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Season 1 – The Big Valley

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A family defends their ranch in in 1870 California.

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Sarah G. @SarahG Feb 5 One of the best TV western series ever. Peter Breck in reality could draw a gun in .16 second. This potentially made him the fastest in TV history! See more Read all reviews
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Barbara Stanwyck

Victoria Barkley

Richard Long

Jarrod Barkley

Peter Breck

Nick Barkley

Lee Majors

Heath

Linda Evans

Audra Barkley

Napoleon Whiting

Silas

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Sep 15, 1965 Palms of Glory The valley residents turn to the Barkleys when the railroad threatens their farms and ranches. Details Episode 2 Aired Sep 22, 1965 Forty Rifles Heath considers letting a Civil War general (Andrew Duggan) join his mission. Details Episode 3 Aired Sep 29, 1965 Boots With My Father's Name Obsessed to learn her late husband's past, Victoria endangers her life in a mining town. Details Episode 4 Aired Oct 6, 1965 The Young Marauders Audra becomes involved with a young man whom the other Barkleys suspect of running a protection racket. Details Episode 5 Aired Oct 13, 1965 The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner The government wants an old man's land as the site for a beneficial dam. Details Episode 6 Aired Oct 20, 1965 Heritage Heath faces off with the young head of a fanatic society secretly planning to blow up a Barkley mine. Details Episode 7 Aired Oct 27, 1965 Winner Lose All A Spanish nobleman threatens to foreclose on ranchers when Heath falls for his daughter (Katharine Ross). Details Episode 8 Aired Nov 3, 1965 My Son, My Son Infatuated, the son of neighbors attempts to force himself on Audra. Details Episode 9 Aired Nov 10, 1965 Earthquake After a violent earthquake hits the Stockton area, Victoria is trapped in a church basement with a violent drunk (Charles Bronson) and a pregnant Indian. Details Episode 10 Aired Nov 17, 1965 The Murdered Party Jarrod incenses neighbors and family when he defends a man accused of killing a prominent Stockton resident. Details Episode 11 Aired Nov 24, 1965 The Way to Kill a Killer Nick's childhood friend discovers anthrax in his herd while it is pastured on Barkley land. Details Episode 12 Aired Dec 1, 1965 Night of the Wolf Bitten by a rabid wolf, Nick waits out the disease's incubation alone, to spare his family. Details Episode 13 Aired Dec 8, 1965 The Guilt of Matt Bentall Heath claims that the new foreman at the Barkley ranch was once the commander of a prison camp. Details Episode 14 Aired Dec 15, 1965 The Brawlers Nick takes on the leader of Irish immigrants who settled illegally on Barkley land. Details Episode 15 Aired Dec 22, 1965 Judgment in Heaven Jarrod tries to reform an outlaw's girlfriend (Lynn Loring) by having her spend Christmas with the Barkleys. Details Episode 16 Aired Dec 29, 1965 The Invaders Cutthroats wound Heath while Nick and the hands are away. Details Episode 17 Aired Jan 5, 1966 By Fires Unseen Nick's new fiancée joins the family on an annual camping trip in the mountains, but jealousy ends in tragedy. Details Episode 18 Aired Jan 19, 1966 A Time to Kill An old school chum (William Shatner) of Jarrod's may be a counterfeiter and bank robber. Details Episode 19 Aired Feb 2, 1966 Teacher of Outlaws Victoria is startled to learn why outlaws kidnapped her while she was substituting for a schoolteacher. Details Episode 20 Aired Feb 9, 1966 Under a Dark Star Jarrod insists on helping an ex-inmate whose murder conviction was overturned. Details Episode 21 Aired Feb 16, 1966 Barbary Red A dance-hall girl (Jill St. John) helps Jarrod rescue Nick and some ranch hands shanghaied by a captain. Details Episode 22 Aired Feb 23, 1966 The Death Merchant A killer involves himself in a quarrel between the Barkleys and neighbors, already resulting in a death. Details Episode 23 Aired Mar 2, 1966 The Fallen Hawk After Heath asks a friend to do a job, the man is thrown from a horse and paralyzed. Details Episode 24 Aired Mar 9, 1966 Hazard In a secretive town, Jarrod investigates Heath's hatred of a man rescued from bounty hunters. Details Episode 25 Aired Mar 23, 1966 Into the Widow's Web Heath finds more than he bargained for when he takes the blame for killing an old love's drunken husband. Details Episode 26 Aired Mar 30, 1966 By Force and Violence Victoria forces an escaped convict (Bruce Dern) at gunpoint to rescue Heath from beneath an overturned wagon. Details Episode 27 Aired Apr 6, 1966 The River Monarch The Barkley men must clear their father's name of accusations of taking Union Army gold thought lost in a shipwreck. Details Episode 28 Aired Apr 13, 1966 The Midas Man Audra falls for a speculator planning to foreclose on desperate ranchers to whom he gave high-interest loans. Details Episode 29 Aired Apr 20, 1966 Tunnel of Gold Victoria helps a friend and her ex-outlaw husband who have opened a store next to a warehouse of gold. Details Episode 30 Aired Apr 27, 1966 The Last Train to the Fair A doctor treating train-passenger Audra for appendicitis meets enemies who reveal a secret from his past. Details
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Season Info

Director
Paul Henreid, Michael Ritchie, Bernard McEveety, Paul Wendkos, Virgil Vogel, Arnold Laven, Richard C. Sarafian, Joseph Pevney, Joseph M. Newman, Joseph H. Lewis
Screenwriter
Mel Goldberg, Paul Savage, Peter Packer, Jay Simms, Judith Borrows, Christopher Knopf, Gilbert Ralston, Carey Wilber, Oliver Crawford, Tina Rome
Network
ABC
Rating
TV-G
Genre
Drama, Western
Original Language
English
Release Date
Sep 15, 1965