A con man comes claiming to be Heath's real father, not Tom Barkley.

Part 1, Heath is down in Mexico where an old friend of the family escapes arrest, fleeing to the Barkley ranch. Heath is imprisoned to be held in exchange for the general.

Nick and Jarrod head to Mexico to break out Heath, who has already broken out and been recaptured.

An old friend of Audra's has a new , very young, stepmother who likes him as more than a son, and is jealous of Audra.

Victoria heads alone into the desert to find a sick indian before he reaches, and infects, his people.

Jarrod defends a Basque sheepherder.

A candidate for governor, Joshua Hawks, who had been traveling up and down California spreading lies and causing trouble, comes to Stockton.His target this time, The Barkleys, his story, that Tom Barkley stole every inch of land that they own. He chose the wrong family to mess with this time though, because the Barkleys don't lie down for anyone they come out fighting. Against the wishes of his campain manager, the man who fabricated the story, he decides to, foolishly, stay and fight. Jarrod decides not to bring about a libel charge against Hawks, knowing that it would only result in a long drawn out court battle. Instead he asks the senator to form a committee of four men to decide on the case. Hawks cooks up a scheme to murder the committee and blame it on the Barkleys, he even kills his campaign manager when he decides to leave him, after he has found out Hawks' plan. The plan backfires however and Hawks' ends up getting himself killed instead. In the end The Barkleys get the good

A woman asks Nick for help, pretending to be on the run from her former outlaw boyfriend. It turns out that she was with him all along, and was merely using Nick.

Jarrod gets amnesia while far from home.

Bumbling thieves hold Victoria and Audra hostage as they try to open a safe at the train station.

While in a strange town, Heath and Nick buy a bull from a man who turns around and has them arrested for stealing it. The sherrif catches up to them while they sit around their campfire, and a fight ensues in which Heath badly burns his leg in the fire. The crooked sheriff takes them to a road gang prison to await trail. . .in a few months!! The cruel warden refuses to allow Heath a doctor and makes him work alongside the others. They soon find out the real reason that innocent drifters are arrested and imprisoned, free work labour for the man whom the Barkley brothers had bought the bull from. Meanwhile, at home Jarrod has found out what has happened to his brothers and heads out after them. Arriving at the prison he demands to see them and when the warden refuses he threatens him with legal action if he is not allowed to see his clients. After he speaks with them he rides off to find the circuit judge. Getting scared that the truth will come out now that he realizes who he's dealing

Heath and companions are stranded in the desert, miles from civilization or water!!!!

Victoria and Audra are held captive in the church by an outlaw and her sons.

Nick accompanies a gypsy to her wedding.

Audra falls in love with a man on the run.

A man tries to get his peaches to market.

An old beau of Victoria's comes to town, but he is not the man she remembers.

15-year-old Lud Akely is determined to take care of his younger siblings without any help from the Barkleys, who are trying to help find the mother who abandoned them.

Victoria witnesses a murder, committed by her godson, and is thrown in a sanitarium to prevent her testimony.

An old ranch hand tries to prove he is still useful, by capturing a wild stallion . . . alone.

Gunman turned senator Jud Robson comes to Stockton, and soon begins to say he is being stalked. The main problem with his story, he is suspicious of EVERYONE.

Nick manages an injured boxer, in his last fight.

A fake faith healer comes to Stockton.

An old war friend of Nick's is being courtmartialed, along with Nick himself!

Heath is sent to protect an evacuated town.

Heath travels to bring his brothers money for a water pump, but a gambler wants to relieve him of it.

Heath and company transport a wanted outlaw and must fight off his brother.

Nick goes to find the daughter of a seriously injured ranch hand, with unexpected results.

Heath is wrongfully arrested for attempted rape, and is helped by a nun who used to be his girlfriend.

Nick captures an eagle, and a dynamiter causes trouble at a Barkley mine.

A man is hired at the ranch who is believed to be a Mexican outlaw thought long dead.

Victoria helps three indian women at a desert mission.

