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Year: 1965  |  1966  |  1967  |  1968  |  1969


Season 1


"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 1 -- The valley residents turn to the Barkleys when the railroad threatens their farms and ranches.

Season 1, Episode 1: Palms of Glory

Original Air Date—15 September 1965
Every property owner in the Valley is in danger of losing their land due to the legal trickery of a ruthless railroad baron who backs up his action with an army of 200 men.Into this tense scene rides an iron-willed young man who defiantly tells the Barkley's he is the "bastard son" of the dead family patriarch Tom Barkley-and who demands an equal share of the estate.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 2 -- Heath considers letting a Civil War general join his mission; guest Andrew Duggan.

Season 1, Episode 2: Forty Rifles

Original Air Date—22 September 1965
With a massive 3000 steer, 550 miles in 24 days cattle drive about to begin,Heath has problems gaining the respect of the 40 hands needed to carry it off.His problems escalate when a decorated Ex-General of the Civil War agrees to join the drive-the General has designs of recruiting the hands and starting his own army.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 3 -- Obsessed to learn her late husband's past, Victoria endangers her life in a mining town.

Season 1, Episode 3: Boots with My Father's Name

Original Air Date—29 September 1965
A Stockton memorial to Tom Barkley and his last pair of dress boots stir memories of him for Victoria and Heath. Victoria travels to Strawberry, Heath's birthplace, to find out just what Tom Barkley felt for Heath's mother Leah.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 4 -- Audra's beau, supposedly a traveling horse trainer, is part of a violent band of extortionists.

Season 1, Episode 4: The Young Marauders

Original Air Date—6 October 1965
Audra is attracted to a handsome stranger who saves her life during a horse stampede.His appearance in the Valley coincides with the emergence of a pillaging "protection" ring that has begun to terrorize the area.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 5 -- The government wants an old man's land as the site for a beneficial dam; guest Arthur O'Connell.

Season 1, Episode 5: The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner

Original Air Date—13 October 1965
After 30 years a man comes back to the Valley to claim land promised to him by the late Tom Barkley.The land is now the site of a proposed dam-the Barkley's argue among themselves and with the local landowners about whether the man is entitled to stay.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 6 -- Heath faces off with the young head of a fanatic society secretly planning to blow up a Barkley mine.

Season 1, Episode 6: Heritage

Original Air Date—20 October 1965
In the town of Lonesome Camp,the Barkley's investment in a mine is threatened when labor unrest leads to a violent strike.Heath looks into the situation and due to promises made by the late Tom Barkley years before,the Barkley's decide to fight for control of the mine in order to settle the dispute.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 7 -- A Spanish nobleman threatens to foreclose on ranchers when Heath falls for his daughter (Katharine Ross).

Season 1, Episode 7: Winner Lose All

Original Air Date—27 October 1965
Heath falls in love with Maria who is returning home from school in the East. She is the daughter of Don Alfredo a Spanish land owner and nobleman who is in a dispute with a neighbor over land which he claims is his. Don Alfredo also believes that Heath's lineage is impure and the dispute soon endangers the romance.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 8 -- Infatuated, the son of neighbors attempts to force himself on Audra.

Season 1, Episode 8: My Son, My Son

Original Air Date—3 November 1965
A neighboring rancher's teenage son returns to Stockton after being away many years and is immediately obsessed with Audra.He and her defender,Heath,tangle which leads to a feud between the families-it further escalates with a shooting,then the boy's background is divulged.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 9 -- An earthquake traps Victoria in a cave with a violent drunk and a pregnant Indian; guest Charles Bronson.

Season 1, Episode 9: Earthquake!

Original Air Date—10 November 1965
Victoria,a surly ex-Barkley ranch hand and a pregnant Indian girl fight for survival when an earthquake traps them in a church cellar. When it is found that the cellar may connect to tunnels from a closed up Barkley gold mine, not all the searchers really want the rescue to succeed.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 10 -- Jarrod incenses neighbors and family when he defends a man accused of killing a prominent Stockton resident.

