CTVA - The Virginian 8.08 [209] "The Substitute" 5-Nov-1969

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8.08 [209]
"The Substitute"

(previously numbered 8.11 [212] in this guide)
Original NBC Broadcast - 5 November 1969
(previously stated as 5 December 1969 - in error)

Universal City Studios, Inc.
Produced by Norman MacDonnell (no Executive)
Written by Gerald Sanford
Directed by Tony Leader

Starring:
(shown on the ride-in)
John McIntire as Clay Grainger (NOT in this episode)
Doug McClure as Trampas (appears)
Tim Matheson as Jim Horn
Sara Lane as Elizabeth Grainger (NOT in this episode)
and
James Drury as The Virginian (NOT in this episode)

Guest Stars:
Dennis Cooney [Josh Gates]
Beverlee McKinsey [Abby Clayton]

Full ending credits:
Co-Starring
James Westerfield as Gus Potter
Ken Lynch as Sheriff Stoddard
#
Donald Barry as Jake
Karl Swenson as Ezra Gates
#
Greg Palmer as Boak
Harry Cooper as Lucius Heller
#
With
Stanley Clements  . . .  Matt
Neil Russell  . . .  Luke
Pat Priest  . . .  Mary Lou
Harper Flaherty  . . .  Harper
#
Associate Producers Robert Van Scoyk and John Choy
#
Theme by Percy Faith
#
Director of Photography Jerry A. Sims (interesting shot of the ground and
horse's legs from Trampas' point of view when he was lying over the horse)

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Art Director  . . .  Robert MacKichan  (? spelling)
Set Decorations  . . .  John McCarthy and Robert C. Bradfield
Unit Manager  . . .  Henry Kline
Assistant Director  . . .  Jack Doran
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Film Editor  . . .  Richard M. Sprague
Music Supervision  . . .  Stanley Wilson
Sound  . . .  Roger A. Parish
Color Coordinator  . . .  Robert Brower
Technicolor   
Titles and Optical Effects Universal Title
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Editorial Supervision  . . .  Richard Belding
Costumes by  . . .  Helen Colvig
Makeup  . . .  Bud Westmore
Hair Stylist  . . .  Larry Germain
The Title "The Virginian" by permission of EMKA, LTD.

Series Regulars:
Trampas with brief appearance by Jim Horn and Harper

Synopsis:
Trampas' plans for a vacation are interrupted when a bounty
hunter brings him in as the suspected killer of a much loved doctor.
Although identified as the slayer by a saloon girl, Trampas insists he was
brought in as a substitute and suspects the real murderer to be the son of
one of the prominent citizens in town. (bj)

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