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Bonanza

EndedFirst aired 1959-09-12NBC

Drama · Action · Western

Bonanza chronicles the weekly adventures of the Cartwright family, headed by the thrice-widowed patriarch Ben Cartwright. He had three sons, each by a different wife: the eldest was the urbane architect Adam Cartwright who built the ranch house; the second was the warm and lovable giant Eric "Hoss" Cartwright; and the youngest was the hotheaded and impetuous Joseph or "Little Joe". The family's cook was the Chinese immigrant Hop Sing.

FROM THE SHOW GUIDE

Season by season.

431 listed episodes across 14 seasons. Air dates are provided by TVmaze and can change.

Season 1 32 episodes

E01

A Rose for Lotta (Pilot)

Western chronicling the adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons. When Ben refuses to sell his timber to Troy, he recruits Lotta to kidnap Ben's son.

E02

Death on Sun Mountain

When antelopes are slaughtered by poachers, the Cartwright's agreement is desecrated and sets events in motion which could start an Indian war.

E03

The Newcomers

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

E04

The Paiute War

Wilson assaults two Paiute maidens and points the finger of blame at Adam, threatening a war between the Native Americans and the Californian militia.

E05

Enter Mark Twain

The Cartwrights help Virginia City reporter Samuel Langhorne Clemens investigate suspected shady goings-on between a railroad company and a local judge.

E06

The Julia Bulette Story

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

E07

The Saga of Annie O'Toole

Annie asks Adam to help her open a restaurant in her father's honour, but they face stiff competition from an old friend staking a claim to her deeds.

E08

The Phillip Diedesheimer Story

Adam and Hoss put their lives in danger to help German engineer Philip Diedesheimer convince mine owners to adopt his innovative approach to preventing cave-ins.

E09

Mr. Henry Comstock

The story of seasoned con man Henry Comstock comes to light when an old timer stakes a claim on the Cartwright's land; Little Joe romances a Paiute woman.

E10

The Magnificent Adah

Ben considers marrying an actress when she comes to town, but his sons have some issues. The woman's former lover creates trouble when he also arrives in town.

E11

The Truckee Strip

Caught in the middle of a longtime family feud over a disputed piece of land, star-crossed lovers Joe Cartwright and Amy Bishop try to convince their stubborn fathers to resolve their differences as tension escalates into violence.

E12

The Hanging Posse

Adam and Little Joe form a posse to seek revenge on the murderers of Vannie Johnson. They become more like a lynching party the longer it takes to catch the killers.

E13

Vendetta

When one of the Morgan brothers is shot and killed by Ben during a bank holdup, they vow revenge. The friends he thought he had in town decide to hide away while a wounded Ben lays up waiting for them to ride into town. 

E14

The Sisters

Adam has a duel with someone who insulted a saloon girl he likes. Ben is concerned that his son is getting involved with a girl who's past hasn't been very rosy. When she is shot and killed in his arms, he is arrested for her murder while the real killer he shot at gets away.

E15

The Last Hunt

Hoss and Little Joe soon discover that the Shoshone Indian brave who tries to rob their hunting camp is actually a soon-due, pregnant Shoshone woman who refuses to tell them why she left her tribe and appears to be making her way towards Virginia City.

E16

El Toro Grande

After tangling with bandits on the way to California to buy a prize bull for the Ponderosa, Little Joe fends off a pretty senorita and her jealous fiancé, while Hoss discovers that the bull has been spirited away by a little boy who is convinced that the Cartwrights plan to kill and eat his big bovine friend.

E17

The Outcast

The Cartwrights come to the aid of Leta Malvet when she is ostracized by the community after her father and brother are hanged by a lynch mob for killing two men while trying to rob the stagecoach that they thought carried the Ponderosa's payroll. But Adam is sure that the gang will try again when they find out that the Malvets came up empty-handed and suspects that it's no coincidence when Leta's beau, bad boy Clay Renton, comes back to town. 

E18

A House Divided

Ben tries to uncover the reason gold and silver exporter, Frederick Kyle, has befriended Little Joe before the shadowy businessman's hidden Civil War agenda tears Virginia City, and the Cartwright family, apart. 