Season 1, Episode 10: The Murdered Party

Original Air Date—17 November 1965
Jarrod agrees to defend a murder suspect despite the fact that Heath witnessed the killing.The case involves the defense of a man from a reviled family and the death of a respected benefactor.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 11 -- Nick's childhood friend discovers anthrax in his herd while it is pastured on Barkley land.

Season 1, Episode 11: The Way to Kill a Killer

Original Air Date—24 November 1965
An old Barkley friend,a hard working Mexican National,comes to Stockton to sell his herd of cattle.When it is found out the cattle are infected with a deadly disease,he refuses to destroy the animals or isolate his cattle from healthy Barkley stock.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 12 -- Bitten by a rabid wolf, Nick waits out the disease's incubation alone, to spare his family; guest Ronny Howard.

Season 1, Episode 12: Night of the Wolf

Original Air Date—1 December 1965
Nick is bitten by a rabied wolf and thinking he is going to die,leaves Stockton without any explanation to the family.His journey leads him to re-examine his life and attitudes-and the help of a woman and her son give him hope for the future.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 13 -- Heath claims a new foreman was once commandant of a corrupt prison camp in the Civil War; guest John Anderson.

Season 1, Episode 13: The Guilt of Matt Bentell

Original Air Date—8 December 1965
Heath lashes out at the Barkley's new timber camp foreman, who he remembers as the sadistic commandant of the Confederate prison camp he was in. The timber crew also resent the foreman-especially two brothers sworn to kill him.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 14 -- Nick takes on the leader of Irish immigrants who settled illegally on Barkley land; guest Claude Akins

Season 1, Episode 14: The Brawlers

Original Air Date—15 December 1965
Irish immigrants claim a section of land on the Barkley ranch which they insist they bought and paid for in San Francisco.Their leader and Nick clash immediately,Heath on the other hand is sympathetic and thinks they are honest people who are mistaken and not squatters.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 15 -- Jarrod tries to reform an outlaw's girlfriend (Lynn Loring) by having her spend Christmas with the Barkleys.

Season 1, Episode 15: Judgement in Heaven

Original Air Date—22 December 1965
Jarrod arranges for the girlfriend of a murderous outlaw to be released from jail so she can spend Christmas with the Barkley's.She's a wildcat and with her boyfriend still on the loose,she defiantly vows to re-join him at the first opportunity.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 16 -- Cutthroats wound Heath while Nick and the hands are away; guest Yvonne Craig.

Season 1, Episode 16: The Invaders

Original Air Date—29 December 1965
A family of rawhiders,plundering the countryside,bushwhack Heath and then decide to pretend to be his savior.Their plan to rob the Barkley's is aided by almost everyone being away from the ranch on a cattle drive-only a weakened Heath,Victoria,Audra and one of their own women stand in their way.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 17 -- Nick's new fiancee joins the family on an annual camping trip in the mountains, but jealousy ends in tragedy.

Season 1, Episode 17: By Fires Unseen

Original Air Date—5 January 1966
After a whirlwind courtship, Nick proposes to a beautiful "partygirl" Eastern socialite. Her interest in him soon disappears when she experiences the slow paced life on the ranch-and becomes obsessed with Heath.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 18 -- An old school chum of Jarrod's may be a counterfeiter and bank robber; guest William Shatner.

Season 1, Episode 18: A Time to Kill

Original Air Date—19 January 1966
Jarrod has an old friend from law school pass through Stockton who has ample funds,no job and time on his hands.A Secret Service agent soon follows and tells Jarrod his friend's "income" is suspected to come from bank robbery and counterfeiting-Jarrod tries to unearth the truth.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 19 -- Victoria is startled to learn why outlaws kidnapped her while she was substituting for a schoolteacher.

