Bonanza

Sunday, August 10

A Dublin Lad

Season 7 • Episode 15

Little Joe believes that a man who is sentenced to hang for murder is really innocent.

Monday, August 11

Mighty is the Word

Season 7 • Episode 9

The townspeople discover that the Rev. Watson killed his brother in a gunfight.

Monday, August 11

Night of Reckoning

Season 9 • Episode 5

A wounded gang member hides some stolen loot and seeks help from the Cartwrights.

Monday, August 11

The Hopefuls

Season 2 • Episode 5

Outlaws plot to steal a trunk containing the savings of a religious group.

Monday, August 11

Denver McKee

Season 2 • Episode 6

The Cartwrights help a former decorated Army scout find security for his daughter.

Monday, August 11

Decision at Los Robles

Season 11 • Episode 24

Little Joe has to stand alone against a whole town to save himself and his seriously injured father.

Monday, August 11

Day of Reckoning

Season 2 • Episode 7

Hoss' bandit uncle (Neville Brand) decides to bypass the Ponderosa, but his gang disagrees.

Monday, August 11

The Abduction

Season 2 • Episode 8

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

Monday, August 11

Breed of Violence

Season 2 • Episode 9

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

Monday, August 11

The Last Viking

Season 2 • Episode 10

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

Monday, August 11

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, August 11

The Savage

Season 2 • Episode 12

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

Monday, August 11

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, August 12

The Ape

Season 2 • Episode 14

Adam and Little Joe try to warn Hoss when he befriends a violent man (Cal Bolder).

Tuesday, August 12

The Blood Line

Season 2 • Episode 15

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

Tuesday, August 12

The Courtship

Season 2 • Episode 16

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

Tuesday, August 12

The Spitfire

Season 2 • Episode 17

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

Tuesday, August 12

The Reluctant Rebel

Season 7 • Episode 11

Hoss befriends a boy who is torn between his father and his friends.

Tuesday, August 12

False Witness

Season 9 • Episode 6

Outlaws stalk Little Joe, Hoss, Candy and a woman after they witness a shooting.

Tuesday, August 12

Caution: Easter Bunny Crossing

Season 11 • Episode 25

As he conducts an Easter egg hunt, bunny-suited Hoss foils bumbling highwaymen; guest Art Metrano.

Wednesday, August 13

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.

Wednesday, August 13

The Gentle Ones

Season 9 • Episode 7

Ben allows a ranch hand to care for a mistreated stallion the man stole from his brother.

Wednesday, August 13

The Horse Traders

Season 11 • Episode 26

Little Joe and Hoss enthusiastically enter the business world.

Thursday, August 14

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.

Thursday, August 14

Desperate Passage

Season 9 • Episode 8

The Cartwrights, seeking safety in a trail town during an Indian uprising, find a murderer.

Thursday, August 14

What Are Partners For?

Season 11 • Episode 27

Hoss is jailed as an accomplice after trying to prevent two men from committing a bank robbery.

Friday, August 15

All Ye His Saints

Season 7 • Episode 14

A boy (Clint Howard), seeking help for his wounded father, thinks a murderer (Leif Erickson) is God.

Friday, August 15

Showdown at Tahoe

Season 9 • Episode 10

A gang plans to steal the Cartwrights' payroll and use Ben's steamboat to escape.

Friday, August 15

A Matter of Circumstance

Season 11 • Episode 28

Seriously hurt in an accident, Little Joe faces a life-or-death decision.

Saturday, August 16

The Night Virginia City Died

Season 12 • Episode 1

A suspected arsonist is jailed until another fire strikes Virginia City.

Monday, August 18

A Dublin Lad

Season 7 • Episode 15

Little Joe believes that a man who is sentenced to hang for murder is really innocent.

Monday, August 18

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Monday, August 18

The Gunmen

Season 1 • Episode 19

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

Monday, August 18

The Fear Merchants

Season 1 • Episode 20

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

Monday, August 18

A Matter of Faith

Season 12 • Episode 2

The Cartwrights intervene when rainmakers Dusty and Jamie fail to end the drought.

Monday, August 18

Spanish Grant

Season 1 • Episode 21

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

Monday, August 18

Blood on the Land

Season 1 • Episode 22

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

Monday, August 18

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, August 18

The Stranger

Season 1 • Episode 24

A disabled New Orleans police inspector comes to arrest Ben on a 20-year-old murder charge.

Monday, August 18

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, August 18

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, August 18

The Last Trophy

Season 1 • Episode 27

A Britisher (Edward Ashley), once a great game hunter, visits the Ponderosa and displays cowardice.

