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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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