Season 1, Episode 19: Teacher of Outlaws

Original Air Date—2 February 1966
An outlaw gang leader orders his men to kidnap a teacher so he can learn to read and write for a special purpose. His men nab Victoria by mistake-she pretends to be the school marm to buy time for the Barkley boys to find her.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 20 -- Jarrod insists on helping an ex-inmate whose murder conviction was overturned; guests Bruce Dern, Albert Salmi.

Season 1, Episode 20: Under a Dark Star

Original Air Date—9 February 1966
Pardoned after a long imprisonment for a crime he didn't commit,a man has Jarrod's help in adjusting to being free again. The man is hired to work at the ranch and after having doubt planted by one of the hands,his fear of returning to prison may lead to the death of the man who was the Prosecuting Attorney in the his case-Jarrod.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 21 -- A dance-hall girl (Jill St. John) helps Jarrod rescue Nick and some ranch hands shanghaied by a captain.

Season 1, Episode 21: Barbary Red

Original Air Date—16 February 1966
Nick celebrates his birthday at a waterfront saloon where he is drugged and shanghaied for sea duty.Jarrod suspects an old client of his,beautiful Barbary Red,is behind Nick's disappearance-Eugene and Heath help him investigate his hunch.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 22 -- A killer involves himself in a quarrel between the Barkleys and neighbors, already resulting in a death.

Season 1, Episode 22: The Death Merchant

Original Air Date—23 February 1966
Everyone except Heath extends a warm welcome to an aging cowboy who killed Tom Barkley's murderer-a result of the Barkley-Railroad War.The man it turns out is friend to no one,he enjoys range wars and will sell his services as a killer to either side-and he's looking for work!

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 23 -- After Heath asks a friend to do a job, the man is thrown from a horse and paralyzed; guest Marilyn Mason.

Season 1, Episode 23: The Fallen Hawk

Original Air Date—2 March 1966
Heath,feeling responsible for an old friend's crippling injury,is determined to do all he can to help the man and his wife.While Heath stirs up gossip of his having grown too close to the wife,the old friend schemes of using the injury to get money out of him to finance his latest "get-rich-quick" idea.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 24 -- In a secretive town, Jarrod investigates Heath's hatred of a man rescued from bounty hunters.

Season 1, Episode 24: Hazard

Original Air Date—9 March 1966
A man arrives at the ranch looking for Heath and is shot by two trailing bounty hunters who claim he is wanted for murder.While the man is hospitalized at the ranch,Jarrod travels to Coreyville to look into the murder charge and Heath comes to terms with an old grudge.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 25 -- Heath finds more than he bargained for when he takes the blame for killing an old love's drunken husband.

Season 1, Episode 25: Into the Widow's Web

Original Air Date—23 March 1966
Heath is drawn to an alluring old girlfriend who is now married and part of a trick shooting act.When her husband is mysteriously killed in a gun "accident",Heath is accused of murder-Jarrod must use a new science to try to clear him but ends up sparring about it with the D.A.,an old law school colleague who is jealous of the Barkley's.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 26 -- Victoria forces an escaped convict at gunpoint to rescue Heath from beneath a mudslide; guest Bruce Dern.

Season 1, Episode 26: By Force and Violence

Original Air Date—30 March 1966
While travelling cross country, Victoria and Heath have an accident resulting in Heath becoming pinned under their heavily loaded wagon. Victoria seeks help and turns to a mysterious man who is being pursued by aggressive bounty hunters.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 27 -- The Barkley men must clear their father's name of accusations of taking Union Army gold thought lost in a shipwreck.

Season 1, Episode 27: The River Monarch

Original Air Date—6 April 1966
A Barkley riverboat,sunk years before with a fortune in Civil War era government gold aboard is located-but there's no trace of the gold.A group of Confederate symphatizers or Tom Barkley himself may have caused the explosion which sank the ship-the lure of gold may even extend to Nick's old commanding officer who is assigned to investigate.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 28 -- Audra falls for a speculator planning to foreclose on desperate ranchers to whom he gave high-interest loans.

