The Best Episodes of Bat Masterson Season 3

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.0/10(43 votes)

   #1 - Debt of Honor

   S3:E19/29/1960

   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

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   6.9/10(41 votes)

   #2 - Law of the Land

   S3:E210/6/1960

   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.

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   7.7/10(43 votes)

   #3 - Bat Trap

   S3:E310/13/1960

   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.

   Director:Allen H. Miner

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   7.9/10(46 votes)

   #4 - The Rage of Princess Anne

   S3:E410/20/1960

   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

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   7.4/10(45 votes)

   #5 - The Hunter

   S3:E510/27/1960

   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.

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   7.8/10(52 votes)

   #6 - Murder Can be Dangerous

   S3:E611/3/1960

   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

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   7.4/10(47 votes)

   #7 - High Card Loses

   S3:E711/10/1960

   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

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   7.6/10(45 votes)

   #8 - Dakota Showdown

   S3:E811/17/1960

   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

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   Director:Earl Bellamy

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   7.8/10(34 votes)

   #9 - Last of the Night Raiders

   S3:E911/24/1960

   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

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    7.0/10(36 votes)

    #10 - Last Stop to Austin

    S3:E1012/1/1960

    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

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    7.6/10(37 votes)

    #11 - A Time to Die

    S3:E1112/15/1960

    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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    Director:Lew Landers

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    7.8/10(41 votes)

    #12 - Death by Decree

    S3:E1212/22/1960

    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.

    Director:Hollingsworth Morse

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    7.8/10(38 votes)

    #13 - The Lady Plays Her Hand

    S3:E1312/29/1960

    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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    Director:Norman Foster

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    7.7/10(40 votes)

    #14 - Tempest at Tioga Pass

    S3:E141/5/1961

    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

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    7.5/10(39 votes)

    #15 - The Court Martial of Major Mars

    S3:E151/12/1961

    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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    Director:Elliott Lewis

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    7.6/10(39 votes)

    #16 - The Price of Paradise

    S3:E161/19/1961

    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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    8.1/10(33 votes)

    #17 - End of the Line

    S3:E171/26/1961

    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

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    7.9/10(39 votes)

    #18 - The Prescott Campaign

    S3:E182/2/1961

    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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    7.0/10(34 votes)

    #19 - Bullwhacker's Bounty

    S3:E192/16/1961

    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

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    7.6/10(38 votes)

    #20 - A Lesson in Violence

    S3:E202/23/1961

    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.

    Director:Franklin Adreon

    Writer:Unknown

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21. 

    7.7/10(41 votes)

    #21 - Run for Your Money

    S3:E213/2/1961

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

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    8.1/10(55 votes)

    #22 - Terror on the Trinity

    S3:E223/9/1961

    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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    7.5/10(38 votes)

    #23 - Episode in Eden

    S3:E233/16/1961

    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

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    7.8/10(41 votes)

    #24 - The Good and the Bad

    S3:E243/23/1961

    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.

    Director:William Conrad

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    Director:William Conrad

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    7.9/10(53 votes)

    #25 - No Amnesty for Death

    S3:E253/30/1961

    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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