• Premiered: Sep 1959
  • Episodes: 431
  • Followers: 29
  • Ended
  • NBC
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Season 5
5x1
She Walks in Beauty
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 22, 1963
Hoss wants to marry mysterious Regan Miller, a woman with less than a pristine past. When he thinks Adam is trying to steal her away, he loses control and beats Adam up.
5x2
A Passion for Justice
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 29, 1963
Renowned English novelist Charles Dickens comes to Virginia City. In short order, he is accused of a crime he didn't commit. The problem then becomes how to convince the stubborn author to defend himself.
5x3
Rain from Heaven
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 06, 1963
A destitute rainmaker and his family arrive in drought-stricken Virginia City. While Ben tries to help him make rain, Hoss tends to the man's seriously ill little girl.
5x4
Twilight Town
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 13, 1963
Joe is bushwhacked in the desert and awakens to find himself in Martinville, a town that may or may not be populated by ghosts. An errie, surrealistic and well-produced episode.
5x5
The Toy Soldier
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 20, 1963
Adam encounters drunken artist James Callan, branded a "squaw man" because he is married to an Indian, and whose talent is going to waste in the town of Sheep Head.
5x6
A Question of Strength
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Air date
Oct 27, 1963
Hoss and a pair of nuns, the younger one having a difficult time training for the order, are robbed and stranded at a way station.
5x7
Calamity Over the Comstock
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 03, 1963
Joe has a run-in with Calamity Jane, and takes her home with him after promising her dying father to take care of her. At first the Cartwrights (besides Joe) think "Cal" is a boy, but .. show full overview
5x8
Journey Remembered
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Air date
Nov 10, 1963
Ben finds an old journal that he kept while in a wagon train travelling from St. Joseph, Missouri to Ash Hollow. As he is reading it Ben remembers the journey he undertook with his wife .. show full overview
5x9
The Quality of Mercy
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Air date
Nov 17, 1963
Joe struggles to understand whether his friend was right in killing a dying man who pleaded to put out of his misery.
5x10
The Waiting Game
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Air date
Dec 08, 1963
Adam becomes involved with the recently widowed Laura Dayton and her little girl, Peggy.
5x11
The Legacy
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Air date
Dec 15, 1963
Adam, Hoss and Joe mistakenly believe their father was murdered. They split into 3 different directions to confront the supposed killers. In his heart, Ben knows his sons will not act .. show full overview
5x12
Hoss and the Leprechauns
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 22, 1963
In what is arguably the best comedy of the series, Hoss swears he has seen green elves running around the Ponderosa and a smooth-talking Irishman complicates matters even worse.
5x13
The Prime of Life
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 29, 1963
Ben becomes irritable and reckless when the completion of an important timber contract is hindered by an old rival.
5x14
The Lila Conrad Story
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 05, 1964
Joe and Adam protect a saloon girl, who has killed in self-defense, from an angry lynch mob. The accompanying Judge, along with his wife, takes a liking to Lila, and before it is all over, he and Lila discover much more about themselves.
5x15
Ponderosa Matador
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 12, 1964
Adam, Hoss, and Joe vie for the attention of a pretty young lady named Dolores. Hoss talks Joe into entering a bull fight, but it doesn't work out quite as planned.
5x16
My Son, My Son
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Air date
Jan 19, 1964
Ben's plans to marry Katherine Saunders are upset when her son Eden is accused of killing his former girlfriend.
5x17
Alias Joe Cartwright
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Air date
Jan 26, 1964
A man who looks similar to Joe uses Joe's name and gets Joe in the position of facing the firing squad.
5x18
The Gentleman from New Orleans
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Air date
Feb 02, 1964
The new stranger in town claims to be the famous pirate Jean Lafitte, and Hoss believes him.
5x19
The Cheating Game
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Air date
Feb 09, 1964
In this sequel to "The Waiting Game", Laura resents Adam's advice on how she ought to be running her ranch. A newcomer, Ward Bannister, comes to her aid, but is actually part of a scheme to steal her ranch.
5x20
Bullet for a Bride
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 16, 1964
While out hunting for a mountain lion, Joe accidently shots Tessa Caldwell causing her to go blind. As a result of his guilt, Joe ends up proposing to the girl. However, other .. show full overview
5x21
King of the Mountain
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 23, 1964
When mountain man Jim Leyton decides to marry, he chooses Hoss as his best man. Julie's father, Grizzly, does not agree and Hoss must come to the rescue.
5x22
Love Me Not
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 01, 1964
While talking with an Indian, Ben is given an unexpected present...a woman. She is a young white woman named Joan who has lived with the Indians since she was a little girl. Through a .. show full overview
5x23
The Pure Truth
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Air date
Mar 08, 1964
Hoss is suffering from spring fever, goes to the wrong town and is accused of bank robbery.
5x24
No Less a Man
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Air date
Mar 15, 1964
The town council feels Roy Coffee can no longer do his job, and with the notorious Wagner gang on their way to rob the bank, everyone is in a panic. Ben and Adam disagree with the town council and do what they can to help Roy out.
5x25
Return to Honor
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 22, 1964
Ben must travel to pay his respects after he learns of the death of his nephew Will. When he visits the grave, he finds his nephew barely alive with a bullet wound. He takes him to a .. show full overview
5x26
The Saga of Muley Jones
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 29, 1964
The Cartwrights are visited by their second cousin, Muley Jones of Weedville, Missouri who sings with a window-shattering voice and stirs up trouble with Indian negotiations that Ben is trying to ensure.
5x27
The Roper
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 05, 1964
Will is having second thoughts about staying on at the Ponderosa, and outlaws hit the ranch and take him with them. The leader, Lee Hewitt, is a young killer and plans on robbing the .. show full overview
5x28
A Pink Cloud Comes from Old Cathay
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Air date
Apr 12, 1964
A headstrong Chinese girl (Marlo Thomas) visiting the Cartwrights incites labor unrest among local workers.
5x29
The Companeros
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 19, 1964
Mateo Ibara and his wife Carla visit the Ponderosa. Ibara asks Will to return to Mexico with him. Ibara and Will fought together for Juarez's cause and Ibara saved Will's life. For this .. show full overview
5x30
Enter Thomas Bowers
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 26, 1964
After a triumphant tour in Europe, a famous Negro singer encounters racial prejudice in Virginia City when he arrives for a concert.
5x31
The Dark Past
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Air date
May 03, 1964
Moody bounty hunter, Dev Farnum, shows up on the Ponderosa, where the Cartwrights are harboring the wife of the man he is after.
5x32
The Pressure Game
Episode overview
Air date
May 10, 1964
Laura Dayton's Aunt Lil comes to visit and quickly decides it's time she help the hesitant Adam propose to her favorite niece. Her plan is to make Adam jealous by using his cousin Will but it doesn't go exactly as planned.
5x33
Triangle
Episode overview
Air date
May 17, 1964
Adam and Laura are finally engaged. Adam is secretly building a house and planning for the future. Laura realizes that it's Will she is in love with. Adam is then confined to a .. show full overview
5x34 Season finale
Walter and the Outlaws
Episode overview
Air date
May 24, 1964
Hilarious sequel to "Any Friend Of Walter's" in which Obie leaves Walter in Hoss' care. The three outlaws, Macy, Teague, and Willard, kidnap Walter and hold him for ransom, leaving Hoss .. show full overview

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