The Big Valley Episode Guide

Episode Guide

The Big Valley: Season 4 (1968 - 1969)

• Season 4 Episode 26: Point and Counterpoint

  Not knowing Victoria is the next target, Jarrod defends a twin accused of killing a judge.

• Season 4 Episode 25: Flight From San Miguel

  Heath helps an old friend by trying to free her husband, a revolutionary imprisoned in Mexico.

• Season 4 Episode 24: Danger Road

  Drama, following the lives of a family living on a California ranch during the late 19th century. Barbara Stanwyck stars

• Season 4 Episode 23: Town of No Exit

  Five madmen capture Heath in a ghost town and condemn him; guests Leslie Nielsen, John Carradine.

• Season 4 Episode 22: The Other Face of Justice

  The Barkleys persuade the sheriff to return to his post, not knowing of his nighttime raids with marauders.

• Season 4 Episode 21: The Battle of Mineral Springs

  Victoria and Jarrod open stage and freight lines to save a dying town, but meet a rival.

• Season 4 Episode 20: A Passage of Saints

  Jarrod defends a Mormon family's right to rent land, until he learns the man is a polygamist.

• Season 4 Episode 19: The Royal Road

  Jarrod's ward, Laura, falls for a prince (Sajid Khan) secretly involved in fraud; guest Harold Gould.

• Season 4 Episode 18: Alias Nellie Handly

  Concerned about prison conditions, Victoria poses as an inmate; guests Susan Oliver, Gavin MacLeod.

• Season 4 Episode 17: Lightfoot

  An Indian returns from law school, intending to use militancy to free his people; guest Joe Don Baker.

• Season 4 Episode 16: The 25 Graves of Midas

  Injured, unconscious Heath is hidden by a widow seeking revenge for her husband's death in a mining incident.

• Season 4 Episode 15: The Secret

  A man who believes his wife is having an affair with Jarrod moves to Stockton to ruin the Barkleys; guest Simon Oakland.

• Season 4 Episode 14: Joshua Watson

  Rodeo competitors learn a contestant hired by Nick is wanted in Arizona; guest Lou Rawls.

• Season 4 Episode 13: Top of the Stairs

  Victoria gets suspicious when she is told her brother-in-law is permanently locked away as a madman.

• Season 4 Episode 12: Hunter's Moon

  A jealous husband plans a dawn hanging for his wife's supposed lover -- Nick.

• Season 4 Episode 11: The Prize

  A bounty hunter's quarry comes for his newborn son, left with Heath when the mother dies; guest Bruce Dern.

• Season 4 Episode 10: A Stranger Everywhere

  Gunmen stalk a dressmaker they believe is the sole survivor of a bank-robbery gang; guest Julie Harris.

• Season 4 Episode 9: The Profit and the Lost

  Heath saves a gunman's life, then learns he was brought to town by a father who wants revenge for a self-defense slaying.

• Season 4 Episode 8: The Long Ride

  Audra is mute after seeing a family slaughtered, then one of the killers pursues her and Victoria.

• Season 4 Episode 7: Hell Hath No Fury

  A member (Carol Lynley) of a gang of highwaymen wants revenge on Heath for rejecting her.

• Season 4 Episode 6: The Jonah

  Audra's belief in a ranch hand helps him overcome his jinx reputation; guests Marty Allen, Wayne Rogers.

• Season 4 Episode 5: Deathtown

  Three Mexicans with whom Jarrod had a land deal were lynched for the rape/murder of a lawyer's wife.

• Season 4 Episode 4: Run of the Cat

  Badly injured Nick insists on helping track the cougar that attacked him; guest Pernell Roberts.

• Season 4 Episode 3: Presumed Dead

  A cattle rustler rescues amnesiac Victoria after a stagecoach accident and tells her they are married.

• Season 4 Episode 2: They Called Her Delilah

  Jarrod defends an ex-Confederate spy (Julie London) arrested for murder soon after arriving in Stockton.

• Season 4 Episode 1: In Silent Battle

  The Barkleys suspect the sanity of a war hero who suddenly proposes to Audra; guest Adam West.

The Big Valley: Season 3 (1967 - 1968)

• Season 3 Episode 26: The Challenge

  A senatorial hopeful uses a fake photograph of Victoria to force his opponent to withdraw; guest James Gregory.