E19

The Gunmen

On a cattle buying trip to Texas, Hoss and Little Joe are mistaken for a pair of hired killers recruited by a feuding family in their bid to wipe out a rival clan. Their efforts to convince the town otherwise are hindered by the fact that the Cartwrights are dead ringer for the gunfighters in question - Big Jack and Shorty Jim Slade. Written by David Bassler

E20

The Fear Merchants

The Cartwrights come to the aid of a Chinese-American stable hand accused of murder. Opposing them is a manipulative mayoral candidate who wants all "foreigners" to leave Virginia City. 

E21

The Spanish Grant

The Cartwrights try to disprove the validity of a Spanish land grant to stop the De La Cuesta family from seizing part of the Ponderosa and all of the Carson Valley settlers' homestead lands. 

E22

Blood on the Land

Jeb Drummond is a murderous sheep herder that has Adam taken hostage to try and force Ben to sign over a large section of Ponderosa land to him. 

E23

Desert Justice

As is often the case on Bonanza, things are not always as they first seem. Hoss and Adam eventually learn who is the good guy and who is not. When a brutal U.S. Marshal arrests one of the Ponderosa's workers for murder to transport him to Los Angeles for trial, and a doubtful Hoss and Adam come along in the stagecoach, along with a Dr. and his beautiful daughter, to make sure the Marshal doesn't kill him before they get there. The question also arises later of whether the ranch worker is really guilty and dangerous after all. 

E24

The Stranger

Inspector Leduque comes from New Orleans to Virginia City to take Ben Cartwright back for a 20 year murder. When Ben declares publicly that he is withdrawing from the Governor's race, the townsfolk are upset not just about this but Little Joe has also been accused of gunning down Leduque's deputy in cold blood.

E25

Escape to Ponderosa

Three deserters escaped from an Army stockade to the Ponderosa. When a Captain comes looking for them, Ben realizes what they've had to deal with and promises to let his good friend in charge of that fort know the real truth. 

E26

The Avenger

Ben and Adam are locked in jail, about to be hung for a crime they didn't commit. Joe and Hoss must find out why the witnesses to the alleged crime have perjured themselves before the execution takes place. They receive help from an unexpected source, a drifter called Lassiter who is searching for the men who committed a lynching in Kansas years ago.

E27

The Last Trophy

When an English couple comes to the Ponderosa on vacation, the beautiful wife slowly makes it clear that she is no longer proud of her great hunter husband, because he has become less of the action man she married and more of a peaceful man, but that could all change when they are kidnapped for ransom along with Adam Cartwright.

E28

San Francisco

The Cartwrights, with Hop Sing, finish a cattle drive in San Francisco. Ben warns the other men of the dangers of the big city. Nevertheless, some of the men are careless and naive. Two of the hired hands disappear, and Ben suspects that the men were shanghaied. With invaluable assistance from several of Hop Sing's cousins, the Cartwrights locate the missing men and break up the racket.

E29

Bitter Water

A neighboring rancher, Andy, is good friends with Ben, but his son (Todd) wants to sell their land for mining operations which will spoil the water rights agreement that Andy and Ben made years ago. 

E30

Feet of Clay

A woman dies. Her husband is in prison, and the sheriff needs someone to look after the boy until the boy's uncle can come to claim him. The Cartwrights begin to take care of the boy at the Ponderosa. When the boy arrives at the ranch, he does not know that his father is in prison. The boy learns the truth about his dad, and news reaches the Ponderosa that the convict has escaped from prison. The Cartwrights deal with the possibility that the boy's father may be coming their way

E31

Dark Star

Little Joe comes upon a gypsy girl. Frightened, she runs and falls becoming unconscious. When she wakes, they discover that she believes she is bewitched and so do her people who banished her. Her birth under a dark star has fostered this belief. Little Joe, smitten, must rescue her from this belief, her people and someone posing as a wolf.

E32

Death at Dawn

It's a sad day in Virginia City when Farmer Perkins shoots a store clerk down in cold blood right in front of his wife, then is allowed to walk after his trial. But if the Cartwright's have anything to do with it, he'll be rearrested, tried, and hung.

