everyone wondering who he is after.

A vengeful father and his gunslinger son don't believe David killed another son in self defense.

A cattle thief thinks he can get away with a robbery by blaming and then lynching an innocent man, but is unaware of the Virginian's zealous devotion to the victim's family.

After a fight with Trampas, David leaves. He finds himself not only robbed of his clothes and horse by bank robbers but arrested for the robbery himself. Trampas who followed to get him to return, finds himself in the same jail cell. The first comedy ever presented on the Virginian.

An orphan who lived with the Graingers in Texas 15 years earlier comes through Medicine Bow. He decides to stay and work for them and is very protective of the Graingers but his years away from them have changed him - in a bad way.

A wealthy Bostonian sends his spoiled son to the ranch to acquire some character, only to have the young man's pranks endanger lives.

A foreclosed farmer becomes the target of a lynch mob after killing an unscrupulous investor.

Concerned about marriage plans, a father sends his daughter to Shiloh for the summer, but her fiancée hires on incognito as a ranch hand.

Trampas and his fellow stage passengers face danger at a ferry crossing. Stranded, they prepare to face an attacker. 

When Elizabeth is late returning from a ride for dinner and her horse returns alone, the Graingers, The Virginian, and Trampas go looking for her. A storm impedes them until a clue takes them to an abandoned mine that has caved in.

A vaudevillian arrives in town and arranges coincidences that indicate his mind reader daughter is Clay's long-lost niece.

A convict on the run from a bounty hunter seeks help from onetime cellmate Trampas.

Despite evidence to the contrary, the Virginian believes in the innocence of an itinerant cowboy accused of injuring a rancher and killing a ranch foreman.

On a cattle buying trip, the Virginian becomes involved in another transaction: freeing Elizabeth from an outlaw with an old score to settle.

Suspense builds as Trampas, a hard drinking gunslinger and a sheriff's wife search for the person who has sent them death notes.

Two Wichita saloonkeepers inherit property and arrive in Medicine Bow intending to be proper members of society.

Ryker sidesteps the law to help a robbery suspect plagued by a blackmailing Shiloh hand.

An injured Canadian Mountie refuses to give up his pursuit of a wanted man, although out of his jurisdiction into Wyoming.

Bank teller George Foster has told his ex-lawman dad he is a sheriff to make him proud. When his father is to stop by for a two hour visit, Ryker and The Virginian decide to make him Sheriff but they didn't expect the visit to be extended.

An alcoholic lawyer is prodded into fighting prejudice and the bottle to defend a Chinese immigrant who has been denied his legal rights.Note: This is the last episode with Charles Bickford as John Grainger due to his unexpected death from pneumonia and infection.

A herd from Texas is brought in by Kyle Jackson and his brothers. However, things turn tragic when Trampas discovers the herd is sick and a brother accidentally kills the wife of an ex-lawman.

Trampas is sentenced to hang for a murder he didn't commit. The Virginian and Stacey try to find new evidence while Clay Grainger and the attorney try for a new trial. Meanwhile, a desperate Trampas escapes prison with his cell mate.

Frank Hollis is released from prison and returns home to find his dad was injured saving Trampas and is forced to take a stable job at Shiloh. Frank has a chip on his shoulder due to people's attitude about him and that Grainger has not done more for his father. 

Trampas' investigation of a doctor's possible involvement in a murder makes the Shiloh ranch hand the victim of insults, a drugging and a beating.

The Virginian faces mixed reactions from the father, sister and vengeful brother of a young outlaw he was forced to kill in self defense.

After a fortuneteller predicts death, Trampas and two other Shiloh hands face a gunslinger as they pass through a doomed town after delivering cattle to an Army base.

The injury of an old girlfriend's daughter convinces the Virginian to stop a rich rancher's spoiled son who has been terrorizing a town.

A Canadian cattle buyer who owns his own city pays the Virginian $100,000, then has his henchmen rob the local bank, rendering the Virginian's bank draft worthless.

First Trampas and then Holly and Elizabeth encounter a military prison wagon crossing Shiloh land carrying a prisoner who appears to have scarlet fever. When he escapes, they are worried who may be infected with the disease.

Clay tries to prevent a range war between the ranchers and the homesteaders who are blocking their path to market. A hotheaded rancher secretly hires a gunfighter who happens to be an old friend of Trampas, who falls for Abby Keefer, a homesteader's daughter.

