Bonanza, TV Show – Videos, Actors, Photos and Episodes from the Classic Television Show

1- A Rose For Lotta
Pilot episode: Lotta Crabtree is hired by mining tycoon Alpheus Troy to lure one of the Cartwrights into town and hold him for ransom in exchange for Ponderosa timber rights.

Guest Star: Yvonne DeCarlo

2-Death On Sun Mountain
Ben discovers Mark Burdette and Early Thorne selling antelope meat to the miners at high prices. He offers the miners beef at a more reasonable price. Burdette and Thorne retaliate by framing the Indians for attacks on the miners. (Lorne Greene's first voice-over)

Guest Star: Barry Sullivan

3-The Newcomers
Ben discovers hydraulic miners camped on the ranch and has Hoss escort them off. In the process, Hoss falls in love with the sister of one of the men, not realizing she is terminally ill.

Guest Star: Inger Stevens

4-The Pauite War
The Pauites are falsely accused of attacks and the militia is summoned. Adam is taken hostage by the Pauites.

Guest Stars: Jack Warden and Anthony Caruso

5-Enter Mark Twain
Virginia City is visited by Samuel Clemens who writes editorials for the Territorial Enterprise. One of his first subjects is a politician who is trying to steal the Ponderosa.

Guest Stars: Howard Duff and Dorothy Green

6-The Julia Bulette Story
Little Joe falls in love with Julia Bulette, a saloon owner. Her reputation and the fact that she is much older than Joe, puts him at odds with his father.

Guest Star: Jane Greer

7-The Saga of Annie O'Toole
Annie O'Toole comes to Washoe Digging with a claim to a mine filed by her beau Swede Lundberg. Swede had two claims and sold one to an old acquaintance named Gregory Spain. There is some confusion over which claim is Annie's. A decision must be made in Miners Court. Ben Cartwright presides.

Guest Stars: Ida Lupino and Alan Hale

8-The Diedeshiemer Story
Philip Diedeshiemer works with Adam to prevent mine cave-ins. They create the "square set" system.

Guest Stars: R.G. Armstrong, Mala Powers, Ida Lupino, and Alan Hale

9-Mr. Henry Comstock
Henry Comstock claims ownership in a major gold strike. Joe asks for trouble by courting the daughter of Chief Winnemuca.

Guest Star: Jack Carson

10-The Magnificent Adah
Actress Adah Isaacs Mencken visits Virginia City and is followed by old boyfriend John Regan. Adah is an old friend of Ben's and he tries to offer her protection. Ben's sons are convinced she's bad news and try dissuade their father from seeing her.

Guest Star: Ruth Roman

11-The Truckee Strip
The Cartwrights are embroiled in a feud with their neighbors the Bishops; Joe and Amy Bishop want no part of the feud and wish to get married.

Guest Star: James Coburn

12-The Hanging Posse
Joe and Adam join a posse to help a friend catch his wife's killer; but soon discover the posse has murderous intentions.

Guest Stars: Arthur Hunnicutt and Onslow Stevens

13-Vendetta
Virginia City residents leave Ben and Hoss to deal with an outlaw gang. Their only reinforcements are the town drunk and a doctor.

Guest Star: Mort Mills

14-The Sisters
Adam is courting Sue Ellen Terry, a woman well known by the men folk in Virginia City. When Sue Ellen is killed, Adam becomes the number one suspect.

Guest Stars: Fay Spain and Buddy Ebsen

15-The Last Hunt
An Indian woman is brought home by Joe and Hoss after they discover her alone and about to have a baby. The Shoshone Chief, her father, and the baby's father (a white man) search for her.

Guest Stars: China Eden and Steven Terrell

16-El Toro Grande
Hoss and Joe travel to Monterey carrying a large amount of cash for the purchase of a prize bull. Along the way they have to deal with bandits, a duel, a boy who runs away with the bull, a love struck stow away and hungry Indians.

Guest Stars: Barbara Luna and Ricardo Cortez

17-The Outcast
After her father and brother are hanged for murder, Leta Malvet becomes an outcast. She looks to her friend Clay Renton, a former bank robber, who is staying at the Cartwrights.

Guest Stars: Jack Lord and Susan Oliver

18-House Divided
Frederick Kyle creates problems in the Cartwright home when he comes to Virginia City to gain support for the Confederacy.

Guest Stars: Cameron Mitchell and Stacey Mitchell

19-The Gunmen
While in Texas, Joe and Hoss are mistaken for the Slade brothers who are involved in a feud between two families. Consequently, Joe and Hoss are thrown in jail and are rescued by one of the members of the feuding families. They turn to the women of the feuding families to help stop the fighting.

Guest Stars: Henry Hull and Ellen Corby

20-The Fear Merchants
Bigot Andrew Fulmer is running for mayor. Fulmer's hatred of Chinese people presents a problem for Jimmy Chong; he is falsely accused of shooting Sally Ridley.

Guest Star: Gene Evans

21-The Spanish Grant
Rosita Morales pretends to be heiress Isabella Marie Inez de la Cuesta in order to get a land grant which includes part of the Ponderosa. She is unable to fool Ben. With the help of his sons, he tries to find the real heiress.

Guest Stars: Patricia Medina and Sebastian Cabot

22 -Blood on the Land
A sheepherder, who was originally just passing through the Ponderosa, decides to stay there permanently. Ben attempts to kick him off the land and the sheepherder takes Adam prisoner.

Guest Star: Everett Sloane

23-Desert Justice
Ben's ranch hand, Dave Walker, has been accused of killing the wife of Marshall Dowd. The Cartwrights go to Los Angeles for his trial.

