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Season 1
Lotta Crabtree is hired by mining tycoon Alpheus Troy to lure one of the Cartwrights into town and hold him for ransom i...
Greedy opportunist Mark Burdette and his accomplice Early Thorne stir up trouble between the Paiute tribe and the citize...
John Pennington and his crew want to mine the Ponderosa land by hydraulic means. Ben is totally against this method and...
Trader Mike Wilson attempts to escape punishment by the Paiute Indians after mistreating two of their women, by placing...
Samuel Clemens arrives in Virginia City to write for the Territorial Enterprise at the same time a crooked politician tr...
Little Joe is infatuated wih saloon owner Julia Bulette, whom he imagines is like his late mother. First episode to rev...
Adam defends the mining claim of Annie O' Toole in a court presided over by Judge Ben Cartwright. Annie comes to the Wa...
Adam and Hoss assist a German engineer in developing the concept of "square set timbering" in the mines. Based on fact,...
In a flashback, the legendary prospector arrives on the Ponderosa and participates in the founding of Virginia City. Co...
Virginia City is visited by actress Adah Issacs Menken, who happens to be an old acquaintance of Ben's. Joe is badly be...
Luther Bishop and Ben Cartwright have had an ongoing land dispute for a number of years, over a small tract called the T...
Adam and Joe reluctantly join a group of vengeful townsmen, who are out to lynch the three men who supposedly killed Van...
In a variation of "High Noon", Ben and Hoss must face a gang of outlaws practically all alone when most of Virginia City...
This episode begins with Adam defending the honor of Sue Ellen Terry in a duel. No one gets shot because the other man...
Hoss and Joe come across a pregnant Indian woman while hunting bighorn sheep and must deliver her baby. Despite touches...
Ben sends Hoss and Joe to Monterey to purchase an expensive seed bull. The first of Blocker and Landon's many comic mis...
Because she is related to criminals, a young woman is ostracized by everyone but the the Cartwrights. She unwisely seek...
As the Civil War approaches, Adam and Joe clash over which side to support. The situation is complicated by the arrival...
In the first all-out comic episode of the series, Hoss and Joe travel to Kiowa Flats, Texas, where they are mistaken for...
The Cartwrights encounter racial bigotry in Virginia City and end up protecting a Chinese boy from mob violence. Victor...
In "The Spanish Grant", a young bargirl, Rosita Morales is pretending to be a Spanish noblewoman named Isabella Marie In...
A shiftless sheepherder, Jeb Drummond, encroaches his herd of sheep on the Ponderosa and refuses to budge. He resists a...
When a tough U.S. Marshal from California arrests a Ponderosa hand, Dave Walker, for murder, Adam and Hoss go along to m...
Nevada Territory is awaiting statehood, and Ben considers running for governor until he learns he is wanted for murder i...
After Adam is bushwhacked by three army deserters, Ben tracks them down, and tackles the brutal Captain Bolton who is pu...
A restaurant owner whom Ben and Adam have confronted over stolen Ponderosa beef ends up dead one night. His daughter, S...
Adam takes Ben's friends, Lord Marion Dunsworth and Lady Beatrice, on a hunting expedition, and they are captured by a g...
In this comic episode, the first to take place far from the ranch, Ben, Hoss, and Joe deliver a herd to San Francisco....
Len Keith, a miner, wants to purchase some land adjacent to the Ponderosa from rancher Andy McKaren. Andy's son, Tod, i...
Hoss takes Billy Allen, the young son of a convicted felon under his wing, then is forced to kill his father and Billy w...
Joe falls in love with Tirza, an undeniably strange gypsy girl who says she is cursed and never does seem to "snap out o...
Virginia City is plagued by organized crime, Sam Bryant and his gang. One of his men, Farmer Perkins, kills a storekeep...
Season 2
A young bank robber hires on at the Ponderosa in order to keep his gang informed of the law's efforts to discover their...
Filmed almost entirely outdoors, this is more like a feature than a series. Captain Pender is looking for a scout to le...
Adam's life is saved by an enigmatic U. S. Marshal who has come to Virginia City to arrest a friend of the Cartwrights.
The Cartwrights construct a grist mill to provide income for a crippled rancher who blames Ben for his predicament. Ben...
Adam guides a wagon train of Quakers and falls for the leader's daughter, Regina. The force Adam must employ to protect...
While celebrating the return of his daughter Connie, former lawman McKee is asked to assist in the capture of an outlaw...
Prejudice erupts on both sides when Ben gives an Indian named Matsou and his wife, some of his land, after saving Ben's...
Hoss and Joe take their sweethearts to a colorful and strange carnival for the day. Joe's recent girlfriend Jennifer Be...
Joe's friend Dolly Kincaid is the daughter of the sheriff and she's always getting caught up with the wrong crowd. When...
Gunnar Borgstrom is the leader of a vicious band called the Commancheros. They burn houses, kill people and steal anythi...
On a cattle drive back to Nevada from Texas, Ben hires a young man who is both an outlaw and the son of the sheriff whos...
Adam's life is saved by a woman known to the Indians as White Buffalo Woman, but who is actually the daughter of Norwegi...
Captivated by the pretty, deaf-mute daughter of a reclusive mountain man, Little Joe teaches the young woman sign langua...
Hoss becomes friends with dull-witted Arnie Gurnie, who is a brute of a man with the mentality of a child. His temper s...
Ben feels responsible for the son of a man he was forced to kill, but the young man is determined to get even. A profes...
Hoss plans to marry the widow of one of Ben's friends, not knowing she is a compulsive gambler and refusing to believe i...
Joe becomes the target of a tough and vengeful Kentucky family, after he kills one of them who almost sets the Ponderosa...
The Cartwright boys are surprised to find that a woman, claiming to have recently married their father, shows up on thei...
When they "rob" the bank in Virginia City to save depositors from being cleaned out by its president, Hoss and Joe wind...
Adam goes to Mexico to find out how the son of a family friend was killed, only to learn the man is still alive.
Hoss accidentally kills a drunk he was trying to disarm. The man's brother bushwhacks Hoss, who has lost the will to li...
The kindness Hoss extends to shiftless Jock Henry is not exactly repaid when Henry becomes an assistant assessor and rai...