Trampas is sent to Carrsburg to check stock so he asks for a couple of day to visit a female friend. On the way he is asked by a dying prospector to find his niece who can only be found by birthmark on her leg. The result is trouble with his female friend.

Three convicts come to work at the Shiloh Ranch as part of an experimental parole program.

Elizabeth and Holly care for a wounded outlaw, who faces a dilemma when his recovery means either being turned over to the authorities or facing a pursuing bounty hunter

Trampas, Stacey and Elizabeth are caught in a sandstorm while returning to Shiloh with a bull. They take refuge in an abandoned homestead where several guests arrive after them with one thing in common – connections to a robbed bank.

Tired of his dad's treatment, Kiley Cheever heads to Medicine Bow to find his childhood friend Trampas and a job. Kiley's tendency to make up stories and prove his manhood gets him into trouble with everyone but a female visitor to Shiloh.

A buggy accident leaves Stacy's arm paralyzed, and he sinks into self-pity after an operation apparently fails and his girlfriend abandons him

A rancher halts his feud with Shiloh over a strip of land between Shiloh and the Bowden ranch when he mistakes a drifter for a gunslinger.

Sheriff Dan Porter leaves his job as sheriff of Mason City to follow his wife Emily to Medicine Bow as she can't handle the pressure of his job. He signs on at Shiloh to learn ranching so he can start a ranch and new life with his wife.

While hunting for a cougar, Trampas offers food and shelter to a half starved boy who hesitates over accepting or remaining in the hills to rendezvous with an outlaw gang.

A bitter widow revives a 25 year old feud when she learns the identity of Shiloh's new owner.

The Virginian is arrested and tried for murder when he investigates the disappearance of cattle.

A white girl is caught with her adoptive Arapaho parents stealing Shiloh cattle. She stays at Shiloh while the authorities try to find her white parents. She wants to return to the Arapaho but is forced to learn to live in the white world.

Trampas makes a side trip to a Wyoming town to visit an old friend, only to learn upon his arrival that the man has been murdered.

A deaf man who cannot speak runs from the scene of an accidental killing and is befriended by Stacey, who teaches him to communicate

After a stagecoach holdup and accident, Trampas stumbles into a farm with a concussion and amnesia. The farmer and his two kids tend to Trampas, but the white handled gun he is carrying puts him into danger from the law and the outlaws.

A man wanted for murder and robbery escapes jail and ends up in Medicine Bow where he befriends Stacey in a fight. He goes to work at Shiloh as a ranch hand and Elizabeth takes an interest in him. However, Stacey is less certain about him.

Trampas, aided by a local citizen, pursues a man he believes committed a murder for which an innocent man has been jailed. They encounter others who hinder their progress and an unhappy couple.

A sixteen year old New York City girl on her way West reads a dime novel enroute, arriving with a romantic notion about cowboys which she directs at the Virginian.

The Virginian sets out alone to a ghost town to find the two men responsible for the death of a young cowboy.

Elizabeth bids successfully for an untamed white colt, then sets out to train the animal to race at an upcoming county fair.

Upon returning from Texas, The Virginian finds himself in the middle of an express line holdup. On the stagecoach, he meets a beautiful woman who ultimately confides in him that she is a courier carrying a package – possibly illegal.

A bank robber quits after an unprofitable heist and returns home, only to rival the Virginian for his son's affections.

A spoiled woman insists her fiancée, a Shiloh ranch hand, open a store and become a businessman after they are married.

After Stacey Grainger kills a would be robber, the dead man's brother seeks revenge.

Sue Ann leads a dull life as the daughter of a homesteader taking care of her father, two young brothers, and their hired hand Joe who would like to marry her. She leaves home to see San Francisco, but where will she get the money?

A peddler's watch points to a wealthy girl, an Indian reservation and perhaps to the killer of Stacey's father.

The Virginian looks for Stacey in a town where they are to finish up a cattle deal. His search results in finding Stacey in jail found guilty of murder. He is to hang the next morning forcing The Virginian to find the real killer fast.

After holding up the bank, Dell Stetler and his partner hold the Graingers hostage at Shiloh to help their wounded comrade. John is forced to bring the doctor to Shiloh to tend to the man as he and Stacey plot a way to free themselves.