Season 1, Episode 28: The Midas Man

Original Air Date—13 April 1966
Audra falls for a shrewd financier who has come to the Valley to capitalize on a drought that has left most of the ranchers in need of loans.When he is about to foreclose and seize the land used as collateral,the ranchers blame the Barkley's-Audra offers herself as a "sacrifice" to hold off the financier.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 29 -- Victoria helps a friend and her ex-outlaw husband who have opened a store next to a warehouse of gold.

Season 1, Episode 29: Tunnel of Gold

Original Air Date—20 April 1966
A new General Store,owned by a husband/wife team,is invaded by outlaws who plan to tunnel across to the Railroad Baggage Depot-where Barkley gold is held for shipment.Complications arise when it is determined that the outlaws are being helped by the husband,the Barkley's visit the store and there is a deadly gas leak in the tunnel.

"The Big Valley" (1965): Season 1: Episode 30 -- A doctor treating train-passenger Audra for appendicitis meets enemies who reveal a secret from his past.

Season 1, Episode 30: Last Train to the Fair

Original Air Date—27 April 1966
With the Barkley family on the way to the State Fair,Audra is stricken with appendicitis and the only doctor aboard has his own problems-men are out to kill him for revenge.The doctor has a rather infamous past having been responsible for burning,plundering and murder in the town of Colbyville years before.

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: Lost Treasure

Original Air Date—12 September 1966
Heath is shaken when a slick talking man comes to the ranch and claims he is his long lost father.Heath travels to his boyhood home of Strawberry to verify the story and he soon finds out that his "father" will live or die based on his believing him-and paying a debt using Barkley money.

Season 2, Episode 2: Legend of a General: Part 1

Original Air Date—19 September 1966
While in Mexico tending to a Barkley mine,Heath aids a Mexican General (and old family friend) who escapes the wrath of an oppressive leader.When it is found out that the General is living in California at the Barkley Ranch,Heath is jailed-and his life is used to bargain for the General's return.

Season 2, Episode 3: Legend of a General: Part 2

Original Air Date—26 September 1966
The Barkley's refuse to cooperate with the Mexican authorities but, with the General's help, plan to go to Rio Blanco, Mexico and break Heath out of jail. Meanwhile, Heath has his own break-out plan and succeeds-but is betrayed.

Season 2, Episode 4: Caesar's Wife

Original Air Date—3 October 1966
A neighbor's young, second wife is more romantically interested in her stepson than her husband. Her jealousy of Audra, the stepson's childhood sweetheart, leads to a shooting-and puts Audra in danger from the husband.

Season 2, Episode 5: Pursuit

Original Air Date—10 October 1966
From the town of Sandhill,Victoria and an alcoholic,cynical hunter search the desert for an Indian brave infected with measles.The Indian does not believe White-man's medicine can save him-only the Medicine Man at the camp of his father,the Chief.The disease could wipe out the entire tribe.

Season 2, Episode 6: The Martyr

Original Air Date—17 October 1966

Season 2, Episode 7: Target

Original Air Date—31 October 1966

Season 2, Episode 8: The Velvet Trap

Original Air Date—7 November 1966

Season 2, Episode 9: The Man from Nowhere

Original Air Date—14 November 1966

Season 2, Episode 10: The Great Safe Robbery

Original Air Date—21 November 1966

Season 2, Episode 11: The Iron Box

Original Air Date—28 November 1966

Season 2, Episode 12: Last Stage to Salt Flats

Original Air Date—5 December 1966

Season 2, Episode 13: A Day of Terror

Original Air Date—12 December 1966

Season 2, Episode 14: Hide the Children

Original Air Date—19 December 1966

Season 2, Episode 15: Day of the Comet

Original Air Date—26 December 1966

Season 2, Episode 16: Wagonload of Dreams

Original Air Date—2 January 1967

Season 2, Episode 17: Image of Yesterday

Original Air Date—9 January 1967

Season 2, Episode 18: Boy Into Man

Original Air Date—16 January 1967
A mother seems to have abandoned her children.The oldest,a teenage boy,resists the Barkley's help-who decide to search for the mother.

