S8.E10

Home to Methuselah

Name: Home to Methuselah
Genre: Western
Released: 1969-11-26
Duration: 1 h 15 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: John McIntire, Doug McClure, Tim Matheson

Episode aired Nov 26, 1969
TV-PG
1h 15m

IMDb RATING

7.5/10

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Western

An old lawman friend of The Virginian comes to Shiloh to see him and ask him to go on a hunting trip. However, he doesn't say the prey is two outlaws. Once The Virginian learns the truth, he... Read allAn old lawman friend of The Virginian comes to Shiloh to see him and ask him to go on a hunting trip. However, he doesn't say the prey is two outlaws. Once The Virginian learns the truth, he decides to help but is surprised by the target.An old lawman friend of The Virginian comes to Shiloh to see him and ask him to go on a hunting trip. However, he doesn't say the prey is two outlaws. Once The Virginian learns the truth, he decides to help but is surprised by the target.

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IMDb RATING

7.5/10

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Trivia
Locations filmed at Los Padres National Park.

Goofs
The old sheriff appeared to be justified killing the first outlaw because he apparently had a dead-or-alive warrant. If so, why wouldn't the other outlaws also have warrants? In that case, he wouldn't need to disguise the killing of the outlaw holed up in the cabin.

Soundtracks
The Virginian
(Theme)
by Percy Faith

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Featured review

6/10

Leave of absence

The town of Methuselah hasgiven its sheriff John Anderson leave of absenceto pursue an outlaw gang who set fire to a hotel and killed a lot of citizens. Anderson has gotten most, but there are two left and they've gone into the Teton mountains near Shiloh. He calls on his old friend The Virginian for help. They have history going back to when Drury was a youngster.

It isn't long before James Drury notices a character change in Anderson. Is he really looking for justice? Or is there some other agenda working here?

Besides Anderson we have two other guest star performances worthy of note. The first is Timothy Carey more subdued than usual as a philosophical outlaw, one of whom Anderson is pursuing, The other is 'preacher' G.D. Spradln who has his own interpretation of scripture.