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.
Thursday, June 12
Blind/Hunch
Season 13 • Episode 9
Jamie becomes the eyes for a blind man (Rip Torn) seeking his brother's killer.
Thursday, June 12
The Underdog
Season 6 • Episode 12
Little Joe convinces the Cartwrights to place their trust in someone who is fleeing from prejudice.
Thursday, June 12
Salute to Yesterday
Season 10 • Episode 3
Bandits surround the Cartwrights, Candy and an Army unit carrying an Army payroll.
Friday, June 13
The Iron Butterfly
Season 13 • Episode 10
Hoss confesses to a murder committed by a celebrity (Mariette Hartley) he is protecting.
Friday, June 13
A Knight to Remember
Season 6 • Episode 13
An eccentric buys some armor and tries to rid countryside of dragons and robbers.
Friday, June 13
The Real People of Muddy Creek
Season 10 • Episode 4
Ben and Little Joe jail the man who killed a sheriff, then wait for a marshal to arrive.
Saturday, June 14
The Passing of a King
Season 10 • Episode 5
The treacherous son of a Texas cattle baron swindles Ben out of a valuable bull.
Sunday, June 15
Devil on Her Shoulder
Season 7 • Episode 6
A religious group accuses a woman (Ina Balin) of witchcraft and abandons her in the wilderness.
Monday, June 16
The Rattlesnake Brigade
Season 13 • Episode 11
A gang of convicts that escaped from prison take Jamie and three others hostage.
Monday, June 16
The Flapjack Contest
Season 6 • Episode 15
Little Joe plans rigorous training for Hoss to make sure he wins eating contest.
Monday, June 16
The Gunmen
Season 1 • Episode 19
Little Joe and Hoss, mistaken for gunmen, get caught between feuding families.
Monday, June 16
The Fear Merchants
Season 1 • Episode 20
A mayoral candidate hires two hoodlums to harass Chinese residents, resulting in murder.
Monday, June 16
The Last Vote
Season 10 • Episode 6
Hoss and Little Joe become campaign managers of two opposing mayoral candidates.
Monday, June 16
Spanish Grant
Season 1 • Episode 21
Ex-dancehall girl poses as Spanish aristocrat to obtain large piece of property.
Monday, June 16
Blood on the Land
Season 1 • Episode 22
Disreputable shepherd moves herd across Ponderosa, destroying rich pasture land.
Monday, June 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, June 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, June 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, June 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, June 16
The Last Trophy
Season 1 • Episode 27
A Britisher (Edward Ashley), once a great game hunter, visits the Ponderosa and displays cowardice.
Tuesday, June 17
San Francisco
Season 1 • Episode 28
Two traildrivers are shanghaied shortly after the Ponderosa cattle herd arrives in San Francisco.
Tuesday, June 17
Bitter Water
Season 1 • Episode 29
A miner persuades a prospective son-in-law to sell him land that supplies water to the Ponderosa.
Tuesday, June 17
Feet of Clay
Season 1 • Episode 30
The Cartwrights take in a motherless boy whose father is in prison for murder; guest David Ladd.
Tuesday, June 17
Dark Star
Season 1 • Episode 31
Little Joe falls for a Gypsy who believes she is a witch and, therefore, an outcast.
Tuesday, June 17
Death at Dawn
Season 1 • Episode 32
The deputized Cartwrights sentence a murderer to hang at dawn.
Tuesday, June 17
Easy Come, Easy Go
Season 13 • Episode 12
The Cartwrights seek permission to cross a piece of land for their timber operation.
Tuesday, June 17
The Far, Far Better Thing
Season 6 • Episode 16
Little Joe and Tuck compete for the affections of beautiful Lucinda Melviney.
Tuesday, June 17
Catch as Catch Can
Season 10 • Episode 7
Ben races against time to find the man behind a plot to destroy the Cartwrights.
Wednesday, June 18
A Home for Jamie
Season 13 • Episode 13
Jamie's grandfather arrives to take him back East, but the boy runs away; guest Robert Carradine.
Wednesday, June 18
Woman of Fire
Season 6 • Episode 17
Adam sets out to rebuild a Mexican woman's personality when she comes to visit the Ponderosa.
Wednesday, June 18
Little Girl Lost
Season 10 • Episode 8
A distant relative (Antoinette Bower) sends her unruly daughter (Linda Sue Risk) to the Ponderosa.
Thursday, June 19
Warbonnet
Season 13 • Episode 14
Red Cloud may meet his death trying to retrieve an Indian headdress from Frank Ryan's saloon.
Thursday, June 19
Ballerina
Season 6 • Episode 18
A rowdy saloon dancer scorns the idea that she may have the talent of a classic ballet artist.
