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.
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.
Monday, June 30
Search in Limbo
Season 13 • Episode 21
Ben is linked to a murder after suffering memory loss while on a business trip.
Monday, June 30
Hound Dog
Season 6 • Episode 25
The Cartwrights' cousin, Muley, comes to visit and brings his pet dogs with him.
Monday, June 30
The Blood Line
Season 2 • Episode 15
An Easterner looking for his father learns a Cartwright killed him in self-defense.
Monday, June 30
The Courtship
Season 2 • Episode 16
Adam tells betrothed Hoss his intended is a compulsive gambler who caused her husband's death.
Monday, June 30
Erin
Season 10 • Episode 18
Hoss determines to marry a girl raised by Indians and turns a neighbor against the Cartwrights.
Monday, June 30
The Spitfire
Season 2 • Episode 17
A Kentucky mountain clan swears revenge on Little Joe after he shoots a family member for arson.
Monday, June 30
The Gunmen
Season 1 • Episode 19
Little Joe and Hoss, mistaken for gunmen, get caught between feuding families.
Monday, June 30
The Fear Merchants
Season 1 • Episode 20
A mayoral candidate hires two hoodlums to harass Chinese residents, resulting in murder.
Monday, June 30
Spanish Grant
Season 1 • Episode 21
Ex-dancehall girl poses as Spanish aristocrat to obtain large piece of property.
Monday, June 30
Blood on the Land
Season 1 • Episode 22
Disreputable shepherd moves herd across Ponderosa, destroying rich pasture land.
Monday, June 30
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 30
The Stranger
Season 1 • Episode 24
A disabled New Orleans police inspector comes to arrest Ben on a 20-year-old murder charge.
Tuesday, July 1
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.
Tuesday, July 1
The Avenger
Season 1 • Episode 26
Adam and Ben are accused of murdering a cattle buyer on the testimony of the victim's daughter.
Tuesday, July 1
The Last Trophy
Season 1 • Episode 27
A Britisher (Edward Ashley), once a great game hunter, visits the Ponderosa and displays cowardice.
Tuesday, July 1
San Francisco
Season 1 • Episode 28
Two traildrivers are shanghaied shortly after the Ponderosa cattle herd arrives in San Francisco.
Tuesday, July 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, July 1
He Was Only Seven
Season 13 • Episode 22
Jamie and Joe help a man in a wheelchair who sets out on the trail of his grandson's killers.
Tuesday, July 1
The Trap
Season 6 • Episode 26
The wife of the man Little Joe accidentally killed says she plans to marry him.
Tuesday, July 1
Company of Forgotten Men
Season 10 • Episode 19
Candy's former friend and gang force him into helping them in a plan to rob the Carson City mint.
Wednesday, July 2
The Younger Brothers' Younger Brother
Season 13 • Episode 23
Hoss is identified as a member of the Younger brothers' gang.
Wednesday, July 2
Dead and Gone
Season 6 • Episode 27
A happy-go-lucky singer charms his way out of jail and into the confidence of the Cartwright family.
Wednesday, July 2
The Clarion
Season 10 • Episode 20
Ben buys the local newspaper to help a friend avoid closing because of vandalism.
Thursday, July 3
A Place to Hide
Season 13 • Episode 24
Ben learns a visitor's (Suzanne Pleshette) husband (Jon Cypher) is sought as a Confederate traitor.
Thursday, July 3
Lady and the Mountain Lion
Season 10 • Episode 21
The Cartwrights unwittingly help a magician prepare to swindle Virginia City citizens.
Friday, July 4
One Ace Too Many
Season 13 • Episode 26
A look-alike for Ben dictates a deathbed wish to Sheriff Coffee.
Friday, July 4
Five Candles
Season 10 • Episode 22
Ben and four companions, trapped in a collapsed cellar, must rely on an accused killer for help.
Saturday, July 5
The Wish
Season 10 • Episode 23
A freed slave attempts to keep his family together and overcome his fear of the white community.
Sunday, July 6
Mighty is the Word
Season 7 • Episode 9
The townspeople discover that the Rev. Watson killed his brother in a gunfight.
Monday, July 7
Forever
Season 14 • Episode 1
Joe falls for a woman who arrives with her brother in Virginia City.
Monday, July 7
Feet of Clay
Season 1 • Episode 30
The Cartwrights take in a motherless boy whose father is in prison for murder; guest David Ladd.
Monday, July 7
Dark Star
Season 1 • Episode 31
Little Joe falls for a Gypsy who believes she is a witch and, therefore, an outcast.
Monday, July 7
The Deserter
Season 4 • Episode 5
The Cartwrights learn that their friend and neighbor is wanted by the Army for desertion.
Monday, July 7
Death at Dawn
Season 1 • Episode 32
The deputized Cartwrights sentence a murderer to hang at dawn.
Monday, July 7
Showdown
Season 2 • Episode 1
A bank robber takes a job with the Cartwrights to hide his accomplices on the Ponderosa.
