Bonanza

Season 14 - Bonanza

• Season 14 Episode 16: The Hunter (1973) An escaped mental patient (Tom Skerritt) makes Joe the object of a bizarre hunt.
• Season 14 Episode 15: The Marriage of Theodora Duffy (1973) A deputy U.S. marshal (Karen Carlson) poses as Griff's wife to catch a Civil War criminal (Richard Eastham).
• Season 14 Episode 14: The Witness (1973) Griff tries to locate the witness (Sally Kemp) who can clear Candy of murder and theft charges.
• Season 14 Episode 13: First Love (1972) Jamie falls for the wife (Pamela Franklin) of an insanely jealous schoolmaster (Jordan Rhodes).
• Season 14 Episode 12: The Bucket Dog (1972) To keep his Irish setter, Jamie must enter her in a field trial against a champion; guest Don Knight.
• Season 14 Episode 11: The Sound of Loneliness (1972) An elderly man (Jack Albertson) takes in runaway orphan brothers, one of whom is mute.
• Season 14 Episode 10: The Hidden Enemy (1972) A doctor's (Mike Farrell) morphine addiction is revealed during his trial for murder; guest David Huddleston.
• Season 14 Episode 9: Stallion (1972) Joe must risk his beloved stallion to save a wounded boy; guests Clu Gulager, Mitzi Hoag, Vincent Van Patten.
• Season 14 Episode 8: The Twenty-Sixth Grave (1972) Editor Samuel Clemens (Ken Howard) asks the Cartwrights to help him prove a government assayer is a killer.
• Season 14 Episode 7: Ambush at Rio Lobo (1972) Would-be robbers plan to use a pregnant woman (Sian Barbara Allen) as a decoy to stop a stagecoach; guest James Olson.
• Season 14 Episode 6: New Man (1972) Ex-convict Griff (Tim Matheson) has trouble adjusting to life on the Ponderosa; guest Ronny Cox.
• Season 14 Episode 5: Riot! (1972) A convict stages a prison riot that ensnares Ben; guest Aldo Ray.
• Season 14 Episode 4: The Initiation (1972) The leader (Ronny Howard) of a boy's club forces his followers, including Jamie, to cover up an initiate's death.
• Season 14 Episode 3: Heritage of Anger (1972) A man (Robert Lansing) returns from prison to find his land neglected and his wife (Fionnula Flanagan) exhausted.
• Season 14 Episode 2: Forever (1972) John's gambling debts mount after Alice rejects him because of his alcoholism.
• Season 14 Episode 1: Forever (1972) Joe falls for a woman (Bonnie Bedelia) who arrives with her brother (Andrew Robinson) in Virginia City.

