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1.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
A Rose for Lotta
(1959)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Lotta Crabtree is hired by mining tycoon Alpheus Troy to lure one of the Cartwrights into town and hold him for ransom in exchange for Ponderosa timber rights.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 311
2.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Death on Sun Mountain
(1959)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
The Cartwrights go up against two San Francisco men who plan to get rich by killing off the antelope herds--which the Indians rely on for their food--and selling the meat to Virginia City's swarms of silver miners.
Director: Paul Landres | Stars: Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker
Votes: 214
3.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Newcomers
(1959)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
The Cartwrights discover an old enemy killing steers on the Ponderosa. Their camp has a sickly woman who needs to get to the high desert country. When an innocent man is killed, Ben decides... See full summary »
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 192
4.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Paiute War
(1959)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
In order to escape punishment for mistreating two Paiute women, a trader blames it on Adam Cartwright. The Paiutes seize Adam and make him a hostage as war erupts between the tribe and a local militia.
Director: Paul Landres | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 193
5.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Enter Mark Twain
(1959)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
The Cartwrights help Virginia City reporter Samuel Langhorne Clemens investigate suspected shady goings-on between a railroad company and a local judge.
Director: Paul Landres | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 184
6.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Julia Bulette Story
(1959)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Little Joe falls in love with an older woman, the owner of the town's saloon/brothel, much to the chagrin of his family, moralizing town leaders, and creating a rival for her affection.
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 189
7.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Saga of Annie O'Toole
(1959)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Feisty Annie O'Toole comes to Nevada with her old Da (aka "Himself") to mine silver and winds up feeding the silver miners, shanghaiing Adam Cartwright to be her partner in her tent-kitchen... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 181
8.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Philip Diedesheimer Story
(1959)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Philip Diedesheimer, a Pied Piper, is refused payment after he saves Virginia City's silver mines from a cave-in.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 174
9.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Mr. Henry Comstock
(1959)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
When threatened by a man fraudulently sold a part of the Ponderosa by a Henry T.P. Comstock, the Cartwrights remember when they first met the silver-tongued claim-jumper and his scheme that laid the foundation of Virginia City.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 173
10.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Magnificent Adah
(1959)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
When an actress named Adah Menken comes into town, Ben considers marrying her, but his sons have other ideas. Meanwhile, trouble arrives when Adah's old lover, washed-up heavyweight boxer ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 177
11.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Magnificent Adah
(1959)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
When an actress named Adah Menken comes into town, Ben considers marrying her, but his sons have other ideas. Meanwhile, trouble arrives when Adah's old lover, washed-up heavyweight boxer ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 177
12.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Truckee Strip
(1959)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Caught in the middle of a longtime family feud over a disputed piece of land, star-crossed lovers Joe Cartwright and Amy Bishop try to convince their stubborn fathers to resolve their differences as tension escalates into violence.
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 178
13.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Hanging Posse
(1959)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Little Joe and Adam join a posse bent on catching the murderers of Vannie Johnson. The longer they take to catch them, the more whipped into a lynching party they become, much to the liking of the grieving widower.
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 166
14.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Vendetta
(1959)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
When one of the Morgan brothers is shot and killed by Ben during a bank holdup, they vow revenge. The friends he thought he had in town decide to hide away while a wounded Ben lays up waiting for them to ride into town.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 162
15.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Sisters
(1959)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
A beautiful sister causes trouble around town.
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 151
16.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Last Hunt
(1959)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Joe and Hoss shelter a pregnant Indian from a blizzard -- and Shoshones ordered to find her.
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 153
17.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
El Toro Grande
(1960)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
After tangling with bandits on the way to California to buy a prized bull for the Ponderosa, Little Joe fends off a pretty senorita and her jealous fiancé, while Hoss discovers that the ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 150
18.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Outcast
(1960)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
The Cartwrights come to the aid of Leta Malvet when she is ostracized by the community after her father and brother are hanged by a lynch mob for killing two men while trying to rob the ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 157
19.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
A House Divided
(1960)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Ben tries to uncover the reason gold and silver exporter, Frederick Kyle, has befriended Little Joe before the shadowy businessman's hidden Civil War agenda tears Virginia City, and the Cartwright family, apart.
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 157
20.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Gunmen
(1960)
TV-G | 49 min | Western
Hoss and Little Joe are mistaken for bloodthirsty hired killers in a small Texas town dominated by two feuding families.
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts
Votes: 251
21.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Fear Merchants
(1960)
TV-G | 49 min | Western
The Cartwrights come to the aid of a Chinese-American stable hand accused of murder. Opposing them is a manipulative mayoral candidate who wants all "foreigners" to leave Virginia City.
