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- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerLotta 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.
- DirectorPaul LandresStarsMichael LandonLorne GreenePernell RobertsThe Cartwrights go up against two San Francisco men who plan to get rich by killing off the antelope herds--which the Indians rely on for their food--and selling the meat to Virginia City's swarms of silver miners.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerThe Cartwrights discover an old enemy killing steers on the Ponderosa. Their camp has a sickly woman who needs to get to the high desert country. When an innocent man is killed, Ben decides to boot them all back to California but he gets resistance from the others in the camp and some local miners who now believe Ben is hiding gold.
- DirectorPaul LandresStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerIn order to escape punishment for mistreating two Paiute women, a trader blames it on Adam Cartwright. The Paiutes seize Adam and make him a hostage as war erupts between the tribe and a local militia.
- DirectorPaul LandresStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerThe Cartwrights help Virginia City reporter Samuel Langhorne Clemens investigate suspected shady goings-on between a railroad company and a local judge.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerLittle Joe falls in love with an older woman, the owner of the town's saloon/brothel, much to the chagrin of his family, moralizing town leaders, and creating a rival for her affection.
- DirectorJoseph KaneStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerFeisty Annie O'Toole comes to Nevada with her old Da (aka "Himself") to mine silver and winds up feeding the silver miners, shanghaiing Adam Cartwright to be her partner in her tent-kitchen ("The Square Meal") and to be her attorney in Miner's Court when an old enemy challenges her right to her claim.
- DirectorJoseph KaneStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerPhilip Diedesheimer, a Pied Piper, is refused payment after he saves Virginia City's silver mines from a cave-in.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerWhen threatened by a man fraudulently sold a part of the Ponderosa by a Henry T.P. Comstock, the Cartwrights remember when they first met the silver-tongued claim-jumper and his scheme that laid the foundation of Virginia City.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerWhen an actress named Adah Menken comes into town, Ben considers marrying her, but his sons have other ideas. Meanwhile, trouble arrives when Adah's old lover, washed-up heavyweight boxer John C. Regan, comes along seeking his former glory.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerWhen an actress named Adah Menken comes into town, Ben considers marrying her, but his sons have other ideas. Meanwhile, trouble arrives when Adah's old lover, washed-up heavyweight boxer John C. Regan, comes along seeking his former glory.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerCaught in the middle of a longtime family feud over a disputed piece of land, star-crossed lovers Joe Cartwright and Amy Bishop try to convince their stubborn fathers to resolve their differences as tension escalates into violence.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerLittle Joe and Adam join a posse bent on catching the murderers of Vannie Johnson. The longer they take to catch them, the more whipped into a lynching party they become, much to the liking of the grieving widower.
- DirectorJoseph KaneStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerWhen one of the Morgan brothers is shot and killed by Ben during a bank holdup, they vow revenge. The friends he thought he had in town decide to hide away while a wounded Ben lays up waiting for them to ride into town.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerA beautiful sister causes trouble around town.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerJoe and Hoss shelter a pregnant Indian from a blizzard -- and Shoshones ordered to find her.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerAfter tangling with bandits on the way to California to buy a prized bull for the Ponderosa, Little Joe fends off a pretty senorita and her jealous fiancé, while Hoss discovers that the bull has been spirited away by a little boy who is convinced that the Cartwrights plan to kill and eat his big bovine friend.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerThe Cartwrights come to the aid of Leta Malvet when she is ostracized by the community after her father and brother are hanged by a lynch mob for killing two men while trying to rob the stagecoach that they thought carried the Ponderosa's payroll. But Adam is sure that the gang will try again when they find out that the Malvets came up empty-handed and suspects that it's no coincidence when Leta's beau, bad boy Clay Renton, comes back to town.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerBen tries to uncover the reason gold and silver exporter, Frederick Kyle, has befriended Little Joe before the shadowy businessman's hidden Civil War agenda tears Virginia City, and the Cartwright family, apart.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsDan BlockerMichael LandonLorne GreeneHoss and Little Joe are mistaken for bloodthirsty hired killers in a small Texas town dominated by two feuding families.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsMichael LandonLorne GreenePernell RobertsThe Cartwrights come to the aid of a Chinese-American stable hand accused of murder. Opposing them is a manipulative mayoral candidate who wants all "foreigners" to leave Virginia City.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerThe Cartwrights try to disprove the validity of a Spanish land grant to stop the De La Cuesta family from seizing part of the Ponderosa and all of the Carson Valley settlers' homestead lands.
