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#217 Second Chance"
Renegade Indians have been attacking settlers. Joe and
Hoss have gone to warn the settlers and Joe is shot by an arrow.
Hoss tries to remove the arrow, but the shaft breaks off and
the arrow head remains imbedded in Joe´s shoulder, leaving
him gravely wounded. Hoss desperately searches for help and
comes upon a wagon train with an odd assortment of people: two
women, two thieves, a dying doctor and a coward on the wagon
train.
Guest Stars: James Gregory, Joe De Santis, Bettye Ackerman,
Douglas Kennedy, Olan Soul and Zane Zachary
#218 Sense Of Duty"
This episode is noteworthy for two reasons: Ben appears
in an Army uniform and it is the first appearance of the character
of Candy. The 116th Division of the Virginia City Militia has
Ben called up to active duty along with Major Ben Cartwright.
Ben commands a unit of volunteers that includes Joe and Hoss.
Guest Stars: Gene Rutherford, Michael Forest, Ron Faster,
Richard Hale
#219 The Conquistadors"
Four Mexican men are mining for gold for their poor village
of Senoma. They are driven from the gold fields and in desperation,
plan to kidnap one of the wealthy citizens of Virginia City
and hold him for ransom. They kidnap Joe and demand a $25,000
ransom from Ben. Ben pays the ransom, but the real trouble starts
when Anderson, Perkins and their gang from Virginia City hear
about the gold. They plan to rescue Joe and take the gold for
themselves.
Guest Stars: John Saxon, Eddie Ryder, John Kellogg, Mike
De Anda, Brooke Bundy, Arch Johnson, Dabbs Greer, James Griffith,
Robert Brubaker
#220 Judgment At Olympus"
Deputy Gibbs shows up at the Ponderosa to arrest Candy
for murder. Candy says he is innocent and Ben sends Joe with
Candy to see he gets a fair trial.
Guest Stars: Barry Sullivan
#221 Night Of Reckoning"
Joe finds Don Buckler seriously wounded. Joe takes him
back home to take care of him. Buckler tells Joe and Hoss that
he took part in a robbery, but he was shot before he got any
money.
Guest Stars: Richard Jaeckel, Ron Hayes, Joan Freeman, Teno
Pollock, Williams Jordan, Grandon Rhodes
#222 False Witness"
After delivering a herd of cattle to Mr. Haskel, Joe is
in town to collect payment. While in Mr. Haskel´s office,
Joe and a woman named Valerie Townsend see Haskel murdered by
one of the Slater gang.
Guest Stars: Davey Davison, Michael Blodgett, Robert McQueeney,
BIll Fletcher, Russ Conway, Frank Gerstle
#223 The Gentle Ones"
Frank and Mark Cole are brothers, but they are different
as two people can be; Frank is rough and cruel while Mark is
kind and gentle. Frank considers Mark a coward because he won´t
stand up for himself. Ben hires Mark to collect a string of
horses for the Army. Frank nearly kills a stallion he owns while
breaking the horse in a cruel way. Mark rescues the horse and
brings it back to the Ponderosa.
Guest Stars: Robert Walker, Jr., Lana Wood, Pat Conway, Stuart
Henderson, and Douglas Henderson
#224 Desperate Passage"
On a trip to Utah, Ben, Hoss and Candy find Josh Tanner
and Mary Burns the sole survivors of an Indian attack. Together
they must travel through dangerous Indian territory to safety.
Guest Stars: Tina Louise, Steve Forrest, Jane Forrest
#225 Showdown At Tahoe"
Ben´s new enterprise is a paddle wheel steamboat
which delivers freight on Lake Tahoe. Ben is introduced to Jamison
Fillmore who claims to be a lumber man from San Francisco. Ben
is not aware that Jamison Fillmore and his gang plan to use
the boat to escape with a one million dollar currency shipment.
To trap the thieves, Candy convinces Fillmore he should be part
of the plan to steal the currency.
Guest Stars: Richard Anderson, Sheila Larken, Karl Senson,
Kevin Hagen and Christopher Dark
#226 Check Rain"
Jase Frederick and his wife are about to lose their ranch
and livestock because the bank is foreclosing on their loan.
Jase is on his way to Rimville to buy back one of his horses
when he is injured by a blast set off by the Ponderosa logging
operation. Jase pleads with the Cartwrights to go to Rimville
to bid on the horse at the auction. Joe and Candy volunteer
to go. They buy the horse for Jase and then the trouble starts;
a powerful man named Bingham wants the horse and will stop at
nothing to get him.
Guest Stars: Patricia Hyland, Ford Rainey, James MacArthur,
Charles Maxwell, and Robert Karnes.
