Bonanza - Season 1
Run Time: 49 mins
Air Date: Sat, 12 Sept 1959
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.521 (455 votes)
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A Rose for Lotta
Season 1 - Episode 1
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 Ponde...
Death on Sun Mountain
Season 1 - Episode 2
Greedy opportunist Mark Burdette and his accomplice Early Thorne stir up trouble between the Paiute tribe and the citizens of Virginia City....
The Newcomers
Season 1 - Episode 3
John Pennington and his crew want to mine the Ponderosa land by hydraulic means. Ben is totally against this method and evicts them in short...
The Paiute War
Season 1 - Episode 4
Trader Mike Wilson attempts to escape punishment by the Paiute Indians after mistreating two of their women, by placing the blame on Adam. ...
Enter Mark Twain
Season 1 - Episode 5
Samuel Clemens arrives in Virginia City to write for the Territorial Enterprise at the same time a crooked politician tries to lay claim on ...
The Julia Bulette Story
Season 1 - Episode 6
Little Joe is infatuated wih saloon owner Julia Bulette, whom he imagines is like his late mother. First episode to reveal backround detail...
The Saga of Annie O'Toole
Season 1 - Episode 7
Adam defends the mining claim of Annie O' Toole in a court presided over by Judge Ben Cartwright. Annie comes to the Washoe Diggings with a...
The Phillip Diedesheimer Story
Season 1 - Episode 8
Adam and Hoss assist a German engineer in developing the concept of "square set timbering" in the mines. Based on fact, and the first episo...
Mr. Henry Comstock
Season 1 - Episode 9
In a flashback, the legendary prospector arrives on the Ponderosa and participates in the founding of Virginia City. Coincidentally, guest ...
The Magnificent Adah
Season 1 - Episode 10
Virginia City is visited by actress Adah Issacs Menken, who happens to be an old acquaintance of Ben's. Joe is badly beaten by Adah's jealo...
The Truckee Strip
Season 1 - Episode 11
Luther Bishop and Ben Cartwright have had an ongoing land dispute for a number of years, over a small tract called the Truckee Strip. One o...
The Hanging Posse
Season 1 - Episode 12
Adam and Joe reluctantly join a group of vengeful townsmen, who are out to lynch the three men who supposedly killed Vannie Johnson. The po...
Vendetta
Season 1 - Episode 13
In a variation of "High Noon", Ben and Hoss must face a gang of outlaws practically all alone when most of Virginia City's citizens go into ...
The Sisters
Season 1 - Episode 14
This episode begins with Adam defending the honor of Sue Ellen Terry in a duel. No one gets shot because the other man misses Adam and Adam...
The Last Hunt
Season 1 - Episode 15
Hoss and Joe come across a pregnant Indian woman while hunting bighorn sheep and must deliver her baby. Despite touches of humor, including...
El Toro Grande
Season 1 - Episode 16
Ben sends Hoss and Joe to Monterey to purchase an expensive seed bull. The first of Blocker and Landon's many comic misadventures, although...
The Outcast
Season 1 - Episode 17
Because she is related to criminals, a young woman is ostracized by everyone but the the Cartwrights. She unwisely seeks solace with an ex-...
A House Divided
Season 1 - Episode 18
As the Civil War approaches, Adam and Joe clash over which side to support. The situation is complicated by the arrival of Frederick Kyle, ...
The Gunmen
Season 1 - Episode 19
In the first all-out comic episode of the series, Hoss and Joe travel to Kiowa Flats, Texas, where they are mistaken for the notorious Slade...
The Fear Merchants
Season 1 - Episode 20
The Cartwrights encounter racial bigotry in Virginia City and end up protecting a Chinese boy from mob violence. Victor Sen Yung, in his la...
The Spanish Grant
Season 1 - Episode 21
In "The Spanish Grant", a young bargirl, Rosita Morales is pretending to be a Spanish noblewoman named Isabella Marie Inez de la Cuesta and ...
Blood on the Land
Season 1 - Episode 22
A shiftless sheepherder, Jeb Drummond, encroaches his herd of sheep on the Ponderosa and refuses to budge. He resists all of Ben's attempts...
Desert Justice
Season 1 - Episode 23
When a tough U.S. Marshal from California arrests a Ponderosa hand, Dave Walker, for murder, Adam and Hoss go along to make sure their emplo...
The Stranger
Season 1 - Episode 24
Nevada Territory is awaiting statehood, and Ben considers running for governor until he learns he is wanted for murder in New Orleans. Insp...
Escape to Ponderosa
Season 1 - Episode 25
After Adam is bushwhacked by three army deserters, Ben tracks them down, and tackles the brutal Captain Bolton who is pursuing them.
The Avenger
Season 1 - Episode 26
A restaurant owner whom Ben and Adam have confronted over stolen Ponderosa beef ends up dead one night. His daughter, Sally Byrnes runs the...
The Last Trophy
Season 1 - Episode 27
Adam takes Ben's friends, Lord Marion Dunsworth and Lady Beatrice, on a hunting expedition, and they are captured by a gang of crude thieves...
San Francisco
Season 1 - Episode 28
In this comic episode, the first to take place far from the ranch, Ben, Hoss, and Joe deliver a herd to San Francisco. Although he warns hi...
Bitter Water
Season 1 - Episode 29
Len Keith, a miner, wants to purchase some land adjacent to the Ponderosa from rancher Andy McKaren. Andy's son, Tod, is anxious to sell. ...
Feet of Clay
Season 1 - Episode 30
Hoss takes Billy Allen, the young son of a convicted felon under his wing, then is forced to kill his father and Billy will not forgive him....
Dark Star
Season 1 - Episode 31
Joe falls in love with Tirza, an undeniably strange gypsy girl who says she is cursed and never does seem to "snap out of it". The first ep...
Death at Dawn
Season 1 - Episode 32
Virginia City is plagued by organized crime, Sam Bryant and his gang. One of his men, Farmer Perkins, kills a storekeeper, and at his trial...