Bonanza Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Bonanza: Season 14 (1972 - 1973)

• Season 14 Episode 16: The Hunter

  An escaped mental patient (Tom Skerritt) makes Joe the object of a bizarre hunt.

• Season 14 Episode 15: The Marriage of Theodora Duffy

  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

  Griff tries to locate the witness (Sally Kemp) who can clear Candy of murder and theft charges.

• Season 14 Episode 13: First Love

  Jamie falls for the wife (Pamela Franklin) of an insanely jealous schoolmaster (Jordan Rhodes).

• Season 14 Episode 12: The Bucket Dog

  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

  An elderly man (Jack Albertson) takes in runaway orphan brothers, one of whom is mute.

• Season 14 Episode 10: The Hidden Enemy

  A doctor's (Mike Farrell) morphine addiction is revealed during his trial for murder; guest David Huddleston.

• Season 14 Episode 9: Stallion

  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

  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

  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

  Ex-convict Griff (Tim Matheson) has trouble adjusting to life on the Ponderosa; guest Ronny Cox.

• Season 14 Episode 5: Riot!

  A convict stages a prison riot that ensnares Ben; guest Aldo Ray.

• Season 14 Episode 4: The Initiation

  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

  A man (Robert Lansing) returns from prison to find his land neglected and his wife (Fionnula Flanagan) exhausted.

• Season 14 Episode 2: Forever

  John's gambling debts mount after Alice rejects him because of his alcoholism.

• Season 14 Episode 1: Forever

  Joe falls for a woman (Bonnie Bedelia) who arrives with her brother (Andrew Robinson) in Virginia City.

Bonanza: Season 13 (1971 - 1972)

• Season 13 Episode 26: One Ace Too Many

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  Ben is linked to a murder after suffering memory loss while on a business trip.

• Season 13 Episode 20: Shanklin

  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

  After landing in a Mexican bordertown jail, Joe and Hoss throw a party and try to escape.

• Season 13 Episode 18: Frenzy

  Ben's friend, Anna Kosovo, fears for her life when her hot-tempered immigrant husband barricades their home.

• Season 13 Episode 17: Saddle Stiff

  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

  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

  Vacationing Hop Sing finds love while panning for gold.

• Season 13 Episode 14: Warbonnet

  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

  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

  The Cartwrights seek permission to cross a piece of land for their timber operation.

• Season 13 Episode 11: The Rattlesnake Bridge

  Jamie and his friends are taken hostage by escaped convicts.

• Season 13 Episode 10: The Iron Butterfly

  Hoss confesses to a murder committed by a celebrity (Mariette Hartley) he is protecting.

• Season 13 Episode 9: Blind/Hunch

  Jamie becomes the eyes for a blind man (Rip Torn) seeking his brother's killer.

• Season 13 Episode 8: Face of Fear

  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

  Guilt-ridden Dr. Sloan (Richard Mulligan) kidnaps a child after the death of his own son.

• Season 13 Episode 6: Cassie

  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

  Little Joe has major problems escorting an accused killer to jail.

• Season 13 Episode 4: Rock-a-Bye Hoss

  Hoss is accused of favoritism when he judges a beautiful baby contest.

• Season 13 Episode 3: Bushwacked

  Little Joe is unable to identify his attackers after he is shot and stranded.

• Season 13 Episode 2: The Fallen Woman

  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

  Jamie accompanies Ben on a pack trip to inspect the far regions of the Ponderosa.

Bonanza: Season 12 (1970 - 1971)

• Season 12 Episode 28: An Earthquake Called Callahan

  Joe agrees to track an itinerant boxer who is a reluctant witness in a court case.

• Season 12 Episode 27: Kingdom of Fear

  Falsely charged with trespassing, the Cartwrights are imprisoned and forced to slave by a cruel landowner.

• Season 12 Episode 26: Winter Kill

  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

  A girl visiting the Ponderosa is bitten by a rabid wolf.

• Season 12 Episode 24: The Stillness Within

  After suffering serious injury in an explosion, Little Joe faces blindness.

• Season 12 Episode 23: Treaty at 2:00

  A protester posing as a newspaperman plans to disrupt an Indian treaty-signing in Virginia City.

• Season 12 Episode 22: The Silent Killers

  A new doctor in town offers his services when influenza strikes the Ponderosa.

• Season 12 Episode 21: Shadow of a Hero

  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

  A new manager on a neighboring ranch accuses the Cartwrights of rustling cattle.

• Season 12 Episode 19: The Desperado

  Hoss is taken hostage by a murder suspect fleeing the law.

• Season 12 Episode 18: A Deck of Aces

  A con man resembling Ben Cartwright poses as the rancher to negotiate with railroad representatives.

• Season 12 Episode 17: Top Hand

  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

  After being forced to go to school, Jamie decides to run away.

• Season 12 Episode 15: A Single Pilgrim

  A hunter accidentally shoots Hoss but refuses to aid him for fear of prosecution.

• Season 12 Episode 14: For a Young Lady

  The Cartwrights are charged with kidnapping after a young girl accepts their hospitality.

• Season 12 Episode 13: Honest John

  Jamie considers going on the road with a vagrant who is staying at the Ponderosa.

• Season 12 Episode 12: The Imposters

  Hoss and Little Joe pose as criminals to reclaim booty.

• Season 12 Episode 11: The Luck of Pepper Shannon

  Jamie idolizes an infamous desperado who returns to Virginia City seeking revenge.

• Season 12 Episode 10: El Jefe

  Charged with murder, Ben's friend turns himself in to authorities, who conspire to frame him.

• Season 12 Episode 9: Love Child

  An unwed, terminally ill mother returns to Virginia City to see her father (Will Geer).

• Season 12 Episode 8: Thorton's Account

  Residents are afraid to help injured Ben due to raids in their community.

• Season 12 Episode 7: The Trouble With Trouble

  Hoss becomes a temporary sheriff in a town where even bank robbers are welcome.

• Season 12 Episode 6: Gideon, The Good

  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

  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

  A law officer (Denver Pyle) kidnaps injured Hoss to replace an escaped prisoner.

• Season 12 Episode 3: The Weary Willies

  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

  The Cartwrights intervene when rainmakers Dusty and Jamie fail to end the drought.

• Season 12 Episode 1: The Night Virginia City Died

  A suspected arsonist is jailed until another fire strikes Virginia City.

Bonanza: Season 11 (1969 - 1970)

• Season 11 Episode 28: A Matter of Circumstance

  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?

