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The Best Episodes of The Big Valley Season 3

Genres:WesternDrama
Network:ABC

Every episode of The Big Valley Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover 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...
Episodes
26
Avg. Rating
7.8
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  • Night in a Small Town
    8.3/10(127)
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    #1 - Night in a Small Town

    Season 3 Episode 5

    Aired 10/9/1967

    Heath and family help a wayward saloon girl.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Night of the Executioners
    8.3/10(102)
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    #2 - Night of the Executioners

    Season 3 Episode 13

    Aired 12/11/1967

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Days of Wrath
    8.3/10(114)
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    #3 - Days of Wrath

    Season 3 Episode 17

    Aired 1/8/1968

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • A Noose is Waiting
    8.2/10(115)
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    #4 - A Noose is Waiting

    Season 3 Episode 9

    Aired 11/13/1967

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Rimfire
    8.2/10(102)
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    #5 - Rimfire

    Season 3 Episode 22

    Aired 2/19/1968

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Time after Midnight
    8.1/10(98)
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    #6 - The Time after Midnight

    Season 3 Episode 4

    Aired 10/2/1967

    Jarrod is temporarily blinded.

    Director: Charles S. Dubin

    Writer: N/A

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  • Shadow of a Giant
    8.1/10(102)
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    #7 - Shadow of a Giant

    Season 3 Episode 19

    Aired 1/29/1968

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

    Director: Norman Powell

    Writer: N/A

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  • Fall of a Hero
    8.1/10(89)
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    #8 - Fall of a Hero

    Season 3 Episode 20

    Aired 2/5/1968

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Ambush
    7.9/10(99)
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    #9 - Ambush

    Season 3 Episode 2

    Aired 9/18/1967

    Victoria helps three indian women at a desert mission.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Explosion (2)
    7.9/10(94)
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    #10 - Explosion (2)

    Season 3 Episode 11

    Aired 11/27/1967

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • A Flock of Trouble
    7.8/10(112)
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    #11 - A Flock of Trouble

    Season 3 Episode 3

    Aired 9/25/1967

    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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Michael Gleason

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  • The Buffalo Man
    7.8/10(92)
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    #12 - The Buffalo Man

    Season 3 Episode 15

    Aired 12/25/1967

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Ladykiller
    7.7/10(109)
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    #13 - Ladykiller

    Season 3 Episode 6

    Aired 10/16/1967

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

    Director: Norman Powell

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Disappearance
    7.7/10(118)
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    #14 - The Disappearance

    Season 3 Episode 8

    Aired 11/6/1967

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Michael Gleason

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  • Explosion (1)
    7.7/10(94)
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    #15 - Explosion (1)

    Season 3 Episode 10

    Aired 11/20/1967

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Four Days to Furnace Hill
    7.7/10(96)
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    #16 - Four Days to Furnace Hill

    Season 3 Episode 12

    Aired 12/4/1967

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Good Thieves
    7.7/10(108)
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    #17 - The Good Thieves

    Season 3 Episode 16

    Aired 1/1/1968

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Daniel B. Ullman

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  • Bounty on a Barkley
    7.6/10(95)
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    #18 - Bounty on a Barkley

    Season 3 Episode 23

    Aired 2/26/1968

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Devil's Masquerade
    7.6/10(101)
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    #19 - The Devil's Masquerade

    Season 3 Episode 24

    Aired 3/4/1968

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

    Director: Paul Henreid

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Challenge
    7.6/10(89)
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    #20 - The Challenge

    Season 3 Episode 26

    Aired 3/18/1968

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Journey into Violence
    7.5/10(93)
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    #21 - Journey into Violence

    Season 3 Episode 14

    Aired 12/18/1967

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Guilty
    7.4/10(80)
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    #22 - Guilty

    Season 3 Episode 7

    Aired 10/30/1967

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

    Director: Paul Henreid

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Emperor of Rice
    7.3/10(104)
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    #23 - The Emperor of Rice

    Season 3 Episode 21

    Aired 2/12/1968

    A couple kidnap Victoria in exchange for rice

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Run of the Savage
    7.3/10(86)
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    #24 - Run of the Savage

    Season 3 Episode 25

    Aired 3/11/1968

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Joaquin
    7.2/10(98)
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    #25 - Joaquin

    Season 3 Episode 1

    Aired 9/11/1967

    A man is hired at the ranch who is believed to be a Mexican outlaw thought long dead.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Night in a Small Town" is the best rated episode of "The Big Valley" season 3. It scored 8.3/10 based on 127 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/9/1967. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Night of the Executioners".