#227 Justice Deferred"
Hoss and Andy Buchanon witness a murder. Their court testimony
identifies Frank Scott as the murderer and Frank is hung for
the crime. Hoss is in Carson City on business when he sees a
man that could be Frank Scott´s double. This man is whistling
the same eerie tune Hoss heard the night of the murder.
Guest Stars: Simon Oakland, Nina Talbot, Carl Reindel, Shannon
Farnum, John Hubbard, Claudia Bryar, Harlan Warde, Tol Avery,
Byron Morrow
#228 The Trackers"
Cully Mako is back in town after serving a 5 year prison
term for bank robbery. Shortly after his return, the bank is
robbed and everyone assumes Cully did it. Sam Brogen is the
true culprit.
Guest Stars: Warren Stevens Bruce Dern, Warren Vanders, Ted
Gehring, Robert P. Lieb, James Sikking, Christopher Shea, Arthru
Peterson
#229 A Girl Named George"
Lawyer Cato Troxell vows to kill Judge Nealy for sentencing
his brother to hang. Photographer Enos Blessing and his niece
come to the Ponderosa and offer to take photographs of Ben,
Hoss and Joe. He also to takes a group photo of all the hands
and guests on the Ponderosa. The Cartwrights don´t realize
Blessing is working with Troxell and their group photo will
give Troxell the alibi he needs when murders Judge Nealy.
Guest Stars: Sheilah Wells, Jack Albertson, Gerald Mohr,
Fred Clark, Andy Devine, Steve Raines and Patsy Kelly
#230 The Thirteenth Man"
Cattle are being stolen and the cattlemen´s association
hires range detective Markus Alley to take care of the problem.
Alley has a habit of shooting first and asking questions later.
Consequently, some innocent men are killed.
Guest Stars: Albert Salmi, RIchard Carson, Ken Tobey, Myron
Healey, BIll Quinn, Anna Navarro, John Zaremba and Jon Lormer
#231 The Burning Sky"
Ben hires Will Holt as a new horse trainer. When Will arrives,
he brings his Sioux wife Moon. This causes problems with the
Indian haters in Virginia City-- especially Aaron Gore who starts
trouble with the Holts and Ben. Britcher Breen is a lonely little
boy living with his cruel stepfather Aaron Fore. Moon befriends
Britcher. When Gore finds out, he goes to the Holts home, terrorizes
Moon and tries to kill her.
Guest Stars: Dawn Wells Michael Murphy, Iron Eyes Cody, Bobby
Riha, Victor French, Robert Foulk and Bill Clark
#232 The Prince Of Salt"
Cattle are dying for lack of salt. Ada Hale has inherited
her father´s salt mine and has a monopoly on salt. Ada
plans to sell the salt to the highest bidder and sets rancher
against rancher. Ben stands with the small ranchers in an effort
to get a fair price for everyone.
Guest Stars: Kim Hunter, John Doucette, James Best, Myron
Healey, Robert Patten, David Pritchard, Ken Drake, John Jay
Douglas
#233 Blood Tie"
Joe is in Smithville and meets Tracy. Tracy saves Joe from
getting shot. Joe invites Tracy back to the Ponderosa and promises
him a job on the ranch. When Joe arrives home, he wants to tell
Ben about the money that will be sent to the ranch, but Ben
doesn´t want to discuss it in front of Tracy. Ben's suspicions
are well founded; Tracy is part of a gang that intends to rob
the Ponderosa.
Guest Stars: Robert Divas, Conlan Carter, Leo Gordon and
Peter Leeds
#234 The Late Ben Cartwright"
Powerful Sam Endicott is backing John Faraday as candidate
for Governor. Endicott wants Ben´s support for his candidate,
but Ben refuses because he knows Endicott is corrupt. Endicott
hires a gunman to kill Ben. Ben is shot one morning as he leaves
the house. Ben asks Joe and Hoss to let people think he is dead
so he can prove Endicott is behind the entire plot.
Guest Stars: Sidney Blackmer, Bert Freed, WIlliam Campbell,
SImon Scott, Feorge Gaynes and Tyler McVey
#235 Commitment To Angelus"
Joe and Candy stop in Angelus and meet Joe´s old
friend Steve Regan. Regan is a miner who is on strike because
of unsafe conditions in the mines. Joe offers Steve a job helping
him bring a string of horses to the Ponderosa. Steve is thrown
from one of the horses and is killed. Joe feels responsible
and he and Candy stay to help Steve´s widow and the miners
solve the problems.
Guest Stars: Peter Whitney, Marj Dusay, Ken Lynch, Ivan Triesault,
Greg Mulleavy, Hal Lynch and Alan Reynolds
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