8x1 - Long Ride Home

September 17, 1969

8x2 - A Flash of Darkness

September 24, 1969

During a cattle drive, a rattler startles the Virginian's horse while he is chasing a stray, and he is thrown and hits his head on a rock causing temperary blindness. As he wanders in the darkness, he stumbles upon a young lady who lives with her father (James Whitmore)and brother, whom the Virginian had just fired. The daughter wants to help the Virginian though the men protest. The two men tell her that they are returning the blind man to his friends but actually plan to kill him. After leaving the house, the Virginian somehow manages to escape and makes it back to the house where he wanders into the corral and is nearly trampled by the horses until Trampas and Jim Horn rescues him from the corral and the two men.

8x3 - Halfway Back from Hell

October 1, 1969

8x4 - The Power Seekers

October 8, 1969

8x5 - The Family Man

October 15, 1969

Jim becomes farmhand, midwife and friend to a pregnant teenager whose husband is on the lam from the law. Anna: Darlene Carr. Obie: Frank Webb. Jim: Tim Matheson. Rigby: John Pickard. Trampas: Doug McClure. Sheriff: Ross Elliott. Virginian: James Drury.

8x6 - The Runaway

October 22, 1969

8x7 - A Love to Remember

October 29, 1969

The Virginian is attracted to Julie Oakes, an Eastern reporter whose mysteriously tragic past may doom their relationship. Glover: Fred Beir. Virginian: James Drury. Barton: George Murdock. Holly: Jeanette Nolan. Grainger: John McIntire.

8x8 - The Substitute

November 5, 1969

8x9 - The Bugler

November 19, 1969

A story of alienation between a veteran Army officer and his son, a deserter. Toby: Michael Burns. Hamilton: Morgan Woodward. O'Rourke: Alan Hale. Grainger: John McIntire. Virginian: James Drury. Holly: Jeanette Nolan. Elizabeth: Sara Lane.

8x10 - Home to Methuselah

November 26, 1969

8x11 - A Touch of Hands

December 3, 1969

8x12 - Journey to Scathelock

December 10, 1969

8x13 - A Woman of Stone

December 17, 1969

8x14 - Black Jade

December 31, 1969

8x15 - You Can Lead a Horse to Water

January 7, 1970

The accent is on comedy as a proper Southern woman, aided by Trampas and old Luther, goes after robbers who took her dowry. Luther: Strother Martin. Trampas: Doug McClure. Baxter: Noah Beery. Kendrick: Anthony Eisley.

8x16 - Nightmare

January 21, 1970

8x18 - Train of Darkness

February 4, 1970

On a train to Cheyenne, Grainger, Elizabeth and Jim become involved in a fellow traveler's efforts to escape a vengeful family. Jed: Dennis Weaver. Lotte: Charlotte Stewart. Neeley: John Larch. Grainger: John McIntire. Elizabeth: Sara Lane. Jim: Tim Matheson. Evangeline: Barbara Werle.

8x19 - A Time of Terror

February 11, 1970

8x20 - No War for the Warrior

February 18, 1970

The drama of a fugitive caught between his Kiowa heritage and the demands of the white world. John: Charles Robinson. Virginian: James Drury. Jim: Tim Matheson. Trampas: Doug McClure. William T. Webb: Charles Aidman. Ned Cochran: Henry Jones. Cully: David Sheiner.

8x21 - A King's Ransom

February 25, 1970

Clay Grainger is kidnapped and held for ransom by a gang hired by an Englishman (Patrick Macnee)who has posed as a friend of the Graingers. However, his true intentions are later revealed by his wife (Jackie DeShannon) but not before the Virginian follows the kidnappers - after the ransom drop-off - captures them, and convinces them to tell him where Grainger is stashed.

8x22 - The Sins of the Fathers

March 4, 1970

8x23 - Rich Man, Poor Man

March 11, 1970

8x24 - Gift

March 18, 1970