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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Episode 1 - Something Hurt, Something Wild
Release Date: 1966-09-11The Cartwrights' friendship with a neighboring rancher is threatened by his mentally unstable daughter.
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Episode 2 - Horse of a Different Hue
Release Date: 1966-09-18So the Cartwrights will not be killed, one of Ben's oldest friends must make sure Joe does not win a horse race.
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Episode 3 - A Time to Step Down
Release Date: 1966-09-25After the Cartwrights put wrangler Dan Tolliver out to pasture, the embittered old man plans to take part in robbing the Ponderosa.
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Episode 4 - The Pursued (1)
Release Date: 1966-10-02A Mormon with two wives is badgered by the town's people and then things get much worse.
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Episode 5 - The Pursued (2)
Release Date: 1966-10-09As the persecuted party awaits Ben and Hoss' return, Herber is shot and killed. Joe retaliates and shoots Herber's assassin.
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Episode 6 - To Bloom for Thee
Release Date: 1966-10-16Hoss is engaged to Carol Attley, a troubled woman with a past darker than he imagines.
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Episode 7 - Credit for a Kill
Release Date: 1966-10-23Though 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.
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Episode 8 - Four Sisters from Boston
Release Date: 1966-10-30The Cartwrights come to the rescue of four inexperienced homesteaders, when devious cattle ranchers try to run them off their property.
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Episode 9 - Old Charlie
Release Date: 1966-11-06A 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.
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Episode 10 - Ballad of the Ponderosa
Release Date: 1966-11-13A 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.
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Episode 11 - The Oath
Release Date: 1966-11-20While 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.
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Episode 12 - A Real Nice, Friendly Little Town
Release Date: 1966-11-27When the woman he was planning to marry is strangled, Joe forces the only suspect to come forward, in a very tense-filled episode.
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Episode 13 - The Bridegroom
Release Date: 1966-12-04Joe plays matchmaker in this story of a rancher attempting to marry off his supposedly unremarkable daughter.
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Episode 14 - Tommy
Release Date: 1966-12-18The Cartwrights protect a woman and her deaf-mute little son from the boy's outlaw stepfather.
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Episode 15 - A Christmas Story
Release Date: 1966-12-25Warbling Andy Walker returns to Virginia City a big success, along with his shifty Uncle Thaddeus.
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Episode 16 - Ponderosa Explosion
Release Date: 1967-01-01Two Virginia City old-timers fool Hoss and Joe into raising rabbits, and the Ponderosa is overrun with paws and whiskers.
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Episode 17 - Justice
Release Date: 1967-01-08When the woman he was planning to marry is strangled, Joe forces the only suspect to come forward.
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Episode 18 - A Bride for Buford
Release Date: 1967-01-15Dolly 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.
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Episode 19 - Black Friday
Release Date: 1967-01-22In 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.
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Episode 20 - The Unseen Wound
Release Date: 1967-01-29Ben discovers that his friend, Sheriff Paul Rowan, is suffering from stress brought on by his wartime experiences.
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Episode 21 - Journey to Terror
Release Date: 1967-02-05Joe visits his married friends in Arizona Territory, only to discover the husband has become a criminal and is secretly part of a notorious gang.
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Episode 22 - Amigo
Release Date: 1967-02-12A wounded comanchero sides with the Cartwrights when the rest of the gang, led by Captain Fenner, shows up to burn and rob the Ponderosa.
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Episode 23 - A Woman in the House
Release Date: 1967-02-19Mary 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.
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Episode 24 - Judgment at Red Creek
Release Date: 1967-02-26Hoss and Joe have their doubts as to who really robbed a way station, suspecting the two men they captured are innocent.
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Episode 25 - Joe Cartwright, Detective
Release Date: 1967-03-05Joe becomes fascinated by detective literature and drags Hoss into the picture when he suspects the bank is going to be robbed.
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Episode 26 - Dark Enough to See the Stars
Release Date: 1967-03-12Young 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.
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Episode 27 - The Deed and the Dilemma
Release Date: 1967-03-26Ben assists Georgio Rossi in his battle for water on adjoining property.
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Episode 28 - The Prince
Release Date: 1967-04-02The Cartwrights play host to Russian royals, who are the target of jewel thieves.
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Episode 29 - A Man Without Land
Release Date: 1967-04-09The foreman of a neighboring ranch frames Joe for murder as part of a scheme to get his employer's property.
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Episode 30 - Napoleon's Children
Release Date: 1967-04-16A gang of juvenile delinquents, led by an intelligent runt, who calls himself Napoleon, terrorizes Virginia City and the Ponderosa as well.
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Episode 31 - The Wormwood Cup
Release Date: 1967-04-23A 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.
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Episode 32 - Clarissa
Release Date: 1967-04-30The Cartwrights' cousin, Clarissa visits. Her assertive, snobbish ways result in nothing but trouble for Ben and his sons.
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Episode 33 - Maestro Hoss
Release Date: 1967-05-07Hoss is conned into buying a violin from a gypsy fortune teller, and everyone on the Ponderosa--except for Hop Sing--suffers the consequences.
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Episode 34 - The Greedy Ones
Release Date: 1967-05-14The Ponderosa is in danger of being overrun by gold hunters.