Bonanza (1959-2008)

(Airdate: 6/8/08)

(Airdate: 1/21/07)

(Airdate: 5/4/04)

The story of the Cartwright family on their Ponderosa ranch. Pernell Roberts appeared in the first...

(Airdate: 3/8/03)

The classic series about Hoss and little Joe and life on the Ponderosa.

(Airdate: 5/31/99)

Join the Cartwright clan in life on the Ponderosa.

(Airdate: 1/16/73)

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

(Airdate: 1/9/73)

A deputy U.S. marshal (Karen Carlson) poses as Griff's wife to catch a Civil War criminal (Richard...

(Airdate: 1/2/73)

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

(Airdate: 12/26/72)

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

(Airdate: 12/19/72)

To keep his Irish setter, Jamie must enter her in a field trial against a champion; guest Don...

(Airdate: 12/5/72)

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

(Airdate: 11/28/72)

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

(Airdate: 11/14/72)

Joe must risk his beloved stallion to save a wounded boy; guests Clu Gulager, Mitzi Hoag, Vincent...

(Airdate: 10/31/72)

Editor Samuel Clemens (Ken Howard) asks the Cartwrights to help him prove a government assayer is a...

(Airdate: 10/24/72)

Would-be robbers plan to use a pregnant woman (Sian Barbara Allen) as a decoy to stop a stagecoach;...

(Airdate: 10/10/72)

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

(Airdate: 10/3/72)

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

(Airdate: 9/26/72)

The leader (Ronny Howard) of a boy's club forces his followers, including Jamie, to cover up an...

(Airdate: 9/19/72)

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

(Airdate: 9/12/72)

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

(Airdate: 9/5/72)

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

(Airdate: 4/2/72)

A look-alike for Ben dictates a deathbed wish to Sheriff Coffee, asking him to liquidate the...

(Airdate: 3/26/72)

When hidden treasure is believed to be buried on a piece Cartwright property, the ranchers are...

(Airdate: 3/19/72)

Ben learns a visitor's (Suzanne Pleshette) husband (Jon Cypher) is sought as a Confederate traitor.

(Airdate: 3/12/72)

Hoss is identified as a member of the Younger brothers' (Strother Martin, Ted Gehring, Chuck McCann)...

(Airdate: 3/5/72)

Jamie and Joe help a man (Roscoe Lee Brown) in a wheelchair who sets out on the trail of his...

(Airdate: 2/20/72)

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

(Airdate: 2/13/72)

A gang of ex-Confederate soldiers take over the Ponderosa to force Ben to give them a fortune in...

(Airdate: 2/6/72)

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

(Airdate: 1/30/72)

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

(Airdate: 1/16/72)

Ben fires a hired hand (Buddy Ebsen) for improperly saddling a horse, but learns he may have assumed...

(Airdate: 1/9/72)

When Jamie becomes lost in the Sierras, Hoss calls on Judith Corman (Joan Hackett), who is reputed...

(Airdate: 1/2/72)

Vacationing Hop Sing finds love while panning for gold.

(Airdate: 12/26/71)

Red Cloud (Chief Dan George) may meet his death trying to retrieve an Indian headdress from Frank...

(Airdate: 12/19/71)

Jamie's grandfather (Will Geer) arrives to take him back East, but the boy runs away; guest Robert...

(Airdate: 12/12/71)

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

(Airdate: 12/5/71)

Jamie and his friends are taken hostage by escaped convicts.

(Airdate: 11/28/71)

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

(Airdate: 11/21/71)

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

(Airdate: 11/14/71)

A murderer (Bradford Dillman) assumes his victim's identity in a plot to claim the man's...

(Airdate: 10/31/71)

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

(Airdate: 10/24/71)

After purchasing an Arabian stallion Hoss is challenged to a race by the animal's previous owner...

(Airdate: 10/17/71)

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

(Airdate: 10/10/71)

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

(Airdate: 10/3/71)

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

(Airdate: 9/26/71)

After Hoss' testimony sends her husband to jail, an alcoholic woman abandons her young son to the...

(Airdate: 9/19/71)

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

(Airdate: 4/11/71)

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

(Airdate: 4/11/71)

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

(Airdate: 3/28/71)

Ben sends Hoss and Joe to Montana for a hardy steer to help build up his herd's resistance to the...

