Season 3
34 episodes · Sep 24, 1961
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S3E1The Smiler
Sep 24, 196149mA 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-tongued devil bent on revenge.
S3E2Springtime
Oct 1, 196149mA 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 is injured by a flying log during the fight, gives an assignment to each of the three boys. Can they fulfill the assignments, or has Springtime gotten to them all?
S3E3The Honor of Cochise
Oct 8, 196149mThe Cartwrights and a bigoted army captain are pinned down by Cochise and his braves, who claim the officer poisoned 30 of their people.
S3E4The Lonely House
Oct 15, 196149mLittle 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.
S3E5The Burma Rarity
Oct 22, 196149mIn 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.
S3E6Broken Ballad
Oct 29, 196149mAdam 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.
S3E7The Many Faces of Gideon Flinch
Nov 5, 196149mHoss and Joe become involved when "Bullethead" Burke vows revenge on an old man he claims cheated him in an investment deal.
S3E8The Friendship
Nov 12, 196149mJoe 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?
S3E9The Countess
Nov 19, 196149mA 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.
S3E10The Horse Breaker
Nov 26, 196149mA 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.
S3E11Day of the Dragon
Dec 3, 196149mJoe 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.
S3E12The Frenchman
Dec 10, 196149mAn irritating man who boasts of being the reincarnation of French poet Francois Villion shows up causing trouble for the Cartwrights.
S3E13The Tin Badge
Dec 17, 196149mJoe accepts the job of temporary sheriff in the town of Rubicon, unaware he is being used to facilitate a scheme involving murder.
S3E14Gabrielle
Dec 24, 196149mIn 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 wreck, learning later that her grandfather is a bitter hermit who spent 21 years in prison for a murder he did not commit.
S3E15Land Grab
Dec 31, 196149mThe Ponderosa is overrun with settlers bearing phony property deeds, and one of Ben's oldest friends is responsible.
S3E16The Tall Stranger
Jan 7, 196249mHoss plans to marry Margie, a pretty blonde, but Margie becomes fascinated with a tall, traveling stranger named Mark Connors. Margie marries Mark but soon finds it was far from a match made in heaven.
S3E17The Lady from Baltimore
Jan 14, 196249mAn overbearing friend of the family tries to force her daughter into marrying Joe, though she does not love him. The situation grows more complex when Adam stumbles onto the scheme.
S3E18The Ride
Jan 21, 196249mAdam 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 a doubt he is guilty.
S3E19The Storm
Jan 28, 196249mJoe 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 before, by the father of Adam's mother.
S3E20The Auld Sod
Feb 4, 196249mThe Cartwrights pretend the Ponderosa belongs to the town lush, when his aging mother from Ireland arrives.
S3E21Gift of Water
Feb 11, 196249mThe Cartwrights dig a well, build a rig and a windmill for a drought-stricken farm family.
S3E22The Jackknife
Feb 18, 196249mAdam gives a second chance to a family man he suspects is one of the rustlers who has been hitting the Ponderosa herds.
S3E23The Guilty
Feb 25, 196249mWhen 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 nothing he could have done.
S3E24The Wooing of Abigail Jones
Mar 4, 196249mIn 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. When their first plan backfires, they convince Adam (who doesn't want to get involved) to help and this makes things worse because Abigail believes it is Adam who is wooing her and Hank Meyers believes Adam wants to steal her away.
S3E25The Lawmaker
Mar 11, 196249mBen supports the appointment of Asa Moran as Virginia City's temporary sheriff, but Moran goes overboard with his authority, jailing Adam in the process and pistol-whipping a Ponderosa hand.
S3E26Look to the Stars
Mar 18, 196249mA young genius, Albert Michaelson, vies for a scholarship. Adam assists Albert in the boy's experiments. Albert only needs the school teacher's approval to be granted a scholarship-which will be very difficult to get considering Albert was expelled from school.
S3E27The Gamble
Apr 1, 196249mIn the town of Alkali, the Cartwrights are jailed on false charges of robbery and murder, but Joe escapes and returns with an army of Ponderosa hands.
S3E28The Crucible
Apr 8, 196249mAdam 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".
S3E29Inger, My Love
Apr 15, 196249mBen 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.
S3E30Blessed Are They
Apr 22, 196249mWhen 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.
S3E31The Dowry
Apr 29, 196249mThe Cartwrights get mixed up in the romance of a phony heiress and an equally phony land baron.
S3E32The Long Night
May 6, 196249mBen, 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.
S3E33The Mountain Girl
May 13, 196249mJoe 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.
S3E34The Miracle Maker
May 20, 196249mHoss blames himself when a young woman is crippled in a wagon accident, and hopes a faith healer can help her walk again.