While returning from Mexico on business for Shiloh, The Virginian is shot by a rustler while crossing a large Texas ranch. He recuperates with a Texas family but discovers he has become a pawn in a kidnapping plot and may have to face a deadly gauntlet

Murder is one of the unfortunate events that results from Stacey's determined courtship of a young woman whose father objects to the match.

Romance blossoms between Trampas and a wealthy, spoiled Chicago woman visiting the West with her father, who is looking to buy a ranch near Medicine Bow.

A woman physician comes to Medicine Bow and must battle the prejudices of her colleague and townspeople.

Stacey is shanghaied in Medicine Bow to take the place of a cavalry recruit. An inept officer allows two sergeants to keep up the facade that Stacey is a recruit while putting him through inhumane conditions to keep him quiet.

The Virginian steps in to help a farmer called cowardly by his family when he refuses to raise arms against a rancher trying to drive him from his land.

Trampas settles a score for an old friend whose son has been unjustly killed.

Trampas falls for a beautiful but elusive girl whose problems go beyond shyness.

John Grainger asks an old friend from Maryland to come to Shiloh to take the rough edges off his grandkids. She does as he asks quite well but is less than popular with the kids and The Virginian. Unknown to them, she has a secret plan.

A young Kansas City woman comes to Medicine Bow so see if an outlaw Ryker captured might be her brother as they were both orphaned at an early age. 

A rancher frees his condemned brother from an Army stockade and flees to the hills, unaware he inadvertently killed a guard during the escape.

The Virginian accidentally kills the son of an Australian sheep rancher who has little time and love for his family. His daughter is in the middle between The Virginian who she loves and her father who barely notices her.

A young cowhand who only wants to learn to read and write could pay for the knowledge with his life when his pretty teacher's jealous husband is released from prison and comes to town.

In a mid life crisis Trampas decides to quit Shiloh when his vagabond friend arrives in Medicine Bow. The two head for Deadwood and excitement where a prospector takes them but his claim is on Indian land which is illegal and dangerous.

Betsy meets the broke minister David Henderson who is roaming the west looking for a calling after a turbulent history. He becomes involved with helping local miners fighting the mine management, as well as with Betsy, who has found her calling.

Ryker is on a stage that is stopped by a group of Mexicans who are after one of the passengers for killing one of their women. The leader knows Ryker, who is proposing they let the law settle the issue, but the Mexicans want justice – now.

Judge Garth's niece Jennifer comes to live with him at Shiloh after her parents are killed in an accident. However, she is uncomfortable with her uncle who disapproved of her father. A young man she met seems to help but he has a past.

Ben Justin takes over a ranch next to Shiloh. He has had a string of bad luck including the death of his first wife. His son wants to help him but Ben keeps him and his wife Mary at arms length out of fear they will see the real Ben.

Trampas injures his horse saving a man with a runaway team. He is forced to stay a few days in a small town with that man as an old friend arrives to force the town to sign over its gambling rights to him.

A lonely saloon girl risks her outlaw boyfriend's wrath when she tends the Virginian, who has fallen seriously ill during a trip through Mexico.

A Greek widower sends to his homeland for a woman to marry, and a 19-year-old arrives.

Two tramps kill the wife of Ev Clinchy provoking the ire of Ev and his friend Hezekiah who want to lynch them. The sheriff keeps them at bay but when he is killed it is up to Ryker to protect the men against his close friends for trial.

A veteran cowboy finds planning a payroll robbery at Shiloh difficult when he forms a friendship with Randy and a wild stallion brings back his pride at being a top bronc buster.

A railroad detective hounds a former train robbery suspect, refusing to believe in the man's innocence even though he was cleared in court.

A retired lawman turned rancher facing foreclosure trades shelter and medical help for an injured thief's loot.

An ex-Confederate office imprisoned for 20 years for mistreating prisoners arrives in Medicine Bow and fans the hatred of one of his former victims. 

Trampas and Randy are sent to pickup horses from a rich man illegally evicting people from their property who don't believe in fighting back. Trampas stays as he takes an interest in the leader's daughter who doesn't agree with her father.

The Virginian's friend Benjy is convicted of a murder he swears he didn't commit. A mountain man may be able to clear him but a search doesn't find him. The Virginian decides to follow some clues putting himself and the witness in danger.

