#the big valley

[citizenscreen]

Victoria and Jarrod Barkley on “The Big Valley”

#barbara stanwyck #richard long #the big valley #classic tv

[haveyouseenthisseries-poll]

#tv series #tv shows #polls #the big valley #richard long #peter breck #linda evans #1960s series #us american series #have you seen this series

[whumploversanonymous]

Ok guys I am freaking out and need my nerds to come guide me.

I am going to my first Comic Con today (Indianapolis) with the specific intention of meeting Lee Majors (Heath from the Big Valley, Steve from Six Million Dollar Man, etc). I am so excited and awed to have the chance to meet this guy. I wasn’t planning on dressing up at all but I just realized I can put together a pretty accurate Heath Barkley cosplay- should I do it??? I know costumes are normal, but like costumes of a western from the 60s??? And he’s like 84- I don’t know if he’d think that’s cool or like … weird.

(Also it would be a female cosplaying as a male cowboy- doesn’t matter to me at all but might be weird to others..????) HELP IM SO EXCITED AND SCARED.

#not whump #comic con #cosplay??? #vintage #the big valley #Heath Barkley #Lee majors

[pazzesco]

Growing up, all I knew about Barbara Stanwyck was that she was some old movie star & was the mom on 'The Big Valley'. It was on after Gilligan's Island & we used to watch it after school, if it was raining outside & we were done with our homework.

As I got older I watched some of her old movies, but it was just recently that I learned of her true fame, the volume of her work & that she was a Ziegfeld girl a hundred years ago.

I met Lee Majors & thought he was an ass, so I enjoyed finding this...

Stanwyck as a Ziegfeld girl in a 1924 photo by Alfred Cheney Johnston

The Big Valley Cast

Richard Long (Jarrod Barkley), Barbara Stanwyck (Victoria Barkley), Lee Majors (Heath Barkley), Linda Evans (Audra Barkley) & Peter Breck as (Nick Barkley)

From a very old archived magazine article:

Why Barbara Stanwyck Disliked Lee Majors (The Six Million Dollar Man) - & What He Did To Deserve It by Julie Jackson

Of all the stars in Hollywood, Barbara Stanwyck, the gracious, gallant lady who grew up an orphan on the streets of Brooklyn is perhaps best loved. Of all the young men and women with hands reaching for the next rung of the ladder and eyes focussed on the main chance, Lee Majors is perhaps the most disliked. "The only kind of love Lee knows," says a member of the "Big Valley" organization, "is self-love. He treats members of the crew and extras - the unimportant people by Hollywood standards - as though they were less than human. Barbara Stanwyck would be kind and gracious to a visitor from skid row.

The Extra With Connections

"A few weeks ago a pretty girl was hired as an extra for one episode. This girl dates a man who has a technical job on the show. Between scenes she walked over to talk with him. Lee watched her for a while. Then he stalked over and interrupted their conversation. 'Why are you talking to her?' he asked the man. 'She's an extra.'

"You want to know something? The girl was Sherry Smothers, sister of Tom and Dick Smothers. If Lee had known she was the sister of the Smothers Brothers, he wouldn't have been so rude. In fact, he probably would have asked her to marry him, because he's so impressed by anyone with connections."

There are many kinds of love and many ways of failing at it. Barbara Stanwyck knows that. Lee Majors does not.

Stanwyck & Majors

From Barbara Stanwyck, Lee Majors could learn many things about love. He could learn first about "the feeling of benevolence and brotherhood that people should have for each other," as Websters' Dictionary puts it.

Several years ago on a boiling summer day, some of the grips working under the white hot arc lights on the Barbara Stanwyck film took off their shirts. An officious assistant director dressed then down, asking how they dared take off their shirts when they were in the presence of Miss Stanwyck.

"On a day as hot as this they can strip naked," Miss Stanwyck said, and sent out for beer for the entire crew.

When the "Big Valley" series started, Barbara Stanwyck saw in Lee Majors, talent, ambition and a certain screen magnetism. She was as graciously willing to help him as she had been to help William Holden, Robert Wagner, and half a dozen other young men cast opposite her early in their careers. But Lee Majors did not respond with the gallantry of Holden (who stills sends her flowers every year as a token of his gratitude) or the charm of Wagner. Before a season passed, Lee had announced to the press that Miss Stanwyck was jealous of all the fan mail he was receiving.