  Hoss is put in jail as an accomplice in a bank robbery.

• Season 11 Episode 26: The Horse Traders

  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

  As he conducts an Easter egg hunt, bunny-suited Hoss foils bumbling highwaymen; guest Art Metrano.

• Season 11 Episode 24: Decision at Los Robles

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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?

  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

  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

  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

  Candy (David Canary) has a host of new friends after inheriting a fortune.

• Season 11 Episode 15: Danger Road

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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.

Bonanza: Season 10 (1962 - 1969)

• Season 10 Episode 30: A Ride in the Sun

  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

  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

  Relatives battle over a youth who has just inherited a gold mine.

• Season 10 Episode 27: The Unwanted

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  Only an Indian horse thief (John Saxon) can prove Candy innocent of murdering a rancher.

• Season 10 Episode 15: Sweet Annie Laurie

  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

  Candy accidentally reveals that a witness whose life has been twice endangered is hiding on the Ponderosa.

• Season 10 Episode 13: Mark of Guilt

  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

  Ben's friend asks for help starting a cattle ranch, without revealing his rustling and political crimes.

• Season 10 Episode 11: Queen High

  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

  Despite Ben's advice and neighbors' complaints, a man refuses to force Indian poachers off his land.

• Season 10 Episode 9: The Survivors

  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

  A distant relative (Antoinette Bower) sends her unruly daughter (Linda Sue Risk) to the Ponderosa.

• Season 10 Episode 7: Catch as Catch Can

  Ben faces lynching when he nears finding the man responsible for accusing the Cartwrights; guest Slim Pickens.

• Season 10 Episode 6: The Last Vote

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  An ailing old woman's refusal to file a legal claim blocks Little Joe's attempts to save her land from timbermen.

Bonanza: Season 9 (1967 - 1968)

• Season 9 Episode 34: Stage Door Johnnies

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  An alcoholic lawyer (Albert Dekker) must defend Hoss on a murder charge.

• Season 9 Episode 28: To Die in Darkness

  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

  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

  A young mother (Julie Harris) victimized by her alcoholic husband falls in love with visiting Hoss.

• Season 9 Episode 25: Commitment of Angelus

  An unscrupulous mineowner targets Little Joe and Candy after they prove strikers' claims that the mines are unsafe.

• Season 9 Episode 24: Trouble Town

  An intimidating sheriff (Robert Wilke) imprisons Candy without bail after being struck accidentally by the ranch hand.

• Season 9 Episode 23: Star Crossed

  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

  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

  A prospector (Noah Beery Jr.) accused of murder escapes and seeks protection from Hoss; guest Jack Ging.

• Season 9 Episode 20: Blood Tie

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  Hoss feels he has testified mistakenly in court after seeing an accused murderer's double (Simon Oakland in a dual role) in town.

• Season 9 Episode 12: Check Rein

  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

  Ben's old friend (Burgess Meredith) admits to a scheme to invest funds from political graft.

• Season 9 Episode 10: Showdown at Tahoe

  A gang plans to steal the Cartwrights' payroll and use Ben's steamboat to escape.

• Season 9 Episode 9: The Sure Thing

  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

  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

  Ben allows a ranch hand to care for a mistreated stallion the man stole from his brother.

• Season 9 Episode 6: False Witness

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  Hoss and Ben find themselves fighting Indians to protect a motley group led by a medicine-show hawker who treated wounded Little Joe.

Bonanza: Season 8 (1966 - 1967)

• Season 8 Episode 34: The Greedy Ones

  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

  A Gypsy fortuneteller (Zsa Zsa Gabor) convinces Hoss he is a musical genius.

• Season 8 Episode 32: Clarissa

  Ben's visiting cousin (Nina Foch) uses the Cartwrights' sympathy to gain control of the household.

• Season 8 Episode 31: The Wormwood Cup

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  Ben gets caught in a marital mess trying to protect a woman from her alcoholic husband.

• Season 8 Episode 22: Amigo

  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

  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

  A veteran sheriff (Leslie Nielsen) driven to insanity by years of senseless killings turns his gun on the people of his town.

  Next on: Thursday 3rd December 4:00pm EST - TV Land
• Season 8 Episode 19: Black Friday

  Little Joe risks his life to nurse a desperately ill gunfighter (John Saxon) back to health before a scheduled duel.

  Next on: Thursday 3rd December 3:00pm EST - TV Land
• Season 8 Episode 18: A Bride for Buford

  Hoss interferes when a shady manager pushes his dancer client (Lola Albright) to romance a wealthy miner.

• Season 8 Episode 17: Justice

  A lovesick boy (Beau Bridges) resorts to fanatic measures to court a bank teller who likes Little Joe.

• Season 8 Episode 16: Ponderosa Explosion

  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

  A shady manager (Jack Oakie) involves his singer nephew (Wayne Newton) in a Christmas fund-raising drive.

• Season 8 Episode 14: Tommy

  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

  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

  Searching for a gunman who wounded mainly Little Joe's pride, Hoss confronts two rowdy brothers and their feisty mother (Louise Latham).

  Next on: Wednesday 2nd December 4:00pm EST - TV Land
• Season 8 Episode 11: The Oath

  Ben delivers a murderer to the sheriff then becomes the target of the man's vengeful son (Tony Bill).

  Next on: Wednesday 2nd December 3:00pm EST - TV Land
• Season 8 Episode 10: Ballad of the Ponderosa

  A young minstrel's (Randy Boone) ballad claims his father was sent to jail because Ben lied.

• Season 8 Episode 9: Old Charlie

  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.

  Next on: Friday 4th December 3:00pm EST - TV Land
• Season 8 Episode 8: Four Sisters From Boston

  Unaware Ben has saved her land by paying back taxes, a Boston woman thinks the Cartwrights are trying to take her newly inherited ranch.

  Next on: Tuesday 1st December 4:00pm EST - TV Land
• Season 8 Episode 7: Credit for a Kill

  Little Joe takes sole credit for killing an outlaw to save his companion from the dead man's brothers.

  Next on: Tuesday 1st December 3:00pm EST - TV Land
• Season 8 Episode 6: To Bloom for Thee

  Hoss falls in love with a beautiful stranger (Geraldine Brooks) and proposes, despite his family's objections.

• Season 8 Episode 5: The Pursued

  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

  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

  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.

