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 6.05 [154]
"Johnny Moon"
Original NBC Broadcast - 11 October 1967

Universal City Studios, Inc.
Executive Producer Norman Macdonnell
Produced by David Levinson (no associate producer on this episode)
Written by Stanford Whitmore
Directed by Abner Biberman

Starring:
(shown on the ride-in)
Charles Bickford as John Grainger
Doug McClure as Trampas
Clu Gulager as Emmett Ryker
Don Quine as Stacey Grainger
Sara Lane as Elizabeth Grainger
and
James Drury as The Virginian (in this episode)

Complete credits currently unavailable

Guest Stars:
Tom Bell ...................... Johnny Moon
Ben Johnson ................... Hogan
Michael Higgins ............... Lawson
Bo Hopkins .................... Will

Co-Starring:
Cliff Potter .................. Wes
George Brenlin ................ Sammyjay
Norman Leavitt ................ Storekeeper
TV Collector lists John Bryant as Doctor

Music Score Leonard Rosenman
'The Virginian' theme music by Percy Faith
Color by Technicolor
The title 'The Virginian' by permission of EMKA LTD.

Series Regulars in this episode:   The Virginian, Stacey and Liz

Brief Synopsis:
The Virginian finds a badly wounded Canadian Mountie who had chased a killer
across the border.  While the man recovers at Shiloh the Virginian learns
he's wanted for desertion.  The foreman, unable to convince Moon to go back
to Canada, becomes involved in helping the man pursue the murderous outlaws.

(Note:  This synopsis was adapted from THE TV COLLECTOR magazine, Vol. 2,
No. 49, July-August 1990, p.12, and THE TELEVISION WESTERNS EPISODE GUIDE by
Harris M. Lentz III, McFarland & Company, Inc., 1997, p. 434.  It has not
been viewed by us personally to attest to its accuracy.) (bj)

Note: Tom Bell was one of Britain's up-and-coming actors at the time and I remember
the BBC continuity announcer making a special mention of the fact that he was a
guest star in this episode  (brendan gardiner)

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