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. It was a spin-off from a 1958 summer series called
Decision. 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, behind
Bonanza at fourteen seasons and 430 episodes, and
Gunsmoke at twenty seasons and 635 episodes.