The Big Valley

A railroad tries to force the Barkleys off of their land.

The hired hands don't like that they have to follow directions from Heath, the newest part of the family.

Victoria wants to get more information about her late husband so she travels to the place Heath was born.

Without knowing that the person who saved Audra's life is the leader of an outlaw gang, she becomes attracted to him.

Jubal Tanner returns to the valley after many years to claim the land left to him by the late Tom Barkley.

Trouble brews at the Barkley Sierra mine including a murder and a strike.

Don Alfredo Montero is the father of Maria Montero, who Heath is falling for.

Evan Miles decides to make undesirable advances towards Audra, which causes problems between the Barkley and Miles families.

Victoria gets trapped in a church cellar after an earthquake hits.

Jarrod has been asked by Jake Kyles, head of the disliked Kyle family, to defend Korby, Jakes son, in the murder case that was witnessed by Heath.

Mariano Montoya is confronted with the problem of losing her friend Nick's herd of cattle due to them coming down with anthrax while grazing on Nick's pasture.

Nick is bitten by a rabid wolf but the doctors tell Nick it could take up to two months before they will know it will be a deathly bite.

Heath, after being introduced to the foreman of the Barkley timber camp, strikes out at the man who he believes was in charge of a Confederate prison camp.

Irish foreigners have come to the Barkley land to stay, saying they bought the land in San Fransisco.

Jarrod takes into custody an outlaw's jailed girl friend so that she can enjoy Christmas with the Barkleys.

Daddy Cade ambushes Heath who feel he is worth more alive rather than dead.

Nick has fallen in love with a beautiful socialite, Hester Converse, whom he has known for a very short time.

Jarrod runs into Brett Schuyler, an old friend from law school, and then is confronted by the Secret Service who feel Brett is involved with a counterfeiting ring.

A gang leader who wants to learn to read and write, orders his men to kidnap a teacher. They kidnap Victoria instead.

Jarrod wants to help Keno Nash, a man he prosecuted and had put in jail, after Keno had served nine years for a crime he did not commit.

Nick Barkley at his birthday celebration is drugged and shanghaied.

The Barkley's receive a visit from Handy Random, an old cowboy who killed Victoria's husband's murderer. Heath knows more about Handy than the others, and greets him with an unvoiced hatred.

Heath is determined to help an old friend with his crippling injury, which he feels responsible for.

Gil Anders is shot at the Barkley ranch by bounty hunters who say Gil is wanted for murder.