Bonanza
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
⨁Full Cast & CrewUpcoming TV Airings
The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.
Wednesday, July 16
The Twenty-Sixth Grave
Season 14 • Episode 8
Editor Samuel Clemens asks the Cartwrights to help him prove a government assayer is a killer.
Wednesday, July 16
Credit for a Kill
Season 8 • Episode 7
Little Joe lays claim to killing a wanted man in order to protect the real killer.
Wednesday, July 16
The Witness
Season 11 • Episode 2
A woman becomes a murder target when she reveals that she can identify robbers.
Thursday, July 17
Stallion
Season 14 • Episode 9
Little Joe must risk his beloved stallion to save a wounded boy.
Thursday, July 17
Four Sisters From Boston
Season 8 • Episode 8
Four women from the East come out West to take over their late uncle's ranch.
Thursday, July 17
Silence at Stillwater
Season 11 • Episode 3
While on an errand for Ben, Candy is jailed in the town of Stillwater on a multiple murder charge.
Friday, July 18
The Hidden Enemy
Season 14 • Episode 10
A doctor's morphine addiction is revealed during his trial for murder.
Friday, July 18
Old Charlie
Season 8 • Episode 9
An old boaster's tall tale about a single-handed conquest brings danger to town.
Friday, July 18
A Lawman's Lot Is Not a Happy One
Season 11 • Episode 4
Hoss runs afoul of local sentiments when he takes the sheriff's job on a temporary basis.
Saturday, July 19
Anatomy of a Lynching
Season 11 • Episode 5
Virginia City is roused when popular belief holds that eyewitnesses lied in a murder trial.
Sunday, July 20
Five Sundowns to Sunup
Season 7 • Episode 12
When Ma Lassiter's son is sentenced to hang for murder, she takes matters into her own hands.
Monday, July 21
The Sound of Loneliness
Season 14 • Episode 11
An elderly man (Jack Albertson) takes in runaway orphan brothers, one of whom is mute.
Monday, July 21
The Oath
Season 8 • Episode 11
When Ben takes a man in for killing a miner, the man's son swears to kill Ben.
Monday, July 21
The Last Trophy
Season 1 • Episode 27
A Britisher (Edward Ashley), once a great game hunter, visits the Ponderosa and displays cowardice.
Monday, July 21
San Francisco
Season 1 • Episode 28
Two traildrivers are shanghaied shortly after the Ponderosa cattle herd arrives in San Francisco.
Monday, July 21
To Stop a War
Season 11 • Episode 6
A range detective, hired to stop cattle thieves, is suspected of accepting payoffs and murder.
Monday, July 21
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, July 21
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, July 21
Dark Star
Season 1 • Episode 31
Little Joe falls for a Gypsy who believes she is a witch and, therefore, an outcast.
Monday, July 21
Death at Dawn
Season 1 • Episode 32
The deputized Cartwrights sentence a murderer to hang at dawn.
Monday, July 21
Showdown
Season 2 • Episode 1
A bank robber takes a job with the Cartwrights to hide his accomplices on the Ponderosa.
Monday, July 21
The Mission
Season 2 • Episode 2
Hoss befriends a former Army scout (Henry Hull) who drinks to forget the massacre of his troop.
Monday, July 21
Badge Without Honor
Season 2 • Episode 3
A Deputy U.S. Marshal arrives to accompany a Cartwright friend back to a California court.
Tuesday, July 22
The Mill
Season 2 • Episode 4
A hired hand (Claude Akins) victimizes the Cartwrights' disabled neighbor (Harry Townes).
Tuesday, July 22
The Hopefuls
Season 2 • Episode 5
Outlaws plot to steal a trunk containing the savings of a religious group.
Tuesday, July 22
Denver McKee
Season 2 • Episode 6
The Cartwrights help a former decorated Army scout find security for his daughter.
Tuesday, July 22
Day of Reckoning
Season 2 • Episode 7
Hoss' bandit uncle (Neville Brand) decides to bypass the Ponderosa, but his gang disagrees.
Tuesday, July 22
The Abduction
Season 2 • Episode 8
Little Joe and Hoss seek Joe's date, who disappeared while the trio was at a carnival.
Tuesday, July 22
The Bucket Dog
Season 14 • Episode 12
To keep his Irish setter, Jamie must enter her in a field trial against a champion.
Tuesday, July 22
A Nice, Friendly Little Town
Season 8 • Episode 12
Hoss' efforts to solve a crime are blocked by two rowdies, their mother and pals.
Tuesday, July 22
The Medal
Season 11 • Episode 7
Tensions mount when the Cartwrights take in a penniless Civil War hero from the North.
Wednesday, July 23
First Love
Season 14 • Episode 13
Jamie falls for the wife (Pamela Franklin) of an insanely jealous schoolmaster (Jordan Rhodes).