• Season 3 Episode 25: Run of the Savage

  A 14-year-old who stole from the ranch plans to hold Nick for ransom.

• Season 3 Episode 24: Devil's Masquerade

  Heath suspects a woman who has come to wed her longtime pen pal, a homely, middle-aged farmer.

• Season 3 Episode 23: Bounty on a Barkley

  Nick falls for a newcomer (Leslie Parrish); Victoria learns why she is so reluctant.

• Season 3 Episode 22: Rimfire

  Jarrod sides with Chinese claiming land next to a mine; guests Van Williams, Mako.

• Season 3 Episode 21: The Emperor of Rice

  A desperate merchant kidnaps Victoria to force the Barkleys to help him corner the imported-rice market.

• Season 3 Episode 20: Fall of a Hero

  Jarrod must convince a hostile witness to testify for Heath in the death of an Indian scout's killer.

• Season 3 Episode 19: Shadow of a Giant

  Nick and Heath join a famed marshal's posse on the trail of outlaw brothers; guest James Whitmore.

• Season 3 Episode 18: Miranda

  A Mexican revolutionary poses as an aristocrat to get a necklace left with the Barkleys for safekeeping.

• Season 3 Episode 17: Days of Wrath

  Jarrod brings his bride home but encounters tragedy soon after arriving; guest Sandra Smith.

• Season 3 Episode 16: The Good Thieves

  Nick and Heath trail Jarrod's assailants to a town where the outlaws are leading citizens; guest Charles Grodin.

• Season 3 Episode 15: The Buffalo Man

  Victoria supports a parole system by hiring three convicts at the ranch; guests Albert Salmi, Yaphet Kotto.

• Season 3 Episode 14: Journey Into Violence

  Mountain men convict Heath of murder and sentence him to hard labor to support the victim's widow.

• Season 3 Episode 13: Night of the Executioner

  Heath must find the true conspirators when he is accused of killing a congressman.

• Season 3 Episode 12: Four Days to Furnace Hill

  Two guards substitute captured Victoria for a prisoner one of them killed; guests Bruce Dern, Fritz Weaver.

• Season 3 Episode 11: Explosion

  Only the Barkley sons are available to transport nitroglycerin to fight a forest fire; guest Judy Carne.

• Season 3 Episode 10: Explosion

  Feature-length episode of the drama, following the lives of a family living on a California ranch during the late 19th century. A raging forest fire closes in on Stockton and the only way to stop it is with a firebreak made from nitroglycerine, so the Barkley boys volunteer their services. Starring Barbara Stanwyck

• Season 3 Episode 9: A Noose Is Waiting

  A new friend of the Barkleys sets up a medical practice in Stockton while concealing plans to avenge his father's death

• Season 3 Episode 8: The Disappearance

  Victoria tries to find Audra, who vanished from a hotel overnight.

• Season 3 Episode 7: Guilty

  Jarrod believes his client was wrongly convicted of murder.

• Season 3 Episode 6: Lady Killer

  At a trail stop, Nick meets a girl whose family has unsavory plans for him and Heath; guests Marilyn Mason, Royal Dano.

• Season 3 Episode 5: Night in a Small Town

  Heath's friend accuses a woman of troublemaking, then causes a man's death; guests James Whitmore, Susan Strasberg.

• Season 3 Episode 4: The Time After Midnight

  Taking over the prosecution of a crooked businessman from a dead friend costs Jarrod his sight.

• Season 3 Episode 3: A Flock of Trouble

  Feature-length episode of the popular Western drama, following the lives of a family living on a California ranch during the late 19th century. Lee Majors and Barbara Stanwyck star

• Season 3 Episode 2: Ambush

  Victoria and her guide try to protect three Indians hiding in a mission from scalp hunters; guest James Gregory.

• Season 3 Episode 1: Joaquin

  The Barkleys' new hand is later identified as a Mexican bandit, sparking violence.

The Big Valley: Season 2 (1966 - 1967)

• Season 2 Episode 30: Cage of Eagles

  A British major claims the new explosives expert is an Irish rebel; guests Pernell Roberts, Harold Gould.

• Season 2 Episode 29: Days of Grace

  A nun saves her former love, Heath, sentenced to die on trumped-up charges; guest Karen Black.

• Season 2 Episode 28: The Lady From Mesa

  Nick tries to find the daughter of a wounded Barkley ranch hand.