- DirectorFelix E. FeistStarsPernell RobertsDan BlockerMichael LandonJeb Drummond is a murderous sheep herder that has Adam taken hostage to try and force Ben to sign over a large section of Ponderosa land to him.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsDan BlockerMichael LandonLorne GreeneAs is often the case on Bonanza, things are not always as they first seem. Hoss and Adam eventually learn who is the good guy and who is not.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerInspector Leduque comes from New Orleans to Virginia City to take Ben Cartwright back for a 20-year-old murder. When Ben declares publicly that he is withdrawing from the Governor's race, the townsfolk are upset not just about this but Little Joe has also been accused of gunning down Leduque's deputy in cold blood.
- DirectorCharles F. HaasStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerThree deserters escaped from an Army stockade to the Ponderosa. When a Captain comes looking for them, Ben realizes what they've had to deal with and promises to let his good friend in charge of that fort know the real truth.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsPernell RobertsDan BlockerMichael LandonBen and Adam are locked in jail, about to hung for a crime they didn't commit. Joe and Hoss must find out why the witnesses to the alleged crime have perjured themselves before the execution takes place. They receive help from an unexpected source, a drifter called Lassiter who is searching for the men who committed a lynching in Kansas years ago.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsDan BlockerMichael LandonLorne GreeneAn English couple comes to Ponderosa on vacation, but the wife slowly makes it clear that she is disappointed that her husband, a great hunter and "action man" is becoming more peaceful, and not the man she married, though things may change for her after they are kidnapped for ransom along with Adam Cartwright.
- DirectorArthur LubinStarsMichael LandonLorne GreenePernell RobertsWhile in San Francisco, two of Ben's hired hands get shanghaied and so does Ben in the process of looking for them.
- DirectorGeorge BlairStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerA neighboring rancher, Andy, is good friends with Ben, but his son (Todd) wants to sell their land for mining operations which will spoil the water rights agreement that Andy and Ben made years ago.
- DirectorArthur LubinStarsPernell RobertsDan BlockerMichael LandonA woman dies. Her husband is in prison, and the sheriff needs someone to look after the boy until the boy's uncle can come to claim him. The Cartwrights begin to take care of the boy at the Ponderosa. When the boy arrives at the ranch, he does not know that his father is in prison. The boy learns the truth about his dad, and news reaches the Ponderosa that the convict has escaped from prison. The Cartwrights deal with the possibility that the boy's father may be coming their way.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsDan BlockerMichael LandonLorne GreeneWhile hunting a predator wolf, Little Joe finds a gypsy woman who has been rejected from her people because she is believed to be a witch.
- DirectorCharles F. HaasStarsMichael LandonLorne GreenePernell RobertsWhen a powerful gang plagues Virginia City with a murderous protection racket, the Cartwrights are determined to stop it even as it threatens them.
- DirectorJohn RichStarsMichael LandonLorne GreenePernell RobertsAn outlaw gang robs Virginia City's bank and makes off with almost all of its money. The youngest member of the gang manages to get a job on the Ponderosa as a bronc-buster with the intention of informing the bank robbers of any posses that may threaten their hideout. While Ben, Adam and Hoss welcome the newcomer, Little Joe becomes suspicious of his activities.
- DirectorJames NeilsonStarsDan BlockerMichael LandonLorne GreeneCharlie Trent used to be an Army scout. Now he's the town drunk. Hoss helps him regain his self-esteem when he has him volunteer to lead a gold-bearing troop through the desert where there's very little water.
- DirectorArthur LubinStarsPernell RobertsDan BlockerMichael LandonAfter a U.S. deputy marshal apparently saves Adam's life by gunning down two men who shot at him, he eventually reveals that he's in town to bring a close friend of the Cartwrights to Sacramento to testify in a statewide racketeering trial, but the deputy marshal's motives soon become suspect as to what he really wants to do with the reluctant witness.