Season 13 - Bonanza

• Season 13 Episode 26: One Ace Too Many (1972) A look-alike for Ben dictates a deathbed wish to Sheriff Coffee, asking him to liquidate the Ponderosa.
• Season 13 Episode 25: A Visit to Upright (1972) When hidden treasure is believed to be buried on a piece Cartwright property, the ranchers are deluged with offers to buy the land.
• Season 13 Episode 24: A Place to Hide (1972) Ben learns a visitor's (Suzanne Pleshette) husband (Jon Cypher) is sought as a Confederate traitor.
• Season 13 Episode 23: The Younger Brothers' Younger Brother (1972) Hoss is identified as a member of the Younger brothers' (Strother Martin, Ted Gehring, Chuck McCann) gang, recently released from prison.
• Season 13 Episode 22: He Was Only Seven (1972) Jamie and Joe help a man (Roscoe Lee Brown) in a wheelchair who sets out on the trail of his grandson's killers.
• Season 13 Episode 21: Search in Limbo (1972) Ben is linked to a murder after suffering memory loss while on a business trip.
• Season 13 Episode 20: Shanklin (1972) A gang of ex-Confederate soldiers take over the Ponderosa to force Ben to give them a fortune in cash.
• Season 13 Episode 19: Customs of the Country (1972) After landing in a Mexican bordertown jail, Joe and Hoss throw a party and try to escape.
• Season 13 Episode 18: Frenzy (1972) Ben's friend, Anna Kosovo, fears for her life when her hot-tempered immigrant husband barricades their home.
• Season 13 Episode 17: Saddle Stiff (1972) Ben fires a hired hand (Buddy Ebsen) for improperly saddling a horse, but learns he may have assumed too quickly.
• Season 13 Episode 16: Second Sight (1972) When Jamie becomes lost in the Sierras, Hoss calls on Judith Corman (Joan Hackett), who is reputed to have special powers.
• Season 13 Episode 15: Lonely Man (1972) Vacationing Hop Sing finds love while panning for gold.
• Season 13 Episode 14: Warbonnet (1971) Red Cloud (Chief Dan George) may meet his death trying to retrieve an Indian headdress from Frank Ryan's (Forrest Tucker) saloon.
• Season 13 Episode 13: A Home for Jamie (1971) Jamie's grandfather (Will Geer) arrives to take him back East, but the boy runs away; guest Robert Carradine.
• Season 13 Episode 12: Easy Come, Easy Go (1971) The Cartwrights seek permission to cross a piece of land for their timber operation.
• Season 13 Episode 11: The Rattlesnake Bridge (1971) Jamie and his friends are taken hostage by escaped convicts.
• Season 13 Episode 10: The Iron Butterfly (1971) Hoss confesses to a murder committed by a celebrity (Mariette Hartley) he is protecting.
• Season 13 Episode 9: Blind/Hunch (1971) Jamie becomes the eyes for a blind man (Rip Torn) seeking his brother's killer.
• Season 13 Episode 8: Face of Fear (1971) A murderer (Bradford Dillman) assumes his victim's identity in a plot to claim the man's inheritance.
• Season 13 Episode 7: Don't Cry My Son (1971) Guilt-ridden Dr. Sloan (Richard Mulligan) kidnaps a child after the death of his own son.
• Season 13 Episode 6: Cassie (1971) After purchasing an Arabian stallion Hoss is challenged to a race by the animal's previous owner (Jack Cassidy).
• Season 13 Episode 5: The Prisoners (1971) Little Joe has major problems escorting an accused killer to jail.
• Season 13 Episode 4: Rock-a-Bye Hoss (1971) Hoss is accused of favoritism when he judges a beautiful baby contest.
• Season 13 Episode 3: Bushwacked (1971) Little Joe is unable to identify his attackers after he is shot and stranded.
• Season 13 Episode 2: The Fallen Woman (1971) After Hoss' testimony sends her husband to jail, an alcoholic woman abandons her young son to the rancher's care.
• Season 13 Episode 1: The Grand Swing (1971) Jamie accompanies Ben on a pack trip to inspect the far regions of the Ponderosa.

