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The Big Valley

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The Big Valley	comment	Western TV series which ran on ABC from 1965 to 1969, starring Richard Long, Peter Breck, Linda Evans, Lee Majors (in his first starring role) and Barbara Stanwyck. The series featured the Barkleys, a wealthy ranch family living near Stockton in California's Central Valley. The family consisted of Victoria, a tough pioneer turned elegant lady; her four sons, and a daughter. It was more socially conscious than other Westerns of the time, featuring some diversity (black cowboys, Chinese railroad workers) and plenty of angst, often arising from various family members' attempts to fight injustice.
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The Big Valley / int_279dbf1a	type	Date Rape Averted
The Big Valley / int_279dbf1a	comment	Date Rape Averted: In "My Son, My Son", Audra is having a birthday party and meets the son of their neighbors, who's been away for several years. She lures him away from the party and lets him kiss her, but when he tries to go further she resists him. He throws her into a shed and tries to rape her, but her screams bring Heath to her rescue. She spends much of the episode wondering how much of it was her fault, while Victoria tries to stay on good terms with the neighbors. Then he tries again, and Victoria is forced to shoot him dead.
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The Big Valley / int_2a7e7af1	type	Limited Wardrobe
The Big Valley / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: Jarrod always wears a homespun suit and tie; Nick, a black cowboy outfit; and Heath, tan pants and a vest.
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The Big Valley / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
The Big Valley / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Major Eliot (Adam West) in "In Silent Battle" is revered as a war hero, but he's actually a serial killer who hated his mother and sees her reflected in "impure" women (which seems to be just about all of them), whom he then kills.
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The Big Valley / int_2fbab42f	type	Wrongful Accusation Insurance
The Big Valley / int_2fbab42f	comment	Wrongful Accusation Insurance: In "Days of Grace", Heath is accused of rape in another town and put in a cell in the sheriff's office. An old flame who had become a nun breaks him out and they go on the run together. He even gets into a shootout with several deputies as they pursue him, but once Victoria convinces his accuser to recant, neither he nor the nun are punished.
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The Big Valley / int_30ed4f7d	type	Sleazy Politician
The Big Valley / int_30ed4f7d	comment	Sleazy Politician: Joshua Hawks, in "Target", is a gubernatorial candidate who makes headlines by accusing Thomas Barkley of having stolen the family land. He's making it up out of whole cloth, and even plans to murder the people looking into it and blaming it on the Barkleys. He eventually reveals that he hates the Barkleys because he used to work for them and (apparently) thought they looked down on him.
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The Big Valley / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Big Valley / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: In "A Day of Terror," a family of criminals, led by the mother, Annie Morton, captures Victoria and Audra. One of the sons, Troy, twice tries to rape Audra. Each time Annie interferes, but when the family is ready to leave, she wants to kill Audra. Troy argues that there's no reason to do that, and believes that Annie just hates any woman he pays attention to because she wants all her sons to be loyal to her and her alone. (So in this case, Troy actually inverts Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil; he's willing to do that, but believes murder for no reason is wrong.)
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The Big Valley / int_3bbecc8b	type	Hell-Bent for Leather
The Big Valley / int_3bbecc8b	comment	Hell-Bent for Leather: Nick, whose character uniform is head-to-toe black leather, cowboy style.
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The Big Valley / int_46c1dc8e	type	Someone to Remember Him By
The Big Valley / int_46c1dc8e	comment	Someone to Remember Him By: Leah nurses Thomas Barkley back to health, after which he returns to his family, never discovering that he left Leah pregnant.
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The Big Valley / int_4b21fad1	type	Ruptured Appendix
The Big Valley / int_4b21fad1	comment	Ruptured Appendix: Audra ruptures her appendix in the first season episode "Last Train to the Fair".
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The Big Valley / int_51afcd70	type	Sexy Silhouette
The Big Valley / int_51afcd70	comment	Sexy Silhouette: In "In Silent Battle", Major Eliot is propositioned by a prostitute, who tells him she has an upstairs room nearby. He contemptuously tells her to leave him alone, but later sees a silhouette of her getting ready for bed and goes over there (unfortunately for her).
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The Big Valley / int_55a37945	type	Badass Family
The Big Valley / int_55a37945	comment	Badass Family: The Barkleys. Victoria and Audra may float around in hoop skirts, but they're quite capable of putting on tight pants and shooting straight when the situation requires it.
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The Big Valley / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
The Big Valley / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: All three of the boys have a protective instinct towards Audra.
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The Big Valley / int_6af8ebb5	type	Death by Falling Over
The Big Valley / int_6af8ebb5	comment	Death by Falling Over: In "Four Days to Furnace Hill", a group of guards transporting a female prisoner accidentally cause her to fall and fatally strike her head on a rock. They then take Victoria hostage as a replacement for the dead woman.
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The Big Valley / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
The Big Valley / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: The actress who played Audra was written out of an episode because of negotiations with the network over renewing her contract. Her mother mentions in the episode that Audra had to go to some distant town on an errand. She returned from wherever she was visiting in the next episode.