(Airdate: 3/21/71)

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

(Airdate: 3/14/71)

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

(Airdate: 3/7/71)

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

(Airdate: 2/28/71)

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

(Airdate: 2/21/71)

Ben's friend, a war hero bidding for the governorship, is discredited due to his hatred of the...

(Airdate: 2/14/71)

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

(Airdate: 2/7/71)

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

(Airdate: 1/31/71)

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

(Airdate: 1/17/71)

A trail boss's inability to control his trail hands threatens the success of a cattle drive.

(Airdate: 1/10/71)

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

(Airdate: 1/3/71)

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

(Airdate: 12/27/70)

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

(Airdate: 12/20/70)

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

(Airdate: 12/13/70)

Hoss and Little Joe pose as criminals to reclaim booty.

(Airdate: 11/22/70)

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

(Airdate: 11/15/70)

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

(Airdate: 11/8/70)

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

(Airdate: 11/1/70)

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

(Airdate: 10/25/70)

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

(Airdate: 10/18/70)

Murder witness Joe gives a fleeing woman's description to the sheriff (Richard Kiley), the woman's...

(Airdate: 10/11/70)

After tracking a wanted man in the desert, injured Ben stays with him while Little Joe goes for...

(Airdate: 10/5/70)

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

(Airdate: 9/27/70)

Ex-soldiers (Richard Thomas, Kevin Tighe) camping on Ponderosa land cause an incident with a local...

(Airdate: 9/20/70)

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

(Airdate: 9/13/70)

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

(Airdate: 4/19/70)

Alone on the Ponderosa, Little Joe is badly injured by a horse's kick and prepares to take drastic...

(Airdate: 4/12/70)

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

(Airdate: 4/5/70)

Fledgling horse-traders Hoss and Little Joe fight when the ne'er-do-well Calhouns open up shop as...

(Airdate: 3/29/70)

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

(Airdate: 3/22/70)

Little Joe must persuade frightened townspeople to stand against a powerful family in order to save...

(Airdate: 3/8/70)

A Mexican boy's former keeper uses Little Joe to learn from Ramon the location of a gold vein.

(Airdate: 3/1/70)

Hoss' open adoration of an actress (Sally Kellerman) makes him the prime suspect when her leading...

(Airdate: 2/22/70)

Ben faces a dilemma when he discovers an unscrupulous meatpacker has taken over all the cattle cars...

(Airdate: 2/15/70)

A community leader (Mercedes McCambridge) intervenes when a rebellious teen (David Cassidy) is...

(Airdate: 2/8/70)

Ben is sued for alienation of affection when a woman (Mariette Hartley) declares she will wed him.

(Airdate: 2/1/70)

A beautiful woman catches the eye of a wealthy miner (Christopher Connelly), interfering with Ben's...

(Airdate: 1/25/70)

A stubborn widow's (Jo Van Fleet) refusal to obey local laws becomes more than a nuisance when she...

(Airdate: 1/18/70)

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

(Airdate: 1/11/70)

Ben puts aside his feelings about a supposed Army deserter (Robert Lansing) when the man submits the...

(Airdate: 1/4/70)

A dwarf (Michael Dunn), forced to leave his job with the circus, encounters discrimination when he...

(Airdate: 12/21/69)

A merchant seaman (John Astin) is astonished to discover a town has sprung up on the site where he...

(Airdate: 12/14/69)

Two old friends, a sheriff turned bounty hunter and an escaped criminal, pull at Ben's loyalties;...

(Airdate: 12/7/69)

A man known for his outrageous tales mistakenly identifies Hoss and Candy as bank robbers; guests...

(Airdate: 11/23/69)

Little Joe tracks a friend who abruptly left town and is suspected of taking funds from the bank...

(Airdate: 11/16/69)

A woman (Ann Prentiss) helps Little Joe evade a trio of ransom-seeking kidnappers, then mistakes his...

(Airdate: 11/2/69)

A vengeful widow hires an assassin after Candy kills her husband, a bank robber, and then learns...

(Airdate: 10/26/69)

Tensions mount when the Cartwrights take in a penniless Civil War hero from the North; guests Dean...

(Airdate: 10/19/69)

A former lawman, now a friend and employee of the Cartwrights, is suspected of accepting payoffs in...

