Bonanza - Season 3
Run Time: 49 mins
Air Date: Sun, 24 Sept 1961
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.521 (455 votes)
NBC34 Episodes
The Smiler
Season 3 - Episode 1
A drunk is killed in a saloon brawl with Hoss, and though the man's brother insists there are no hard feelings, he is actually a silver-tong...
Springtime
Season 3 - Episode 2
A friend of Ben's (Mr. Milbank) arrives at the Ponderosa at a bad time...when the Cartwright boys are fighting in the mud. Mr. Milbank, who ...
The Honor of Cochise
Season 3 - Episode 3
The Cartwrights and a bigoted army captain are pinned down by Cochise and his braves, who claim the officer poisoned 30 of their people.
The Lonely House
Season 3 - Episode 4
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 investme...
The Burma Rarity
Season 3 - Episode 5
In this comic episode involving a precious emerald and the sweet widow, Clemantine Hawkins who is attracted to Ben, turns the tables on a pa...
Broken Ballad
Season 3 - Episode 6
Adam tries to help a reformed gunman who wants only to live peacefully near Virginia City. Good story without a tidy ending. Pernell's fir...
The Many Faces of Gideon Flinch
Season 3 - Episode 7
Hoss and Joe become involved when "Bullethead" Burke vows revenge on an old man he claims cheated him in an investment deal.
The Friendship
Season 3 - Episode 8
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...
The Countess
Season 3 - Episode 9
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 Horse Breaker
Season 3 - Episode 10
A professional wrangler working for the Cartwrights is paralyzed when thrown by a particularly mean bronco. The woman nursing him was once ...
Day of the Dragon
Season 3 - Episode 11
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. Meanwh...
The Frenchman
Season 3 - Episode 12
An irritating man who boasts of being the reincarnation of French poet Francois Villion shows up causing trouble for the Cartwrights.
The Tin Badge
Season 3 - Episode 13
Joe accepts the job of temporary sheriff in the town of Rubicon, unaware he is being used to facilitate a scheme involving murder.
Gabrielle
Season 3 - Episode 14
In this Christmas story, inspired by Johanna Spyri's "Heidi", Hoss and Joe come across a blind girl whose family has been killed in a wagon ...
Land Grab
Season 3 - Episode 15
The Ponderosa is overrun with settlers bearing phony property deeds, and one of Ben's oldest friends is responsible.
The Tall Stranger
Season 3 - Episode 16
Hoss plans to marry Margie, a pretty blonde, but Margie becomes fascinated with a tall, traveling stranger named Mark Connors. Margie marri...
The Lady from Baltimore
Season 3 - Episode 17
An overbearing friend of the family tries to force her daughter into marrying Joe, though she does not love him. The situation grows more c...
The Ride
Season 3 - Episode 18
Adam races against the clock to prove a man who was once his friend is guilty of robbery and murder and Adam is convinced beyond a shadow of...
The Storm
Season 3 - Episode 19
Joe plans to marry Laura White, daughter of a man Ben once sailed with, but she is fatally ill. Ben consoles him with words spoken years be...
The Auld Sod
Season 3 - Episode 20
The Cartwrights pretend the Ponderosa belongs to the town lush, when his aging mother from Ireland arrives.
Gift of Water
Season 3 - Episode 21
The Cartwrights dig a well, build a rig and a windmill for a drought-stricken farm family.
The Jackknife
Season 3 - Episode 22
Adam gives a second chance to a family man he suspects is one of the rustlers who has been hitting the Ponderosa herds.
The Guilty
Season 3 - Episode 23
When Ben fails to prevent the death of a friend's son, Adam and Joe, concerned by their father's depression, attempt to prove there was noth...
The Wooing of Abigail Jones
Season 3 - Episode 24
In order to keep peace on the ranch, Hoss and Joe try to help ranch hand, Hank Meyers woo the the plain-looking schoolteacher, Abigail Jones...
The Lawmaker
Season 3 - Episode 25
Ben supports the appointment of Asa Moran as Virginia City's temporary sheriff, but Moran goes overboard with his authority, jailing Adam in...
Look to the Stars
Season 3 - Episode 26
A young genius, Albert Michaelson, vies for a scholarship. Adam assists Albert in the boy's experiments. Albert only needs the school teac...
The Gamble
Season 3 - Episode 27
In the town of Alkali, the Cartwrights are jailed on false charges of robbery and murder, but Joe escapes and returns with an army of Ponder...
The Crucible
Season 3 - Episode 28
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 name...
Inger, My Love
Season 3 - Episode 29
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...
Blessed Are They
Season 3 - Episode 30
When two feuding families argue over the custody of two orphaned children, a reluctant Ben is called upon to straighten out the situation be...
The Dowry
Season 3 - Episode 31
The Cartwrights get mixed up in the romance of a phony heiress and an equally phony land baron.
The Long Night
Season 3 - Episode 32
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 ...
The Mountain Girl
Season 3 - Episode 33
Joe promises a dying sheepman he will make sure the old man's granddaughter gets her rightful inheritance from a wealthy San Francisco famil...
The Miracle Maker
Season 3 - Episode 34
Hoss blames himself when a young woman is crippled in a wagon accident, and hopes a faith healer can help her walk again.