Bonanza - Season 2
Run Time: 49 mins
Air Date: Sat, 10 Sept 1960
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.521 (455 votes)
NBC34 Episodes
Showdown
Season 2 - Episode 1
A young bank robber hires on at the Ponderosa in order to keep his gang informed of the law's efforts to discover their whereabouts.
The Mission
Season 2 - Episode 2
Filmed almost entirely outdoors, this is more like a feature than a series. Captain Pender is looking for a scout to lead him and his compa...
Badge Without Honor
Season 2 - Episode 3
Adam's life is saved by an enigmatic U. S. Marshal who has come to Virginia City to arrest a friend of the Cartwrights.
The Mill
Season 2 - Episode 4
The Cartwrights construct a grist mill to provide income for a crippled rancher who blames Ben for his predicament. Ben has to contend with...
The Hopefuls
Season 2 - Episode 5
Adam guides a wagon train of Quakers and falls for the leader's daughter, Regina. The force Adam must employ to protect them, conflicts wit...
Denver McKee
Season 2 - Episode 6
While celebrating the return of his daughter Connie, former lawman McKee is asked to assist in the capture of an outlaw gang. While Joe is c...
Day of Reckoning
Season 2 - Episode 7
Prejudice 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...
The Abduction
Season 2 - Episode 8
Hoss and Joe take their sweethearts to a colorful and strange carnival for the day. Joe's recent girlfriend Jennifer Beale is abducted by t...
Breed of Violence
Season 2 - Episode 9
Joe's friend Dolly Kincaid is the daughter of the sheriff and she's always getting caught up with the wrong crowd. When she gets close to Vi...
The Last Viking
Season 2 - Episode 10
Gunnar Borgstrom is the leader of a vicious band called the Commancheros. They burn houses, kill people and steal anything of value. When th...
The Trail Gang
Season 2 - Episode 11
On a cattle drive back to Nevada from Texas, Ben hires a young man who is both an outlaw and the son of the sheriff whose town the Ponderosa...
The Savage
Season 2 - Episode 12
Adam's life is saved by a woman known to the Indians as White Buffalo Woman, but who is actually the daughter of Norwegian immigrants.
Silent Thunder
Season 2 - Episode 13
Captivated by the pretty, deaf-mute daughter of a reclusive mountain man, Little Joe teaches the young woman sign language. Thrilled with h...
The Ape
Season 2 - Episode 14
Hoss becomes friends with dull-witted Arnie Gurnie, who is a brute of a man with the mentality of a child. His temper scares everybody, inc...
The Blood Line
Season 2 - Episode 15
Ben feels responsible for the son of a man he was forced to kill, but the young man is determined to get even. A professional gunman offers...
The Courtship
Season 2 - Episode 16
Hoss plans to marry the widow of one of Ben's friends, not knowing she is a compulsive gambler and refusing to believe it when the other Car...
The Spitfire
Season 2 - Episode 17
Joe becomes the target of a tough and vengeful Kentucky family, after he kills one of them who almost sets the Ponderosa on fire and the Car...
The Bride
Season 2 - Episode 18
The Cartwright boys are surprised to find that a woman, claiming to have recently married their father, shows up on their doorstep. When Be...
Bank Run
Season 2 - Episode 19
When they "rob" the bank in Virginia City to save depositors from being cleaned out by its president, Hoss and Joe wind up wanted by the law...
The Fugitive
Season 2 - Episode 20
Adam goes to Mexico to find out how the son of a family friend was killed, only to learn the man is still alive.
Vengeance
Season 2 - Episode 21
Hoss accidentally kills a drunk he was trying to disarm. The man's brother bushwhacks Hoss, who has lost the will to live. Joe makes a pro...
The Tax Collector
Season 2 - Episode 22
The kindness Hoss extends to shiftless Jock Henry is not exactly repaid when Henry becomes an assistant assessor and raises the Ponderosa's ...
The Rescue
Season 2 - Episode 23
The Cartwright boys are concerned that Ben might be getting on in years, yet it is he who saves them from cattle rustlers.
The Dark Gate
Season 2 - Episode 24
Adam is confused by the sudden behavior of his good friend, Ross Marquette. He beats up his wife, Delphine, after accusing her of having an...
The Duke
Season 2 - Episode 25
Hoss takes on The Duke Of London, an arrogant, abusive bare-knuckle fighter, though his brawn is no match for the Duke's agile skills.
Cutthroat Junction
Season 2 - Episode 26
When freight company detective Jed Trask is fired after a decade of service, he joins the thieves preventing supplies from reaching Virginia...
The Gift
Season 2 - Episode 27
While crossing the desert to Yuma, Arizona with a white stallion intended as a birthday present for Ben, Joe runs into a pack of merciless c...
The Rival
Season 2 - Episode 28
Jim Applegate, Hoss' rival for the affections of Cameo Johnson, is a member of a vigilante group who lynched an innocent man and his wife.
The Infernal Machine
Season 2 - Episode 29
Hoss believes in his friend's primitive version of the automobile in this lighthearted, yet sad episode. When the "car" uses up the last of...
The Thunderhead Swindle
Season 2 - Episode 30
With Virginia City on the verge of economic ruin, out of work miners put their hopes in word of a strike at a mine everybody believed was pl...
The Secret
Season 2 - Episode 31
Joe is the victim of an elaborate frame-up, accused of murdering a pregnant girl. When Ben is asked if Joe is telling the truth, he replies...
The Dream Riders
Season 2 - Episode 32
To finance his dream of constructing an airship capable of crossing the Atlantic, Ben's old friend plans to rob the Virginia City bank while...
Elizabeth, My Love
Season 2 - Episode 33
At the bedside of a seriously ill Adam, Ben thinks back to his days as a first mate in the merchant marines and his marriage to Adam's mothe...
Sam Hill
Season 2 - Episode 34
Blacksmith Sam Hill fights to keep the land on which his mother is buried, after his drunken father signs the deed over to Colonel Tyson and...