- DirectorJohn RichStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerThe Cartwrights' neighbor Tom Edwards has lived as a paraplegic, ever since an accident involving Ben Cartwright and a gun. His ranch is going to waste. His wife Joyce is a longtime friend of Ben, and Ben decides to help the Edwards couple by making Tom a business proposition: the Cartwrights will build a grain mill on Edwards' land. In return, Ben only wants his investment money back, plus fifteen percent. Tom and his hired hand Ezekiel are suspicious of Ben, but Tom agrees to the deal. The Cartwright men build the mill, but tension begins to rise when Ezekiel makes comments which rekindle Tom's suspicion.
- DirectorJames NeilsonStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerJacob 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.
- DirectorJacques TourneurStarsMichael LandonLorne GreenePernell RobertsRanchers are being killed, cattle stolen, and even after former U.S. Deputy Marshal Denver McKee sends posses after the suspects, they are never found. Meanwhile, McKee suspiciously has plenty of money to take care of his daughter and her schooling back East.
- DirectorRichard BartlettStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerPrejudice erupts on both sides when Ben gives an Indian named Matsou and his wife some of his land, after saving Ben's life from a renegade Indian who almost killed him on the Ponderosa.
- DirectorCharles F. HaasStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerJennifer Beale is abducted in the hopes her rich father, Joshua, the richest silver baron on the Comstock, will pay a $1M ransom. The plan unravels when the beautiful Della is killed and Hercules, who loves her, finds out who did it.
- DirectorJohn FloreaStarsMichael LandonLorne GreenePernell RobertsDolly Kincaid is so fed up with her extremely dominant, controlling, sheriff father, that she runs away with her boyfriend. She later finds out he is the leader of some murderous bank robbers and when they kidnap Hoss and Joe, she still sticks with him.
- DirectorJohn FloreaStarsDan BlockerMichael LandonLorne GreeneGunnar is a long-lost relative of the Cartwright family. When Gunnar arrives at the Ponderosa, the family takes him in for the evening. Gunnar is the brother to one of Ben Cartwright's late wives, Inger. Unbeknownst to the Cartwright family, Gunnar is also the leader of a band of criminals called The Comancheros. Little Joe is visiting his girlfriend away from the ranch. When Little Joe and his girlfriend are kidnapped by The Comancheros, the Cartwrights and Gunnar are forced into a difficult situation.
- DirectorJohn RichStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerAbout to set out on a cattle drive, Ben hires a young drifter named Sam Jackson as one of his drovers. What he doesn't know is that Jackson is really outlaw Johnny Logan, who signed on to the drive because he knew it was going to pass near the town of Waycross, and Logan is determined to kill the Waycross sheriff--who is his father.
- DirectorJames NeilsonStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerAdam rides up on some Indians wanting to harm a white woman they believed was a mountain spirit. He kills them but not before they wound him. The woman nurses him back to health but the rest of the tribe is still out there looking for her.
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsMichael LandonLorne GreenePernell RobertsAngry with the way a beautiful deaf-mute girl is treated by her father, a sheepherder living in a remote mountain cabin, Little Joe takes it upon himself to teach her sign language so they can communicate better. His plan backfires when the young woman falls in love with him and the girl's brutish neighbor resents her lavishing attention on the youngest Cartwright.
- DirectorJames P. YarbroughStarsDan BlockerMichael LandonLorne GreeneHoss mentors a lonely, mentally challenged man who, with superhuman size and strength, becomes extremely dangerous when angered. These efforts are undermined by a saloon girl who only wants this giant man-child to manipulate him.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerWhen 16-year-old Todd Grayson arrives from Boston to Virginia City, he is told that his father has been killed by Ben Cartwright. Ben shot Luke Grayson in self-defense, but Todd won't listen to this. The boy has only one thing in his head: to avenge his father by killing Ben Cartwright.
- DirectorJames P. YarbroughStarsPernell RobertsDan BlockerMichael LandonHoss falls prey to the wiles of a beautiful woman with a gambling addiction and refuses to believe she's only interested in his money in spite of Adam's proof to the contrary.
- DirectorWilliam D. FarallaStarsMichael LandonLorne GreenePernell RobertsAfter Joe kills a man in self-defense who tried to set fire to the Ponderosa to clear himself some land, he has to take his lively, feisty, wild daughter home, and she and her relatives are now determined to kill Joe.
- DirectorAlvin GanzerStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerThe Cartwright boys are shocked by the unexpected arrival of a beautiful young woman who claims to be Mrs. Ben Cartwright. But when Ben comes home to the Ponderosa that night, the new bride declares that he is not the man she married and the Cartwrights soon find themselves involved in what could become a fatal case of mistaken identity.