Wednesday, July 23
Black Friday
Season 8 • Episode 19
Little Joe risks his life to help a gunfighter get in shape for a duel.
Wednesday, July 23
The Stalker
Season 11 • Episode 8
A vengeful widow hires an assassin after Candy kills her husband, a bank robber.
Thursday, July 24
The Witness
Season 14 • Episode 14
Griff tries to locate the witness (Sally Kemp) who can clear Candy of murder and theft charges.
Thursday, July 24
Unseen Wound
Season 8 • Episode 20
A veteran sheriff goes berserk and turns his gun on his own friends.
Thursday, July 24
Meena
Season 11 • Episode 9
Escaping kidnappers, Little Joe's aided by a girl who misinterprets his gratitude.
Friday, July 25
The Marriage of Theodora Duffy
Season 14 • Episode 15
The Cartwrights' new hired hand is not all she appears to be.
Friday, July 25
Journey to Terror
Season 8 • Episode 21
Little Joe visits the barren farm of an old friend where a desperado is hiding.
Friday, July 25
A Darker Shadow
Season 11 • Episode 10
When a bank employee abruptly leaves town, he is suspected of embezzling.
Saturday, July 26
Dead Wrong
Season 11 • Episode 11
A man known for his outrageous tales mistakenly identifies Hoss and Candy as bank robbers.
Sunday, July 27
A Natural Wizard
Season 7 • Episode 13
Hoss releases a boy caught in one of his stepfather's traps and brings him to the Ponderosa to live.
Monday, July 28
The Hunter
Season 14 • Episode 16
An escaped mental patient (Tom Skerritt) makes Joe the object of a bizarre hunt.
Monday, July 28
Breed of Violence
Season 2 • Episode 9
Bank robbers hide on a ranch that Hoss and Little Joe are visiting.
Monday, July 28
The Last Viking
Season 2 • Episode 10
For saving his life, Ben offers some Ponderosa farmland to an American Indian.
Monday, July 28
Old Friends
Season 11 • Episode 12
Two old friends, a sheriff turned bounty hunter and an escaped criminal, pull at Ben's loyalties.
Monday, July 28
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, July 28
The Savage
Season 2 • Episode 12
When Adam passes through a sacred Indian burial ground, Shoshone braves attack him in revenge.
Monday, July 28
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, July 28
The Ape
Season 2 • Episode 14
Adam and Little Joe try to warn Hoss when he befriends a violent man (Cal Bolder).
Monday, July 28
The Blood Line
Season 2 • Episode 15
An Easterner looking for his father learns a Cartwright killed him in self-defense.
Monday, July 28
The Courtship
Season 2 • Episode 16
Adam tells betrothed Hoss his intended is a compulsive gambler who caused her husband's death.
Monday, July 28
The Spitfire
Season 2 • Episode 17
A Kentucky mountain clan swears revenge on Little Joe after he shoots a family member for arson.
Tuesday, July 29
The Gunmen
Season 1 • Episode 19
Little Joe and Hoss, mistaken for gunmen, get caught between feuding families.
Tuesday, July 29
The Fear Merchants
Season 1 • Episode 20
A mayoral candidate hires two hoodlums to harass Chinese residents, resulting in murder.
Tuesday, July 29
Spanish Grant
Season 1 • Episode 21
Ex-dancehall girl poses as Spanish aristocrat to obtain large piece of property.
Tuesday, July 29
Blood on the Land
Season 1 • Episode 22
Disreputable shepherd moves herd across Ponderosa, destroying rich pasture land.
Tuesday, July 29
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, July 29
Lothario Larkin
Season 6 • Episode 30
Irate fathers want a charming, roguish drifter (Noah Beery) run out of town.
Tuesday, July 29
Abner Willoughby's Return
Season 11 • Episode 13
Returning to recover his loot, merchant seaman finds a town grown up on the site.
Wednesday, July 30
The Debt
Season 7 • Episode 1
Wiley and Annie Kane decide to regain the honor of their name.
Wednesday, July 30
It's a Small World
Season 11 • Episode 14
The Cartwrights befriend a circus midget who is discriminated against when he seeks work.
Thursday, July 31
The Dilemma
Season 7 • Episode 2
Ben refuses a robber's offer to return the loot in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
Thursday, July 31
Danger Road
Season 11 • Episode 15
Ben faces a dilemma as he needs the help of a man he knows is a war-time deserter.
Friday, August 1
The Brass Box
Season 7 • Episode 3
A man (Ramon Navarro) who boasts about his ancestry possesses a legitimate land grant.
Friday, August 1
The Big Jackpot
Season 11 • Episode 16
Candy (David Canary) has a host of new friends after inheriting a fortune.
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