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The Best Episodes of The Virginian Season 9

Every episode of The Virginian Season 9 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Virginian Season 9!

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The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Virginian Season 9 Episode 1 - The West vs. Colonel MacKenzie
    7.2/10(83 votes)

    #1 - The West vs. Colonel MacKenzie

    S9:E1

    Shiloh's new owner arrives on the same train as five men who The Virginian recognizes from wanted posters. He fears they are involved in a potential range war between the big and small ranges resulting in multiple lynchings.

    Director:Jerry Hopper
    Writer:Jean Holloway

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  2. The Virginian Season 9 Episode 2 - The Best Man
    5.2/10(71 votes)

    #2 - The Best Man

    S9:E2

    Trampas and Pick Lexington visit old friends in Mexico. Trampas is caught between Pick and one of his Mexican friends as both men fall for the same girl. He hopes to stop them from dueling each other while the girl chooses between them.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Virginian Season 9 Episode 3 - Jenny
    7.8/10(57 votes)

    #3 - Jenny

    S9:E3

    The Virginian helps a woman being attacked in her hotel room only to learn she is an old girlfriend. They are on a stage together which loses a wheel in the desert stranding them while being chased by the men but she won't say why.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Virginian Season 9 Episode 4 - With Love, Bullets, and Valentines
    6.8/10(55 votes)

    #4 - With Love, Bullets, and Valentines

    S9:E4

    Trampas wins a steamboat in a poker game on a steamboat but the money is confiscated for being stolen. When he tries to collect on the steamboat he won, he finds himself involved with an outlaw gang and a crooked boat owner.

    Director:Philip Leacock
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Virginian Season 9 Episode 5 - The Mysterious Mr. Tate
    7.4/10(63 votes)

    #5 - The Mysterious Mr. Tate

    S9:E5

    Col. MacKenzie rescues a man, Tate (Lee Majors), from a lynching for a shooting he saw to be self-defense. MacKenzie is traveling on a train with the young daughter of a friend who believes she is in love with Tate who has an outlaw background. This is the first episode to include Roy Tate, although Lee Majors had been shown in the opening credits since the start of the season.

    Director:Abner Biberman
    Writer:Jean Holloway

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  6. The Virginian Season 9 Episode 6 - Gun Quest
    7.7/10(64 votes)

    #6 - Gun Quest

    S9:E6

    The Virginian arrested by a posse while on a trip is accused of murder. He is taken in for a trial by a less than proper judge who is also the hangman. When no one listens to him, he escapes to find the real killer and prove his innocence.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Virginian Season 9 Episode 7 - Crooked Corner
    7.4/10(49 votes)

    #7 - Crooked Corner

    S9:E7

    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.

    Director:Herbert Hirschman
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Virginian Season 9 Episode 8 - Lady at the Bar
    8.3/10(63 votes)

    #8 - Lady at the Bar

    S9:E8

    Trampas is arrested for the murder of a man he argued with over a mine. The law seems primarily interested in wrapping up the trial as quickly as possible so they can go fishing. Trampas's hope lies with his attorney, Frances B. Finch.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Virginian Season 9 Episode 9 - The Price of the Hanging
    7.4/10(54 votes)

    #9 - The Price of the Hanging

    S9:E9

    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.

    Director:Marc Daniels
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Virginian Season 9 Episode 10 - Experiment at New Life
    7.7/10(50 votes)

    #10 - Experiment at New Life

    S9:E10

    The Virginian hunting for lost Shiloh cattle finds the trail leads to the New Life commune. Not only is one of the leaders holding his cattle, it becomes clear he is holding two women hostage as well complicating the work of The Virginian.

    Director:Jeannot Szwarc
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Virginian Season 9 Episode 11 - Follow the Leader
    6.9/10(47 votes)

    #11 - Follow the Leader

    S9:E11

    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.

    Director:Richard Benedict
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Virginian Season 9 Episode 12 - Last of the Comancheros
    7.3/10(45 votes)

    #12 - Last of the Comancheros

    S9:E12

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Virginian Season 9 Episode 13 - Hannah
    7.4/10(59 votes)

    #13 - Hannah

    S9:E13

    Trampas comes to the aid of a girl and her father who had a heart attack. At the father's request he helps them at their destination and then to try to find the girl's mother who is with outlaws. He finds the girl has her own mind on it.