Thursday, June 19
The Survivors
Season 10 • Episode 9
After years as an Indian captive, a woman and her half-breed baby are shunned.
Friday, June 20
Lonely Man
Season 13 • Episode 15
Hop Sing goes on vacation and falls in love with a woman while panning for gold.
Friday, June 20
The Flannel-Mouth Gun
Season 6 • Episode 19
A hired killer who shoots first and asks questions later comes to Virginia City.
Friday, June 20
Sound of Drums
Season 10 • Episode 10
Despite Ben's advice and neighbors' complaints, a man refuses to force Indian poachers off his land.
Saturday, June 21
Queen High
Season 10 • Episode 11
Little Joe and Candy win a damaged ore-processing mill in a poker game.
Sunday, June 22
Found Child
Season 7 • Episode 7
The family tries to identify a girl found near the bodies of her murdered parents.
Monday, June 23
Second Sight
Season 13 • Episode 16
When Jamie becomes lost, Hoss calls on Judith Corman's special powers.
Monday, June 23
Showdown
Season 2 • Episode 1
A bank robber takes a job with the Cartwrights to hide his accomplices on the Ponderosa.
Monday, June 23
The Mission
Season 2 • Episode 2
Hoss befriends a former Army scout (Henry Hull) who drinks to forget the massacre of his troop.
Monday, June 23
Yonder Man
Season 10 • Episode 12
A reunion is marred when Ben learns his old friend is wanted for cattle theft.
Monday, June 23
Badge Without Honor
Season 2 • Episode 3
A Deputy U.S. Marshal arrives to accompany a Cartwright friend back to a California court.
Monday, June 23
The Mill
Season 2 • Episode 4
A hired hand (Claude Akins) victimizes the Cartwrights' disabled neighbor (Harry Townes).
Monday, June 23
The Hopefuls
Season 2 • Episode 5
Outlaws plot to steal a trunk containing the savings of a religious group.
Monday, June 23
Denver McKee
Season 2 • Episode 6
The Cartwrights help a former decorated Army scout find security for his daughter.
Monday, June 23
Day of Reckoning
Season 2 • Episode 7
Hoss' bandit uncle (Neville Brand) decides to bypass the Ponderosa, but his gang disagrees.
Monday, June 23
The Abduction
Season 2 • Episode 8
Little Joe and Hoss seek Joe's date, who disappeared while the trio was at a carnival.
Monday, June 23
Breed of Violence
Season 2 • Episode 9
Bank robbers hide on a ranch that Hoss and Little Joe are visiting.
Tuesday, June 24
The Last Viking
Season 2 • Episode 10
For saving his life, Ben offers some Ponderosa farmland to an American Indian.
Tuesday, June 24
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.
Tuesday, June 24
The Savage
Season 2 • Episode 12
When Adam passes through a sacred Indian burial ground, Shoshone braves attack him in revenge.
Tuesday, June 24
Silent Thunder
Season 2 • Episode 13
Little Joe's efforts to help a deaf-mute girl backfire when she falls in love with him.
Tuesday, June 24
The Ape
Season 2 • Episode 14
Adam and Little Joe try to warn Hoss when he befriends a violent man (Cal Bolder).
Tuesday, June 24
Saddle Stiff
Season 13 • Episode 17
Ben fires a hired hand for improperly saddling a horse but learns he might have assumed too quickly.
Tuesday, June 24
Mark of Guilt
Season 10 • Episode 13
When Little Joe is charged with murder, he depends on Hoss for his defense.
Wednesday, June 25
Frenzy
Season 13 • Episode 18
Ben's friend fears for her life when her hot-tempered immigrant husband barricades their home.
Wednesday, June 25
A World Full of Cannibals
Season 10 • Episode 14
The Cartwrights hide an important witness at the Ponderosa until he can testify.
Thursday, June 26
Customs of the Country
Season 13 • Episode 19
After landing in a Mexican bordertown jail, Joe and Hoss throw a party and try to escape.
Thursday, June 26
Sweet Annie Laurie
Season 10 • Episode 15
Hoss helps a frightened woman escape from her estranged outlaw husband.
Friday, June 27
Shanklin
Season 13 • Episode 20
A gang of ex-Confederates take over the Ponderosa to force Ben to give them a fortune in cash.
Friday, June 27
My Friend, My Enemy
Season 10 • Episode 16
Only an Indian horse thief (John Saxon) can prove Candy innocent of murdering a rancher.
Saturday, June 28
Mrs. Wharton and the Lesser Breeds
Season 10 • Episode 17
A headstrong British widow involves Candy in a plan to regain stolen valuables.
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