Season 2 34 episodes

E01

Showdown

An outlaw gang robs Virginia City's bank and makes off with almost all of its money. The youngest member of the gang manages to get a job on the Ponderosa as a bronc buster with the intention of informing the bank robbers of any posses that may threaten their hideout. While Ben, Adam and Hoss welcome the newcomer, Little Joe becomes suspicious of his activities

E02

The Mission

Charlie Trent used to be an Army scout. Now he's the town drunk. Hoss helps him regain his self-esteem when he has him volunteer to lead a gold-bearing troop through the desert where there's very little water. 

E03

Badge Without Honor

After a U.S. deputy marshal apparently saves Adam's life by gunning down two men who shot at him, he eventually reveals that he is in town to bring a close friend of the Cartwrights to San Francisco to testify in a statewide racketeering trial, but the Deputy Marshal's motives soon become suspect as to what he really wants to do with the reluctant witness.

E04

The Mill

The Cartwrights' neighbor Tom Edwards has lived as a paraplegic, ever since an accident involving Ben Cartwright and a gun. His ranch is going to waste. His wife Joyce is a longtime friend of Ben, and Ben decides to help the Edwards couple by making Tom a business proposition: the Cartwrights will build a grain mill on Edwards' land. In return, Ben only wants his investment money back, plus fifteen percent. Tom and his hired hand Ezekiel are suspicious of Ben, but Tom agrees to the deal. The Cartwright men build the mill, but tension begins to rise when Ezekiel makes comments which rekindle Tom's suspicion.

E05

The Hopefuls

A wagon train of Quakers from Ohio are passing through town heading to Slaytersville. Adam tags along as he is smitten with the leader's daughter. Little does he know that the man he just befriended in town has eyes on the gold they're carrying to their promised land.

E06

Denver McKee

Ranchers are being killed, cattle stolen, and retired U.S. Deputy Marshall Denver McKee leads various posses after the suspects but never seems to be able to find them. In the meantime, McKee seems to have plenty of money to take care of his gorgeous daughter back home from schooling in the East. 

E07

Day of Reckoning

When an Indian saves Ben Cartwright's life from a near fatal knife attack by another Indian, Ben later gives the Indian and his pregnant wife a strip of fertile farming land. Unfortunately the land is next to a very racist farmer and things turn deadly.

E08

The Abduction

Jennifer Beale is abducted in the hopes her rich father, Joshua, the richest silver baron on the Comstock, will pay a $1M ransom. The plan unravels when the beautiful Della is killed and Hercules, who loves her, finds out who did it. 

E09

Breed of Violence

Dolly Kincaid is so fed up with her extremely dominant, controlling, sheriff father, that she runs away with her boyfriend. She later finds out he is the leader of some murderous bank robbers and when they kidnap Hoss and Joe, she still sticks with him.

E10

The Last Viking

Gunnar is a long-lost relative of the Cartwright family. When Gunnar arrives at the Ponderosa, the family takes him in for the evening. Gunnar is the brother to one of Ben Cartwright's late wives. Unbeknownst to the Cartwright family, Gunnar is also the leader of a band of criminals called The Comancheros. Little Joe is visiting his girlfriend away from the ranch. When Little Joe and his girlfriend are kidnapped by The Comancheros, the Cartwrights and Gunnar are forced into a difficult situation

E11

The Trail Gang

About to set out on a cattle drive, Ben hires a young drifter named Sam Jackson as one of his drovers. What he doesn't know is that Jackson is really outlaw Johnny Logan, who signed on to the drive because he knew it was going to pass near the town of Waycross, and Logan is determined to kill the Waycross sheriff--who is also his father.

E12

The Savage

Adam rides up on some Indians trying to kidnap a white woman they believe to be white mountain woman spirit. He kills them but not before they wound him. The woman nurses him back to health but the rest of the tribe is still out there looking for her and their shaman believes she has the power to cure his tribe of a sickness they have.

E13

Silent Thunder

Angry with the way a beautiful deaf girl is treated by her father, a sheepherder living in a remote mountain cabin, Little Joe takes it upon himself to teach her sign language so they can communicate better. His plan backfires when the young woman falls in love with him and the girl's brutish neighbor resents her lavishing attention on the youngest Cartwright.

