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.