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The Big Valley Season 4 Episodes

Season 4 Episode Guide

26 Episodes 1968 - 1969

Episode 1

In Silent Battle

Mon, Sep 23, 196860 mins

Audra is attracted to a handsome Civil War hero. Little does she know, he is a murderous psychopath haunted by delusions of what a woman should be.

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Episode 2

They Called Her Delilah

Mon, Sep 30, 196860 mins

A beautiful singer, once close to Jarrod, comes to Stockton to perform. The fact that she was a Confederate spy during the Civil War causes an uproar.

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Episode 3

Presumed Dead

Mon, Oct 7, 196860 mins

A lonely cattle rustler happens upon stagecoach accident and amnesia victim Victoria. He nurses her back to health and gives her an identity-that of his dead wife.

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Episode 4

Run of the Cat

Mon, Oct 21, 196860 mins

A bloodthirsty cougar is killing stock and mauls Nick. The Barkley's hire a professional to kill the cat but Nick can't resist the hunt.

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Episode 5

Deathtown

Mon, Oct 28, 196860 mins

Jarrod travels to Baker City to meet three Mexican businessmen on a land deal. Upon arriving he is told they have been there, not waited, and returned home. Jarrod slowly learns the truth of what happened.

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Episode 6

The Jonah

Mon, Nov 11, 196860 mins

The Barkley's hire a ranch hand who has the reputation of having bad luck follow him. After a series of mishaps and an angry disagreement about him being fired, there is a surprise in store for everyone.

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Episode 7

Hell Hath No Fury

Mon, Nov 18, 196860 mins

A female outlaw, who is also fond of playing poker, meets Heath during a card game. She becomes obsessed with him to the point of wanting to quickly marry and give up her "career".

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Episode 8

The Long Ride

Mon, Nov 25, 196860 mins

While in Highridge visiting a friend, Audra witnesses three murders and goes into shock. Victoria brings her back to Stockton via stagecoach and the trip home is a test of wills between the passengers and a mysterious stranger who follows the coach.

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Episode 9

The Profit and the Lost

Mon, Dec 2, 196860 mins

Heath risks his life and saves a man who is a notorious hired gunman. The irony is the killer has a contract to kill Heath, put out by a local rancher with a grudge.

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Episode 10

A Stranger Everywhere

Mon, Dec 9, 196860 mins

A shy dressmaker interests lawmen and outlaws alike when a journalist theorizes that she is an infamous bandit. Nick, who as a joke had started the rumor, finds himself defending her reputation - despite not knowing just what the truth is.

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Episode 11

The Prize

Mon, Dec 16, 196860 mins

While returning to the ranch with a horse he just purchased, Heath becomes side tracked and ends up taking home a baby after the mother dies. The father, an outlaw, eventually heads for the Barkley's to take custody-and into a bounty hunter's trap.

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Episode 12

Hunter's Moon

Mon, Dec 30, 196860 mins

Nick and two other men who ride chocolate palominos (brown palominos with flaxen manes) are identified by a rancher as suspected lovers of his wife. He captures and locks the three men in his cellar, threatening to hang them unless one confesses. When Nick is fingered as the guilty party, he must escape with the rancher's wife to save both their lives. Hunted down by the rancher and his men, he must risk his life and the life of his horse for the woman, who may not be the victim she appeared. This episode marks the end of the on-screen career for Cocoa, Nick's faithful gelding, a chocolate palomino. He retires Cocoa at the end of the episode, and in later episodes he rides a large buckskin.

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Episode 13

Top of the Stairs

Mon, Jan 6, 196960 mins

Passing through the town of Abbottsville on their way to a wedding, Victoria and Audra stop to see Victoria's brother-in-law. They are not allowed to see him and are told he is judged insane and sees no visitors - a suspicious Victoria investigates.

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Episode 14

Joshua Watson

Mon, Jan 20, 196960 mins

The once friendly annual rodeo between the Barkley and Morton ranches has become a nasty, win-at-all-costs event. An ex-slave "super cowboy" raises the stakes when he agrees to compete for the Barkleys.

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Episode 15

The Secret

Mon, Jan 27, 196960 mins

A wealthy rancher, and long time family friend, suddenly sets out to ruin the Barkley's. He has intense hatred of Jarrod, who he suspects is having an affair with his young wife.

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Episode 16

The 25 Graves of Midas

Mon, Feb 3, 196960 mins

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Episode 17

Lightfoot

Mon, Feb 17, 196960 mins

Despite being college educated, a Modoc Indian is given to angry outbursts as he imagines prejudice from any action of white people. With the whole town against the tribesman, Jarrod acts as his lawyer when he is accused of murdering a white man who had heckled him.

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Episode 18

Alias Nellie Handley

Mon, Feb 24, 196960 mins

Victoria poses as a thief in order to become an inmate and investigate conditions at a women's prison. Once in, she finds it is a miserable place and that she may never be able to leave.

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Episode 19

The Royal Road

Mon, Mar 3, 196960 mins

Jarrod is guardian to a rebellious teenage girl who becomes interested in a Prince visiting from India. The "Prince" has a heavy handed aide who arouses the suspicions of Heath when a local woman he knew is found murdered.

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Episode 20

A Passage of Saints

Mon, Mar 10, 196960 mins

Stern, religious people lease a Barkley farm. When townspeople discover the newcomers are Mormons who practice plural marriage, they plan to drive them out. Jarrod hides the truth as he attempts to mediate the situation.

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Episode 21

The Battle of Mineral Springs

Mon, Mar 24, 196960 mins

While returning to Stockton, Victoria and Jarrod stop in a town with outrageous prices for food, lodging and services. After finding out the people are bilking travelers to survive, the Barkley's decide to open a shipping business to save the town-despite opposition from a territorial "boss" with a rival freight company in the area.

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Episode 22

The Other Face of Justice

Mon, Mar 31, 196960 mins

Nick and Heath, on the trail of a gang of murderous raiders stealing horses in the Valley, enlist the help of the ex-sheriff of Stockton. The motivation behind his "help" proves interesting and totally unexpected-especially to the Barkley's.

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Episode 23

Town of No Exit

Mon, Apr 7, 196960 mins

Heath arrives in a dying desert town, only to find himself a visitor in a madhouse. His hosts are five deranged people who play bizarre and deadly games with their infrequent guests. Heath's role in their hellish fantasy: the accused--on trial for rape and murder.

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Episode 24

Danger Road

Mon, Apr 21, 196960 mins

An Englishman with a large gambling debt agrees to smuggle whiskey onto an Indian reservation to pay off his losses. Enroute he meets up with Victoria, on the way to the reservation with medical supplies, and they find the road there is full of unexpected surprises.

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Episode 25

Flight from San Miguel

Mon, Apr 28, 196960 mins

An old love of Heath's, who had jilted him five years before, convinces him to help get her Mexican husband to the U.S.. The husband is a Revolutionary wanted by the Federales - and a man with questionable motives.

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Episode 26

Point and Counterpoint

Mon, May 19, 196960 mins

A dying prisoner asks his son to kill the two people whose testimony 20 years earlier caused his conviction and life imprisonment, a Stockton banker named Clark and Victoria Barkley. After Clark is murdered, Jarrod, unaware that the client is actually guilty much less that his mother is the intended next target, agrees to act as defense lawyer when the man is put on trial for murder.

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