The Big Valley on ABC

1965, TV Show

Keck's Exclusives: Bigscreen Big Valley: Lee Majors In, But Stephen Moyer May Be Out

Lee Majors, Stephen Moyer

Lee Majors, who kicked off his career as young buck Heath Barkley in the 1965-69 TV western The Big Valley, has been tapped to play his old character's father, Tom Barkley, in a 2011 big-screen remake. "I have a beard I've been growing since July because they keep pushing back the start date," says Lee, who will get to kiss Jessica Lange (as his wife Victoria Barkley) before he's bumped off. "The story's very true to our original pilot. They just backed it up a few years so you get to know the father and set up his affair with another lady."

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Premiered: September 15, 1965, on ABC
Rating: TV-PG
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Premise: A flinty matriarch keeps a tight rein on her late husband's ranch empire and her fractious brood in a large-scale Western that launched the careers of Lee Majors and Linda Evans, and revived that of screen legend Barbara Stanwyck.

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