Bonanza - Season 4
Run Time: 49 mins
Air Date: Sun, 23 Sept 1962
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.521 (455 votes)
NBC34 Episodes
The First Born
Season 4 - Episode 1
Clay Stafford signs on to work for the Cartwrights and shortly afterwards shoots and kills a man who accuses him of cheating at poker. The ...
The Quest
Season 4 - Episode 2
Determined to prove he can succeed at something without the help of his Pa, Hoss, and Adam, Joe sets out on his quest and wins a timber cont...
The Artist
Season 4 - Episode 3
Ben helps Matthew Raine, a famous painter who has gone blind and now wallows in self-pity, discover a new purpose in life. However, Raine's...
A Hot Day for a Hanging
Season 4 - Episode 4
Hoss is jailed for robbing the bank in Dutchman Flats, a town on the brink of economic collapse, even the sheriff knows he is innocent, but ...
The Deserter
Season 4 - Episode 5
An Indian-hating officer, Colonel Edward J. Dunwoody, comes to the Ponderosa looking for army deserter Bill Winters, who is a good friend of...
The Way Station
Season 4 - Episode 6
With a storm brewing, Adam takes refuge at a way station, run by cantankerous Jesse and his young grandaughter Marty, who yearns to see what...
The War Comes to Washoe
Season 4 - Episode 7
The Civil War once again divides the citizens of Nevada, as well as Adam and Joe Cartwright. One of season four's highlights, the plot invo...
Knight Errant
Season 4 - Episode 8
Hoss volunteers to pickup an injured neighbor's mail-order bride, but by the time they return, she has fallen in love with Hoss and a price ...
The Beginning
Season 4 - Episode 9
Billy Horne is a white man who was captured by the Shoshone when he was six. He comes into Ben & Joe's campsite one night uninvited. They ca...
The Deadly Ones
Season 4 - Episode 10
The Ponderosa becomes a war zone when it is invaded by a detachment of Mexican mercenaries under General Diaz. The general is furious when ...
Gallagher's Sons
Season 4 - Episode 11
Hoss helps Charlie and Will (Charlotte and Willomina), two young girls who just lost their father. They go on a journey to find their only ...
The Decision
Season 4 - Episode 12
Hoss is seriously injured internally and Ben seeks help from the only doctor within 50 miles, who happens to be in prison for murder. Ben t...
The Good Samaritan
Season 4 - Episode 13
Hoss decides to help out Wade Tyree and introduces him to Abigail and her daughter, Bonnie. Hoss hopes this will stop Wade's constant drink...
The Jury
Season 4 - Episode 14
When Hoss is responsible for causing a hung jury, Ben tells him, "a man is never wrong doing what he thinks is right", and Adam attempts to ...
The Colonel
Season 4 - Episode 15
Frank Medford, a figure from Ben's "wild, misspent youth", shows up in Virginia City, and though down on his luck, creates troubles for the ...
Song in the Dark
Season 4 - Episode 16
Adam's guitar-strumming friend, ranch hand Danny Morgan, is arrested on suspicion of murdering and robbing the Widow Baker. Someone had rep...
Elegy for a Hangman
Season 4 - Episode 17
A stranger, Bob Jolly, arrives in Virginia City to accuse a drunken Judge Harry Whitaker of sending his innocent father, Carl, to the gallow...
Half a Rogue
Season 4 - Episode 18
In this entertaining episode, laced with humor, Hoss first meets mountain man Jim Leyton. Bing Russell makes his first appearance as Deputy...
The Last Haircut
Season 4 - Episode 19
A vain outlaw murders a man in front of witnesses, including Joe, but a clever lawyer is able to get him acquitted. Though enraged, Joe has...
Marie, My Love
Season 4 - Episode 20
When Cochise falls on Joe, Ben cannot help but remember that is how Marie Cartwright was killed. He thinks back to meeting her in New Orlea...
The Hayburner
Season 4 - Episode 21
For a change, it is Adam rather than Joe who becomes mixed up in one of Hoss' funny exploits. Together they purchase a thoroughbred horse, ...
The Actress
Season 4 - Episode 22
Joe becomes romantically involved with a woman who considers herself a serious dramatic actress. Unfortunately, she is the only one who doe...
A Stranger Passed This Way
Season 4 - Episode 23
Hoss develops amnesia after being bushwhacked and hit over the head by two outlaws and moves in with a Dutch couple. The woman regards him ...
The Way of Aaron
Season 4 - Episode 24
Adam takes a shine to Rebecca Kaufman, the daughter of a Jewish peddler, and bandits are convinced the Kaufman wagon is worth robbing.
A Woman Lost
Season 4 - Episode 25
Ben's attempt to rehabilitate an alcoholic singer he knew in better days are complicated by her involvment with a former prize fighter.
Any Friend of Walter's
Season 4 - Episode 26
Classic comedy in which Hoss first meets prospector Obie and his lazy but allegedly brilliant mongrel dog, Walter.
Mirror of a Man
Season 4 - Episode 27
The peaceful world of a Ponderosa hand is disturbed by the arrival of his no-good father and twin brother, who is a wanted man.
My Brother's Keeper
Season 4 - Episode 28
While hunting for a wolf, Joe is attacked by the wolf. Adam also hunting for the wolf, hears Joe struggling with the wolf comes to Joe's ai...
Five into the Wind
Season 4 - Episode 29
After their stagecoach crashes, a group of rag-tag passengers and Joe must get out of the desert alive. One of the passengers may or may no...
Saga of Whizzer McGee
Season 4 - Episode 30
Hoss becomes concerned for the welfare of an insecure, belligerent fellow who is as small as Hoss is large. Interesting blend of comedy and...
Thunder Man
Season 4 - Episode 31
Little Joe's 19-year old girlfriend is killed by a good samaritan, an explosives expert who had stopped to render aid to the woman's uncle a...
Rich Man, Poor Man
Season 4 - Episode 32
Claude Miller, the laughingstock of Virginia City, gets even with everyone who made fun of him when he strikes it rich.
The Boss
Season 4 - Episode 33
Ben regrets that he helped Tom Slayden start a freight hauling business when Slayden sets out to ruin all the competition, and Joe is shot i...
Little Man... Ten Feet Tall
Season 4 - Episode 34
When a Italian immigrant comes to the Ponderosa, he decides he wants to give up the guitar to become a cowboy.