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.

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.

Monday, January 26

The Abduction

Season 2 • Episode 8

Little Joe and Hoss seek Joe's date, who disappeared while the trio was at a carnival.

Monday, January 26

Breed of Violence

Season 2 • Episode 9

Bank robbers hide on a ranch that Hoss and Little Joe are visiting.

Monday, January 26

Land Grab

Season 3 • Episode 15

A range war looms when settlers with phony deeds move onto the Ponderosa; guest John McGiver.

Monday, January 26

The Last Viking

Season 2 • Episode 10

For saving his life, Ben offers some Ponderosa farmland to an American Indian.

Monday, January 26

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 26

The Savage

Season 2 • Episode 12

When Adam passes through a sacred Indian burial ground, Shoshone braves attack him in revenge.

Monday, January 26

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 26

The Ape

Season 2 • Episode 14

Adam and Little Joe try to warn Hoss when he befriends a violent man.

Monday, January 26

The Blood Line

Season 2 • Episode 15

An Easterner looking for his father learns a Cartwright killed him in self-defense.

Monday, January 26

The Courtship

Season 2 • Episode 16

Adam tells betrothed Hoss his intended is a compulsive gambler who caused her husband's death.

Monday, January 26

The Spitfire

Season 2 • Episode 17

A Kentucky mountain clan swears revenge on Little Joe after he shoots a family member for arson.

Tuesday, January 27

The Gunmen

Season 1 • Episode 19

Little Joe and Hoss, mistaken for gunmen, get caught between feuding families.

Tuesday, January 27

The Fear Merchants

Season 1 • Episode 20

A mayoral candidate hires two hoodlums to harass Chinese residents, resulting in murder.

Tuesday, January 27

Spanish Grant

Season 1 • Episode 21

Ex-dancehall girl poses as Spanish aristocrat to obtain large piece of property.

Tuesday, January 27

Blood on the Land

Season 1 • Episode 22

Disreputable shepherd moves herd across Ponderosa, destroying rich pasture land.

Tuesday, January 27

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 27

Broken Ballad

Season 3 • Episode 6

A cowboy kills the new lover of a woman who jilted him; guest Robert Culp.

Wednesday, January 28

The Honor of Cochise

Season 3 • Episode 3

Ben asks Cochise to permit him to arrest an Army captain (DeForest Kelley) who killed Apaches.

Thursday, January 29

The Lonely House

Season 3 • Episode 4

A wounded bank robber forces his way into a farmhouse and holds Little Joe and a widow hostage.

Friday, January 30

The Smiler

Season 3 • Episode 1

A folk singer claims to be the brother of a man Hoss shot accidentally; guest Herschel Bernardi.

Saturday, January 31

The Countess

Season 3 • Episode 9

Twenty years ago, Linda Chadwick spurned Ben's attentions; now she is trying to regain his interest.

Sunday, February 1

The Gunmen

Season 1 • Episode 19

Little Joe and Hoss, mistaken for gunmen, get caught between feuding families.

Monday, February 2

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Monday, February 2

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Monday, February 2

The Friendship

Season 3 • Episode 8

When a convict saves Little Joe's life, Little Joe helps him get out of prison.

Monday, February 2

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Monday, February 2

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Monday, February 2

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Monday, February 2

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Monday, February 2

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Monday, February 2

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Monday, February 2

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Monday, February 2

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Tuesday, February 3

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Tuesday, February 3

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Tuesday, February 3

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Tuesday, February 3

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Tuesday, February 3

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Tuesday, February 3

Springtime

Season 3 • Episode 2

Ben brings a miserly old friend (John Carradine) and his sons for a visit on the Ponderosa.

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