Bonanza

IMDb TVDB Trailer
  • : 1959
  • : 431
  • : 29
  • NBC
  • Action Adventure Western

:

.

3
3x1
The Smiler
Episode overview
24, 1961
A drunk is killed in a saloon brawl with Hoss, and though the man's brother insists there are no hard feelings, he is actually a silver-tongued devil bent on revenge.
3x2
Springtime
Episode overview
01, 1961
A friend of Ben's (Mr. Milbank) arrives at the Ponderosa at a bad time...when the Cartwright boys are fighting in the mud. Mr. Milbank, who is injured by a flying log during the fight, .. show full overview
3x3
The Honor of Cochise
Episode overview
08, 1961
The Cartwrights and a bigoted army captain are pinned down by Cochise and his braves, who claim the officer poisoned 30 of their people.
3x4
The Lonely House
Episode overview
15, 1961
Little Joe pays a visit to the widow Lee Bolden, and brings her a bank draft for her husband's investments with Ben. Actually, the investments were losing propositions. Ben just wanted .. show full overview
3x5
The Burma Rarity
Episode overview
22, 1961
In this comic episode involving a precious emerald and the sweet widow, Clemantine Hawkins who is attracted to Ben, turns the tables on a pair of land swindlers.
3x6
Broken Ballad
Episode overview
29, 1961
Adam tries to help a reformed gunman who wants only to live peacefully near Virginia City. Good story without a tidy ending. Pernell's first chance to sing on the series.
3x7
The Many Faces of Gideon Flinch
Episode overview
05, 1961
Hoss and Joe become involved when "Bullethead" Burke vows revenge on an old man he claims cheated him in an investment deal.
3x8
The Friendship
Episode overview
12, 1961
Joe befriends and takes responsibility for an ex-convict named Danny. Danny loves horses and is not used to people's ways on the outside of jail. Will his rough jailhouse upbringing mar any hopes of friendship?
3x9
The Countess
Episode overview
19, 1961
A woman Ben once loved, Lady Chadwick, returns and attempts to trick him into marrying her by ruining his business. Ben says almost losing the Ponderosa will make him and his sons appreciate it more.
3x10
The Horse Breaker
Episode overview
26, 1961
A professional wrangler working for the Cartwrights is paralyzed when thrown by a particularly mean bronco. The woman nursing him was once engaged to the late son of a neighboring rancher out to get Ben.
3x11
Day of the Dragon
Episode overview
03, 1961
Joe wins a card game and an unexpected prize...a young lady. She goes to the Ponderosa and serves them, not wanting to be set free. Meanwhile, an army is looking for her and the Cartwrights.
3x12
The Frenchman
Episode overview
10, 1961
An irritating man who boasts of being the reincarnation of French poet Francois Villion shows up causing trouble for the Cartwrights.
3x13
The Tin Badge
Episode overview
17, 1961
Joe accepts the job of temporary sheriff in the town of Rubicon, unaware he is being used to facilitate a scheme involving murder.
3x14
Gabrielle
Episode overview
24, 1961
In this Christmas story, inspired by Johanna Spyri's "Heidi", Hoss and Joe come across a blind girl whose family has been killed in a wagon wreck, learning later that her grandfather is .. show full overview
3x15
Land Grab
Episode overview
31, 1961
The Ponderosa is overrun with settlers bearing phony property deeds, and one of Ben's oldest friends is responsible.
3x16
The Tall Stranger
Episode overview
07, 1962
Hoss plans to marry Margie, a pretty blonde, but Margie becomes fascinated with a tall, traveling stranger named Mark Connors. Margie marries Mark but soon finds it was far from a match made in heaven.
3x17
The Lady from Baltimore
Episode overview
14, 1962
An overbearing friend of the family tries to force her daughter into marrying Joe, though she does not love him. The situation grows more complex when Adam stumbles onto the scheme.
3x18
The Ride
Episode overview
21, 1962
Adam races against the clock to prove a man who was once his friend is guilty of robbery and murder and Adam is convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt he is guilty.
3x19
The Storm
Episode overview
28, 1962
Joe plans to marry Laura White, daughter of a man Ben once sailed with, but she is fatally ill. Ben consoles him with words spoken years before, by the father of Adam's mother.
3x20
The Auld Sod
Episode overview
04, 1962
The Cartwrights pretend the Ponderosa belongs to the town lush, when his aging mother from Ireland arrives.
3x21
Gift of Water
Episode overview
11, 1962
The Cartwrights dig a well, build a rig and a windmill for a drought-stricken farm family.
3x22
The Jackknife
Episode overview
18, 1962
Adam gives a second chance to a family man he suspects is one of the rustlers who has been hitting the Ponderosa herds.
3x23
The Guilty
Episode overview
25, 1962
When Ben fails to prevent the death of a friend's son, Adam and Joe, concerned by their father's depression, attempt to prove there was nothing he could have done.
3x24
The Wooing of Abigail Jones
Episode overview
04, 1962
In order to keep peace on the ranch, Hoss and Joe try to help ranch hand, Hank Meyers woo the the plain-looking schoolteacher, Abigail Jones. When their first plan backfires, they .. show full overview
3x25
The Lawmaker
Episode overview
11, 1962
Ben supports the appointment of Asa Moran as Virginia City's temporary sheriff, but Moran goes overboard with his authority, jailing Adam in the process and pistol-whipping a Ponderosa hand.
3x26
Look to the Stars
Episode overview
18, 1962
A young genius, Albert Michaelson, vies for a scholarship. Adam assists Albert in the boy's experiments. Albert only needs the school teacher's approval to be granted a .. show full overview
3x27
The Gamble
Episode overview
01, 1962
In the town of Alkali, the Cartwrights are jailed on false charges of robbery and murder, but Joe escapes and returns with an army of Ponderosa hands.
3x28
The Crucible
Episode overview
08, 1962
Adam is left to die in the desert after two thieves take $5,000 and his horse from him. Near death, he stumbles into an old prospector named Kane who offers to lend him a mule and .. show full overview
3x29
Inger, My Love
Episode overview
15, 1962
Ben indulges in a nostalgic reverie about Hoss's deceased mother. Having worked his way west to Galesburg, IL., Ben is befriended by a girl named Inger, the fiancee of the tavern owner who gave him a job.
3x30
Blessed Are They
Episode overview
22, 1962
When two feuding families argue over the custody of two orphaned children, a reluctant Ben is called upon to straighten out the situation before real trouble erupts.
3x31
The Dowry
Episode overview
29, 1962
The Cartwrights get mixed up in the romance of a phony heiress and an equally phony land baron.
3x32
The Long Night
Episode overview
06, 1962
Ben, Joe and Adam travel to Bowleg to pay the yearly taxes on the Ponderosa. After the transaction is completed, Ben and Joe ride over the summit to join the cattle drive. Adam is on .. show full overview
3x33
The Mountain Girl
Episode overview
13, 1962
Joe promises a dying sheepman he will make sure the old man's granddaughter gets her rightful inheritance from a wealthy San Francisco family. This episode was filmed immediately after .. show full overview
3x34
The Miracle Maker
Episode overview
20, 1962
Hoss blames himself when a young woman is crippled in a wagon accident, and hopes a faith healer can help her walk again.

Characters