Bonanza - Season 7

Run Time: 49 mins
Air Date: Sun, 12 Sept 1965
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.521 (455 votes)
NBC33 Episodes

The Debt
Season 7 - Episode 1
Wiley and Annie Kane arrive at the Ponderosa to work off their father's debt to Ben. It seems as though the elder Kane once swindled the Car...

The Dilemma
Season 7 - Episode 2
Ben helps a convict win a parole only to have the man later become the chief suspect in a bank robbery.

The Brass Box
Season 7 - Episode 3
Juan Ortega claims he has a land grant which gives him ownership of the entire Nevada Territory.

The Other Son
Season 7 - Episode 4
A mule skinner and his two sons are hired by Ben to transport nitroglycerin to California.

The Lonely Runner
Season 7 - Episode 5
A judge awards itinerant horse breeder Jim Acton's beloved mare to rancher Sam Whipple. Jim tries to buy her back, but Whipple refuses his o...

Devil on Her Shoulder
Season 7 - Episode 6
Ben is attracted to Sarah Reynolds, a member of a religious order led by her fanatical uncle. When she is accused of being a witch, the Car...

Found Child
Season 7 - Episode 7
Hoss comes upon an overturned stagecoach and discovers a little girl suffering from shock. After the Cartwrights suceed in bringing her aro...

The Meredith Smith
Season 7 - Episode 8
Ben must determine who is the rightful heir to a fortune that includes water rights vital to the Ponderosa.

Mighty is the Word
Season 7 - Episode 9
Virginia City's newest preacher is an ex-gunfighter who wants only to build a new church, but the brother of one of his victims has other id...

The Strange One
Season 7 - Episode 10
Hoss and Joe find a woman abandoned by a wagon train because her gift of prophecy is considered a curse. "Wouldn't it be wonderful," says B...

The Reluctant Rebel
Season 7 - Episode 11
The Generation Gap, Western-style, as Hoss tries to bring a young man and his father closer together.

Five Sundowns to Sunup
Season 7 - Episode 12
The mother of a young outlaw condemned to hang, threatens to have her gang's hostages killed if her son is not set free. One of the hostage...

A Natural Wizard
Season 7 - Episode 13
Hoss finds a kindred spirit in Skeeter Dexter, a lonesome young man who feels closer to animals than most people.

All Ye His Saints
Season 7 - Episode 14
In this series' highlight, little Michael Thorpe heads to the high country to ask God to spare his critically wounded father, believing he h...

The Dublin Lad
Season 7 - Episode 15
After sitting on a jury that has convicted Terrence O' Tool of murder, Joe has second thoughts about the verdict and decides to do some inve...

To Kill a Buffalo
Season 7 - Episode 16
Hoss finds a wounded young Indian on the prairie, who is torn between accepting the ways of the white man or returning to his old life.

Ride the Wind (1)
Season 7 - Episode 17
The Pony Express sets up office in Virginia and Joe is one of the first to join up. Ben also decides to invest in the fledgling enterprise....

Ride the Wind (2)
Season 7 - Episode 18
Conclusion to the previous-week's episode, where the Cartwrights provide needed assistance to the Pony Express.

Destiny's Child
Season 7 - Episode 19
After his only friend is killed, the Cartwrights take in a slow-witted man, who Roy Coffee informs them, is wanted for murder by Arizona aut...

Peace Officer
Season 7 - Episode 20
While Sheriff Coffee is in Saint Louis, the Morrisey bunch decides to work off excess energy by wrecking the saloon in a violent spree. Whe...

The Code
Season 7 - Episode 21
Joe is goaded into facing gunman Dan Taggert, unaware there is more to be prearranged than he realizes.

Three Brides for Hoss
Season 7 - Episode 22
Not one, but three mail-order brides show up unexpectedly at the Ponderosa, all of them believing they are to marry Hoss.

The Emperor Norton
Season 7 - Episode 23
Joshua Norton, an eccentric and formerly wealthy San Francisco merchant who considers himself Emperor of the United States and Protector of ...

Her Brother's Keeper
Season 7 - Episode 24
Ben and Claire Armory fall in love, but their future is jeopardized by her disabled brother.

The Trouble with Jamie
Season 7 - Episode 25
The Cartwrights attempt to straighten out the snobbish young son of Ben's cousin.

Shining in Spain
Season 7 - Episode 26
Young, adoring Wendy Daniels has come to Virginia City to meet up with her father, Taylor Daniels, who has been traveling on business for th...

The Genius
Season 7 - Episode 27
Hoss chooses a difficult path when he decides to rehabilitate a famous poet, Will Smith, who is really William Warlock Evans, who spends too...

The Unwritten Commandment
Season 7 - Episode 28
Everyone feels Andy Walker is an outstanding singer but his father, who feels the boy should concentrate on ranch work instead. Joe mention...

Big Shadow on the Land
Season 7 - Episode 29
Italian immigrants are determined to establish their own vineyard on Ponderosa property.

The Fighters
Season 7 - Episode 30
Feeling guilty for unintentionally ending the career of a professional boxer, Hoss vows never to fight again. But things change when Joe is...

Home from the Sea
Season 7 - Episode 31
A sailor, claiming to be one of Adam's closest friends, is given a warm welcome by the Cartwrights, who have no way of knowing the man and h...

The Last Mission
Season 7 - Episode 32
Ben and Hoss unwittingly aid a vengeful army colonel who plans to wipe out every Indian he can with a Gatling gun.

A Dollar's Worth of Trouble
Season 7 - Episode 33
Hoss finds himself in another mess, this one involving a beautiful blonde, a moonshiner, and a nearsighted outlaw who is allergic to chocola...