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The Big Valley / int_78540917	type	Like Brother and Sister
The Big Valley / int_78540917	comment	Like Brother and Sister: Heath and Audra. She's defensive of him and he protective of her.
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The Big Valley / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Big Valley / int_792bb47a	comment	Heroic Bastard: Heath, the son of Thomas Barkley by a short-lived relationship with Leah, joins his brothers' side for what seems like it will be the losing side of a gunfight by the end of the second episode.
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The Big Valley / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
The Big Valley / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: In "The Death Merchant," Handy Random, who killed the man who killed Thomas Barkley, comes into the area. All the Barkleys welcome him except Heath. The Barkleys are in a land dispute with a neighbor, and Random makes it clear he could defend their claim by shooting anyone working for their neighbor. Nick and Jarrod don't want that, and then Heath reveals why he doesn't like Random: Random has a habit of stirring up range wars, and doesn't stay particularly loyal to one side once he has. The Barkleys ask him to leave, whereupon he immediately goes to their neighbor and offers his services to him.
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The Big Valley / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
The Big Valley / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Nick and Jarrod. When Josh Hawks first makes his accusations about Thomas Barkley in "Target," he's glad that Nick is there because he knows Nick is a hothead (and sure enough, Nick decks him, which earns Nick a lecture from Jarrod about how he played right into Hawks's hands).
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The Big Valley / int_9e1548b4	type	Old Retainer
The Big Valley / int_9e1548b4	comment	Old Retainer: Silas, who apparently single-handedly takes care of the massive Barkley mansion and cooks all the meals, as he's the only servant ever seen.
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The Big Valley / int_ab83cedf	type	Nitro Express
The Big Valley / int_ab83cedf	comment	Nitro Express: In a two-part episode, fittingly titled "Explosion!", Jarrod, Nick, and Heath have to carry nitro to a forest fire to blow a fire break.
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The Big Valley / int_aff29d6f	type	Beauty, Brains and Brawn
The Big Valley / int_aff29d6f	comment	Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The three brothers. Jarrod is an attorney, Nick runs the ranch, and Heath is a Walking Shirtless Scene.
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The Big Valley / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Big Valley / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: In the pilot, Heath comes onto the Barkley estate and ends up fighting with Nick, and Nick wants to know who he is and why he's there, so Heath uses the only profanity used in the entire series when he states, matter-of-factly, just who he is: "Your father's bastard son." (The comic book of the series completely ignores how Heath ended up with the family.)
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The Big Valley / int_c1105f41	type	Hold the Line
The Big Valley / int_c1105f41	comment	Hold the Line: The way in which Thomas Barkley died, fighting against the oncoming forces of the railroad trying to unseat the citizens of the valley. He was shot to death against insurmountable odds.
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The Big Valley / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
The Big Valley / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Eugene Barkley, originally a Berkeley student, was written out after seven episodes when the actor playing him was drafted.
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The Big Valley / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
The Big Valley / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Jarrod is a lawyer who doesn't ordinarily wear a gun, and he apparently has large amounts of legal code memorized to quote off the top of his head at the drop of a hat. He can also mend fences, throw a solid punch, and hit precisely what he shoots at when he does carry a weapon. Similarly, Victoria Barkley is dignified, polite, polished, and well-educated. And she is a frontier wife who has shows no hesitation to pull a gun on a threat, wade through hip-deep mud, or snark at armed criminals. Mess with her or her family at your own peril.
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The Big Valley / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
The Big Valley / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: "And Starring Miss Barbara Stanwyck as Victoria Barkley."
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The Big Valley / int_d1ceb951	type	Holier Than Thou
The Big Valley / int_d1ceb951	comment	Holier Than Thou: The self-righteous marshal played by James Whitmore in "Night in a Small Town".
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The Big Valley / int_dbd57c73	type	StuffedInAFridge
The Big Valley / int_dbd57c73	comment	Stuffed In A Fridge: In "Days of Wrath", Jarrod meets Beth, whom he meets and marries after a few days only for her to take a bullet meant for him and die in his arms, just so Jarrod can go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge after her killer. All this happens in one episode.
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The Big Valley / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
The Big Valley / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: DO NOT DARE try to threaten or harm Victoria's children. Especially Audra. She will kill you outright in justified time.
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The Big Valley / int_ea2e9f2d	type	No Ending
The Big Valley / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: Axed at the end of Season 4, with "Point and Counterpoint" being the last episode and the series Left Hanging.
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The Big Valley / int_edc22fe8	type	Cartwright Curse
The Big Valley / int_edc22fe8	comment	Cartwright Curse: All four Barkley children, despite being rich and attractive, can't make it out of an episode with a love interest still alive. This might even include their mother, who from the start of the series was a widow.
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The Big Valley	hasFeature	The Place / int_8abb91b5
The Big Valley	hasFeature	The Wild West / int_8abb91b5
The Big Valley	hasFeature	We Hardly Knew Ye / int_8abb91b5

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