• Season 2 Episode 27: Showdown in Limbo

  A sheriff asks friend Heath to help him and his son escort a prisoner.

• Season 2 Episode 26: Turn of a Card

  Heath tries to buy the freedom of a lovely Polynesian belonging to a cruel captain; guests Joseph Campanella, Don Chastain.

• Season 2 Episode 25: Plunder at Hawk's Grove

  Deputized Heath stands between looters and a town evacuated because of a weakening dam; guests Dennis Hopper, Cloris Leachman.

• Season 2 Episode 24: Court Martial

  Strangers invade the Barkley home to execute a former Union general for war crimes.

• Season 2 Episode 23: Brother Love

  The cohorts of a charlatan faith-healer plan to swindle Audra's friend; guests Robert Goulet, Gavin MacLeod.

• Season 2 Episode 22: The Price of Victory

  Nick helps a rancher goaded back into boxing after retiring from the ring with an injury.

• Season 2 Episode 21: The Haunted Gun

  Drama, following the lives of a family living on a California ranch during the late 19th century

• Season 2 Episode 20: The Stallion

  An elderly hand misinterprets an offer of an easier job and decides to prove his worth by capturing a wild stallion.

• Season 2 Episode 19: Down Shadow Street

  A ruthless judge commits Victoria to an insane asylum to prevent her from testifying that his son is guilty of murder

• Season 2 Episode 18: Boy Into Man

  A 15-year-old runs afoul of the law and flees with his siblings to find the impoverished mother who abandoned them.

• Season 2 Episode 17: Image of Yesterday

  Family matriarch Victoria Barkley encounters an old flame in dramatic circumstances, but finds he is no longer the man she remembers. Feature-length episode of the vintage Western series, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Linda Evans and Lee Majors

• Season 2 Episode 16: Wagonload of Dreams

  The Barkleys fight nature and railroad thugs when they help a farmer transport crops by wagon.

• Season 2 Episode 15: Day of the Comet

  Audra falls for a gentle man (Bradford Dillman) hiding on the ranch, then discovers he is on the run from the Army.

• Season 2 Episode 14: Hide the Children

  Feeling guilty for maligning a Gypsy as a thief, Nick agrees to bring the man's daughter to her wedding.

• Season 2 Episode 13: Day of Terror

  An outlaw (Colleen Dewhurst) and her two sons, one badly wounded, take Victoria, Audra and a Sunday-school class hostage.

• Season 2 Episode 12: Last Stage to Salt Flats

  An alcoholic salesman's secret may save the lives of fellow stagecoach passengers, stranded by robbers in the desert.

• Season 2 Episode 11: The Iron Box

  Nick and Heath are convicted of trumped-up charges in a strange town and forced to work on a corrupt warden's chain gang.

• Season 2 Episode 10: The Great Safe Robbery

  The Barkley sons and railroad detectives pursue a trio of safecrackers holding Victoria and Audra prisoner.

• Season 2 Episode 9: The Man From Nowhere

  Amnesiac Jarrod opposes his brothers in a dispute between cattle ranchers and squatters.

• Season 2 Episode 8: The Velvet Trap

  An outlaw's girlfriend (Laura Devon) plans to trick smitten Heath into killing her lover's pursuer; guest Fred Beir.

• Season 2 Episode 7: Target

  A farmer, wanting to be governor, uses violence to convince voters the Barkleys acquired their lands illegally.

• Season 2 Episode 6: The Martyr

  Jarrod risks his life and friendship to save a Basque anarchist menaced by friend and foe alike.

• Season 2 Episode 5: Pursuit

  Victoria enlists a hard-luck cowboy to help her quarantine an Indian stricken with measles.

• Season 2 Episode 4: Caesar's Wife

  An elderly man's young wife is jealous of the attentions her husband's handsome servant pays to Audra.

• Season 2 Episode 2: Legend of a General

  Feature-length drama, following the lives of a family living on a California ranch during the late 19th century. The Barkleys provide shelter to an Army man who has fled from Mexico, but their kindness is tested when Heath is arrested across the border. Starring Lee Majors, Richard Long and Barbara Stanwyck

• Season 2 Episode 1: The Lost Treasure

  A con man pursued by cohorts claims to be Heath's father in order to blackmail him.

The Big Valley: Season 1 (1965 - 1966)

• Season 1 Episode 30: The Last Train to the Fair

  A doctor treating train-passenger Audra for appendicitis meets enemies who reveal a secret from his past.