The Cartwright boys are concerned that Ben might be getting on in years, yet it is he who saves them from cattle rustler...
Adam is confused by the sudden behavior of his good friend, Ross Marquette. He beats up his wife, Delphine, after accus...
Hoss takes on The Duke Of London, an arrogant, abusive bare-knuckle fighter, though his brawn is no match for the Duke's...
When freight company detective Jed Trask is fired after a decade of service, he joins the thieves preventing supplies fr...
While crossing the desert to Yuma, Arizona with a white stallion intended as a birthday present for Ben, Joe runs into a...
Jim Applegate, Hoss' rival for the affections of Cameo Johnson, is a member of a vigilante group who lynched an innocent...
Hoss believes in his friend's primitive version of the automobile in this lighthearted, yet sad episode. When the "car"...
With Virginia City on the verge of economic ruin, out of work miners put their hopes in word of a strike at a mine every...
Joe is the victim of an elaborate frame-up, accused of murdering a pregnant girl. When Ben is asked if Joe is telling t...
To finance his dream of constructing an airship capable of crossing the Atlantic, Ben's old friend plans to rob the Virg...
At the bedside of a seriously ill Adam, Ben thinks back to his days as a first mate in the merchant marines and his marr...
Blacksmith Sam Hill fights to keep the land on which his mother is buried, after his drunken father signs the deed over...
Season 3
A drunk is killed in a saloon brawl with Hoss, and though the man's brother insists there are no hard feelings, he is ac...
A friend of Ben's (Mr. Milbank) arrives at the Ponderosa at a bad time...when the Cartwright boys are fighting in the mu...
The Cartwrights and a bigoted army captain are pinned down by Cochise and his braves, who claim the officer poisoned 30...
Little Joe pays a visit to the widow Lee Bolden, and brings her a bank draft for her husband's investments with Ben. Ac...
In this comic episode involving a precious emerald and the sweet widow, Clemantine Hawkins who is attracted to Ben, turn...
Adam tries to help a reformed gunman who wants only to live peacefully near Virginia City. Good story without a tidy en...
Hoss and Joe become involved when "Bullethead" Burke vows revenge on an old man he claims cheated him in an investment d...
Joe befriends and takes responsibility for an ex-convict named Danny. Danny loves horses and is not used to people's wa...
A woman Ben once loved, Lady Chadwick, returns and attempts to trick him into marrying her by ruining his business. Ben...
A professional wrangler working for the Cartwrights is paralyzed when thrown by a particularly mean bronco. The woman n...
Joe wins a card game and an unexpected prize...a young lady. She goes to the Ponderosa and serves them, not wanting to...
An irritating man who boasts of being the reincarnation of French poet Francois Villion shows up causing trouble for the...
Joe accepts the job of temporary sheriff in the town of Rubicon, unaware he is being used to facilitate a scheme involvi...
In this Christmas story, inspired by Johanna Spyri's "Heidi", Hoss and Joe come across a blind girl whose family has bee...
The Ponderosa is overrun with settlers bearing phony property deeds, and one of Ben's oldest friends is responsible.
Hoss plans to marry Margie, a pretty blonde, but Margie becomes fascinated with a tall, traveling stranger named Mark Co...
An overbearing friend of the family tries to force her daughter into marrying Joe, though she does not love him. The si...
Adam races against the clock to prove a man who was once his friend is guilty of robbery and murder and Adam is convince...
Joe plans to marry Laura White, daughter of a man Ben once sailed with, but she is fatally ill. Ben consoles him with w...
The Cartwrights pretend the Ponderosa belongs to the town lush, when his aging mother from Ireland arrives.
The Cartwrights dig a well, build a rig and a windmill for a drought-stricken farm family.
Adam gives a second chance to a family man he suspects is one of the rustlers who has been hitting the Ponderosa herds.
When Ben fails to prevent the death of a friend's son, Adam and Joe, concerned by their father's depression, attempt to...
In order to keep peace on the ranch, Hoss and Joe try to help ranch hand, Hank Meyers woo the the plain-looking schoolte...
Ben supports the appointment of Asa Moran as Virginia City's temporary sheriff, but Moran goes overboard with his author...
A young genius, Albert Michaelson, vies for a scholarship. Adam assists Albert in the boy's experiments. Albert only n...
In the town of Alkali, the Cartwrights are jailed on false charges of robbery and murder, but Joe escapes and returns wi...
Adam is left to die in the desert after two thieves take $5,000 and his horse from him. Near death, he stumbles into an...
Ben indulges in a nostalgic reverie about Hoss's deceased mother. Having worked his way west to Galesburg, IL., Ben is...
When two feuding families argue over the custody of two orphaned children, a reluctant Ben is called upon to straighten...
The Cartwrights get mixed up in the romance of a phony heiress and an equally phony land baron.
Ben, Joe and Adam travel to Bowleg to pay the yearly taxes on the Ponderosa. After the transaction is completed, Ben an...
Joe promises a dying sheepman he will make sure the old man's granddaughter gets her rightful inheritance from a wealthy...
Hoss blames himself when a young woman is crippled in a wagon accident, and hopes a faith healer can help her walk again...
Season 4
Clay Stafford signs on to work for the Cartwrights and shortly afterwards shoots and kills a man who accuses him of chea...
Determined to prove he can succeed at something without the help of his Pa, Hoss, and Adam, Joe sets out on his quest an...
Ben helps Matthew Raine, a famous painter who has gone blind and now wallows in self-pity, discover a new purpose in lif...
Hoss is jailed for robbing the bank in Dutchman Flats, a town on the brink of economic collapse, even the sheriff knows...
An Indian-hating officer, Colonel Edward J. Dunwoody, comes to the Ponderosa looking for army deserter Bill Winters, who...
With a storm brewing, Adam takes refuge at a way station, run by cantankerous Jesse and his young grandaughter Marty, wh...
The Civil War once again divides the citizens of Nevada, as well as Adam and Joe Cartwright. One of season four's highl...
Hoss volunteers to pickup an injured neighbor's mail-order bride, but by the time they return, she has fallen in love wi...
