There was a time, and it really wasn’t that long ago, when westerns were as popular with TV audiences as police procedurals are today, and this classic series that ran from 1962 to 1971 is one of the primary reasons. Each episode plays out like a mini movie as The Virginian (James Drury) tries to manage life on The Shiloh Ranch out in the Wyoming Territory of the 1890s. It’s not always easy, given the cast of notable character actors who visit the show each week to make The Virginian’s like more complicated, but the stories never get too routine and the solutions he comes up with are usually inventive and entertaining. The regular cast is excellent, particularly Lee J. Cobb as Judge Garth, owner of the ranch, and Doug McClure as the jovial ranch hand.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
The Virginian
There was a time, and it really wasn’t that long ago, when westerns were as popular with TV audiences as police procedurals are today, and this classic series that ran from 1962 to 1971 is one of the primary reasons. Each episode plays out like a mini movie as The Virginian (James Drury) tries to manage life on The Shiloh Ranch out in the Wyoming Territory of the 1890s. It’s not always easy, given the cast of notable character actors who visit the show each week to make The Virginian’s like more complicated, but the stories never get too routine and the solutions he comes up with are usually inventive and entertaining. The regular cast is excellent, particularly Lee J. Cobb as Judge Garth, owner of the ranch, and Doug McClure as the jovial ranch hand.
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