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The Best Episodes of Bat Masterson Season 3

Every episode of Bat Masterson Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Bat Masterson Season 3!

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Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black-and-white shows ran

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Bat Masterson Season 3 Episode 1 - Debt of Honor
    7.0/10(43 votes)

    #1 - Debt of Honor

    S3:E1

    Bat grubstakes Cactus Charlie, an elderly prospector searching for a gold strike. Charlie finds gold, all right, the proceeds from a recent robbery and the crooks who buried the loot will stop at nothing to recover their ill-gotten gains.

    Director:Norman Foster
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Bat Masterson Season 3 Episode 2 - Law of the Land
    6.9/10(41 votes)

    #2 - Law of the Land

    S3:E2

    Working again for his friend Hugh Blaine, Bat is hired to investigate the theft of barbed-wire fencing that prevents cattle from climbing onto a railroad's right-of-way. Question is whether Bat wants to tackle the five to one odds.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Bat Masterson Season 3 Episode 3 - Bat Trap
    7.7/10(43 votes)

    #3 - Bat Trap

    S3:E3

    Midas Creek hires Bat to run their annual shooting contest. The council believe that the local bully will generally do anything in his power to win the contest. When the local gunsmith wins, it's the thug's rifle vs. Bat's pistol.

    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Bat Masterson Season 3 Episode 4 - The Rage of Princess Anne
    7.9/10(46 votes)

    #4 - The Rage of Princess Anne

    S3:E4

    Bat has an interest in a mine in Colorado and discovers its conditions are unsafe, but the general manager is forcing the miners to work in it anyway. He decides to convince the other owners including its pretty namesake to improve safety.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Bat Masterson Season 3 Episode 5 - The Hunter
    7.4/10(45 votes)

    #5 - The Hunter

    S3:E5

    An Englishman has a theory that accuracy is more important in a gunfight than speed or size of the ammunition. When he kills a bully with his specially designed rifled pistol, the Englishman decides he's ready to take on his goal - Bat.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Bat Masterson Season 3 Episode 6 - Murder Can be Dangerous
    7.8/10(52 votes)

    #6 - Murder Can be Dangerous

    S3:E6

    When Bat catches his gambling casino partner embezzling money, he kicks the man out, telling him never return unless he brings $25,000 to buy Bat's interest in the business. The partner plans to get control of Bat's half by killing him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Bat Masterson Season 3 Episode 7 - High Card Loses
    7.4/10(47 votes)

    #7 - High Card Loses

    S3:E7

    After a bank robbery Bat finds himself broke so he accepts an offer from a friend for a job. When his friend is murdered, Bat agrees to undertake his unfinished business - delivering three mail-order brides to their new husbands.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Bat Masterson Season 3 Episode 8 - Dakota Showdown
    7.6/10(45 votes)

    #8 - Dakota Showdown

    S3:E8

    Bat rides to the assistance of his friend, a sheriff, but arrives after the Dakota boys gun him down. The president of the town council asks Bat to step into the office, but Bat decides the job should go to another person.

    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Bat Masterson Season 3 Episode 9 - Last of the Night Raiders
    7.8/10(34 votes)

    #9 - Last of the Night Raiders

    S3:E9

    Bat is asked by a woman to help her and her young son escape the deadly Doolin gang who Bat has tangled with before. She wants to return to St. Louis with her son to her parents but her son wants to stay knowing only the gang as family.

    Director:Jerry Hopper
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Bat Masterson Season 3 Episode 10 - Last Stop to Austin
    7.0/10(36 votes)

    #10 - Last Stop to Austin

    S3:E10

    Bat thinks a young gunfighter might be the son of a man with whom he fought at the Battle of Adobe Wells. He plans to appeal to the governor for a pardon for his crimes because of the unrewarded service of his father.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Bat Masterson Season 3 Episode 11 - A Time to Die
    7.6/10(37 votes)

    #11 - A Time to Die

    S3:E11

    Bat returns to Casper, Wyoming to testify at a murder trial. He learns that all the other witnesses are either dead or are afraid to testify and the father of the man under arrest intends to eliminate the last witness

    Director:Lew Landers
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Bat Masterson Season 3 Episode 12 - Death by Decree
    7.8/10(41 votes)

    #12 - Death by Decree

    S3:E12

    Bat inherits a casino from an old enemy and soon discovers why. Upon arriving in town, he learns that the casino is $3000 behind in its mortgage payments and the previous owner was killed by the town marshal who owns the mortgage.

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  14. Bat Masterson Season 3 Episode 13 - The Lady Plays Her Hand
    7.8/10(38 votes)

    #13 - The Lady Plays Her Hand

    S3:E13

    An eastern gambler playing a "system" breaks the bank at Bat's casino, putting the dapper Masterson out of business. Bat wonders if the "system" didn't have more than a little help from his pretty dealer.