Season 12 - Bonanza

• Season 12 Episode 28: An Earthquake Called Callahan (1971) Joe agrees to track an itinerant boxer who is a reluctant witness in a court case.
• Season 12 Episode 27: Kingdom of Fear (1971) Falsely charged with trespassing, the Cartwrights are imprisoned and forced to slave by a cruel landowner.
• Season 12 Episode 26: Winter Kill (1971) Ben sends Hoss and Joe to Montana for a hardy steer to help build up his herd's resistance to the harsh winter.
• Season 12 Episode 25: A Time to Die (1971) A girl visiting the Ponderosa is bitten by a rabid wolf.
• Season 12 Episode 24: The Stillness Within (1971) After suffering serious injury in an explosion, Little Joe faces blindness.
• Season 12 Episode 23: Treaty at 2:00 (1971) A protester posing as a newspaperman plans to disrupt an Indian treaty-signing in Virginia City.
• Season 12 Episode 22: The Silent Killers (1971) A new doctor in town offers his services when influenza strikes the Ponderosa.
• Season 12 Episode 21: Shadow of a Hero (1971) Ben's friend, a war hero bidding for the governorship, is discredited due to his hatred of the Indians.
• Season 12 Episode 20: The Reluctant American (1971) A new manager on a neighboring ranch accuses the Cartwrights of rustling cattle.
• Season 12 Episode 19: The Desperado (1971) Hoss is taken hostage by a murder suspect fleeing the law.
• Season 12 Episode 18: A Deck of Aces (1971) A con man resembling Ben Cartwright poses as the rancher to negotiate with railroad representatives.
• Season 12 Episode 17: Top Hand (1971) A trail boss's inability to control his trail hands threatens the success of a cattle drive.
• Season 12 Episode 16: The Gold Plated Rifle (1971) After being forced to go to school, Jamie decides to run away.
• Season 12 Episode 15: A Single Pilgrim (1971) A hunter accidentally shoots Hoss but refuses to aid him for fear of prosecution.
• Season 12 Episode 14: For a Young Lady (1970) The Cartwrights are charged with kidnapping after a young girl accepts their hospitality.
• Season 12 Episode 13: Honest John (1970) Jamie considers going on the road with a vagrant who is staying at the Ponderosa.
• Season 12 Episode 12: The Imposters (1970) Hoss and Little Joe pose as criminals to reclaim booty.
• Season 12 Episode 11: The Luck of Pepper Shannon (1970) Jamie idolizes an infamous desperado who returns to Virginia City seeking revenge.
• Season 12 Episode 10: El Jefe (1970) Charged with murder, Ben's friend turns himself in to authorities, who conspire to frame him.
• Season 12 Episode 9: Love Child (1970) An unwed, terminally ill mother returns to Virginia City to see her father (Will Geer).
• Season 12 Episode 8: Thorton's Account (1970) Residents are afraid to help injured Ben due to raids in their community.
• Season 12 Episode 7: The Trouble With Trouble (1970) Hoss becomes a temporary sheriff in a town where even bank robbers are welcome.
• Season 12 Episode 6: Gideon, The Good (1970) Murder witness Joe gives a fleeing woman's description to the sheriff (Richard Kiley), the woman's husband.
• Season 12 Episode 5: The Power of Life and Death (1970) After tracking a wanted man in the desert, injured Ben stays with him while Little Joe goes for help.
• Season 12 Episode 4: The Wagon (1970) A law officer (Denver Pyle) kidnaps injured Hoss to replace an escaped prisoner.
• Season 12 Episode 3: The Weary Willies (1970) Ex-soldiers (Richard Thomas, Kevin Tighe) camping on Ponderosa land cause an incident with a local girl (Lee Purcell).
• Season 12 Episode 2: A Matter of Faith (1970) The Cartwrights intervene when rainmakers Dusty and Jamie fail to end the drought.
• Season 12 Episode 1: The Night Virginia City Died (1970) A suspected arsonist is jailed until another fire strikes Virginia City.