Season 2, Episode 19: Down Shadow Street

Original Air Date—23 January 1967
Victoria has key testimony to offer at a murder trial.A unethical judge with a conflict of interest in the case has her confined to a grisly madhouse.Jarrod and Nick desperately launch a search to find her.

Season 2, Episode 20: The Stallion

Original Air Date—30 January 1967
While trying to round up a prize wild stallion Nick is nearly killed due to an old ranch-hand's lack of concentration.After being offered a less demanding job the prideful wrangler quits,determined to capture the steed single-handed.

Season 2, Episode 21: The Haunted Gun

Original Air Date—6 February 1967
An old Barkley family friend who is now a Senator travels to Stockton.The visit is spoiled by the Senator's fear of being assassinated.

Season 2, Episode 22: The Price of Victory

Original Air Date—13 February 1967
A badly injured professional boxer can't avoid "one more fight" even though it endangers his life and may cost him his family.

Season 2, Episode 23: Brother Love

Original Air Date—20 February 1967
A flashy faith healer who is really a con artist has Audra convinced he is sincere and is in Stockton to do good.

Season 2, Episode 24: Court Martial

Original Air Date—6 March 1967
A retired Civil War era Union general is tried for war crimes by ex-Confederates at the Barkley ranch while the family is held captive.

Season 2, Episode 25: Plunder at Hawk's Grove

Original Air Date—13 March 1967
A town is evacuated due to a weakened dam.Despite the danger,Heath is deputized to stop looters until the citizens can return.

Season 2, Episode 26: Turn of a Card

Original Air Date—20 March 1967
A professional card player finds out that Heath is carrying $5000 to a Barkley mine.The gambler even stoops to using a girl he "owns" in trying to strip Heath of the money.

Season 2, Episode 27: Showdown in Limbo

Original Air Date—27 March 1967
Heath joins a posse led by his old boss, a U.S. Marshall,who brings along his greenhorn Eastern-educated son. The son resents Heath's presence.

Season 2, Episode 28: The Lady from Mesa

Original Air Date—3 April 1967
The daughter of an old and valued ranch hand is brought to the Barkley home to see her dying father. She blames him for ruining her life.

Season 2, Episode 29: Days of Grace

Original Air Date—17 April 1967
Heath is accused of assaulting a wealthy man's daughter. A nun intervenes to prevent a lynching.

Season 2, Episode 30: Cage of Eagles

Original Air Date—24 April 1967
An Irish political fugitive is hired as a Dynamiter to work at a Barkley mine. His intentions are questioned by an influential citizen.

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: Joaquin

Original Air Date—11 September 1967
A Barkley ranch hand is murdered. This happens shortly after the man had claimed a newly hired hand was actually an infamous Mexican outlaw.

Season 3, Episode 2: Ambush

Original Air Date—18 September 1967
Victoria revisits a desert mission. She fights to protect three Indian women from killers and only has a recently reformed alcoholic to help her.

Season 3, Episode 3: A Flock of Trouble

Original Air Date—25 September 1967
Nick unwittingly accepts sheep in payment for a debt. He stubbornly fights off insults and threats to keep them.

Season 3, Episode 4: Time After Midnight

Original Air Date—2 October 1967
Property owners are intimidated into selling by a land baron. When a case is brought against the man, Jarrod agrees to act as prosecutor-even after being blinded.

Season 3, Episode 5: Night in a Small Town

Original Air Date—9 October 1967
While traveling, Heath and Victoria stop in a town that has an overly righteous Sheriff. They find his "devotion to duty" does not include leaving a saloon girl alone.