    Director:Jack Arnold
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Virginian Season 9 Episode 14 - Nan Allen
    7.7/10(49 votes)

    #14 - Nan Allen

    S9:E14

    Col. MacKenzie is shocked to learn his friend was killed assaulting a business woman by her brother in their house. As the Colonel gets to know her, the relationship turns to love but he soon learns the brother may tear them apart as well.

    Director:Jeffrey Hayden
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Virginian Season 9 Episode 15 - The Politician
    7.7/10(46 votes)

    #15 - The Politician

    S9:E15

    The Virginian is sent to check out the Bonham ranch which is up for sale. Once there he finds himself caught in the fight between the brothers Foster and Jack who own the ranch and involved in the murder of a woman he once knew.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Virginian Season 9 Episode 16 - The Animal
    8.0/10(55 votes)

    #16 - The Animal

    S9:E16

    On the way home Tate finds himself in the middle of hunting party where the prey is a young Shawnee boy. Tate discovering the boy is deaf-mute takes him to jail after learning he is wanted for murder but finds he becomes the boy's lawyer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Virginian Season 9 Episode 17 - The Legacy of Spencer Flats
    6.1/10(59 votes)

    #17 - The Legacy of Spencer Flats

    S9:E17

    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.

    Director:Russ Mayberry
    Writer:B.W. Sandefur

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  18. The Virginian Season 9 Episode 18 - The Angus Killer
    7.5/10(56 votes)

    #18 - The Angus Killer

    S9:E18

    The Virginian is sent to look at buying an Angus herd from a widow. He arrives to find that someone is causing problems for her on the ranch ever since her husband died months earlier. Her son believes it is a neighbor but she disagrees.

    Director:Jeffrey Hayden
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Virginian Season 9 Episode 19 - Flight from Memory
    6.6/10(51 votes)

    #19 - Flight from Memory

    S9:E19

    MacKenzie meets a girl in a daze who is thrown off her horse. He takes her to the cabin of the hermit Muley. Initially, the girl doesn't react to them but she slowly recovers some memory. A stranger arrives saying she is wanted for murder.

    Director:Hollingsworth Morse
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Virginian Season 9 Episode 20 - Tate, Ramrod
    7.1/10(50 votes)

    #20 - Tate, Ramrod

    S9:E20

    Tate helps ramrod a small ranch when the owner leaves to buy new breeding stock. However, the owner's plan to fence his pasture is met with strong resistance by a neighbor stopping Tate plus a surprise arrivals adds to the problems.

    Director:Marc Daniels
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Virginian Season 9 Episode 21 - The Regimental Line
    7.1/10(42 votes)

    #21 - The Regimental Line

    S9:E21

    During the Ghost Dance movement a troop of soldiers visits Col MacKenzie to warn him and the ranchers. Parker as does MacKenzie recognizes Sgt. Mulcahy as a long thought dead Lt. Baxter from MacKenzie's Lancer regiment in India.

    Director:Hollingsworth Morse
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Virginian Season 9 Episode 22 - The Town Killer
    7.7/10(60 votes)

    #22 - The Town Killer

    S9:E22

    The Virginian on a business trip to Montana finds himself in an area where protection is provided by an ex-outlaw to several towns. All is well until he is forced to kill one of the enforcers. That puts his life on the line with no backup.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Virginian Season 9 Episode 23 - Wolf Track
    7.1/10(46 votes)

    #23 - Wolf Track

    S9:E23

    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.

    Director:Abner Biberman
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Virginian Season 9 Episode 24 - Jump-Up
    7.4/10(56 votes)

    #24 - Jump-Up

    S9:E24

    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.

    Director:Herbert Hirschman
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 9 Ratings Summary

"The West vs. Colonel MacKenzie" is the best rated episode of "The Virginian" season 9. It scored 7.2/10 based on 83 votes. Directed by Jerry Hopper and written by Jean Holloway, it aired on 9/16/1970. This episode is rated 2.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Best Man".