Virginian - Season 1, The DVDONE OF THE GREATEST TV WESTERNS OF ALL TIME From the Executor Producer of Rawhide The Western was the major genre on television in the late fifties and early sixties. 'Wagon Train', 'Gunsmoke', 'Cheyenne', 'Maverick', 'Rawhide', 'Laramie' and 'Bonanza' were rewarding their sponsors and networks with large audiences. A revisionist version of Owen Wister's classic 1902 novel of the same name, the Virginian became a cult classic with a huge fan base all