As of July 2026, The Big Valley Season 1 aired in 1965 with 30 episodes — streaming now on Philo. Full episode guide and where to watch below.

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The Big Valley Season 1

1965 30 Episodes Western · Drama ⭐ 6/10

Right now you can watch The Big Valley Season 1 on — and it holds up to as much attention as you give it. A single, tightly-focused season means there is plenty to get through without ever feeling padded. 58 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. Barbara Stanwyck sets the tone, and the rest of the cast matches it scene for scene. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

Part of the current wave of titles people are actually watching, The Big Valley Season 1 earns its spot. The writing in The Big Valley Season 1 treats its characters as people first, plot devices second. Season 1 of The Big Valley includes 30 episodes. It aired from September 1965 to April 1966. This season stars Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long and Peter Breck. Barbara Stanwyck and Richard Long lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1965. The Big Valley Season 1 resists tidy resolutions in a way that respects how messy real consequences actually are. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

The Big Valley Season 1 is what you recommend to people who say they do not really watch much. It stands on its own even without an obvious comparison point. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch if your schedule allows. Barbara Stanwyck's work here is the kind that gets referenced in career retrospectives. It makes everything else feel thin by comparison.

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🎬 The Big Valley Season 1 — Episode Guide

In this series premiere, the railroad has hired men to force the farmers and ranchers of Stockton off their land. The Barkleys join with the rest of the valley to help fight them off. While at home an angry young man, Heath, shows up claimimg to be the deceased Tom Barkleys' illegitimate son.

While preparing for a major cattle drive bunching the Barkley's herd with those of other ranchers, Heath has major difficulties being accepted as a Barkley, especially by the ranch hands. Then when Nick's former commander in the war comes to visit, Heath is suspicious of him, and with good reason. H...

Boots with My Father's Name

Victoria begins to wonder if Tom ever truly loved her, if he could go off and have an affair which produces a child. So she's off to Heath's hometown Strawberry to find out more about Tom and Leah's (Heath's mother) relationship.

Young Marauders

Audra is save by a man who claims to be a mustang hunter, but who's band of mustangers are also extorting protection money from the farmers and ranchers of Stockon. While Audra is smitten with him her brothers are suspicious, and soon find out the truth. Which Audra does as well. . .after she is kid...

The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner

Victoria sells land to an old friend, while the Barkley boys are part of a plan to flood it!!!

While Heath investigates violence at one of the Barkley mines, he discovers that the miners hate the Barkley's for unkept promises. This discovered they work to set things right before anything else happens.

Winner Lose All

Heath falls for a beautiful spanish girl, whose father happens to be involved in a land dispute with the Barkleys! Her father disapproves of Heath because of his illegitamate birth, picturing a much finer bred man for his only daughter. He sets about using the land problems to break them apart.

An old childhood friend of Audra's returns whom she'd like to be involved with. She doesn't know however that he is emotionally disturbed, dangerously so.

Victoria is in a mission church with a pregnant indian woman, when an earthquake collapses it into a forgotten mine underneath. As if the situation isn't isn't bad enough. . they are also trapped with a man whom Nick had fired and who now has a serious grudge against the Barkleys.

The Murdered Party

Jarrod defends a man accused of murder, even though the only witness is his own brother, Heath!!

The Way to Kill a Killer

When one of Nick's old friends, Mariano Montoya, comes through town on his way to sell his cattle, trouble hits in the form of deadly anthrax. The man's cattle begin to die off and it seems as though they will have to shoot them all, killing as well Mariano's dreams for the money. Until Eugene tells...

Night of the Wolf

When Nick is bitten by a rabid wolf, he makes Heath swear not to say a word, and leaves town so his family will not have to witness what will happen to him.

The Guilt of Matt Bentell

When the Barkleys invite the foreman of their logging operations to dinner, Heath walks in and tries to kill the man on sight. It turns out that the man is Matt Bentell, the warden of violent, horrible Carterson Prison, where Heath was held during the war. A man whom he had sworn to kill if he ever ...

A group of irish immigrants settle down on Barkley land, believing that they bought the land legally. Nick, along with the others at first, believes they are merely squatters. They, however, refuse to believe that the land does not belong to them.

Judgement in Heaven

Jarrod decides to bring home one of his clients, a young woman named Maybelle, for Christmas. Her accused crime aiding and abbetting her outlaw boyfriend, a boyfriend who recently escaped from jail and is now looking for Maybelle.

While out counting cattle Heath comes across a dead animal. When he gets down off of his horse to investigate, he is shot by the same rawhiders who killed the cow. When they realize that he is still alive, they decide to take him back to the ranch for a finder's ""reward"". Once there they find that...

By Fires Unseen

Nick returns from a trip from San Francisco with a big surprise. . . a fiance!! While he is completely smitten with her, the rest of the family isn't so quickly won over. They see the truth, that she's just not ready to leave behind the life of parties and numerous suitors, to which she has become a...

Jarrod is happy to see an old law school friend. . until he learns there is a secret service agent on his tail. It seems everywhere he goes counterfeit money follows, and Jarrod is determined to find out what's going on with his old friend.

Teacher of Outlaws

Mistaken for the schoolteacher, Victoria is kidnapped by an outlaw who wishes to learn to read.

Under a Dark Star

A guilt ridden Jarrod offers to help a man that he helped to convict of a crime that Jarrod now knows that he did not commit. Even though the man threatened to kill Jarrod at the trial.

🎭 Cast of The Big Valley Season 1

Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck

Victoria Barkley

Richard Long

Peter Breck

Lee Majors

Linda Evans

Charles Briles

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