    Director:Norman Foster
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Bat Masterson Season 3 Episode 14 - Tempest at Tioga Pass
    7.7/10(40 votes)

    #14 - Tempest at Tioga Pass

    S3:E14

    When a old miner refuses to allow a road to be built through a high mountain pass he owns, the California Governor asks Bat to intervene. Bat finds the holdout to be an old friend Soda Smith and all is not as the Governor thought.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Bat Masterson Season 3 Episode 15 - The Court Martial of Major Mars
    7.5/10(39 votes)

    #15 - The Court Martial of Major Mars

    S3:E15

    The stagecoach in which Bat Masterson, Major Mars and pretty Lottie Tremaine are traveling is waylaid by a vengeful gang led by an Indian whose family was slain when the Major's men wiped out a village. Bat is forced to defend the Major.

    Director:Elliott Lewis
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Bat Masterson Season 3 Episode 16 - The Price of Paradise
    7.6/10(39 votes)

    #16 - The Price of Paradise

    S3:E16

    Pat arrives in Paradise, Colorado to collect a gambling debt from a crooked casino owner who doesn't like to pay his debts. He also doesn't like to pay his taxes - until Bat accepts an appointment as the new county tax assessor.

    Director:Lew Landers
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Bat Masterson Season 3 Episode 17 - End of the Line
    8.1/10(33 votes)

    #17 - End of the Line

    S3:E17

    Bat's lucrative contract to build a railroad in Colorado is in jeopardy. His crew is menaced by natural disasters and then wagon loads of equipment are lost. Just when things it seems things can't get worse, Bat is arrested for murder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Bat Masterson Season 3 Episode 18 - The Prescott Campaign
    7.9/10(39 votes)

    #18 - The Prescott Campaign

    S3:E18

    Bat's old friend from Dodge City, Marshal Ben Holt, asks him to help fight a scheme plotted by the power-grabbing land baron General Silas Guild. When he arrives, Bat isn't sure that the Marshal is on the side of law and order.

    Director:Elliott Lewis
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Bat Masterson Season 3 Episode 19 - Bullwhacker's Bounty
    7.0/10(34 votes)

    #19 - Bullwhacker's Bounty

    S3:E19

    Bat's plan to journey to Cheyenne for a big poker game are disrupted when the cavalry escort for a vital load of gunpowder is wiped out and the only men available to drive the wagons to the supply starved Fort Stewart appear unreliable.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Bat Masterson Season 3 Episode 20 - A Lesson in Violence
    7.6/10(38 votes)

    #20 - A Lesson in Violence

    S3:E20

    In response to an urgent telegram offering a large salary, Bat rides to a remote Texas ranch where he is to drive a herd of 2000 cattle to Abilene. As he arrives he finds that the Grant family believes he's a hired killer and pays for it.

    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Bat Masterson Season 3 Episode 21 - Run for Your Money
    7.7/10(41 votes)

    #21 - Run for Your Money

    S3:E21

    Saloonkeeper Crimp Ward challenges a local bank to back up it's gold certificates.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Bat Masterson Season 3 Episode 22 - Terror on the Trinity
    8.1/10(55 votes)

    #22 - Terror on the Trinity

    S3:E22

    Bat wins a mining claim in a lottery, but a huge bearded man attacks Bat when he tries to find it. He throws Bat into the Trinity River and Bat floats downriver finding his companion Bob Bradbury dead on the other side of the river.

    Director:Elliott Lewis
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Bat Masterson Season 3 Episode 23 - Episode in Eden
    7.5/10(38 votes)

    #23 - Episode in Eden

    S3:E23

    When gunslingers employed by Sam Shanks terrorize the small New Mexico town of Eden, Bat is drafted to serve as a special prosecutor when one of Shank's men is to be tried for murder and the expected result is a not guilty verdict.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Bat Masterson Season 3 Episode 24 - The Good and the Bad
    7.8/10(41 votes)

    #24 - The Good and the Bad

    S3:E24

    A gang of outlaws tries to take a Medal of Honor from a woman whose husband gave his life for it. Bat offers a $100 in exchange for the medal, but the gunman escapes with Bat's money, cane and the medal of honor with Bat in hot pursuit.

    Writer:Unknown

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  26. Bat Masterson Season 3 Episode 25 - No Amnesty for Death
    7.9/10(53 votes)

    #25 - No Amnesty for Death

    S3:E25

    Bat's riding rescues three men from the gallows - he bears an amnesty for all combatants in the Lincoln County War. The three gunmen soon return to their criminal ways and Bat must help the local marshal hunt down the recently freed men.

    Director:Elliott Lewis
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Debt of Honor" is the best rated episode of "Bat Masterson" season 3. It scored 7/10 based on 43 votes. Directed by Norman Foster and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/29/1960. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Law of the Land".