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsDan BlockerMichael LandonLorne GreeneHoss and Joe "rob" a bank for altruistic reasons and are pursued not by the law but by a more serious force, Ben and Adam.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsPernell RobertsDan BlockerMichael LandonAdam goes to Mexico to investigate the death of a friend, only to face hostile townspeople and the dead man's wife.
- DirectorDick ModerStarsMichael LandonLorne GreenePernell RobertsHoss accidentally kills Willie the town drunk. His remorse may not be enough to stop Willie's hate-filled brother who only wants revenge even though the townspeople know it wasn't Hoss' fault.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerJock Henry is a very likeable fellow. Ask anyone. When he's given the job of collecting taxes, his peculiar methods of figuring out what people owe causes everyone to reconsider.
- DirectorWilliam D. FarallaStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerThe Cartwrights deal with cattle rustlers.
- DirectorRobert GordonStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerRoss Marquette's behavior over the past few months can't be easily explained -- beating his wife, rustling cattle, robbing a stage, killing a man. Adam is determined to find out why his friend is acting so strangely before it's too late.
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan Blocker*SPOILERS* The Cartwrights challenge an arrogant and cruel British prizefighter, the Duke, and his alcoholic manager to a bout with John Heenan (the Benicia Boy), after the Cartwrights' meek friend J.D. gets pulverized by the Duke in a bar-fight. J.D. is adored by saloon girl Marge, but he has been too shy to return her affections. While the Cartwrights wait to see if Heenan will actually take the bout and come from San Francisco, the Duke pursues Marge and assaults her when she rebuffs him. When the manager comes to Marge's rescue, he too is beaten up by the Duke (who, it turns out, is the manager's brother). Infuriated by all this, Hoss Cartwright himself challenges the Duke, and knocks him out in the fourth round of a bare-knuckle fight refereed by Sheriff Roy Coffee. The Duke and his brother-manager reconcile in the humility of defeat, then learn that the Benicia Boy will accept the proposed bout, but only the Duke comes to San Francisco. The Duke apologizes to all he has offended while in Virginia City and heads west to fight Heenan.
- DirectorDick ModerStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerJed Trask has been with the Sierra Mail & Stage Lines for many years. When a group of gunmen in the town of Latigo cuts off delivery of the goods and mail, he goes after those responsible with the help of some on the Virginia City council - the Cartwrights.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerLittle Joe is off to buy a gift for his pa's birthday. He's unaware that where he is heading the local Indians are on the war path and they've got him in their gun sights.
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerHoss is riding back from his sweetheart Cameo's house when he comes up on a group of men that have just killed a young couple. Hoss recognizes one of the men as his friend Jim Applegate. Hoss is torn between his friend and the law.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerHoss helps out a shy inventor who needs financial backing to build a horseless carriage. Things do not go well until a slick promoter sells shares into the new automobile. But things turn sour when the promoter skips town.
- DirectorDick ModerStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerThe mines in the Comstock Lode seem tapped out. With the sharp rise in unemployment, the promise of silver found in the thunderhead could mean boom or bust to everyone in Virginia City. Can the Cartwrights make sure that it's kept?
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerJoe is accused of murdering a girl. Her father and brothers want to hang Joe, and the Cartwrights race to prove his innocence.
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerHoss gets diverted by a hydrogen-filled balloon while a family friend robs the Virginia City bank.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerAt the bedside of a seriously ill Adam, Ben thinks back to his days as a first mate on a sailing ship and his marriage to Adam's mother, Elizabeth Stoddard.
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsPernell RobertsDan BlockerMichael LandonThe Cartwrights join to help mystical blacksmith Sam Hill save the land his drunk, sea-dog father signed away to an old enemy, discover the circumstances behind his mother's death, and solve the mystery of why a tropical tree flourishes in spite of cold Nevada winters.
- DirectorThomas CarrStarsDan BlockerMichael LandonLorne GreeneThe brother of a man Hoss killed in self-defense says he understands but secretly plans revenge.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsPernell RobertsDan BlockerMichael LandonWhen their spring-fever antics injure miserly businessman, Jedediah Milbank, requiring recuperation at the Ponderosa, Ben orders each of his sons to carry out one of Mr. Milbank's seemingly simple tasks, unaware that they may prove impossible for the kind-hearted Cartwright boys to complete.
