As long as your mother promises not to start stalking the 81-year-old TV great, I can tell you that he now lives in Houston.

Ever the cowboy, he has continued to work with horses down south, competing in dressage, polo and cutting-horse competitions.

"Texas has been good to me," Drury told Oklahoma City's "The Oklahoman" newspaper. "I've worked with many great horse trainers here and up through Oklahoma. I love it all -- the dust, the sweat, the sunshine and the smell of the horses."

As idyllic as all that sounds, he hasn't given up on Hollywood. Believe it or not, he was doing that interview in part to promote a new TV show he's working on.

The animated kids show, called "Billy and the Bandit," would feature him as the grandfather of Billy, who is in fact the great-great-grandson of Drury's star-making character on "The Virginian."

Sadly, though, the project is on hold due to lack of money. Its producer, Gary Clarke, turned to the crowd-funding website Kickstarter to ask fans to back the show themselves, but he failed to reach his funding goal.

Clarke said in March that "it looks like I've done all I can do," but he didn't totally give up, saying that "I hope that somehow the project will come to fruition."

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