Bonanza
Season 3
34 listed hours · 1959–1973 · NBC
From the desk
How this season is filed
Fourteen seasons of Cartwrights as household gods — NBC's glossy family western as Sunday ritual, sold in color while the rest of the prairie was still arguing with black-and-white.
TV Flash files Season 3 of Bonanza (1959–1973) on NBC as a mid listed season (3; 3 of 14) — 34 listed hours, 1961-09-24–1962-05-20 from “The Smiler” (S03E01) to “The Miracle Maker” (S03E34). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Desk essentials in this season
- S03E03 The Honor of Cochise
Guest-star western as argument, not postcard — the Ponderosa used as a moral instrument.
- S03E28 The Crucible
A pressure-cooker hour that would play as prestige if you changed the hats.
- S03E01 The Smiler
- S03E02 Springtime
- S03E03 The Honor of Cochise
- S03E04 The Lonely House
- S03E05 The Burma Rarity
- S03E06 Broken Ballad
- S03E07 The Many Faces of Gideon Flinch
- S03E08 The Friendship
- S03E09 The Countess
- S03E10 The Horse Breaker
- S03E11 Day of the Dragon
- S03E12 The Frenchman
- S03E13 The Tin Badge
- S03E14 Gabrielle
- S03E15 Land Grab
- S03E16 The Tall Stranger
- S03E17 The Lady from Baltimore
- S03E18 The Ride
- S03E19 The Storm
- S03E20 The Auld Sod
- S03E21 Gift of Water
- S03E22 The Jackknife
- S03E23 The Guilty
- S03E24 The Wooing of Abigail Jones
- S03E25 The Lawmaker
- S03E26 Look to the Stars
- S03E27 The Gamble
- S03E28 The Crucible
- S03E29 Inger, My Love
- S03E30 Blessed Are They
- S03E31 The Dowry
- S03E32 The Long Night
- S03E33 The Mountain Girl
- S03E34 The Miracle Maker
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