The Big Valley

The Big Valley - Barbary Red

Season 1, Episode 21
Original Airdate: Feb 16, 1966

Director: Michael Ritchie
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long, Peter Breck, Lee Majors, Linda Evans, Charles Briles, Napoleon Whiting
Guests: Jill St. John, George Kennedy, John Hoyt, Bing Russell, Donna Michelle
Runtime: 51 min.

Nick is shanghaied while celebrating his birthday in a saloon on the waterfront. Jarrod suspects an old client of his, Barbary Red, is behind the disappearance, so Heath goes undercover to find out the truth.

Trivia: George Kennedy won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Cool Hand Luke (1967). The voluptuous Jill St. John played Bond girl Tiffany Case in 1971's Diamonds are Forever. Currently married to actor Robert Wagner, she's dated such luminaries as Frank Sinatra, Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson and Henry Kissinger(!). Donna Michelle (Dolly) was on the cover of Playboy in May 1964. She's featured on one of six stamps issued by Grenada to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the magazine.