To pay off a gambling debt, sheepherder Josiah Freeman pawns off his flock on Nick, who stubbornly tries to tend the troublesome sheep — despite insults and threats from his fellow cattlemen

Jarrod is temporarily blinded.

Heath and family help a wayward saloon girl.

Nick stops at an inn where they kill people for their money.

A client of Jarrod's escapes and takes over the schoolhouse where Audra is substitute teacher.

While on a layover in a strange town, Audra disappears without a trace, leaving her desperate mother to find her.

A deranged doctor moves to town and makes Victoria, then Audra, his next victim.

Part 1, A forest fire rages drawing closer to Stockton. The only solution, a firebreak made with nitroglyceryn!!

Part2, The Barkley boys volunteer to take the nitro to the fire!!

Victoria is grabbed by men on their way to a prison, who need to replace the female prisoner they killed.

While traveling through a strange town, a murder occurs and an innocent man is accused of it. Heath saw the man who really committed the crime, a fact which gets him more trouble than he bargained for.

Accused of killing one of their people, a band of ""religious"" take Heath captive, where he is forced to work as a slave to the widow of the dead man.

The Barkleys hire a bunch of convicts to help with a harvest, and find out that they are tormented by an evil overseer.

Heath and Nick travel across the state line to find the two brothers that shot Jarrod in the midst of a robbery. What they find is a town full of people who think of the outlaws as saints, since they're the ones who built the town. In the end the town finds out their true colors and they are brought to justice.

After his new bride is murdered, a grief stricken Jarrod goes out for revenge.

When the Barkleys meet a Mexican fleeing a revolution, they vow to help protect him

When the Stryder gang escapes, Heath and Nick want to help catch them

Jarod defends Heath in court when he is accused of murder.

A couple kidnap Victoria in exchange for rice

When Jarod goes to Rimfire to conclude a merge of two mines, trouble starts.

Nick falls for newcomer Layle Johnson, who is slow to respond to his attentions. Victoria discovers why - she's already married!

A friend of Heath's has been carrying on a correspondence courtship with a woman who is to be his mail-order bride.

Nick sets out to emotionally help a 14 year old boy who is rejected by his high-class parents.

When a senator arrives in Stockton to promote his re-election, troubles flare when his opponent releases a fraudulent photo.

Victoria's first clue of Major Jonathan Eliot's mental imbalance is when he proposes to Laura.

One of the former confederate spies arrives in Stockton.

When a Cattle Rancher suffers amnesia, he believes that Victoria is his Wife.

After a panther nearly kills Nick, he wants revenge.

When Jarrod visits Baker City, he gets involved in a Mexican Marital mix-up.

The Barkleys hire a man famous for his bad luck to help harvest their crops.

When Heath falls in love with a woman, he doesn't realize how dangerous she is, and what could happen to him.

A young girl witnesses a massacre, and is now being stalked. Victoria must stop this before it is too late.

When Heath kills someone in self-defense, he becomes a wanted man

When Jennie's house is ransacked by three gunmen, Nick realises his practical joke wasn't so great after all!

When Heath is asked to look after a wanted man's baby, he gets himself into trouble.

Nick is believed to be having an affair with a man's wife, and the man plans to hang Nick in the morning

Victoria learns that her brother-in-law has been declared insane.

Everyone has lost their patience even before the annual rodeo has begun

A wealthy and powerful rancher moves into Stockton to ruin the Barkley enterprises. His motive: intense hatred of Jarrod, who he thinks is having an affair with his young wife.

Someone has robbed the Dutton Mining Company, and Heath is taking the blame.

An indian friend returns to Stockton

The prison conditions worry Victoria

When a prince from India comes to Stockton, Laura falls in love with him. However, the prince is an imposter.

Bigots harass a Mormon family who have rented a house from Jarrod.

Victoria and Jarod spend the night in a town which has seen better days

The formar Sheriff of Stockton is the leader of a gang gone on a killing spree.

A ghost town is inhabited by lunatics who capture Heath.

Victoria has Edward deliver her medical supplies to the indians

A woman asks Heath to convince her rebel Mexican husband to leave Mexico

The final episode of The Big Valley