  Next on: Monday 30th November 4:00pm EST - TV Land
• Season 8 Episode 2: Horse of a Different Hue

  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

  A young woman falsely accuses Little Joe of assault, ending the Cartwrights' friendship with her family.

Bonanza: Season 7 (1965 - 1966)

• Season 7 Episode 33: A Dollar's Worth of Trouble

  A clairvoyant predicts a beautiful girl (Sally Kellerman) will fall for Hoss.

• Season 7 Episode 32: The Last Mission

  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

  A man claiming to be Adam's shipmate arrives at the ranch as part of a plan to rob the Cartwights.

• Season 7 Episode 30: The Fighters

  Hoss accepts a promoter's challenge to box an aging fighter (Michael Conrad) for $200.

• Season 7 Episode 29: Big Shadows on the Land

  A winemaker claims an area of the Ponderosa as his own to start a vineyard.

• Season 7 Episode 28: The Unwritten Commandment

  A boy (Wayne Newton) gives up singing because of his father's scorn.

• Season 7 Episode 27: The Genius

  Hoss befriends a down-and-out drunk who is really a gifted poet.

• Season 7 Episode 26: Shining in Spain

  An irresponsible adventurer's daughter takes refuge at the Ponderosa.

• Season 7 Episode 25: The Trouble With Jamie

  Ben's spoiled cousin from the East visits the ranch.

• Season 7 Episode 24: Her Brother's Keeper

  Ben lends money to a neighbor who has no intention of repaying him.

• Season 7 Episode 23: The Emperor Norton

  The owner of a mining company tries to have a man committed after being accused of lacking safety devices.

• Season 7 Episode 22: Three Brides For Hoss

  Three women arrive after each receives pictures and letters with promises of marriage from Hoss.

• Season 7 Episode 21: The Code

  A professional gunman (George Montgomery) sparks a fight with Little Joe.

• Season 7 Episode 20: Peace Officer

  After rowdies accidentally kill the deputy, townsfolk hire Wes Dunn (Eric Fleming) to restore order in the sheriff's absence.

• Season 7 Episode 19: Destiny's Child

  Two drifters (Dick Peobody, Walter Burke), one of whom is wanted for murder in Arizona, seek temporary work at the Ponderosa.

• Season 7 Episode 18: Ride the Wind

  The Paiutes intensify their attacks on the Pony Express and Little Joe barely escapes death while Hoss tends a way station.

• Season 7 Episode 17: Ride the Wind

  Ben invests in the Pony Express, suffering great losses from the attacks of Winnemuca (Richard Hale) and his Paiutes.

• Season 7 Episode 16: To Kill a Buffalo

  A starving, wounded Indian (Jose De Vega), rescued by the Cartwrights, remains hostile to white men and steals a horse.

• Season 7 Episode 15: A Dublin Lad

  A man (Liam Sullivan) sentenced to hang for murder claims innocence; Little Joe begins to doubt his guilt.

• Season 7 Episode 14: All Ye His Saints

  A boy (Clint Howard), seeking help for his wounded father, thinks a murderer (Leif Erickson) is God.

• Season 7 Episode 13: A Natural Wizard

  Hoss releases a young boy (Eddie Hodges) caught in one of his stepfather's traps and brings him to the Ponderosa to live.

• Season 7 Episode 12: Five Sundowns to Sunup

  The Lassiters kidnap Little Joe and threaten to kill him unless Harry Lassiter is released from jail; guest Marie Windsor.

• Season 7 Episode 11: The Reluctant Rebel

  Hoss befriends a young boy (Tim Considine) hanging out with hoodlums because he is ashamed of his father.

• Season 7 Episode 10: The Strange One

  A woman (Louise Sorel) is labeled a witch after her prediction about an illness comes true.

• Season 7 Episode 9: Mighty is the Word

  Cliff Rexford (Michael Whitney) reveals that the Rev. Watson (Glenn Corbett) killed his brother in a gunfight.

• Season 7 Episode 8: The Meredith Smith

  Six people -- three men, two women and a boy -- each claim to be the heir to a large estate.

• Season 7 Episode 7: Found Child

  The family tries to identify a girl, found clinging to a rag doll near the bodies of her murdered parents.

• Season 7 Episode 6: Devil on Her Shoulders

  A religious group accuses a woman (Ina Balin) of witchcraft and abandons her in the wilderness.

• Season 7 Episode 5: The Lonely Runner

  A man (Gilbert Roland) loses his horse by court order, then is charged with murder when he fights to regain it.

• Season 7 Episode 4: The Other Son

  Hostility erupts between a mule-packer (Ed Begley) and his youngest son during the transport of explosives.

• Season 7 Episode 3: The Brass Box

  A man (Ramon Navarro) who boasts about his ancestry possesses a legitimate land grant.

• Season 7 Episode 2: The Dilemma

  Ben refuses a robber's offer to return the loot in exchange for immunity from prosecution.

• Season 7 Episode 1: The Debt

  A con man's (Ford Rainey) children (Tommy Sands, Brooke Bundy) want to clear their family name by working for his victims.

Bonanza: Season 6 (1964 - 1965)

• Season 6 Episode 34: Patchwork Man

  Hoss tries to instill courage in a hermit he convinced to leave a ghost-town to work on the Ponderosa.

  Next on: Monday 30th November 3:00pm EST - TV Land
• Season 6 Episode 33: The Spotlight

  Hoss and Little Joe fear Ben has fallen for an opera singer (Viveca Lindfors) he engaged for the Virginia City Founder's Day celebration.

  Next on: Monday 30th November 2:00pm EST - TV Land
• Season 6 Episode 32: Jonah

  A man (Andrew Prine) who saved Hoss' life is rewarded with a job on the Ponderosa, but the other ranch hands consider him a jinx.

  Next on: Wednesday 25th November 3:00pm EST - TV Land
• Season 6 Episode 31: The Return

  A banker, crippled during a robbery 10 years before, tries to prevent the now-released thief from settling again in Virginia City.

  Next on: Tomorrow at 4:00pm EST - TV Land
• Season 6 Episode 30: Lothario Larkin

  Irate fathers want a charming, roguish drifter (Noah Beery) run out of town.

• Season 6 Episode 29: To Own the World

  A multimillionaire (Telly Savalas) is willing to destroy the Cartwrights to possess the Ponderosa.

  Next on: Tomorrow at 3:00pm EST - TV Land
• Season 6 Episode 28: A Good Night's Rest

  Ben's foray to a quiet hotel room for some peaceful sleep is interrupted by a weeping bride, flying bullets and a murder charge.