The head of a family of drifters urges his cardsharp son and saloon girl daughter to pose as respectable citizens while at Shiloh Ranch.

Jennifer overrides a family's objections and tries to open up an emotionally withdrawn girl who has witnessed a murder.

When Judge Garth is appointed Governor of the Wyoming Territory, he asks his Civil War friend Morgan Starr to take over running Shiloh in his place. Starr's hardnosed demeanor doesn't sit well with anyone on or off the ranch. His introduction is made harder by a locust plague when Starr decides to stay and fight them rather than move the cattle.

A group of heavily armed men arrives in Medicine Bow and begins a mysterious vigil.

Trampas enlists the aid of an ex-card dealer to help him deliver a boy and his baby sister to their mother in Laramie.

Morgan Starr and Randy Benton travel to sell a herd of cattle to an Indian agent to feed the Dakota, but find themselves on a journey of loss and finding, resulting in a change for many lives but especially for Randy.

After 35 years in prison Tom Brant returns to Medicine Bow. A newspaper reporter's story about him stirs the interest of people who had various connections to him. People swarm to him for different reasons including the money he hid.

Randy goes to Montana to pick up a mare and see his childhood friend Georgie Sam with whom he plans to start a horse ranch. Randy is introduced to a rancher's daughter who he falls in love with but her family is suddenly in a crisis.

The women of Medicine Bow reject a former saloon girl trying to start a new life and business after serving time for murder, especially after a local citizen is found dead.

Someone hires an ex-marshal to murder the signers of an important trade agreement with Mexico.

Randy's rowdy family arrives in town to protect him from a a vengeful former convict who belongs to a family embroiled in a feud with the Bentons.

Near tragedy results when a wealthy merchant attempts to thwart the budding romance between his daughter and a young man down on his luck

Ryker is offered the job of stopping a small rancher from paying a mortgage. He is too honest to do it but is framed for killing the rancher. He is a good lawman and the sheriff wants him as a deputy but Ryker wants to save his name first.

A family moves nearby with a pretty daughter drawing the attention of Trampas. However, when he pushes her to dance, he learns she has a club foot. This is compounded by the pressure on her brother to support her in lieu of his own life.

A wild stallion escapes its owner, killing a handler in the process. The animal injures itself and is found by Randy who takes it to the nearby ranch of alcoholic horse trainer Charlie Orwell, who nurses it back to health. Most believe the horse bad and wish to have it destroyed but Randy gets Charlie to help him save the animal and with the help of Jodie Wingate, they save Charlie too.

Trampas suspects a writer doing a story on possible senatorial candidate Garth may be working with a lawyer to threaten the jurist with blackmail.

Everyone raves about Felicity, the new Medicine Bow school teacher. The Shiloh hands, including Steve Hill, are all smitten but her heart is won by the Virginian who proposes to her. However, Felicity's family protects some secrets which eventually brings an end to the Virginian's marriage plans.

A newspaper reporter's exaggerated stories put bounty hunters on the trail of the Virginian.

A self important businessman is pushed off a train and found by The Virginian and Steve on a cattle drive across a desert. He is forced to work his way on the drive and learns some lessons about himself and his impact on other's lives.

A boy in an orphanage near Shiloh latches onto Trampas as his father while Trampas is attracted to the woman running the orphanage. Trampas agrees to help the boy but when his father arrives on Shiloh with men chasing him, problems arise.

Steve is asked by a US Marshal to renew an old relationship with a woman who is now believed to be part of the Wade gang. The reluctant Steve goes along with the idea but finds it a hard task made harder when old feelings resurface.

A local miner's son returns to Medicine Bow from college with the technical knowledge and financial backers to reopen his father's silver mine. Due to financial constraints, corners are cut putting people and cattle in danger.

A lawyer wins the acceptance of Medicine Bow's people by helping the Virginian in a legal matter, but loses favor when she uses her skills to free three outlaws from jail.

A feud between ranchers and a railroad tycoon result in murder charges against a rancher when the tycoon's son is killed. Ryker and the Judge try to prove his innocence but must rely on a woman who disappears deserted by the murdered man.

