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- DirectorPaul LandresStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerThe Cartwrights help Virginia City reporter Samuel Langhorne Clemens investigate suspected shady goings-on between a railroad company and a local judge.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerThe 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.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsDan BlockerMichael LandonLorne GreeneAs 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.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsPernell RobertsDan BlockerMichael LandonBen 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 execution takes place. They receive help from an unexpected source, a drifter called Lassiter who is searching for the men who committed a lynching in Kansas years ago.
- DirectorJames NeilsonStarsDan BlockerMichael LandonLorne GreeneCharlie 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.
- DirectorJohn RichStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerThe 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 of Ben, and Ben decides to help the Edwards couple by making Tom a business proposition: the Cartwrights will build a grain mill on Edwards' land. In return, Ben only wants his investment money back, plus fifteen percent. Tom and his hired hand Ezekiel are suspicious of Ben, but Tom agrees to the deal. The Cartwright men build the mill, but tension begins to rise when Ezekiel makes comments which rekindle Tom's suspicion.
- DirectorJohn FloreaStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonAfter falling off a wagon, a dying friend asks Ben to make sure his large estate is given to a relative since he didn't have a will. After posting an ad in a newspaper, several people come forward to claim it.
- DirectorJohn RichStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerAbout 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 the drive because he knew it was going to pass near the town of Waycross, and Logan is determined to kill the Waycross sheriff--who is his father.
- DirectorRobert GordonStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerRoss 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.
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan Blocker*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' meek friend J.D. gets pulverized by the Duke in a bar-fight. J.D. is adored by saloon girl Marge, but he has been too shy to return her affections. While the Cartwrights wait to see if Heenan will actually take the bout and come from San Francisco, the Duke pursues Marge and assaults her when she rebuffs him. When the manager comes to Marge's rescue, he too is beaten up by the Duke (who, it turns out, is the manager's brother). Infuriated by all this, Hoss Cartwright himself challenges the Duke, and knocks him out in the fourth round of a bare-knuckle fight refereed by Sheriff Roy Coffee. The Duke and his brother-manager reconcile in the humility of defeat, then learn that the Benicia Boy will accept the proposed bout, but only the Duke comes to San Francisco. The Duke apologizes to all he has offended while in Virginia City and heads west to fight Heenan.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerLittle 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.
- DirectorGerd OswaldStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonA singer returns to Virginia City for Christmas along with his scheming uncle.
- DirectorJesse HibbsStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerWith 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.
- DirectorPaul NickellStarsMichael LandonLorne GreenePernell RobertsAfter 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 madman who is interested in psychological torture, hoping to drive a seemingly rational man like Adam to murder. As Ben, Hoss and Little Joe try to retrace the missing Adam's footsteps, Adam must rely on his own wits to defeat Kane.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerAdam 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.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerThe 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.
- DirectorHollingsworth MorseStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerAdam helps an angry young man to confront the "hanging judge" who sentenced his father to death in a high-stakes miscarriage of justice.
- DirectorDon McDougallStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerHoss harbors kindred spirit Big Jim Layton on the Ponderosa while trying to clear the wounded mountain man's name from charges of theft and murder.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerWhile Ann Wilson and her Uncle Fred are en route to her boyfriend Joe's birthday party, Fred suffers a sudden stroke and is rendered unconscious. A man claiming to be a Good Samaritan stops to help, only to rape and kill Ann. Joe is devastated and vows to track down the killer. While Fred is eventually moved to the Ponderosa to recover (and for his protection against anyone who might want to silence him), Joe undermines Deputy Clem Foster's investigation. Meanwhile, the killer - a munitions expert named William Poole - gets a job on the Ponderosa, since his expertise with a new substance called nitroglycerin can help clear old tree stumps off the ranch. Poole, who is staying with a widowed neighbor named Mrs. Gibson, tries to get at Uncle Fred, but Joe, who has been keeping a bedside vigil, stops him at every turn. Eventually, Joe sees Uncle Fred's hand move and begins questioning him. Fred is only able to scrawl a barely legible message before he goes numb, and suffers a subsequent (and ultimately fatal) stroke. Before Fred dies, Joe manages to figure out the note had something to do with "New Orleans Woman." Joe visits Mrs. Gibson, who produces sheet music to the song. After Joe leaves, Poole returns and Mrs. Gibson eventually realizes that he killed Ann. Poole, knowing he can be identified, kills Mrs. Gibson. Joe later hears an explosion coming from Mrs. Gibson's house and, knowing that Poole had finished his work and was supposed to be on his way, returns to investigate. Upon arrival, he sees Poole carrying Mrs. Gibson's burned corpse into the house, but Joe's suspicions that the explosion was no accident is confirmed when he sees the ripped up sheet music, pieces it back together and fingers Poole as Ann's killer. Poole, who reveals himself as a misogynist, threatens to blow the Ponderosa off the map and throws a vial at Joe, but Joe kills the villain in self-defense.
