Bonanza

Friday, March 21

Lady and the Mountain Lion

Season 10 • Episode 21

The Cartwrights unwittingly help a magician prepare to swindle Virginia City citizens.

Friday, March 21

The Actress

Season 4 • Episode 22

Joe asks a traveling actress to become his wife, but their romance is threatened by her career.

Friday, March 21

A Dollar's Worth of Trouble

Season 7 • Episode 33

A clairvoyant predicts a beautiful girl (Sally Kellerman) will fall for Hoss.

Saturday, March 22

Something Hurt, Something Wild

Season 8 • Episode 1

A young woman falsely accuses Joe of assault, ending the Cartwrights' friendship with her family.

Sunday, March 23

Ride the Wind

Season 7 • Episode 17

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

Monday, March 24

Five Candles

Season 10 • Episode 22

Ben and four companions, trapped in a collapsed cellar, must rely on an accused killer for help.

Monday, March 24

A Stranger Passed This Way

Season 4 • Episode 23

Suffering from amnesia, Hoss is adopted by a Dutch family on its way to Michigan.

Monday, March 24

The Hopefuls

Season 2 • Episode 5

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

Monday, March 24

Denver McKee

Season 2 • Episode 6

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

Monday, March 24

Horse of a Different Hue

Season 8 • Episode 2

An impoverished Southerner inadvertently sets the Cartwrights up as victims of a crooked horse race.

Monday, March 24

Day of Reckoning

Season 2 • Episode 7

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

Monday, March 24

The Abduction

Season 2 • Episode 8

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

Monday, March 24

Breed of Violence

Season 2 • Episode 9

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

Monday, March 24

The Last Viking

Season 2 • Episode 10

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

Monday, March 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.

Monday, March 24

The Savage

Season 2 • Episode 12

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

Monday, March 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, March 25

The Ape

Season 2 • Episode 14

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

Tuesday, March 25

The Blood Line

Season 2 • Episode 15

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

Tuesday, March 25

The Courtship

Season 2 • Episode 16

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

Tuesday, March 25

The Spitfire

Season 2 • Episode 17

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

Tuesday, March 25

The Gunmen

Season 1 • Episode 19

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

Tuesday, March 25

Emily

Season 10 • Episode 25

Little Joe's suspected of attempted robbery in plan to run off with married woman.

Tuesday, March 25

The Way of Aaron

Season 4 • Episode 24

Adam is attracted to the daughter of an itinerant peddler on a business visit to the Ponderosa.

Tuesday, March 25

A Time to Step Down

Season 8 • Episode 3

When a ranch hand is told he's too old to go on a cattle drive, he seeks revenge.

Wednesday, March 26

Speak No Evil

Season 10 • Episode 28

Relatives battle over a youth who has just inherited a gold mine.

Wednesday, March 26

A Woman Lost

Season 4 • Episode 25

Ben tries to help a woman alcoholic to fight her way back to respectability.

Wednesday, March 26

The Pursued

Season 8 • Episode 4

A Mormon family gets caught in a whirlwind of small-town prejudice.

Thursday, March 27

A Ride in the Sun

Season 10 • Episode 30

Three robbers dupe the Cartwrights in a plot to loot the Virginia City Bank.

Thursday, March 27

Any Friend of Walter's

Season 4 • Episode 26

Hoss and an old prospector are besieged by gold-hungry killers in an old shack.

Thursday, March 27

The Pursued

Season 8 • Episode 5

Mormon clan and Little Joe desperately try to elude band of hate-driven pursuers.

Friday, March 28

Another Windmill to Go

Season 11 • Episode 1

Eccentric man and his daughter bewilder the Cartwrights and all of Virginia City.

Friday, March 28

Mirror of a Man

Season 4 • Episode 27

A man kills another in a holdup and lets his twin brother take the blame.

Friday, March 28

To Bloom for Thee

Season 8 • Episode 6

Hoss falls in love with a pretty stranger despite words of caution from Ben and Little Joe.

Saturday, March 29

Credit for a Kill

Season 8 • Episode 7

Little Joe lays claim to killing a wanted man in order to protect the real killer.

Sunday, March 30

Ride the Wind

Season 7 • Episode 18

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

Monday, March 31

Silence at Stillwater

Season 11 • Episode 3

While on an errand for Ben, Candy is jailed in the town of Stillwater on a multiple murder charge.

Monday, March 31

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Monday, March 31

The Fear Merchants

Season 1 • Episode 20

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

Monday, March 31

Spanish Grant

Season 1 • Episode 21

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

Monday, March 31

Four Sisters From Boston

Season 8 • Episode 8

Four women from the East come out West to take over their late uncle's ranch.

Monday, March 31

Blood on the Land

Season 1 • Episode 22

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

Monday, March 31

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, March 31

The Stranger

Season 1 • Episode 24

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

Monday, March 31

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, March 31

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, March 31

The Last Trophy

Season 1 • Episode 27

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

Monday, March 31

San Francisco

Season 1 • Episode 28

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

Tuesday, April 1

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, April 1

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, April 1

Dark Star

Season 1 • Episode 31

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

Tuesday, April 1

Death at Dawn

Season 1 • Episode 32

The deputized Cartwrights sentence a murderer to hang at dawn.

Tuesday, April 1

Showdown

Season 2 • Episode 1

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

Tuesday, April 1

Meena

Season 11 • Episode 9

Escaping kidnappers, Little Joe's aided by a girl who misinterprets his gratitude.

Tuesday, April 1

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Tuesday, April 1

Old Charlie

Season 8 • Episode 9

An old boaster's tall tale about a single-handed conquest brings danger to town.

Wednesday, April 2

Abner Willoughby's Return

Season 11 • Episode 13

Returning to recover his loot, merchant seaman finds a town grown up on the site.

Wednesday, April 2

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Wednesday, April 2

Ballad of the Ponderosa

Season 8 • Episode 10

A young minstrel's (Randy Boone) ballad claims his father was sent to jail because Ben lied.

Thursday, April 3

It's a Small World

Season 11 • Episode 14

The Cartwrights befriend a circus midget who is discriminated against when he seeks work.

Thursday, April 3

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Thursday, April 3

The Oath

Season 8 • Episode 11

When Ben takes a man in for killing a miner, the man's son swears to kill Ben.

Friday, April 4

Danger Road

Season 11 • Episode 15

Ben faces a dilemma as he needs the help of a man he knows is a war-time deserter.

Friday, April 4

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Friday, April 4

A Nice, Friendly Little Town

Season 8 • Episode 12

Hoss' efforts to solve a crime are blocked by two rowdies, their mother and pals.

Saturday, April 5

The Bridegroom

Season 8 • Episode 13

Little Joe helps bolster a plain girl's (Joanne Linville) self-esteem to catch a widower's eye.

Sunday, April 6

Destiny's Child

Season 7 • Episode 19

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

Monday, April 7

The Big Jackpot

Season 11 • Episode 16

Candy (David Canary) has a host of new friends after inheriting a fortune.

Monday, April 7

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Monday, April 7

The Mission

Season 2 • Episode 2

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

Monday, April 7

Badge Without Honor

Season 2 • Episode 3

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

Monday, April 7

Tommy

Season 8 • Episode 14

An outlaw's harassment forces his wife to leave her deaf son and the safety of the Cartwright home.

Monday, April 7

The Mill

Season 2 • Episode 4

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

Monday, April 7

The Hopefuls

Season 2 • Episode 5

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

Monday, April 7

Denver McKee

Season 2 • Episode 6

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

Monday, April 7

Day of Reckoning

Season 2 • Episode 7

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