The Big Valley (1965)

Genre

Westerns on television

Country

United States

Length

4 seasons, 112 episodes

Rated

TV-PG

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 58 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy ranching family in 1870s California navigates personal conflicts and outside threats. The widowed matriarch and her sons and daughter run the sprawling Barkley Ranch.

family-centricdramaticadventurousclassicmelodramaticslow-pacedearthywholesome

What happens

The Big Valley is an American Western television series that originally aired from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969, on ABC. The series is set on the fictional Barkley Ranch near Stockton, California. The one-hour episodes follow the lives of the Barkley family, one of the wealthiest and largest ranch-owning families in Stockton, led by matriarch Victoria Barkley (Barbara Stanwyck), her sons Jarrod (Richard Long) and Nick (Peter Breck), daughter Audra (Linda Evans), and their half-brother Heath (Lee Majors). The series was created by A. I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman and produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven for Four Star Television. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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