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The Men from Shiloh

The Virginian
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Also known as The Men from Shiloh
Genre Western
Written by Morton Fine & David Friedkin
Burt Kennedy
Harold Swanton
Winston Miller
Richard Jessup
True Boardman
Frank Chase
John Hawkins & Ward Hawkins
Don Ingalls
Roy Huggins
Leslie Stevens
Directed by David Friedkin
Burt Kennedy
Ted Post
Don McDougall
Abner Biberman
William Witney
James Sheldon
Earl Bellamy
Michael Caffey
Richard L. Bare
Joseph Pevney
Bernard McEveety
Paul Stanley
Starring James Drury
Doug McClure
Lee J. Cobb
Charles Bickford
John McIntire
Clu Gulager
Gary Clarke
Randy Boone
Roberta Shore
Diane Roter
Sara Lane
Don Quine
Theme music composer Percy Faith
(seasons 1–8)
Ennio Morricone
(season 9)
Opening theme "Lonesome Tree"
conducted by Stanley Wilson
Ending theme "Lonesome Tree"
conducted by Stanley Wilson
Composer(s) Percy Faith
Richard Shores
Dave Grusin
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 9
No. of episodes 249 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Charles Marquis Warren
Norman Macdonnell
Frank Price
Roy Huggins
Producer(s) Morton Fine
David Friedkin
Joel Rogosin
Winston Miller
Cy Chermak
Frank Telford
Arthur H. Nadel
Don Ingalls
Paul Freeman
Warren Duff
Jules Schermer
Cinematography Benjamin H. Kline
Lionel Lindon
Enzo Martinelli
John Russell
Walter Strenge
Running time 75 minutes
Production company(s) Revue Studios (1962–1963)
Universal Television (1963–1971)
Release
Original network NBC
Picture format Color 4:3
Audio format Monaural
Original release September 19, 1962 (1962-09-19) – March 24, 1971 (1971-03-24)
The Virginian
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James Drury as the Virginian in the Universal series by the same name.
First appearance "The Executioners" (1962)
Last appearance "Jump-up" (1971)
Created by Owen Wister
Portrayed by James Drury
Information
Gender Male
Occupation Foreman of the Shiloh Ranch in Medicine Bow, Wyoming

The Virginian (known as The Men from Shiloh in its final year) is an American Western television series starring James Drury and Doug McClure which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 episodes. It was a spin-off from a 1958 summer series called Decision. Filmed in color, The Virginian became television's first 90-minute Western series (75 minutes excluding commercial breaks). Immensely successful, it ran for nine seasons—television's third longest running western, behind Bonanza at 14 seasons and 430 episodes, and Gunsmoke at 20 seasons and 635 episodes. The series is loosely based on the novel of the same name.

When Revue Productions' popular hour-long series Wagon Train moved from the NBC network to ABC, The Virginian was proposed to replace it. From the beginning, the series was filmed in color on 35mm film.

Set in the late 19th century, and loosely based on the 1902 novel by Owen Wister, the series revolved around the tough foreman of the Shiloh Ranch, played by James Drury. His top hand Trampas (Doug McClure) and he were the only characters to remain with the show for the entire run. As in the book, the foreman went only by the name "The Virginian". The Virginian's real name was never revealed in the nine years the show was on the air. The series was set in Medicine Bow, Wyoming. Various references in the first season indicate that setting is about 1898 – in episode 5, "The Brazen Bell", guest star George C. Scott quotes from Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol, which was first published in 1898, in episode 7, "Riff Raff", several of the main characters join Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders, the volunteer cavalry unit formed in 1898, and in episode 11, "The Devil's Children", the grave marker for one of the characters that dies in the episode states 1898 as the year of death. The series circled around the foreman's quest to maintain an orderly lifestyle at Shiloh. The ranch was named after the two-day American Civil War Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee. The Virginian's white Appaloosa was named Joe D., and Trampas' buckskin horse was named Buck. As the show progressed, Trampas became the more developed of the characters, and it continues to be the role for which actor Doug McClure was best known.


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