  Next on: Today at 4:00pm EST - TV Land
• Season 6 Episode 27: Dead and Gone

  Adam helps to clear a charming singer (Hoyt Axton) of a robbery charge, then brings him -- and trouble -- to the Ponderosa.

  Next on: Today at 3:00pm EST - TV Land
• Season 6 Episode 26: The Trap

  When a widow announces plans to marry Little Joe, the citizens of Virginia City doubt his story that he shot her husband by accident.

  Next on: Today at 2:00pm EST - TV Land
• Season 6 Episode 25: Hound Dog

  The Cartwrights find little peace when cousin Muley pays another visit, this time accompanied by a pack of howling dogs.

• Season 6 Episode 24: Right Is the Fourth R

  Adam's life is endangered when he takes over an injured teacher's (Mariette Hartley) class and researches Virginia City's history.

• Season 6 Episode 23: Once a Doctor

  A British doctor (Michael Rennie) finds love in Virginia City while fleeing a widower claiming surgery killed his wife.

• Season 6 Episode 22: The Deadliest Game

  When an aging trapeze artist's (Cesar Romero) pretty assistant shows interest in Little Joe, her fiance challenges him to a fight.

• Season 6 Episode 21: The Search

  Adam searches for a look-alike former convict who is ruining his reputation; guest Lola Albright.

• Season 6 Episode 20: Ponderosa Birdmen

  Hoss agrees to help an elderly inventor (Ed Wynn) and his granddaughter, until the pair asks him to test a flying machine.

• Season 6 Episode 19: The Flannel-Mouth Gun

  Adam comes to the defense of a professional assassin (Earl Holliman) with a hair trigger, accused of shooting a rancher's wife.

• Season 6 Episode 18: Ballerina

  A saloon dancer refuses to believe she may have the talent for ballet, until she meets a former dancer who offers to be her teacher.

• Season 6 Episode 17: Woman of Fire

  Adam attempts to reform a temperamental Mexican beauty (Joan Hackett) before she meets her future husband.

• Season 6 Episode 16: The Far, Far Better Thing

  Little Joe competes for the affections of a woman who gets herself in trouble when she sets off to meet Paiute Indians; guest X. Brands.

• Season 6 Episode 15: The Flapjack Contest

  In a plan to recoup his gambling losses, Little Joe sets Hoss on a rigorous training schedule to insure his victory in an eating contest.

• Season 6 Episode 14: The Saga of Squaw Charlie

  Angry townspeople blame an elderly American Indian (Anthony Caruso) for a child's disappearance.

• Season 6 Episode 13: A Knight to Remember

  Adam is jailed for stagecoach robbery when authorities fail to believe the real robber was chased away by a knight on a white horse.

• Season 6 Episode 12: The Underdog

  Little Joe convinces his father to give a half-Indian man (Charles Bronson) a responsible job to bolster his self-confidence.

• Season 6 Episode 11: A Man to Admire

  Ben, Little Joe and Adam work to keep sober the lawyer (James Gregory) hired to defend Hoss on a murder charge.

• Season 6 Episode 10: Old Sheba

  Hoss and Little Joe take an elephant as payment from a miserly circus owner (William Demarest).

• Season 6 Episode 9: Between Heaven and Earth

  Ben devises a scheme to help Little Joe overcome his fear of heights.

• Season 6 Episode 8: Square Deal Sam

  A con man on his way to California with his wife can't resist the temptation of pulling a stock swindle in Virginia City.

• Season 6 Episode 7: A Dime's Worth of Glory

  A writer of dime novels plots revenge on the Cartwrights after they refuse to allow him to fabricate stories of their adventures.

• Season 6 Episode 6: The Scapegoat

  Hoss stops a boxer's (George Kennedy) suicide attempt, then objects when his girl begins to show an interest in the man.

• Season 6 Episode 5: Logan's Treasures

  A former convict (Dan Duryea) asks Ben to help him convince lawmen and bounty hunters he knows nothing of a hidden fortune in gold.

• Season 6 Episode 4: Thanks for Everything, Friend

  A suave stranger's reputation changes when his girlfriend admits killing her father, who disapproved of the match; guest Rory Calhoun.

• Season 6 Episode 3: The Wild One

  An abandoned, expectant mother turns to Hoss for help when her mountaineer husband (Aldo Ray) claims he was tricked into marriage.

• Season 6 Episode 2: The Hostage

  The Cartwright sons set out in pursuit of the outlaw gang demanding $100,000 in ransom for Ben.

• Season 6 Episode 1: Invention of a Gunfighter

  Little Joe tries to help a timid man who has has been challenged to a gunfight by his girlfriend's former suitor; guest Guy Stockwell.

Bonanza: Season 5 (1963 - 1964)

• Season 5 Episode 34: Walter and the Outlaws

  Bandits kidnap a prospector's dog, hoping to force its owner (Arthur Hunnicutt) into revealing the whereabouts of a cache of gold.

• Season 5 Episode 33: Triangle

  Reluctant bridegroom Adam, recuperating from a serious back injury, discovers that his fiancee Laura is truly in love with Will.

• Season 5 Episode 32: The Pressure Game

  Laura's aunt (Joan Blondell) comes for a visit and tries various tactics to advance the relationship between her niece and Adam.

• Season 5 Episode 31: The Dark Past

  The Cartwrights help a bitter bounty hunter (Dennis Hopper) regain faith in himself and society; guest Susan Seaforth.

• Season 5 Episode 30: Enter Thomas Bowers

  A black singer (William Marshall) returns to Virginia City after a successful European tour and is accused of being a runaway slave.

• Season 5 Episode 29: The Companeros

  Will uncovers the selfish ambitions of a former revolutionary's wife and interferes in a plot to overthrow the Mexican president.

• Season 5 Episode 28: A Pink Cloud Comes From Old Cathay

  A Chinese mail-order bride (Marlo Thomas) sent by mistake to Hoss spreads dissension among railroad workers and Ponderosa staff.

• Season 5 Episode 27: The Roper

  Will prevents an ambush of the Cartwrights by heading off outlaws.

• Season 5 Episode 26: The Saga of Muley Jones

  An itinerant singer (Bruce Yarnell) of marginal talent comes to Virginia City and turns out to be a lost cousin of the Cartwrights.

• Season 5 Episode 25: Return to Honor

  Ben's nephew Will (Guy Williams) is tempted by counterfeiters but finds new strength in the Cartwright integrity.