- DirectorJohn FloreaStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerWhen Claude Miller is fired from his latest job, his girl and Little Joe scheme to help him regain his self respect by buying his worthless land. When he involves his brother Hoss to buy some mining claims too, the prior owners blow it up and discover silver - as big as the Comstock lode! But new riches brings out those wanting to get rich too.
- DirectorArthur H. NadelStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerBen confronts a former friend who has become a local strongman after monopolizing the freight business.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerAn Italian immigrant and his son seek a new life after fleeing violence in their home country.
- DirectorMurray GoldenStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerFamous author Charles Dickens visits the Ponderosa, and finds himself embroiled in controversy.
- DirectorDon McDougallStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerA stagecoach containing Hoss and two nuns is robbed. Later, one of the badly wounded robbers finds himself in their power.
- DirectorLeon BensonStarsMichael LandonDan BlockerLorne GreeneJoe helps a young Mexican boy who has suffered from years of abuse by two sadistic slave owners who now want the lad's gold claim and will do anything to get it.
- DirectorIrving J. MooreStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerBen finds Hoss in the barn waiting for a mare to give birth. Ben can't help but remember that's how Hoss' mother (Inger) was. He then finds an old journal wherein he wrote down their trek West. While Hoss waits, Ben reads it and recalls how their trek was arduous. And Inger was pregnant with Hoss and they had to deal with Indians and a drunken wagon master.
- DirectorBernard McEveetyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerWhen Ben goes missing and presumed dead after being shot by a poacher he was hunting alone, his sons search for the seemingly likely suspects: three innocent ex-convicts who fear being so suspected.
- DirectorTay GarnettStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerAdam and Little Joe try to find a fair trial for a saloon girl accused of theft and murder, hiding her from a corrupt sheriff's lynch mob after she stows away in the back of their supply wagon, all while escorting a self-righteous, hard-nosed judge to Virginia City.
- DirectorLeo PennStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonThe Cartwrights lend their support to The Weary Willies, a group of Civil War veterans who are struggling to re-enter society.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsLorne GreeneMichael LandonDan BlockerA stubborn, career army sergeant appears to be his only hope when Little Joe is arrested after being robbed and knocked unconscious by a look-a-like escaped army prisoner and is unable to convince the fort commander that he isn't the man who has been sentenced to face the firing squad.
- DirectorJames NeilsonStarsMichael LandonLorne GreeneDan BlockerA murder suspect escapes a prison wagon. Sheriff Price Buchanan, who covets an appointment to Deputy U.S. Marshal, finds an injured Hoss. Buchanan, knowing his career is at risk if he fails his appointed duty, arrests Hoss and plans to substitute him in as his prisoner. Hoss befriends a fellow prisoner named Madge Tucker who knows Hoss was falsely arrested. Together, the two scheme to escape the wagon and Buchanan's clutches.
- DirectorDon McDougallStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerHoss finds himself smack dab in the middle of a mountain family feud when he agrees to be the best man at ornery Big Jim Leyton's wedding.
- DirectorJohn FloreaStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerAn Army lieutenant comes to the ranch with a wounded prisoner. When Will gets the town doctor, the prisoner's gang shows up and takes them all prisoner. With the promise of a lot of gold, Will tries to delay their departure in the hopes he can save everyone's life including his relatives, Ben Cartwright and his sons.
