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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

A man tries to get his peaches to market.

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

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

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

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.

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

Nick accompanies a gypsy to her wedding.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!!

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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!!!

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.

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

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

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

One of the former confederate spies arrives in Stockton.

A couple kidnap Victoria in exchange for rice

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Victoria helps three indian women at a desert mission.

Jarrod defends a Basque sheepherder.

Victoria has Edward deliver her medical supplies to the indians

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

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

A fake faith healer comes to Stockton.

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.

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.

Jarrod gets amnesia while far from home.

The final episode of The Big Valley

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.

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

An indian friend returns to Stockton

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!!!

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.

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

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.

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