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.
Thursday, January 8
Vengeance
Season 2 • Episode 21
When a blow he struck in self-defense kills a man, Hoss can't forgive himself.
Friday, January 9
The Rescue
Season 2 • Episode 23
Ben's sons persuade him to stay home while they hunt down cattle rustlers; guest Leif Erickson.
Saturday, January 10
The Dark Gate
Season 2 • Episode 24
Adam's disturbed friend (James Coburn) abandons his family and becomes an outlaw.
Monday, January 12
Breed of Violence
Season 2 • Episode 9
Bank robbers hide on a ranch that Hoss and Little Joe are visiting.
Monday, January 12
The Last Viking
Season 2 • Episode 10
For saving his life, Ben offers some Ponderosa farmland to an American Indian.
Monday, January 12
The Duke
Season 2 • Episode 25
An arrogant British prizefighter and his manager (J. Pat O'Malley) challenge Hoss to a bout.
Monday, January 12
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, January 12
The Savage
Season 2 • Episode 12
When Adam passes through a sacred Indian burial ground, Shoshone braves attack him in revenge.
Monday, January 12
Silent Thunder
Season 2 • Episode 13
Little Joe's efforts to help a deaf-mute girl backfire when she falls in love with him.
Monday, January 12
The Ape
Season 2 • Episode 14
Adam and Little Joe try to warn Hoss when he befriends a violent man.
Monday, January 12
The Blood Line
Season 2 • Episode 15
An Easterner looking for his father learns a Cartwright killed him in self-defense.
Monday, January 12
The Courtship
Season 2 • Episode 16
Adam tells betrothed Hoss his intended is a compulsive gambler who caused her husband's death.
Monday, January 12
The Spitfire
Season 2 • Episode 17
A Kentucky mountain clan swears revenge on Little Joe after he shoots a family member for arson.
Monday, January 12
The Gunmen
Season 1 • Episode 19
Little Joe and Hoss, mistaken for gunmen, get caught between feuding families.
Tuesday, January 13
The Fear Merchants
Season 1 • Episode 20
A mayoral candidate hires two hoodlums to harass Chinese residents, resulting in murder.
Tuesday, January 13
Spanish Grant
Season 1 • Episode 21
Ex-dancehall girl poses as Spanish aristocrat to obtain large piece of property.
Tuesday, January 13
Blood on the Land
Season 1 • Episode 22
Disreputable shepherd moves herd across Ponderosa, destroying rich pasture land.
Tuesday, January 13
Desert Justice
Season 1 • Episode 23
A Ponderosa ranch hand faces charges of killing the wife of the U.S. marshal who came to arrest him.
Tuesday, January 13
The Stranger
Season 1 • Episode 24
A disabled New Orleans police inspector comes to arrest Ben on a 20-year-old murder charge.
Tuesday, January 13
The Gift
Season 2 • Episode 27
Little Joe and Emeliano run into danger on a trip to buy Ben a birthday present.
Wednesday, January 14
Cutthroat Junction
Season 2 • Episode 26
The Cartwrights help a trouble-shooter stop a mob cutting off Virginia City's supplies.
Thursday, January 15
The Rival
Season 2 • Episode 28
Hoss' rival for a woman's love may be one of the masked vigilantes who hanged a man and his wife.
Friday, January 16
Thunderhead Swindle
Season 2 • Episode 30
The Cartwrights run afoul of unemployed miners when they try to discredit rumors of a silver strike.
Saturday, January 17
Sam Hill
Season 2 • Episode 34
The Cartwrights help a traveling blacksmith regain land his father once owned near the Ponderosa.
Monday, January 19
Escape to the Ponderosa
Season 1 • Episode 25
The Cartwrights help search for three Army prisoners who stole Adam's gun and hid on the Ponderosa.
Monday, January 19
The Avenger
Season 1 • Episode 26
Adam and Ben are accused of murdering a cattle buyer on the testimony of the victim's daughter.
Monday, January 19
The Infernal Machine
Season 2 • Episode 29
Hoss helps a new friend raise funds needed to construct his invention, an automobile.
Monday, January 19
The Last Trophy
Season 1 • Episode 27
A Britisher (Edward Ashley), once a great game hunter, visits the Ponderosa and displays cowardice.
Monday, January 19
San Francisco
Season 1 • Episode 28
Two traildrivers are shanghaied shortly after the Ponderosa cattle herd arrives in San Francisco.
Monday, January 19
Bitter Water
Season 1 • Episode 29
A miner persuades a prospective son-in-law to sell him land that supplies water to the Ponderosa.
Monday, January 19
Feet of Clay
Season 1 • Episode 30
The Cartwrights take in a motherless boy whose father is in prison for murder; guest David Ladd.
Monday, January 19
Dark Star
Season 1 • Episode 31
Little Joe falls for a Gypsy who believes she is a witch and, therefore, an outcast.
Monday, January 19
Death at Dawn
Season 1 • Episode 32
The deputized Cartwrights sentence a murderer to hang at dawn.
Monday, January 19
Showdown
Season 2 • Episode 1
A bank robber takes a job with the Cartwrights to hide his accomplices on the Ponderosa.
Monday, January 19
The Mission
Season 2 • Episode 2
Hoss befriends a former Army scout who drinks to forget the massacre of his troop.
Tuesday, January 20
Badge Without Honor
Season 2 • Episode 3
A Deputy U.S. Marshal arrives to accompany a Cartwright friend back to a California court.
Tuesday, January 20
The Mill
Season 2 • Episode 4
Ben tries to help his paraplegic neighbor Tom by setting up a grain mill on his unused land.
Tuesday, January 20
The Hopefuls
Season 2 • Episode 5
Outlaws plot to steal a trunk containing the savings of a religious group.
Tuesday, January 20
Denver McKee
Season 2 • Episode 6
The Cartwrights help a former decorated Army scout find security for his daughter.
Tuesday, January 20
Day of Reckoning
Season 2 • Episode 7
Hoss' bandit uncle decides to bypass the Ponderosa, but his gang disagrees.
Tuesday, January 20
The Secret
Season 2 • Episode 31
Despite a witness, Joe denies being with a girl later found slain.
Wednesday, January 21
Elizabeth, My Love
Season 2 • Episode 33
Ben helps Adam through a crisis by reliving his life with Elizabeth, Adam's mother.
Thursday, January 22
The Dream Riders
Season 2 • Episode 32
The Cartwrights believe in a balloonist and allow him to conduct experiments on the Ponderosa.
Friday, January 23
The Many Faces of Gideon Flinch
Season 3 • Episode 7
Little Joe and Hoss fall for the same woman, Jennifer Flinch.
Saturday, January 24
The Burma Rarity
Season 3 • Episode 5
Two confidence men come to Virginia City, presumably to buy property.
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