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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543240921
Feature: The Powerful Saga of One Family's Lives and Loves in the Old West!Venture back to the days when the land was still untamed and the West was still wild with Season One of The Big Valley, the TVic starring Barbara Stanwyck, Lee Majors, and Linda Evans.The Barkleys are the wealthiest and most powerful family in California's San Joaquin Valley in the 1870s, owning and controlling cattle herds,
Format: Box set, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 75
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledEnglishDubbedDolby Digital 1.0
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
MPN: 2234092
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 16, 2006
Running Time: 1532 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: September 15, 1965
Features:- The Powerful Saga of One Family's Lives and Loves in the Old West!Venture back to the days when the land was still untamed and the West was still wild with Season One of The Big Valley, the TVic starring Barbara Stanwyck, Lee Majors, and Linda Evans.The Barkleys are the wealthiest and most powerful family in California's San Joaquin Valley in the 1870s, owning and controlling cattle herds,
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The Powerful Saga of One Family's Lives and Loves in the Old West!Venture back to the days when the land was still untamed and the West was still wild with Season One of The Big Valley the TV classic starring Barbara Stanwyck Lee Majors and Linda Evans.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 in Season One of this seminal and timeless Western Soap!System Requirements:Running Time: 1530 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 024543240921 Manufacturer No: 2234092
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TV Westerns once ruled the primetime range, inspiring Jonathan Winters to joke at the time, "I like Westerns, I just don't like 15 of them in a row." The Big Valley came along near the end of the trail. Premiering in 1965, it ran for four seasons and earned an Emmy for "Miss Barbara Stanwyck," who stars as widowed matriarch Victoria Barkley. Her brood is a breed apart: Jarrod (Richard Long), the eldest son, who returns to the sprawling Barkley home in the San Joaquin Valley to practice law; excitable Nick (Peter Breck), who is in charge of the family enterprises, youngest son Eugene (Charles Briles), an inconsequential character who would ride off into the sunset by season two; and "shameful" and "spoiled" daughter Audra (Linda Evans), who, in the first episode, is a real kitten with a whip. As a family saga, The Big Valley is more Bonanza than Dallas with one groundbreaking, soap opera twist: the arrival of Heath (Lee Majors), the self-proclaimed "bastard son" of deceased community pillar Tom Barkley. This first season's most compelling dramatic arc is Heath's struggle to be accepted by his brothers (particularly the hot-headed Nick) and determination to stake his claim to "a name, heritage... what's mine."
The Big Valley rounded up a stable of great character actors, several at the beginnings of their careers. The episode "By Force and Violence" alone offers Bruce Dern as an escaped convict whom Victoria compels at gunpoint to help rescue Heath, who is trapped under a disabled wagon, and L.Q. Jones and Harry (Dean) Stanton as the bounty hunters on his trail. Several of the episodes cover some of the same ground: an old family friend is revealed to be less than trustworthy; Audra falls for the wrong guy; someone's got a grudge against the Barkleys. One of the season's most memorable episodes is a tale of redemption, "The Guilt of Matt Bentell," in which the man the Barkleys have hired to oversee their logging operations is the former warden of an apparently Abu Ghraib-like Civil War prison where Heath was incarcerated. Now that network television has put Westerns out to pasture, fans of the series and Western buffs who wouldn't be caught dead in Deadwood can enjoy The Big Valley's more traditional pleasures, including breathtaking cinematography (no painted Ponderosa backdrops), great Western action (the fight scenes pack a real punch), and involving stories. --Donald Liebenson
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SHOW ITSELF IS NOT TOO BAD,BUT THE FIRST SEASON MENU REALLY AN ANNOYING PAIN,MENU HAS NO "PLAY ALL" FEATURE AND EACH EPISODE YOU HAVE TO PUSH PLAY TWICE.ALSO THE SET HAS DOUBLE SIDED DISCS THAT REALY BAD FOR USERS,WHILE TRYING TO CLEAN ONE SIDE YOU SCRATCH UP THE OTHER SIDE.AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST(TO WHOEVER MANUFACTURERS THESE DVDS)USE SINGLS SIDED DISCS WITH AS "MANY" EPISODES AS YOU CAN POSSIBLY SQUEEZE ON EACH DISC(AS FEW SINGLE SIDED DISCS AS YOU CAN USE)IN ADDITION TO ADDING A "PLAY ALL" FEATURE.
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The Barkley family always runs into some excitement on their big ranch in 1800's, or in town, on trains, or out in the woods. Likeable cast, when you get to know them.
I like this series much more as an adult than I did as a kid, because the scripts are surprisingly thoughtful, promoting good character. For instance, in one episode, an old "friend" comes to town, who betrayed Heath, stole his horse and canteen, and left him and a young boy to die of thirst in the desert, and the young ... Read More
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Fantastic plots, great acting, superior video and audio on these DVD's. It's too bad that season two volume 1 (only half a season) costs as much. Someone got greedy. Still, this is a great buy, I recommend it. The first reviewer did a good job of expressing what a great series this was.
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The Big Valley is a timeless western series that ran from 1965-1969. It is a high quality series that touches on many issues that stand today. The actors were well cast and the acting was superb. The time is mid 1880's California. The characters come to life. You will LOVE this series.
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Its really great to watch the old westerns on tv again, my whole family are enjoying them, especially The Big Valley, its appeals to all age groups, theirs something in it for everyone. Most times theirs always some lesson to be learnt. It was a different era from today, where most people lived there lives by a code of ethics.If you want a good Family western to watch this is one of them.
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