Bonanza - Season 8
Run Time: 49 mins
Air Date: Sun, 11 Sept 1966
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.521 (455 votes)
NBC34 Episodes
Something Hurt, Something Wild
Season 8 - Episode 1
The Cartwrights' friendship with a neighboring rancher is threatened by his mentally unstable daughter.
Horse of a Different Hue
Season 8 - Episode 2
So the Cartwrights will not be killed, one of Ben's oldest friends must make sure Joe does not win a horse race.
A Time to Step Down
Season 8 - Episode 3
After the Cartwrights put wrangler Dan Tolliver out to pasture, the embittered old man plans to take part in robbing the Ponderosa.
The Pursued (1)
Season 8 - Episode 4
A Mormon with two wives is badgered by the town's people and then things get much worse.
The Pursued (2)
Season 8 - Episode 5
As the persecuted party awaits Ben and Hoss' return, Herber is shot and killed. Joe retaliates and shoots Herber's assassin.
To Bloom for Thee
Season 8 - Episode 6
Hoss is engaged to Carol Attley, a troubled woman with a past darker than he imagines.
Credit for a Kill
Season 8 - Episode 7
Though his friend is badly in need of the reward money, Joe insists it belongs to him, to protect his friend from the dead outlaws' brothers...
Four Sisters from Boston
Season 8 - Episode 8
The Cartwrights come to the rescue of four inexperienced homesteaders, when devious cattle ranchers try to run them off their property.
Old Charlie
Season 8 - Episode 9
A young cowpoke is killed during a fight with Hoss, but the old blowhard who runs the Virginia City stables, takes the credit, placing him i...
Ballad of the Ponderosa
Season 8 - Episode 10
A young troubadour, who blames Ben for the death of his father, returns to Virginia City. In one scene, Ben says the young man is welcome t...
The Oath
Season 8 - Episode 11
While in another town, on business, Ben runs into a saloon employee who is a big figure, and after he kills an old miner, who has burned dow...
A Real Nice, Friendly Little Town
Season 8 - Episode 12
When the woman he was planning to marry is strangled, Joe forces the only suspect to come forward, in a very tense-filled episode.
The Bridegroom
Season 8 - Episode 13
Joe plays matchmaker in this story of a rancher attempting to marry off his supposedly unremarkable daughter.
Tommy
Season 8 - Episode 14
The Cartwrights protect a woman and her deaf-mute little son from the boy's outlaw stepfather.
A Christmas Story
Season 8 - Episode 15
Warbling Andy Walker returns to Virginia City a big success, along with his shifty Uncle Thaddeus.
Ponderosa Explosion
Season 8 - Episode 16
Two Virginia City old-timers fool Hoss and Joe into raising rabbits, and the Ponderosa is overrun with paws and whiskers.
Justice
Season 8 - Episode 17
When the woman he was planning to marry is strangled, Joe forces the only suspect to come forward.
A Bride for Buford
Season 8 - Episode 18
Dolly Bantree has a crooked manager ""Blackie"", who blackmails Dolly to fleece newly rich miner Buford out of his newfound wealth. Hoss su...
Black Friday
Season 8 - Episode 19
In the town of Chiso, Joe encounters a former Ponderosa cowhand who is now a gunfighter and expecting to be killed on Friday the 13th. John...
The Unseen Wound
Season 8 - Episode 20
Ben discovers that his friend, Sheriff Paul Rowan, is suffering from stress brought on by his wartime experiences.
Journey to Terror
Season 8 - Episode 21
Joe visits his married friends in Arizona Territory, only to discover the husband has become a criminal and is secretly part of a notorious ...
Amigo
Season 8 - Episode 22
A wounded comanchero sides with the Cartwrights when the rest of the gang, led by Captain Fenner, shows up to burn and rob the Ponderosa.
A Woman in the House
Season 8 - Episode 23
Mary Wharton, an old friend of the family, comes to live on the Ponderosa with her shiftless husband. When Ben learns Mary is the victim of...
Judgment at Red Creek
Season 8 - Episode 24
Hoss and Joe have their doubts as to who really robbed a way station, suspecting the two men they captured are innocent.
Joe Cartwright, Detective
Season 8 - Episode 25
Joe becomes fascinated by detective literature and drags Hoss into the picture when he suspects the bank is going to be robbed.
Dark Enough to See the Stars
Season 8 - Episode 26
Young Billy Wilcox wanders onto the Ponderosa, sick, hungry, and alone. Ben finds him, and after he regains his strength, offers Billy a jo...
The Deed and the Dilemma
Season 8 - Episode 27
Ben assists Georgio Rossi in his battle for water on adjoining property.
The Prince
Season 8 - Episode 28
The Cartwrights play host to Russian royals, who are the target of jewel thieves.
A Man Without Land
Season 8 - Episode 29
The foreman of a neighboring ranch frames Joe for murder as part of a scheme to get his employer's property.
Napoleon's Children
Season 8 - Episode 30
A gang of juvenile delinquents, led by an intelligent runt, who calls himself Napoleon, terrorizes Virginia City and the Ponderosa as well.
The Wormwood Cup
Season 8 - Episode 31
A woman - convinced Little Joe intentionally killed her brother - offers $1,000 to the man who kills the youngest Cartwright in what she dee...
Clarissa
Season 8 - Episode 32
The Cartwrights' cousin, Clarissa visits. Her assertive, snobbish ways result in nothing but trouble for Ben and his sons.
Maestro Hoss
Season 8 - Episode 33
Hoss is conned into buying a violin from a gypsy fortune teller, and everyone on the Ponderosa--except for Hop Sing--suffers the consequence...
The Greedy Ones
Season 8 - Episode 34
The Ponderosa is in danger of being overrun by gold hunters.