- DirectorDon McDougallStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerThe Cartwrights must try to get help for Adam, seriously wounded by an Apache bullet, and find out why Cochise and his warriors have threatened to kill them all if they don't hand over an army captain taking refuge in their trail camp.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerJoe Cartwright and the young widow of a family friend are held hostage on her isolated ranch outside Platte City by the same gang that robbed Little Joe in the town bank earlier that day.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerEveryone seems to think he should marry widow Hawkins - except Ben! When he is asked to assist some land buyers to Virginia City, he must put up with all the talk. Then he finds out that the buyers want to sell a rare gem known as the Burma Rarity to finance the land deal. Now Ben must work quickly to find the buyers who left town with widow Hawkins $25K she paid for the gem.
- DirectorRobert ButlerStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerEd Payson, a reformed gunfighter, has returned to Virginia City to tend some property he owns. When he's welcomed with resistance by some of the townspeople, Adam decides to help him, even though everyone thinks he may have killed Dave, a shopkeeper's son.
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerJennifer Flinch and her uncle Gideon come to Virginia City on the stage to see a client named Bullet Head Burke. They need to explain why his $5K investment has all been spent. Through a case of mistaken identity, now Bullet Head must figure out who is the real Gideon Flinch.
- DirectorDon McDougallStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerThe Cartwrights convince the prison warden to free 23-year-old chain-gang convict, Danny Kid, imprisoned since he was an orphan of thirteen, and take him on as a ranch-hand to repay him for saving Little Joe from being dragged to death by a spooked horse.
- DirectorRobert SparrStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerUnsettling events that could spell financial ruin for the Ponderosa mysteriously coincide with the arrival of a wealthy countess who seems determined to win the love of Ben Cartwright, the man she spurned twenty years before in New Orleans.
- DirectorDon McDougallStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerThe Cartwrights hope that time and therapy will get bronc breaker, Johnny Lightly, back in the saddle after a bad fall. But Johnny soon faces thinly veiled hostility from the young nurse sent to help him, threats from a rancher who blames Ben Cartwright for his family's calamities, and a growing fear that he may never walk again.
- DirectorDon McDougallStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerHis search for the two men who kidnapped his bride-to-be, Su Ling, will soon take angry Chinese warlord, General Tsung, from San Francisco to the Ponderosa where Little Joe has been challenged to explain how he won the girl in a poker game.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsPernell RobertsDan BlockerMichael LandonHoss insults a feisty Frenchman who demands satisfaction with swords, unaware that the little rogue believes himself to be the reincarnation of medieval, outlaw poet Francois Villon and is destined to suffer his namesake's fate of being sentenced to death on the gallows for murder.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsDan BlockerMichael LandonLorne GreeneTired of being considered the baby of the family by his older brothers, Little Joe accepts a temporary job of a small town sheriff. But he soon suspects he's been set up and wants answers. Meanwhile, others are plotting a crime that could end in murder.
- DirectorThomas CarrStarsMichael LandonLorne GreenePernell RobertsThe Cartwrights take in a young orphaned blind girl on Christmas Eve. Will they be able to reunite her with her embittered old grandfather?
- DirectorDavid Orrick McDearmonStarsDan BlockerMichael LandonLorne GreeneThe Cartwrights play host to an eccentric old soldier friend of Ben's while trying to track down a mysterious swindler named Polk who is illegally deeding parcels of the Ponderosa to settlers looking for homesteads.
- DirectorDon McDougallStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerA handsome, charismatic con man sweeps Margie Owens off her feet with promises of excitement and adventure, jeopardizing Hoss Cartwright's hopes to wed the pretty rancher's daughter.
- DirectorJohn PeyserStarsMichael LandonLorne GreenePernell RobertsBitterly disappointed in her husband's financial failures, genteel matriarch Deborah Banning travels to visit her friends on the Ponderosa, hoping to turn her family's fortunes around by marrying her only daughter off to a Cartwright son.
