Review of Plunder!

The Big Valley: Plunder! (1967)
Season 2, Episode 25
8/10
Potential dam bursting and Heath sent to monitor the impacted town
30 March 2020
Warning: Spoilers
This episode has Heath being sent to a town to assist in its evacuation due to a potential dam bursting and flooding. Heath finds three men there also keeping watch. Heath comes across two women in a hotel (Cloris Leachman as a saloon singer and a mute Indian girl played by Patti Chandler who was Lee Major's girlfriend at the time). Patti Chandler was a familiar star in the Beach Blanket Bingo and the Doctor Goldfoot movies of the 60s. The other three men come across a man trying to steal goods from the empty town who is played by Rhodes Reason. He played in two Time Tunnel shows as Col. Travis (Alamo episode) and Joshua (Jericho episode) and in the Star Trek episode playing a arena fighter in an alien world Roman style Coliseum. The thief convinces the other three men to join him in stealing the town goods. Heath has to hide along with the two women from the gang of four thieves. Heath gets wounded by one of the gang members, but is able to kill two of them before he is confronted by Rhodes Reason's character. Cloris Leachman kills Rhodes Reason as he was about to shoot Heath. The remaining surviving gang member decides to stop the theft after seeing the other three men dead which included his brother. At the end, the dam does not burst, so Heath and the others do not need to get out ASAP. The saloon singer and her native American companion leave the Barkley ranch to start a new life. The Indian girl character does not say one word in the entire episode and gives a goodbye kiss to Heath at the end. Lee Majors would later marry for the second wife (Farrah Fawcett).
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