E14

The Ape

Arnie is a lonely man with big muscles, a little brain and an ugly face. He is friendly by nature, but when somebody jeers at him and calls him an ape, he becomes mad. Then he is very dangerous. Most people avoid Arnie, but Hoss recognizes something of his own nature in Arnie and wants to help him

E15

The Blood Line

When 16-year-old Todd Grayson arrives from Boston to Virginia City, he is told that his father has been killed by Ben Cartwright. Ben shot Luke Grayson in self-defense, but Todd won't listen to this. The boy has only one thing in his head: to avenge his father by killing Ben Cartwright.

E16

The Courtship

Hoss and Little Joe travel to Sacramento to help the widow of an old friend of the Cartwrights. Hoss discovers that the widow is a beautiful young woman and immediately falls in love with her. He brings her back to the Ponderosa where Adam and Little Joe soon discover that the woman is in love with Hoss's money, not him, which she needs to fund her gambling addiction. When Hoss refuses to believe his brothers, Adam is forced to provide demonstrable proof in Virginia City casino.

E17

The Spitfire

After Joe kills a man in self defense who tried to set fire to the Ponderosa to clear himself some land, he has to take his lively, feisty, wild, daughter home and she, and her relatives, are now determined to kill Joe. 

E18

The Bride

A woman shows up to the Ponderosa claiming to have just married Ben. The problem is, Ben has never seen her before in his life! Adam West is a key player in this case of mistaken identity.

E19

Bank Run

Hoss and Joe "rob" a bank for altruistic reasons and are pursued not by the law but by a more serious force, Ben and Adam.

E20

The Fugitive

Adam goes to Mexico to investigate the death of a friend, only to face hostile townspeople and the dead man's wife.

E21

Vengeance

Hoss accidentally kills Willie the town drunk. His remorse may not be enough to stop Willie's hate-filled brother who only wants revenge even though the townspeople know it wasn't Hoss' fault.

E22

The Tax Collector

Jock Henry is a very likeable fellow. Ask anyone. When he's given the job of collecting taxes, his peculiar methods of figuring out what people owe causes everyone to reconsider.

E23

The Rescue

The Cartwrights deal with cattle rustlers.

E24

The Dark Gate

Ross Marquette's behavior over the past few months can't be easily explained -- beating his wife, rustling cattle, robbing a stage, killing a man. Adam is determined to find out why his friend is acting so strangely before it's too late.

E25

The Duke

The Cartwrights challenge an arrogant and cruel British prizefighter, the Duke, and his alcoholic manager to a bout with John Heenan (the Benicia Boy), after the Cartwrights' meek friend J.D. gets pulverized by the Duke in a bar-fight. J.D. is adored by saloon girl Marge, but he has been too shy to return her affections. While the Cartwrights wait to see if Heenan will actually take the bout and come from San Francisco, the Duke pursues Marge and assaults her when she rebuffs him. When the manager comes to Marge's rescue, he too is beaten up by the Duke (who, it turns out, is the manager's brother). Infuriated by all this, Hoss Cartwright hi…

E26

Cutthroat Junction

Jed Trask has been with the Sierra Mail & Stage Lines for many years. When a group of gunmen in the town of Latigo cuts off delivery of the goods and mail, he goes after those responsible with the help of some on the Virginia City council - the Cartwrights.

E27

The Gift

Little Joe is off to buy a gift for his pa's birthday. He's unaware that where he is heading the local Indians are on the war path and they've got him in their gun sights.

E28

The Rival

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

E29

The Infernal Machine

Hoss helps out a shy inventor who needs financial backing to build a horseless carriage. Things do not go well until a slick promoter sells shares into the new automobile. But things turn sour when the promoter skips town.

E30

The Thunderhead Swindle

E31

The Secret

E32

The Dream Riders

E33

Elizabeth, My Love

At the bedside of a seriously ill Adam, Ben thinks back to his days as a first mate on a sailing ship and his marriage to Adam's mother, Elizabeth Stoddard. 

E34

Sam Hill

The Cartwrights join to help mystical blacksmith Sam Hill save the land his drunk, sea-dog father signed away to an old enemy, discover the circumstances behind his mother's death, and solve the mystery of why a tropical tree flourishes in spite of cold Nevada winters.

Season 3 34 episodes

E01

The Smiler

The brother of a man Hoss killed in self-defense says he understands but secretly plans revenge.