- DirectorPhilip LeacockStarsDan BlockerMichael LandonLorne GreeneIt's a case of reverse racism, as a white-hating black outlaw couple kidnap Hoss and scheme to kill him.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerTom Wilson saves Adam from drowning. This begins a friendship he starts to regret when Tom steals a girl from her longtime boyfriend, is found with her father's open strongbox and standing over his dead body.
- DirectorRalph E. BlackStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonAn ordinary day on the Ponderosa turns all but ordinary when three mail-order brides arrive claiming they're engaged to Hoss.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerHoss rides up on Waldo Watson bungling yet another suicide attempt. He invites him home and the Cartwrights are wondering if they regret that as three men are trailing him and they mean to do him harm.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerLittle Joe and his friend Mitch chase a sheep-killing puma into a canyon and Joe climbs a steep slope to get a better look at the terrain. When he slips, dropping his rifle into a rock crevice, Joe is suddenly paralyzed with fear. Mitch calls to him and Joe manages to climb down, but without his rifle. Ashamed, Joe tells no one of his experience and when his attempts to retrieve his rifle fail in panic, Joe's pent-up frustration causes him to behave recklessly. Ben knows something is wrong and confronts his youngest son. Will Joe reveal his secret and let his father give him the help he desperately needs?
- DirectorJohn FloreaStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerAfter Hoss injures traveling circus wrestler, Bearcat Sampson, during an exhibition match, Hoss and 'manager' Little Joe agree that Hoss will take the Bearcat's place in the ring while he recovers; but the circus owner squanders Hoss' winnings and the Cartwrights end up with an unconventional paycheck...Old Sheba, the circus elephant.
- DirectorVincent McEveetyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerArrested for robbing the stagecoach he was riding, Adam can't convince the sheriff that the real bandits were run off by a knight in shining armor who called himself...King Arthur!
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerIntending to confront the card-shark who he believes bushwhacked and robbed him, Little Joe instead decides to get his money back by betting the shady gambler that big brother Hoss will win the Founders' Day flapjack eating contest against champion Big Ed Simpson. But Hoss isn't sure that winning the five hundred dollar first prize is worth suffering through his little brother's training program, especially when it includes meals consisting of only carrots, apples and water...and no beer!
- DirectorDon McDougallStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerWorrying that a hired gun may just cause more trouble for the ranchers, Adam Cartwright votes 'no' when the Cattlemen's Association asks ruthless range detective, Sherman Clegg, to stop a region-wide rustling problem; but when tragedy follows and Clegg is accused of murder, Adam appears to be the only one to take the side of the very man he originally opposed.
- DirectorHerbert L. StrockStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerHoss goes above and beyond to help an eccentric, aging inventor and his overly-protective granddaughter realize their dream of manned flight.
- DirectorGerd OswaldStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerWhile his troupe visits the Ponderosa, lonely, aging aerialist Guido Borelli hides his true feelings for his beautiful, young partner, Petina, but is quick to comfort her after a fistfight with her hot-tempered boyfriend, Carlo, lands Little Joe in jail for attempted murder.
- DirectorTay GarnettStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerSuffering from an infected foot, Hoss finds unexpected relief from Professor Poppy, an itinerant patent-medicine peddler who secretly carries a medical bag. But Hoss soon finds that the professor may really be Doctor P.A. Mundy who is being trailed by a vengeful Englishman claiming that Mundy murdered his wife.
- DirectorVirgil W. VogelStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerA rich tycoon who is known for destroying anything that stands in the way of getting what he wants, vows to have the Ponderosa, no matter what the cost.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerThe Cartwrights re-acquaint themselves (for better or worse) with a noted womanizer known as Lothario Larkin.
- DirectorGerd OswaldStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonWhile hunting cougar, Joe and Hoss find a young woman unconscious and bring her to the Ponderosa. The girl was abandoned in the wilderness by the wagon train she was traveling with because she is clairvoyant and sees bad events before they happen, and they thus think she is a witch. While recuperating, she predicts a future misfortune for Little Joe.
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonLittle Michael Thorpe's father is accidentally shot and gravely injured. Believing that only God can save his father, and told by his Indian ranch hand that God lives on a mountain, Michael wanders off onto that mountain, and finds an old hermit who he thus thinks is God.
