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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

One of the former confederate spies arrives in Stockton.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

A man tries to get his peaches to market.

The prison conditions worry Victoria

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

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!!

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

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

Nick accompanies a gypsy to her wedding.

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

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

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.

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

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.

A ghost town is inhabited by lunatics who capture Heath.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Victoria helps three indian women at a desert mission.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

Jarrod defends a Basque sheepherder.

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.

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

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

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

A fake faith healer comes to Stockton.

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!!!

Victoria has Edward deliver her medical supplies to the indians

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.

Jarrod gets amnesia while far from home.

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!

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

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

Jarrod is temporarily blinded.

The final episode of The Big Valley

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.

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.

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.

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.

An indian friend returns to Stockton

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

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

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

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

Nick manages an injured boxer, in his last fight.