(Airdate: 10/12/69)

A lynch mob threatens a man (Guy Stockwell) who believes in a freed killer's guilt, despite pleas...

(Airdate: 10/5/69)

Hoss begins to feel that he has taken on more than he can handle after agreeing to fill in as...

(Airdate: 9/28/69)

Candy plots an escape after being jailed as a suspect in the murders of a rancher and his family;...

(Airdate: 9/21/69)

The Cartwrights offer protection to a woman claiming she can identify a band of stagecoach robbers;...

(Airdate: 9/14/69)

The wording of an old law may cause Ben to lose the Ponderosa to an odd man who crossed it in a...

(Airdate: 5/11/69)

A trio uses the unsuspecting Cartwrights to get into a bank vault, then leads them and a posse in a...

(Airdate: 4/27/69)

Former Civil War prisoners seeking revenge surround Ben, Hoss and Ben's friend (J.D. Cannon), a...

(Airdate: 4/20/69)

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

(Airdate: 4/6/69)

A marshal hunting an escaped convict resents his daughter's (Bonnie Bedelia) relationship with the...

(Airdate: 3/30/69)

A woman persuades Candy and Little Joe to protect her husband, a government surveyor who saw a land...

(Airdate: 3/23/69)

Little Joe is accused of bank robbery, and an unhappy wife claims he committed the crime for love of...

(Airdate: 3/16/69)

An Army sergeant (Ben Johnson) faces court-martial if Candy can't find evidence to prove him...

(Airdate: 3/9/69)

A former slave (Ossie Davis) starting a new life with his family must decide whether to confront...

(Airdate: 3/2/69)

Ben and four companions, trapped in a collapsed cellar, must rely on an accused killer for help.

(Airdate: 2/23/69)

A magician (Richard Haydn) with twin daughters plans to use the unwitting Cartwright sons to lend...

(Airdate: 2/9/69)

Ben takes over an old friend's newspaper when he learns a man (Simon Oakland) is trying to buy it to...

(Airdate: 2/2/69)

Candy's former friend and gang force him into helping them in a plan to rob the Carson City mint.

(Airdate: 1/26/69)

A neighbor threatens Hoss' fiancee, a white girl raised by Indians, when the Cartwrights allow her...

(Airdate: 1/19/69)

A stubborn British widow hires Candy as an escort, then foils his attempts to retrieve her valuables...

(Airdate: 1/12/69)

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

(Airdate: 1/5/69)

An outlaw allows his wife (Joan Van Ark) to think she has killed him to frighten her into abandoning...

(Airdate: 12/22/68)

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

(Airdate: 12/15/68)

Hoss and Hop Sing must persuade a jury to accept fingerprints as evidence in a murder trial to save...

(Airdate: 12/8/68)

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

(Airdate: 12/1/68)

A crooked mill owner blocks the Cartwrights' attempts to reopen an ore-processing facility won by...

(Airdate: 11/17/68)

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

(Airdate: 11/10/68)

After four years as a captive, a woman (Mariette Hartley) returns to a town and husband who reject...

(Airdate: 11/3/68)

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

(Airdate: 10/27/68)

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

(Airdate: 10/20/68)

Ben holds the deciding vote in a mayoral election in which Hoss and Little Joe manage opposing...

(Airdate: 10/13/68)

Ben delivers a bull to a Texas rancher, whose son has declared the man incompetent and refuses to...

(Airdate: 10/6/68)

Only a few brave souls remain to help Ben and Little Joe defend a town jail and its occupant from...

(Airdate: 9/29/68)

The captain of an Army unit guarding a payroll learns his wife was once wed to Candy, who still...

(Airdate: 9/22/68)

Arriving in a town on a dead man's horse, Hoss is jailed for murder but freed by an itinerant...

(Airdate: 9/15/68)

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

(Airdate: 7/28/68)

Little Joe and Hoss court the same woman and wind up involving the clan with brawlers.

(Airdate: 7/7/68)

To finance her opera career, a Gypsy (Susan Strasberg) tries to maneuver a proposal from one of the...

(Airdate: 6/2/68)

Substitute-teacher Little Joe is forced into a fight with an uneducated man who insists his two...

(Airdate: 5/26/68)

Swindled out of a cattle herd, Little Joe, Candy and a cowhand head to the thieves' fortified...