Billy Horne is a white man who was captured by the Shoshone when he was six. He comes into Ben & Joe's campsite one nigh...
The Ponderosa becomes a war zone when it is invaded by a detachment of Mexican mercenaries under General Diaz. The gene...
Hoss helps Charlie and Will (Charlotte and Willomina), two young girls who just lost their father. They go on a journey...
Hoss is seriously injured internally and Ben seeks help from the only doctor within 50 miles, who happens to be in priso...
Hoss decides to help out Wade Tyree and introduces him to Abigail and her daughter, Bonnie. Hoss hopes this will stop W...
When Hoss is responsible for causing a hung jury, Ben tells him, "a man is never wrong doing what he thinks is right", a...
Frank Medford, a figure from Ben's "wild, misspent youth", shows up in Virginia City, and though down on his luck, creat...
Adam's guitar-strumming friend, ranch hand Danny Morgan, is arrested on suspicion of murdering and robbing the Widow Bak...
A stranger, Bob Jolly, arrives in Virginia City to accuse a drunken Judge Harry Whitaker of sending his innocent father,...
In this entertaining episode, laced with humor, Hoss first meets mountain man Jim Leyton. Bing Russell makes his first...
A vain outlaw murders a man in front of witnesses, including Joe, but a clever lawyer is able to get him acquitted. Tho...
When Cochise falls on Joe, Ben cannot help but remember that is how Marie Cartwright was killed. He thinks back to meet...
For a change, it is Adam rather than Joe who becomes mixed up in one of Hoss' funny exploits. Together they purchase a...
Joe becomes romantically involved with a woman who considers herself a serious dramatic actress. Unfortunately, she is...
Hoss develops amnesia after being bushwhacked and hit over the head by two outlaws and moves in with a Dutch couple. Th...
Adam takes a shine to Rebecca Kaufman, the daughter of a Jewish peddler, and bandits are convinced the Kaufman wagon is...
Ben's attempt to rehabilitate an alcoholic singer he knew in better days are complicated by her involvment with a former...
Classic comedy in which Hoss first meets prospector Obie and his lazy but allegedly brilliant mongrel dog, Walter.
The peaceful world of a Ponderosa hand is disturbed by the arrival of his no-good father and twin brother, who is a want...
While hunting for a wolf, Joe is attacked by the wolf. Adam also hunting for the wolf, hears Joe struggling with the wo...
After their stagecoach crashes, a group of rag-tag passengers and Joe must get out of the desert alive. One of the pass...
Hoss becomes concerned for the welfare of an insecure, belligerent fellow who is as small as Hoss is large. Interesting...
Little Joe's 19-year old girlfriend is killed by a good samaritan, an explosives expert who had stopped to render aid to...
Claude Miller, the laughingstock of Virginia City, gets even with everyone who made fun of him when he strikes it rich.
Ben regrets that he helped Tom Slayden start a freight hauling business when Slayden sets out to ruin all the competitio...
When a Italian immigrant comes to the Ponderosa, he decides he wants to give up the guitar to become a cowboy.
Season 5
Hoss wants to marry mysterious Regan Miller, a woman with less than a pristine past. When he thinks Adam is trying to s...
Renowned English novelist Charles Dickens comes to Virginia City. In short order, he is accused of a crime he didn't com...
A destitute rainmaker and his family arrive in drought-stricken Virginia City. While Ben tries to help him make rain, H...
Joe is bushwhacked in the desert and awakens to find himself in Martinville, a town that may or may not be populated by...
Adam encounters drunken artist James Callan, branded a "squaw man" because he is married to an Indian, and whose talent...
Hoss and a pair of nuns, the younger one having a difficult time training for the order, are robbed and stranded at a wa...
Joe has a run-in with Calamity Jane, and takes her home with him after promising her dying father to take care of her....
Ben finds an old journal that he kept while in a wagon train travelling from St. Joseph, Missouri to Ash Hollow. As he...
Joe struggles to understand whether his friend was right in killing a dying man who pleaded to put out of his misery.
Adam becomes involved with the recently widowed Laura Dayton and her little girl, Peggy.
Adam, Hoss and Joe mistakenly believe their father was murdered. They split into 3 different directions to confront the...
In what is arguably the best comedy of the series, Hoss swears he has seen green elves running around the Ponderosa and...
Ben becomes irritable and reckless when the completion of an important timber contract is hindered by an old rival.
Joe and Adam protect a saloon girl, who has killed in self-defense, from an angry lynch mob. The accompanying Judge, al...
Adam, Hoss, and Joe vie for the attention of a pretty young lady named Dolores. Hoss talks Joe into entering a bull fig...
Ben's plans to marry Katherine Saunders are upset when her son Eden is accused of killing his former girlfriend.
A man who looks similar to Joe uses Joe's name and gets Joe in the position of facing the firing squad.
The new stranger in town claims to be the famous pirate Jean Lafitte, and Hoss believes him.
In this sequel to "The Waiting Game", Laura resents Adam's advice on how she ought to be running her ranch. A newcomer,...
While out hunting for a mountain lion, Joe accidently shots Tessa Caldwell causing her to go blind. As a result of his...
When mountain man Jim Leyton decides to marry, he chooses Hoss as his best man. Julie's father, Grizzly, does not agree...
While talking with an Indian, Ben is given an unexpected present...a woman. She is a young white woman named Joan who h...
Hoss is suffering from spring fever, goes to the wrong town and is accused of bank robbery.
The town council feels Roy Coffee can no longer do his job, and with the notorious Wagner gang on their way to rob the b...
Ben must travel to pay his respects after he learns of the death of his nephew Will. When he visits the grave, he finds...
The Cartwrights are visited by their second cousin, Muley Jones of Weedville, Missouri who sings with a window-shatterin...
Will is having second thoughts about staying on at the Ponderosa, and outlaws hit the ranch and take him with them. The...
A headstrong Chinese girl (Marlo Thomas) visiting the Cartwrights incites labor unrest among local workers.
Mateo Ibara and his wife Carla visit the Ponderosa. Ibara asks Will to return to Mexico with him. Ibara and Will fought...
After a triumphant tour in Europe, a famous Negro singer encounters racial prejudice in Virginia City when he arrives fo...
