"The Virginian" Black Jade (TV Episode 1969) Poster

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(1969)

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6/10
The lord high everything else
bkoganbing22 November 2019
This Virginian story finds Doug McClure on the trail of a former slave James Watson whom he spotted with a watch belonging to a friend. He trails Watson to a ghost town on the edge of the Arapahoe reservation where he is like the lord high everything else from The Mikado.

But while they debate about who really owns the watch, a wounded outlaw played by William Shatner along with a stupid young girl who ran off with him and two of his men looking for assistance.

Shatner is one unreconstructed rebel who can't quite address Watson on equal terms. It's quite an acting duel between the two of them.

And I'm sure you know who settles all the accounts in this story also. Nice performances from Shatner and Watson with McClure basically a spectator.
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5/10
Flower power failure
pfors-647-50149726 September 2013
Attempt at trendy, flower power statement trips over its good intentions due to a constantly shifting tone that throws the actors off-stride. But even a more balanced script than the one writer Herb Meadow came up with mightn't have worked. James A. Watson seems too level-headed for the poetic, Thoreau-style Utopian he's playing. On the other end of the scale, William Shatner, never one to hold anything back, sloppily devours his role as the bigoted crook. Episode's best scene -- a vividly staged stampede -- arrives early, and provides McClure with another of his many comedy highlights from season eight: Trampas gets caught in the middle of the rumble clad only in red drawers.
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4/10
lousy episode
sandcrab27712 November 2020
William shatner guests in this episode and displays once again that he cannot act his way out of a wet paper bag and of course doug mcclure can't act any better so this episode is a lost cause except for the antics of jill townsend and james a. watson jr. its way to long to be so boring ... you won't miss a thing if you don't watch it
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