Season 3, Episode 6: Ladykiller

Original Air Date—16 October 1967
An innkeeper's pretty daughter is the bait used to rob and kill visitors. Nick unsuspectingly falls in love with her.

Season 3, Episode 7: Guilty

Original Air Date—30 October 1967
A recently convicted murderer escapes and returns to town. While he is cornered in the schoolhouse, Jarrod tries to help the man prove his innocence.

Season 3, Episode 8: The Disappearance

Original Air Date—6 November 1967
While traveling Victoria and Audra check into a hotel. When the next morning Audra has disappeared and no one will admit she had even been there, Victoria is forced to investigate by herself.

Season 3, Episode 9: A Noose Is Waiting

Original Air Date—13 November 1967
A new doctor is welcomed to town by the Barkley's. They are unaware he is really a deranged killer out for revenge and with Victoria targeted as his next victim.

Season 3, Episode 10: Explosion!: Part 1

Original Air Date—20 November 1967
A forest fire is heading toward Stockton. The Barkley's and other wealthy landowners plan to hire a "firestopper".

Season 3, Episode 11: Explosion!: Part 2

Original Air Date—27 November 1967
The forest fire continues to advance toward Stockton. With no one else able to help, Jarrod, Nick and Heath prepare to meet the fire with nitroglycerin.

Season 3, Episode 12: Four Days to Furnace Hill

Original Air Date—4 December 1967
Guards delivering prisoners accidently kill one of them - a woman. Victoria, out travelling alone, is taken by the guards to act as a substitute.

Season 3, Episode 13: Night of the Executioner

Original Air Date—11 December 1967
The conspiracy to murder a Congressman unravels due to Heath being in the area at the time of the killing. An old drunkard and then Heath himself are accused of being the shootist.

Season 3, Episode 14: Journey Into Violence

Original Air Date—18 December 1967
Heath is kidnapped by a sect who accuse him of murdering a member.Acting as their own judge and jury,Heath is convicted and sentenced to being a slave to atone for his crime.

Season 3, Episode 15: The Buffalo Man

Original Air Date—25 December 1967
Convict labor is used at the ranch during harvest time. The men are treated sadistically by their guard, especially an ex-slave who served in a special unit during the Civil War.

Season 3, Episode 16: The Good Thieves

Original Air Date—1 January 1968
Two murderous thieves are tracked by Nick and Heath to a distant town. Once there, they find the two men are highly respected and thought of as philanthropists.

Season 3, Episode 17: Days of Wrath

Original Air Date—8 January 1968
After a whirlwind courtship, Jarrod marries. His absolute joy quickly turns to grief and then to relentless revenge.

Season 3, Episode 18: Miranda

Original Air Date—15 January 1968
A wealthy Mexican Loyalist visits the Barkley's and brings with him a valuable necklace. A female anarchist then shows up at the ranch, plotting to bring the necklace back to Mexico to help fund the Revolution.

Season 3, Episode 19: Shadow of a Giant

Original Air Date—29 January 1968
Nick and Heath join a posse led by a legendary marshall.The problem is the marshall is reckless and endangers all of his deputies lives.

Season 3, Episode 20: Fall of a Hero

Original Air Date—5 February 1968
A man is dead after having a disagreement with Heath,who cannot remember what happened. Despite being on trial for his life, Heath seeks with Jarrod's help to find the truth.

Season 3, Episode 21: The Emperor of Rice

Original Air Date—12 February 1968
An old Barkley friend becomes desperate to corner the rice market. Victoria is kidnapped as part of the plan to force the family to help.

Season 3, Episode 22: Rimfire

Original Air Date—16 February 1968
A played out mine that a Barkley mining partnership abandoned is now occupied by Chinese immigrants. The partnership needs to regain control of the old mine as a means to deliver air to an adjacent, ore rich mine.

Season 3, Episode 23: A Bounty on a Barkley

Original Air Date—26 February 1968
A beautiful, aloof woman moves to the area and Nick falls in love with her. She fails to mention that she is married-and to a bounty hunter that Nick has met.