Moody bounty hunter, Dev Farnum, shows up on the Ponderosa, where the Cartwrights are harboring the wife of the man he i...
Laura Dayton's Aunt Lil comes to visit and quickly decides it's time she help the hesitant Adam propose to her favorite...
Adam and Laura are finally engaged. Adam is secretly building a house and planning for the future. Laura realizes that...
Hilarious sequel to "Any Friend Of Walter's" in which Obie leaves Walter in Hoss' care. The three outlaws, Macy, Teague...
Season 6
Joe teaches Johnny Chapman how to use a gun for defense. What Joe doesn't see is the deadly consequences that it has in...
Outlaws capture Ben and hide him in an abandoned mine, holding him for a ransom. The boys must come up with a plan to s...
Lafe Jessup doesn't really want to be married, and now he's about to be a father! The horse wrangler finds a fight with...
After inadvertantly falling into the river, Adam is rescued by Tom Wilson. Wilson has feelings for Sue Miller, which br...
Sam Logan is released from jail after serving his twenty year sentence for stealing $100,000 worth of gold dust. He is...
Hoss hires Waldo as a ranch hand after keeping Waldo from killing himself. Hoss soon learns that Waldo is lousy at his...
An author is inspired to write about the heroic Cartwrights after watching first-hand as they fight off an attempted rob...
A conman heads into town and takes advantage of the Cartwrights with a fake land deal. The conman ends up staying in Vi...
When Joe and his friend Mitch go after a puma, Joe climbs a big peak and throws his gun up higher, intending to crawl up...
As payment for a performance in a circus, Joe and Hoss are given an elephant. They want to keep it but encounter opposi...
Hoss relies on clever attorney Whitney Parker, who has a drinking problem, to clear him of a murder charge.
Little Joe convinces Ben to hire Harry Starr, a half-Indian who is accused by other ranchers of being a chronic horse th...
Two robberies take place on stagecoaches that Adam is traveling on, and both times a knight in shining armor scares the...
A peaceful Indian is framed for the kidnapping of a young girl, a stunt which ends of tragedy.
Hoss unknowingly enters a flapjack contest and Joe puts Hoss on a diet which Hoss doesn't care for. Joe's betting on th...
On their way to prevent a young woman from encountering the renegade Indians, Joe and Tuck are captured, and in order to...
Ben's friend, Don Miguel, visits the Ponderosa with his two daughters, Margarita and Elena, and Elena's two very anxious...
Kellie Conrad dances and her father plays the fiddle to earn a living. Hoss feels a sense of guilt after he unintention...
Adam becomes involved with a quick-triggered range detective hired by the Virginia City Cattleman's Association to find...
Professor Klump and Amanda pull Hoss into their flying machine scheme. The ""Hoss-mobile"" doesn't seem to be destined f...
Adam sets out to track down the man who has been impersonating him to clear his reputation.
The Cartwrights play host to Guido Borelli, a world renowed aerial acrobat who once saved Ben's life in Italy. Borelli'...
Hoss' latest acquaintance, an Englishman named Professor Poppy, is actually Percival Alexander Mundy, M.D., who has give...
While working as a substitute teacher, Adam uncovers an ugly secret about the territory's past that others prefer remain...
Cousin Muley Jones returns to the Ponderosa, along with a pack of noisy hound dogs, in this funny sequel to "The Saga Of...
One of Joe's old girlfriends thinks he killed her husband so they could come together. Unfortunately, that is what her...
Adam tries to find the good in Howard Mead, a talented troubadour who refuses to stay on the right side of the law. Dra...
First Ben's sons are making lots of noise, so he goes into town to sleep in the hotel. Then, various noises and things i...
One of the wealthiest men in the world, Charles Augustus Hackett, offers to buy the Ponderosa, price no object. Ben say...
Ladies' man Lothario Larkin creates havoc whenever he hits Virginia City, so Roy Coffee orders him out of town. Natural...
No one in Virginia City is happy to see ex-con Trace Cordell, especially the man he crippled in a gunfight, now married...
The Ponderosa hands are upset when new hand George Whitman is hired on, it is rumored he is a jinx. Hoss tells George t...
Ben invites opera singer Angela Bergstrom to perform at Virginia City's anniversary celebration. She accepts, but does...
Hoss befriends a self-demeaning recluse named Patch, who makes the best apple pie Hoss has ever tasted. Hoss is so impr...
Season 7
Wiley and Annie Kane arrive at the Ponderosa to work off their father's debt to Ben. It seems as though the elder Kane o...
Ben helps a convict win a parole only to have the man later become the chief suspect in a bank robbery.
Juan Ortega claims he has a land grant which gives him ownership of the entire Nevada Territory.
A mule skinner and his two sons are hired by Ben to transport nitroglycerin to California.
A judge awards itinerant horse breeder Jim Acton's beloved mare to rancher Sam Whipple. Jim tries to buy her back, but W...
Ben is attracted to Sarah Reynolds, a member of a religious order led by her fanatical uncle. When she is accused of be...
Hoss comes upon an overturned stagecoach and discovers a little girl suffering from shock. After the Cartwrights suceed...
Ben must determine who is the rightful heir to a fortune that includes water rights vital to the Ponderosa.
Virginia City's newest preacher is an ex-gunfighter who wants only to build a new church, but the brother of one of his...
Hoss and Joe find a woman abandoned by a wagon train because her gift of prophecy is considered a curse. "Wouldn't it b...
The Generation Gap, Western-style, as Hoss tries to bring a young man and his father closer together.
The mother of a young outlaw condemned to hang, threatens to have her gang's hostages killed if her son is not set free....
Hoss finds a kindred spirit in Skeeter Dexter, a lonesome young man who feels closer to animals than most people.
In this series' highlight, little Michael Thorpe heads to the high country to ask God to spare his critically wounded fa...
After sitting on a jury that has convicted Terrence O' Tool of murder, Joe has second thoughts about the verdict and dec...
Hoss finds a wounded young Indian on the prairie, who is torn between accepting the ways of the white man or returning t...
The Pony Express sets up office in Virginia and Joe is one of the first to join up. Ben also decides to invest in the f...