• Season 5 Episode 24: No Less a Man

  Adam stands by Sheriff Coffee when Virginia City residents claim that the aging lawman is no match for an approaching outlaw gang.

• Season 5 Episode 23: The Pure Truth

  Hoss, suffering from a severe case of spring fever, is accused of bank robbery and seeks refuge with an elderly woman prospector.

• Season 5 Episode 22: Love Me Not

  Ben takes in an English girl (Anjanette Comer) raised by Paiute Indians, only to discover she has fallen in love with him.

• Season 5 Episode 21: King of the Mountain

  Hoss steps in to end a feud over a disputed piece of land that threatens his friend's upcoming marriage; guest Slim Pickens.

• Season 5 Episode 20: Bullet for a Bride

  Little Joe is convinced he loves a girl he blinded in a hunting accident who is now recuperating on the Ponderosa; guest Denver Pyle.

• Season 5 Episode 19: The Cheating Game

  Adam is suspicious when he sees an old friend of Laura's deceased husband talking to a con man after offering Laura needed money.

• Season 5 Episode 18: Gentleman From New Orleans

  A wily Frenchman (John Dehner) claiming to be the pirate Jean Lafitte involves the Cartwrights in a double murder and a robbery.

• Season 5 Episode 17: Alias Joe Cartwright

  The Army arrests Little Joe after a deserter and murder suspect, whom Joe resembles, forces him to exchange clothes; guest Keenan Wynn.

• Season 5 Episode 16: My Son, My Son

  Ben is torn between his feelings for a widow and his suspicions about her son, acquitted of one murder and now suspected of another.

• Season 5 Episode 15: The Ponderosa Matador

  The competition for the affections of a visiting senorita leads Hoss, Little Joe and Adam to be drawn into bullfighting.

• Season 5 Episode 14: The Lila Conrad Story

  A judge (Andrew Duggan) falls for an accused murderess and runaway dance hall girl being protected from vengeful gunmen by Little Joe.

• Season 5 Episode 13: The Prime of Life

  Depressed Ben withdraws, feeling responsible for a death that occurred as a result of his successful bidding for a lumber contract.

• Season 5 Episode 12: Hoss and the Leprechauns

  Adam and Little Joe are skeptical when Hoss claims he saw a leprechaun burying a pot of gold on the Ponderosa; guest Sean McClory.

• Season 5 Episode 11: The Legacy

  After Ben's bloodstained horse comes home alone, the Cartwright sons believe him dead and seek separate vengeance.

• Season 5 Episode 10: The Waiting Game

  A widow and daughter refuse to face reality, the mother about her unsuccessful marriage and the girl about her father's death.

• Season 5 Episode 9: The Quality of Mercy

  Little Joe promises to keep the secret of a man who claims his friend hopelessly trapped under a rock fall asked to be killed.

• Season 5 Episode 8: Journey Remembered

  Ben recalls his journey west by wagon train and the death of Inger (Inga Swenson), his second wife, soon after Hoss' birth.

• Season 5 Episode 7: Calamity Over the Comstock

  A girl (Stefanie Powers) named Cal causes chaos on the Ponderosa and leads Little Joe into a confrontation with Doc Holliday.

• Season 5 Episode 6: A Question of Strength

  A novice nun (Judy Carne) finds courage when she, Hoss and another nun are set upon by robbers and abandoned along the trail.

• Season 5 Episode 5: A Toy Soldier

  Adam joins in a struggle against a businessman (Morgan Woodward) terrorizing a town and threatening to wipe out the dwindling Paiutes.

• Season 5 Episode 4: Twilight Town

  Smitten Little Joe agrees to help a girl save her town from an outlaw.

• Season 5 Episode 3: Rain From Heaven

  A proud mountain man and rainmaker refuses the Cartwrights' 'charity' for ailing daughter.

• Season 5 Episode 2: A Passion for Justice

  While on a visit to Virginia City, Charles Dickens (Jonathan Harris) refuses to defend himself after being falsely accused of a crime.

• Season 5 Episode 1: She Walks in Beauty

  Hoss falls for a San Francisco beauty (Gena Rowlands) with an infamous past.

Bonanza: Season 4 (1962 - 1963)

• Season 4 Episode 34: Little Man -- Ten Feet Tall

  An Italian immigrant's (Ross Martin) son wants to give up his classical-guitar training to become a rancher like Hoss.

• Season 4 Episode 33: The Boss

  Ben opposes a man (Carroll O'Connor) trying to take over the freight line, leaving Little Joe and the man's daughter in the middle.

• Season 4 Episode 32: Rich Man, Poor Man

  Ben and Little Joe try to help a suddenly rich man before his wealth causes him to lose his friends and intended bride.

• Season 4 Episode 31: Thunder Man

  A maniacal explosives expert stalks the Ponderosa, killing a 19-year-old woman Little Joe loves; guest Simon Oakland.

• Season 4 Episode 30: Saga of Whizzer McGee

  A feisty man, enamored of a saloon girl, gets involved in a bank robbery.

• Season 4 Episode 29: Five Into the Wind

  Little Joe is among five suspects after a fellow stagecoach passenger is murdered for the $5,000 he carried.

• Season 4 Episode 28: My Brother's Keeper

  Adam considers marrying and moving to Philadelphia when he falls in love with a woman visiting the Ponderosa with her ailing father.

• Season 4 Episode 27: Mirror of a Man

  Ben appeals to the father of twins after one commits robbery and murder and then allows his brother to take the blame.

• Season 4 Episode 26: Any Friend of Walter's

  A dog named Walter helps his master (Arthur Hunnicutt), an aging prospector, and Hoss when they are attacked by snipers seeking gold.

• Season 4 Episode 25: A Woman Lost

  Ben tries to help a woman (Ruta Lee) recognize her alcoholism is troubling a former heavyweight boxer who loves her.

• Season 4 Episode 24: The Way of Aaron

  Adam meets the daughter of a traveling peddler doing business on the Ponderosa, and falls in love despite their different faiths.

• Season 4 Episode 23: A Stranger Passed This Way

  Grieving Dutch parents take Hoss, suffering from amnesia after a blow to the head, to replace their own dead son; guest Signe Hasso.

• Season 4 Episode 22: The Actress

  Little Joe asks a traveling actress (Patricia Crowley) to become his wife, but their romance is threatened by her career.

