The Big Valley

A newly hired ranch hand is suspected of being the famous outlaw Joaquin Murietta, supposedly dead in an ambush ten years before.

Victoria and a reluctant Simon Carter are the only protection three Yaqui Indian women have from bounty-seeking scalp hunters.

Nick is tricked into winning a flock of sheep in a card game. His first instinct is to get rid of them immediately, but his neighbors' reactions start to rankle and he finds himself increasingly unable to back down as a matter of principle.

Jarrod is blinded by an explosion set by a scoundrel who doesn't want to face him, as Acting District Attorney, at trial. The family encourages Jarrod to continue with the case, and assists him at the trial.

Tom Wills is marshal in a small town which he cleaned up and keeps on a very tight leash. Heath is disturbed to find just how much power his old friend has.

Nick may become the latest victim of a family who preys upon male customers at their hotel. His pursuit of the young woman of the family gives them pause; should they kill him now or hope that, wonder of wonders, a Stockton Barkley would marry her?

Jarrod's client, Jeff Bowden, was convicted of the murder of a priest; Jarrod is convinced of the man's innocence and sure he can win on appeal. When Bowden escapes during his transfer to prison, Jarrod tries to intervene before he or anyone else gets killed.

Audra disappears while she and her mother break their stagecoach journey in a small town. No one will admit to Victoria that her daughter was even traveling with her.

Two men are found hung, and a note left by each of them claims a third person will die for past crimes: Victoria Barkley.

The only way to stop a forest fire is to make a firebreak, and the only way to make a firebreak on the scale required is to use nitroglycerin. The first attempt to deliver the nitro kills the men involved. The Barkley boys are the only ones willing and able to do the deed, and they hope the famous "Barkley luck" will hold out.

The brothers start the tricky journey to deliver nitro to the scene of a forest fire.

A woman prisoner is killed while she is being delivered to a desert prison. To keep from losing $100 bounty, the guards substitute Victoria, whose buggy has broken down on the route to a mine stockholders' meeting.

A prominent politician is assassinated and the town drunk is accused. Heath sees a known outlaw in the vicinity riding the drunk's pinto horse. The problem is, the sheriff swears the outlaw was in jail at that very time.

Heath is taken captive by a band of "religious" who accuse him of killing one of their own, and they condemn him to serve as a slave to the dead man's widow.

Victoria hires three convicts to help her with the peach harvest. The violence of the convict overseer, especially with a black ex-soldier, horrifies her.

Nick and Heath cross the state line to bring back two outlaw brothers who shot Jarrod in the course of a robbery. They find a town that thinks of the outlaws as benefactors and will have nothing to do with the Barkleys' search for justice.

Jarrod seeks to avenge the death of his new wife at the hands of a man he sent to prison.

Miranda, a Mexican revolutionary, tries to trick the Barkleys into giving her a necklace they're holding for safe-keeping.

Nick and Heath join a posse lead by famous lawman Seth Campbell. Heath is uneasy, as he feels Campbell is too cavalier with peoples' lives.

Heath is sure to be acquitted of a crime he can't remember committing if he trusts the unscrupulous methods of Jarrod's co-counsel. Heath would rather honestly work for the truth to come out, even if it means learning that he actually committed the crime.

Walter Masters is out to corner the rice market, but his old friend Victoria refuses to sell him the family rice, choosing instead to sell it to a consortium of Chinese-American businessmen. The weak-willed Masters allows his wife to take drastic measures in response.

Jarrod is in Rimfire to negotiate the merger of the Barkley and Glover silver mines. Unfortunately, land between the two mines is occupied by Chinese "squatters" who have taken over abandoned real estate. They insist they will not be bought out and tensions rise.

Nick courts a young woman, unaware of the fact that she has a bounty hunter husband. At first she doesn't have a chance to tell Nick this: later, she doesn't want to.

When Jim North's bride-to-be arrives from the East, Heath suspects that something is not quite right about her.