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The Big Valley

TV·1965–1969·ABC·Drama, Family, Western·1h·Created by A.I. Bezzerides, Louis F. Edelman

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The Barkleys are the wealthiest and most powerful family in California's San Joaquin Valley in the 1870s, owning and controlling cattle herds, gold mines, citrus groves, and logging camps. Follow and share the family's trials and tribulations as matriarch Victoria Barkley leads her brood through joys and heartache, adventure and danger, and laughter and pain.

Cast

Lee MajorsLee MajorsHeath BarkleyBarbara StanwyckBarbara StanwyckVictoria BarkleyLinda EvansLinda EvansAudra BarkleyPeter BreckPeter BreckNick BarkleyRichard LongRichard LongJarrod Barkley

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