(Airdate: 5/19/68)

Remorseful Hoss offers a job to the teenage son of the man he killed as part of a posse; guest Jim...

(Airdate: 5/12/68)

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

(Airdate: 5/5/68)

A pardoned bank robber takes revenge on prosecution witnesses Ben and Candy by imprisoning them in a...

(Airdate: 4/28/68)

A lovesick Indian (Lou Antonio) is wrongly accused of killing a rival, threatening Hoss' attempts to...

(Airdate: 4/14/68)

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

(Airdate: 4/7/68)

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

(Airdate: 3/17/68)

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

(Airdate: 3/10/68)

After losing his girl (Tisha Sterling) to Little Joe, Candy learns she is being blackmailed into...

(Airdate: 3/3/68)

An assassin's bullet only wounds Ben, but he allows rumors of his death to circulate in order to...

(Airdate: 2/25/68)

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

(Airdate: 2/18/68)

Wounded Ben is threatened with robbery and death after three outlaws trick Little Joe and Hoss into...

(Airdate: 2/4/68)

Ben tries to prevent a riot after a wealthy man buys the only supply of salt from a city woman (Kim...

(Airdate: 1/28/68)

The Indian wife of a new Ponderosa ranch hand runs to Ben when a lynch mob threatens to hang her;...

(Airdate: 1/21/68)

Ben disapproves when a man (Albert Salmi) hired by the Cattlemen's Association to stop rustlers uses...

(Airdate: 1/14/68)

A lawyer kills a judge to avenge his brother's hanging, then bribes a photographer to provide him a...

(Airdate: 1/7/68)

A banker gathers a posse and sets out after a recently released convict (Bruce Dern), believing him...

(Airdate: 12/24/67)

Town residents ridicule Hoss' attempts to help a friend find gold with an inventor's (Wally Cox)...

(Airdate: 12/17/67)

Hoss feels he has testified mistakenly in court after seeing an accused murderer's double (Simon...

(Airdate: 12/3/67)

An avaricious man attempts murder and false arrest to prevent his nephew (James MacArthur) from...

(Airdate: 11/26/67)

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

(Airdate: 11/19/67)

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

(Airdate: 11/12/67)

A vengeful gambler targets a man who changed his mind about ordering his daughter (Kim Darby) to...

(Airdate: 11/5/67)

Paiutes attack a group, including the Cartwrights and Candy, and capture an accused killer's (Steve...

(Airdate: 10/29/67)

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

(Airdate: 10/22/67)

The Cartwright sons, Candy and a girl become targets after witnessing a murder and robbery committed...

(Airdate: 10/15/67)

The cohorts of a wounded outlaw come to look for stolen money he hid before seeking help from the...

(Airdate: 10/8/67)

The Cartwrights conduct their own investigation when Candy is arrested for the murder of a rich...

(Airdate: 10/1/67)

A band of misfits plans to rescue kidnapped Little Joe, kill him and keep the ransom of $25,000 in...

(Airdate: 9/24/67)

The fanatical followers of Wabuska, a Paiute prisoner being escorted to prison, surround commander...

(Airdate: 9/17/67)

Hoss and Ben find themselves fighting Indians to protect a motley group led by a medicine-show...

(Airdate: 5/14/67)

A legal technicality may prevent Ben from stopping an unscrupulous mine owner who believes gold has...

(Airdate: 5/7/67)

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

(Airdate: 4/30/67)

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

(Airdate: 4/23/67)

A girl who holds Little Joe responsible for murdering her brother offers a $1,000 reward to anyone...

(Airdate: 4/16/67)

A boy who models himself after Napoleon terrorizes Virginia City and ambushes Hoss with his army of...

(Airdate: 4/9/67)

A land-hungry foreman plots to keep Ben from paying a rancher's back taxes by framing Little Joe for...

(Airdate: 4/2/67)

An outlaw (Lloyd Bochner) introduces himself as a Russian nobleman to get close to a countess and...

(Airdate: 3/26/67)

Ranchers frame an Italian emigrant for murder to halt his plans for a vineyard on the Ponderosa.

(Airdate: 3/12/67)

A Texas lawman shatters a young drifter's (Richard Evans) hopes of a new life on the Ponderosa.

(Airdate: 3/5/67)

Inspired by detective novels, Little Joe tries to prove two strangers are planning to rob the...