E02

Springtime

When their spring-fever antics injure miserly businessman, Jedediah Milbank, requiring recuperation at the Ponderosa, Ben orders each of his sons to carry out one of Mr. Milbank's seemingly simple tasks, unaware that they may prove impossible for the kind-hearted Cartwright boys to complete.

E03

The Honor of Cochise

The Cartwrights must try to get help for Adam, seriously wounded by an Apache bullet, and find out why Cochise and his warriors have threatened to kill them all if they don't hand over an army captain taking refuge in their trail camp.

E04

The Lonely House

E05

The Burma Rarity

E06

Broken Ballad

E07

The Many Faces of Gideon Flinch

E08

The Friendship

E09

The Countess

E10

The Horse Breaker

E11

Day of the Dragon

E12

The Frenchman

A man claiming to be the reincarnation of french poet Francois Villon and his sister get kicked out of the hotel. Joe and Hoss bring them to the Ponderosa where Joe falls in love with Francois' sister Eloise.

E13

The Tin Badge

While in Rubicon, Joe is offered the position of sheriff. When he tells his family, they don't take him seriously which angers him, so he takes the job.

E14

Gabrielle

Hoss comes across a blind girl named Gabrielle who was recently orphaned when her parents died in an overturned wagon. When he brings her back to the Ponderosa, the Cartwright's set out to find her a loving home, but she has her sights set to go live with her grandfather: an old hermit who wants nothing to do with her or anyone else.

E15

Land Grab

The Cartwrights play host to an eccentric old soldier friend of Ben's while trying to track down a mysterious swindler named Polk who is illegally deeding parcels of the Ponderosa to settlers looking for homesteads.

E16

The Tall Stranger

The woman that Hoss is smitten with turns down his marriage proposal when a stranger in town sweet talks her with the promise of excitement and adventure. However, Hoss soon discovers that the man is only after her money and is asked by her father to go save her after she runs away with the new man.

E17

The Lady from Baltimore

Bitterly disappointed in her husband's financial failures, genteel matriarch Deborah Banning travels to visit her friends on the Ponderosa, hoping to turn her family's fortunes around by marrying her only daughter off to a Cartwright son.

E18

The Ride

When Adam is a witness to a murderous armed robbery by masked assailants, he is absolutely convinced he knows who one of them is, but there's ultimately only one way to prove it.

E19

The Storm

While visiting the Ponderosa, Ben's old friend, sea Captain Matthew White, is forced to reveal a terrible secret after Little Joe Cartwright falls in love with and plans to wed the Captain's daughter, Laura, once a freckle-faced playmate from Joe's childhood in New Orleans, now grown into a beautiful woman.

E20

The Auld Sod

The Cartwrights are dumbfounded when the mother of town drunk Danny Lynch arrives on the Ponderosa to see the land that her son apparently owns, as he said in letters to her. They seek out Danny to tell her the truth.

E21

Gift of Water

On his way home, Hoss stops for water at the house of drought stricken family member Jason Gant. While attempting to build a well it caves in on Jason and Hoss saves him. Afterwards Hoss is determined to help Jason strike water.

E22

The Jackknife

The Cartwrights go hunting for a gang of cattle rustlers. Adam comes across an injured man, Matthew Grant, who he assumes is one of the thieves. Knowing that Ben will shoot the criminal on sight, Adam tries to convince Grant to confess to his crimes and turn himself over to the authorities.

E23

The Guilty

Tucson gunman, Jack Groat, swore to kill Sheriff Lem Partridge for putting him in prison after a bullet from Groat's gun during a drunken street brawl accidentally killed Sheriff Partridge's wife. Now, 10 years later and fresh out of prison, Groat has tracked retired Lem Partridge to Virginia City and is soon holding Lem's son, Jimmy, and good friend Ben Cartwright hostage. But things go bad and Ben must soon explain to Lem - and try to convince himself - that there was nothing he could have done that day to stop Groat from shooting Jimmy in the back.

E24

The Wooing of Abigail Jones

The Cartwright boys help cowhand Hank romance reluctant teacher Abigail.

E25

The Lawmaker

The Cartwrights may have to take the law into their own hands when Virginia City's temporary sheriff, rancher Asa Moran, uses his new badge as a license to kill.