Season 11 - Bonanza

• Season 11 Episode 28: A Matter of Circumstance (1970) Alone on the Ponderosa, Little Joe is badly injured by a horse's kick and prepares to take drastic measures to save his own life.
• Season 11 Episode 27: What Are Partners For? (1970) Hoss is put in jail as an accomplice in a bank robbery.
• Season 11 Episode 26: The Horse Traders (1970) Fledgling horse-traders Hoss and Little Joe fight when the ne'er-do-well Calhouns open up shop as competitors.
• Season 11 Episode 25: Caution: Easter Bunny Crossing (1970) As he conducts an Easter egg hunt, bunny-suited Hoss foils bumbling highwaymen; guest Art Metrano.
• Season 11 Episode 24: Decision at Los Robles (1970) Little Joe must persuade frightened townspeople to stand against a powerful family in order to save himself and seriously injured Ben.
• Season 11 Episode 23: The Gold Mine (1970) A Mexican boy's former keeper uses Little Joe to learn from Ramon the location of a gold vein.
• Season 11 Episode 22: Return Engagement (1970) Hoss' open adoration of an actress (Sally Kellerman) makes him the prime suspect when her leading man is murdered; guest Joyce Bulifant.
• Season 11 Episode 21: Long Way to Ogden (1970) Ben faces a dilemma when he discovers an unscrupulous meatpacker has taken over all the cattle cars bound for Chicago.
• Season 11 Episode 20: The Law and Billy Burgess (1970) A community leader (Mercedes McCambridge) intervenes when a rebellious teen (David Cassidy) is accused of murdering a teacher.
• Season 11 Episode 19: Is There Any Man Here? (1970) Ben is sued for alienation of affection when a woman (Mariette Hartley) declares she will wed him.
• Season 11 Episode 18: The Lady and the Mark (1970) A beautiful woman catches the eye of a wealthy miner (Christopher Connelly), interfering with Ben's plan to trap con artists.
• Season 11 Episode 17: The Trouble With Amy (1970) A stubborn widow's (Jo Van Fleet) refusal to obey local laws becomes more than a nuisance when she is charged with attempted murder.
• Season 11 Episode 16: The Big Jackpot (1970) Candy (David Canary) has a host of new friends after inheriting a fortune.
• Season 11 Episode 15: Danger Road (1970) Ben puts aside his feelings about a supposed Army deserter (Robert Lansing) when the man submits the lowest bid to haul Ponderosa timber.
• Season 11 Episode 14: It's a Small World (1970) A dwarf (Michael Dunn), forced to leave his job with the circus, encounters discrimination when he tries to find work in Virginia City.
• Season 11 Episode 13: Abner Willoughby's Return (1969) A merchant seaman (John Astin) is astonished to discover a town has sprung up on the site where he buried a fortune 10 years earlier.
• Season 11 Episode 12: Old Friends (1969) Two old friends, a sheriff turned bounty hunter and an escaped criminal, pull at Ben's loyalties; guest Morgan Woodward.
• Season 11 Episode 11: Dead Wrong (1969) A man known for his outrageous tales mistakenly identifies Hoss and Candy as bank robbers; guests Mike Mazurki, Eric Christmas.
• Season 11 Episode 10: A Darker Shadow (1969) Little Joe tracks a friend who abruptly left town and is suspected of taking funds from the bank where he worked; guest Dabney Coleman.
• Season 11 Episode 9: Meena (1969) A woman (Ann Prentiss) helps Little Joe evade a trio of ransom-seeking kidnappers, then mistakes his gratitude for a marriage proposal.
• Season 11 Episode 8: The Stalker (1969) A vengeful widow hires an assassin after Candy kills her husband, a bank robber, and then learns it's too late to change her mind.
• Season 11 Episode 7: The Medal (1969) Tensions mount when the Cartwrights take in a penniless Civil War hero from the North; guests Dean Stockwell, Susan Howard, John Beck.
• Season 11 Episode 6: To Stop a War (1969) A former lawman, now a friend and employee of the Cartwrights, is suspected of accepting payoffs in his investigation of cattle rustling.
• Season 11 Episode 5: Anatomy of a Lynching (1969) A lynch mob threatens a man (Guy Stockwell) who believes in a freed killer's guilt, despite pleas from his fiancee and Ben.
• Season 11 Episode 4: A Lawman's Lot Is Not a Happy One (1969) Hoss begins to feel that he has taken on more than he can handle after agreeing to fill in as temporary sheriff; guest Tom Bosley.
• Season 11 Episode 3: Silence at Stillwater (1969) Candy plots an escape after being jailed as a suspect in the murders of a rancher and his family; guests Pat Hingle, Strother Martin.
• Season 11 Episode 2: The Witness (1969) The Cartwrights offer protection to a woman claiming she can identify a band of stagecoach robbers; guests Bo Hopkins, Matt Clark.
• Season 11 Episode 1: Another Windmill to Go (1969) The wording of an old law may cause Ben to lose the Ponderosa to an odd man who crossed it in a horse-drawn rowboat.

