7.2/1096 votes#1 - 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
7.9/1098 votes#2 - Ambush
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/1967
Victoria helps three indian women at a desert mission.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10110 votes#3 - 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
8.1/1098 votes#4 - The Time after Midnight
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/2/1967
Jarrod is temporarily blinded.
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Writer: N/A
8.3/10125 votes#5 - 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
7.7/10107 votes#6 - 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
7.4/1079 votes#7 - 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
7.6/10115 votes#8 - 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
8.2/10113 votes#9 - 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
7.7/1093 votes#10 - 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
7.9/1093 votes#11 - 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
7.7/1095 votes#12 - 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
8.3/10101 votes#13 - 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
7.5/1092 votes#14 - 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
7.8/1091 votes#15 - 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
7.7/10108 votes#16 - 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
8.3/10111 votes#17 - 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
7.2/1094 votes#18 - Miranda
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 1/15/1968
When the Barkleys meet a Mexican fleeing a revolution, they vow to help protect him
Director: Paul Henreid
Writer: N/A
8.1/10100 votes#19 - 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
8.1/1087 votes#20 - 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
7.3/10102 votes#21 - 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
8.2/10101 votes#22 - 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
7.6/1093 votes#23 - 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
7.6/10100 votes#24 - 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
7.3/1085 votes#25 - 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
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 Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara...
Genres:WesternDrama
Network:ABC
Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Joaquin" is the best rated episode of "The Big Valley" season 3. It scored 7.2/10 based on 96 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/11/1967. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "Ambush".