Monday, July 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, July 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, July 7
The Mill
Season 2 • Episode 4
A hired hand (Claude Akins) victimizes the Cartwrights' disabled neighbor (Harry Townes).
Monday, July 7
The Hopefuls
Season 2 • Episode 5
Outlaws plot to steal a trunk containing the savings of a religious group.
Monday, July 7
Denver McKee
Season 2 • Episode 6
The Cartwrights help a former decorated Army scout find security for his daughter.
Tuesday, July 8
Day of Reckoning
Season 2 • Episode 7
Hoss' bandit uncle (Neville Brand) decides to bypass the Ponderosa, but his gang disagrees.
Tuesday, July 8
The Abduction
Season 2 • Episode 8
Little Joe and Hoss seek Joe's date, who disappeared while the trio was at a carnival.
Tuesday, July 8
Breed of Violence
Season 2 • Episode 9
Bank robbers hide on a ranch that Hoss and Little Joe are visiting.
Tuesday, July 8
The Last Viking
Season 2 • Episode 10
For saving his life, Ben offers some Ponderosa farmland to an American Indian.
Tuesday, July 8
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, July 8
Forever
Season 14 • Episode 2
John's gambling debts mount after Alice rejects him because of his alcoholism.
Tuesday, July 8
Emily
Season 10 • Episode 25
Little Joe's suspected of attempted robbery in plan to run off with married woman.
Wednesday, July 9
Heritage of Anger
Season 14 • Episode 3
A man returns from prison to find his land neglected and his wife exhausted.
Wednesday, July 9
The Running Man
Season 10 • Episode 26
Candy and Little Joe hide an eyewitness from the murderers he saw.
Thursday, July 10
The Initiation
Season 14 • Episode 4
The leader of a boy's club forces his followers to cover up an initiate's death.
Thursday, July 10
The Unwanted
Season 10 • Episode 27
Marshal Mansfield and daughter stay at Ponderosa while he searches for convict.
Friday, July 11
Riot!
Season 14 • Episode 5
A convict stages a prison riot that ensnares Ben; guest Aldo Ray.
Friday, July 11
Speak No Evil
Season 10 • Episode 28
Relatives battle over a youth who has just inherited a gold mine.
Saturday, July 12
The Fence
Season 10 • Episode 29
Former Civil War prisoners seeking revenge surround Ben, Hoss and Ben's friend.
Sunday, July 13
The Reluctant Rebel
Season 7 • Episode 11
Hoss befriends a boy who is torn between his father and his friends.
Monday, July 14
New Man
Season 14 • Episode 6
Ex-convict Griff (Tim Matheson) has trouble adjusting to life on the Ponderosa; guest Ronny Cox.
Monday, July 14
The Savage
Season 2 • Episode 12
When Adam passes through a sacred Indian burial ground, Shoshone braves attack him in revenge.
Monday, July 14
Silent Thunder
Season 2 • Episode 13
Little Joe's efforts to help a deaf-mute girl backfire when she falls in love with him.
Monday, July 14
A Ride in the Sun
Season 10 • Episode 30
Three robbers dupe the Cartwrights in a plot to loot the Virginia City Bank.
Monday, July 14
The Ape
Season 2 • Episode 14
Adam and Little Joe try to warn Hoss when he befriends a violent man (Cal Bolder).
Monday, July 14
The Blood Line
Season 2 • Episode 15
An Easterner looking for his father learns a Cartwright killed him in self-defense.
Monday, July 14
The Courtship
Season 2 • Episode 16
Adam tells betrothed Hoss his intended is a compulsive gambler who caused her husband's death.
Monday, July 14
The Spitfire
Season 2 • Episode 17
A Kentucky mountain clan swears revenge on Little Joe after he shoots a family member for arson.
Monday, July 14
The Gunmen
Season 1 • Episode 19
Little Joe and Hoss, mistaken for gunmen, get caught between feuding families.
Monday, July 14
The Fear Merchants
Season 1 • Episode 20
A mayoral candidate hires two hoodlums to harass Chinese residents, resulting in murder.
Monday, July 14
Spanish Grant
Season 1 • Episode 21
Ex-dancehall girl poses as Spanish aristocrat to obtain large piece of property.
Tuesday, July 15
Blood on the Land
Season 1 • Episode 22
Disreputable shepherd moves herd across Ponderosa, destroying rich pasture land.
Tuesday, July 15
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.
Tuesday, July 15
The Stranger
Season 1 • Episode 24
A disabled New Orleans police inspector comes to arrest Ben on a 20-year-old murder charge.
Tuesday, July 15
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.
Tuesday, July 15
The Avenger
Season 1 • Episode 26
Adam and Ben are accused of murdering a cattle buyer on the testimony of the victim's daughter.
Tuesday, July 15
Ambush at Rio Lobo
Season 14 • Episode 7
Ben and a young pregnant woman are taken hostage by would-be stagecoach robbers.
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