Episode 1
Aired Sep 18, 1968
The Saddle Warmer
A former medical student (David Hartman) drifting west feels responsible for a broken leg suffered by Trampas and offers to take the ranchhand's place until he recovers; guests Ralph Bellamy, the Irish Rovers.
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Episode 2
Aired Sep 25, 1968
Silver Image
An oil speculator (Donald Barry) threatens the livelihoods of local cattle ranchers by offering a widow (Geraldine Brooks) a handsome price for land adjacent to Shiloh; guests James Daly, Bob Random.
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Episode 3
Aired Oct 2, 1968
The Orchard
A rancher (Burgess Meredith) trying to rebuild a herd deals with one son's (Brandon de Wilde) advice to farm and the other's (Ben Murphy) irresponsibility; guests Tyne Daly, William Windom.
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Episode 4
Aired Oct 9, 1968
Vision of Blindness
An ex-convict (John Saxon) seeking to take revenge on Trampas for his brother's death finds Elizabeth, left blinded and helpless after a stagecoach accident; guests Ben Johnson, the Irish Rovers.
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Episode 5
Aired Oct 16, 1968
Wind of Outrage
A childhood friend of a French-Indian innkeeper (Ricardo Montalban) urges him to return to Canada and lead a revolution; guest Lois Nettleton.
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Episode 6
Aired Oct 23, 1968
Image of an Outlaw
An innocent ranchhand is mistaken for a wanted criminal (Don Stroud in a dual role), and later sees advantages in assuming the fugitive's identity; guest Sandy Kenyon.
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Episode 7
Aired Oct 30, 1968
The Heritage
A Shoshone woman (Buffy Sainte-Marie) educated in Boston confesses to Clay her fears about returning to a humble reservation life; guest Jay Silverheels.
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Episode 8
Aired Nov 6, 1968
Ride to Misadventure
The Virginian teams with a bounty hunter (Joseph Campanella) to find the gang responsible for robbing gold and cattle vaccine from the Medicine Bow stage; guest Katherine Justice.
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Episode 9
Aired Nov 13, 1968
The Storm Gate
While visiting in a Nebraska town, Trampas comes into conflict with a childhood friend (Burr De Benning), an engineer who has gotten the town's cooperation to build an irrigation dam; guest Susan Oliver.
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Episode 10
Aired Nov 27, 1968
Dark Corridor
A young woman found unconscious on the trail awakens with amnesia and a romantic interest in the Virginian.
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Episode 11
Aired Dec 4, 1968
The Mustangers
An aging bronco buster (James Edwards) who wants to send his son (Chuck Daniel) to school in Texas turns to a horse thief (Don Knight) to get the necessary money; guest Grace Lee Whitney.
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Episode 12
Aired Dec 11, 1968
Nora
Clay's old friend (Anne Baxter) and her Army-officer husband (Hugh Beaumont) cut a visit short after Indians kill a soldier; guest Tim McIntire.
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Episode 13
Aired Dec 18, 1968
Big Tiny
David poses as the fiance of a young woman with a persistent suitor, then discovers her admirer is a giant.
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Episode 14
Aired Jan 8, 1969
Stopover
The moment he steps from the stagecoach, a gunslinger (Herb Jeffries) has everyone wondering who he is after; guests Jay C. Flippen, John Kellogg, John McLiam.
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Episode 15
Aired Jan 15, 1969
Death Wait
A vengeful father (Harold J. Stone) and his gunslinger son (Murray MacLeod) don't believe David killed another son in self-defense; guests Conlan Carter, Sheila Larken.
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Episode 16
Aired Jan 22, 1969
Last Grave at Socorro Creek
A cattle thief (Steve Ihnat) 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.
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Episode 17
Aired Jan 29, 1969
Crime Wave in Buffalo Springs
Yvonne De Carlo and the Irish Rovers head the list of guest stars in the first comedy ever presented on the Virginian.
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Episode 18
Aired Jan 29, 1969
Price of Love
A young cowboy (Peter Duel) tries to repay past kindnesses by using a gun to settle a land dispute with a neighbor (James Gregory); guest Skip Homeier.
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Episode 19
Aired Feb 19, 1969
The Ordeal
A wealthy Bostonian sends his spoiled son (Robert Pine) to the ranch to acquire some character, only to have the young man's pranks endanger lives.
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Episode 20
Aired Feb 26, 1969
The Land Dreamer
A foreclosed farmer (James Olson) becomes the target of a lynch mob after killing an unscrupulous investor (Don Francks); guests Cloris Leachman, Ford Rainey, John Daniels.
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Episode 21
Aired Mar 5, 1969
Eileen
Concerned about marriage plans, a father sends his daughter (Debbie Watson) to Shiloh for the summer, but her fiance hires on incognito as a ranchhand.
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Episode 22
Aired Mar 12, 1969
Incident at Diablo Crossing
Trampas' old friend is shot in the back when Army payroll gold is stolen; guests Gary Collins, Bernie Hamilton, Kiel Martin.
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Episode 23
Aired Mar 19, 1969
Storm Over Shiloh
Elizabeth's injured horse returns riderless to the ranch, setting off a desperate search.
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Episode 24
Aired Mar 26, 1969
Girl in the Shadows
A vaudevillian (Jack Albertson) arrives in town and arranges coincidences that indicate his mind reader daughter (Brenda Scott) is Clay's long-lost niece; guest Greg Mullavey.
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Episode 25
Aired Apr 2, 1969
Fox, Hound & the Widow McCloud
A convict (Victor Jory) on the run from a bounty hunter (Troy Donahue) seeks help from onetime cellmate Trampas; guest Jean Inness.
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Episode 26
Aired Apr 9, 1969
The Stranger
Despite evidence to the contrary, the Virginian believes in the innocence of an itinerant cowboy (Shelly Novack) accused of injuring a rancher and killing a ranch foreman; guest Lorraine Gary.
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