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#169 "Invention Of A Gunfighter"
Joe is friends with Johnny Chapman. Johnny has never learned
to use a gun and is humiliated by Al Mooney who challenges him
to a gun fight. Joe teaches him to shoot and when Johnny kills
a man, Joe feels guilty.
Guest Stars: Guy Stockwell, Valerie Allen, Ron Foster and
Bern Hoffman
#170 "The Hostage"
Ben is kidnapped and held for $100,000 ransom by three
men and a woman. Joe, Adam, and Hoss try to rescue Ben by pitting
the outlaws against one another.
Guest Stars: Harold J. Stone, Conlan Carter, Jacqueline Scott,
Buck Taylor, Cal Bartlett, and Bill Clark
#171 "The Wild One"
Hoss goes to Lafe Jessip to buy some horses to use for
breeding stock. Lafe is an ornery man who is married to a devout
Quaker woman named Prudence. Lafe maintains that Prudence tricked
him into marrying her and therefore wants nothing to do with
her or the baby she is carrying.
Guest Stars: Aldo Ray and Kathryn Hays
#172 "Thanks For Everything, Friend"
Adam falls in the river and is saved by Tom Wilson and
Sue Miller. Tom makes advances toward Sue who is Jerry´s
girlfriend. When Sue´s father is killed, Tom is blamed.
Adam sets out to prove Tom´s innocence. After visiting
Tom in jail, Sue confesses to murdering her father. Tom is released
from jail. Adam investigates further and finds Wilson is guilty
of the shooting.
Guest Stars: Rory Calhoun, Linda Foster, Tom Skerritt, and
John Mitchum
#173 "Logan´s Treasure"
Sam Logan is released from prison after serving 20 years
for stealing $100,000 in gold dust. Logan claims he doesn´t
know where his partner Jack Crawford hid the money before they
were captured.
Guest Stars: Dan Duryea, John Kellogg, Virginai Gregg, Jack
Carol, Tim McIntire, and Russ Bender
#174 "The Scapegoat"
Hoss keeps Waldo Watson from committing suicide. Hoss feels
sorry for Waldo and brings him home to the Ponderosa. Waldo
makes a poor ranch hand. One disaster after another follows
Waldo and soon Ben, Hoss and Joe want him to leave but Hoss
defends him. Waldo is also running from his former fight promoters
who believe Waldo took a bribe.
Guest Stars: George Kennedy, Richard Devon, Sandra Warner,
Jon Lormer, Troy Melton, Bill Catching
#175 "A Dime´s Worth Of Glory"
Ben and Adam fight off two robbers who attempt to hold
up the stage they are sharing with Tobias Finch. Finch is a
writer who wants to write a dime novel about the courageous
Cartwrights. Ben and Adam want no part of the book and Finch
turns to Sheriff Reed Laramore, a has-been hero, who is more
than wiling to follow Finch´s instructions.
Guest Stars: Walter Brooke, Bruce Cabot, Charles Maxwell,
James Bell and Dal Jenkins
#176 "Square Deal Sam"
Sam is a charming old conman who winds up taking all the
Cartwrights and Hop Sing´s money in a phony land deal.
Old Sam and his wife eventually wind up running the orphanage
in Virginia City.
Guest Stars: Ernest Truex, Sandy Kenyon, Nydia Westman
#177 "Between Heaven And Earth"
Joe is plagued by recurring nightmares after he loses his
rifle on Eagles Peak. Joe´s fear of heights keeps him
from getting his rifle back, but he doesn´t want to admit
he is afraid and he lashes out at his family in his frustration.
Guest Stars: Richard Jaeckel, Bob Biheller and Bill Moss
#178 "Old Sheba"
Joe and Hoss take an elephant as payment for helping out
in a circus. They bring the elephant home and both Adam and
Ben tell them to take it back and get the money. When Joe and
Hoss say they can´t, Ben takes matters into his own hands.
Guest Stars: William Demarest, Clegg Hoyt, Henery Kulky,
and Phil Chambers
#179 "A Man To Admire"
When Hoss is accused of murder, he must depend on Whitney
Parker, a once great lawyer, but now the town drunk. Parker
is Hoss´ only hope and the Cartwrights must make sure
Parker stays sober.
Guest Stars: James Gregory, Michel Petit, Booth Colman, Dave
Willock, Hal Baylor, William Mims, Jason Johnston, Johnathon
Hole, Burn Hoffman
#180 "The Underdog"
Ben hires half-Comanche Harry Star, not realizing Harry
was part of a gang of horse thieves. Harry and his partners
stage Harry´s death to collect the reward that was issued
for Harry.