Season 10 - Bonanza

• Season 10 Episode 30: A Ride in the Sun (1969) A trio uses the unsuspecting Cartwrights to get into a bank vault, then leads them and a posse in a desert chase.
• Season 10 Episode 29: The Fence (1969) Former Civil War prisoners seeking revenge surround Ben, Hoss and Ben's friend (J.D. Cannon), a former Confederate prison commandant.
• Season 10 Episode 28: Speak No Evil (1969) Relatives battle over a youth who has just inherited a gold mine.
• Season 10 Episode 27: The Unwanted (1969) A marshal hunting an escaped convict resents his daughter's (Bonnie Bedelia) relationship with the brother of the wanted man.
• Season 10 Episode 26: The Running Man (1969) A woman persuades Candy and Little Joe to protect her husband, a government surveyor who saw a land baron's men killing homesteaders.
• Season 10 Episode 25: Emily (1969) Little Joe is accused of bank robbery, and an unhappy wife claims he committed the crime for love of her.
• Season 10 Episode 24: The Deserter (1962) An Army sergeant (Ben Johnson) faces court-martial if Candy can't find evidence to prove him innocent of desertion, cowardice and murder.
• Season 10 Episode 23: The Wish (1969) A former slave (Ossie Davis) starting a new life with his family must decide whether to confront white opposition or flee.
• Season 10 Episode 22: Five Candles (1969) Ben and four companions, trapped in a collapsed cellar, must rely on an accused killer for help.
• Season 10 Episode 21: Lady and the Mountain Lion (1969) A magician (Richard Haydn) with twin daughters plans to use the unwitting Cartwright sons to lend credence to his con game.
• Season 10 Episode 20: The Clarion (1969) Ben takes over an old friend's newspaper when he learns a man (Simon Oakland) is trying to buy it to conceal thefts of government land.
• Season 10 Episode 19: Company of Forgotten Men (1969) Candy's former friend and gang force him into helping them in a plan to rob the Carson City mint.
• Season 10 Episode 18: Erin (1969) A neighbor threatens Hoss' fiancee, a white girl raised by Indians, when the Cartwrights allow her friends to trade wild horses for food.
• Season 10 Episode 17: Mrs. Wharton and the Lesser Breeds (1969) A stubborn British widow hires Candy as an escort, then foils his attempts to retrieve her valuables from thieves.
• Season 10 Episode 16: My Friend, My Enemy (1969) Only an Indian horse thief (John Saxon) can prove Candy innocent of murdering a rancher.
• Season 10 Episode 15: Sweet Annie Laurie (1969) An outlaw allows his wife (Joan Van Ark) to think she has killed him to frighten her into abandoning the safety of the Ponderosa.
• Season 10 Episode 14: A World Full of Cannibals (1968) Candy accidentally reveals that a witness whose life has been twice endangered is hiding on the Ponderosa.
• Season 10 Episode 13: Mark of Guilt (1968) Hoss and Hop Sing must persuade a jury to accept fingerprints as evidence in a murder trial to save Little Joe.
• Season 10 Episode 12: Yonder Man (1968) Ben's friend asks for help starting a cattle ranch, without revealing his rustling and political crimes.
• Season 10 Episode 11: Queen High (1968) A crooked mill owner blocks the Cartwrights' attempts to reopen an ore-processing facility won by Little Joe and Candy in a poker game.
• Season 10 Episode 10: Sound of Drums (1968) Despite Ben's advice and neighbors' complaints, a man refuses to force Indian poachers off his land.
• Season 10 Episode 9: The Survivors (1968) After four years as a captive, a woman (Mariette Hartley) returns to a town and husband who reject her and her half-Indian baby.
• Season 10 Episode 8: Little Girl Lost (1968) A distant relative (Antoinette Bower) sends her unruly daughter (Linda Sue Risk) to the Ponderosa.
• Season 10 Episode 7: Catch as Catch Can (1968) Ben faces lynching when he nears finding the man responsible for accusing the Cartwrights; guest Slim Pickens.
• Season 10 Episode 6: The Last Vote (1968) Ben holds the deciding vote in a mayoral election in which Hoss and Little Joe manage opposing campaigns; guest Tom Bosley.
• Season 10 Episode 5: The Passing of a King (1968) Ben delivers a bull to a Texas rancher, whose son has declared the man incompetent and refuses to pay for the animal.
• Season 10 Episode 4: The Real People of Muddy Creek (1968) Only a few brave souls remain to help Ben and Little Joe defend a town jail and its occupant from outlaws.
• Season 10 Episode 3: Salute to Yesterday (1968) The captain of an Army unit guarding a payroll learns his wife was once wed to Candy, who still considers himself married.
• Season 10 Episode 2: Child (1968) Arriving in a town on a dead man's horse, Hoss is jailed for murder but freed by an itinerant ranchhand (Yaphet Kotto).
• Season 10 Episode 1: Different Pines, Same Wind (1968) An ailing old woman's refusal to file a legal claim blocks Little Joe's attempts to save her land from timbermen.

