It starred Barbara Stanwyck as Victoria Barkley, the widowed matriarch of the Barkley personal of Stockton, California. Richard Long played Jarrod Barkley, her eldest boy & the respected attorney. Hot-irascible immature boy Nick Barkley, world health organization managed a personal cattle farm, was played by Peter Breck. (Two Long & Breck got been regulars for the short period in a second classic American series, Maverick, although in different seasons.) Linda Evans played Audra, Victoria's only girl. In the 1st episode, Lee Majors was introduced as Heath, a immature, & a unlawful boy of Victoria's late married man; Heath step by step gained acceptance from either a rest of the Barkley kin. A regular cast was rounded out by Napoleon Whiting, who played Silas, a Barkleys' majordomo.

A single accidental running gag (that also occurred on the TV american Bonanza) is that in each episode where one of the Barkley sons had seriously exposed by having a woman, when soon when he conjoin, she was exterminate or even died gruesomely in the equivalent episode.

Victorithe Barkley besides experienced a immature boy known as Eugene, that appeared in the pilot & periodically in the foremost year. Eugene attended college, which explained how come he was out of a spread for yearn periods of instance. A second victim of the Chuck Cunningham syndrome, he was written out and never referred to once more on top a remainder of the series' begin.