The Big Valley

Sep 15, 1965

In this series premiere, the railroad has hired men to force the farmers and ranchers of Stockton off their land. The Barkleys join with the rest of the valley to help fight them off. While at home an angry young man, Heath, shows up claimimg to be the deceased Tom Barkleys' illegitimate son.

Sep 22, 1965

While preparing for a major cattle drive bunching the Barkley's herd with those of other ranchers, Heath has major difficulties being accepted as a Barkley, especially by the ranch hands. Then when Nick's former commander in the war comes to visit, Heath is suspicious of him, and with good reason. He is there to cause trouble and steal the herd!! Nick ends up getting shot while on the drive and has to be taken to town, leaving Heath in charge of the drive. Heath ends up saving the day, and finally the hands begin to accept him as a true Barkley.

Sep 29, 1965

Victoria begins to wonder if Tom ever truly loved her, if he could go off and have an affair which produces a child. So she's off to Heath's hometown Strawberry to find out more about Tom and Leah's (Heath's mother) relationship.

Oct 6, 1965

Audra is save by a man who claims to be a mustang hunter, but who's band of mustangers are also extorting protection money from the farmers and ranchers of Stockon. While Audra is smitten with him her brothers are suspicious, and soon find out the truth. Which Audra does as well. . .after she is kidnapped by them.

Oct 13, 1965

Victoria sells land to an old friend, while the Barkley boys are part of a plan to flood it!!!

Oct 20, 1965

While Heath investigates violence at one of the Barkley mines, he discovers that the miners hate the Barkley's for unkept promises. This discovered they work to set things right before anything else happens.

Oct 27, 1965

Heath falls for a beautiful spanish girl, whose father happens to be involved in a land dispute with the Barkleys! Her father disapproves of Heath because of his illegitamate birth, picturing a much finer bred man for his only daughter. He sets about using the land problems to break them apart.

Nov 3, 1965

An old childhood friend of Audra's returns whom she'd like to be involved with. She doesn't know however that he is emotionally disturbed, dangerously so.

Nov 10, 1965

Victoria is in a mission church with a pregnant indian woman, when an earthquake collapses it into a forgotten mine underneath. As if the situation isn't isn't bad enough. . they are also trapped with a man whom Nick had fired and who now has a serious grudge against the Barkleys.

Nov 17, 1965

Jarrod defends a man accused of murder, even though the only witness is his own brother, Heath!!

Nov 24, 1965

When one of Nick's old friends, Mariano Montoya, comes through town on his way to sell his cattle, trouble hits in the form of deadly anthrax. The man's cattle begin to die off and it seems as though they will have to shoot them all, killing as well Mariano's dreams for the money. Until Eugene tells them of something called immunization, which he believes will work. Mariano isn't so sure however and tells them that to prove it works, the Barkleys must first try it on their own prize bull!The bull collapses and it looks as though it has been killed but then it moves and gets up, it works!! Mariano's herd is saved!

Dec 1, 1965

When Nick is bitten by a rabid wolf, he makes Heath swear not to say a word, and leaves town so his family will not have to witness what will happen to him.

Dec 8, 1965

When the Barkleys invite the foreman of their logging operations to dinner, Heath walks in and tries to kill the man on sight. It turns out that the man is Matt Bentell, the warden of violent, horrible Carterson Prison, where Heath was held during the war. A man whom he had sworn to kill if he ever saw him again. The family comes up with the brilliant idea to send Heath up to the logging camp with the man to help with the building of log flumes, and to protect the man whose identity has been brought into the open. Heath ends up saving his life and learns that people can change.

Dec 15, 1965

A group of irish immigrants settle down on Barkley land, believing that they bought the land legally. Nick, along with the others at first, believes they are merely squatters. They, however, refuse to believe that the land does not belong to them.

Dec 22, 1965

Jarrod decides to bring home one of his clients, a young woman named Maybelle, for Christmas. Her accused crime aiding and abbetting her outlaw boyfriend, a boyfriend who recently escaped from jail and is now looking for Maybelle.

Dec 29, 1965

While out counting cattle Heath comes across a dead animal. When he gets down off of his horse to investigate, he is shot by the same rawhiders who killed the cow. When they realize that he is still alive, they decide to take him back to the ranch for a finder's ""reward"". Once there they find that all of the other men are gone for at least a week, leaving the house and all within ripe for the picking.

