• : 1959
  • : 431
  • : 29
  • NBC
  • Action Adventure Western

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13x1
The Grand Swing
Episode overview
19, 1971
Jamie deliberately disobeys Ben's order not to drive the supply wagons. During his recklessness, the wagon goes out of control on a sharp curve and is wrecked. Nobody is hurt but a badly .. show full overview
13x2
Fallen Woman
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26, 1971
An alcoholic woman lashes out at Hoss after his testimony sends her husband to prison. She gets back at him by forcing the big guy to take custody of her young son, Petey. Hoss must .. show full overview
13x3
Bushwhacked
Episode overview
03, 1971
Joe is shot and wounded while he is on a cattle drive in the Nevada desert. Two ranchers find him, delirious from thirst and the heat, and take him to their home to recover. While the .. show full overview
13x4
Rock-a-Bye, Hoss
Episode overview
10, 1971
Hoss becomes a judge in a contest--he has to pick the perfect/prettiest baby. The parents of the babies nearly all try to influence Hoss, so he has a hard time deciding. There is one quite hilarious part (though odd).
13x5
The Prisoners
Episode overview
17, 1971
Joe volunteers to help an old lawman escort a slick outlaw to jail, but when their prisoner kills the sheriff and wounds Joe, he must face the task alone.
13x6
Cassie
Episode overview
24, 1971
To help the hapless wife and daughter of a lazy dreamer, Hoss arranges a "fixed" horse race.
13x7
Don't Cry, My Son
Episode overview
31, 1971
The wife of Virginia City's new doctor leaves him, after their son dies in childbirth. The doctor snaps and abducts another woman's baby.
13x8
Face of Fear
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14, 1971
Neta, a teen-age girl who is a friend of Jamie's, witnesses an assault and robbery. The victim - Mr. Trumbull, a man who is about to inherit a fortune - dies. The culprit, a drifter .. show full overview
13x9
Blind Hunch
Episode overview
21, 1971
A veteran blinded by the last battle of the Civil War, returns to Virginia City, to solve the mystery surrounding who killed his brother.
13x10
The Iron Butterfly
Episode overview
28, 1971
Hoss takes the blame when a visiting actress kills her former boyfriend. The ex-boyfriend's father, a senator, sets out to destroy the Cartwrights and the Ponderosa as retaliation, for the killing of his son.
13x11
The Rattlesnake Brigade
Episode overview
05, 1971
Jamie and three teen-agers - a girl and two boys - are kidnapped by Doyle, a hardened criminal with nothing to lose, and his gang of outlaws. The desperate outlaws use the youths as bargaining tools to make their escape from a trip to prison.
13x12
Easy Come, Easy Go
Episode overview
12, 1971
When Luke Calhoun loses all his money in a stock scheme, he and his daughter Meena stay at the Ponderosa with disruptive consequences. Luke turns the ranch into a casino and Meena .. show full overview
13x13
A Home for Jamie
Episode overview
19, 1971
Just as Ben begins to formally adopt Jamie, his grandfather shows up to take him away. Ben tells the gentleman, "He's a young man with his roots in Ponderosa soil. This is the life he knows, the life he loves, the life he wants".
13x14
Warbonnet
Episode overview
26, 1971
Joe is stranded in the desert when his mare falls and breaks her leg. He falls unconscious from exhaustion and lack of water, and is found near death by a Paiute named Swift Eagle. But .. show full overview
13x15
The Lonely Man
Episode overview
02, 1972
While panning for gold on his vacation, Hop Sing meets and falls in love with a shy woman. Their future plans are dashed when a judge confirms what Ben has told Hop Sing: the law specifically prohibits interracial marriages.
13x16
Second Sight
Episode overview
09, 1972
Hoss enlists the aid of Judith Coleman, a clairvoyant woman who has the gift of "second sight" to find Jamie. He has been missing in the high country and cannot be found by anyone. .. show full overview
13x17
The Saddle Stiff
Episode overview
16, 1972
Fired ranch hand, Cactus, suggests that Ben is too old to put in a real work's week and challenges Ben to take a job as a ranch hand under the name "Ben Brown". He takes the job to prove himself better than Cactus.
13x18
Frenzy
Episode overview
30, 1972
Ben helps shepherd a young family, the Kosovos (Nick; his wife, Anna; and his son, Sandor), who had recently immigrated from Serbia. Nick soon finds he can't handle the pressure needed .. show full overview
13x19
Customs of the Country
Episode overview
06, 1972
All about Joe and Hoss' visit to a small Mexican town named Agua Santos, which seems to have some rather peculiar laws. The two Cartwright boys soon find them in pretty deep trouble for breaking "laws" that barely would pass without notice stateside.
13x20
Shanklin
Episode overview
13, 1972
A band of ex-Confederate soldiers demands $25,000 from Ben. When Hoss resists their demands and tries to fight them, their leader, Shanklin, shoots Hoss in the abdomen. Hoss lingers near .. show full overview
13x21
Search in Limbo
Episode overview
20, 1972
Sid Langley is a real estate broker who is not well liked in Nevada, thanks to his shady ways of doing business. An irritable Ben is barely polite with Langley when closing a land .. show full overview
13x22
He Was Only Seven
Episode overview
05, 1972
A 7-year-old boy is killed after he walks into a bank during a robbery by the ruthless Springer gang. Joe and Jamie help the boy's angrily grieving grandfather track down Springer.
13x23
The Younger Brothers' Younger Brother
Episode overview
12, 1972
A comic tale of mistaken identity, as Hoss (and eventually Ben and Joe) are held in connection with a series of road gang robberies by the bumbling Younger Brothers.
13x24
A Place to Hide
Episode overview
19, 1972
The Cartwrights are once again brought in the middle of the Civil War. This time, the wife of former Civil War Col. Cody Ransom brings her young daughter to the Ponderosa, trying to pick .. show full overview
13x25
A Visit to Upright
Episode overview
26, 1972
Ben's ability to close a lucrative livestock contract with a conspicuous widow hinges on the sale of a dilapidated saloon in Upright that Hoss and Joe had impulsively purchased. However, .. show full overview
13x26
One Ace Too Many
Episode overview
02, 1972
Ruthless land baron Bradley Meredith (Lorne Greene in a dual role) makes his return to Virginia City with a new scheme to get control of the Ponderosa. He learns the Cartwrights are on a .. show full overview

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