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The Best Episodes of The Big Valley Season 3

Every episode of The Big Valley Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Big Valley Season 3!

The Best Episodes of The Big Valley Season 3

The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara...

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  1. 8.3/10(105 votes)

    #1 - Night of the Executioners

    S3:E13

    While traveling through a strange town, a murder occurs and an innocent man is accused of it. Heath saw the man who really committed the crime, a fact which gets him more trouble than he bargained for.

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  2. 8.3/10(116 votes)

    #2 - Days of Wrath

    S3:E17

    After his new bride is murdered, a grief stricken Jarrod goes out for revenge.

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  3. 8.2/10(130 votes)

    #3 - Night in a Small Town

    S3:E5

    Heath and family help a wayward saloon girl.

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  4. 8.2/10(118 votes)

    #4 - A Noose is Waiting

    S3:E9

    A deranged doctor moves to town and makes Victoria, then Audra, his next victim.

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  5. 8.2/10(103 votes)

    #5 - Rimfire

    S3:E22

    When Jarod goes to Rimfire to conclude a merge of two mines, trouble starts.

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  6. 8.1/10(102 votes)

    #6 - The Time after Midnight

    S3:E4

    Jarrod is temporarily blinded.

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  8. 8.1/10(103 votes)

    #7 - Shadow of a Giant

    S3:E19

    When the Stryder gang escapes, Heath and Nick want to help catch them

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    Director:Norman Powell
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  9. 8.1/10(91 votes)

    #8 - Fall of a Hero

    S3:E20

    Jarod defends Heath in court when he is accused of murder.

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  10. 7.9/10(102 votes)

    #9 - Ambush

    S3:E2

    Victoria helps three indian women at a desert mission.

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  11. 7.9/10(97 votes)

    #10 - Explosion (2)

    S3:E11

    Part2, The Barkley boys volunteer to take the nitro to the fire!!

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  12. 7.8/10(114 votes)

    #11 - A Flock of Trouble

    S3:E3

    To pay off a gambling debt, sheepherder Josiah Freeman pawns off his flock on Nick, who stubbornly tries to tend the troublesome sheep — despite insults and threats from his fellow cattlemen

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  13. 7.8/10(98 votes)

    #12 - Explosion (1)

    S3:E10

    Part 1, A forest fire rages drawing closer to Stockton. The only solution, a firebreak made with nitroglyceryn!!

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  14. 7.8/10(95 votes)

    #13 - The Buffalo Man

    S3:E15

    The Barkleys hire a bunch of convicts to help with a harvest, and find out that they are tormented by an evil overseer.

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  15. 7.7/10(111 votes)

    #14 - Ladykiller

    S3:E6

    Nick stops at an inn where they kill people for their money.

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  16. 7.7/10(122 votes)

    #15 - The Disappearance

    S3:E8

    While on a layover in a strange town, Audra disappears without a trace, leaving her desperate mother to find her.

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  17. 7.7/10(100 votes)

    #16 - Four Days to Furnace Hill

    S3:E12

    Victoria is grabbed by men on their way to a prison, who need to replace the female prisoner they killed.

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  18. 7.7/10(109 votes)

    #17 - The Good Thieves

    S3:E16

    Heath and Nick travel across the state line to find the two brothers that shot Jarrod in the midst of a robbery. What they find is a town full of people who think of the outlaws as saints, since they're the ones who built the town. In the end the town finds out their true colors and they are brought to justice.

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  19. 7.6/10(97 votes)

    #18 - Bounty on a Barkley

    S3:E23

    Nick falls for newcomer Layle Johnson, who is slow to respond to his attentions. Victoria discovers why - she's already married!

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  20. 7.5/10(94 votes)

    #19 - Journey into Violence

    S3:E14

    Accused of killing one of their people, a band of ""religious"" take Heath captive, where he is forced to work as a slave to the widow of the dead man.

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  21. 7.5/10(102 votes)

    #20 - The Devil's Masquerade

    S3:E24

    A friend of Heath's has been carrying on a correspondence courtship with a woman who is to be his mail-order bride.

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  22. 7.5/10(91 votes)

    #21 - The Challenge

    S3:E26

    When a senator arrives in Stockton to promote his re-election, troubles flare when his opponent releases a fraudulent photo.

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  23. 7.4/10(82 votes)

    #22 - Guilty

    S3:E7

    A client of Jarrod's escapes and takes over the schoolhouse where Audra is substitute teacher.

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    Director:Paul Henreid
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  24. 7.3/10(106 votes)

    #23 - The Emperor of Rice

    S3:E21

    A couple kidnap Victoria in exchange for rice

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  25. 7.3/10(88 votes)

    #24 - Run of the Savage

    S3:E25

    Nick sets out to emotionally help a 14 year old boy who is rejected by his high-class parents.

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  26. 7.2/10(96 votes)

    #25 - Miranda

    S3:E18

    When the Barkleys meet a Mexican fleeing a revolution, they vow to help protect him

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    Director:Paul Henreid
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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Night of the Executioners" is the best rated episode of "The Big Valley" season 3. It scored 8.3/10 based on 105 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/11/1967. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Days of Wrath".