E26

Look to the Stars

The Cartwrights encourage young genius, Albert Michelson, to pursue his scientific experiments while trying to discover why schoolmaster, George Norton, expelled Albert from school and seems determined to stand in the way of his appointment to the prestigious Annapolis Naval Academy.

E27

The Gamble

Little Joe is his family's only hope when he escapes from a kangaroo court that has framed the Cartwrights for a bank robbery and sentenced them all to hang.

E28

The Crucible

E29

Inger, My Love

E30

Blessed Are They

E31

The Dowry

E32

The Long Night

E33

The Mountain Girl

E34

The Miracle Maker

Season 4 34 episodes

E01

The First Born

A young stranger with a fast gun and questionable past shows up on the Ponderosa, and reveals he is a half-brother to Little Joe Cartwright (Michael Landon.)

E02

The Quest

E03

The Artist

E04

A Hot Day for a Hanging

E05

The Deserter

E06

The Way Station

E07

The War Comes to Washoe

E08

Knight Errant

E09

The Beginning

E10

The Deadly Ones

Mexican freedom fighters loyal to Benito Juárez take over the Ponderosa, gravely wound Little Joe, and force Ben to guide them to a wagon train loaded with gold being smuggled to California by Emperor Maximilian.

E11

Gallagher's Sons

E12

The Decision

E13

The Good Samaritan

E14

The Jury

E15

The Colonel

E16

Song in the Dark

E17

Elegy for a Hangman

E18

Half a Rogue

E19

The Last Haircut

E20

Marie, My Love

E21

The Hayburner

E22

The Actress

E23

A Stranger Passed This Way

E24

The Way of Aaron

E25

A Woman Lost

E26

Any Friend of Walter's

E27

Mirror of a Man

E28

My Brother's Keeper

E29

Five Into the Wind

E30

Saga of Whizzer McGee

E31

Thunder Man

E32

Rich Man, Poor Man

E33

The Boss

E34

Little Man... Ten Feet Tall

Season 5 34 episodes

E01

She Walks in Beauty

E02

A Passion for Justice

E03

Rain from Heaven

E04

Twilight Town

E05

The Toy Soldier

E06

A Question of Strength

E07

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. Trouble with a capital "T" that rhymes with "C" comes to Virginia City when Little Joe brings young Calamity Jane home to the Ponderosa after rescuing her from a deadly prairie raid. 

E08

Journey Remembered

Ben finds Hoss in the barn waiting for a mare to give birth. Ben can't help but remember that's how Hoss' mother (Inger) was. He then finds an old journal wherein he wrote down their trek West. While Hoss waits, Ben reads it and recalls how their trek was arduous. And Inger was pregnant with Hoss and they had to deal with Indians and a drunken wagon master.

E09

The Quality of Mercy

Little Joe struggles with his conscience, trying to believe that his friend, Seth Pruitt, did the right thing after Seth admits to the mercy-killing of his fiancée's father when the man was in agony from a broken back and begging for death.

E10

The Waiting Game

E11

The Legacy

E12

Hoss and the Leprechauns

E13

The Prime of Life

E14

The Lila Conrad Story

E15

Ponderosa Matador

E16

My Son, My Son

Ben's plans to wed widow Katherine Saunders are jeopardized after her son is accused of murder.

E17

Alias Joe Cartwright

E18

The Gentleman from New Orleans

E19

The Cheating Game

E20

Bullet for a Bride

E21

King of the Mountain

E22

Love Me Not

E23

The Pure Truth

When Hoss catches spring fever, it takes a little old lady named "Looney" to help cure him.

