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The Best Episodes of Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3

Every episode of Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3!

Jim Hardie helps Wells Fargo agents battle the bad guys.
Genres:WesternDrama
Network:NBC

Season 3 Ratings Summary

"The Gambler" is the best rated episode of "Tales of Wells Fargo" season 3. It scored 8/10 based on 58 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/8/1958. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Manuscript".

  • The Gambler
    8.0/1058 votes

    #1 - The Gambler

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/1958

    When a stage breaks down, a passenger who is returning home after three years in prison for a crime he said he didn't commit, becomes upset with his treatment. Hardie decides to take a gamble on him with a loan to solve a dispute.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Manuscript
    7.8/1055 votes

    #2 - The Manuscript

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/1958

    Bob Dawson has been paroled to Jim Hardie and is living at Brisbane, Nebraska where he regales the people with stories he is writing about them. Worried about his stories someone hires Nedy West to kill him and steal his manuscript.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • White Indian
    7.8/1066 votes

    #3 - White Indian

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/22/1958

    While Jim Hardie is in a town a Choctaw boy shows up with a note from Wells Fargo talking about a boy being ship to his parents from his grandmother. Hardie has to determine if the boy is the boy in the note and where his parents are.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Golden Owl
    7.6/1062 votes

    #4 - The Golden Owl

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/1958

    While attempting to deliver a golden owl to its wealthy purchaser, Hardy is attacked and the owl is replaced by one of lead by someone while a Chinese religious society claims the owl was stolen from their temple in China.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Faster Gun
    8.0/1056 votes

    #5 - Faster Gun

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/6/1958

    After being gunned down by Johnny Reno, Jim Hardie is promoted to District Superintendent but finds he doesn't like office work. He decides to join his replacement to go after Reno. It appears he has an inside source at the El Paso office.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Butch Cassidy
    8.4/1082 votes

    #6 - Butch Cassidy

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/1958

    When Butch Cassidy is released from prison, Jim Hardie, who sent him to prison, is tasked with asking him to work for Wells Fargo. While on a train, Butch meets an outlaw friend, Idaho, who with others are planning to rob the train.

    Director: Earl Bellamy

    Writer: D.D. Beauchamp, Mary M. Beauchamp

  • End of the Trail
    7.6/1059 votes

    #7 - End of the Trail

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/20/1958

    So that a stagecoach road through the Dakota Black Hills can be completed, Hardie arrives to negotiate with the Pawnees who have killed a crew's hunter consigning the crew to meager rations and who continually harass the crew.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Matter of Honor
    7.9/1054 votes

    #8 - A Matter of Honor

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1958

    Hardie arrives in Medicine River to help set up a new office. He is greeted at the office by an employee who is the son of a Cheyenne chief he knew when the boy was young but the locals are unhappy he is to be the driver on the route.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Most Dangerous Man Alive
    8.4/1071 votes

    #9 - The Most Dangerous Man Alive

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1958

    Jim Hardie's task of catching the Manning Brothers is interrupted when his attempt to help a stranded man backfires. The man, John Leslie Nagel, has a $25,000 bounty on him so he trusts no one including Hardie who has no interest in him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Gunfighter
    8.3/1054 votes

    #10 - The Gunfighter

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1958

    Jim Hardie is sent by Wells Fargo to Comanche, Texas to find the Rucker brothers who are hanging around there. Unknown to Hardie, John Wesley Hardin is there, a cousin to the Rucker brothers and still holding a grudge against Hardie.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Deserter
    7.9/1049 votes

    #11 - The Deserter

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/24/1958

    Hardie is sent to confer with the Colonel at Fort Chaplin which is closing now that a peace treaty has been signed. Wells Fargo is concerned about a rash of robberies in the area by a gang led by an ex-Army officer who deserted the Army.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Killer
    8.1/1058 votes

    #12 - The Killer

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/1/1958

    Jim Hardie is accompanying a stagecoach carrying a Senator. He has angered the large ranchers in the area with his plan to turn over untitled land to settlers. Three ranchers have hired a gunman to kill the Senator to protect their land.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Counterfeiters
    7.8/1058 votes

    #13 - The Counterfeiters

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/8/1958

    Wells Fargo is threaten with bankruptcy if they don't find the source of counterfeit Bills of Exchange used to move money. The one man they have caught with them refuses to talk to Hardie forcing him to find the source of them by himself.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Cow Town
    8.1/1054 votes

    #14 - Cow Town

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/15/1958

    Hardie teams up with railroad investigator, Mike Forbes, to solve a robbery of their joint office in Amity, Kansas. As they solve the robbery a second robbery occurs involving a murder and a stabbing causing issues with some Texas cowboys.