Guest Stars: Charles Bronson, Tom Reese, and Bill Clark
#181 "A Knight To Remember"
When the stage carrying Adam is robbed, the outlaws are
chased off by a knight in full armor. Adam is left holding the
strongbox and is arrested by the town Sheriff. Adam knows the
Sheriff won´t believe his story of a knight in armor,
so he tells the Sheriff to wire Roy Coffee for a reference.
When the same thing happens again, the fun starts as Adam tries
to prove he is not seeing things.
Guest Stars: Henry Jones and Robert Sorrels
#182 "The Saga Of Squaw Charlie"
Charlie is an Indian that lives outside of Virginia City.
Charlie is taunted by some of the men in town who want that
Indian "out of town." Charlie is befriended by Ben
and a little girl named Angela. When Angela disappears, Charlie
is framed for her murder.
Guest Stars: Anthony Caruso, Virginia Chrisitine, Don Barry,
Vickie Coe, Myron Healey and William Tannen
#183 "The Flapjack Contest"
Ben sends Joe into Virginia City to pick up the mail. Joe
picks up the mail including a letter and a package form Adam,
then gets into a poker game and wins $100. Joe is bushwhacked
on the way home and the package from Adam is stolen. The letter
from Adam states he is sending home a valuable ruby he bought
for $1,000. Little Joe hides the theft from his father to keep
Pa from asking too many questions about his poker-playing and
late night activities. Little Joe enters Hoss in the flapjack
contest and bets against the opponent in an attempt to win $1,000
to pay Adam for the ruby.
Guest Stars: Johnny Steven, Joan Huntington, Mel Bergen,
Howard Wendell, Bern Hoffman, and Olan Soule
#184 "The Far, Far Better Thing"
The Cartwrights are visited by Ben´s old friend Martin
Meldine and his daughter Lucy. Lucy is apretty young woman who
has gotten most of her ideas about life from books. Joe and
his friend Tuck vie for Lucy´s attentio and are captured
by a band of renegade Indians. Lucy learns that real life is
very different than the stories she reads in books.
Guest Stars: Brenda Scott, X Brands, Stacy Harris, Warren
Vanders, Jack Bighead
#185 "Woman Of Fire"
In this comic episode loosely based on the Taming of the
Shrew, Adam is asked to "tame" Margarita. She is a
hot tempered, strong willed woman who is visiting the Ponderosa
with her father and sister. Margarita and her family are on
their way to meet Margarita´s fiancee. Her sister and
father fear Margarita will scare the suitor away so they ask
Adam to help "gentle" her.
Guest Stars: Joan Hackett, Jay De Vargas, Eugene Iglesias
#186 "The Ballerina"
Kellie Conrad dances in saloons as her father plays the
fiddle. Hoss accidentally hurts Mr. Conrad´s arm, making
it impossible for them to perform. Hoss takes them home so Mr.
Conrad can recuperate. While at the Ponderosa, Kelly meets Paul
Mandel, a former ballet dancer, who helps her achieve her dream
of being a ballerina.
Guest Stars: Barrie Chase, Warren Stevens, Douglas Fowley,
Hugh Sanders, Read Morgan
#187 "The Flannel-Mouth Gun"
The cattlemen hire a range detective named Simmons to investigate
the rash of cattle thefts that have occurred. Adam, voting for
the Ponderosa, votes against the use of a range detective because
he fears the small ranchers will be blamed. When the small ranchers
are scared into selling their ranches for less than they are
worth and one of the ranchers wives is killed, Adam investigates
to find out who is behind all the trouble.
Guest Stars: Earl Holliman, Robert Wilke, Don Collier and
Harry Carey
#188 "Ponderosa Birdman"
In this comic episode, Hoss becomes involved with Professor
Klump. The Professor is working on an experiment which he believes
will make men able to fly. Klump has built a pair of wings and
is planning to sail off a cliff, but an injury prevents him
from doing so. Hoss offers to help and soon Klump has him convinced
that he should be the one to try the wings for the first time.
Guest Stars: Ed Wynn and Marlyn Manson
#189 "The Search"
Adam goes searching for the man using his identity. He
discovers Ann, a saloon girl, who helps him find Tom Burns--
the man who seems to be Adams double. Unfortunately, Tom is
dead by the time they find him and Ann´s sure Tom´s
old partner is responsible.
Guest Stars: Lola Albright, Kelly Thordsen, Howard Wright,
Phil Chambers, Lindsay Workman, Laura Devon and Jack Herring
#190 "The Deadliest Game"
A troop of circus trapeze performers visit Virginia City.
The aging star of the troop is Ben´s old friend Borelli.
Borelli is in love with Pitina, the much younger love interest
of Carlo. Carlo is the young rising star of the troop and Borelli
is jealous of him. When Carlos is found stabbed, Borelli frames
Joe for the crimes.