Tuesday, August 19

San Francisco

Season 1 • Episode 28

Two traildrivers are shanghaied shortly after the Ponderosa cattle herd arrives in San Francisco.

Tuesday, August 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.

Tuesday, August 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.

Tuesday, August 19

Dark Star

Season 1 • Episode 31

Little Joe falls for a Gypsy who believes she is a witch and, therefore, an outcast.

Tuesday, August 19

To Kill a Buffalo

Season 7 • Episode 16

Hoss saves the life of a young wounded American Indian. Guest star: Jose De Vega.

Tuesday, August 19

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Tuesday, August 19

The Weary Willies

Season 12 • Episode 3

Ex-soldiers camping on Ponderosa land cause an incident with a local girl.

Wednesday, August 20

Ride the Wind

Season 7 • Episode 17

Ben invests in the Pony Express, suffers great losses from the attacks of Winnemuca and his Paiutes.

Wednesday, August 20

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Wednesday, August 20

The Wagon

Season 12 • Episode 4

A law officer (Denver Pyle) kidnaps injured Hoss to replace an escaped prisoner.

Thursday, August 21

Ride the Wind

Season 7 • Episode 18

The Paiutes intensify their attacks on the Pony Express and Little Joe barely escapes death.

Thursday, August 21

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Thursday, August 21

The Power of Life and Death

Season 12 • Episode 5

After tracking a wanted man in the desert, injured Ben stays with him while Joe goes for help.

Friday, August 22

Destiny's Child

Season 7 • Episode 19

Two drifters, one of whom is wanted for murder in Arizona, seek temporary work at the Ponderosa.

Friday, August 22

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Friday, August 22

Gideon, The Good

Season 12 • Episode 6

Little Joe finds himself marked for murder after reporting a slaying to a respected sheriff.

Saturday, August 23

The Trouble With Trouble

Season 12 • Episode 7

Hoss becomes a temporary sheriff in a town where even bank robbers are welcome.

Sunday, August 24

To Kill a Buffalo

Season 7 • Episode 16

Hoss saves the life of a young wounded American Indian. Guest star: Jose De Vega.

Monday, August 25

Peace Officer

Season 7 • Episode 20

After rowdies accidentally kill the deputy, townsfolk hire a temporary sheriff to restore order.

Monday, August 25

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Monday, August 25

Death at Dawn

Season 1 • Episode 32

The deputized Cartwrights sentence a murderer to hang at dawn.

Monday, August 25

Showdown

Season 2 • Episode 1

A bank robber takes a job with the Cartwrights to hide his accomplices on the Ponderosa.

Monday, August 25

Thorton's Account

Season 12 • Episode 8

Residents are afraid to help injured Ben due to raids in their community.

Monday, August 25

The Mission

Season 2 • Episode 2

Hoss befriends a former Army scout (Henry Hull) who drinks to forget the massacre of his troop.

Monday, August 25

Badge Without Honor

Season 2 • Episode 3

A Deputy U.S. Marshal arrives to accompany a Cartwright friend back to a California court.

Monday, August 25

The Mill

Season 2 • Episode 4

A hired hand (Claude Akins) victimizes the Cartwrights' disabled neighbor (Harry Townes).

Monday, August 25

The Hopefuls

Season 2 • Episode 5

Outlaws plot to steal a trunk containing the savings of a religious group.

Monday, August 25

Denver McKee

Season 2 • Episode 6

The Cartwrights help a former decorated Army scout find security for his daughter.

Monday, August 25

Day of Reckoning

Season 2 • Episode 7

Hoss' bandit uncle (Neville Brand) decides to bypass the Ponderosa, but his gang disagrees.

Monday, August 25

The Abduction

Season 2 • Episode 8

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

Tuesday, August 26

Breed of Violence

Season 2 • Episode 9

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

Tuesday, August 26

The Last Viking

Season 2 • Episode 10

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

Tuesday, August 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.

Tuesday, August 26

The Savage

Season 2 • Episode 12

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

Tuesday, August 26

The Code

Season 7 • Episode 21

A professional gunman (George Montgomery) sparks a fight with Little Joe.

Tuesday, August 26

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Tuesday, August 26

Love Child

Season 12 • Episode 9

An unwed, terminally ill mother returns to Virginia City to see her father (Will Geer).

Wednesday, August 27

Three Brides For Hoss

Season 7 • Episode 22

Three women arrive after each receives pictures and letters with promises of marriage from Hoss.

Wednesday, August 27

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Wednesday, August 27

El Jefe

Season 12 • Episode 10

Charged with murder, Ben's friend turns himself in to authorities, who conspire to frame him.