Bonanza - Season 3

Bonanza - Season 3

Season 3

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Episodes34
DatesSep 24, 1961 - May 20, 1962
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Episodes

The Smiler
Season 3Episode 160 min

The Smiler

The brother of a man Hoss killed in self-defense says he understands but secretly plans revenge.

Sep 24, 1961
Springtime
Season 3Episode 260 min

Springtime

When their spring-fever antics injure miserly businessman, Jedediah Milbank, requiring recuperation at the Ponderosa, Ben orders each of his sons to carry out one of Mr. Milbank's seemingly simple tasks, unaware that they may prove impossible for the kind-hearted Cartwright boys to complete.

Oct 1, 1961
The Honor of Cochise
Season 3Episode 360 min

The Honor of Cochise

The Cartwrights must try to get help for Adam, seriously wounded by an Apache bullet, and find out why Cochise and his warriors have threatened to kill them all if they don't hand over an army captain taking refuge in their trail camp.

Oct 8, 1961
The Lonely House
Season 3Episode 460 min

The Lonely House

Little Joe pays a visit to the widow Lee Bolden, and brings her a bank draft for her husband's investments with Ben. Actually, the investments were losing propositions. Ben just wanted to help out his friend. During his visit, a wounded man stumbles into the house, and Joe recognizes him as Trock, who had just robbed the local bank. Lee Bolden was a nurse to her husband physician, and removes the bullet from Trock. Joe soon learns that Lee is in love with Trock, and that is the only thing standing between him and an early grave.
Oct 15, 1961
The Burma Rarity
Season 3Episode 560 min

The Burma Rarity

In this comic episode involving a precious emerald and the sweet widow, Clemantine Hawkins who is attracted to Ben, turns the tables on a pair of land swindlers.
Oct 22, 1961
Broken Ballad
Season 3Episode 660 min

Broken Ballad

Adam tries to help a reformed gunman who wants only to live peacefully near Virginia City. Good story without a tidy ending. Pernell's first chance to sing on the series.
Oct 29, 1961
The Many Faces of Gideon Flinch
Season 3Episode 760 min

The Many Faces of Gideon Flinch

Hoss and Joe become involved when "Bullethead" Burke vows revenge on an old man he claims cheated him in an investment deal.
Nov 5, 1961
The Friendship
Season 3Episode 860 min

The Friendship

Joe befriends and takes responsibility for an ex-convict named Danny. Danny loves horses and is not used to people's ways on the outside of jail. Will his rough jailhouse upbringing mar any hopes of friendship?
Nov 12, 1961
The Countess
Season 3Episode 960 min

The Countess

A woman Ben once loved, Lady Chadwick, returns and attempts to trick him into marrying her by ruining his business. Ben says almost losing the Ponderosa will make him and his sons appreciate it more.
Nov 19, 1961
The Horse Breaker
Season 3Episode 1060 min

The Horse Breaker

A professional wrangler working for the Cartwrights is paralyzed when thrown by a particularly mean bronco. The woman nursing him was once engaged to the late son of a neighboring rancher out to get Ben.
Nov 26, 1961
Day of the Dragon
Season 3Episode 1160 min

Day of the Dragon

Joe wins a card game and an unexpected prize...a young lady. She goes to the Ponderosa and serves them, not wanting to be set free. Meanwhile, an army is looking for her and the Cartwrights.
Dec 3, 1961
The Frenchman
Season 3Episode 1260 min

The Frenchman

A man claiming to be the reincarnation of french poet Francois Villon and his sister get kicked out of the hotel. Joe and Hoss bring them to the Ponderosa where Joe falls in love with Francois' sister Eloise.

Dec 10, 1961
The Tin Badge
Season 3Episode 1360 min

The Tin Badge

While in Rubicon, Joe is offered the position of sheriff. When he tells his family, they don't take him seriously which angers him, so he takes the job.

Dec 17, 1961
Gabrielle
Season 3Episode 1460 min

Gabrielle

Hoss comes across a blind girl named Gabrielle who was recently orphaned when her parents died in an overturned wagon. When he brings her back to the Ponderosa, the Cartwright's set out to find her a loving home, but she has her sights set to go live with her grandfather: an old hermit who wants nothing to do with her or anyone else.

Dec 24, 1961
Land Grab
Season 3Episode 1560 min

Land Grab

The Cartwrights play host to an eccentric old soldier friend of Ben's while trying to track down a mysterious swindler named Polk who is illegally deeding parcels of the Ponderosa to settlers looking for homesteads.

Dec 31, 1961
The Tall Stranger
Season 3Episode 1660 min

The Tall Stranger

The woman that Hoss is smitten with turns down his marriage proposal when a stranger in town sweet talks her with the promise of excitement and adventure. However, Hoss soon discovers that the man is only after her money and is asked by her father to go save her after she runs away with the new man.

Jan 7, 1962
The Lady from Baltimore
Season 3Episode 1760 min

The Lady from Baltimore

Bitterly disappointed in her husband's financial failures, genteel matriarch Deborah Banning travels to visit her friends on the Ponderosa, hoping to turn her family's fortunes around by marrying her only daughter off to a Cartwright son.

Jan 14, 1962
The Ride
Season 3Episode 1860 min

The Ride

When Adam is a witness to a murderous armed robbery by masked assailants, he is absolutely convinced he knows who one of them is, but there's ultimately only one way to prove it.

