Bonanza - Season 6

Run Time: 49 mins
Air Date: Sun, 20 Sept 1964
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.521 (455 votes)
NBC34 Episodes

Invention of a Gunfighter
Season 6 - Episode 1
Joe teaches Johnny Chapman how to use a gun for defense. What Joe doesn't see is the deadly consequences that it has in the long run when J...

The Hostage
Season 6 - Episode 2
Outlaws capture Ben and hide him in an abandoned mine, holding him for a ransom. The boys must come up with a plan to save him before it's ...

The Wild One
Season 6 - Episode 3
Lafe Jessup doesn't really want to be married, and now he's about to be a father! The horse wrangler finds a fight with Hoss at his relucta...

Thanks for Everything, Friend
Season 6 - Episode 4
After inadvertantly falling into the river, Adam is rescued by Tom Wilson. Wilson has feelings for Sue Miller, which bring him into trouble...

Logan's Treasure
Season 6 - Episode 5
Sam Logan is released from jail after serving his twenty year sentence for stealing $100,000 worth of gold dust. He is followed by a bounty...

The Scapegoat
Season 6 - Episode 6
Hoss hires Waldo as a ranch hand after keeping Waldo from killing himself. Hoss soon learns that Waldo is lousy at his job and only causes ...

A Dime's Worth of Glory
Season 6 - Episode 7
An author is inspired to write about the heroic Cartwrights after watching first-hand as they fight off an attempted robbery of a stage. As...

Square Deal Sam
Season 6 - Episode 8
A conman heads into town and takes advantage of the Cartwrights with a fake land deal. The conman ends up staying in Virginia city to run a...

Between Heaven and Earth
Season 6 - Episode 9
When Joe and his friend Mitch go after a puma, Joe climbs a big peak and throws his gun up higher, intending to crawl up after it. But as h...

Old Sheba
Season 6 - Episode 10
As payment for a performance in a circus, Joe and Hoss are given an elephant. They want to keep it but encounter opposition from Adam and B...

A Man to Admire
Season 6 - Episode 11
Hoss relies on clever attorney Whitney Parker, who has a drinking problem, to clear him of a murder charge.

The Underdog
Season 6 - Episode 12
Little Joe convinces Ben to hire Harry Starr, a half-Indian who is accused by other ranchers of being a chronic horse thief. Joe sets out to...

A Knight to Remember
Season 6 - Episode 13
Two robberies take place on stagecoaches that Adam is traveling on, and both times a knight in shining armor scares the robbers away. Adam ...

The Saga of Squaw Charlie
Season 6 - Episode 14
A peaceful Indian is framed for the kidnapping of a young girl, a stunt which ends of tragedy.

The Flapjack Contest
Season 6 - Episode 15
Hoss unknowingly enters a flapjack contest and Joe puts Hoss on a diet which Hoss doesn't care for. Joe's betting on the flapjack contest c...

The Far, Far Better Thing
Season 6 - Episode 16
On their way to prevent a young woman from encountering the renegade Indians, Joe and Tuck are captured, and in order to save them all, Joe ...

Woman of Fire
Season 6 - Episode 17
Ben's friend, Don Miguel, visits the Ponderosa with his two daughters, Margarita and Elena, and Elena's two very anxious suitors. Their mis...

The Ballerina
Season 6 - Episode 18
Kellie Conrad dances and her father plays the fiddle to earn a living. Hoss feels a sense of guilt after he unintentionally hurts the arm t...

The Flannel-Mouth Gun
Season 6 - Episode 19
Adam becomes involved with a quick-triggered range detective hired by the Virginia City Cattleman's Association to find out who is responsib...

The Ponderosa Birdman
Season 6 - Episode 20
Professor Klump and Amanda pull Hoss into their flying machine scheme. The ""Hoss-mobile"" doesn't seem to be destined for a great take-off.

The Search
Season 6 - Episode 21
Adam sets out to track down the man who has been impersonating him to clear his reputation.

The Deadliest Game
Season 6 - Episode 22
The Cartwrights play host to Guido Borelli, a world renowed aerial acrobat who once saved Ben's life in Italy. Borelli's troup is beset by ...

Once a Doctor
Season 6 - Episode 23
Hoss' latest acquaintance, an Englishman named Professor Poppy, is actually Percival Alexander Mundy, M.D., who has given up the practice of...

Right Is the Fourth R
Season 6 - Episode 24
While working as a substitute teacher, Adam uncovers an ugly secret about the territory's past that others prefer remain hidden.

Hound Dog
Season 6 - Episode 25
Cousin Muley Jones returns to the Ponderosa, along with a pack of noisy hound dogs, in this funny sequel to "The Saga Of Muley Jones".

The Trap
Season 6 - Episode 26
One of Joe's old girlfriends thinks he killed her husband so they could come together. Unfortunately, that is what her husband's twin broth...

Dead and Gone
Season 6 - Episode 27
Adam tries to find the good in Howard Mead, a talented troubadour who refuses to stay on the right side of the law. Dramatic debut of singe...

A Good Night's Rest
Season 6 - Episode 28
First Ben's sons are making lots of noise, so he goes into town to sleep in the hotel. Then, various noises and things interrupt Ben's sleep...

To Own the World
Season 6 - Episode 29
One of the wealthiest men in the world, Charles Augustus Hackett, offers to buy the Ponderosa, price no object. Ben says the ranch is not f...

Lothario Larkin
Season 6 - Episode 30
Ladies' man Lothario Larkin creates havoc whenever he hits Virginia City, so Roy Coffee orders him out of town. Naturally, Hoss takes him i...

The Return
Season 6 - Episode 31
No one in Virginia City is happy to see ex-con Trace Cordell, especially the man he crippled in a gunfight, now married to Cordell's former ...

Jonah
Season 6 - Episode 32
The Ponderosa hands are upset when new hand George Whitman is hired on, it is rumored he is a jinx. Hoss tells George to ignore such foolis...

The Spotlight
Season 6 - Episode 33
Ben invites opera singer Angela Bergstrom to perform at Virginia City's anniversary celebration. She accepts, but does not tell him that he...

Patchwork Man
Season 6 - Episode 34
Hoss befriends a self-demeaning recluse named Patch, who makes the best apple pie Hoss has ever tasted. Hoss is so impressed with him, espe...