(Airdate: 2/26/67)

Little Joe stands in the way of a vengeful guard's plans to find a legal method of executing two...

(Airdate: 2/19/67)

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

(Airdate: 2/12/67)

An outlaw band's wounded cook (Henry Darrow) must decide between loyalty to the gang and gratitude...

(Airdate: 2/5/67)

Little Joe's visit to a friend's farm turns dangerous when the woman's husband returns as the...

(Airdate: 1/29/67)

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

(Airdate: 1/22/67)

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

(Airdate: 1/15/67)

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

(Airdate: 1/8/67)

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

(Airdate: 1/1/67)

Hoss and Little Joe raise rabbits for fur coats, then find they lack the heart to finish the job;...

(Airdate: 12/25/66)

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

(Airdate: 12/18/66)

An outlaw's harassment forces his wife to leave her deaf son and the safety of the Cartwright home.

(Airdate: 12/4/66)

Little Joe helps bolster a plain girl's (Joanne Linville) self-esteem to catch a widower's eye.

(Airdate: 11/27/66)

Searching for a gunman who wounded mainly Little Joe's pride, Hoss confronts two rowdy brothers and...

(Airdate: 11/20/66)

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

(Airdate: 11/13/66)

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

(Airdate: 11/6/66)

An old man's untrue boast that he single-handedly killed an outlaw puts him in mortal danger from...

(Airdate: 10/30/66)

Unaware Ben has saved her land by paying back taxes, a Boston woman thinks the Cartwrights are...

(Airdate: 10/23/66)

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

(Airdate: 10/16/66)

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

(Airdate: 10/9/66)

A lynch mob chases Little Joe and the Mormon family, including a pregnant woman, across the desert;...

(Airdate: 10/2/66)

A Mormon rancher (Eric Fleming) and his wives (Dina Merrill, Lois Nettleton) are persecuted by their...

(Airdate: 9/25/66)

An aging trail hand, bitter after Little Joe asks Ben to give him an easier job, falls prey to a...

(Airdate: 9/18/66)

A poor Southern colonel and his granddaughter (Julie Parrish) unknowingly involve the Cartwrights in...

(Airdate: 9/11/66)

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

(Airdate: 5/15/66)

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

(Airdate: 5/8/66)

Ben becomes a pawn in an army colonel's plot to destroy an Indian tribe that massacred his family.

(Airdate: 5/1/66)

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

(Airdate: 4/24/66)

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

(Airdate: 4/17/66)

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

(Airdate: 4/10/66)

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

(Airdate: 4/3/66)

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

(Airdate: 3/27/66)

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

(Airdate: 3/20/66)

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

(Airdate: 3/6/66)

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

(Airdate: 2/27/66)

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

(Airdate: 2/20/66)

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

(Airdate: 2/13/66)

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

(Airdate: 2/6/66)

After rowdies accidentally kill the deputy, townsfolk hire Wes Dunn (Eric Fleming) to restore order...

(Airdate: 1/30/66)

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

(Airdate: 1/23/66)

The Paiutes intensify their attacks on the Pony Express and Little Joe barely escapes death while...

(Airdate: 1/16/66)

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

(Airdate: 1/9/66)

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

(Airdate: 1/2/66)

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

(Airdate: 12/19/65)

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

(Airdate: 12/12/65)

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

(Airdate: 12/5/65)

The Lassiters kidnap Little Joe and threaten to kill him unless Harry Lassiter is released from...

(Airdate: 11/21/65)

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

(Airdate: 11/14/65)

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

(Airdate: 11/7/65)

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

(Airdate: 10/31/65)

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

(Airdate: 10/24/65)

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

(Airdate: 10/17/65)

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

(Airdate: 10/10/65)

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

(Airdate: 10/3/65)

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

(Airdate: 9/26/65)

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

(Airdate: 9/19/65)

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

(Airdate: 9/12/65)

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

(Airdate: 5/23/65)

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

(Airdate: 5/16/65)

Hoss and Little Joe fear Ben has fallen for an opera singer (Viveca Lindfors) he engaged for the...

(Airdate: 5/9/65)

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

(Airdate: 5/2/65)

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

(Airdate: 4/25/65)

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

(Airdate: 4/18/65)

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

(Airdate: 4/11/65)

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

(Airdate: 4/4/65)

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

(Airdate: 3/28/65)

When a widow announces plans to marry Little Joe, the citizens of Virginia City doubt his story that...