Season 3, Episode 24: Devil's Masquerade

Original Air Date—4 March 1968
Heath's friend, a nearby rancher,sends for a mail order bride. Upon her arrival,some things about her background seem strange and cause Heath to question her identity.

Season 3, Episode 25: Run of the Savage

Original Air Date—11 March 1968
A series of relatively petty thefts lead Nick to an embittered youth who he attempts to befriend. The stakes are raised when Nick finds himself held for ransom while tied up in a cave that is in danger of collapsing.

Season 3, Episode 26: The Challenge

Original Air Date—28 March 1968
A plot is hatched to use an innocent photo in an embarassing way. Victoria and a U.S. Senator are the targets of the smear campaign.

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: In Silent Battle

Original Air Date—23 September 1968
Audra is attracted to a handsome Civil War hero. Little does she know, he is a murderous psychopath haunted by delusions of what a woman should be.

Season 4, Episode 2: They Called Her Delilah

Original Air Date—30 September 1968
A beautiful singer,once close to Jarrod,comes to Stockton to perform.The fact that she was a Confederate spy during the Civil War causes an uproar.

Season 4, Episode 3: Presumed Dead

Original Air Date—7 October 1968
A lonely cattle rustler happens upon stagecoach accident and amnesia victim Victoria.He nurses her back to health and gives her an identity-that of his dead wife.

Season 4, Episode 4: Run of the Cat

Original Air Date—21 October 1968
A bloodthirsty cougar is killing stock and mauls Nick.The Barkley's hire a professional to kill the cat but Nick can't resist the hunt.

Season 4, Episode 5: Deathtown

Original Air Date—28 October 1968
Jarrod travels to Baker City to meet three Mexican businessmen on a land deal.Upon arriving,he is told they have been there,not waited and returned home-slowly the truth comes out.

Season 4, Episode 6: The Jonah

Original Air Date—11 November 1968
The Barkley's hire a ranch hand who has the reputation of having bad luck follow him.After a series of mishaps and angry disagreement about him being fired,there is a surprise in store for everyone.

Season 4, Episode 7: Hell Hath No Fury

Original Air Date—18 November 1968
A female outlaw,who is also fond of playing poker,meets Heath during a card game.She becomes obsessed with him to the point of wanting to quickly marry and give up her "career".

Season 4, Episode 8: The Long Ride

Original Air Date—25 November 1968
While in Highridge visiting a friend,Audra witnesses three murders and goes into shock.Victoria brings her back to Stockton via stagecoach and the trip home is a test of wills between the passengers and a mysterious stranger who follows the coach.

Season 4, Episode 9: The Profit and the Lost

Original Air Date—2 December 1968
Heath risks his life and saves a man who is a notorious hired gunman. The irony is the killer has a contract to kill Heath, put out by a local rancher with a grudge.

Season 4, Episode 10: A Stranger Everywhere

Original Air Date—9 December 1968
A shy dressmaker interests lawmen and outlaws alike when a journalist theorizes that she is an infamous bandit. Nick, who as a joke had started the rumor,finds himself defending her reputation-despite not knowing just what the truth is.

Season 4, Episode 11: The Prize

Original Air Date—16 December 1968
While returning to the ranch with a horse he just purchased,Heath becomes side tracked and ends up taking home a baby after the mother dies.The father,an outlaw,eventually heads for the Barkley's to take custody-and into a bounty hunter's trap.

Season 4, Episode 12: Hunter's Moon

Original Air Date—30 December 1968
A fanatically jealous rancher imprisons Nick and two other men. He believes one of them is his wife's lover-if no one confesses they will all die.

Season 4, Episode 13: Top of the Stairs

Original Air Date—6 January 1969
Passing through the town of Abbottsville on their way to a wedding,Victoria and Audra stop to see Victoria's brother-in-law.They are not allowed to see him and are told he is judged insane and sees no visitors-a suspicious Victoria investigates.

