Bonanza
Cast & Crew
![Lorne Greene](https://ntvb.tmsimg.com/assets/assets/83449_v9_bb.jpg?w=270&h=360)
Lorne Greene Ben Cartwright
![Michael Landon](https://ntvb.tmsimg.com/assets/assets/971_v9_bb.jpg?w=270&h=360)
Michael Landon Little Joe Cartwright
![Dan Blocker](https://ntvb.tmsimg.com/assets/assets/80113_v9_ba.jpg?w=270&h=360)
Dan Blocker Eric "Hoss" Cartwright
![Pernell Roberts](https://ntvb.tmsimg.com/assets/assets/51117_v9_bb.jpg?w=270&h=360)
Pernell Roberts Adam Cartwright
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Victor Sen Yung Hop Sing
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Ray Teal Sheriff Roy Coffee
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Bing Russell Deputy Clem Foster
![David Canary](https://ntvb.tmsimg.com/assets/assets/15247_v9_ba.jpg?w=270&h=360)
David Canary Candy
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Lou Frizzell Dusty Rhoades
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Mitch Vogel Jamie Hunter
![Tim Matheson](https://ntvb.tmsimg.com/assets/assets/73277_v9_bc.jpg?w=270&h=360)
Tim Matheson Griff King
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⨁Full Cast & CrewUpcoming TV Airings
The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.
Friday, July 26
Second Chance
Season 9 • Episode 1
When Little Joe is wounded by renegade Indians, Hoss searches for safety and help.
Friday, July 26
The Mission
Season 2 • Episode 2
Hoss befriends a former Army scout (Henry Hull) who drinks to forget the massacre of his troop.
Saturday, July 27
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 29
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, July 29
Sense of Duty
Season 9 • Episode 2
The local militia is reactivated to escort a Paiute Indian leader to prison.
Monday, July 29
The Mill
Season 2 • Episode 4
A hired hand (Claude Akins) victimizes the Cartwrights' disabled neighbor (Harry Townes).
Monday, July 29
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, July 29
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, July 29
The Last Trophy
Season 1 • Episode 27
A Britisher (Edward Ashley), once a great game hunter, visits the Ponderosa and displays cowardice.
Monday, July 29
San Francisco
Season 1 • Episode 28
Two traildrivers are shanghaied shortly after the Ponderosa cattle herd arrives in San Francisco.
Monday, July 29
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 29
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, July 30
Dark Star
Season 1 • Episode 31
Little Joe falls for a Gypsy who believes she is a witch and, therefore, an outcast.
Tuesday, July 30
Death at Dawn
Season 1 • Episode 32
The deputized Cartwrights sentence a murderer to hang at dawn.
Tuesday, July 30
Showdown
Season 2 • Episode 1
A bank robber takes a job with the Cartwrights to hide his accomplices on the Ponderosa.
Tuesday, July 30
The Mission
Season 2 • Episode 2
Hoss befriends a former Army scout (Henry Hull) who drinks to forget the massacre of his troop.
Tuesday, July 30
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.
Tuesday, July 30
The Conquistadores
Season 9 • Episode 3
Misfits plan to rescue kidnapped Little Joe, kill him and keep the ransom of $25,000 in gold.
Tuesday, July 30
The Hopefuls
Season 2 • Episode 5
Outlaws plot to steal a trunk containing the savings of a religious group.
Wednesday, July 31
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.
Wednesday, July 31
Judgment at Olympus
Season 9 • Episode 4
When Candy is accused of murder, Little Joe and Hoss seek the real killer.
Wednesday, July 31
Denver McKee
Season 2 • Episode 6
The Cartwrights help a former decorated Army scout find security for his daughter.
Thursday, August 1
The Bridegroom
Season 8 • Episode 13
Little Joe helps bolster a plain girl's (Joanne Linville) self-esteem to catch a widower's eye.
Thursday, August 1
Night of Reckoning
Season 9 • Episode 5
A wounded gang member hides some stolen loot and seeks help from the Cartwrights.
Thursday, August 1
Day of Reckoning
Season 2 • Episode 7
Hoss' bandit uncle (Neville Brand) decides to bypass the Ponderosa, but his gang disagrees.
Friday, August 2
False Witness
Season 9 • Episode 6
Outlaws stalk Little Joe, Hoss, Candy and a woman after they witness a shooting.