- DirectorDon McDougallStarsMichael LandonLorne GreenePernell RobertsWhen Adam is a witness to a murderous armed robbery by masked assailants, he is absolutely convinced he knows who one of them is, but there's ultimately only one way to prove it.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsDan BlockerMichael LandonLorne GreeneWhile visiting the Ponderosa, Ben's old friend, sea Captain Matthew White, is forced to reveal a terrible secret after Little Joe Cartwright falls in love with and plans to wed the Captain's daughter, Laura, once a freckle-faced playmate from Joe's childhood in New Orleans, now grown into a beautiful woman.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsPernell RobertsDan BlockerMichael LandonThe Cartwrights allow a shiftless man to pose as head of the ranch to prevent his Irish mother from learning the truth about him.
- DirectorJesse HibbsStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerWith tensions with a drought-stricken neighboring flatland rising, the Cartwrights decide to address the problem by helping a stubborn flatland homesteader dig a new well.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsPernell RobertsDan BlockerMichael LandonSearching for missing Ponderosa cattle, Adam Cartwright stops to aid injured rancher, Matt Grant, takes him home and stays to help his wife and son while he recovers. But Adam doesn't know that Matt is part of a gang of rustlers responsible for the missing cattle, and now that Adam can identify him, they want him dead before their next job.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsMichael LandonLorne GreenePernell RobertsTucson gunman, Jack Groat, swore to kill Sheriff Lem Partridge for putting him in prison after a bullet from Groat's gun during a drunken street brawl accidentally killed Sheriff Partridge's wife. Now, 10 years later and fresh out of prison, Groat has tracked retired Lem Partridge to Virginia City and is soon holding Lem's son, Jimmy, and good friend Ben Cartwright hostage. But things go bad and Ben must soon explain to Lem - and try to convince himself - that there was nothing he could have done that day to stop Groat from shooting Jimmy in the back.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsDan BlockerMichael LandonLorne GreeneThe Cartwright boys help cowhand Hank romance reluctant teacher Abigail.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerThe Cartwrights may have to take the law into their own hands when Virginia City's temporary sheriff, rancher Asa Moran, uses his new badge as a license to kill.
- DirectorDon McDougallStarsPernell RobertsDan BlockerMichael LandonThe Cartwrights encourage young genius, Albert Michelson, to pursue his scientific experiments while trying to discover why schoolmaster, George Norton, expelled Albert from school and seems determined to stand in the way of his appointment to the prestigious Annapolis Naval Academy.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsDan BlockerMichael LandonLorne GreeneLittle Joe is his family's only hope when he escapes from a kangaroo court that has framed the Cartwrights for a bank robbery and sentenced them all to hang.
- DirectorPaul NickellStarsMichael LandonLorne GreenePernell RobertsAfter being robbed in the desert, Adam stumbles onto a seemingly chivalrous prospector named Peter Kane, who offers him a mule and supplies for three days work. However, Kane is a demented madman who is interested in psychological torture, hoping to drive a seemingly rational man like Adam to murder. As Ben, Hoss and Little Joe try to retrace the missing Adam's footsteps, Adam must rely on his own wits to defeat Kane.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerThe back story behind Ben's three wives is up to Inger, Ben's second wife (and mother of Hoss). The story relates the first meeting between Ben and Inger, as Ben and a young Adam were traveling west.
- DirectorDon McDougallStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerBen Cartwright and Virginia City's enigmatic new minister work together to decide which set of feuding grandparents, the Mahans or the Clarkes, will have custody of their recently orphaned twin grandchildren.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerA stagecoach carrying Alexander Dubois, his daughter Michele and her fiancé Don Ricardo Fernandez is held up. Her dowry is stolen and Monsieur Dubois is injured trying to get it back. Little Joe brings them all to the Ponderosa where Dubois can recuperate from his wound. Adam and Hoss track the bandits and recover the dowry but the bandits get away and more attempts to steal it are made. The Cartwrights begin to grow suspicious of Don Fernandez and the way he seems to take all of this in stride.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerAdam has a day and a half to deliver a large bankdraft. He is ambushed by an escaped convict. When he is mistaken for one of the escapees by the posse, Adam is hardpressed to prove his identity. All they want to do is hang him.
- DirectorDon McDougallStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerJoe is entrusted to see that Grandpa Coomb's deathbed wish is carried out. That his granddaughter is returned to the people she never knew -- the high society Harkers. Joe must teach her to be like them before they arrive as all she's known is the life of a sheepherder living in the mountains.