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonBen's old friend Joshua Norton is a brilliant inventor who has ideas for a new type of bridge. He is also an eccentric who fancies himself as, and dresses as, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. When Norton encourages Chinese mine workers to stand up for their rights and higher wages, the mine owner petitions to have him committed, and Ben tries to defend him.
- DirectorDon McDougallStarsLorne GreenePernell RobertsDan BlockerThe 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.
- DirectorDonald R. DavesStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonHoss and Little Joe fall victim to a con, involving a gypsy, a beautiful blonde, and a nearsighted gunfighter coming to town.
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonBrothers Hoss and Little Joe are sweet-talked by a pair of con men into "investing" in a pair of "exotic" animals who are indeed prolific--they're common rabbits.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonJoe sets out to avenge the death of his fiancée at the hands of a shy bank clerk who was infatuated with her.
- DirectorGerd OswaldStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonBen visits his old friend Paul Rowan, the sheriff of Concho. His wife Katherine says he has been complaining of headaches for six months now. When he starts shooting innocent people he swore to protect, the whole town has to decide how best to keep from killing their good friend.
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonA group of immigrant winegrowers sets up business on the Ponderosa.
- DirectorR.G. SpringsteenStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonHoss feels guilty about ending a boxer's career and vows never to fight again. However, his promise is put to the test when Joe is badly beaten.
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsDan BlockerMichael LandonLorne GreeneA bigot complicates Ben's efforts to help an immigrant wine-growing family.
- DirectorDonald R. DavesStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonMatt Jeffers is about to lose his land. Back taxes, no water and owes his foreman wages. When his foreman finds water on the land he hatches a scheme to buy the land and stick Little Joe with all the blame.
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonA phony fortuneteller tells Hoss that he's a master violinist.
- DirectorLeon BensonStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonJoe and Hoss are out when they are attacked by Indians, Joe hit with an arrow. With Joe needing medical attention, they come across a small wagon train of misfits, heading East. Their only doctor, dying and wanting to see his grandchildren before he dies, helps Little Joe.
- DirectorLeon BensonStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonThe Cartwrights and Candy come across a town deserted following an Indian attack. The sole survivor is a man locked up in the jail until a woman, claiming to have escaped the attack, turns up.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonBen Cartwright (Lorne Greene) buys a teen-age girl's stallion from her father, Burt Loughlin (Tom Tully), with the intention of letting the girl, Trudy Loughlin (Kim Darby), ride the horse in a high-stakes race, but his plans are upset when the father falls in with Harper (William Bryant), a crooked gambler.
- DirectorDonald R. DavesStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonAn old friend of Ben Cartwright comes to town to liven things up.
- DirectorGerald MayerStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonNot long after bad-tempered Frank Scott is hanged for murdering a young woman in a dark Virginia City alley, witness for the prosecution, Hoss Cartwright, sees a man in a Carson City saloon who looks just like Frank, hears him whistling the same strange tune the killer whistled that fateful night, and begins to fear that his testimony has sent the wrong man to the gallows.
- DirectorDonald R. DavesStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonProfessor MacNultey is the inventor of a "Willy Wonka like" machine, which he sells to Hoss claiming it has the ability to detect gold. However, all it can really detect is the lie behind the 'gold detection' theory.
- DirectorMarc DanielsStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonThe Virginia City bank is robbed and a clerk killed. Cully Maco, just released from prison, is the only suspect. When the posse catches up to him, he claims he didn't know about the latest incident anymore than he knew who sent him away to prison for 5 years. So who did kill and steal $121,000?
- DirectorJohn RichStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonWhen a new employee on the Ponderosa brings his Native American wife, a racist neighbor goes out of his way to stir up trouble against them and the Cartwrights.
- DirectorLeon BensonStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonWith Hoss being the lone hold-out during the murder trial of Johnny Mule, he will only have a short time to gather evidence before a new trial is set. But when Johnny breaks out of jail, things look bad.
- DirectorMarc DanielsStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonLongtime hand 'adopted' into the Cartwright family as a baby decides to return to the Indian tribe to which he was born. Indian haters stir up trouble that puts the new treaty in jeopardy.
- DirectorMichael LandonStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonCandy and Ben are imprisoned in a mine for a month by a man set on revenge. Years before, the man was wrongly incarcerated by the testimony of Ben Cartwright.