(Airdate: 3/21/65)

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

(Airdate: 3/7/65)

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

(Airdate: 2/28/65)

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

(Airdate: 2/21/65)

When an aging trapeze artist's (Cesar Romero) pretty assistant shows interest in Little Joe, her...

(Airdate: 2/14/65)

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

(Airdate: 2/7/65)

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

(Airdate: 1/31/65)

Adam comes to the defense of a professional assassin (Earl Holliman) with a hair trigger, accused of...

(Airdate: 1/24/65)

A saloon dancer refuses to believe she may have the talent for ballet, until she meets a former...

(Airdate: 1/17/65)

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

(Airdate: 1/10/65)

Little Joe competes for the affections of a woman who gets herself in trouble when she sets off to...

(Airdate: 1/3/65)

In a plan to recoup his gambling losses, Little Joe sets Hoss on a rigorous training schedule to...

(Airdate: 12/27/64)

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

(Airdate: 12/20/64)

Adam is jailed for stagecoach robbery when authorities fail to believe the real robber was chased...

(Airdate: 12/13/64)

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

(Airdate: 12/6/64)

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

(Airdate: 11/22/64)

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

(Airdate: 11/15/64)

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

(Airdate: 11/8/64)

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

(Airdate: 11/1/64)

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

(Airdate: 10/25/64)

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

(Airdate: 10/18/64)

A former convict (Dan Duryea) asks Ben to help him convince lawmen and bounty hunters he knows...

(Airdate: 10/11/64)

A suave stranger's reputation changes when his girlfriend admits killing her father, who disapproved...

(Airdate: 10/4/64)

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

(Airdate: 9/27/64)

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

(Airdate: 9/20/64)

Little Joe tries to help a timid man who has has been challenged to a gunfight by his girlfriend's...

(Airdate: 5/17/64)

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

(Airdate: 5/17/64)

Reluctant bridegroom Adam, recuperating from a serious back injury, discovers that his fiancee Laura...

(Airdate: 5/10/64)

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

(Airdate: 5/3/64)

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

(Airdate: 4/26/64)

A black singer (William Marshall) returns to Virginia City after a successful European tour and is...

(Airdate: 4/19/64)

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

(Airdate: 4/12/64)

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

(Airdate: 4/5/64)

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

(Airdate: 3/29/64)

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

(Airdate: 3/22/64)

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

(Airdate: 3/15/64)

Adam stands by Sheriff Coffee when Virginia City residents claim that the aging lawman is no match...

(Airdate: 3/8/64)

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

(Airdate: 3/1/64)

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

(Airdate: 2/23/64)

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

(Airdate: 2/16/64)

Little Joe is convinced he loves a girl he blinded in a hunting accident who is now recuperating on...

(Airdate: 2/9/64)

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

(Airdate: 2/2/64)

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

(Airdate: 1/26/64)

The Army arrests Little Joe after a deserter and murder suspect, whom Joe resembles, forces him to...

(Airdate: 1/19/64)

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

(Airdate: 1/12/64)

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

(Airdate: 1/5/64)

A judge (Andrew Duggan) falls for an accused murderess and runaway dance hall girl being protected...

(Airdate: 12/29/63)

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

(Airdate: 12/22/63)

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

(Airdate: 12/15/63)

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

(Airdate: 12/8/63)

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

(Airdate: 11/17/63)

Little Joe promises to keep the secret of a man who claims his friend hopelessly trapped under a...

(Airdate: 11/10/63)

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

(Airdate: 11/3/63)

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

(Airdate: 10/27/63)

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

(Airdate: 10/20/63)

Adam joins in a struggle against a businessman (Morgan Woodward) terrorizing a town and threatening...

(Airdate: 10/13/63)

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

(Airdate: 10/6/63)

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

(Airdate: 9/29/63)

While on a visit to Virginia City, Charles Dickens (Jonathan Harris) refuses to defend himself after...

