Ambush is the second episode of the third season of The Big Valley. It first aired September 18, 1967.
In production order, it is the 9th episode of Season 3.
Plot[]
Victoria revisits a desert mission. She fights to protect three Indian women from killers and only has a recently reformed alcoholic to help her. - Source: IMDb.com
Cast[]
Starring[]
- Richard Long as Jarrod Barkley - credit only
- Lee Majors as Heath
- Miss Barbara Stanwyck as Victoria Barkley
Guest Star[]
- James Gregory as Simon Carter
Also Starring[]
- L. Q. Jones as Hutch
- Toian Matchinga as Seataki
Supporting cast[]
- Rex Holman as Mitchlor
- Ruben Moreno as Ruiz
- Robert Karnes as Father Andre
Crew (and other credits)[]
Opening credits[]
- Executive Producers: Jules Levy, Arthur Gardner & Arnold Laven
- Producer: Lou Morheim
- Written by: Margaret Armen
- Directed by: Virgil W. Vogel
Closing credits[]
- "A Four Star Levy-Gardner-Laven Production"
- Production Supervisor: Norman S. Powell
- Editorial Supervisor: Bernard Burton
- Music Supervisor: Alfred Perry
- Music by: Joseph Mullendore
- Theme by: George Duning
- Director of Photography: Wilfrid M. Cline, A.S.C.
- Art Director: Jack DeShields
- Production Manager: Don Torpin
- Assistant Director: Bob White
- Set Decorator: Pierre Ludlam
- Wardrobe: Robert B. Harris
- Miss Stanwyck's costumes: Jack Muhs
- Edited by: Desmond Marquette, A.C.E.
- Sound: Don Rush
- Music Editor: Harry King
- Sound Effects: Kay Rose
- Hairstylist: Gale McGarry
- Makeup: Sidney Perell
- Production Coordinator: Tom Rolf
- Casting: Robert Walker
- Producers' Assistants: Marian Carter & Marilyn Fiebelkorn
- Created by: A. I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman
Trivia[]
- The production ID for The Big Valley episode is #7117.
- Richard Long is absent in this episode.
- Ambush is a surprise attack by people lying in wait in a concealed position.
- This episode of The Big Valley was revised in broadcast syndication for 60 minutes.
- The production ID, which is #7117R for this episode of The Big Valley, has been re-edited because of the "R" at the end.
- R is the 18th letter of the alphabet, after Q and before S.
- R is for revised and re-edited.