Conclusion to the previous-week's episode, where the Cartwrights provide needed assistance to the Pony Express.
After his only friend is killed, the Cartwrights take in a slow-witted man, who Roy Coffee informs them, is wanted for m...
While Sheriff Coffee is in Saint Louis, the Morrisey bunch decides to work off excess energy by wrecking the saloon in a...
Joe is goaded into facing gunman Dan Taggert, unaware there is more to be prearranged than he realizes.
Not one, but three mail-order brides show up unexpectedly at the Ponderosa, all of them believing they are to marry Hoss...
Joshua Norton, an eccentric and formerly wealthy San Francisco merchant who considers himself Emperor of the United Stat...
Ben and Claire Armory fall in love, but their future is jeopardized by her disabled brother.
The Cartwrights attempt to straighten out the snobbish young son of Ben's cousin.
Young, adoring Wendy Daniels has come to Virginia City to meet up with her father, Taylor Daniels, who has been travelin...
Hoss chooses a difficult path when he decides to rehabilitate a famous poet, Will Smith, who is really William Warlock E...
Everyone feels Andy Walker is an outstanding singer but his father, who feels the boy should concentrate on ranch work i...
Italian immigrants are determined to establish their own vineyard on Ponderosa property.
Feeling guilty for unintentionally ending the career of a professional boxer, Hoss vows never to fight again. But thing...
A sailor, claiming to be one of Adam's closest friends, is given a warm welcome by the Cartwrights, who have no way of k...
Ben and Hoss unwittingly aid a vengeful army colonel who plans to wipe out every Indian he can with a Gatling gun.
Hoss finds himself in another mess, this one involving a beautiful blonde, a moonshiner, and a nearsighted outlaw who is...
Season 8
The Cartwrights' friendship with a neighboring rancher is threatened by his mentally unstable daughter.
So the Cartwrights will not be killed, one of Ben's oldest friends must make sure Joe does not win a horse race.
After the Cartwrights put wrangler Dan Tolliver out to pasture, the embittered old man plans to take part in robbing the...
A Mormon with two wives is badgered by the town's people and then things get much worse.
As the persecuted party awaits Ben and Hoss' return, Herber is shot and killed. Joe retaliates and shoots Herber's assas...
Hoss is engaged to Carol Attley, a troubled woman with a past darker than he imagines.
Though his friend is badly in need of the reward money, Joe insists it belongs to him, to protect his friend from the de...
The Cartwrights come to the rescue of four inexperienced homesteaders, when devious cattle ranchers try to run them off...
A young cowpoke is killed during a fight with Hoss, but the old blowhard who runs the Virginia City stables, takes the c...
A young troubadour, who blames Ben for the death of his father, returns to Virginia City. In one scene, Ben says the yo...
While in another town, on business, Ben runs into a saloon employee who is a big figure, and after he kills an old miner...
When the woman he was planning to marry is strangled, Joe forces the only suspect to come forward, in a very tense-fille...
Joe plays matchmaker in this story of a rancher attempting to marry off his supposedly unremarkable daughter.
The Cartwrights protect a woman and her deaf-mute little son from the boy's outlaw stepfather.
Warbling Andy Walker returns to Virginia City a big success, along with his shifty Uncle Thaddeus.
Two Virginia City old-timers fool Hoss and Joe into raising rabbits, and the Ponderosa is overrun with paws and whiskers...
When the woman he was planning to marry is strangled, Joe forces the only suspect to come forward.
Dolly Bantree has a crooked manager ""Blackie"", who blackmails Dolly to fleece newly rich miner Buford out of his newf...
In the town of Chiso, Joe encounters a former Ponderosa cowhand who is now a gunfighter and expecting to be killed on Fr...
Ben discovers that his friend, Sheriff Paul Rowan, is suffering from stress brought on by his wartime experiences.
Joe visits his married friends in Arizona Territory, only to discover the husband has become a criminal and is secretly...
A wounded comanchero sides with the Cartwrights when the rest of the gang, led by Captain Fenner, shows up to burn and r...
Mary Wharton, an old friend of the family, comes to live on the Ponderosa with her shiftless husband. When Ben learns M...
Hoss and Joe have their doubts as to who really robbed a way station, suspecting the two men they captured are innocent.
Joe becomes fascinated by detective literature and drags Hoss into the picture when he suspects the bank is going to be...
Young Billy Wilcox wanders onto the Ponderosa, sick, hungry, and alone. Ben finds him, and after he regains his strengt...
Ben assists Georgio Rossi in his battle for water on adjoining property.
The Cartwrights play host to Russian royals, who are the target of jewel thieves.
The foreman of a neighboring ranch frames Joe for murder as part of a scheme to get his employer's property.
A gang of juvenile delinquents, led by an intelligent runt, who calls himself Napoleon, terrorizes Virginia City and the...
A woman - convinced Little Joe intentionally killed her brother - offers $1,000 to the man who kills the youngest Cartwr...
The Cartwrights' cousin, Clarissa visits. Her assertive, snobbish ways result in nothing but trouble for Ben and his son...
Hoss is conned into buying a violin from a gypsy fortune teller, and everyone on the Ponderosa--except for Hop Sing--suf...
The Ponderosa is in danger of being overrun by gold hunters.
Season 9
Renegade Indians have been on the rampage attacking settlers and raising havoc in the West. Joe and Hoss have gone to w...
Ben, Hoss and Little Joe help the Virginia City militia escort a renegade Indian, who believes he is the Almighty, throu...
A band of Mexican kidnaps Little Joe for a $25,000 ransom. A group of cowboys plan to rescue Joe, kill him and claim the...
Candy is arrested for committing murder in the town of Olympus. He is accused of killing Jed Wheelock, the son of wealt...
A sadistic outlaw named Dibbs along with his gang, take siege of the Ponderosa, holding Joe, Hoss, and Candy prisoners....
While at the bank in Sandust, Little Joe and the bank's secretary witness an armed robbery. During a subsequent gunfight...
Most people consider Mark Cole a coward, but he does not hesitate to step forward when his brother attempts to break a h...
Driving horses to Utah, the Cartwrights and Candy discover only two people left in a town wiped out by rampaging Paiute...