Guest Stars: Cesar Romero, Ilze Taurins
#191 "Once A Doctor"
Hoss befriends an Englishman named Professor Poppy. A traveling
medicine man, Professor Poppy is really a doctor named Mundy
who gave up medicine after was harassed by Mr. Crippen. Mr.
Crippen believes Dr. Mundy killed his wife while operating on
her. Mundy must use his medical skills to save Hoss after Crippen
shoots, mistaking him for Mundy.
Guest Stars: Michael Rennie, Ashley Cowen, Elizabeth Rogers,
Bill Clark and Grandon Rhodes
#192 "Right Is the Fourth R"
Adam takes over for an injured school teacher named Barbara.
He plans to have the children study the early history of the
Nevada territory. While doing research for the class, he plans
to interview several people, but finds some of the men very
uncooperative. The men have reason for concealing their early
endeavors in the territory.
Guest Stars: Mariette Hartley, Everett Sloane
#193 "Hound Dog"
Cousin Muley Jones visits again and this time he comes
with a pack of hound dogs. The dogs cause sleepless nights and
chaos. Hoss and Muley decide to train the dogs to hunt coyotes
plaguing the herd. The dogs don´t take to hunting wolves
and when their real owner Tracy shows up, she is furious that
they have ruined her bird dogs. She demands to know where Muley
got the dogs and accuses him of "dog thieving".
Guest Stars: Bruce Yarnell and Sue Ann Langdon
#194 "The Trap"
Joe´s old girlfriend Hallie Shannon thinks Joe killed
her husband so they could be together. Joe vehemently denies
this. Shannon´s husband´s twin brother believes
it too. He comes to town and causes trouble for Joe. When Hallie
is found dead, things look even worse.
Guest Stars: Joan Freeman and Steve Cochran
#195 "Dead And Gone"
Adam befriends Howard Meade, a guitar playing drifter who
is up to no good. Adam defends Meade when he is accused of robbing
brother and sister Johann and Hilda Brunners. Adam gets Johann
to drop charges and Meade takes up with Hilda. Disaster follows.
Guest Stars: Hoyt Axton and Susanne Cramer
#196 "A Good Night´s Rest"
All that Ben wants is a good night´s sleep, but it
seems everything is against him. At home, Adam is playing the
guitar, Joe is laughing with a young lady and Hoss is snoring
loudly. Ben decides to go back to town to spend the night in
the hotel. Conditions are even worse in town.
Guest Stars: Abigail Skelton, Robert Ridgeley, Lloyd Corrigan,
Jay Ripley
#197 "To Own The World"
Charles Hacket, the world´s richest man, decides
he wants the Ponderosa and he will stop at nothing to get it.
He blackmails one of Ben´s friends into selling him the
land and water rights. In the process, Hacket almost loses the
only person who ever truly loved him-- his wife.
Guest Stars: Telly Savalas and Linda Lawson
#198 "The Return"
Trace Cordell returns to Virginia City after serving time
for shooting and crippling Paul Dorn. Dorn is now married to
Trace´s old girlfriend and Dorn fears his wife may still
have feelings for her old beau.
Guest Stars: Tony Young, Joan Blackman, John Conte, Robert
J. Stevenson, Dan Riss, Phil Chambers and Bill Clark
#199 "The Jonah"
George, a new ranch hand on the Ponderosa, has a reputation
for being a jinx. Hoss befriends him but even Hoss starts to
worry when a gypsy fortune teller´s predictions of events
ending in death start to come true.
Guest Stars: Angela Clark, Erin O´Donnell, Dean Harens,
Andrew Prine, Ken Mayer, Troy Melton
#200 "The Spotlight"
Ben is the chairman of the entertainment committee for
the Virginia City anniversary celebration. He gets retired opera
singer Angela Drake to come to perform for the celebration.
Blake stays at the Ponderosa talking endlessly about all her
former accomplishments. She does not mention that she lost her
voice years ago.
Guest Stars: Vice Linfors, Ron Randell, Robert Foulk, Winnie
Coffin, John Fredericks, Iam Wolfe
#201 "Patchwork Man"
Hoss befriends Patch, a young recluse with a secret. Patch
is a coward and runs from all confrontations. Hoss tries to
help him and hires him to work on the Ponderosa. However, Ben
is dismayed when Patch refuses to help when the Cartwright´s
are caught in a gunfight. Hoss´ belief in the young man
turns out to be well founded when patch finally overcomes his
own fears to save Hoss from a desperate situation.
Guest Stars: Grant Williams, Bruce Gordon, Sue Randall and
Lane Bradford
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