A French portrait painter returns from Chicago to Medicine Bow with Betsy and a new widow to paint her. The Judge suspects he is not being truthful but he seems to be the right medicine for the grieving widow as the Judge investigates.

Ryker firmly believes his stepfather has reformed and ignores evidence indicating the older man is gathering people for a new outlaw gang.

Garth opposes a congressman's plan to settle immigrants on barren land.

A rancher refuses to allow cattle belonging to Garth to escape a landslide by crossing his land; the Virginian falls in love with a Chinese laborer.

Judge Garth delves into psychology to comprehend a gentle, poetry reading cowboy accused of two brutal murders.

A ride through the mountains turns dangerous for Betsy when she discovers a legendary herd of horses and a mysterious father and son who fear she will reveal their existence.

Searching for the killer of six gold miners, Ryker meets a young woman whose long missing father was one of the victims.

The Virginian rescues a woman from a stage wreck, but amnesia prevents her from realizing her life is in danger from two outlaws after hidden loot.

While in Albuquerque, Trampas pretends to be a hired gunfighter to romance a beautiful woman who is practicing a puzzling deception of her own.

The Virginian hires a man kicked off a cattle drive by the trail boss even though he is half owner of the herd. The herd passing Shiloh is suspected of having Spanish Fever. The man returns to the herd but his immaturity creates problems.

Ryker dodges two vengeful brothers and tries to figure out why a beautiful woman is marrying a shy storekeeper.

A marshal who believes he is infallible arrests Randy for a murder that occurred during a bank robbery.

A cowhand courts a logging boss's daughter, threatening any compromise in a dispute between timbermen and ranchers.

Trampas is deputized to escort 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 decides to investigate the questionable stories.

The Virginian goes to Honesty, Wyoming to collect $8000 owed the Judge on a crooked cattle deal. The town is owned and run by the corrupt man who owes the money. The fight over the money spills into a murder charge against the Virginian.

To help an old cowboy keep his grandson's respect, Trampas lets the man work at Shiloh Ranch but soon regrets his decision.

The Virginian arrives in Monolith, Arizona to buy cattle from the Landers family but finds himself in the middle of a feud between them and the city marshal Merle Frome and his brother Ben. The Fromes seem overbearing but maybe with a reason.

A series of misadventures plagues Trampas as he travels to Mexico on Shiloh business.

Trampas recalls how he came to the Shiloh Ranch as a angry young ranch hand bent on avenging the death of his father, a shiftless gambler killed by Garth in self defense.

Garth is asked by a friend to put on a defense for a son who has already been hung. The community fights it but Garth plunges ahead with the aid of a judge. The outcome uncovers several unpleasant facts about the community and the truth.

In Santa Rita the Virginian meets an old flame Savannah, who has been seeing a very jealous local man Gordie Madden. Savannah is accused of murdering Madden and the Virginian gets Judge Garth to come and defend her. However, the cards are stacked against them as Madden's wealthy father controls the town and wants revenge.

A bounty hunter fingers Trampas as a homicide suspect, forcing the ranch hand to confess to Garth that he once fell in with a group wanted for murder and robbery.

Garth takes on a parolee that The Virginian has an interest in who has been in an orphanage or prison since he was a baby. He has trouble adjusting to life outside prison and Garth is worried about Betsy's growing interest in him.

A rancher forces a rebellious son to Shiloh and another into a gunfight.

An outlaw turned Franciscan monk has a difficult time convincing the people of Medicine Bow of his commitment to religion, particularly when his visit coincides with a train robbery.

The Virginian finds true love with a Louisiana beauty, only to be threatened by a political boss who considers the woman to be private property.

The Virginian urges a deaf ranch hand to ignore the taunts of his co-workers and make a life for himself at Shiloh, which the man begins to do until being unjustly accused of murder.

A cowboy becomes infatuated with an eastern society girl he meets on a train. Against The Virginian's advice, he courts the spoiled girl but is forced to turn to rustling to pay for it. In the end she learns the serious cost of her actions.

The Virginian poses as an ex-convict to infiltrate an outlaw gang guilty of a woman's murder, but finds his cover threatened by the arrival of another new member.

Garth recognizes opera singer Elena as a close friend from his early days as a lawyer. The two rekindle their old relationship but Garth is forced to defend her against murder charges which ultimately forces him to uncover the unsettling truth.