E24

No Less a Man

E25

Return to Honor

E26

The Saga of Muley Jones

E27

The Roper

E28

A Pink Cloud Comes from Old Cathay

E29

The Companeros

E30

Enter Thomas Bowers

E31

The Dark Past

E32

The Pressure Game

E33

Triangle

E34

Walter and the Outlaws

Season 6 34 episodes

E01

Invention of a Gunfighter

E02

The Hostage

E03

The Wild One

E04

Thanks for Everything, Friend

E05

Logan's Treasure

E06

The Scapegoat

E07

A Dime's Worth of Glory

E08

Square Deal Sam

E09

Between Heaven and Earth

E10

Old Sheba

E11

A Man to Admire

E12

The Underdog

E13

A Knight to Remember

E14

The Saga of Squaw Charlie

E15

The Flapjack Contest

E16

The Far, Far Better Thing

E17

Woman of Fire

E18

The Ballerina

E19

The Flannel-Mouth Gun

E20

The Ponderosa Birdman

E21

The Search

E22

The Deadliest Game

E23

Once a Doctor

E24

Right is the Fourth R

E25

Hound Dog

E26

The Trap

E27

Dead and Gone

E28

A Good Night's Rest

E29

To Own the World

E30

Lothario Larkin

E31

The Return

E32

Jonah

E33

The Spotlight

E34

Patchwork Man

Season 7 33 episodes

E01

The Debt

E02

The Dilemma

E03

The Brass Box

E04

The Other Son

E05

The Lonely Runner

E06

Devil on Her Shoulder

E07

Found Child

E08

The Meredith Smith

E09

Mighty is the Word

E10

The Strange One

E11

The Reluctant Rebel

E12

Five Sundowns to Sunup

E13

A Natural Wizard

E14

All Ye His Saints

E15

The Dublin Lad

E16

To Kill a Buffalo

E17

Ride the Wind (1)

E18

Ride the Wind (2)

E19

Destiny's Child

E20

Peace Officer

E21

The Code

E22

Three Brides for Hoss

E23

The Emperor Norton

E24

Her Brother's Keeper

E25

The Trouble with Jamie

E26

Shining in Spain

E27

The Genius

E28

The Unwritten Commandment

E29

Big Shadows on the Land

E30

The Fighters

E31

Home from the Sea

E32

The Last Mission

E33

A Dollar's Worth of Trouble

Season 8 34 episodes

E01

Something Hurt, Something Wild

E02

Horse of a Different Hue

E03

A Time to Step Down

E04

The Pursued (1)

E05

The Pursued (2)

E06

To Bloom for Thee

E07

Credit for a Kill

E08

Four Sisters from Boston

E09

Old Charlie

E10

Ballad of the Ponderosa

E11

The Oath

E12

A Real Nice, Friendly Little Town

E13

The Bridegroom

E14

Tommy

E15

A Christmas Story

E16

Ponderosa Explosion

E17

Justice

E18

A Bride for Buford

E19

Black Friday

E20

The Unseen Wound

E21

Journey to Terror

E22

Amigo

E23

A Woman in the House

E24

Judgment at Red Creek

E25

Joe Cartwright, Detective

E26

Dark Enough to See the Stars

E27

The Deed and the Dilemma

E28

The Prince

E29

A Man Without Land

E30

Napoleon's Children

E31

The Wormwood Cup

E32

Clarissa

E33

Maestro Hoss

E34

The Greedy Ones

Season 9 34 episodes

E01

Second Chance

E02

Sense of Duty

E03

The Conquistadors

Gold-panning immigrants are run off their claim. In need of money for the survival of their village, they kidnap Joe and hold him for ransom but their heart just isn't in it.

E04

Judgment at Olympus

E05

Night of Reckoning

E06

False Witness

E07

The Gentle Ones

E08

Desperate Passage

E09

The Sure Thing

E10

Showdown at Tahoe

E11

Six Black Horses

E12

Check Rein

E13

Justice Deferred

E14

The Gold Detector

E15

The Trackers

E16

A Girl Named George

E17

The Thirteenth Man

E18

The Burning Sky

E19

The Price of Salt

E20

Blood Tie

E21

The Crime of Johnny Mule

E22

The Late Ben Cartwright

E23

Star Crossed

E24

Trouble Town

E25

Commitment at Angelus

E26

A Dream to Dream

E27

In Defense of Honor

E28

To Die in Darkness

E29

The Bottle Fighter

E30

The Arrival of Eddie

E31

The Stronghold

E32

Pride of a Man

E33

A Severe Case of Matrimony

E34

Stage Door Johnnies

Season 10 30 episodes

E01

Different Pines, Same Wind

E02

Child

E03

Salute to Yesterday

E04

The Real People of Muddy Creek

E05

The Passing of a King

E06

The Last Vote

E07

Catch as Catch Can

E08

Little Girl Lost

E09

The Survivors

E10

The Sound of Drums

E11

Queen High

E12

Yonder Man

E13

Mark of Guilt

E14

A World Full of Cannibals

E15

Sweet Annie Laurie

E16

My Friend, My Enemy

E17

Mrs. Wharton and the Lesser Breeds

E18

Erin

E19

Company of Forgotten Men

E20

The Clarion

E21

The Lady and the Mountain Lion

E22

Five Candles

E23

The Wish

E24

The Deserter

Candy becomes friend of a runaway soldier accused of desertion and murder. The two pals join forces to locate the real culprit.

