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.

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

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

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

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

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

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

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

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

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

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

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.

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