Season 9 - Bonanza

• Season 9 Episode 34: Stage Door Johnnies (1968) Little Joe and Hoss court the same woman and wind up involving the clan with brawlers.
• Season 9 Episode 33: A Severe Case of Matrimony (1968) To finance her opera career, a Gypsy (Susan Strasberg) tries to maneuver a proposal from one of the Cartwright sons.
• Season 9 Episode 32: Pride of a Man (1968) Substitute-teacher Little Joe is forced into a fight with an uneducated man who insists his two ruffian sons have no need of school.
• Season 9 Episode 31: The Stronghold (1968) Swindled out of a cattle herd, Little Joe, Candy and a cowhand head to the thieves' fortified Arizona ranch.
• Season 9 Episode 30: The Arrival of Eddie (1968) Remorseful Hoss offers a job to the teenage son of the man he killed as part of a posse; guest Jim Davis.
• Season 9 Episode 29: The Bottle Fighter (1968) An alcoholic lawyer (Albert Dekker) must defend Hoss on a murder charge.
• Season 9 Episode 28: To Die in Darkness (1968) A pardoned bank robber takes revenge on prosecution witnesses Ben and Candy by imprisoning them in a deserted mine.
• Season 9 Episode 27: In Defense of Honor (1968) A lovesick Indian (Lou Antonio) is wrongly accused of killing a rival, threatening Hoss' attempts to guarantee an Indian treaty.
• Season 9 Episode 26: A Dream to Dream (1968) A young mother (Julie Harris) victimized by her alcoholic husband falls in love with visiting Hoss.
• Season 9 Episode 25: Commitment of Angelus (1968) An unscrupulous mineowner targets Little Joe and Candy after they prove strikers' claims that the mines are unsafe.
• Season 9 Episode 24: Trouble Town (1968) An intimidating sheriff (Robert Wilke) imprisons Candy without bail after being struck accidentally by the ranch hand.
• Season 9 Episode 23: Star Crossed (1968) After losing his girl (Tisha Sterling) to Little Joe, Candy learns she is being blackmailed into marrying for money.
• Season 9 Episode 22: The Late Ben Cartwright (1968) An assassin's bullet only wounds Ben, but he allows rumors of his death to circulate in order to free him to prevent a crooked election.
• Season 9 Episode 21: The Crime of Johnny Mule (1968) A prospector (Noah Beery Jr.) accused of murder escapes and seeks protection from Hoss; guest Jack Ging.
• Season 9 Episode 20: Blood Tie (1968) Wounded Ben is threatened with robbery and death after three outlaws trick Little Joe and Hoss into leaving the Ponderosa.
• Season 9 Episode 19: The Price of Salt (1968) Ben tries to prevent a riot after a wealthy man buys the only supply of salt from a city woman (Kim Hunter).
• Season 9 Episode 18: The Burning Sky (1968) The Indian wife of a new Ponderosa ranch hand runs to Ben when a lynch mob threatens to hang her; guests Victor French, Iron Eyes Cody.
• Season 9 Episode 17: The Thirteenth Man (1968) Ben disapproves when a man (Albert Salmi) hired by the Cattlemen's Association to stop rustlers uses violence.
• Season 9 Episode 16: A Girl Named George (1968) A lawyer kills a judge to avenge his brother's hanging, then bribes a photographer to provide him a visual alibi; guest Jack Albertson.
• Season 9 Episode 15: The Trackers (1968) A banker gathers a posse and sets out after a recently released convict (Bruce Dern), believing him guilty of bank robbery and murder.
• Season 9 Episode 14: The Gold Detector (1967) Town residents ridicule Hoss' attempts to help a friend find gold with an inventor's (Wally Cox) strange contraption.
• Season 9 Episode 13: Justice Deferred (1967) Hoss feels he has testified wrongly in court after seeing an accused murderer's double (Simon Oakland in a dual role) in town.
• Season 9 Episode 12: Check Rein (1967) An avaricious man attempts murder and false arrest to prevent his nephew (James MacArthur) from inheriting the family ranch.
• Season 9 Episode 11: Six Black Horses (1967) Ben's old friend (Burgess Meredith) admits to a scheme to invest funds from political graft.
• Season 9 Episode 10: Showdown at Tahoe (1967) A gang plans to steal the Cartwrights' payroll and use Ben's steamboat to escape.
• Season 9 Episode 9: The Sure Thing (1967) A vengeful gambler targets a man who changed his mind about ordering his daughter (Kim Darby) to throw a horse race.
• Season 9 Episode 8: Desperate Passage (1967) Paiutes attack a group, including the Cartwrights and Candy, and capture an accused killer's (Steve Forrest) only witness (Tina Louise).
• Season 9 Episode 7: The Gentle Ones (1967) Ben allows a ranch hand to care for a mistreated stallion the man stole from his brother.
• Season 9 Episode 6: False Witness (1967) The Cartwright sons, Candy and a girl become targets after witnessing a murder and robbery committed by a ruthless outlaw gang.
• Season 9 Episode 5: Night of Reckoning (1967) The cohorts of a wounded outlaw come to look for stolen money he hid before seeking help from the Cartwrights; guest Richard Jaeckel.
• Season 9 Episode 4: Judgment at Olympus (1967) The Cartwrights conduct their own investigation when Candy is arrested for the murder of a rich man's son; guest Barry Sullivan.
• Season 9 Episode 3: The Conquistadores (1967) A band of misfits plans to rescue kidnapped Little Joe, kill him and keep the ransom of $25,000 in gold; guest John Saxon.
• Season 9 Episode 2: Sense of Duty (1967) The fanatical followers of Wabuska, a Paiute prisoner being escorted to prison, surround commander Ben and the Virginia City militia.
• Season 9 Episode 1: Second Chance (1967) Hoss and Ben find themselves fighting Indians to protect a motley group led by a medicine-show hawker who treated wounded Little Joe.