    Director: Earl Bellamy

    Writer: N.B. Stone Jr.

  • The Happy Tree
    7.2/1058 votes

    #15 - The Happy Tree

    Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 12/22/1958

    Jack Kramer soon to be executed asks Hardie to help his son change his evil tendency in exchange for stolen Wells Fargo gold so Hardie takes the son from an orphanage placing him with a family but Kramer's murderous partner follows.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Dealer
    7.5/1053 votes

    #16 - The Dealer

    Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 12/29/1958

    Jim is going to Dodge to look for two men who robbed Wells Fargo in Yuba City. On the way he helps the Peel family with a broken wheel. In Dodge City Peel's gambling addiction has him losing all his money but it helps Jim solve his case.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Showdown Trail
    8.0/1063 votes

    #17 - Showdown Trail

    Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/5/1959

    Jim Hardie is held up by a family based gang to free a member Jim is cuffed to and transporting to jail. Once the cuffs are cut Jim is able to escape but his prisoner wants revenge against Hardie nor will Hardie leave without his prisoner.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Luke Frazer
    8.2/1041 votes

    #18 - Luke Frazer

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 1/12/1959

    Jim pursues Luke Frazer for murder right after he guns Bud Scanlon down. Hardie apprehends the gunslinger who's worried his impressionable brother Johnny is following in his footsteps. Hardie decides to help prevent that from happening.

    Director: Earl Bellamy

    Writer: Thomas T. Flynn, Dwight Newton

  • Wild Cargo
    8.2/1065 votes

    #19 - Wild Cargo

    Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 1/19/1959

    Jim Hardie makes a trip to Oro Gulch to pick up a shipment finding himself riding with a four woman entertainment troupe. The trip seems to be linked to a series of robberies along the way - especially when Jim recognizes one of the women.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Cleanup
    7.9/1050 votes

    #20 - The Cleanup

    Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 1/26/1959

    Jim Hardie is sent to Silver City where a gang is trying to extort money from businesses including Wells Fargo to do business. Hardie arrives to find the local agent murdered and a has been Sheriff who is now a drunk in charge of the town.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Fort Massacre
    7.6/1057 votes

    #21 - Fort Massacre

    Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 2/2/1959

    Hardie brings an Army payroll into an Army fort under Indian attack. The only commander left, a green Lieutenant, is uncertain of his command and doubted by his men. Jim believes helping him will pay off when his true character comes out.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Town That Wouldn't Talk
    7.8/1056 votes

    #22 - The Town That Wouldn't Talk

    Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 2/9/1959

    Jim arrives in Dakota territory to investigate the death of a company driver. But everyone in town is tight lipped about his death and others currently ill. After seeing a cow buried, Jim has an idea about what is causing people to sicken.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Lola Montez
    8.1/1058 votes

    #23 - Lola Montez

    Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 2/16/1959

    Jim Hardie has been sent to catch outlaw Zach Bradley who killed a Wells Fargo employee. The stage they are on is stopped by two Apaches who want the same man for killing a squaw and her son but Hardie refuses which leads to a fight.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Branding Iron
    8.0/1057 votes

    #24 - The Branding Iron

    Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 2/23/1959

    Hardie arrives at his friend Curly Brown's ranch learning Curlie was murdered. His widow struggles on her own and Jim becomes suspicious of the people ready to buy the place. As he solves the mystery he begins to fall in love with Etta.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The House I Enter
    7.8/1056 votes

    #25 - The House I Enter

    Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 3/2/1959

    Hardie enters town as the Wells Fargo office is robbed. Tracking the suspects he encounters Doc Forrester who holds a grudge against Jim. They are taken to the Haggerty farm where Leroy is seeking medical aid for his wounded brother Ollie.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A