Guest Stars: Claude Akins and Wesley Lau

24-The Stranger
Ben, who is running for Governor of Nebraska, was accused of murder twenty years ago; he must go to New Orleans to face the charges.

Guest Star: Lloyd Nolan

25-Escape to the Ponderosa
Adam is attacked by escaped convicts. Ben joins Army Captain Bolton in the search for Adam's attackers.

Guest Stars: Joe Maross and Grant Williams

26 -The Avenger
Hoss and Joe look for a way to prevent Adam and Ben from being hanged. A stranger, Lassiter, comes to town and helps prove Adam and Ben's innocence.

Guest Stars: Vic Morrow and Jean Allison

27-The Last Trophy
Lady Beatrice is married to Lord Marion Dunsford. She thinks her husband is a coward and sets her sights on a "real man"-- Adam.

Guest Stars: Hazel Court and Edward Ashley

28-San Francisco
Ben, Hoss and Joe visit San Francisco with some of their ranch hands. The hands vanish. While searching for them, Ben finds himself shanghaied and destined for Hong Kong.

Guest Star: Robert Nichols

29-Bitter Water
When miner Lem Keith plans to buy land next to the Ponderosa, he goes to the owner's son Todd to help him. Todd is more than willing to help Lem because he is in love with Lem's daughter and because he and Todd share a common hatred of the Cartwrights.

Guest Stars: Don Dubbins and Merry Anders

30-Feet of Clay
Little Billy Allen's mother has died and he waits for his father at the Cartwrights'. Unbeknownst to Billy, his father is a prisoner who has broken out of jail. When the father commits robbery and murder Hoss is forced to kill him.

Guest Stars: Logan Field and David Ladd

31-Dark Star
A gypsy girl named Tirza has come to stay at the Ponderosa. She has been disowned by her people because they believe she is a witch. While staying with the Cartwrights, Joe falls in love with her and tries to prove her people wrong.

Guest Stars: Hugo Hass and Susan Harrison

32-Death at Dawn
A member of a powerful gang murders a shopkeeper. The killer is sentenced to be hanged and the leader of the gang kidnaps Ben and holds him hostage.

Guest Star: Nancy Deale

33-Showdown
Sam Kriby, a young bank robber, gets a job with the Cartwrights in an attempt to prevent the Sheriff from learning the whereabouts of his accomplices-- the feared Pardo gang.

Guest Star: Ben Cooper

34-The Mission
Captain Pender is looking for a scout and Hoss suggests former scout Charlie Trent. Because Charlie feels responsible for a massacre, he spends most of his time in the bottle.

Guest Stars: Henry Hull and Harry Carey Jr.

35-Badge Without Honor
Gerald Eskith comes to town claiming to be a Deputy Marshall. He wants to take the Cartwrights’ friend Jason Blaine to San Francisco to testify against the Murdock gang. Adam has his suspicions and decides to go along with them.

Guest Stars: Dan Duryea and Fred Beir

36-The Mill
Tom Edwards is in a wheelchair and holds Ben Cartwright responsible for his condition. Tom turns to drink and the Cartwrights decide to help him find purpose again.

Guest Stars: Claude Akins and Harry Townes

37 -The Hopefulls
Jacob Darien is leading his family of Quakers through Virginia City, when he is accosted by town roughnecks. Adam Cartwright steps in with the help of his new traveling companion, Sam Bord. Adam offers to escort the wagon train across the Ponderosa, unaware that Sam is planning a robbery.

Guest Stars: Larry Gates and Patricia Donahue

38-Denver McKee
While celebrating the return of his daughter Connie, former lawman McKee is asked to assist in the capture of an outlaw gang. While Joe is courting Connie, no one realizes that McKee is involved with the outlaws.

Guest Stars: Franchot Tone and Natalie Trundy

39-Day of Reckoning
Ben's life is saved by Matsou, an outcast Indian and his wife. In gratitude, Ben gives Matsou some land and a new start in life, much to the horror of neighbor Ike Dagget who hates Indians. When his wife is killed in a nighttime raid, Dagget blames Matsou and kills his wife.

Guest Star: Ricardo Montalban

40-The Abduction
Little Joe and his Hoss spend an unforgettable and almost tragic evening at the carnival when Little Joe's date, pretty Jennifer Beale disappears. The carnival is owned by handsome Phil Reed, who has an eye for pretty young girls. Jennifer, daughter of a wealthy miner, is intrigued by Reed, whose weakness for a pretty face this time proves costly to him.

Guest Stars: Gerald Mohr and Jackie Russell

41-Breed of Violence
Joe's friend Dolly Kincaid, daughter of the Sheriff, is always falling in with the wrong kind. When she becomes involved with Vince Dagen, Joe becomes worried and tries to intervene.

Guest Stars: John Ericson and Myrna Fahey

42-The Last Viking
Gunnar Borgstrom stops to visit his relatives the Cartwrights, on his way to Canada. Gunnar meets his nephew Joe for the first time.

Guest Stars: Neville Brand and Sonja Wilde

43-The Trail Gang
An outlaw seeking revenge on the Sheriff hires on at the Ponderosa under the name Sam Jackson. The outlaw learns the Sheriff is his father.

Guest Stars: Dick Davalos and James Westerfield

44-The Savage
On his way to Nevada City, Adam comes across a woman being threatened by Shoshone who've just discovered she isn't the spirit woman they thought she was. In his effort to protect her, Adam is shot in the leg with an arrow and must rely on White Buffalo women to help him.

Guest Stars: Anna Lisa and Hal Jon Norman

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