Bonanza (TV Series) The Big Jackpot (1970) User Reviews

So many new friends

[bkoganbing · 7/10 · 9 February 2016]

It's a lucky day for David Canary on Bonanza as he inherits a lot of cash and stock in a land development company. Candy would be less than human if this sudden wealth didn't turn his head a bit. The Ponderosa foreman never knew he had as many friends as he did, all of them who have ideas how to spend his money.

But it's that stock that's the most troubling. The land development company is one big swindle selling easterners desert land sight unseen that's pretty worthless. Walter Brooke runs the company and he's one slick article and he gives Candy the sage advice of shut up and get wealthy.

A lot of people would take that advice and get wealthy. But Candy's got a lot of character and between him and the Cartwrights they figure out just how to take Brooke down.

This one is David Canary's episode. It all leaves him sadder and wiser and a bit in debt.

Good but ultimately predictable ep

[belanger75 · 6/10 · 22 January 2020]

With plot holes. It is too confusing how a deceased Paiute Indian left Candy a fortune and all those stocks. The office opening up in town about the same time ( see the ep) and more. There is also a predictable bit where the Paiute nation insists that the late Paiute was ineligible to leave Candy any inheritance. The competent lawyer they had representing Candy's side against the bogus mining co. should have disputed the Paiute Nation claim and insisted Candy was in fact the rightful beneficiary and the case should have gotten tied up in court for years. But no--Candy is a pure loser.

(The man representing the Paiute Nation was usually comic actor Richard Stahl and he is miscast in his bit role here.)