A young girl's ownership of a beloved stallion is jeopardized by the "big plans" of her scheming father.
A career robber who claims to be a lumber man, and his gang plan to use Ben's new freight paddleboat to haul a $1 millio...
Ben's old friend has stolen money from corrupt politicians in New York and plans to invest in Nevada.
An injured rancher, who has enlisted the aid of the Cartwrights to buy back one of his horses after his farm is foreclos...
An anguished Hoss discovers that his testimony helped hang an innocent man accused of murder. As he struggles to bring t...
Hoss wants to buy a mine thought to be worthless and orders a fancy invention to prove it isn't and becomes the local la...
A man, recently released from prison for bank robbery, is accused of robbing the same Virginia City bank and gunning dow...
Trick photography is employed to help a killer beat a murder rap, to prove he was not there at the time of the murder he...
The ranchers are once again losing stock to rustlers and not everyone agrees with range detective Marcus Alley's prevent...
A cruel, sadistic, alcoholic and racist rancher named Aaron Gore stalks the wife of Ben's friend, whom he has hired as a...
When a young woman inherits her late father's salt mine, a greedy rancher wants to buy all the salt for himself. Ben, st...
A band of outlaws enact a scheme to rob the Ponderosa, by tricking Hoss and Little Joe away from the ranch and leaving a...
Hoss stands alone in refusing to convict Johnny Mule, a ""slow"" ranch hand who is accused of robbing and murdering his...
In order to ruin the plans of a corrupt politician, Ben allows everyone to think that an attempt on his life was success...
Candy falls in love with a beautiful young woman, unaware that the man claiming to be her cousin is a bounty hunter who...
The Ponderosa ranch hands are at Riverbend during a cattle drive. While there, Candy meets an old friend, Lilah Holden,...
When a horse steps on Candy's hand out on the trail, he and Joe go to Angelus to find a doctor. When they arrive, Joe s...
An alcoholic rancher, drinking away his bitterness, makes live unbearable for his wife and children. Hoss helps reform h...
Davey - a orphaned Yute that Ben helped raise and has worked as a ranch hand on the Ponderosa - falls in love with one o...
While the others are away, Ben and Candy are lured by an old friend of Ben's to go somewhere. The ""friend"" traps them...
Hoss is accused of stabbing a man to death, and his only hope of acquittal is a once great trial lawyer who is now a hop...
Eddie McKay, the son of a robber and murderer who Hoss killed several years ago in a shootout, returns to Virginia City...
Joe and Candy sell a herd to the Farrell Brothers in Arizona, but are paid a worthless bank draft. The widow of the man...
Joe reluctantly takes a job as a substitute teacher and must contend with two older students who have no use for an educ...
An untalented gypsy girl tries to get the Cartwrights to finance her career as an opera singer.
Hoss and Joe rival for the affections of visiting entertainer Mademoiselle Denise, though she is more concerned for her...
Season 10
The 10th season opens as Joe helps a widowed mountain woman, a recluse who is suffering from an infection that has becom...
While Hoss is in a remote town on business, he is arrested for murder and robbery. The town's richest man has just been...
When on a cattle drive on Ponderosa land, the Cartwrights and Candy find a dying cavalry officer on the trail. With his...
Ben is in charge of a vicious prisoner and gets virtually no help from the cowardly citizens of the town where he is hol...
The son of a rancher to whom the Cartwrights are selling a prize bull is trying to get his father ruled mentally incompe...
Hoss and Joe's bickering leads them into taking opposite sides in the Virginia City mayoral race. Their zealous actions...
The residents of Tin Bucket claim the Cartwrights and Candy are dealing in stolen cattle hides. With most of the town ac...
A bratty 10-year-old girl named Samantha, whose mother is Ben's cousin and is a third cousin of Hoss and Little Joe, com...
A white woman abducted years before by the Paiutes is reunited with her husband, who is less than pleased to learn she h...
In the third and final installment of the Rossi family, Georgio Rossi doesn't understand why he cannot allow Indians who...
Joe and Candy win a stamping mill in a poker game, but the fact of them not knowing how to run it, is the least of their...
An army scout Ben once knew comes to the Ponderosa and asks Ben to stake a cattle ranch in Mira Flores, Mexico.
Hop Sing tells Hoss and Candy they can use the ancient Chinese art of fingerprinting to prove Joe is innocent of murder.
Ben agrees to hide a government witness in a land fraud case at the Ponderosa as part of the witness protection program....
Hoss offers to help Annie Laurie, a beautiful young woman who is running away from her abusive husband, a career crimina...
Only the testimony of an Indian wanted for horse theft can clear Candy of murder.
Candy sets out to help a feisty and elderly British woman recover the jewels stolen from her in a stage holdup.
A neighbor of the Cartwrights threatens Hoss' fiancé, Erin - a beautiful young woman who has been raised by Indians sinc...
A retired Army sergeant, bitter that he never received his pension from the government, kidnaps one-time friend Candy an...
Ben's friend is struggling to keep her newspaper going in the face of harrassment by the town boss of Gunlock, so withou...
A shady magician, with his twin daughters, comes to Virginia City and there is a lot of confusion with the daughters of...
The floor of the Virginia City courthouse collapses, trapping Ben in the basement with three other people, one of whom m...
Hoss spends his two-month vacation helping a black family get their farm in shape, and dealing with racism in the neighb...
Candy comes upon a soldier who is running from charges of desertion, and with Joe's help they foil a plan to sell rapid-...
Joe is shocked to see his ex-fiancee, Emily Anderson, in Virginia City. He had met her in Monterey five years earlier,...
Joe and Candy travel to Butlerville and learn that one of Ben's closest friends is burning out new settlers, whom he reg...
Feeling unloved, a Marshal's daughter runs off with a Ponderosa hand her father thinks may be related to the man that sh...
Coley Clayborn, who has always thought his mother abandoned him and his father, thinks she is only after the gold mine h...
While Ben and Hoss visit an old friend to negotiate the purchase of a mine, former Confederate soldiers arrive wanting t...
A pair of con artists swindle Ben out of nearly $30,000 after convincing the Cartwright patriarch to enter into a deal t...
