Bonanza - Season 13

Run Time: 49 mins
Air Date: Sun, 19 Sept 1971
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.521 (455 votes)
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The Grand Swing
Season 13 - Episode 1
Jamie deliberately disobeys Ben's order not to drive the supply wagons. During his recklessness, the wagon goes out of control on a sharp cu...

Fallen Woman
Season 13 - Episode 2
An alcoholic woman lashes out at Hoss after his testimony sends her husband to prison. She gets back at him by forcing the big guy to take c...

Bushwhacked
Season 13 - Episode 3
Joe is shot and wounded while he is on a cattle drive in the Nevada desert. Two ranchers find him, delirious from thirst and the heat, and t...

Rock-a-Bye, Hoss
Season 13 - Episode 4
Hoss becomes a judge in a contest--he has to pick the perfect/prettiest baby. The parents of the babies nearly all try to influence Hoss, s...

The Prisoners
Season 13 - Episode 5
Joe volunteers to help an old lawman escort a slick outlaw to jail, but when their prisoner kills the sheriff and wounds Joe, he must face t...

Cassie
Season 13 - Episode 6
To help the hapless wife and daughter of a lazy dreamer, Hoss arranges a "fixed" horse race.

Don't Cry, My Son
Season 13 - Episode 7
The wife of Virginia City's new doctor leaves him, after their son dies in childbirth. The doctor snaps and abducts another woman's baby.

Face of Fear
Season 13 - Episode 8
Neta, a teen-age girl who is a friend of Jamie's, witnesses an assault and robbery. The victim - Mr. Trumbull, a man who is about to inherit...

Blind Hunch
Season 13 - Episode 9
A veteran blinded by the last battle of the Civil War, returns to Virginia City, to solve the mystery surrounding who killed his brother.

The Iron Butterfly
Season 13 - Episode 10
Hoss takes the blame when a visiting actress kills her former boyfriend. The ex-boyfriend's father, a senator, sets out to destroy the Cart...

The Rattlesnake Brigade
Season 13 - Episode 11
Jamie and three teen-agers - a girl and two boys - are kidnapped by Doyle, a hardened criminal with nothing to lose, and his gang of outlaws...

Easy Come, Easy Go
Season 13 - Episode 12
When Luke Calhoun loses all his money in a stock scheme, he and his daughter Meena stay at the Ponderosa with disruptive consequences. Luke...

A Home for Jamie
Season 13 - Episode 13
Just as Ben begins to formally adopt Jamie, his grandfather shows up to take him away. Ben tells the gentleman, "He's a young man with his ...

Warbonnet
Season 13 - Episode 14
Joe is stranded in the desert when his mare falls and breaks her leg. He falls unconscious from exhaustion and lack of water, and is found ...

A Lonely Man
Season 13 - Episode 15
While panning for gold on his vacation, Hop Sing meets and falls in love with a shy woman. Their future plans are dashed when a judge confi...

Second Sight
Season 13 - Episode 16
Hoss enlists the aid of Judith Coleman, a clairvoyant woman who has the gift of "second sight" to find Jamie. He has been missing in the hi...

The Saddle Stiff
Season 13 - Episode 17
Fired ranch hand, Cactus, suggests that Ben is too old to put in a real work's week and challenges Ben to take a job as a ranch hand under t...

Frenzy
Season 13 - Episode 18
Ben helps shepherd a young family, the Kosovos (Nick; his wife, Anna; and his son, Sandor), who had recently immigrated from Serbia. Nick so...

Customs of the Country
Season 13 - Episode 19
All about Joe and Hoss' visit to a small Mexican town named Agua Santos, which seems to have some rather peculiar laws. The two Cartwright b...

Shanklin
Season 13 - Episode 20
A band of ex-Confederate soldiers demands $25,000 from Ben. When Hoss resists their demands and tries to fight them, their leader, Shanklin,...

Search in Limbo
Season 13 - Episode 21
Sid Langley is a real estate broker who is not well liked in Nevada, thanks to his shady ways of doing business. An irritable Ben is barely ...

He Was Only Seven
Season 13 - Episode 22
A 7-year-old boy is killed after he walks into a bank during a robbery by the ruthless Springer gang. Joe and Jamie help the boy's angrily g...

The Younger Brothers' Younger Brother
Season 13 - Episode 23
A comic tale of mistaken identity, as Hoss (and eventually Ben and Joe) are held in connection with a series of road gang robberies by the b...

A Place to Hide
Season 13 - Episode 24
The Cartwrights are once again brought in the middle of the Civil War. This time, the wife of former Civil War Col. Cody Ransom brings her y...

A Visit to Upright
Season 13 - Episode 25
Ben's ability to close a lucrative livestock contract with a conspicuous widow hinges on the sale of a dilapidated saloon in Upright that Ho...

One Ace Too Many
Season 13 - Episode 26
While the Cartwrights are away to Carson City, ruthless land baron Bradley Meredith (Lorene Greene in a dual role) poses as Ben in a scheme ...