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.

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.

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!!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Heath is sent to protect an evacuated town.

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

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.

Nick manages an injured boxer, in his last fight.

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.

A couple kidnap Victoria in exchange for rice

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.

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

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.

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

Nick accompanies a gypsy to her wedding.

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

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 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.

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

Jarrod defends a Basque sheepherder.

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.

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.

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

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.

The final episode of The Big Valley

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 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.

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.