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker
Votes: 209
22.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Spanish Grant
(1960)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
The Cartwrights try to disprove the validity of a Spanish land grant to stop the De La Cuesta family from seizing part of the Ponderosa and all of the Carson Valley settlers' homestead lands.
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 203
23.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Blood on the Land
(1960)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Jeb Drummond is a murderous sheep herder that has Adam taken hostage to try and force Ben to sign over a large section of Ponderosa land to him.
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene
Votes: 212
24.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Desert Justice
(1960)
TV-G | 49 min | Western
As is often the case on Bonanza, things are not always as they first seem. Hoss and Adam eventually learn who is the good guy and who is not.
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts
Votes: 234
25.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Stranger
(1960)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Inspector Leduque comes from New Orleans to Virginia City to take Ben Cartwright back for a 20-year-old murder. When Ben declares publicly that he is withdrawing from the Governor's race, ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 189
26.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Escape to Ponderosa
(1960)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Three deserters escaped from an Army stockade to the Ponderosa. When a Captain comes looking for them, Ben realizes what they've had to deal with and promises to let his good friend in charge of that fort know the real truth.
Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 205
27.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Avenger
(1960)
TV-G | 49 min | Western
Ben and Adam are locked in jail, about to hung for a crime they didn't commit. Joe and Hoss must find out why the witnesses to the alleged crime have perjured themselves before the ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene
Votes: 251
28.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Last Trophy
(1960)
TV-G | 49 min | Western
An English couple comes to Ponderosa on vacation, but the wife slowly makes it clear that she is disappointed that her husband, a great hunter and "action man" is becoming more peaceful, ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts
Votes: 183
29.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
San Francisco
(1960)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
While in San Francisco, two of Ben's hired hands get shanghaied and so does Ben in the process of looking for them.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker
Votes: 195
30.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Bitter Water
(1960)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
A neighboring rancher, Andy, is good friends with Ben, but his son (Todd) wants to sell their land for mining operations which will spoil the water rights agreement that Andy and Ben made years ago.
Director: George Blair | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 174
31.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Feet of Clay
(1960)
TV-G | 49 min | Western
A woman dies. Her husband is in prison, and the sheriff needs someone to look after the boy until the boy's uncle can come to claim him. The Cartwrights begin to take care of the boy at the... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene
Votes: 186
32.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Dark Star
(1960)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
While hunting a predator wolf, Little Joe finds a gypsy woman who has been rejected from her people because she is believed to be a witch.
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts
Votes: 212
33.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Death at Dawn
(1960)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
When a powerful gang plagues Virginia City with a murderous protection racket, the Cartwrights are determined to stop it even as it threatens them.
Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker
Votes: 224
34.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Showdown
(1960)
TV-G | 49 min | Western
An outlaw gang robs Virginia City's bank and makes off with almost all of its money. The youngest member of the gang manages to get a job on the Ponderosa as a bronc-buster with the ... See full summary »
Director: John Rich | Stars: Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker
Votes: 180
35.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Mission
(1960)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Charlie Trent used to be an Army scout. Now he's the town drunk. Hoss helps him regain his self-esteem when he has him volunteer to lead a gold-bearing troop through the desert where there's very little water.
Director: James Neilson | Stars: Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts
Votes: 191
36.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Badge Without Honor
(1960)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
After a U.S. deputy marshal apparently saves Adam's life by gunning down two men who shot at him, he eventually reveals that he's in town to bring a close friend of the Cartwrights to ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene
Votes: 190
37.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Mill
(1960)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
The Cartwrights' neighbor Tom Edwards has lived as a paraplegic, ever since an accident involving Ben Cartwright and a gun. His ranch is going to waste. His wife Joyce is a longtime friend ... See full summary »
Director: John Rich | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 189
38.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Hopefuls
(1960)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Jacob Darien is leading his family of Quakers through Virginia City. When he is accosted by town roughnecks, Adam Cartwright steps in with the help of his new traveling companion, Sam Bord.... See full summary »
Director: James Neilson | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 166
39.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Denver McKee
(1960)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Ranchers are being killed, cattle stolen, and even after former U.S. Deputy Marshal Denver McKee sends posses after the suspects, they are never found. Meanwhile, McKee suspiciously has ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker
Votes: 181
40.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Day of Reckoning
(1960)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Prejudice erupts on both sides when Ben gives an Indian named Matsou and his wife some of his land, after saving Ben's life from a renegade Indian who almost killed him on the Ponderosa.
