User Reviews

This episode was the next to last for The Big Valley. It dealt with a former lover of Heath who jilted him returning to the Barkley ranch. When she returns, the wounds are obviously still fresh for Heath. Yet it takes her little time to quickly draw him in to her little escapade. Well, after all, she's a stunningly attractive blonde. Imagine that.

I wont say any more about the episode. The show was still popular at this point but apparently was phased out {as were most Westerns around this time} to bring in a "new direction" for the network. Gotta keep up with the times, kids. So I would guess when these last episodes were taped, the cast and crew fully expected there to be a 5th season.

I want to comment on the age listing for the actress that plays Heath's ex-lover Sarah {Pat Delaney}. Follow me here. The storyline is that these two were lovers 5 years previous. Since that time she has met and married another man. This episode aired in April of '69. And yet Ms. Delaney's birth date on IMDb is presented as December 1, 1957. I checked Google, its the same there.

Really? That would make her 11 at the airing of this episode, and well, I guess Heath and her being lovers 5 years previous meant it was when the actress was 6. Umm, sure :) I would estimate Ms Delaney to be 20 at the youngest in this episode, more likely in her mid-late 20's. So her publicist or somebody is fudging on her date of birth - and by more than a year or two. Either that, or she's from that same alien origin as the girl in the first Species film. Rapid aging indeed.

When an old girlfriend of Heath's, Sarah Mendez, visits the Barkley Ranch she asks Heath if he will help get his revolutionary husband out of Mexico before the Federales captures him. The rub is that Heath had strong feeling for Sarah and now is asked to rescue the man that took her away from him. Heath will visit a Mexican mine that is owned by the Barkleys and smuggle Dr Raoul Mendez out under the cover of a wagon.

When Heath get to the mine he is asked from the mine manager to carry gold in the wagon since the revolutionaries have been robbing and taking everything of value. Heath will have the outlaw Mendez and many pounds of gold as he sets off for the border. Heath will have to by-pass many obstacles along the way hoping to get all his cargo across the border. But it will not be as easy as expected.

Was not as thrilled about this episode as others. Felt this was a weaker script with little action. It just did not have anything to hold the interest of most viewers. Acting was fine but the story was the let down.