The Big Valley Hell Hath No Fury (1965–1969) Online

This episode has some light humorous touches. It's about a young woman (Carol Lynley) who wants to turn from the dark side and find happiness. The relationship that develops between her and Heath (Lee Majors) is quite poignant. Unfortunately, he doesn't share her ideas about marriage, and when he turns her down, she becomes very vengeful. Lynley does an effective job conveying the frustration experienced by her character.

Lynley also gives us a chance to see the woman's unique relationship with her three older brothers-- gunmen who rob stagecoaches and banks with her. Another reviewer called Dilly Shanks an Annie Oakley type, but I regard her as a mini Ma Barker.

In previous episodes of 'The Big Valley,' we've seen Heath involved with other young women. But in an ironic sort of way, Dilly might be the one who is most compatible with him. She's an outsider in a world of laws and rules-- and when he first came to live with the Barkleys, he was an outsider who had been wandering aimlessly. So it's logical he would be drawn to her in some way, because she would remind him of where he'd been before he found a home with real love.

This episode is playing on MeTV as I write, and I don't find it to be as bad as the other reviewer. This episode features Heath/Lee Majors, although the other characters are present and two of them have considerable lines, when many times if one character is featured the others are absent. Victoria/Miss Stanwyck and Audra/Linda Evans both do a fine job in this episode. It is true that the guest star, Carol Lynley, is not a good actress, and her character, Dilly, has a fake Southern drawl which her brothers do not share, but she is a beautiful sexy provocative woman, and she has a revealing bath scene. I suppose it depends upon your reason for watching television. If you are looking for a world class artistic experience in the performing arts, then perhaps you would not want to watch this. But I am looking to pass an hour with a TV show that is somewhat entertaining and not too boring, and to be titillated with some pretty eye candy in the meantime, and I am finding this episode of "The Big Valley" to be quite adequate in that regard. There is another beautiful guest star, the handsome Don Dubbins, who plays Dilly's brother, Grady. And of course, the lovely brawny Heath/Lee Majors is wearing light colored pants that fit just right to really show off his shapely physique, and at the mid-point of the episode he has a scene where he is naked down to the cowboy belt, showing off that beautiful chest. The silver embellished saddle which the infatuated Dilly gives Heath is also beautiful and interesting to those of us who enjoy western artifacts. The past hour which I spent watching this episode is far from the worst hour of my life.

Heath is in a saloon playing poker with a few guys when this beautiful woman asks to play. Little does anyone know that she is a member of a gang of robbers that intend to rob the local bank. But from the beginning you can tell that the woman named Dilly Shacks, that has the worse southern drawl in TV history, has the hots for Ole Heath.

Dilly even makes her intentions known when she tells Heath that she loves him and wants to marry. Afterward she goes and buy him a saddle and tells the rest of the gang that she will be staying in Stockton and she will not participate in the robbery. All this while she is taking a bath that is interesting to any breathing male.

Later Heath becomes suspicious of Dilly after her actions and stories do not add-up. She confesses to Heath but tells him that she will change her ways if he will marry her. Heath refuses which makes for an upset Dilly and Hell hath no Fury.

Not the most interesting script but played out well as a semi-comedy. Taking this show as a lighthearted episode that only wants to entertain, makes it easier to review this program. The acting is suspicious, the script suspicious, the reality suspicious but the show is a fun watch. Especially for the eight to seventeen year old males.

A deadly female outlaw sets her mind on Heath Barkley as a soulmate and when that happens Lee Majors is caught in a nasty web. Carol Lynley is the Annie Oakley type character gone to the dark side.

Not only can Carol shoot but she's also the brains of this gang which includes her three stumble bum brothers who are Rayford Barnes, Conlan Carter and Don Dubbins. But she's willing to change if it will bring her Majors.

Lynley crackles on screen as the cowgirl with fast gun and a fast mouth. Her scene with Barkley matriarch Barbara Stanwyck is the highlight of this episode.

Definitely not a reason to miss this one.

This episode has the rather untalented Carol Lynley guest star as Dilly - who eventually develops a crush on our Heath.

Ms Lynley has never been a favorite actress of mine and this installment proves my reasons = she plays as if she's in a cartoon, not a Western! Her 'energy/delivery' whatever - is weak and insincere and we all know that Heath and she would make a ridiculous pair.

The scenes where Heath confesses his deep feeling for Dilly (to Victoria) are not even remotely believable.

Sometimes the writers got desperate for stories and stars and this episode is a good example.

A minor misfire for a great series.