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.

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

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

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

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

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

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

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

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

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

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

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

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

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

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

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

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

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.

Thursday, July 24

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Thursday, July 24

Meena

Season 11 • Episode 9

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

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