Season 4, Episode 14: Joshua Watson

Original Air Date—20 January 1969
The once friendly annual rodeo between the Barkley and Morton ranches has become a nasty, win-at-all-costs event. An ex-slave, "super cowboy", raises the stakes when he agrees to compete for the Barkley's.

Season 4, Episode 15: The Secret

Original Air Date—27 January 1969
A wealthy rancher,and long time family friend, suddenly sets out to ruin the Barkley's. He has intense hatred of Jarrod, who he suspects is having an affair with his young wife.

Season 4, Episode 16: The 25 Graves of Midas

Original Air Date—3 February 1969
25 men have died in a cave-in at the Dutton Mine,in which the Barkley's have a 40% interest.Heath,on his way to meet Nick and investigate the disaster,is badly wounded-and mistaken by the vengeful townspeople as an avenging mine payroll robber.

Season 4, Episode 17: Lightfoot

Original Air Date—17 February 1969
Despite being college educated,a Modoc Indian is given to angry outbursts as he imagines prejudice from any action of white people.With the whole town against the tribesman,Jarrod acts as his lawyer when he is accused of murdering a white man who had heckled him.

Season 4, Episode 18: Alias Nellie Handley

Original Air Date—24 February 1969
Victoria poses as a thief in order to become an inmate and investigate conditions at a women's prison. Once in, she finds it is a miserable place and that she may never be able to leave.

Season 4, Episode 19: The Royal Road

Original Air Date—3 March 1969
Jarrod is guardian to a rebellious teenage girl who becomes interested in a Prince visiting from India. The "Prince" has a heavy handed aide who arouses the suspicions of Heath when a local woman he knew is found murdered.

Season 4, Episode 20: A Passage of Saints

Original Air Date—10 March 1969
Stern, religious people lease a Barkley farm. When it is found out that they are Mormons and that the man has two wives the townspeople are in an uproar-Jarrod attempts to mediate the situation.

Season 4, Episode 21: The Battle of Mineral Springs

Original Air Date—24 March 1969
While returning to Stockton,Victoria and Jarrod stop in a town with outrageous prices for food,lodging and services. After finding out the people are bilking travelers to survive,the Barkley's decide to open a shipping business to save the town-despite opposition from a territorial "boss" with a rival freight company in the area.

Season 4, Episode 22: The Other Face of Justice

Original Air Date—31 March 1969
Nick and Heath, on the trail of a gang of murderous raiders stealing horses in the Valley, enlist the help of the ex-sheriff of Stockton. The motivation behind his "help" proves interesting and totally unexpected-especially to the Barkley's.

Season 4, Episode 23: Town of No Exit

Original Air Date—7 April 1969
Heath arrives in a dying desert town, only to find himself a visitor in a madhouse. His hosts are five deranged people who play bizarre and deadly games with their infrequent guests. Heath's role in their hellish fantasy: the accused--on trial for rape and murder.

Season 4, Episode 24: Danger Road

Original Air Date—21 April 1969
An Englishman with a large gambling debt agrees to smuggle whiskey onto an Indian reservation to pay off his losses.Enroute he meets up with Victoria,on the way to the reservation with medical supplies,and they find the road there is full of unexpected surprises.

Season 4, Episode 25: Flight from San Miguel

Original Air Date—28 April 1969
An old love of Heath's, who had jilted him five years before, convinces him to help get her Mexican husband to the U.S.. The husband is a Revolutionary wanted by the Federale's-and a man with questionable motives.

Season 4, Episode 26: Point and Counterpoint

Original Air Date—19 May 1969
A dying prisoner asks his son to kill the two people whose testimony caused his death, a Stockton banker named Clark and Victoria Barkley. After Clark is murdered, Jarrod, unaware that Victoria is the next target, agrees to act as the son's lawyer when he is put on trial for murder.

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