Director: Richard Bartlett | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 177
41.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Abduction
(1960)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Jennifer Beale is abducted in the hopes her rich father, Joshua, the richest silver baron on the Comstock, will pay a $1M ransom. The plan unravels when the beautiful Della is killed and Hercules, who loves her, finds out who did it.
Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 188
42.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Breed of Violence
(1960)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Dolly Kincaid is so fed up with her extremely dominant, controlling, sheriff father, that she runs away with her boyfriend. She later finds out he is the leader of some murderous bank ... See full summary »
Director: John Florea | Stars: Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker
Votes: 157
43.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Last Viking
(1960)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Gunnar is a long-lost relative of the Cartwright family. When Gunnar arrives at the Ponderosa, the family takes him in for the evening. Gunnar is the brother to one of Ben Cartwright's late... See full summary »
Director: John Florea | Stars: Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts
Votes: 176
44.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Trail Gang
(1960)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
About to set out on a cattle drive, Ben hires a young drifter named Sam Jackson as one of his drovers. What he doesn't know is that Jackson is really outlaw Johnny Logan, who signed on to ... See full summary »
Director: John Rich | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 144
45.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Savage
(1960)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Adam rides up on some Indians wanting to harm a white woman they believed was a mountain spirit. He kills them but not before they wound him. The woman nurses him back to health but the rest of the tribe is still out there looking for her.
Director: James Neilson | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 154
46.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Silent Thunder
(1960)
TV-G | 49 min | Western
Angry with the way a beautiful deaf-mute girl is treated by her father, a sheepherder living in a remote mountain cabin, Little Joe takes it upon himself to teach her sign language so they ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker
Votes: 198
47.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Ape
(1960)
TV-G | 49 min | Western
Hoss mentors a lonely, mentally challenged man who, with superhuman size and strength, becomes extremely dangerous when angered. These efforts are undermined by a saloon girl who only wants this giant man-child to manipulate him.
Director: James P. Yarbrough | Stars: Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts
Votes: 227
48.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Blood Line
(1960)
TV-G | 49 min | Western
When 16-year-old Todd Grayson arrives from Boston to Virginia City, he is told that his father has been killed by Ben Cartwright. Ben shot Luke Grayson in self-defense, but Todd won't ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 167
49.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Courtship
(1961)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Hoss falls prey to the wiles of a beautiful woman with a gambling addiction and refuses to believe she's only interested in his money in spite of Adam's proof to the contrary.
Director: James P. Yarbrough | Stars: Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene
Votes: 153
50.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Spitfire
(1961)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
After Joe kills a man in self-defense who tried to set fire to the Ponderosa to clear himself some land, he has to take his lively, feisty, wild daughter home, and she and her relatives are now determined to kill Joe.
Director: William D. Faralla | Stars: Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker
Votes: 189
51.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Bride
(1961)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
The Cartwright boys are shocked by the unexpected arrival of a beautiful young woman who claims to be Mrs. Ben Cartwright. But when Ben comes home to the Ponderosa that night, the new bride... See full summary »
Director: Alvin Ganzer | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 143
52.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Bank Run
(1961)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Hoss and Joe "rob" a bank for altruistic reasons and are pursued not by the law but by a more serious force, Ben and Adam.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts
Votes: 148
53.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Fugitive
(1961)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Adam goes to Mexico to investigate the death of a friend, only to face hostile townspeople and the dead man's wife.
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene
Votes: 124
54.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Vengeance
(1961)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Hoss accidentally kills Willie the town drunk. His remorse may not be enough to stop Willie's hate-filled brother who only wants revenge even though the townspeople know it wasn't Hoss' fault.
Director: Dick Moder | Stars: Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker
Votes: 119
55.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Tax Collector
(1961)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Jock Henry is a very likeable fellow. Ask anyone. When he's given the job of collecting taxes, his peculiar methods of figuring out what people owe causes everyone to reconsider.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 114
56.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Rescue
(1961)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
The Cartwrights deal with cattle rustlers.
Director: William D. Faralla | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 119
57.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Dark Gate
(1961)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Ross Marquette's behavior over the past few months can't be easily explained -- beating his wife, rustling cattle, robbing a stage, killing a man. Adam is determined to find out why his friend is acting so strangely before it's too late.