Season 8 - Bonanza

• Season 8 Episode 34: The Greedy Ones (1967) A legal technicality may prevent Ben from stopping an unscrupulous mine owner who believes gold has been found on the Ponderosa.
• Season 8 Episode 33: Maestro Hoss (1967) A Gypsy fortuneteller (Zsa Zsa Gabor) convinces Hoss he is a musical genius.
• Season 8 Episode 32: Clarissa (1967) Ben's visiting cousin (Nina Foch) uses the Cartwrights' sympathy to gain control of the household.
• Season 8 Episode 31: The Wormwood Cup (1967) A girl who holds Little Joe responsible for murdering her brother offers a $1,000 reward to anyone who will kill him in a gunfight.
• Season 8 Episode 30: Napoleon's Children (1967) A boy who models himself after Napoleon terrorizes Virginia City and ambushes Hoss with his army of teenage hoodlums.
• Season 8 Episode 29: A Man Without Land (1967) A land-hungry foreman plots to keep Ben from paying a rancher's back taxes by framing Little Joe for the murder of the rancher's son.
• Season 8 Episode 28: The Prince (1967) An outlaw (Lloyd Bochner) introduces himself as a Russian nobleman to get close to a countess and her jewels.
• Season 8 Episode 27: The Deed and the Dilemma (1967) Ranchers frame an Italian emigrant for murder to halt his plans for a vineyard on the Ponderosa.
• Season 8 Episode 26: Dark Enough to See the Stars (1967) A Texas lawman shatters a young drifter's (Richard Evans) hopes of a new life on the Ponderosa.
• Season 8 Episode 25: Joe Cartwright, Detective (1967) Inspired by detective novels, Little Joe tries to prove two strangers are planning to rob the Virginia City bank.
• Season 8 Episode 24: Judgment at Red Creek (1967) Little Joe stands in the way of a vengeful guard's plans to find a legal method of executing two murder suspects; guest John Ireland.
• Season 8 Episode 23: A Woman in the House (1967) Ben gets caught in a marital mess trying to protect a woman from her alcoholic husband.
• Season 8 Episode 22: Amigo (1967) An outlaw band's wounded cook (Henry Darrow) must decide between loyalty to the gang and gratitude to the Cartwrights who saved his life.
• Season 8 Episode 21: Journey to Terror (1967) Little Joe's visit to a friend's farm turns dangerous when the woman's husband returns as the hostage of a fugitive bank robber.
• Season 8 Episode 20: Unseen Wound (1967) A veteran sheriff (Leslie Nielsen) driven to insanity by years of senseless killings turns his gun on the people of his town.
• Season 8 Episode 19: Black Friday (1967) Little Joe risks his life to nurse a desperately ill gunfighter (John Saxon) back to health before a scheduled duel.
• Season 8 Episode 18: A Bride for Buford (1967) Hoss interferes when a shady manager pushes his dancer client (Lola Albright) to romance a wealthy miner.
• Season 8 Episode 17: Justice (1967) A lovesick boy (Beau Bridges) resorts to fanatic measures to court a bank teller who likes Little Joe.
