Bonanza
TVPG
Drama
Western
Set during and after the Civil War, the Cartwright clan manages their sprawling Ponderosa Ranch in Nevada, while confronting social and criminal issues of the time.
Cast & Crew
Lorne Greene Ben Cartwright
Michael Landon Little Joe Cartwright
Dan Blocker Eric "Hoss" Cartwright
Pernell Roberts Adam Cartwright
Victor Sen Yung Hop Sing
Ray Teal Sheriff Roy Coffee
Bing Russell Deputy Clem Foster
David Canary Candy
Lou Frizzell Dusty Rhoades
Mitch Vogel Jamie Hunter
Tim Matheson Griff King
David Dortort Creator
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Upcoming TV Airings
The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.
Saturday, September 27
Blind/Hunch
Season 13 • Episode 9
Jamie becomes the eyes for a blind man (Rip Torn) seeking his brother's killer.
Monday, September 29
Justice
Season 8 • Episode 17
Little Joe's romance with a pretty bank clerk is threatened by a lovesick youth.
Monday, September 29
Badge Without Honor
Season 2 • Episode 3
A Deputy U.S. Marshal arrives to accompany a Cartwright friend back to a California court.
Monday, September 29
The Mill
Season 2 • Episode 4
A hired hand (Claude Akins) victimizes the Cartwrights' disabled neighbor (Harry Townes).
Monday, September 29
The Iron Butterfly
Season 13 • Episode 10
Hoss confesses to a murder committed by a celebrity (Mariette Hartley) he is protecting.
Monday, September 29
The Hopefuls
Season 2 • Episode 5
Outlaws plot to steal a trunk containing the savings of a religious group.
Monday, September 29
Denver McKee
Season 2 • Episode 6
The Cartwrights help a former decorated Army scout find security for his daughter.
Monday, September 29
Day of Reckoning
Season 2 • Episode 7
Hoss' bandit uncle (Neville Brand) decides to bypass the Ponderosa, but his gang disagrees.
Monday, September 29
The Abduction
Season 2 • Episode 8
Little Joe and Hoss seek Joe's date, who disappeared while the trio was at a carnival.
Monday, September 29
Breed of Violence
Season 2 • Episode 9
Bank robbers hide on a ranch that Hoss and Little Joe are visiting.
Monday, September 29
The Last Viking
Season 2 • Episode 10
For saving his life, Ben offers some Ponderosa farmland to an American Indian.
Monday, September 29
The Trail Gang
Season 2 • Episode 11
An outlaw joins the cattle drive, knowing it will take him to the town where his father is sheriff.
Monday, September 29
The Savage
Season 2 • Episode 12
When Adam passes through a sacred Indian burial ground, Shoshone braves attack him in revenge.
Tuesday, September 30
Silent Thunder
Season 2 • Episode 13
Little Joe's efforts to help a deaf-mute girl backfire when she falls in love with him.
Tuesday, September 30
The Ape
Season 2 • Episode 14
Adam and Little Joe try to warn Hoss when he befriends a violent man (Cal Bolder).
Tuesday, September 30
The Blood Line
Season 2 • Episode 15
An Easterner looking for his father learns a Cartwright killed him in self-defense.
Tuesday, September 30
The Courtship
Season 2 • Episode 16
Adam tells betrothed Hoss his intended is a compulsive gambler who caused her husband's death.
Tuesday, September 30
A Bride for Buford
Season 8 • Episode 18
Dancehall star tries to charm boisterous "desert rat" out of his mining riches.
Tuesday, September 30
The Rattlesnake Brigade
Season 13 • Episode 11
A gang of convicts that escaped from prison take Jamie and three others hostage.
Wednesday, October 1
A Woman in the House
Season 8 • Episode 23
Ben gets caught in a marital mess trying to protect a woman from her alcoholic husband.
Wednesday, October 1
Easy Come, Easy Go
Season 13 • Episode 12
The Cartwrights seek permission to cross a piece of land for their timber operation.
Thursday, October 2
Joe Cartwright, Detective
Season 8 • Episode 25
No one accepts Little Joe's deduction that two strangers intend to rob the bank.
Thursday, October 2
A Home for Jamie
Season 13 • Episode 13
Jamie's grandfather arrives to take him back East, but the boy runs away; guest Robert Carradine.
Friday, October 3
Warbonnet
Season 13 • Episode 14
Red Cloud may meet his death trying to retrieve an Indian headdress from Frank Ryan's saloon.
Saturday, October 4
Lonely Man
Season 13 • Episode 15
Hop Sing goes on vacation and falls in love with a woman while panning for gold.
Monday, October 6
Dark Enough to See the Stars
Season 8 • Episode 26
A Texas lawman shatters a young drifter's (Richard Evans) hopes of a new life on the Ponderosa.
Monday, October 6
Second Sight
Season 13 • Episode 16
When Jamie becomes lost, Hoss calls on Judith Corman's special powers.
Tuesday, October 7
The Deed and the Dilemma
Season 8 • Episode 27
Ranchers frame an Italian emigrant for murder to halt his plans for a vineyard on the Ponderosa.
Tuesday, October 7
Saddle Stiff
Season 13 • Episode 17
Ben fires a hired hand for improperly saddling a horse but learns he might have assumed too quickly.
Wednesday, October 8
The Prince
Season 8 • Episode 28
An outlaw introduces himself as a Russian nobleman to get close to a countess and her jewels.
Wednesday, October 8
Frenzy
Season 13 • Episode 18
Ben's friend fears for her life when her hot-tempered immigrant husband barricades their home.
Thursday, October 9
Clarissa
Season 8 • Episode 32
Ben's visiting cousin (Nina Foch) uses the Cartwrights' sympathy to gain control of the household.
Thursday, October 9
Customs of the Country
Season 13 • Episode 19
After landing in a Mexican bordertown jail, Joe and Hoss throw a party and try to escape.
Friday, October 10
Shanklin
Season 13 • Episode 20
A gang of ex-Confederates take over the Ponderosa to force Ben to give them a fortune in cash.
Saturday, October 11
Search in Limbo
Season 13 • Episode 21
Ben is linked to a murder after suffering memory loss while on a business trip.
Monday, October 13
Maestro Hoss
Season 8 • Episode 33
A Gypsy fortuneteller (Zsa Zsa Gabor) convinces Hoss he is a musical genius.
Monday, October 13
He Was Only Seven
Season 13 • Episode 22
Jamie and Joe help a man in a wheelchair who sets out on the trail of his grandson's killers.
Tuesday, October 14
The Sure Thing
Season 9 • Episode 9
A girl's father sells the horse she planned to ride in the annual race to the Cartwrights.
Tuesday, October 14
The Younger Brothers' Younger Brother
Season 13 • Episode 23
Hoss is identified as a member of the Younger brothers' gang.
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