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.

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

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

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

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

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

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

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

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

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

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

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.

Sunday, June 29

The Meredith Smith

Season 7 • Episode 8

Six people -- three men, two women and a boy -- each claim to be the heir to a large estate.

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