• Season 8 Episode 16: Ponderosa Explosion (1967) Hoss and Little Joe raise rabbits for fur coats, then find they lack the heart to finish the job; guest Dub Taylor.
• Season 8 Episode 15: A Christmas Story (1966) A shady manager (Jack Oakie) involves his singer nephew (Wayne Newton) in a Christmas fund-raising drive.
• Season 8 Episode 14: Tommy (1966) An outlaw's harassment forces his wife to leave her deaf son and the safety of the Cartwright home.
• Season 8 Episode 13: The Bridegroom (1966) Little Joe helps bolster a plain girl's (Joanne Linville) self-esteem to catch a widower's eye.
• Season 8 Episode 12: A Nice, Friendly Little Town (1966) Searching for a gunman who wounded mainly Little Joe's pride, Hoss confronts two rowdy brothers and their feisty mother (Louise Latham).
• Season 8 Episode 11: The Oath (1966) Ben delivers a murderer to the sheriff then becomes the target of the man's vengeful son (Tony Bill).
• Season 8 Episode 10: Ballad of the Ponderosa (1966) A young minstrel's (Randy Boone) ballad claims his father was sent to jail because Ben lied.
• Season 8 Episode 9: Old Charlie (1966) An old man's untrue boast that he single-handedly killed an outlaw puts him in mortal danger from the dead man's vengeful brothers.
• Season 8 Episode 8: Four Sisters From Boston (1966) Unaware Ben has saved her land by paying back taxes, a Boston woman thinks the Cartwrights are trying to take her newly inherited ranch.
• Season 8 Episode 7: Credit for a Kill (1966) Little Joe takes sole credit for killing an outlaw to save his companion from the dead man's brothers.
• Season 8 Episode 6: To Bloom for Thee (1966) Hoss falls in love with a beautiful stranger (Geraldine Brooks) and proposes, despite his family's objections.
• Season 8 Episode 5: The Pursued (1966) A lynch mob chases Little Joe and the Mormon family, including a pregnant woman, across the desert; guest Vincent Beck.
• Season 8 Episode 4: The Pursued (1966) A Mormon rancher (Eric Fleming) and his wives (Dina Merrill, Lois Nettleton) are persecuted by their small-town neighbors.
• Season 8 Episode 3: A Time to Step Down (1966) An aging trail hand, bitter after Little Joe asks Ben to give him an easier job, falls prey to a kidnapping scheme; guest Ed Begley.
• Season 8 Episode 2: Horse of a Different Hue (1966) A poor Southern colonel and his granddaughter (Julie Parrish) unknowingly involve the Cartwrights in a horse-racing scheme.
• Season 8 Episode 1: Something Hurt, Something Wild (1966) A young woman falsely accuses Little Joe of assault, ending the Cartwrights' friendship with her family.

Season 7 - Bonanza

• Season 7 Episode 33: A Dollar's Worth of Trouble (1966) A clairvoyant predicts a beautiful girl (Sally Kellerman) will fall for Hoss.
• Season 7 Episode 32: The Last Mission (1966) Ben becomes a pawn in an army colonel's plot to destroy an Indian tribe that massacred his family.
• Season 7 Episode 31: Home From the Sea (1966) A man claiming to be Adam's shipmate arrives at the ranch as part of a plan to rob the Cartwights.