A 1967 ABC episode of The Big Valley illustrated the institutional horrors faced by mentally ill persons and those “undesirables of troublemakers” who could be made to disappear from society by powerful men. Those in the latter category were often perfectly sane women. In the episode, “Down Shadow Street,” Victoria Barkley (played by Barbara Stanwyck) witnessed her godson, the son of Judge Tyrone, commit a murder. Within a somewhat convoluted plot, the desperate Judge Tyrone (Robert M
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