Bonanza - Season 5
Run Time: 49 mins
Air Date: Sun, 22 Sept 1963
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.521 (455 votes)
NBC34 Episodes
She Walks in Beauty
Season 5 - Episode 1
Hoss wants to marry mysterious Regan Miller, a woman with less than a pristine past. When he thinks Adam is trying to steal her away, he lo...
A Passion for Justice
Season 5 - Episode 2
Renowned English novelist Charles Dickens comes to Virginia City. In short order, he is accused of a crime he didn't commit. The problem the...
Rain from Heaven
Season 5 - Episode 3
A destitute rainmaker and his family arrive in drought-stricken Virginia City. While Ben tries to help him make rain, Hoss tends to the man...
Twilight Town
Season 5 - Episode 4
Joe is bushwhacked in the desert and awakens to find himself in Martinville, a town that may or may not be populated by ghosts. An errie, s...
The Toy Soldier
Season 5 - Episode 5
Adam encounters drunken artist James Callan, branded a "squaw man" because he is married to an Indian, and whose talent is going to waste in...
A Question of Strength
Season 5 - Episode 6
Hoss and a pair of nuns, the younger one having a difficult time training for the order, are robbed and stranded at a way station.
Calamity over the Comstock
Season 5 - Episode 7
Joe has a run-in with Calamity Jane, and takes her home with him after promising her dying father to take care of her. At first the Cartwri...
Journey Remembered
Season 5 - Episode 8
Ben finds an old journal that he kept while in a wagon train travelling from St. Joseph, Missouri to Ash Hollow. As he is reading it Ben re...
The Quality of Mercy
Season 5 - Episode 9
Joe struggles to understand whether his friend was right in killing a dying man who pleaded to put out of his misery.
The Waiting Game
Season 5 - Episode 10
Adam becomes involved with the recently widowed Laura Dayton and her little girl, Peggy.
The Legacy
Season 5 - Episode 11
Adam, Hoss and Joe mistakenly believe their father was murdered. They split into 3 different directions to confront the supposed killers. ...
Hoss and the Leprechauns
Season 5 - Episode 12
In what is arguably the best comedy of the series, Hoss swears he has seen green elves running around the Ponderosa and a smooth-talking Iri...
The Prime of Life
Season 5 - Episode 13
Ben becomes irritable and reckless when the completion of an important timber contract is hindered by an old rival.
The Lila Conrad Story
Season 5 - Episode 14
Joe and Adam protect a saloon girl, who has killed in self-defense, from an angry lynch mob. The accompanying Judge, along with his wife, t...
Ponderosa Matador
Season 5 - Episode 15
Adam, Hoss, and Joe vie for the attention of a pretty young lady named Dolores. Hoss talks Joe into entering a bull fight, but it doesn't w...
My Son, My Son
Season 5 - Episode 16
Ben's plans to marry Katherine Saunders are upset when her son Eden is accused of killing his former girlfriend.
Alias Joe Cartwright
Season 5 - Episode 17
A man who looks similar to Joe uses Joe's name and gets Joe in the position of facing the firing squad.
The Gentleman from New Orleans
Season 5 - Episode 18
The new stranger in town claims to be the famous pirate Jean Lafitte, and Hoss believes him.
The Cheating Game
Season 5 - Episode 19
In this sequel to "The Waiting Game", Laura resents Adam's advice on how she ought to be running her ranch. A newcomer, Ward Bannister, com...
Bullet for a Bride
Season 5 - Episode 20
While out hunting for a mountain lion, Joe accidently shots Tessa Caldwell causing her to go blind. As a result of his guilt, Joe ends up p...
King of the Mountain
Season 5 - Episode 21
When mountain man Jim Leyton decides to marry, he chooses Hoss as his best man. Julie's father, Grizzly, does not agree and Hoss must come ...
Love Me Not
Season 5 - Episode 22
While talking with an Indian, Ben is given an unexpected present...a woman. She is a young white woman named Joan who has lived with the In...
The Pure Truth
Season 5 - Episode 23
Hoss is suffering from spring fever, goes to the wrong town and is accused of bank robbery.
No Less a Man
Season 5 - Episode 24
The town council feels Roy Coffee can no longer do his job, and with the notorious Wagner gang on their way to rob the bank, everyone is in ...
Return to Honor
Season 5 - Episode 25
Ben must travel to pay his respects after he learns of the death of his nephew Will. When he visits the grave, he finds his nephew barely al...
The Saga of Muley Jones
Season 5 - Episode 26
The Cartwrights are visited by their second cousin, Muley Jones of Weedville, Missouri who sings with a window-shattering voice and stirs up...
The Roper
Season 5 - Episode 27
Will is having second thoughts about staying on at the Ponderosa, and outlaws hit the ranch and take him with them. The leader, Lee Hewitt,...
A Pink Cloud Comes from Old Cathay
Season 5 - Episode 28
A headstrong Chinese girl (Marlo Thomas) visiting the Cartwrights incites labor unrest among local workers.
The Companeros
Season 5 - Episode 29
Mateo Ibara and his wife Carla visit the Ponderosa. Ibara asks Will to return to Mexico with him. Ibara and Will fought together for Juarez...
Enter Thomas Bowers
Season 5 - Episode 30
After a triumphant tour in Europe, a famous Negro singer encounters racial prejudice in Virginia City when he arrives for a concert.
The Dark Past
Season 5 - Episode 31
Moody bounty hunter, Dev Farnum, shows up on the Ponderosa, where the Cartwrights are harboring the wife of the man he is after.
The Pressure Game
Season 5 - Episode 32
Laura Dayton's Aunt Lil comes to visit and quickly decides it's time she help the hesitant Adam propose to her favorite niece. Her plan is ...
Triangle
Season 5 - Episode 33
Adam and Laura are finally engaged. Adam is secretly building a house and planning for the future. Laura realizes that it's Will she is in ...
Walter and the Outlaws
Season 5 - Episode 34
Hilarious sequel to "Any Friend Of Walter's" in which Obie leaves Walter in Hoss' care. The three outlaws, Macy, Teague, and Willard, kidna...