Jan 5, 1966

Nick returns from a trip from San Francisco with a big surprise. . . a fiance!! While he is completely smitten with her, the rest of the family isn't so quickly won over. They see the truth, that she's just not ready to leave behind the life of parties and numerous suitors, to which she has become accustomed.

Jan 19, 1966

Jarrod is happy to see an old law school friend. . until he learns there is a secret service agent on his tail. It seems everywhere he goes counterfeit money follows, and Jarrod is determined to find out what's going on with his old friend.

Feb 2, 1966

Mistaken for the schoolteacher, Victoria is kidnapped by an outlaw who wishes to learn to read.

Feb 9, 1966

A guilt ridden Jarrod offers to help a man that he helped to convict of a crime that Jarrod now knows that he did not commit. Even though the man threatened to kill Jarrod at the trial.

Feb 16, 1966

While having a birthday drink at The Barbary Red saloon with two of his ranch hands, Nick is shanghaied.

Feb 23, 1966

Handy Random, theman who killed the man that killed Tom Barkley, comes to Stockton. It's a happy reunion for all but Heath who hates the man, and for good reason. Everywhere he goes he starts range wars to profit from them.

Mar 2, 1966

Heath feels that his friend's injury and paralysis is his fault, and ends up being used by the man.

Mar 9, 1966

A man comes to the ranch looking for Heath and gets shot by bounty hunters. It turns out he's not a friend of Heath's like he stated, in fact Heath has sworn to kill him himself.

Mar 23, 1966

Heath's childhood sweetheart Libby suddenly reappears in his life, bringing nothing but trouble.He ends up thrown in jail, accused of the murder of Liberty's drunken husband, by the new D.A. who's out to prove that the Barkleys power and money can't buy everything. It's a race to prove Heath's innocence and save him from a fate at the end of a rope!!

Mar 30, 1966

When Victoria and Heath head up to the lodge to prepare things for the whole family, their pleasant ride turns into a nightmare. After becoming stuck in a muddy section of road, Heath gets out to help push, only to have the axle break and the heavily loaded wagon fall on him. Unable to free him herself, Victoria sets out to find help. She soon finds that the only person able to help is an escaped convict with bounty hunters on his tail, and no intentions of stopping to help anyone.

Apr 6, 1966

When a riverboat belonging to the the Barkleys, which sank years before taking with it a fortune in government gold, is recovered, the gold is nowhere to be found. Rumors and accusations soon fly, that it was Tom Barkley who stole the gold and sank the boat to cover it up. An investigation follows which seems to prove that Tom was guilty, a fact that could cost the Barkleys their fortune!!!

Apr 13, 1966

Audra falls for a man out to make money off the other ranchers in the valley, by taking their land.

Apr 20, 1966

Some men try to dig a tunnel from a general store to the train depot next door, to steal the Barkley's gold shipment.

Apr 27, 1966

While on their way to the fair in Sacremento, Audra is stricken with a severe case of appendicitis. Fortunately there is a doctor on board, unfortunately he is being chased down by men who wish to see him hang.

Sep 12, 1966

A con man comes claiming to be Heath's real father, not Tom Barkley.

Sep 19, 1966

Part 1, Heath is down in Mexico where an old friend of the family escapes arrest, fleeing to the Barkley ranch. Heath is imprisoned to be held in exchange for the general.

Sep 26, 1966

Nick and Jarrod head to Mexico to break out Heath, who has already broken out and been recaptured.

Oct 3, 1966

An old friend of Audra's has a new , very young, stepmother who likes him as more than a son, and is jealous of Audra.

Oct 10, 1966

Victoria heads alone into the desert to find a sick indian before he reaches, and infects, his people.

Oct 17, 1966

Jarrod defends a Basque sheepherder.

Oct 31, 1966

A candidate for governor, Joshua Hawks, who had been traveling up and down California spreading lies and causing trouble, comes to Stockton.His target this time, The Barkleys, his story, that Tom Barkley stole every inch of land that they own. He chose the wrong family to mess with this time though, because the Barkleys don't lie down for anyone they come out fighting. Against the wishes of his campain manager, the man who fabricated the story, he decides to, foolishly, stay and fight. Jarrod decides not to bring about a libel charge against Hawks, knowing that it would only result in a long drawn out court battle. Instead he asks the senator to form a committee of four men to decide on the case. Hawks cooks up a scheme to murder the committee and blame it on the Barkleys, he even kills his campaign manager when he decides to leave him, after he has found out Hawks' plan. The plan backfires however and Hawks' ends up getting himself killed instead. In the end The Barkleys get the good

Nov 7, 1966

A woman asks Nick for help, pretending to be on the run from her former outlaw boyfriend. It turns out that she was with him all along, and was merely using Nick.

