The Best Episodes of The Big Valley Season 2

Heath is sent to protect an evacuated town.

Director: Richard Long

Writer: William Blinn

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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Nick accompanies a gypsy to her wedding.

Director: Arthur H. Nadel

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

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Heath is wrongfully arrested for attempted rape, and is helped by a nun who used to be his girlfriend.

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

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

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

Director: Bernard McEveety

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Audra falls in love with a man on the run.

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

Director: Paul Henreid

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

Director: Arthur H. Nadel

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Jarrod defends a Basque sheepherder.

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Heath and company transport a wanted outlaw and must fight off his brother.

Director: Bernard McEveety

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Nick goes to find the daughter of a seriously injured ranch hand, with unexpected results.

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Nick captures an eagle, and a dynamiter causes trouble at a Barkley mine.

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

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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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