Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Classic Television - Prime Time

The Virginian 
Original channel
NBC
Original run
September 19, 1962 – March 24, 1971
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
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. 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. It follows Bonanza at fourteen seasons and 430 episodes, and Gunsmoke at twenty seasons and 635 episodes.

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