- DirectorLeon BensonStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonLittle Joe devises a mission to claim some government land that would impede deforestation by a timber baron. He encounters a cantankerous old lady living on the land and Joe finds she is reluctant to file a claim.
- DirectorLeon BensonStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonWhile visiting a remote town to await the arrival of Ben, Little Joe and Candy, Hoss is wrongly arrested for the murder and robbery of a hermit miner. When a lynch mob starts to gather, cowboy Child Barnett breaks Hoss out of jail. Both are chased by a posse whose interest is not justice, but the retrieval of the money that the miner was thought to have stashed away.
- DirectorLeon BensonStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonOnly a few brave souls remain in Muddy Creek to help Ben and Little Joe defend a town jail and its occupant from the Harper outlaw gang.
- DirectorLeon BensonStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonBen sells a prize bull to an old friend, whose unscrupulous son has taken charge of the ranch from his father. The son double-crosses Ben over the agreed price of the bull, only offering to pay well below the selling price. Upset over the deal, Ben stays in town to seek proper compensation.
- DirectorRobert L. FriendStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonWhile in small town Tin Bucket to sell Ponderosa cowhides, Candy is accused of cheating in a card game and the Cartwrights are dogged by a mysterious rumor that claims they have fallen on hard times and are desperate for money.
- DirectorDon RichardsonStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonBen receives a "package" shipped via Wells Fargo Express. It is a little girl. She is the daughter of a cousin of Ben. The Cartwrights soon find she is a firebrand who doesn't want to stay on the Ponderosa.
- DirectorLeon BensonStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonA white woman, abducted by the Paiutes and thought to be dead, is brought back to Virginia City and reunited with her husband. When it is found she has an Indian baby with a Paiute chief, she is outcast by the towns people and her husband alike. Only the Cartwrights remain her friends.
- DirectorLeon BensonStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonCandy is kidnapped by retired Army Sergeant Mike Russell and his band of fellow former soldiers when he uncovers their plan to blast their way into the Carson City Mint to steal the pension they believe they deserve, but never received, from their long years of Army service.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonBen Cartwright's effort to help friend Ruth Manning defend her ownership of nearby Gunlock's town newspaper, The Clarion, earns him the wrath of a corrupt, powerful judge who wants The Clarion for himself and will do anything to get it.
- DirectorMarc DanielsStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonAfter Eddie returns to town and learns Hoss accidentally shot his father, it's up to Hoss to gain Eddie's forgiveness and make amends, and at the same time foil a blackmail plot.
- DirectorDon RichardsonStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonA young woman named Jenny Winters claims to have witnessed a stagecoach robbery which involves one man being killed. After she identifies the culprits as the Logan gang, Ben allows Jenny to stay in protective custody at the Ponderosa. However, the Cartwrights soon learn Jenny is not a very trustworthy person.
- DirectorJoseph LejtesStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonCandy is accused of a string of serious crimes, including murder, robbery and arson in Stillwater, and when the Cartwrights come to his defense, the sheriff refuses to cooperate. Even worse: A young boy claims he positively saw the Ponderosa foreman commit those crimes. The Cartwrights work with the boy to jog his memory before an innocent Candy is convicted and sentenced to hang.
- DirectorDon RichardsonStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonJoe's friend Wade Turner, a storekeeper who is engaged and has been offered a promotion at work, tries to deal with a devastating brain tumor that leaves him with a paralyzing sensitivity to bright light and will soon render him blind. Turner lets his pride get in the way and decides to put off both his marriage and a surgery that could save his sight, but his attitude could be far more costly when a co-worker tries to rob him in a remote area.
- DirectorMichael LandonStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonCircus midget and new widower George Marshall struggles to deal with the prejudice of Mr. Flint, the town's banker, when he refuses to hire him despite Ben's recommendation.
- DirectorLeon BensonStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonFormer Ponderosa ranch hand Chris Keller seeks refuge at his old workplace after con artists stalk him for his $67,000 fortune. While at the Ponderosa, he meets a beautiful young woman who has plans of her own for the money.
