"The Virginian" Jump-Up (TV Episode 1971) Poster

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(1971)

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Hard Labour
hans-amstel-67-13748526 June 2011
Warning: Spoilers
Roy Tate dons a new suit dressing up for a trip to a town where he is having time off and also to hopefully meet an old flame is she is still working there.

While there he plays cards with a slippery fingered con-artist who has tried to get the saloon owner John Driscoll to go shares in his gambling venture stating he can't lose.

Tate wins a round but when he tries to collect the pot he is accused of having cards up his sleeve and, to prove this, slippery fingers pulls a card out of Tates clothing.

When Tate says he wants to get the card shark for lying, and betting crook, there is an opportunity for Driscoll frame Tate for the killing of the slippery fingered con artist.
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The last episode
jarrodmcdonald-15 October 2015
'Jump-Up' was the last broadcast episode of this long-running western television series. Although it had gone through a slight format change at the beginning of the final season, it still continued to tell the kinds of stories that fans had come to expect.

A total of 249 episodes were produced. Every episode was 75 minutes long (aired with 15 minutes of advertising to fill a 90-minute time slot) and every episode was in color. The format changes in the final season did improve the show's ratings considerably (up to #18 after it had slipped out of the top 30 the previous season). However, the show became a casualty of the networks' shift to give audiences more urban programs, meaning that series with rural themes were dropped. 'The Virginian' is the third-longest running television western, after 'Gunsmoke' and 'Bonanza.'

James Drury and Doug McClure would reunite with Lee Majors for a special episode of ABC's 'The Fall Guy' in 1983. Drury once again played The Virginian and McClure appeared as Trampas.
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2/10
Last of the series
martinxperry-1486829 August 2019
The last year of this series saw a move well away from the original show make up and tone. Even the intro music and opening scenes were totally removed from what was before. This final episode was so far away from the original "Virginian" that it looked like just another western. Lee Majors is a great actor in many genres, but this episode with Lee up front looked like anything but "The Virginian". This was just a random small screen, western show. It just seems like a sad way to close out the series.
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1/10
Fake Virginian Episode
chpayne-1228325 October 2019
Very last MFS to be shown. Whether anymore episodes were made?? But, to have this be the end of 9 seasons,without the Virginian or Trampas, is disrespectful of those 9 years.
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