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The Virginian accidentally comes upon, and is held at gunpoint by, young Lon Mortison. The boy had been searching for a gambler who he thinks is responsible for his father's suicide, and had already shot and wounded a man who interfered. To convince the boy to give himself up, The Virginian recounts in flashback how Trampas first came to Shiloh Ranch, seeking revenge on Judge Garth who had been forced to kill Trampas' father in self-defense.
Note: Roberta Shore does not appear in this episode.Garth is asked by a friend to put on a defense for a son who has already been hung. The community fights it but Garth plunges ahead with the aid of a judge. The outcome uncovers several unpleasant facts about the community and the truth.
Guest Stars:Joan Blondell (Rosanna Dobie), John Dehner (Frank Sturgis)
Note: James Drury, Doug McClure, Gary Clarke and Roberta Shore do not appear in this episode.In Santa Rita The Virginian meets an old flame, Savannah, who has been seeing a very jealous local man, Gordie Madden. Savannah is accused of murdering Madden and The Virginian gets Judge Garth to come and defend her. However, the cards are stacked against them as Madden's wealthy father controls the town, including the Sheriff, and wants revenge.
Guest Stars:Everett Sloane (Henry T. Madden), Gena Rowlands (Savannah), Stephen McNally (Sheriff Avedon), Arthur Franz (Fitz Warren), Joanna Moore (Jane Dent)
Note: DComing to Genre Part Four: Songs in Conversation (the Burkean Jam)
What We Sing About When We Sing About Love
Forgive the long runway for this installment. We’ll return to the strategies of the earlier parts–the kaleidoscopic, Grammar B-inflected amalgam of biography, cultural history, close reading of lyrics, and glossing of many video clips (with a few personal anecdotes)--after I lay out a number of frames and contexts before the in-flight programming begins.
In earlier installments I put forward a claim that an epideictic purpose drives the pop love song, performing praise (and blame) of prospective, current, and past lovers and also implicitly praising youth’s capacity to feel strong emotions, the full range including love, longing, desire, jealousy, regret, loneliness, or any soul-stirring emotion associated with the trials and tribulations of youth. I won’t back off that claim. I will add, though, as many of you might remember me saying in pedagogy sessions, that all rhetoric worthy of analysis incorporates, in a dynamic though often understated balance, all three kinds of rhetoric Aristotle describes, the deliberative pointing to future action, the forensic judging of past action, and the epideictic assigning of praise and blame in the present. The pop song may pulse and dwell in the present, but the past and future poke and prod their way in.
What, then, do singer-songwriters sing about when they sing about love? How does the canon of pop love songs function as a kind of mass media scholarly conversation, albeit in non-academic language and familiar and accessible musical idioms? I call this conversation “scholarly” because most people become experts on love through lived experience (primary sources) and consumption of the cultural conversation about love (secondary sources).
I place singer-songwriters (and those who do one or the other) in the vanguard of maintaining and contributing to this conversation. 
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