Director: Robert Gordon | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 147
58.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Duke
(1961)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
*SPOILERS* The Cartwrights challenge an arrogant and cruel British prizefighter, the Duke, and his alcoholic manager to a bout with John Heenan (the Benicia Boy), after the Cartwrights' ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 122
59.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Cutthroat Junction
(1961)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Jed Trask has been with the Sierra Mail & Stage Lines for many years. When a group of gunmen in the town of Latigo cuts off delivery of the goods and mail, he goes after those responsible ... See full summary »
Director: Dick Moder | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 113
60.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Gift
(1961)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Little Joe is off to buy a gift for his pa's birthday. He's unaware that where he is heading the local Indians are on the war path and they've got him in their gun sights.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 136
61.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Rival
(1961)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Hoss is riding back from his sweetheart Cameo's house when he comes up on a group of men that have just killed a young couple. Hoss recognizes one of the men as his friend Jim Applegate. Hoss is torn between his friend and the law.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 131
62.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Infernal Machine
(1961)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Hoss helps out a shy inventor who needs financial backing to build a horseless carriage. Things do not go well until a slick promoter sells shares into the new automobile. But things turn sour when the promoter skips town.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 132
63.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Thunderhead Swindle
(1961)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
The mines in the Comstock Lode seem tapped out. With the sharp rise in unemployment, the promise of silver found in the thunderhead could mean boom or bust to everyone in Virginia City. Can the Cartwrights make sure that it's kept?
Director: Dick Moder | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 115
64.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Secret
(1961)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Joe is accused of murdering a girl. Her father and brothers want to hang Joe, and the Cartwrights race to prove his innocence.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 145
65.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Dream Riders
(1961)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Hoss gets diverted by a hydrogen-filled balloon while a family friend robs the Virginia City bank.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 134
66.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Elizabeth, My Love
(1961)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
At the bedside of a seriously ill Adam, Ben thinks back to his days as a first mate on a sailing ship and his marriage to Adam's mother, Elizabeth Stoddard.
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 147
67.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Sam Hill
(1961)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
The Cartwrights join to help mystical blacksmith Sam Hill save the land his drunk, sea-dog father signed away to an old enemy, discover the circumstances behind his mother's death, and ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene
Votes: 149
68.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Smiler
(1961)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
The brother of a man Hoss killed in self-defense says he understands but secretly plans revenge.
Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts
Votes: 129
69.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Springtime
(1961)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
When their spring-fever antics injure miserly businessman, Jedediah Milbank, requiring recuperation at the Ponderosa, Ben orders each of his sons to carry out one of Mr. Milbank's seemingly... See full summary »
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene
Votes: 145
70.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Honor of Cochise
(1961)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
The Cartwrights must try to get help for Adam, seriously wounded by an Apache bullet, and find out why Cochise and his warriors have threatened to kill them all if they don't hand over an army captain taking refuge in their trail camp.
Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 158
71.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Lonely House
(1961)
TV-PG | Western
Joe Cartwright and the young widow of a family friend are held hostage on her isolated ranch outside Platte City by the same gang that robbed Little Joe in the town bank earlier that day.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 131
72.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Burma Rarity
(1961)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Everyone seems to think he should marry widow Hawkins - except Ben! When he is asked to assist some land buyers to Virginia City, he must put up with all the talk. Then he finds out that ... See full summary »
Director: William Witney | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 131
73.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Broken Ballad
(1961)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Ed Payson, a reformed gunfighter, has returned to Virginia City to tend some property he owns. When he's welcomed with resistance by some of the townspeople, Adam decides to help him, even ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 130
74.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Many Faces of Gideon Flinch
(1961)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Jennifer Flinch and her uncle Gideon come to Virginia City on the stage to see a client named Bullet Head Burke. They need to explain why his $5K investment has all been spent. Through a ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 140
75.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Friendship
(1961)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
The Cartwrights convince the prison warden to free 23-year-old chain-gang convict, Danny Kid, imprisoned since he was an orphan of thirteen, and take him on as a ranch-hand to repay him for... See full summary »
Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 126
76.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Countess
(1961)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Unsettling events that could spell financial ruin for the Ponderosa mysteriously coincide with the arrival of a wealthy countess who seems determined to win the love of Ben Cartwright, the ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Sparr | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 120
77.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Horse Breaker
(1961)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
The Cartwrights hope that time and therapy will get bronc breaker, Johnny Lightly, back in the saddle after a bad fall. But Johnny soon faces thinly veiled hostility from the young nurse ... See full summary »
Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 122
78.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Day of the Dragon
(1961)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
His search for the two men who kidnapped his bride-to-be, Su Ling, will soon take angry Chinese warlord, General Tsung, from San Francisco to the Ponderosa where Little Joe has been ... See full summary »
Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 138
79.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Frenchman
(1961)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Hoss insults a feisty Frenchman who demands satisfaction with swords, unaware that the little rogue believes himself to be the reincarnation of medieval, outlaw poet Francois Villon and is ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene
Votes: 127
80.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Tin Badge
(1961)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Tired of being considered the baby of the family by his older brothers, Little Joe accepts a temporary job of a small town sheriff. But he soon suspects he's been set up and wants answers. ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts
Votes: 117
81.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Gabrielle
(1961)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
The Cartwrights take in a young orphaned blind girl on Christmas Eve. Will they be able to reunite her with her embittered old grandfather?
Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker
Votes: 169
82.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Land Grab
(1961)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
The Cartwrights play host to an eccentric old soldier friend of Ben's while trying to track down a mysterious swindler named Polk who is illegally deeding parcels of the Ponderosa to settlers looking for homesteads.
Director: David Orrick McDearmon | Stars: Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts
Votes: 129
83.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Tall Stranger
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
A handsome, charismatic con man sweeps Margie Owens off her feet with promises of excitement and adventure, jeopardizing Hoss Cartwright's hopes to wed the pretty rancher's daughter.
Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 125
84.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Lady from Baltimore
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Bitterly disappointed in her husband's financial failures, genteel matriarch Deborah Banning travels to visit her friends on the Ponderosa, hoping to turn her family's fortunes around by marrying her only daughter off to a Cartwright son.
Director: John Peyser | Stars: Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker
Votes: 140
85.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Ride
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
When Adam is a witness to a murderous armed robbery by masked assailants, he is absolutely convinced he knows who one of them is, but there's ultimately only one way to prove it.
Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker
Votes: 138
86.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Storm
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
While visiting the Ponderosa, Ben's old friend, sea Captain Matthew White, is forced to reveal a terrible secret after Little Joe Cartwright falls in love with and plans to wed the ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts
Votes: 135
87.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Auld Sod
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
The Cartwrights allow a shiftless man to pose as head of the ranch to prevent his Irish mother from learning the truth about him.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene
Votes: 123
88.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Gift of Water
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
With tensions with a drought-stricken neighboring flatland rising, the Cartwrights decide to address the problem by helping a stubborn flatland homesteader dig a new well.
Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 133
89.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Jackknife
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Searching for missing Ponderosa cattle, Adam Cartwright stops to aid injured rancher, Matt Grant, takes him home and stays to help his wife and son while he recovers. But Adam doesn't know ... See full summary »
Director: William Witney | Stars: Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene
Votes: 127
90.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Guilty
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Tucson gunman, Jack Groat, swore to kill Sheriff Lem Partridge for putting him in prison after a bullet from Groat's gun during a drunken street brawl accidentally killed Sheriff ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker
Votes: 114
91.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Wooing of Abigail Jones
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
The Cartwright boys help cowhand Hank romance reluctant teacher Abigail.
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts
Votes: 144
92.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Lawmaker
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
The Cartwrights may have to take the law into their own hands when Virginia City's temporary sheriff, rancher Asa Moran, uses his new badge as a license to kill.
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 122
93.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Look to the Stars
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
The Cartwrights encourage young genius, Albert Michelson, to pursue his scientific experiments while trying to discover why schoolmaster, George Norton, expelled Albert from school and ... See full summary »
Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene
Votes: 132
94.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Gamble
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Little Joe is his family's only hope when he escapes from a kangaroo court that has framed the Cartwrights for a bank robbery and sentenced them all to hang.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts
Votes: 145
95.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Crucible
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
After being robbed in the desert, Adam stumbles onto a seemingly chivalrous prospector named Peter Kane, who offers him a mule and supplies for three days work. However, Kane is a demented ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Nickell | Stars: Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker
Votes: 166
96.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Inger, My Love
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
The back story behind Ben's three wives is up to Inger, Ben's second wife (and mother of Hoss). The story relates the first meeting between Ben and Inger, as Ben and a young Adam were traveling west.
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 145
97.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Blessed Are They
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Ben Cartwright and Virginia City's enigmatic new minister work together to decide which set of feuding grandparents, the Mahans or the Clarkes, will have custody of their recently orphaned twin grandchildren.
Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 141
98.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Dowry
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
A stagecoach carrying Alexander Dubois, his daughter Michele and her fiancé Don Ricardo Fernandez is held up. Her dowry is stolen and Monsieur Dubois is injured trying to get it back. ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 108
99.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Long Night
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Adam has a day and a half to deliver a large bankdraft. He is ambushed by an escaped convict. When he is mistaken for one of the escapees by the posse, Adam is hardpressed to prove his identity. All they want to do is hang him.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 132
100.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Mountain Girl
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Joe is entrusted to see that Grandpa Coomb's deathbed wish is carried out. That his granddaughter is returned to the people she never knew -- the high society Harkers. Joe must teach her to... See full summary »
Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 132
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