The Big Valley
TVPG
Drama
Western
A wealthy widow and the rest of the Barkley family navigate adventures and defend their vast ranch in 1870s California.
Cast & Crew
Barbara Stanwyck Victoria
Richard Long Jarrod
Peter Breck Nick
Lee Majors Heath
Linda Evans Audra
Napoleon Whiting Silas
Charles Briles Eugene
Virgil W. Vogel Director
Louis F. Edelman Screenwriter
A. I. Bezzerides Screenwriter
Jules V. Levy Producer
Lou Morheim Producer
Arthur Gardner Producer
Arnold Laven Producer
Wilfrid M. Cline Cinematography
Sherman Todd Editor
George Duning Original Music
Jack De Shields Art Director
Harvey Clermont Casting
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Upcoming TV Airings
The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.
Friday, April 11
Target
Season 2 • Episode 7
A farmer runs for governor and uses smear tactics to gain attention.
Saturday, April 12
The Midas Man
Season 1 • Episode 28
Audra falls for a speculator exploiting the misfortunes of valley ranchers.
Saturday, April 12
Pursuit
Season 2 • Episode 5
Victoria enlists a hard-luck cowboy to help her quarantine an Indian stricken with measles.
Saturday, April 12
The Velvet Trap
Season 2 • Episode 8
A beautiful girl tricks Nick into killing a man whom he thought was an outlaw.
Saturday, April 12
The Man From Nowhere
Season 2 • Episode 9
Amnesiac Jarrod opposes his brothers in a dispute between cattle ranchers and squatters.
Monday, April 14
Run of the Cat
Season 4 • Episode 4
Badly injured Nick insists on helping track the cougar that attacked him.
Monday, April 14
The Great Safe Robbery
Season 2 • Episode 10
Victoria and Audra are forced to act as hostages for three inept safe robbers.
Tuesday, April 15
Deathtown
Season 4 • Episode 5
Three Mexicans with whom Jarrod had a land deal are lynched for the rape/murder of a lawyer's wife.
Tuesday, April 15
The Iron Box
Season 2 • Episode 11
Heath and Nick are arrested in a strange town on a trumped-up charge.
Wednesday, April 16
The Jonah
Season 4 • Episode 6
In order to bring in their harvest on time, the Barkleys hire a man with a reputation as a jinx.
Wednesday, April 16
Last Stage to Salt Flats
Season 2 • Episode 12
Victoria, Heath and Jarrod's stagecoach is attacked by payroll robbers.
Thursday, April 17
Hell Hath No Fury
Season 4 • Episode 7
A member (Carol Lynley) of a gang of highwaymen wants revenge on Heath for rejecting her.
Thursday, April 17
Day of Terror
Season 2 • Episode 13
An outlaw woman and her two sons take Audra, Victoria and a Sunday school class hostage.
Friday, April 18
The Long Ride
Season 4 • Episode 8
Audra is mute after seeing a family slaughtered, then one of the killers pursues her and Victoria.
Friday, April 18
Hide the Children
Season 2 • Episode 14
Nick agrees to bring a Gypsy's daughter to a wedding.
Saturday, April 19
Tunnel of Gold
Season 1 • Episode 29
A large amount of gold awaiting shipment to the Mint is stored in the Stockton bank.
Saturday, April 19
The Martyr
Season 2 • Episode 6
Jarrod risks his life and friendship to save a Basque anarchist menaced by friend and foe alike.
Saturday, April 19
Day of the Comet
Season 2 • Episode 15
A man takes refuge on the Barkley ranch and is discovered by Audra.
Saturday, April 19
Wagonload of Dreams
Season 2 • Episode 16
The Barkleys fight nature and railroad thugs when they help a farmer transport crops by wagon.
Monday, April 21
The Profit and the Lost
Season 4 • Episode 9
The father of a man Heath killed in self-defense takes out a contract on Heath.
Monday, April 21
Image of Yesterday
Season 2 • Episode 17
Mercenaries use worse tactics than those of the marauders they were meant to eradicate.
Tuesday, April 22
A Stranger Everywhere
Season 4 • Episode 10
Nick's practical joke backfires when people start to believe the story he has been telling.
Tuesday, April 22
Boy Into Man
Season 2 • Episode 18
A woman deserts her three children because she cannot support them.
Wednesday, April 23
The Prize
Season 4 • Episode 11
A bounty hunter's quarry comes for his newborn son, left with Heath when the mother dies.
Wednesday, April 23
Down Shadow Street
Season 2 • Episode 19
Victoria witnesses a murder and recognizes the young killer as the son of a judge in Stockton.
Thursday, April 24
Hunter's Moon
Season 4 • Episode 12
A jealous husband plans a dawn hanging for his wife's supposed lover -- Nick.
Thursday, April 24
The Stallion
Season 2 • Episode 20
The Barkleys try to persuade one of their elderly ranch hands to take it easy.
Friday, April 25
Top of the Stairs
Season 4 • Episode 13
Victoria gets suspicious when she is told her brother-in-law is permanently locked away as a madman.
Friday, April 25
The Haunted Gun
Season 2 • Episode 21
Jarrod doubts an aide's claim that a senator may be assassinated.
Saturday, April 26
The Last Train to the Fair
Season 1 • Episode 30
Audra suffers an appendicitis attack on board an excursion train.
Saturday, April 26
Target
Season 2 • Episode 7
A farmer runs for governor and uses smear tactics to gain attention.
Saturday, April 26
The Price of Victory
Season 2 • Episode 22
Nick helps a rancher goaded back into boxing after retiring from the ring with an injury.
Saturday, April 26
Brother Love
Season 2 • Episode 23
A faith healer comes to town with a scheme to swindle the people in the valley.
Monday, April 28
Joshua Watson
Season 4 • Episode 14
Rodeo competitors learn a contestant hired by Nick is wanted in Arizona.
Monday, April 28
Court Martial
Season 2 • Episode 24
Strangers invade the Barkley home to execute a former Union general for war crimes.
Tuesday, April 29
The Secret
Season 4 • Episode 15
Adam Howard seeks revenge when he suspects that his wife and Jarrod are having an affair.
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