• Season 4 Episode 21: The Hayburner

  Hoss and Adam buy a Thoroughbred and find themselves competing with Little Joe for the Virginia City Sweepstakes.

• Season 4 Episode 20: Marie, My Love

  Ben recalls how he fought a professional duelist in New Orleans to restore the honor of his third wife, Marie, Little Joe's mother.

• Season 4 Episode 19: The Last Haircut

  A killer uses a legal technicality to escape justice for killing a Mexican farmhand, but Little Joe plans his own vengeance.

• Season 4 Episode 18: Half a Rogue

  The sheriff reveals that a wounded man brought by Hoss to the Ponderosa is wanted for robbery and murder; guest Slim Pickens.

• Season 4 Episode 17: Elegy for a Hangman

  The bitter son of a man executed for murder convinces Adam to look into his father's case; guests Keir Dullea, Otto Kruger.

• Season 4 Episode 16: Song in the Dark

  Adam attempts to prove the innocence of his friend, a slow-witted singer accused on circumstantial evidence of murdering a widow.

• Season 4 Episode 15: The Colonel

  Ben's former Army colonel envies Cartwright's success during a visit and tries to compensate by lying.

• Season 4 Episode 14: The Jury

  Despite intense pressure, juror Hoss maintains doubt a derelict committed murder.

• Season 4 Episode 13: The Good Samaritan

  Hoss finds trouble when he tries to help a widow stranded in the West and a drunk using alcohol to help him forget a broken affair.

• Season 4 Episode 12: The Decision

  Ben tries to get the town's only doctor (DeForest Kelley), accused of murder, released from jail to treat Hoss' punctured lung.

• Season 4 Episode 11: Gallagher's Sons

  Hoss becomes the guardian of two girls who were involved in their father's death.

• Season 4 Episode 10: The Deadly Ones

  Ben and Little Joe become caught up in stopping a plan to steal a load of gold ingots needed for the Mexican Revolution.

• Season 4 Episode 9: The Beginning

  A man hoping to log timber on Cartwright land claims one-third of the Ponderosa on the basis of a recent court ruling.

• Season 4 Episode 8: Knight Errant

  Romantic complications trouble Hoss after he generously volunteers to help out a friend who is unable to pick up his mail-order bride.

• Season 4 Episode 7: The War Comes to Washoe

  Little Joe's love for the daughter of a Confederate sympathizer complicates his job as a delegate to a Nevada statehood convention.

• Season 4 Episode 6: The Way Station

  Surrounded by a posse, a fleeing killer (Robert Vaughn) holds Adam and others hostage at a stagecoach station; guest Dawn Wells.

• Season 4 Episode 4: Hot Day for a Hanging

  A desperate town tries to frame Hoss for murder and bank robbery in order to take the $12,000 he carries; guest Denver Pyle.

• Season 4 Episode 3: The Artist

  Ben tries to restore the confidence of a blinded painter (Dan O'Herlihy) indulging in self-pity and alcohol.

• Season 4 Episode 2: The Quest

  Misplaced trust in a foreman leads Little Joe to outbid a dishonest man for a timber contract.

• Season 4 Episode 1: The First Born

  A stranger with a fast gun and a mysterious past claims to be Little Joe's older half brother.

Bonanza: Season 3 (1961 - 1962)

• Season 3 Episode 34: Miracle Maker

  Hoss brings a traveling faith healer (Ed Nelson) to help a paralyzed girl who blames herself for her father's accidental death.

• Season 3 Episode 33: Mountain Girl

  A dying elderly mountain man asks Little Joe to take his granddaughter to meet her paternal grandfather, a San Francisco aristocrat.

• Season 3 Episode 32: The Long Night

  While traveling with $8,000, Adam is arrested for a minor crime, then framed for bank robbery and murder by a greedy deputy.

• Season 3 Episode 31: The Dowry

  The Cartwrights take in a wounded man, his daughter and her fiance after they claim to have been robbed of the girl's dowry.

• Season 3 Episode 30: Blessed Are They

  Townspeople turn to Ben when two families' feud threatens to explode into violence; guest Robert Brown.

• Season 3 Episode 29: Inger, My Love

  Ben recalls how he, then a widower with a young son, met and married Inger, his Swedish second wife, in Illinois.

• Season 3 Episode 28: The Crucible

  Adam finds a prospector's camp, while wandering in the desert after being robbed, and is tortured by its mad inhabitant (Lee Marvin).

• Season 3 Episode 27: The Gamble

  The Cartwrights arrive in town with $30,000 from the sale of cattle, but find themselves in trouble when the money is stolen and they stand accused of murder

• Season 3 Episode 26: Look to the Stars

  Ben helps future Nobel Prize-winner Albert Abraham Michelson obtain an education after being expelled from school as a troublemaker.

• Season 3 Episode 25: The Lawmaker

  Ben makes a serious error of judgement when he recommends a neighbouring rancher to replace a wounded sheriff

• Season 3 Episode 24: The Wooing of Abigail Jones

  The Cartwrights play matchmakers to help a Ponderosa ranch hand learn the art of romance and win the affections of a schoolteacher; guest Vaughn Monroe.

• Season 3 Episode 23: The Guilty

  A grieving father blames Ben for the death of his 20-year-old son in a shooting he feels Cartwright could have prevented.

• Season 3 Episode 22: The Jack-Knife

  Adam senses trouble between a man and his wife while searching for cattle rustlers and is convinced to stay awhile by the couple's son.

• Season 3 Episode 21: Gift of Water

  A drought forces low-country farmers to invade the Ponderosa : but the Cartwrights refuse to join forces with a band of vigilantes who want to use violence to solve the problem

• Season 3 Episode 20: The Auld Sod

  The Cartwrights allow a shiftless man to pose as head of the ranch to prevent his Irish grandmother from learning the truth about him.

• Season 3 Episode 19: The Storm

  Little Joe's childhood sweetheart (Brooke Hayward), intent on marriage, arrives with her stubborn, seafaring father.

• Season 3 Episode 18: The Ride

  Adam tries to disprove the alibi of a friend he recognized as one of a pair of stagecoach robbers.

• Season 3 Episode 17: The Lady from Baltimore

  The wife of one of Ben's friends tries to arrange a marriage between her daughter and Little Joe; guest Mercedes McCambridge.

• Season 3 Episode 16: The Tall Stranger

  Hoss goes in search of a girl he loves, who was persuaded to marry a man who only wanted her father's money; guest Sean McClory.