Jan 21, 1962
The Storm
Season 3Episode 1960 min

The Storm

While visiting the Ponderosa, Ben's old friend, sea Captain Matthew White, is forced to reveal a terrible secret after Little Joe Cartwright falls in love with and plans to wed the Captain's daughter, Laura, once a freckle-faced playmate from Joe's childhood in New Orleans, now grown into a beautiful woman.

Jan 28, 1962
The Auld Sod
Season 3Episode 2060 min

The Auld Sod

The Cartwrights are dumbfounded when the mother of town drunk Danny Lynch arrives on the Ponderosa to see the land that her son apparently owns, as he said in letters to her. They seek out Danny to tell her the truth.

Feb 4, 1962
Gift of Water
Season 3Episode 2160 min

Gift of Water

On his way home, Hoss stops for water at the house of drought stricken family member Jason Gant. While attempting to build a well it caves in on Jason and Hoss saves him. Afterwards Hoss is determined to help Jason strike water.

Feb 11, 1962
The Jackknife
Season 3Episode 2260 min

The Jackknife

The Cartwrights go hunting for a gang of cattle rustlers. Adam comes across an injured man, Matthew Grant, who he assumes is one of the thieves. Knowing that Ben will shoot the criminal on sight, Adam tries to convince Grant to confess to his crimes and turn himself over to the authorities.

Feb 18, 1962
The Guilty
Season 3Episode 2360 min

The Guilty

Tucson gunman, Jack Groat, swore to kill Sheriff Lem Partridge for putting him in prison after a bullet from Groat's gun during a drunken street brawl accidentally killed Sheriff Partridge's wife. Now, 10 years later and fresh out of prison, Groat has tracked retired Lem Partridge to Virginia City and is soon holding Lem's son, Jimmy, and good friend Ben Cartwright hostage. But things go bad and Ben must soon explain to Lem - and try to convince himself - that there was nothing he could have done that day to stop Groat from shooting Jimmy in the back.

Feb 25, 1962
The Wooing of Abigail Jones
Season 3Episode 2460 min

The Wooing of Abigail Jones

The Cartwright boys help cowhand Hank romance reluctant teacher Abigail.

Mar 4, 1962
The Lawmaker
Season 3Episode 2560 min

The Lawmaker

The Cartwrights may have to take the law into their own hands when Virginia City's temporary sheriff, rancher Asa Moran, uses his new badge as a license to kill.

Mar 11, 1962
Look to the Stars
Season 3Episode 2660 min

Look to the Stars

The Cartwrights encourage young genius, Albert Michelson, to pursue his scientific experiments while trying to discover why schoolmaster, George Norton, expelled Albert from school and seems determined to stand in the way of his appointment to the prestigious Annapolis Naval Academy.

Mar 18, 1962
The Gamble
Season 3Episode 2760 min

The Gamble

Little Joe is his family's only hope when he escapes from a kangaroo court that has framed the Cartwrights for a bank robbery and sentenced them all to hang.

Apr 1, 1962
The Crucible
Season 3Episode 2860 min

The Crucible

Adam is left to die in the desert after two thieves take $5,000 and his horse from him. Near death, he stumbles into an old prospector named Kane who offers to lend him a mule and supplies in exchange for three day's work at his mine. Kane, however, turns out to be a demented madman. He holds Adam prisoner and tortures him to prove his theory that anyone could be driven to kill, even a man as rational as Adam. This is Pernell Robert's favorite episode along with "The Wooing Of Abigail Jones".
Apr 8, 1962
Inger, My Love
Season 3Episode 2960 min

Inger, My Love

Ben indulges in a nostalgic reverie about Hoss's deceased mother. Having worked his way west to Galesburg, IL., Ben is befriended by a girl named Inger, the fiancee of the tavern owner who gave him a job.
Apr 15, 1962
Blessed Are They
Season 3Episode 3060 min

Blessed Are They

When two feuding families argue over the custody of two orphaned children, a reluctant Ben is called upon to straighten out the situation before real trouble erupts.
Apr 22, 1962
The Dowry
Season 3Episode 3160 min

The Dowry

The Cartwrights get mixed up in the romance of a phony heiress and an equally phony land baron.
Apr 29, 1962
The Long Night
Season 3Episode 3260 min

The Long Night

Ben, Joe and Adam travel to Bowleg to pay the yearly taxes on the Ponderosa. After the transaction is completed, Ben and Joe ride over the summit to join the cattle drive. Adam is on his way to Genoa and is carrying a $10,000 bank draft his father has given him. A prison guard rides into town and announces two hombres have broke out and escaped who are holdup men and killers. Elmer Trace and his partner Poindexter were assisted by a guard in escaping prison and they betray him on the trail. Trace takes his clothes, horse and firearms, leaving Poindexter with only a rifle and rides off. Meanwhile, the Sheriff of Bowleg organizes a posse immediately.
May 6, 1962
The Mountain Girl
Season 3Episode 3360 min

The Mountain Girl

Joe promises a dying sheepman he will make sure the old man's granddaughter gets her rightful inheritance from a wealthy San Francisco family. This episode was filmed immediately after "Inger, My Love", which explains why Blocker's arm is still in a sling.
May 13, 1962
The Miracle Maker
Season 3Episode 3460 min

The Miracle Maker

Hoss blames himself when a young woman is crippled in a wagon accident, and hopes a faith healer can help her walk again.
May 20, 1962

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