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The Big Valley
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'''''The Big Valley''''' was a
television series television Western fiction Western which ran on
American Broadcasting Company ABC from
1965 through
1969.
It starred
Barbara Stanwyck as Victoria Barkley, the widowed matriarch of the Barkley family of
Stockton, California.
Richard Long (actor) Richard Long played Jarrod Barkley, her eldest son and a respected lawyer. Hot-tempered younger son Nick Barkley, who managed the family ranch, was played by
Peter Breck. (Both Long and Breck had been regulars for a short time on another classic Western series, ''
Maverick (TV series) Maverick'', although in different seasons.)
Linda Evans played Audra, Victoria's only daughter. In the first episode,
Lee Majors was introduced as Heath, the youngest, and the illegitimate son of Victoria's late husband; Heath gradually gained acceptance from the rest of the Barkley clan. The regular cast was rounded out by
Napoleon Whiting, who played Silas, the Barkleys' majordomo. Guest stars included
William Shatner.
One accidental
running gag (that also occurred on the TV western
Bonanza) is that in every episode in which one of the Barkley sons got seriously involved with a woman, as soon as he got married, she was killed off or died gruesomely in the same episode.
Victoria Barkley also had a younger son named Eugene, who appeared in the pilot and sporadically in the first season. Eugene attended college, which explained why he was away from the ranch for long periods of time. Another victim of the
Chuck Cunningham syndrome, he was written out and never referred to again over the remainder of the series' run.
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Category:Western television series Big Valley, The
Category:ABC network shows Big Valley, The
Category:1960s TV shows in the United States Big Valley, The
Category:Western television series Big Valley, The
Category:Period piece TV series Big Valley, The
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