The Virginian is an football tv series starring Doug McClure and James Drury, that aired from 1962 to 1971 for an overall total of 249 events on NBC. It was a series. The Virginian became the first series of television. Powerful, it conducted for nine seasons--tv's third longest western. It follows Gunsmoke at events and twenty five seasons, also Bonanza at two seasons and 430 episodes.