Nov 14, 1966

Jarrod gets amnesia while far from home.

Nov 21, 1966

Bumbling thieves hold Victoria and Audra hostage as they try to open a safe at the train station.

Nov 28, 1966

While in a strange town, Heath and Nick buy a bull from a man who turns around and has them arrested for stealing it. The sherrif catches up to them while they sit around their campfire, and a fight ensues in which Heath badly burns his leg in the fire. The crooked sheriff takes them to a road gang prison to await trail. . .in a few months!! The cruel warden refuses to allow Heath a doctor and makes him work alongside the others. They soon find out the real reason that innocent drifters are arrested and imprisoned, free work labour for the man whom the Barkley brothers had bought the bull from. Meanwhile, at home Jarrod has found out what has happened to his brothers and heads out after them. Arriving at the prison he demands to see them and when the warden refuses he threatens him with legal action if he is not allowed to see his clients. After he speaks with them he rides off to find the circuit judge. Getting scared that the truth will come out now that he realizes who he's dealing

Dec 5, 1966

Heath and companions are stranded in the desert, miles from civilization or water!!!!

Dec 12, 1966

Victoria and Audra are held captive in the church by an outlaw and her sons.

Dec 19, 1966

Nick accompanies a gypsy to her wedding.

Dec 26, 1966

Audra falls in love with a man on the run.

Jan 2, 1967

A man tries to get his peaches to market.

Jan 9, 1967

An old beau of Victoria's comes to town, but he is not the man she remembers.

Jan 16, 1967

15-year-old Lud Akely is determined to take care of his younger siblings without any help from the Barkleys, who are trying to help find the mother who abandoned them.

Jan 23, 1967

Victoria witnesses a murder, committed by her godson, and is thrown in a sanitarium to prevent her testimony.

Jan 30, 1967

An old ranch hand tries to prove he is still useful, by capturing a wild stallion . . . alone.

Feb 6, 1967

Gunman turned senator Jud Robson comes to Stockton, and soon begins to say he is being stalked. The main problem with his story, he is suspicious of EVERYONE.

Feb 13, 1967

Nick manages an injured boxer, in his last fight.

Feb 20, 1967

A fake faith healer comes to Stockton.

Mar 6, 1967

An old war friend of Nick's is being courtmartialed, along with Nick himself!

Mar 13, 1967

Heath is sent to protect an evacuated town.

Mar 20, 1967

Heath travels to bring his brothers money for a water pump, but a gambler wants to relieve him of it.

Mar 27, 1967

Heath and company transport a wanted outlaw and must fight off his brother.

Apr 3, 1967

Nick goes to find the daughter of a seriously injured ranch hand, with unexpected results.

Apr 17, 1967

Heath is wrongfully arrested for attempted rape, and is helped by a nun who used to be his girlfriend.

Apr 24, 1967

Nick captures an eagle, and a dynamiter causes trouble at a Barkley mine.

Sep 11, 1967

A man is hired at the ranch who is believed to be a Mexican outlaw thought long dead.

Sep 18, 1967

Victoria helps three indian women at a desert mission.

Sep 25, 1967

To pay off a gambling debt, sheepherder Josiah Freeman pawns off his flock on Nick, who stubbornly tries to tend the troublesome sheep — despite insults and threats from his fellow cattlemen

Oct 2, 1967

Jarrod is temporarily blinded.

Oct 9, 1967

Heath and family help a wayward saloon girl.

Oct 16, 1967

Nick stops at an inn where they kill people for their money.

Oct 30, 1967

A client of Jarrod's escapes and takes over the schoolhouse where Audra is substitute teacher.

Nov 6, 1967

While on a layover in a strange town, Audra disappears without a trace, leaving her desperate mother to find her.

Nov 13, 1967

A deranged doctor moves to town and makes Victoria, then Audra, his next victim.

Nov 20, 1967

Part 1, A forest fire rages drawing closer to Stockton. The only solution, a firebreak made with nitroglyceryn!!

Nov 27, 1967

Part2, The Barkley boys volunteer to take the nitro to the fire!!

