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

A man tries to get his peaches to market.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Heath is sent to protect an evacuated town.

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

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

Nick manages an injured boxer, in his last fight.

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

Nick accompanies a gypsy to her wedding.

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

A couple kidnap Victoria in exchange for rice

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.

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

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

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

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

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!!

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

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.

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

One of the former confederate spies arrives in Stockton.

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.

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

A ghost town is inhabited by lunatics who capture Heath.

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

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

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

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

Victoria has Edward deliver her medical supplies to the indians

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

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

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.

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

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

Jarrod defends a Basque sheepherder.

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

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

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.

A fake faith healer comes to Stockton.

Victoria helps three indian women at a desert mission.

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

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.

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

Jarrod gets amnesia while far from home.

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.

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

The final episode of The Big Valley

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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!!!

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.

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

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

An indian friend returns to Stockton

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.

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