The Best Episodes of The Big Valley Season 2

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

Director: Arthur H. Nadel

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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.

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Nick and Jarrod head to Mexico to break out Heath, who has already broken out and been recaptured.

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An old friend of Audra's has a new , very young, stepmother who likes him as more than a son, and is jealous of Audra.

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Victoria heads alone into the desert to find a sick indian before he reaches, and infects, his people.

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Jarrod defends a Basque sheepherder.

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A candidate for governor, Joshua Hawks, who had been traveling up and down California spreading lies and causing trouble, comes to Stockton.His target this time, The Barkleys, his story, that Tom Barkley stole every inch of land that they own. He chose the wrong family to mess with this time though, because the Barkleys don't lie down for anyone they come out fighting. Against the wishes of his campain manager, the man who fabricated the story, he decides to, foolishly, stay and fight. Jarrod decides not to bring about a libel charge against Hawks, knowing that it would only result in a long drawn out court battle. Instead he asks the senator to form a committee of four men to decide on the case. Hawks cooks up a scheme to murder the committee and blame it on the Barkleys, he even kills his campaign manager when he decides to leave him, after he has found out Hawks' plan. The plan backfires however and Hawks' ends up getting himself killed instead. In the end The Barkleys get the good

Director: Arthur H. Nadel

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A woman asks Nick for help, pretending to be on the run from her former outlaw boyfriend. It turns out that she was with him all along, and was merely using Nick.

Director: Arthur H. Nadel

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Jarrod gets amnesia while far from home.

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

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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

Director: Bernard McEveety

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Heath and companions are stranded in the desert, miles from civilization or water!!!!

Director: Bernard McEveety

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

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Nick accompanies a gypsy to her wedding.

Director: Arthur H. Nadel

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Audra falls in love with a man on the run.

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A man tries to get his peaches to market.

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An old beau of Victoria's comes to town, but he is not the man she remembers.

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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.

Director: Paul Henreid

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Victoria witnesses a murder, committed by her godson, and is thrown in a sanitarium to prevent her testimony.

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

Director: Paul Henreid

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Gunman turned senator Jud Robson comes to Stockton, and soon begins to say he is being stalked. The main problem with his story, he is suspicious of EVERYONE.

Director: Bernard McEveety

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Nick manages an injured boxer, in his last fight.

Director: Bernard McEveety

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A fake faith healer comes to Stockton.

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An old war friend of Nick's is being courtmartialed, along with Nick himself!

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Heath is sent to protect an evacuated town.

Director: Richard Long

Writer: William Blinn