- DirectorDon RichardsonStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonThe daughter of Ben's friend Harry Collier, Jennifer, develops a huge crush for the Cartwright patriarch. Ben notes that Jennifer is the same age as oldest son (and long-since departed Adam), but that doesn't matter. It soon does matter when Jennifer's ex-fiancé, a wealthy banker from San Francisco, shows up demanding to take her back - or else it will be the end of the Ponderosa.
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonA temporary schoolhouse is opened on the Ponderosa, and one of the students is an angry teen-aged boy named Billy Burgess. After a difficult day at school, Billy angrily wishes that his teacher would die. Sure enough, the teacher is found murdered and Billy is fingered as the suspect. Ben, who has been working to counsel the teen and get at the root of his anger, knows the lad is innocent and comes to his aid - even if Billy insists that he killed his teacher.
- DirectorDon RichardsonStarsDan BlockerMichael LandonLorne GreeneEleven years after Lotta Crabtree's last stop in Virginia City caused trouble for a young Joe Cartwright, actress Lotta Crabtree's daughter returns for another engagement in the Nevada town. This time, it's Hoss who finds himself in the thick of a murder case when he is accused of killing daughter Lotta's co-star during a performance.
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonA pair of Easterners have read tall tales about the Wild West and come to Virginia City to live out their dream - be bank robbers in the tradition of their heroes. Hoss somehow becomes involved with their adventures.
- DirectorMichael LandonStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonOld-school Zach Randolph refuses to make amends with his gravely ill daughter, Etta, because her son had been born out of wedlock. Joe risks his family's friendship with the Randolphs to set the stubborn old man straight.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonThe Cartwrights assist Jamie's friend, Cassie O'Casey, and Cassie's mother in dealing with their father and husband, Kevin, who is running a race horse scam. Hoss uses a "fixed" horse race of his own to outwit Kevin.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonCivil War veteran Will Hewitt returns to Virginia City, blinded and determined to solve the mystery behind the death of his brother.
- DirectorJoseph PevneyStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonIn the third and final episode featuring the Calhouns, Luke is bankrupted after a stock investment gone bad, so he and his daughter Meena move to the Ponderosa until he can get back on his feet. Without Ben's permission, Luke turns the Ponderosa into a casino, with gambling all over the place.
- DirectorLeo PennStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonBen begins the process to legally adopt Jamie as his son, but the process is complicated when Jamie's maternal grandfather, Ferris Callahan, comes forward wanting custody. Ben must bear the heartbreaking news to Callahan that Jamie has bonded with the Cartwright family.
- DirectorArthur H. NadelStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonJoe is caught in the middle of a bitter dispute between an aging Native American chief and the man who stole the Indian's warbonnet years ago as a saloon decoration.
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsDan BlockerMichael LandonLorne GreeneCactus Murphy, an embittered ranch whom Ben fired, suggests that the Cartwright patriarch is getting a little old to "put in a real week's work." Ben's response: Take a job under the assumed name Ben Brown and show Murphy that he is still more than capable of sweating out the job of a rancher.
- DirectorJoseph PevneyStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonIn a satirical look at unusual, silly laws and customs, Joe and Hoss try to explain to their skeptical father why their delivery run to Agua Santos, Mexico took so long. An unimpressed Ben listens as his sons explain their story, which all started when Joe took his hat off in church and was exasperated when Hoss ran into trouble trying to bail his younger brother out of jail.
- DirectorLeo PennStarsLorne GreeneDan BlockerMichael LandonA band of rogue ex-Confederate soldiers comes to the Ponderosa to demand a $25,000 ransom. Hoss tries to disrupt the robbery and is critically wounded by the group's leader, Shanklin. While Jamie escapes and tries to search Virginia City's saloons for Joe, Ben learns that Shanklin is an outstanding surgeon and demands that since he wounded him, he can perform the surgery to save Hoss' life.
- DirectorLeo PennStarsDan BlockerMichael LandonLorne GreeneThe Cartwrights attempt to reconstruct a 24-hour period of Ben's life after he fears he may have been the unknown gunman who shot down Sid Langley, a corrupt real estate broker who has become hated in Virginia City. The reason? Ben had suffered a concussion from an unknown source just before his meeting with Langley and happened to be his last appointment before a critically wounded Langley was found. Oh, and Ben strongly disapproved of Langley's unethical business practices.