E25

Emily

E26

The Running Man

E27

The Unwanted

E28

Speak No Evil

E29

The Fence

E30

A Ride in the Sun

Season 11 28 episodes

E01

Another Windmill to Go

A dapper old man rowing a boat across dry grazing land? That's the quixotic scene bewildering all of Virginia City—especially the Cartwrights, who lease the acreage and fear the gentleman may be engineering a swindle.

E02

The Witness

E03

The Silence at Stillwater

E04

A Lawman's Lot is Not a Happy One

E05

Anatomy of a Lynching

E06

To Stop a War

E07

The Medal

E08

The Stalker

E09

Meena

E10

A Darker Shadow

E11

Dead Wrong

E12

Old Friends

E13

Abner Willoughby's Return

E14

It's a Small World

E15

Danger Road

E16

The Big Jackpot

E17

The Trouble with Amy

E18

The Lady and the Mark

E19

Is There Any Man Here

E20

The Law and Billy Burgess

E21

Long Way to Ogden

E22

Return Engagement

E23

The Gold Mine

E24

Decision at Los Robles

E25

Caution, Easter Bunny Crossing

E26

The Horse Traders

E27

What Are Pardners For?

E28

A Matter of Circumstance

Season 12 28 episodes

E01

The Night Virginia City Died

E02

A Matter of Faith

E03

The Weary Willies

E04

The Wagon

E05

The Power of Life and Death

E06

Gideon, the Good

E07

The Trouble with Trouble

E08

Thornton's Account

E09

The Love Child

E10

El Jefe

E11

The Luck of Pepper Shannon

E12

The Impostors

E13

Honest John

E14

For a Young Lady

E15

A Single Pilgrim

E16

The Gold-Plated Rifle

E17

Top Hand

E18

A Deck of Aces

E19

The Desperado

E20

The Reluctant American

E21

Shadow of a Hero

E22

The Silent Killer

E23

Terror at 2:00

E24

The Stillness Within

E25

A Time to Die

E26

Winter Kill

E27

Kingdom of Fear

E28

An Earthquake Called Callahan

Joe searches for a professional fighter who can clear the name of Dusty Rhoades, who is sitting in jail, but Tom Callahan refuses to ever step foot in Virginia City ever again.

Season 13 26 episodes

E01

The Grand Swing

E02

Fallen Woman

E03

Bushwhacked

E04

Rock-a-Bye, Hoss

E05

The Prisoners

Little Joe helps an old-time sheriff escort cunning outlaw Hank Simmons to jail. The smooth talking Simmons kills the sheriff and injures Joe, but Joe turns out to always be one step ahead of Simmons.

E06

Cassie

E07

Don't Cry, My Son

E08

Face of Fear

E09

Blind Hunch

E10

The Iron Butterfly

E11

The Rattlesnake Brigade

E12

Easy Come, Easy Go

E13

A Home for Jamie

E14

Warbonnet

E15

A Lonely Man

E16

Second Sight

E17

The Saddle Stiff

E18

Frenzy

E19

Customs of the Country

E20

Shanklin

E21

Search in Limbo

E22

He Was Only Seven

E23

The Younger Brothers' Younger Brother

E24

A Place to Hide

E25

A Visit to Upright

E26

One Ace Too Many

Season 14 16 episodes

E01

Forever (1)

E02

Forever (2)

E03

Heritage of Anger

E04

The Initiation

E05

Riot!

E06

New Man

E07

Ambush at Rio Lobo

E08

The 26th Grave

E09

Stallion

E10

The Hidden Enemy

E11

The Sound of Sadness

E12

The Bucket Dog

E13

First Love

E14

The Witness

E15

The Marriage of Theodora Duffy

E16

The Hunter

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