Bonanza

Bonanza - NBC

NBC

Series

1959

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.

Upcoming 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

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

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

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

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

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

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

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

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

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Friday, August 1

The Big Jackpot

Season 11 • Episode 16

Candy (David Canary) has a host of new friends after inheriting a fortune.

Saturday, August 2

The Trouble With Amy

Season 11 • Episode 17

A recalcitrant widow's refusal to abide by local ordinances results in an attempted murder charge.

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