The Big Valley (Season 3)

Joaquin (Episode 1)

Air date: 1967-09-11

Runtime: 50 min

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

Ambush (Episode 2)

Air date: 1967-09-18

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Victoria helps three indian women at a desert mission.

A Flock of Trouble (Episode 3) 7.0

Writer: Michael Gleason

Air date: 1967-09-25

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: 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

The Time after Midnight (Episode 4)

Air date: 1967-10-02

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Jarrod is temporarily blinded.

Night in a Small Town (Episode 5)

Air date: 1967-10-09

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: Heath and family help a wayward saloon girl.

Ladykiller (Episode 6)

Air date: 1967-10-16

Runtime: 50 min

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

Guilty (Episode 7)

Air date: 1967-10-30

Runtime: 50 min

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

The Disappearance (Episode 8)

Writer: Michael Gleason

Air date: 1967-11-06

Runtime: 50 min

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

A Noose is Waiting (Episode 9)

Air date: 1967-11-13

Runtime: 50 min

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

Explosion (1) (Episode 10)

Air date: 1967-11-20

Runtime: 50 min

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

Explosion (2) (Episode 11)

Air date: 1967-11-27

Runtime: 50 min

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

Four Days to Furnace Hill (Episode 12)

Air date: 1967-12-04

Runtime: 50 min

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

Night of the Executioners (Episode 13) 7.0

Air date: 1967-12-11

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: 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.

Journey into Violence (Episode 14)

Air date: 1967-12-18

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: 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.

The Buffalo Man (Episode 15)

Air date: 1967-12-25

Runtime: 50 min

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

The Good Thieves (Episode 16)

Writer: Daniel B. Ullman

Air date: 1968-01-01

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: 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.

Days of Wrath (Episode 17)

Air date: 1968-01-08

Runtime: 50 min

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

Miranda (Episode 18)

Air date: 1968-01-15

Runtime: 50 min

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

Shadow of a Giant (Episode 19)

Air date: 1968-01-29

Runtime: 50 min

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

Fall of a Hero (Episode 20)

Air date: 1968-02-05

Runtime: 50 min

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

The Emperor of Rice (Episode 21)

Air date: 1968-02-12

Runtime: 50 min

Overview: A couple kidnap Victoria in exchange for rice

Rimfire (Episode 22)

Air date: 1968-02-19

Runtime: 50 min

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

Bounty on a Barkley (Episode 23)

Air date: 1968-02-26

Runtime: 50 min

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

The Devil's Masquerade (Episode 24)

Air date: 1968-03-04

Runtime: 50 min

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

Run of the Savage (Episode 25)

Air date: 1968-03-11

Runtime: 50 min

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

The Challenge (Episode 26)

Air date: 1968-03-18

Runtime: 50 min

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