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, March 5
The Artist
Season 4 • Episode 3
Ben tries to help a blind man regain his dignity and take up his former career as an artist.
Friday, March 6
The Quest
Season 4 • Episode 2
Misplaced trust in a foreman leads Little Joe to outbid a dishonest man for a timber contract.
Saturday, March 7
The Deserter
Season 4 • Episode 5
The Cartwrights learn that their friend and neighbor is wanted by the Army for desertion.
Sunday, March 8
Blood on the Land
Season 1 • Episode 22
Disreputable shepherd moves herd across Ponderosa, destroying rich pasture land.
Monday, March 9
The Hopefuls
Season 2 • Episode 5
Outlaws plot to steal a trunk containing the savings of a religious group.
Monday, March 9
Denver McKee
Season 2 • Episode 6
The Cartwrights help a former decorated Army scout find security for his daughter.
Monday, March 9
Hot Day for a Hanging
Season 4 • Episode 4
Hoss is framed for robbery and murder by an unscrupulous sheriff determined to help his dying town.
Monday, March 9
Day of Reckoning
Season 2 • Episode 7
Hoss' bandit uncle decides to bypass the Ponderosa, but his gang disagrees.
Monday, March 9
The Abduction
Season 2 • Episode 8
Little Joe and Hoss seek Joe's date, who disappeared while the trio was at a carnival.
Monday, March 9
Breed of Violence
Season 2 • Episode 9
Bank robbers hide on a ranch that Hoss and Little Joe are visiting.
Monday, March 9
The Last Viking
Season 2 • Episode 10
For saving his life, Ben offers some Ponderosa farmland to an American Indian.
Monday, March 9
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, March 9
The Savage
Season 2 • Episode 12
When Adam passes through a sacred Indian burial ground, Shoshone braves attack him in revenge.
Monday, March 9
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, March 9
The Ape
Season 2 • Episode 14
Adam and Little Joe try to warn Hoss when he befriends a violent man.
Monday, March 9
The Blood Line
Season 2 • Episode 15
An Easterner looking for his father learns a Cartwright killed him in self-defense.
Tuesday, March 10
The Courtship
Season 2 • Episode 16
Adam tells betrothed Hoss his intended is a compulsive gambler who caused her husband's death.
Tuesday, March 10
The Spitfire
Season 2 • Episode 17
A Kentucky mountain clan swears revenge on Little Joe after he shoots a family member for arson.
Tuesday, March 10
The Gunmen
Season 1 • Episode 19
Little Joe and Hoss, mistaken for gunmen, get caught between feuding families.
Tuesday, March 10
The Fear Merchants
Season 1 • Episode 20
A mayoral candidate hires two hoodlums to harass Chinese residents, resulting in murder.
Tuesday, March 10
The First Born
Season 4 • Episode 1
A stranger with a fast gun and a mysterious past claims to be Little Joe's older half brother.
Wednesday, March 11
The Jury
Season 4 • Episode 14
Despite intense pressure, juror Hoss maintains doubt that a derelict committed murder.
Thursday, March 12
The Deadly Ones
Season 4 • Episode 10
A wagonload of gold intended for Mexican revolutionaries crosses the Ponderosa.
Friday, March 13
Knight Errant
Season 4 • Episode 8
Hoss volunteers his assistance when a friend's mail-order bride doesn't show up on schedule.
Saturday, March 14
The Good Samaritan
Season 4 • Episode 13
Hoss gets into trouble as he attempts to help two unfortunate people.
Sunday, March 15
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.
Monday, March 16
Spanish Grant
Season 1 • Episode 21
Ex-dancehall girl poses as Spanish aristocrat to obtain large piece of property.
Monday, March 16
Blood on the Land
Season 1 • Episode 22
Disreputable shepherd moves herd across Ponderosa, destroying rich pasture land.
Monday, March 16
The Way Station
Season 4 • Episode 6
A killer takes the passengers of a stagecoach hostage when he is surrounded in a way station.
Monday, March 16
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.
Monday, March 16
The Stranger
Season 1 • Episode 24
A disabled New Orleans police inspector comes to arrest Ben on a 20-year-old murder charge.
Monday, March 16
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, March 16
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, March 16
The Last Trophy
Season 1 • Episode 27
A Britisher (Edward Ashley), once a great game hunter, visits the Ponderosa and displays cowardice.
Monday, March 16
San Francisco
Season 1 • Episode 28
Two traildrivers are shanghaied shortly after the Ponderosa cattle herd arrives in San Francisco.
Monday, March 16
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, March 16
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, March 16
Dark Star
Season 1 • Episode 31
Little Joe falls for a Gypsy who believes she is a witch and, therefore, an outcast.
Tuesday, March 17
Death at Dawn
Season 1 • Episode 32
The deputized Cartwrights sentence a murderer to hang at dawn.
Tuesday, March 17
Showdown
Season 2 • Episode 1
A bank robber takes a job with the Cartwrights to hide his accomplices on the Ponderosa.
Tuesday, March 17
The Mission
Season 2 • Episode 2
Hoss befriends a former Army scout who drinks to forget the massacre of his troop.
Tuesday, March 17
Badge Without Honor
Season 2 • Episode 3
A Deputy U.S. Marshal arrives to accompany a Cartwright friend back to a California court.
Tuesday, March 17
Hoss and the Leprechauns
Season 5 • Episode 12
Hoss meets his match when he sees a leprechaun burying his pot of gold on the Ponderosa.
Wednesday, March 18
Gallagher's Sons
Season 4 • Episode 11
Hoss becomes the guardian of two girls who were involved in their father's death.
Thursday, March 19
The Decision
Season 4 • Episode 12
Hoss gravely needs medical help, but the doctor is in jail for murder.
Friday, March 20
Song in the Dark
Season 4 • Episode 16
Circumstantial evidence indicates that a simple-minded troubadour murdered a widow.
Saturday, March 21
The Colonel
Season 4 • Episode 15
Ben Cartwright invites his former commanding officer to the Ponderosa.
Sunday, March 22
The Stranger
Season 1 • Episode 24
A disabled New Orleans police inspector comes to arrest Ben on a 20-year-old murder charge.
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