• Premiered: Sep 1959
  • Episodes: 431
  • Followers: 29
  • Ended
  • NBC
  • Unknown
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Season 8
8x1
Something Hurt, Something Wild
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 11, 1966
The Cartwrights' friendship with a neighboring rancher is threatened by his mentally unstable daughter.
8x2
Horse of a Different Hue
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 18, 1966
So the Cartwrights will not be killed, one of Ben's oldest friends must make sure Joe does not win a horse race.
8x3
A Time to Step Down
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 25, 1966
After the Cartwrights put wrangler Dan Tolliver out to pasture, the embittered old man plans to take part in robbing the Ponderosa.
8x4
The Pursued (1)
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 02, 1966
A Mormon with two wives is badgered by the town's people and then things get much worse.
8x5
The Pursued (2)
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 09, 1966
As the persecuted party awaits Ben and Hoss' return, Herber is shot and killed. Joe retaliates and shoots Herber's assassin.
8x6
To Bloom for Thee
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 16, 1966
Hoss is engaged to Carol Attley, a troubled woman with a past darker than he imagines.
8x7
Credit for a Kill
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 23, 1966
Though his friend is badly in need of the reward money, Joe insists it belongs to him, to protect his friend from the dead outlaws' brothers.
8x8
Four Sisters from Boston
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 30, 1966
The Cartwrights come to the rescue of four inexperienced homesteaders, when devious cattle ranchers try to run them off their property.
8x9
Old Charlie
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 06, 1966
A young cowpoke is killed during a fight with Hoss, but the old blowhard who runs the Virginia City stables, takes the credit, placing him in danger from the dead man's brothers.
8x10
Ballad of the Ponderosa
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 13, 1966
A young troubadour, who blames Ben for the death of his father, returns to Virginia City. In one scene, Ben says the young man is welcome to use Adam's guitar.
8x11
The Oath
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 20, 1966
While in another town, on business, Ben runs into a saloon employee who is a big figure, and after he kills an old miner, who has burned down his house, Ben takes him into the sheriff. .. show full overview
8x12
A Real Nice, Friendly Little Town
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 27, 1966
When the woman he was planning to marry is strangled, Joe forces the only suspect to come forward, in a very tense-filled episode.
8x13
The Bridegroom
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 04, 1966
Joe plays matchmaker in this story of a rancher attempting to marry off his supposedly unremarkable daughter.
8x14
Tommy
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 18, 1966
The Cartwrights protect a woman and her deaf-mute little son from the boy's outlaw stepfather.
8x15
A Christmas Story
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 25, 1966
Warbling Andy Walker returns to Virginia City a big success, along with his shifty Uncle Thaddeus.
8x16
Ponderosa Explosion
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 01, 1967
Two Virginia City old-timers fool Hoss and Joe into raising rabbits, and the Ponderosa is overrun with paws and whiskers.
8x17
Justice
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 08, 1967
When the woman he was planning to marry is strangled, Joe forces the only suspect to come forward.
8x18
A Bride for Buford
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 15, 1967
Dolly Bantree has a crooked manager "Blackie", who blackmails Dolly to fleece newly rich miner Buford out of his newfound wealth. Hoss suspects something and gets all duded up to pose as a rich mark to test Dolly.
8x19
Black Friday
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 22, 1967
In the town of Chiso, Joe encounters a former Ponderosa cowhand who is now a gunfighter and expecting to be killed on Friday the 13th. John Saxon makes the first of his three appearances in the series, in this episode as Steven Friday.
8x20
The Unseen Wound
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 29, 1967
Ben discovers that his friend, Sheriff Paul Rowan, is suffering from stress brought on by his wartime experiences.
8x21
Journey to Terror
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 05, 1967
Joe visits his married friends in Arizona Territory, only to discover the husband has become a criminal and is secretly part of a notorious gang.
8x22
Amigo
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 12, 1967
A wounded comanchero sides with the Cartwrights when the rest of the gang, led by Captain Fenner, shows up to burn and rob the Ponderosa.
8x23
A Woman in the House
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 19, 1967
Mary Wharton, an old friend of the family, comes to live on the Ponderosa with her shiftless husband. When Ben learns Mary is the victim of domestic abuse, he sends Russ packing.
8x24
Judgment at Red Creek
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 26, 1967
Hoss and Joe have their doubts as to who really robbed a way station, suspecting the two men they captured are innocent.
8x25
Joe Cartwright, Detective
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 05, 1967
Joe becomes fascinated by detective literature and drags Hoss into the picture when he suspects the bank is going to be robbed.
8x26
Dark Enough to See the Stars
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 12, 1967
Young Billy Wilcox wanders onto the Ponderosa, sick, hungry, and alone. Ben finds him, and after he regains his strength, offers Billy a job. Jennifer Yardley, who with her father is .. show full overview
8x27
The Deed and the Dilemma
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 26, 1967
Ben assists Georgio Rossi in his battle for water on adjoining property.
8x28
The Prince
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 02, 1967
The Cartwrights play host to Russian royals, who are the target of jewel thieves.
8x29
A Man Without Land
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 09, 1967
The foreman of a neighboring ranch frames Joe for murder as part of a scheme to get his employer's property.
8x30
Napoleon's Children
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 16, 1967
A gang of juvenile delinquents, led by an intelligent runt, who calls himself Napoleon, terrorizes Virginia City and the Ponderosa as well.
8x31
The Wormwood Cup
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 23, 1967
A woman - convinced Little Joe intentionally killed her brother - offers $1,000 to the man who kills the youngest Cartwright in what she deems a "fair fight." Joe, meanwhile, must .. show full overview
8x32
Clarissa
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 30, 1967
The Cartwrights' cousin, Clarissa visits. Her assertive, snobbish ways result in nothing but trouble for Ben and his sons.
8x33
Maestro Hoss
Episode overview
Air date
May 07, 1967
Hoss is conned into buying a violin from a gypsy fortune teller, and everyone on the Ponderosa--except for Hop Sing--suffers the consequences.
8x34 Season finale
The Greedy Ones
Episode overview
Air date
May 14, 1967
The Ponderosa is in danger of being overrun by gold hunters.

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