Season 11
An Englishman with a passion for challenging ridiculous laws shows up on the Ponderosa grazing in a land-rowing boat mou...
A young woman, Jenny Winters who is prone to telling tall tales, claims she witnessed the Logan gang holding up a stagec...
A young boy positively identifies Candy as the man wanted in Stillwater for robbery, arson and murder.
When he is called to testify in an out-of-town lumber shark case, Roy recruits Hoss to temporarily serve as sheriff. Hos...
Will Griner is acquitted of murder which upsets the folks of Virginia City. They feel Griner silenced witnesses and are...
Dan Logan, a former army scout and lawman who works for the Cartwrights, has his hands full with rustlers, a range war,...
Ben lends a hand to a down and out war veteran, Matthew Rush, who received the Congressional Medal Of Honor.
Candy helps the widow of a man he shot and killed in self defense, unaware she is plotting revenge against him.
Little Joe and Candy defend Meena Calhoun and her crusty father, Luke, from horse rustlers. In the process, Joe helps Me...
A Virginia City store clerk decides to take advantage of his co-worker's paralyzing sensitivity to bright light.
While in Sunville on business for the Ponderosa, the town's storyteller, Salty - who has a talent for grossly exaggerati...
Ben is sorry to learn that two of his oldest friends are on opposite sides of the law, after 27 years. Charlie Shepard...
Joe agrees to help the man who tried to steal his horse, Abner Willoughby, who has returned to claim the box of gold he...
A prejudiced Virginia City banker spurns Ben's recommendation of a recent widower (with an infant daughter to raise) for...
Ben needs to haul three beams that are 30 feet long and the Cambeau Freight Company will not do it. A new, independent...
Candy has inherited a fortune from an Indian he helped. He quits his job on the Ponderosa and becomes a vice president...
Ben comes to the aid of Amy Wilder, an eccentric animal lover whose mental competency is questioned when a neighbor decl...
A new wealthy Ponderosa employee with a weakness for women becomes the target of con artists.
When the daughter of a friend declares her love for him, Ben agonizes over what to do.
Ben seriously doubts an angry young man committed several murders to which he has confessed to.
Ben gambles the future of the Ponderosa when a convincing meat packer from Chicago, sets out to ruin the local cattle in...
En route to San Francisco, actress Lotta Crabtree arrives in Virginia City for a special performance. Hoss is smitten by...
Two drifters come to the Ponderosa and they try to rob the Cartwrights but are driven away. Joe becomes close to the you...
Ben and Joe stop in Los Robles for a couple of beers and a night's rest. Ben sees the town boss, John Walker, bullying...
""Here comes Hoss Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail... "" That's what the folks of Virginia City were probably th...
In this second episode to feature Meena Calhoun and her father, Hoss and Joe's plans to sell horses from the livery stab...
Hoss meets two men. He forms a rapport with them and they tell him that they plan to rob the bank in the town they are...
Little Joe stays back at the Ponderosa to tend to its operation as Ben, Hoss, Candy and Hop Sing leave for a cattle driv...
Season 12
In the 12th season premiere, a series of destructive fires strike Virginia City, and always late at night. Is it the wor...
Dusty takes in orphaned Jamie Hunter, the son of a recently-deceased rainmaker. Jamie is determined to carry on his fath...
The Weary Willies are hippie-like former Civil War veterans who are now drifters and live off the land. Despite protests...
After being taken into custody by a sheriff who does not care if he is guilty or innocent of a crime, Hoss escapes from...
A man called Davis has shot Colonel Clayton and escapes on horseback. Joe and Ben join the posse that sets out to find...
On the trail, Joe witnesses a woman kill a man, but the woman rides away before he can positively identify her. He ride...
When Hoss volunteers to be Sheriff of a town called Trouble, he soon finds out that the town had correctly been named....
Ben's new horse throws him down a steep slope, injuring his back. Joe tries to round up some help, but the settlers in...
A dying woman and her son are rejected by her father because she had a child out of wedlock.
Ben and Hoss come to the rescue of Mexican farmers who are forced off their land by the greedy mine owner who runs the t...
Pepper Shannon is a dime novel hero and outlaw. Ben gives a job to Pepper Shannon on the condition the one-time outlaw...
Hoss and Joe pretend to be stage robbers' partners in order to recover stolen Cartwright money. All goes well until the...
Jamie forms a bond with a bum and his tame crow. Before long, Jamie suggests they repair an old wagon and leave the Pon...
A girl's uncle and aunt want custody of her only because they believe she has the rights to her late grandfather's mine.
Settlers from Virginia argue over Hoss' fate after one of them accidentally shoots him.
An insecure Jamie is unsure of his place in the family, having trouble adjusting at his new school and keeps getting har...
The Cartwrights are about to start a major cattle drive with other ranchers. It has been decided that Ben's foreman wil...
Bradley Meredith, a Ben Cartwright look-a-like, causes trouble when he sells land to the railroad. Ben has already turn...
Hoss is held prisoner by a fugitive black couple who they admit hate white people and have nothing to lose by killing th...
An English couple comes to Nevada to learn why a ranch owned by the British investment firm is the only company holding...
Ben is shocked to learn the Army general he is backing as governor, advocates a policy of genocide towards all Indians.
An epidemic of influenza hits the Ponderosa and the only person who seems sure of what to do is the wife of a doctor, wh...
A racist and his henchmen steal a Gatling gun, with plans to massacre everyone - including the Cartwrights - involved in...
Blinded by an explosion, Joe wallows in self-pity, and at first resists the efforts of a woman trying to teach him to li...
While visiting the Ponderosa, Ben's friend, April Christopher, is bitten by a rabid wolf. Ben and April and her daughte...
The foreman of a neighboring ranch shoots a special steer belonging to the Cartwrights, and his scheming boss plots to t...
Ben, Hoss and Joe, along with Candy and a fellow rancher, are jailed on false trespassing charges by a greedy mining tyc...
The only person who can get Dusty out of jail is a professional fighter who will not return to Virginia City, so Joe sta...
Season 13
Jamie deliberately disobeys Ben's order not to drive the supply wagons. During his recklessness, the wagon goes out of c...
