Bonanza

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.