Trampas wins $1,000 at poker in Medicine Bow and heads to his old stomping grounds of Logan, New Mexico to repay several debts and see the girl he'd left, but she's married to the Marshal. There he has a run in with Comancheros who virtually run the town and have the town leaders under their thumb. 

Trampas' Uncle Josh is murdered during an holdup by Wismer and Judson. On their trail, Trampas is eventually forced to illegally enter Apache territory where the two robbers had made a gold strike. He is joined on his quest by a guide who is after the gold, a woman who is looking for her husband who it turns out is Judson, and an army doctor who is attempting to escape court martial.

Garth's rival from Texas buys a ranch near Shiloh with an eye to expand it. Trampas has an eye for his daughter, adding to the friction when the rival puts pressure on small ranches to sell out and cuts the water supply to them and Shiloh.

Steve volunteers to hunt a killer mountain lion alone. After losing his supplies, he is helped by a lonely couple. They lost their son to the cat and maimed it. The husband helps Steve who soon learns the cat is not his only enemy.

J. Jimerson Jones is on the same train to Chicago with Garth and Betsy where Garth helps him adjust to city life. Betsy has her first love with a cub reporter and Jones is taken in by a beautiful woman while another tries to protect him.

A failed British rancher returns to Medicine Bow a wealthy man but conflicted by his cowardice in the Army. After learning he won't die from a dog bite and Trampas is taken captive by Indians, he is given a second chance to prove himself.

The Virginian recalls his arrival at Shiloh when he went to work for a neighboring ranch that was close to a range war with Shiloh. He is caught in a feud with the foreman causing the fight, and falls in love with the girl engaged to him.

A youth aids a little girl, then is accused of murdering the child's father, a gold prospector

Trampas decides to defend an Eastern financier who stole his girlfriend and cheated cattlemen.

An injured Trampas is thought to be a stagecoach robber according to a Sheriff and is reported dead to Shiloh. He is forced to rely on a young Chinese woman for help until a grieving Steve arrives to find he must help rescue Trampas.

An outlaw and his men seize Shiloh and lie in wait for a chief and a general coming to negotiate a treaty. Betsy's Chicago visitor has a shaky visit.

The Virginian tracks the man who killed a young friend in a bank robbery. He finds the man's wife and young son alone on a run down ranch. Finding they need help, he stays on as a ranch hand but soon finds himself in a misguided situation.

Steve takes a job as foreman at a ranch owned by a beautiful woman who has plans for the unsuspecting wrangler that involve a confrontation with her violent former lover.

A storm forces Randy to stay with Betsy and three of her friends at a mansion where they spent time in their youth. The host's daughter was killed two years earlier in a fire. The host has gifts and other surprises that put them on edge.

A widow may lose her adopted son when a woman plans to sue for custody of the boy, heir to a fortune.

Indians, outlaws and temptation make Trampas rue delivering a Swedish mail-order bride to an injured neighbor 

An outlaw's tomboy daughter, placed in the Virginian's care, is torn between her devotion to injured Randy and her desire to help her father escape from jail.

News that Betsy and Randy found over $900 in gold in a cave on Shiloh brings two men to Shiloh ranch looking for money. One is a government agent looking for a buried cache of bearer bonds. The other is Randy's older brother with a past.

A man is publicly hanged for murdering a woman because the local school teacher refuses to alibi him. A mysterious man comes to town, signs on to work as a Shiloh Ranch hand and begins romancing the teacher. However, his odd behavior begins to raise the suspicions of Judge Garth and the local Sheriff who wonder about the motives of the stranger.

Three prison escapees come to Shiloh looking for Judge Garth. One of the men has history with the judge. 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.

A homesteader accused of rustling narrowly escapes hanging by local ranchers led by Major Cass, an event that is observed by Shiloh hands including the Virginian. However, the homesteader is severely injured, and the Virginian helps him work his farm during off hours. After some investigation into the rash of cattle rustling, the Virginian decides to defend the man against the Major and the other ranchers including Judge Garth.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Martin Kalek and his gang kidnap Judge Garth for ransom. The Virginian pays the ransom, but the kidnappers refuse to release the Judge until they are able to escape into Idaho. The kidnappers head off, pursued not only by the Shiloh hands but also separately by Kalek's former crony Sharkey, who is out for revenge on the criminal.

