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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543240921
Format: Box set, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 16, 2006
Running Time: 1532 minutes
Sales Rank: 8235
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: September 15, 1965
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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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I've always loved the Big Valley as a latchkey kid growing up. I would watch it at home every day after school, followed by the show Bonanza. My brother liked Bonanza, but I liked the Big Valley more. I always liked they way the Barkley family stood together and for one another to solve each others problems and to fight the evil forces that would constantly attack them. Unfortunately today, we live in a society with divided families and no one to be there for you when you need them. The Barkley's ... Read More
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I had never seen this show until i caught an episode on tv and i was instantly hooked.Even though there are no extras I still rate this dvd
set at 5 stars because of the quality of the dvds and the quality of this
series.Shows like these are a treasure and I hope to collect every episode.
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Big Valley is one of the finest examples of the type of family centered television representative of a by-gone age. The all star cast of incredibly beautiful "good guys" stand tall against a land of hardship and promise but with the rich never forgetting the sacrifices and hard work that it took to get to the big house and always helping those in need. But through it all, good and bad, is the bond of a loving family and core values of hard work, integrity, pride and charity that out society has long ... Read More
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The Big Valley is one of the shows that had "formative powers." At an early age, I left Cuba alone and traveled through Mexico to the United States. While alone in Mexico, I missed my family and our way of life back in Punta de la Sierra, a farm located in Pinar del Rio, which is the westernmost province of Cuba.
The show became my passion, a look into life on a ranch where a big family confronted daily challenges with such courage that it was riveting and filled with suspense. The Barkley ... Read More
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Liked the quality, good shows. I really want the rest avaialbe so I can have all the seasons.
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