An alcoholic woman lashes out at Hoss after his testimony sends her husband to prison. She gets back at him by forcing t...
Joe is shot and wounded while he is on a cattle drive in the Nevada desert. Two ranchers find him, delirious from thirst...
Hoss becomes a judge in a contest--he has to pick the perfect/prettiest baby. The parents of the babies nearly all try...
Joe volunteers to help an old lawman escort a slick outlaw to jail, but when their prisoner kills the sheriff and wounds...
To help the hapless wife and daughter of a lazy dreamer, Hoss arranges a "fixed" horse race.
The wife of Virginia City's new doctor leaves him, after their son dies in childbirth. The doctor snaps and abducts ano...
Neta, a teen-age girl who is a friend of Jamie's, witnesses an assault and robbery. The victim - Mr. Trumbull, a man who...
A veteran blinded by the last battle of the Civil War, returns to Virginia City, to solve the mystery surrounding who ki...
Hoss takes the blame when a visiting actress kills her former boyfriend. The ex-boyfriend's father, a senator, sets out...
Jamie and three teen-agers - a girl and two boys - are kidnapped by Doyle, a hardened criminal with nothing to lose, and...
When Luke Calhoun loses all his money in a stock scheme, he and his daughter Meena stay at the Ponderosa with disruptive...
Just as Ben begins to formally adopt Jamie, his grandfather shows up to take him away. Ben tells the gentleman, "He's a...
Joe is stranded in the desert when his mare falls and breaks her leg. He falls unconscious from exhaustion and lack of...
While panning for gold on his vacation, Hop Sing meets and falls in love with a shy woman. Their future plans are dashe...
Hoss enlists the aid of Judith Coleman, a clairvoyant woman who has the gift of "second sight" to find Jamie. He has be...
Fired ranch hand, Cactus, suggests that Ben is too old to put in a real work's week and challenges Ben to take a job as...
Ben helps shepherd a young family, the Kosovos (Nick; his wife, Anna; and his son, Sandor), who had recently immigrated...
All about Joe and Hoss' visit to a small Mexican town named Agua Santos, which seems to have some rather peculiar laws....
A band of ex-Confederate soldiers demands $25,000 from Ben. When Hoss resists their demands and tries to fight them, the...
Sid Langley is a real estate broker who is not well liked in Nevada, thanks to his shady ways of doing business. An irri...
A 7-year-old boy is killed after he walks into a bank during a robbery by the ruthless Springer gang. Joe and Jamie help...
A comic tale of mistaken identity, as Hoss (and eventually Ben and Joe) are held in connection with a series of road gan...
The Cartwrights are once again brought in the middle of the Civil War. This time, the wife of former Civil War Col. Cody...
Ben's ability to close a lucrative livestock contract with a conspicuous widow hinges on the sale of a dilapidated saloo...
While the Cartwrights are away to Carson City, ruthless land baron Bradley Meredith (Lorene Greene in a dual role) poses...
Season 14
Little Joe finds true love in newcomer Alice Harper. Following a courtship, the two are engaged. Unlike most of the Cart...
Little Joe learns of the tragic and savagely brutal circumstances of Alice's death and is determined to bring her killer...
Ex-con John Dundee, a friend of the Cartwights, is being released from prison. Ben tries to help John readjust to societ...
Jamie's friend, Ted Hoag, is unfairly blamed for the death of another young fellow during a club initiation. In the end,...
While at the Nevada State Prison to inspect conditions, Ben is taken hostage in a riot. The riot is an attempt by frustr...
In what was essentially the second part of a two-part episode centering on Griff King, the young parolee arrives at the...
Ben and a pregnant woman named Teresa are held hostage by desperate outlaws, who plot to rob a stagecoach and force the...
Mark Twain ruffles dangerous feathers in Virginia City with accusations of claim-jumping and murder.
The moving tale of Little Joe and his beloved black stallion, which Ben purchases for his son as a birthday gift.
Dr. Will Agar is Virginia City's new town doctor, and brings with him new skills and expertise to treat area residents'...
A lonely old man opens his home to two orphan boys but runs into bureaucratic opposition when attempting to adopt them.
Jamie obtains an Irish setter pup and forms a special bond between dog and man. The dog's owner learns the puppy is at t...
Jamie becomes friends with the wife of an unpopular schoolmaster, who often browbeats her.
An elderly business associate of Ben's is killed after a man, posing as Candy, tries to rob her; the woman suffers a fat...
A serious game of ""let's pretend"" begins when Griff and government agent Theodora Duffy pose as husband and wife to ca...
In what turned out to be the series finale, Little Joe is making a delivery for Ben when he meets Bill Tanner, a psychot...
Specials
This is the continuing saga of the Cartwrights, only none of the original Cartwrights are here anymore but their sons. B...
A man with a grudge against the late Little Joe seeks revenge on the Cartwrights and attempts to take over the Ponderosa...
Return once again to the Ponderosa when a notorious outlaw comes to the ranch, sending the Cartwrights into a showdown w...
Ed Wynn and Buster Keaton along with Lorne Greene and Dan Blocker do a Promo for the March-of Dimes.
Excerpt From the Perry Como Show in 1962 Featuring Dan Blocker and Lorene Greene
Dan Blocker, Cara Williams and Henry Fonda in a Skit.
Lorne Greene and Dan Blocker in a comedy skit from The Andy Williams Show
Lorne Greene host a Promotional Look at the new Chevrolet Lineup for 1966.
A 2014 Interview with Michael Dante and what it was like to work on Bonanza.
Trailer for "Ride the Wind" brought to you by "The Men of Bonanza"
"Ride the Wind" is a theatrical release of 2 episodes of Season 7 of Bonanza (Episodes 17 & 18) combined into a feature...
Michael Landon sings "Lonesome Road" on "Highways of Melody".
Lorene Green Sing "Ringo" on "The Alan Sherman Show".
Francis M Nevins in 1978 Interviews Director William Witney
Lorne Greene Giant Step promo introducing the 1965 Chevrolet's
Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker and Michael Landon shows viewers around the set.
Dan Blocker joins Jack Benny on his show to celebrate one of the latter's numerous 39th birthdays.
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