Friday, August 2
The Abduction
Season 2 • Episode 8
Little Joe and Hoss seek Joe's date, who disappeared while the trio was at a carnival.
Saturday, August 3
Breed of Violence
Season 2 • Episode 9
Bank robbers hide on a ranch that Hoss and Little Joe are visiting.
Monday, August 5
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, August 5
The Gentle Ones
Season 9 • Episode 7
Ben allows a ranch hand to care for a mistreated stallion the man stole from his brother.
Monday, August 5
The Last Viking
Season 2 • Episode 10
For saving his life, Ben offers some Ponderosa farmland to an American Indian.
Monday, August 5
Badge Without Honor
Season 2 • Episode 3
A Deputy U.S. Marshal arrives to accompany a Cartwright friend back to a California court.
Monday, August 5
The Mill
Season 2 • Episode 4
A hired hand (Claude Akins) victimizes the Cartwrights' disabled neighbor (Harry Townes).
Monday, August 5
The Hopefuls
Season 2 • Episode 5
Outlaws plot to steal a trunk containing the savings of a religious group.
Monday, August 5
Denver McKee
Season 2 • Episode 6
The Cartwrights help a former decorated Army scout find security for his daughter.
Monday, August 5
Day of Reckoning
Season 2 • Episode 7
Hoss' bandit uncle (Neville Brand) decides to bypass the Ponderosa, but his gang disagrees.
Monday, August 5
The Abduction
Season 2 • Episode 8
Little Joe and Hoss seek Joe's date, who disappeared while the trio was at a carnival.
Tuesday, August 6
Breed of Violence
Season 2 • Episode 9
Bank robbers hide on a ranch that Hoss and Little Joe are visiting.
Tuesday, August 6
The Last Viking
Season 2 • Episode 10
For saving his life, Ben offers some Ponderosa farmland to an American Indian.
Tuesday, August 6
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, August 6
The Savage
Season 2 • Episode 12
When Adam passes through a sacred Indian burial ground, Shoshone braves attack him in revenge.
Tuesday, August 6
Ponderosa Explosion
Season 8 • Episode 16
Entrepreneurs Hoss and Joe hope to clothe the nation's women in rabbit-skin coats.
Tuesday, August 6
Desperate Passage
Season 9 • Episode 8
The Cartwrights, seeking safety in a trail town during an Indian uprising, find a murderer.
Tuesday, August 6
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.
Wednesday, August 7
Justice
Season 8 • Episode 17
Little Joe's romance with a pretty bank clerk is threatened by a lovesick youth.
Wednesday, August 7
Showdown at Tahoe
Season 9 • Episode 10
A gang plans to steal the Cartwrights' payroll and use Ben's steamboat to escape.
Wednesday, August 7
The Savage
Season 2 • Episode 12
When Adam passes through a sacred Indian burial ground, Shoshone braves attack him in revenge.
Thursday, August 8
A Bride for Buford
Season 8 • Episode 18
Dancehall star tries to charm boisterous "desert rat" out of his mining riches.
Thursday, August 8
Check Rein
Season 9 • Episode 12
The Cartwrights help a young man come into his inheritance despite his uncle's designs to stop him.
Thursday, August 8
Silent Thunder
Season 2 • Episode 13
Little Joe's efforts to help a deaf-mute girl backfire when she falls in love with him.
Friday, August 9
Justice Deferred
Season 9 • Episode 13
Hoss feels he has testified mistakenly in court after seeing an accused murderer's double in town.
Friday, August 9
The Ape
Season 2 • Episode 14
Adam and Little Joe try to warn Hoss when he befriends a violent man (Cal Bolder).
Saturday, August 10
The Blood Line
Season 2 • Episode 15
An Easterner looking for his father learns a Cartwright killed him in self-defense.
Monday, August 12
A Woman in the House
Season 8 • Episode 23
Ben gets caught in a marital mess trying to protect a woman from her alcoholic husband.
Monday, August 12
The Courtship
Season 2 • Episode 16
Adam tells betrothed Hoss his intended is a compulsive gambler who caused her husband's death.
Monday, August 12
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, August 12
The Ape
Season 2 • Episode 14
Adam and Little Joe try to warn Hoss when he befriends a violent man (Cal Bolder).
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