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#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 Stars: 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 Stars: 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 Stars: 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 Stars: 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 Issacs Mencken visits Virginia City and is
followed by old boyfriend John Regan. Adah is an old friend
of Ben's and he stays close by to try to offer her protection.
Ben's sons are convinced she's bad news and try dissuade their
father from seeing her.
Guest Stars: 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 Stars: James Coburn
#12 "The Hanging Posse"
Joe and Adam join a posse to help a friend catch his wife's
killer. Joe and Adam 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 Stars: Mort Mills
#14 "The Sisters"
Adam is courting Sue Ellen Terry, a woman well known by
the men folk in Virginia City. He dismisses his father's concerns
and continues the relationship. 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 young woman who stows away in the Cartwrights
wagon 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, 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, 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 familes. Joe and Hoss turn to the women
of the feuding families to help stop the fighting.
Guest Stars: Henry Hull, 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 Stars: 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, 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
in order to get ownership of the land.
Guest Stars: 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, Wesley Lau
#24 "The Stranger"
Ben, who is running for Governor of Nebraska, was accused
of murder twenty years ago. He goes to New Orleans to face the
charges.
Guest Stars: 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, 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, 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, Edward Ashley
#28 "San Francisco"
Ben, Hoss and Joe visit San Francisco with some of their
hands. The hands vanish. While searching for them, Ben finds
himself shanghaied and destined for Hong Kong.
Guest Stars: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.
Lem plants a tick infestation in the Cartwrights' cattle herd.
Guest Stars: Don Dubbins, 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, 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, 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 Stars: Nancy Deale
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