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Shows Like The Big Valley

If you liked The Big Valley (1965), a western and drama series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Little House on the Prairie

    Little House on the Prairie (1974)

    ★ 8/10Also western and drama

    When the big woods of Wisconsin becomes a difficult spot for hunting, Charles Ingalls reluctantly decides to move his family, pioneering west. Their life on the farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s…

  2. 2The High Chaparral

    The High Chaparral (1967)

    ★ 6.7/10Also western and drama

    The High Chaparral is an American Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971. The series, made by Xanadu Productions in association with NBC…

  3. 3Rawhide

    Rawhide (1959)

    ★ 7.3/10Also western and drama

    The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.

  4. 4Little House on the Prairie

    Little House on the Prairie (2026)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and western

    The close-knit Ingalls family builds a new life on the Western frontier, where the joys of nature and the struggle for survival are deeply intertwined.

  5. 5Cheyenne

    Cheyenne (1955)

    ★ 6.2/10Also western and drama

    Cheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero. CHEYENNE is an American…

  6. 6Wanted: Dead or Alive

    Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958)

    ★ 7.1/10Also western and drama

    Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three seasons from 1958–61. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a…

  7. 7Wagon Train

    Wagon Train (1957)

    ★ 6.6/10Also western and drama

    The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert…

  8. 8Bonanza

    Bonanza (1959)

    ★ 7.5/10Also western and drama

    The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.

  9. 9Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

    Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993)

    ★ 7.6/10Also western and drama

    Dr. Michaela Quinn journeys to Colorado Springs to be the town's physician after her father's death in 1868.

  10. 10The Young Riders

    The Young Riders (1989)

    ★ 7.4/10Also western and drama

    The Young Riders was an American Western television series created by Ed Spielman that presents a fictionalized account of a group of young Pony Express riders based at the Sweetwater Station in the Nebraska Territory…

  11. 11The Virginian

    The Virginian (1962)

    ★ 6.5/10Also western and drama

    The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character…

  12. 12Have Gun, Will Travel

    Have Gun, Will Travel (1957)

    ★ 7.3/10Also western and drama

    Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one…

  13. 13The Rifleman

    The Rifleman (1958)

    ★ 7.1/10Also western

    The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico…

  14. 14Into the West

    Into the West (2005)

    ★ 8/10Also western and drama

    The lives of two families, one white American, one native American, become mingled through the momentous events of American expansion, between 1825 and 1890.

  15. 15Centennial

    Centennial (1978)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama and western

    The economic and cultural growth of town of Centennial, Colorado, through the intertwining lives of the brave men and women inhabiting it. Spanning two centuries from the settling of the area in the 1700s, to the late…

  16. 16Alias Smith and Jones

    Alias Smith and Jones (1971)

    ★ 6.9/10Also western

    Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Jedediah "Kid" Curry, a pair of cousin outlaws trying to…

  17. 17The Lone Ranger

    The Lone Ranger (1949)

    ★ 6.7/10Also western

    The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The live-action series initially featured Gerald Mohr as the episode narrator…

  18. 18Vegas

    Vegas (2012)

    ★ 6.9/10Also western and drama

    Ralph Lamb wants to be left in peace to run his ranch, but Las Vegas is now swelling with outsiders and corruption which are intruding on his simple life. Recalling Lamb's command as a military police officer during…

  19. 19Gunsmoke

    Gunsmoke (1955)

    ★ 6.7/10Also western and drama

    Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the…

  20. 20Dynasty

    Dynasty (1981)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    The saga of a wealthy Denver family in the oil business: Blake Carrington, the patriarch; Krystle, his former secretary and wife; his children: Adam, lost in childhood after a kidnapping; Fallon, pampered and spoiled…

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