The Man from Snowy River - Season 3

First aired: 3/24/1996 20 episodes
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Episodes

1. A Sea of Troubles

Aired: 3/24/1996

Matt is held responsible by an angry landowner when the government decides to take his land to dam the valley.

2. Rough Passage

Aired: 3/31/1996

Kathleen has arranged to buy a new printing press from a wheeler-and-dealer in Blaine's Ravine, who tries to cheat her on the deal. Robbie and Michael outwit him. Montana Hale arrives in Patterson's Creek, complete with riding boots with spurs, American saddle, and Winchester rifle. Kathleen and Matt set a wedding date.

3. The Grand Wedding

Aired: 4/7/1996

Matt and Kathleen's wedding day is marked, and could be marred, by a woman who appears at the church and wants to buy a horse from Matt. Matt finds a riderless horse and goes off to investigate, without telling anyone.

4. Montana Territory

Aired: 4/14/1996

Montana's new horse is stolen by rustler Seb Holgate after she bests him in a shooting competition. Montana sets out after him and is joined by Kathleen.

5. High Country Justice

Aired: 4/21/1996

McGregor takes a stand between an aboriginal man who is accused of the murder of a teenager, and the victim's father and two brothers who want revenge.

6. The Question of Danni

Aired: 4/28/1996

Danni and her father Matt argue after he tells her he wants her to go to a ladies finishing school. Objecting, Danni runs away to the cabin and spends the night, only telling Michael where she was going.

7. The Prodigal Father: Part 1

Aired: 5/5/1996

Kathleen's husband, who was thought to have perished eight years ago, returns to make amends with Kathleen and Michael for his deceit.

8. The Prodigal Father: Part 2

Aired: 5/12/1996

Emily is still ill from drinking water from the river and it turns out someone has built a dam. Matt makes the decision to get rid of the dam by using dynamite, but one person is killed in the explosion.

9. Fire Boy

Aired: 5/19/1996

Josh is found in the woods but refuses to talk to anyone. Two graves are found, of his parents, so Emily and Colin take him in. But then people come to take Josh away - will he talk and tell the truth in time to stay?

10. Blind Faith

Aired: 5/26/1996

Matt is blinded in a mining explosion and is aided by Kathleen and the family as he struggles to regain his sight. Meanwhile, Colin reveals a dark secret from his childhood.

11. Shoshoni Dreaming

Aired: 6/2/1996

Montana and Rob find an American surveyer who has been shot. They help him and he reveals he was shot by a man spying on Montana. When Montana claims that she has seen someone loitering by her property and her horses are poisoned, Rob is determined to protect the woman he has more than neighbourly feelings for.

12. The Trial of Hetti Lewis

Aired: 6/9/1996

Montana is charged with the murder of Sam Taylor's father and scheduled to be extradited to America. But Matt and Kathleen get her a hearing in Paterson's Ridge with Matt as her defender.

13. Toy Soldiers

Aired: 6/16/1996

When Matt allows visiting soldiers to camp on his land, Michael and Josh get swept up in the romanticism of the military - and Josh sets his sights on carrying a gun.

14. A Mid-Winter Night's Dream

Aired: 6/23/1996

Danni falls in love with a stranger who arrives in Paterson's Ridge. His presence seems to have an encouraging effect on all the romances in town but his gift to make others happy masks his own unhappiness.

15. In Duty Bound

Aired: 6/30/1996

When Matt and his family visit Melbourne, they become embroiled in a political plot between English and Russian royalty.

16. The Lion and the Lamb

Aired: 7/7/1996

During Paterson Ridge's charity sale, a book belonging to Mr. Elliott is accidentally sold. Kathleen finds - and publishes - a love poem that falls from the book but who is the lady of Herbert's dreams?

17. Broken Hearts

Aired: 7/14/1996

A fair is held in aid of church funds and members of Patterson Ridge all make donations. When a hand-written love poem is found in a second hand book, gossip around town is rife as everyone tries to work out who wrote the poem.

18. Deliverance

Aired: 7/21/1996

Mr Gleeson and Kathleen travel to Mansfield to collect an old friend who has travelled from England to visit him. When their carriage skids down an embankment, they find themselves stranded and injured in the bush.

19. A New Life: Part 1

Aired: 7/28/1996

A friend of Emily's arrives in Paterson's Ridge with her newborn child in search of a fresh start but her abusive husband soon follows to take her with him.

20. A New Life: Part 2

Aired: 8/4/1996

Macalister tries to persuade his wife to return by destroying the economy of Paterson's Ridge, but Matt finds a weak spot in his plans.