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.
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
To Own the World
Season 6 • Episode 29
A multimillionaire (Telly Savalas) is willing to destroy the Cartwrights to possess the Ponderosa.
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 Return
Season 6 • Episode 31
An ex-convict returns to Virginia City after serving time for an attempted robbery 10 years earlier.
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
Jonah
Season 6 • Episode 32
When a hired hand on the ranch is called a jinx, Hoss goes to a gypsy for help.
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
The Spotlight
Season 6 • Episode 33
Hoss and Little Joe fear that Ben has fallen in love with a dream of the past.
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.
Tuesday, July 15
Another Windmill to Go
Season 11 • Episode 1
Eccentric man and his daughter bewilder the Cartwrights and all of Virginia City.
Wednesday, July 16
The Twenty-Sixth Grave
Season 14 • Episode 8
Editor Samuel Clemens asks the Cartwrights to help him prove a government assayer is a killer.
Wednesday, July 16
The Witness
Season 11 • Episode 2
A woman becomes a murder target when she reveals that she can identify robbers.
Thursday, July 17
Stallion
Season 14 • Episode 9
Little Joe must risk his beloved stallion to save a wounded boy.
Thursday, July 17
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.
Friday, July 18
The Hidden Enemy
Season 14 • Episode 10
A doctor's morphine addiction is revealed during his trial for murder.
Friday, July 18
A Lawman's Lot Is Not a Happy One
Season 11 • Episode 4
Hoss runs afoul of local sentiments when he takes the sheriff's job on a temporary basis.
Saturday, July 19
Anatomy of a Lynching
Season 11 • Episode 5
Virginia City is roused when popular belief holds that eyewitnesses lied in a murder trial.
Sunday, July 20
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.
Monday, July 21
The Sound of Loneliness
Season 14 • Episode 11
An elderly man (Jack Albertson) takes in runaway orphan brothers, one of whom is mute.
Monday, July 21
The Last Trophy
Season 1 • Episode 27
A Britisher (Edward Ashley), once a great game hunter, visits the Ponderosa and displays cowardice.
Monday, July 21
San Francisco
Season 1 • Episode 28
Two traildrivers are shanghaied shortly after the Ponderosa cattle herd arrives in San Francisco.
Monday, July 21
To Stop a War
Season 11 • Episode 6
A range detective, hired to stop cattle thieves, is suspected of accepting payoffs and murder.
Monday, July 21
Bitter Water
Season 1 • Episode 29
A miner persuades a prospective son-in-law to sell him land that supplies water to the Ponderosa.
Monday, July 21
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 21
Dark Star
Season 1 • Episode 31
Little Joe falls for a Gypsy who believes she is a witch and, therefore, an outcast.
Monday, July 21
Death at Dawn
Season 1 • Episode 32
The deputized Cartwrights sentence a murderer to hang at dawn.
Monday, July 21
Showdown
Season 2 • Episode 1
A bank robber takes a job with the Cartwrights to hide his accomplices on the Ponderosa.
Monday, July 21
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 21
Badge Without Honor
Season 2 • Episode 3
A Deputy U.S. Marshal arrives to accompany a Cartwright friend back to a California court.
Tuesday, July 22
The Mill
Season 2 • Episode 4
A hired hand (Claude Akins) victimizes the Cartwrights' disabled neighbor (Harry Townes).
Tuesday, July 22
The Hopefuls
Season 2 • Episode 5
Outlaws plot to steal a trunk containing the savings of a religious group.
Tuesday, July 22
Denver McKee
Season 2 • Episode 6
The Cartwrights help a former decorated Army scout find security for his daughter.
Tuesday, July 22
Day of Reckoning
Season 2 • Episode 7
Hoss' bandit uncle (Neville Brand) decides to bypass the Ponderosa, but his gang disagrees.
Tuesday, July 22
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 22
The Bucket Dog
Season 14 • Episode 12
To keep his Irish setter, Jamie must enter her in a field trial against a champion.
Tuesday, July 22
The Medal
Season 11 • Episode 7
Tensions mount when the Cartwrights take in a penniless Civil War hero from the North.
Wednesday, July 23
First Love
Season 14 • Episode 13
Jamie falls for the wife (Pamela Franklin) of an insanely jealous schoolmaster (Jordan Rhodes).
Wednesday, July 23
The Stalker
Season 11 • Episode 8
A vengeful widow hires an assassin after Candy kills her husband, a bank robber.
Thursday, July 24
The Witness
Season 14 • Episode 14
Griff tries to locate the witness (Sally Kemp) who can clear Candy of murder and theft charges.
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