Seeking some excitement in his life, Trampas joins a group of older cowboys who set off to find adventure in what they still believe is the wild, lawless West. However, their outdated attitudes lead them into trouble and, eventually, tragedy.

Tabby McCallum, beautiful but cruel teenage daughter of Tucker McCallum, is banned by The Virginian from Shiloh after she kills a steer "by mistake." With the unwitting help of her fiance, Dan Flood, Tabby sets off a tragic chain of events.

Older cowhand Slim Jessup is accused of killing a man in Idaho and escapes east. He signs on with a Shiloh Ranch cattle drive to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. On the way the drovers are joined by a young man, who wishes a different life than dirt farming with his widowed step-father. The older Slim takes James under his wing and teaches him lessons in life before his past catches up with him.

An old maid bank teller decides it is time to provide for herself and identifies Trampas as a bank robber and murderer in order to extort $10,000 from the actual thief. The Virginian is the only thing between Trampas and the hangman's noose.

A seaman moving to Wyoming meets twin sisters traveling there with Trampas. When he takes an interest in one of them, she makes a tragic request of him that reveals not only to him but Judge Garth the true nature of the twins relationship.

At a friend's grave Steve recalls how the man helped him survive his arrival at Medicine Bow and trained him as a cowboy proficient with guns. Sadly, the man's unwillingness to adapt to the times pushed Steve to his life at Shiloh.

The Virginian asks a dance hall singer to trick a shady character into revealing information that could clear Judge Garth of a trumped up murder charge.

Garth recalls his early days as a judge in Medicine Bow in one particularly dangerous murder case. The family of the man convicted tries to intimidate the residents into having Garth overturn the conviction, putting him in a lonely position.

An American black bear named Moses brings to the surface the lack of respect a father has for his son. When the father is paralyzed in a fight with Trampas, he goads the son into fighting a duel with Trampas for revenge. Trampas refuses it, but cannot ignore it.

Garth trails a woman to San Francisco whom he believes is part of a con game involving a railroad deal. Garth kills a man whom he believes to be a part of it. However, when no body can be found, he and others start to question his sanity.

A friend has been framed for the murder of a woman's husband in Montana. The Virginian and Trampas go there to investigate the charge as they believe their friend, who says he is innocent even though he is known to them as a womanizer.

The Virginian, Trampas. and Steve help a vegetarian with a chimp who is framed for murder and a single woman with a group of orphans. Although they start trying to adopt out the kids, they soon become match makers for the couple and kids.

A wealthy woman persuades The Virginian to take her to the badlands to a gang led by the previous foreman of Shiloh. Her initial story is not the full truth. She wants to kill a man there because of her daughter but falls for the leader. 

A trio of con artists target Medicine Bow with an oil scam when a crisis threatening the bank throws a bigger scam their way. However, the leader's relationship with the banker's daughter causes him to him to alter the plan.

An immigrant is jailed for murder. The bias against him adds to the Judge's difficulty defending him. He is found not guilty but when another man is arrested for the crime, his conscience catches up with him as he learns more about U.S. law.

Ed Frazer returns to Medicine Bow after serving three years for burglary. Steve fears for his life because his testimony was crucial in convicting him. Frazer's main interest isn't revenge but renewing his acquaintance with Helen Blaine. 

Trampas helps a friend just out of prison who has multiple people after him for the location of $50,000 in gold he helped steal. He wants to give the money back, but he must deal with a ruthless partner in the robbery who will kill him.

An outlaw gang traps Garth and Betsy and several stagecoach passengers at a way station. The gang wants one of the passengers, George Wilson, who had betrayed the gang. The various passengers must decide whether to live with their consciences and hand Wilson over, or risk their own lives in a gun battle with the desperate gang.

The Virginian encounters three women who are determined to carry on the missionary work of their husbands, killed by Indians a year before.

The Virginian and Steve are forced to carry $40,000 back to Medicine Bow after a bank run closes all banks. The Virginian must fend off a family who think part of the money is theirs while contending with a dreaming runaway girl.

Garth allows a controversial coal mine to be opened with Polish miners, among them is a beautiful woman. She has eyes for Trampas, but one of the miners and a friend of Trampas have eyes for her, with tragic results as Trampas falls for her.