Bonanza (1959)
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
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8x01 Something Hurt, Something Wild
11 September, 1966 8:00 am
The Cartwrights' friendship with a neighboring rancher is threatened by his mentally unstable daughter.
8x02 Horse of a Different Hue
18 September, 1966 8:00 am
So the Cartwrights will not be killed, one of Ben's oldest friends must make sure Joe does not win a horse race.
8x03 A Time to Step Down
25 September, 1966 8:00 am
After the Cartwrights put wrangler Dan Tolliver out to pasture, the embittered old man plans to take part in robbing the Ponderosa.
8x04 The Pursued (1)
02 October, 1966 8:00 am
A Mormon with two wives is badgered by the town's people and then things get much worse.
8x05 The Pursued (2)
09 October, 1966 8:00 am
As the persecuted party awaits Ben and Hoss' return, Herber is shot and killed. Joe retaliates and shoots Herber's assassin.
8x06 To Bloom for Thee
16 October, 1966 8:00 am
Hoss is engaged to Carol Attley, a troubled woman with a past darker than he imagines.
8x07 Credit for a Kill
23 October, 1966 7:00 am
Though his friend is badly in need of the reward money, Joe insists it belongs to him, to protect his friend from the dead outlaws' brothers.
8x08 Four Sisters from Boston
30 October, 1966 7:00 am
The Cartwrights come to the rescue of four inexperienced homesteaders, when devious cattle ranchers try to run them off their property.
8x09 Old Charlie
06 November, 1966 8:00 am
A young cowpoke is killed during a fight with Hoss, but the old blowhard who runs the Virginia City stables, takes the credit, placing him in danger from the dead man's brothers.
8x10 Ballad of the Ponderosa
13 November, 1966 8:00 am
A young troubadour, who blames Ben for the death of his father, returns to Virginia City. In one scene, Ben says the young man is welcome to use Adam's guitar.
8x11 The Oath
20 November, 1966 8:00 am
While in another town, on business, Ben runs into a saloon employee who is a big figure, and after he kills an old miner, who has burned down his house, Ben takes him into the sheriff. He is sentenced and hung. Before his departure, Charlie Monahan, has made his half-breed son, Charlie Two, swear an oath to kill Ben. Little Joe is made aware of this and must track him down to prevent him from carrying out his oath against Ben. Charlie Two is unaware that Joe is Ben's son, as they meet on the trail.
8x12 A Real Nice, Friendly Little Town
27 November, 1966 8:00 am
When the woman he was planning to marry is strangled, Joe forces the only suspect to come forward, in a very tense-filled episode.
8x13 The Bridegroom
04 December, 1966 8:00 am
Joe plays matchmaker in this story of a rancher attempting to marry off his supposedly unremarkable daughter.
8x14 Tommy
18 December, 1966 8:00 am
The Cartwrights protect a woman and her deaf-mute little son from the boy's outlaw stepfather.
8x15 A Christmas Story
25 December, 1966 8:00 am
Warbling Andy Walker returns to Virginia City a big success, along with his shifty Uncle Thaddeus.
8x16 Ponderosa Explosion
01 January, 1967 8:00 am
Two Virginia City old-timers fool Hoss and Joe into raising rabbits, and the Ponderosa is overrun with paws and whiskers.
8x17 Justice
08 January, 1967 8:00 am
When the woman he was planning to marry is strangled, Joe forces the only suspect to come forward.
8x18 A Bride for Buford
15 January, 1967 8:00 am
Dolly Bantree has a crooked manager "Blackie", who blackmails Dolly to fleece newly rich miner Buford out of his newfound wealth. Hoss suspects something and gets all duded up to pose as a rich mark to test Dolly.
8x19 Black Friday
22 January, 1967 8:00 am
In the town of Chiso, Joe encounters a former Ponderosa cowhand who is now a gunfighter and expecting to be killed on Friday the 13th. John Saxon makes the first of his three appearances in the series, in this episode as Steven Friday.
8x20 The Unseen Wound
29 January, 1967 8:00 am
Ben discovers that his friend, Sheriff Paul Rowan, is suffering from stress brought on by his wartime experiences.
8x21 Journey to Terror
05 February, 1967 8:00 am
Joe visits his married friends in Arizona Territory, only to discover the husband has become a criminal and is secretly part of a notorious gang.
8x22 Amigo
12 February, 1967 8:00 am
A wounded comanchero sides with the Cartwrights when the rest of the gang, led by Captain Fenner, shows up to burn and rob the Ponderosa.
8x23 A Woman in the House
19 February, 1967 8:00 am
Mary Wharton, an old friend of the family, comes to live on the Ponderosa with her shiftless husband. When Ben learns Mary is the victim of domestic abuse, he sends Russ packing.
8x24 Judgment at Red Creek
26 February, 1967 8:00 am
Hoss and Joe have their doubts as to who really robbed a way station, suspecting the two men they captured are innocent.
8x25 Joe Cartwright, Detective
05 March, 1967 8:00 am
Joe becomes fascinated by detective literature and drags Hoss into the picture when he suspects the bank is going to be robbed.
8x26 Dark Enough to See the Stars
12 March, 1967 8:00 am
Young Billy Wilcox wanders onto the Ponderosa, sick, hungry, and alone. Ben finds him, and after he regains his strength, offers Billy a job. Jennifer Yardley, who with her father is visiting the Cartwrights, is interested in Billy. Billy is more concerned about a lawman that has come to town because he has a past that could be problematic: he killed a man in self-defense and ran.
8x27 The Deed and the Dilemma
26 March, 1967 9:00 am
Ben assists Georgio Rossi in his battle for water on adjoining property.
8x28 The Prince
02 April, 1967 9:00 am
The Cartwrights play host to Russian royals, who are the target of jewel thieves.
8x29 A Man Without Land
09 April, 1967 9:00 am
The foreman of a neighboring ranch frames Joe for murder as part of a scheme to get his employer's property.
8x30 Napoleon's Children
16 April, 1967 9:00 am
A gang of juvenile delinquents, led by an intelligent runt, who calls himself Napoleon, terrorizes Virginia City and the Ponderosa as well.
8x31 The Wormwood Cup
23 April, 1967 9:00 am
A woman - convinced Little Joe intentionally killed her brother - offers $1,000 to the man who kills the youngest Cartwright in what she deems a "fair fight." Joe, meanwhile, must overcome his guilt over killing another man in self defense while trying to avoid the dead man's bitterly grieving father.
8x32 Clarissa
30 April, 1967 9:00 am
The Cartwrights' cousin, Clarissa visits. Her assertive, snobbish ways result in nothing but trouble for Ben and his sons.
8x33 Maestro Hoss
07 May, 1967 8:00 am
Hoss is conned into buying a violin from a gypsy fortune teller, and everyone on the Ponderosa--except for Hop Sing--suffers the consequences.
8x34 The Greedy Ones
14 May, 1967 8:00 am
The Ponderosa is in danger of being overrun by gold hunters.
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