The BEST episodes of The Big Valley season 2
Every episode of The Big Valley season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Big Valley season 2!
Setting is the 1870's in California's gorgeous San Joaquin Valley, The Big Valley is the story of Stockton's richest and most powerful family, the Barkleys. Lead by the family matriarch Victoria Barkley, widow of Tom Barkley, they live on the Barkley Ranch managing their cattle herd, mines, citrus groves and logging camps. Victoria's family consists of her two sons Jarrod and Nick, daughter Audra and Tom Barkley's son Heath. Jarrod, a prominent lawyer, handles legal issues for the family and manages his two law offices in Stockton and San Francisco. Nick, a rancher, physically manages the family's holdings. Nick is aggressive, out-spoken and at times hot-headed. Victoria's youngest child is her beautiful daughter Audra. Audra is protected by all of the family members. Audra is very sensitive, caring, loves horses, and is a very talented rider. Heath, Tom Barkley's son, helps Nick manage the family ranch.
#1 - Wagonload of Dreams
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/2/1967
The Barkley family helps a man trying to get his peaches to market.
#2 - Pursuit
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1966
Victoria heads alone into the desert to find a sick indian before he reaches, and infects, his people.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - The Iron Box
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/1966
While traveling, Nick and Heath buy a bull from a man who subsequently has them arrested for stealing it.
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - Plunder!
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/13/1967
Heath is sent to protect an evacuated town.
#5 - Price of Victory
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/13/1967
Nick manages an injured boxer who has been told by his doctor to quit fighting.
Watch Now:Amazon#6 - Hide The Children
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/19/1966
Nick accompanies a gypsy and her family to her wedding.
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - The Lost Treasure
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1966
A man arrives at the Barkley Ranch and claims that he is Heath's father, causing Heath to question his parentage.
Watch Now:Amazon#8 - Image of Yesterday
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/9/1967
An old beau of Victoria's comes to town, but he is not the man she remembers.
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - Cage of Eagles
Season 2 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/24/1967
Nick captures an eagle, and a dynamiter causes trouble at a Barkley mine.
Watch Now:Amazon#10 - Showdown in Limbo
Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/27/1967
Heath helps an old friend and lawman transport a wanted outlaw to Stockton, with the outlaw's gang in hot pursuit.
Watch Now:Amazon#11 - Turn of a Card
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/20/1967
Heath travels to bring Jarrod and Nick money for a water pump, but a gambler wants to relieve him of it.
Watch Now:Amazon#12 - The Haunted Gun
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/6/1967
Senator Judd Robeson, a former gunman, comes to Stockton, showing signs of paranoia.
#13 - Down Shadow Street
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/23/1967
Victoria witnesses a murder committed by her godson.
Watch Now:Amazon#14 - A Day of Terror
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/12/1966
Victoria and Audra are held captive in the church by an outlaw and her sons.
Watch Now:Amazon#15 - The Great Safe Robbery
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/21/1966
Bumbling thieves hold Victoria and Audra hostage as they try to open a safe at the train station.
Watch Now:Amazon#16 - The Stallion
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/30/1967
An old ranch hand tries to prove he is still useful, by capturing a wild stallion alone.
Watch Now:Amazon#17 - Last Stage to Salt Flats
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/1966
Victoria, Jarrod, Heath, and their travelling companions are left stranded in the desert without water by three stagecoach robbers.
Watch Now:Amazon#18 - Legend of a General (2)
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1966
Nick and Jarrod head to Mexico to break out Heath, who has already broken out and been recaptured.
Watch Now:Amazon#19 - The Velvet Trap
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/1966
A woman asks Nick for help, saying she is on the run from her former outlaw boyfriend.
Watch Now:Amazon#20 - Day of the Comet
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/26/1966
Audra takes a liking to a mysterious young man, who is a dreamer on the run due to reasons unknown.
Watch Now:Amazon#21 - Caesar's Wife
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1966
A friend of Audra has a new, very young, stepmother who likes him as more than a son and is jealous of Audra.
Watch Now:Amazon#22 - Target
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1966
Joshua Hawks, a candidate for governor, comes to Stockton with accusations against Tom Barkley.
Watch Now:Amazon#23 - The Lady from Mesa
Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/3/1967
Nick goes to find the daughter of a seriously injured ranch hand, with unexpected results.
Watch Now:Amazon#24 - Legend of a General (pt. 1)
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1966
While Heath is in Mexico visiting General Ruiz, the general escapes arrest by fleeing to the Barkley ranch.
Watch Now:Amazon#25 - Boy into Man
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/16/1967
15-year-old Lud Akeley is determined to take care of his younger siblings without any help from the Barkley family, while looking for the mother who left them.