(Airdate: 9/22/63)

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

(Airdate: 5/26/63)

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

(Airdate: 5/19/63)

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

(Airdate: 5/12/63)

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

(Airdate: 5/5/63)

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

(Airdate: 4/28/63)

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

(Airdate: 4/21/63)

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

(Airdate: 4/7/63)

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

(Airdate: 3/31/63)

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

(Airdate: 3/24/63)

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

(Airdate: 3/17/63)

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

(Airdate: 3/10/63)

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

(Airdate: 3/3/63)

Grieving Dutch parents take Hoss, suffering from amnesia after a blow to the head, to replace their...

(Airdate: 2/24/63)

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

(Airdate: 2/17/63)

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

(Airdate: 2/10/63)

Ben recalls how he fought a professional duelist in New Orleans to restore the honor of his third...

(Airdate: 2/3/63)

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

(Airdate: 1/27/63)

The sheriff reveals that a wounded man brought by Hoss to the Ponderosa is wanted for robbery and...

(Airdate: 1/20/63)

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

(Airdate: 1/13/63)

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

(Airdate: 1/6/63)

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

(Airdate: 12/30/62)

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

(Airdate: 12/23/62)

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

(Airdate: 12/16/62)

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

(Airdate: 12/9/62)

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

(Airdate: 12/2/62)

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

(Airdate: 11/25/62)

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

(Airdate: 11/18/62)

Romantic complications trouble Hoss after he generously volunteers to help out a friend who is...

(Airdate: 11/4/62)

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

(Airdate: 10/29/62)

Surrounded by a posse, a fleeing killer (Robert Vaughn) holds Adam and others hostage at a...

(Airdate: 10/21/62)

An Army deserter being sought on the Ponderosa is the Cartwrights' friend and neighbor; guest Claude...

(Airdate: 10/14/62)

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

(Airdate: 10/7/62)

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

(Airdate: 9/30/62)

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

(Airdate: 9/23/62)

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

(Airdate: 5/20/62)

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

(Airdate: 5/13/62)

A dying elderly mountain man asks Little Joe to take his granddaughter to meet her paternal...

(Airdate: 5/6/62)

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

(Airdate: 4/29/62)

The Cartwrights take in a wounded man, his daughter and her fiance after they claim to have been...

(Airdate: 4/22/62)

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

(Airdate: 4/15/62)

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

(Airdate: 4/8/62)

Adam finds a prospector's camp, while wandering in the desert after being robbed, and is tortured by...

(Airdate: 4/1/62)

A crooked sheriff, his deputy and a thug frame the Cartwrights for bank robbery; guest Ben Johnson.

(Airdate: 3/18/62)

Ben helps future Nobel Prize-winner Albert Abraham Michelson obtain an education after being...

(Airdate: 3/11/62)

Ben comes to regret suggesting a neighboring rancher as a temporary replacement for wounded Sheriff...

(Airdate: 3/4/62)

The Cartwrights play matchmakers to help a Ponderosa ranch hand learn the art of romance and win the...

(Airdate: 2/25/62)

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

(Airdate: 2/18/62)

Adam senses trouble between a man and his wife while searching for cattle rustlers and is convinced...

(Airdate: 2/11/62)

The Cartwrights refuse to join vigilantes to stop drought-stricken farmers from encroaching on their...

(Airdate: 2/4/62)

The Cartwrights allow a shiftless man to pose as head of the ranch to prevent his Irish grandmother...

(Airdate: 1/28/62)

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

(Airdate: 1/21/62)

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

(Airdate: 1/14/62)

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

(Airdate: 1/7/62)

Hoss loses the woman he loves to a swindler who is only interested in her father's money; guest Sean...

(Airdate: 12/31/61)

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

(Airdate: 12/24/61)

The Cartwrights reluctantly agree to help a blind, orphaned girl find her grandfather.

(Airdate: 12/17/61)

Little Joe finds himself in a trap when a criminal arranges to take over a small town near the...

(Airdate: 12/10/61)

A Frenchman, believing himself to be the reincarnation of French poet Francois Villon, wishes to die...

(Airdate: 12/3/61)

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

(Airdate: 11/26/61)

A cowboy paralyzed while breaking a horse loses his will to live and attempts suicide.

(Airdate: 11/19/61)

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

(Airdate: 11/12/61)

Little Joe helps a convict (Dean Jones) who saved his life gain freedom and adjust to life outside...

(Airdate: 11/5/61)

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

(Airdate: 10/29/61)

A cowboy kills the new lover of a woman who jilted him; guest Robert Culp.

(Airdate: 10/22/61)

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