• Season 1 Episode 29: Tunnel of Gold

  Victoria helps a friend and her ex-outlaw husband who have opened a store next to a warehouse of gold.

• Season 1 Episode 28: The Midas Man

  Audra falls for a speculator planning to foreclose on desperate ranchers to whom he gave high-interest loans.

• Season 1 Episode 27: The River Monarch

  The Barkley men try to clear their father's name after he is accused of stealing Union Army gold once believed to be lost in a shipwreck

• Season 1 Episode 26: By Force and Violence

  Victoria forces an escaped convict at gunpoint to rescue Heath from beneath a mudslide; guest Bruce Dern.

• Season 1 Episode 25: 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.

• Season 1 Episode 24: Hazard

  In a secretive town, Jarrod investigates Heath's hatred of a man rescued from bounty hunters.

• Season 1 Episode 23: The Fallen Hawk

  After Heath asks a friend to do a job, the man is thrown from a horse and paralyzed; guest Marilyn Mason.

• Season 1 Episode 22: The Death Merchant

  A killer involves himself in a quarrel between the Barkleys and neighbors, already resulting in a death.

• Season 1 Episode 21: Barbary Red

  A dance-hall girl (Jill St. John) helps Jarrod rescue Nick and some ranch hands shanghaied by a captain.

• Season 1 Episode 20: Under a Dark Star

  Jarrod insists on helping an ex-inmate whose murder conviction was overturned; guests Bruce Dern, Albert Salmi.

• Season 1 Episode 19: Teacher of Outlaws

  Victoria is startled to learn why outlaws kidnapped her while she was substituting for a schoolteacher.

• Season 1 Episode 18: A Time to Kill

  An old school chum of Jarrod's may be a counterfeiter and bank robber; guest William Shatner.

• Season 1 Episode 17: By Fires Unseen

  Nick's fiancee joins the family on their annual camping trip in the mountains, but jealousy leads to tragic results

• Season 1 Episode 16: Invaders

  Heath is mugged by a group who subsequently act as good samaritans, returning him to the ranch to claim a reward

• Season 1 Episode 15: Judgment in Heaven

  Jarrod tries to reform an outlaw's girlfriend (Lynn Loring) by having her spend Christmas with the Barkleys.

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• Season 1 Episode 14: The Brawlers

  Nick takes on the leader of Irish immigrants who settled illegally on Barkley land; guest Claude Akins.

• Season 1 Episode 13: The Guilt of Matt Bentall

  Heath claims a new foreman was once commandant of a corrupt prison camp in the Civil War; guest John Anderson.

• Season 1 Episode 12: Night of the Wolf

  Bitten by a rabid wolf, Nick waits out the disease's incubation alone, to spare his family; guest Ronny Howard.

• Season 1 Episode 11: The Way to Kill a Killer

  Nick's childhood friend discovers anthrax in his herd while it is pastured on Barkley land.

• Season 1 Episode 10: The Murdered Party

  Jarrod incenses neighbors and family when he defends a man accused of killing a prominent Stockton resident.

• Season 1 Episode 9: Earthquake!

  An earthquake traps Victoria in a cave with a violent drunk and a pregnant Indian; guest Charles Bronson.

• Season 1 Episode 8: My Son, My Son

  Infatuated, the son of neighbors attempts to force himself on Audra.

• Season 1 Episode 7: Winner Lose All

  A Spanish nobleman threatens to foreclose on ranchers when Heath falls for his daughter (Katharine Ross).

• Season 1 Episode 6: Heritage

  Heath faces off with the young head of a fanatic society secretly planning to blow up a Barkley mine.

• Season 1 Episode 5: The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner

  The government wants an old man's land as the site for a beneficial dam; guest Arthur O'Connell.

• Season 1 Episode 4: The Young Marauders

  Audra's beau, supposedly a traveling horse trainer, is part of a violent band of extortionists.

• Season 1 Episode 3: Boots With My Father's Name

  Obsessed to learn her late husband's past, Victoria endangers her life in a mining town.

• Season 1 Episode 2: Forty Rifles

  Heath considers letting a Civil War general join his mission; guest Andrew Duggan.

• Season 1 Episode 1: Palms of Glory

  The valley residents turn to the Barkleys when the railroad threatens their farms and ranches.