The most generous interpretation of his gaucherie is that it came from his over eagerness to be successful. Stanwyck ignored his tactlessness when it was merely directed towards herself. But she refused to tolerate his lack of consideration when it affected the crew. She gave him a bitter tongue-lashing in front of the entire crew. It included phrases like: "You have to learn to crawl before you can walk. Then, maybe you can run a little.

Lee's agent made him apologize to Barbara Stanwyck a few days later. She accepted the apology. But Lee's insensitivity had closed a door. He had lost for himself all the help and consideration that one of Hollywood's great stars was offering him.

 I don’t see any difference between getting along with people in Hollywood and any other place. You treat people with dignity and respect their opinions as being as valuable - or as valueless - as yours.    I’m sentimental in all respects - and not ashamed of it I think people would be better off if they were more sentimental. Some say it’s sloppy to be this way. All right, let’s be sloppy then. Kindness of people affects me a great deal and I get misty-eyed about the smallest thoughtfulness.  - Barbara Stanwyck 

#barbara stanwyck #lee majors #the big valley #the 6 million $ man #ziegfeld girl #old hollywood #cliff clavin

[classicwhump]

Day 1: A little out of the Ordinary

Adverse Effects | Unconventional Restraints | “This wasn’t supposed to happen”

“No!  Heath, forgive me boy!  I swear to you Nick I only meant to warn you off my land.”

#Whumptober 2022 #Day 1 #The Big Valley #1x08 #Heath Barkley #Shot #Classic Whump #1965

[hellyeahgeorgekennedy]

George Kennedy in The Big Valley (1966)

#george kennedy #the big valley #1966 #old hollywood #hollywood #classic television #westerns #60s tv #60s tv shows

[tavoit]

A young Richard Long

Before The Big Valley, Nanny and the Professor, etc.

#richard long #the big valley #Nanny and the Professor

[ride4thebrand]

Texting my dad while watching The Big Valley for the first time.

Me: Wow they don't hesitate on bringing the drama in do they.

Dad: *hasn't seen it in decades* Just wait till they introduce Heath.

Me: Oh we are already there.

Also I love Heath.

#westerns #classic western #western tv #the big valley

[all-action-all-picture]

Heather Thomas and Lee Majors in The Fall Guy (Lee is the one wearing the cap). As in most TV shows of the 70's and 80's Colt, Jody and Howie have to infiltrate a motorcycle gang in the episode 'Colt's Angels'.

This was the fifth episode of the first season and was first broadcast in the US on the 14 March 1982. Guest stars included Don Stroud and Linda Evans (who had starred with Lee in the western series 'The Big Valley' which ran from 1965-1969).

#the fall guy #heather thomas #lee majors #14mar #the big valley #linda evans #don stroud #1982

[anointedinink]

big valley fanart in 2023 bc im insane

#the big valley #the big valley fanart #fanart #art #nick barkley #jared barkley #the barkleys #westerns #western fanart #1960s #60s tv shows #60s #60s fanart #bonanza #richard long #peter breck

[frangipani-wanderlust]

(watching Big Valley) RANSOM: I'm happy go lucky and I just come here for a 'genial chat, so you just take me to your boss or I'll shoot you in the face.

#this episode goes hard #this bad guy is hilarious #he's so unhinged #the big valley #classic televison #humor

[citizenscreen]

The Barkleys celebrating the holidays

#the big valley

[tvthemesongs]

The Big Valley intro

#the big valley #abc #1960s

[proudlyblacksheep]

Friends is amazing if you ignore the toxic Ross and Rachel episodes

#fypage #fy #fyp #friends #movies #tv series #mash #little house on the prairie #full house #golden girls #touched by an angel #the big valley #gunsmoke #bonanza #the jeffersons

[oldshowbiz]

The Big Valley on ABC

#abc #telop #television #television logos #The Big Valley #western #westerns

[hellyeahgeorgekennedy]

George Kennedy in The Big Valley (1966)

#george kennedy #the big valley #1966 #old hollywood #hollywood #classic television #60s tv #westerns #cigar daddy #cigars #tv westerns