Episode
The Big Valley: Last Stage to Salt Flats
Overview
Heath and companions are stranded in the desert, miles from civilization or water!!!!
Details
- Series
- The Big Valley
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1966-12-05
- Runtime
- 50 min
Episode context
Last Stage to Salt Flats is Episode 12 in Season 2 of The Big Valley. It aired on 1966-12-05. The runtime is 50 min.
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Episode 11: The Iron Box
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
Episode 13: A Day of Terror
Victoria and Audra are held captive in the church by an outlaw and her sons.
More episodes from this season
Episode 10: The Great Safe Robbery
Bumbling thieves hold Victoria and Audra hostage as they try to open a safe at the train station.
Episode 14: Hide The Children
Nick accompanies a gypsy to her wedding.
Episode 9: The Man from Nowhere
Jarrod gets amnesia while far from home.
Episode 15: Day of the Comet
Audra falls in love with a man on the run.
Episode 8: The Velvet Trap
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.
Episode 16: Wagonload of Dreams
A man tries to get his peaches to market.
Episode 7: Target
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
Episode 17: Image of Yesterday
An old beau of Victoria's comes to town, but he is not the man she remembers.
Episode 6: The Martyr
Jarrod defends a Basque sheepherder.
Episode 18: Boy into Man
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.