Dec 4, 1967

Victoria is grabbed by men on their way to a prison, who need to replace the female prisoner they killed.

Dec 11, 1967

While traveling through a strange town, a murder occurs and an innocent man is accused of it. Heath saw the man who really committed the crime, a fact which gets him more trouble than he bargained for.

Dec 18, 1967

Accused of killing one of their people, a band of ""religious"" take Heath captive, where he is forced to work as a slave to the widow of the dead man.

Dec 25, 1967

The Barkleys hire a bunch of convicts to help with a harvest, and find out that they are tormented by an evil overseer.

Jan 1, 1968

Heath and Nick travel across the state line to find the two brothers that shot Jarrod in the midst of a robbery. What they find is a town full of people who think of the outlaws as saints, since they're the ones who built the town. In the end the town finds out their true colors and they are brought to justice.

Jan 8, 1968

After his new bride is murdered, a grief stricken Jarrod goes out for revenge.

Jan 15, 1968

When the Barkleys meet a Mexican fleeing a revolution, they vow to help protect him

Jan 29, 1968

When the Stryder gang escapes, Heath and Nick want to help catch them

Feb 5, 1968

Jarod defends Heath in court when he is accused of murder.

Feb 12, 1968

A couple kidnap Victoria in exchange for rice

Feb 19, 1968

When Jarod goes to Rimfire to conclude a merge of two mines, trouble starts.

Feb 26, 1968

Nick falls for newcomer Layle Johnson, who is slow to respond to his attentions. Victoria discovers why - she's already married!

Mar 4, 1968

A friend of Heath's has been carrying on a correspondence courtship with a woman who is to be his mail-order bride.

Mar 11, 1968

Nick sets out to emotionally help a 14 year old boy who is rejected by his high-class parents.

Mar 18, 1968

When a senator arrives in Stockton to promote his re-election, troubles flare when his opponent releases a fraudulent photo.

Sep 23, 1968

Victoria's first clue of Major Jonathan Eliot's mental imbalance is when he proposes to Laura.

Sep 30, 1968

One of the former confederate spies arrives in Stockton.

Oct 7, 1968

When a Cattle Rancher suffers amnesia, he believes that Victoria is his Wife.

Oct 21, 1968

After a panther nearly kills Nick, he wants revenge.

Oct 28, 1968

When Jarrod visits Baker City, he gets involved in a Mexican Marital mix-up.

Nov 11, 1968

The Barkleys hire a man famous for his bad luck to help harvest their crops.

Nov 18, 1968

When Heath falls in love with a woman, he doesn't realize how dangerous she is, and what could happen to him.

Nov 25, 1968

A young girl witnesses a massacre, and is now being stalked. Victoria must stop this before it is too late.

Dec 2, 1968

When Heath kills someone in self-defense, he becomes a wanted man

Dec 9, 1968

When Jennie's house is ransacked by three gunmen, Nick realises his practical joke wasn't so great after all!

Dec 16, 1968

When Heath is asked to look after a wanted man's baby, he gets himself into trouble.

Dec 30, 1968

Nick is believed to be having an affair with a man's wife, and the man plans to hang Nick in the morning

Jan 6, 1969

Victoria learns that her brother-in-law has been declared insane.

Jan 20, 1969

Everyone has lost their patience even before the annual rodeo has begun

Jan 27, 1969

A wealthy and powerful rancher moves into Stockton to ruin the Barkley enterprises. His motive: intense hatred of Jarrod, who he thinks is having an affair with his young wife.

Feb 3, 1969

Someone has robbed the Dutton Mining Company, and Heath is taking the blame.

Feb 17, 1969

An indian friend returns to Stockton

Feb 24, 1969

The prison conditions worry Victoria

Mar 3, 1969

When a prince from India comes to Stockton, Laura falls in love with him. However, the prince is an imposter.

Mar 10, 1969

Bigots harass a Mormon family who have rented a house from Jarrod.

Mar 24, 1969

Victoria and Jarod spend the night in a town which has seen better days

Mar 31, 1969

The formar Sheriff of Stockton is the leader of a gang gone on a killing spree.

Apr 7, 1969

A ghost town is inhabited by lunatics who capture Heath.

Apr 21, 1969

Victoria has Edward deliver her medical supplies to the indians

Apr 28, 1969

A woman asks Heath to convince her rebel Mexican husband to leave Mexico

May 19, 1969

The final episode of The Big Valley