• Season 3 Episode 15: Land Grab

  A range war looms when settlers with phony deeds move onto the Ponderosa; guest John McGiver.

• Season 3 Episode 14: Gabrielle

  The Cartwrights find a blind orphan girl, and invite her to the Ponderosa for a family Christmas. Diana Mountford guest stars

• Season 3 Episode 13: The Tin Badge

  Little Joe finds himself in a trap when a criminal arranges to take over a small town near the Ponderosa; guest Vic Morrow.

• Season 3 Episode 12: The Frenchman

  A Frenchman, believing himself to be the reincarnation of French poet Francois Villon, wishes to die in the same manner as his hero.

• Season 3 Episode 11: Day of the Dragon

  Little Joe unwittingly wins a Chinese girl in a poker game; later she refuses to leave him; guest Philip Ahn.

• Season 3 Episode 10: The Horse Breaker

  A young horse breaker attempts suicide after suffering serious injury while working for the Cartwrights

• Season 3 Episode 9: The Countess

  A titled lady, now a widow, who had spurned Ben's affections 20 years earlier returns in an attempt to win him back.

• Season 3 Episode 8: The Friendship

  When a convict saves his life, Little Joe gets him out of jail : on condition he accepts responsibility for the man

• Season 3 Episode 7: The Many Faces of Gideon Finch

  Little Joe and Hoss both fall in love with the niece (Sue Ane Langdon) of a swindler fleeing a Chicago gangster.

• Season 3 Episode 6: Broken Ballad

  Adam and Sally Cass grieve over Ed Payson's death, gunned down by Billy Buckley after he murdered Sally's brother

• Season 3 Episode 5: The Burma Rarity

  A woman outfoxes two swindlers who try to sell her a fake emerald, and almost wins Ben in the process.

• Season 3 Episode 4: The Lonely House

  A wounded bank robber and his partners force their way into a widow's home where Little Joe is visiting; guest Paul Richards.

• Season 3 Episode 3: The Honor of Cochise

  An army captain who has killed several Indians takes refuge at the ranch : but the Cartwrights decide to hand him over to the authorities

• Season 3 Episode 2: Springtime

  Ben brings a miserly old friend (John Carradine) and his sons for a visit on the Ponderosa.

• Season 3 Episode 1: The Smiler

  A folk singer claims to be the brother of a man Hoss shot accidentally; guest Herschel Bernardi.

Bonanza: Season 2 (1960 - 1961)

• Season 2 Episode 34: Sam Hill

  The Cartwrights help a traveling blacksmith regain land his father once owned near the Ponderosa; guest Claude Akins.

• Season 2 Episode 33: Elizabeth, My Love

  Ben recalls meeting Adam's mother, his first wife Elizabeth, while he was first mate on a sailing ship.

• Season 2 Episode 32: The Dream Riders

  An old friend of the Cartwrights who believes man will eventually fly carries out an experiment with balloons at the family ranch

• Season 2 Episode 31: The Secret

  When a pretty young woman is found dead, Little Joe is identified as the last person to be seen with her

• Season 2 Episode 30: Thunderhead Swindle

  The Cartwrights run afoul of unemployed miners when they try to discredit rumors of a silver strike.

• Season 2 Episode 29: The Infernal Machine

  Despite his family's doubts, Hoss helps a new friend raise funds needed to construct his invention, an automobile.

• Season 2 Episode 28: The Rival

  Hoss suspects his rival for a woman's love was one of the masked vigilantes who hanged a man and his wife.

• Season 2 Episode 27: The Gift

  Little Joe and Emeliano travel to Arizona to buy an Arabian stallion for Ben : but will the desert heat prove too much for them?

• Season 2 Episode 26: Cut Throat Junction

  When a gang threaten to cut off supplies to Virginia City, the Cartwrights join forces with a trouble shooter. Classic western, guest starring Robert Lansing

• Season 2 Episode 25: The Duke

  An arrogant London prize-fighter finds competition in Virginia City : Hoss. Guest starring Maxwell Reed

• Season 2 Episode 24: The Dark Gate

  A friend of Adam's suffering a strange form of insanity, joins a gang of outlaws, becoming a thief and a cold-blooded killer. Guest starring James Coburn

• Season 2 Episode 23: The Rescue

  Ben has to step in and get his sons out of trouble when they set off in pursuit of a gang of cattle rustlers

• Season 2 Episode 22: Tax Collector

  A newly-appointed tax assessor allows money and status to go to his head. Guest starring Eddie Firestone

• Season 2 Episode 21: Vengeance

  Hoss blames himself for the death of a neighbor he struck in self-defense -- and so does the man's brother.

• Season 2 Episode 20: The Fugitive

  Adam encounters trouble when he leaves to return to Nevada the body of a boyhood friend who died in Mexico.

• Season 2 Episode 19: Bank Run

  A banker plans to foreclose on a mining claim by claiming insolvency and closing his Virginia City branch.

• Season 2 Episode 18: The Bride

  A dishonest sheriff's get-rich-quick scheme involves a woman who claims to be Ben's new wife.

• Season 2 Episode 17: The Spitfire

  Little Joe is the target of a feisty grandmother seeking vengeance for the death of one of her clan

• Season 2 Episode 16: The Courtship

  Hoss falls in love with a beautiful widow, whose compulsive gambling led to her first husband's death

• Season 2 Episode 15: The Blood Line

  A drunken man confronts the Cartwrights, leaving them no other choice than to defend themselves, but his grieving son vows revenge

• Season 2 Episode 14: The Ape

  Adam and Little Joe try to warn Hoss when he befriends a violent, mentally impaired man (Cal Bolder).

• Season 2 Episode 13: Silent Thunder

  Little Joe runs into romantic complications when he tries to teach a deaf girl (Stella Stevens) sign language; guest Albert Salmi.

• Season 2 Episode 12: The Savage

  Adam, attacked by Shoshones while crossing a burial ground, discovers the woman tending him is white.

• Season 2 Episode 11: The Trail Gang

  An outlaw joins the Cartwrights' cattle drive, knowing it will take him to the town where his father is sheriff.

• Season 2 Episode 10: The Last Viking

  Ben gives farmland on the Ponderosa to an outcast Indian (Ricardo Montalban) who saved his life; guest Madlyn Rhue.

• Season 2 Episode 9: Breed of Violence

  A sheriff's daughter runs off with her boyfriend (John Ericson), unaware he is a murderous bank robber.

