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Mar 9, 2009 - 7:30 AM
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Jim Phelps
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But it's based roughly on the famous classic novel of course and that gives it some clout, though the TV show was far more modern than the writing in the book.
I remember my little brother telling me that during a school history course his teacher asked all the kiddies to bring in material that was related to the Old American West. My brother chose to bring in my old copy of 'The Virginian'. The teacher looked at him pityingly and said, 'Well, yes, that's the Hollywood take on the old West, isn't it, not really enlightening us about the actual period itself.' My brother rather aloofly pointed out that the novel was written from first-hand experience in the 19th Century. Poor teacher had nowhere to go. She had no idea this thing meant other than a TV show.
I've read that the original concept was to make the Virginian a dandified, Bat Masterson/James West type with ultra-tight pants and a tiny pistol. LOL! Ah, the double entendre lives!
I haven't seen the season after Judge Garth (Lee J. Cobb) left, but I understand the series endured a slump that year.
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Sep 9, 2009 - 10:56 PM
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Altamese
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It's become a goal of mine to get every Steve Ihnat performance I can on DVD.
Do you have his episode of 77 Sunset Strip, Queen of the Cats? If not, would you like it?
I hadn't realized he'd been in this show until a couple of weeks ago. Until that time, it hadn't been listed on the IMDB for him, or even for the 77 Sunset Strip page, although it's been added now. The last episode of the series.
Kind of fun, with Virginia Gregg. Steve has only 4 scenes, but a climactic fight scene with Efrem Zimbalist which is kind of fun. Definitely looks like it's both of them going at it, with no stunt doubles, and they really rare back before they start punching, to give the other actor time to block or pretend to get hit...
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Sep 24, 2009 - 11:14 AM
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Jim Phelps
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A HISTORY OF TELEVISION'S THE VIRGINIAN, 1962-1971 by Paul Green is out in trade paperback October 31, 2009. On sale for pre-order at Amazon for $39.95. Table of Contents:
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Foreword by Frank Price 1
Preface 5
Introduction 7
1. Owen Wister 9
2. Beginnings 15
3. The Virginian: Season One 21
4. Early Seasons: Seasons Two and Three 31
5. Change of Direction: Season Four 45
6. New Beginnings: Season Five 51
7. MacDonnell in Charge: Seasons Six to Eight 62
8. The Men from Shiloh: Season Nine 72
9. Production and Location 79
10. Lee J. Cobb: Judge Henry Garth 90
11. James Drury: The Virginian 94
12. Doug McClure: Trampas 104
13. Gary Clarke: Steve Hill 118
14. Roberta Shore: Betsy Garth 132
15. Randy Boone: Randy Benton 140
16. Clu Gulager and Diane Roter: Emmett Ryker and Jennifer Sommers 151
17. Charles Bickford, Don Quine and Sara Lane: John, Stacey and Elizabeth Grainger 155
18. John McIntire, David Hartman and Tim Matheson: Clay Grainger, David Sutton and Jim Horn 166
19. Stewart Granger and Lee Majors: Col. Alan Mackenzie and Roy Tate 170
20. Familiar Faces: Pippa Scott, L. Q. Jones, John Dehner, Jeanette Nolan and Ross Elliott 173
21. Frank Price: Executive Producer 179
22. Producers 184
23. Writers 192
24. Directors 200
25. Directors of Photography 212
26. Composers 217
27. Episode Guide 230
28. Afterthoughts 267
Appendix: The Virginian Memorabilia 269
Bibliography 271
Index 275
http://www.amazon.com/History-Televisions-Virginian-1962-1971/dp/0786446803/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1253812475&sr=1-8-spell
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I don't know about Williams or Goldsmith, ZOOBA, but somewhere in my LP library is a b**t of a Bernard Herrmann score from one of the episodes. Maybe even Waxman, but it's been several decades, so I can't recall for sure.
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Jul 30, 2010 - 6:45 AM
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Dana Wilcox
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Never seen the show, but I do know that Williams wrote some stuff for it. Can't remember the episodes off the top of my head, though. Faith's theme was available on a nice Stanley Wilson compilation called THEMES TO REMEMBER, which also includes other Williams rarities from shows like WAGON TRAIN, WIDE COUNTRY and - if I remember correctly - KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATRE.
Anyone know or remember which episodes Williams scored?
Sorry, don't know that information. I just wanted to comment that I've heard Stanley Wilson's cover of THE VIRGINIAN theme and quite a few others (including Percy's own pimped-up version from an album), and so far have heard none that equals the actual main title version from the show. I don't know why these people constantly had to gild the lily when recording tv themes, throwing in extra strings, altering the tempos, replacing strong instruments like French horn with weak, synthy-sounding gizmos a la Meco... To borrow a favorite term here: Sad.
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