• Season 2 Episode 8: The Abduction

  Little Joe and Hoss seek Joe's date, who disappeared while the trio was at a carnival.

• Season 2 Episode 7: Day of Reckoning

  Hoss's uncle brings havoc to the Cartwright's ranch when he pays a visit with his merry band of outlaws

• Season 2 Episode 6: Denver McKee

  The Cartwrights' neighbor (Franchot Tone), a former soldier and lawman, seeks security for his daughter.

• Season 2 Episode 5: The Hopefuls

  Outlaws plot to steal a trunk containing the savings of a religious group heading for a new life in the West.

• Season 2 Episode 4: The Mill

  An evil hired-hand dupes his naive employers. Guest starring Harry Townes and Claude Atkins

• Season 2 Episode 3: Badge Without Honor

  A US Marshal arrives in town with the perilous mission of escorting an important witness back to Cailfornia

• Season 2 Episode 2: The Mission

  Hoss befriends a former Army scout (Henry Hull) who drinks to forget the massacre of his troop.

• Season 2 Episode 1: Showdown

  The Cartwrights unwittingly employ a bank robber who wishes his accomplices to remain unknown

Bonanza: Season 1 (1959 - 1960)

• Season 1 Episode 32: Death at Dawn

  The deputized Cartwrights sentence a murderer to hang at dawn.

• Season 1 Episode 31: The Dark Star

  Little Joe falls for a Gypsy who believes she is a witch and, therefore, an outcast.

• Season 1 Episode 30: Feet of Clay

  The Cartwrights take in a motherless boy whose father is in prison for murder; guest David Ladd.

• Season 1 Episode 29: Bitter Water

  A miner persuades a prospective son-in-law to sell him land that supplies water to the Ponderosa.

• Season 1 Episode 28: San Francisco

  Ben gets shanghaied and finds himself aboard a vessel heading for the Orient - but can the boys save him?

• Season 1 Episode 27: The Last Trophy

  Lord Dunsford surprises the Cartwrights on a visit by acting in a bizarre manner. Western series, starring Lorne Greene and Pernell Roberts

• Season 1 Episode 26: The Avenger

  A wanderer (Vic Morrow), seeking his parents' lynchers, arrives in Virginia City as Ben and Adam are convicted of murder.

• Season 1 Episode 25: Escape to Ponderosa

  A trio of escaped convicts take refuge on the Cartwright ranch. Western adventure, starring Lorne Greene

• Season 1 Episode 24: The Stranger

  A disabled New Orleans police inspector (Lloyd Nolan) comes to arrest Ben on a 20-year-old murder charge.

• Season 1 Episode 23: Desert Justice

  A Ponderosa ranch hand faces charges of killing the wife of the U.S. marshal (Claude Akins) who came to arrest him.

  Next on: Saturday 28th November 2:00pm EST - Golden Eagle Broadcasting
• Season 1 Episode 22: Blood on the Land

  A sheepherder ignores the Cartwrights' warning not to drive his flock across the Ponderosa; guest Everett Sloane.

• Season 1 Episode 21: The Spanish Grant

  A former dance hall girl poses as a Spanish heiress to claim a land grant that includes part of the Ponderosa; guest Sebastian Cabot.

• Season 1 Episode 20: The Fear Merchants

  A mayoral candidate hires two hoodlums to harass Chinese residents, resulting in murder.

• Season 1 Episode 19: The Gunmen

  Little Joe and Hoss, mistaken for gunmen, get caught between feuding families.

• Season 1 Episode 18: A House Divided

  A Confederate sympathizer from Kansas makes trouble for both Virginia City and the Cartwrights; guest Cameron Mitchell.

• Season 1 Episode 17: The Outcasts

  The Cartwrights save a woman whose father and brother were hanged for murder; guests Susan Oliver, Jack Lord.

• Season 1 Episode 16: El Toro Grande

  Outlaws attack Little Joe and Hoss on their trip to California to purchase a prize bull.

• Season 1 Episode 15: The Last Hunt

  During a deer hunt, Hoss and Little Joe find a pregnant Shoshone seeking her baby's white father.

• Season 1 Episode 14: The Sisters

  Accused of killing a dance hall girl, Adam tries to evade lynchers and uncover the truth; guest Buddy Ebsen.

• Season 1 Episode 13: Vendetta

  Hoss and seriously wounded Ben stand against the family of a robber Ben killed during a bank holdup.

• Season 1 Episode 12: The Hanging Posse

  A vengeful widower forms a posse to hunt down the murderers of his wife.

• Season 1 Episode 11: Truckee Strip

  A silver baron promotes a feud between the Cartwrights and the Bishops over timber rights on disputed land; guest James Coburn.

• Season 1 Episode 10: Magnificent Adah

  The Cartwright sons misinterpret Ben's relationship with a daring performer (Ruth Roman) pursued by a former suitor.

  Next on: Saturday 28th November 11:00pm EST - WNJN (PBS)
• Season 1 Episode 9: Mr. Henry Comstock

  Henry Comstock, discoverer of the Comstock Silver Lode, seeks fortune in Nevada; Little Joe romances a Paiute girl.

• Season 1 Episode 8: Deideshiemer Story

  Adam helps an engineer demonstrate his new technique for logging over silver mines without causing cave-ins.

• Season 1 Episode 7: The Saga of Annie O'Toole

  A prospector dies en route to his claim, leaving his daughter to defend her inheritance in 'miner's court'; guest Ida Lupino.

• Season 1 Episode 6: Julia Bulette Story

  Little Joe falls for cynical saloon owner Julia Bulette, despite family objections and warnings from a rival.

• Season 1 Episode 5: Enter Mark Twain

  Newspaperman Samuel Clemens (Howard Duff), writing as Mark Twain, battles a judge involved in land fraud.

• Season 1 Episode 4: The Paiute War

  A trader's (Jack Warden) abduction of two Indian women sets off a war between Paiutes and California militia.

• Season 1 Episode 3: The Newcomers

  Hoss falls for an invalid (Inger Stevens) traveling with unscrupulous prospectors who want to mine the Ponderosa.

• Season 1 Episode 2: Death on Sun Mountain

  A merchant tries to monopolize Virginia City's meat supply, forcing Indians to poach on the Ponderosa; guest Barry Sullivan.

• Season 1 Episode 1: A Rose for Lotta

  A mining tycoon holds Little Joe hostage to divide the Cartwright clan and take over the Ponderosa; guest Yvonne De Carlo.