Bonanza
Western • Series

Bonanza

"America's Favorite TV Western"

7.5/10 1959 14 Seasons 431 Episodes Ended

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.

Season: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Season 10 Episodes

S10E1
E1
Different Pines, Same Wind
49 min 1968

The 10th season opens as Joe helps a widowed mountain woman, a recluse who is suffering from an infection that has becom…

S10E2
E2
Child
49 min 1968

While Hoss is in a remote town on business, he is arrested for murder and robbery. The town's richest man has just been…

S10E3
E3
Salute to Yesterday
49 min 1968

When on a cattle drive on Ponderosa land, the Cartwrights and Candy find a dying cavalry officer on the trail. With his…

S10E4
E4
The Real People of Muddy Creek
49 min 1968

Ben is in charge of a vicious prisoner and gets virtually no help from the cowardly citizens of the town where he is hol…

S10E5
E5
The Passing of a King
49 min 1968

The son of a rancher to whom the Cartwrights are selling a prize bull is trying to get his father ruled mentally incompe…

S10E6
E6
The Last Vote
49 min 1968

Hoss and Joe's bickering leads them into taking opposite sides in the Virginia City mayoral race. Their zealous actions…

S10E7
E7
Catch as Catch Can
49 min 1968

The residents of Tin Bucket claim the Cartwrights and Candy are dealing in stolen cattle hides. With most of the town ac…

S10E8
E8
Little Girl Lost
49 min 1968

A bratty 10-year-old girl named Samantha, whose mother is Ben's cousin and is a third cousin of Hoss and Little Joe, com…

S10E9
E9
The Survivors
49 min 1968

A white woman abducted years before by the Paiutes is reunited with her husband, who is less than pleased to learn she h…

S10E10
E10
The Sound of Drums
49 min 1968

In the third and final installment of the Rossi family, Georgio Rossi doesn't understand why he cannot allow Indians who…

S10E11
E11
Queen High
49 min 1968

Joe and Candy win a stamping mill in a poker game, but the fact of them not knowing how to run it, is the least of their…

S10E12
E12
Yonder Man
49 min 1968

An army scout Ben once knew comes to the Ponderosa and asks Ben to stake a cattle ranch in Mira Flores, Mexico.

S10E13
E13
Mark of Guilt
49 min 1968

Hop Sing tells Hoss and Candy they can use the ancient Chinese art of fingerprinting to prove Joe is innocent of murder.

S10E14
E14
A World Full of Cannibals
49 min 1968

Ben agrees to hide a government witness in a land fraud case at the Ponderosa as part of the witness protection program.…

S10E15
E15
Sweet Annie Laurie
49 min 1969

Hoss offers to help Annie Laurie, a beautiful young woman who is running away from her abusive husband, a career crimina…

S10E16
E16
My Friend, My Enemy
49 min 1969

Only the testimony of an Indian wanted for horse theft can clear Candy of murder.

S10E17
E17
Mrs. Wharton and the Lesser Breeds
49 min 1969

Candy sets out to help a feisty and elderly British woman recover the jewels stolen from her in a stage holdup.

S10E18
E18
Erin
49 min 1969

A neighbor of the Cartwrights threatens Hoss' fiancé, Erin - a beautiful young woman who has been raised by Indians sinc…

S10E19
E19
Company of Forgotten Men
49 min 1969

A retired Army sergeant, bitter that he never received his pension from the government, kidnaps one-time friend Candy an…

S10E20
E20
The Clarion
49 min 1969

Ben's friend is struggling to keep her newspaper going in the face of harrassment by the town boss of Gunlock, so withou…

S10E21
E21
The Lady and the Mountain Lion
49 min 1969

A shady magician, with his twin daughters, comes to Virginia City and there is a lot of confusion with the daughters of …

S10E22
E22
Five Candles
49 min 1969

The floor of the Virginia City courthouse collapses, trapping Ben in the basement with three other people, one of whom m…

S10E23
E23
The Wish
49 min 1969

Hoss spends his two-month vacation helping a black family get their farm in shape, and dealing with racism in the neighb…

S10E24
E24
The Deserter
49 min 1969

Candy comes upon a soldier who is running from charges of desertion, and with Joe's help they foil a plan to sell rapid-…

S10E25
E25
Emily
49 min 1969

Joe is shocked to see his ex-fiancee, Emily Anderson, in Virginia City. He had met her in Monterey five years earlier, …

S10E26
E26
The Running Man
49 min 1969

Joe and Candy travel to Butlerville and learn that one of Ben's closest friends is burning out new settlers, whom he reg…

S10E27
E27
The Unwanted
49 min 1969

Feeling unloved, a Marshal's daughter runs off with a Ponderosa hand her father thinks may be related to the man that sh…

S10E28
E28
Speak No Evil
49 min 1969

Coley Clayborn, who has always thought his mother abandoned him and his father, thinks she is only after the gold mine h…

S10E29
E29
The Fence
49 min 1969

While Ben and Hoss visit an old friend to negotiate the purchase of a mine, former Confederate soldiers arrive wanting t…

S10E30
E30
A Ride in the Sun
49 min 1969

A pair of con artists swindle Ben out of nearly $30,000 after convincing the Cartwright patriarch to enter into a deal t…

Cast

Lorne Greene
Lorne Greene
Ben Cartwright
Michael Landon
Michael Landon
Joe Cartwright
David Canary
David Canary
Candy Canaday
Tim Matheson
Tim Matheson
Griff King
Mitch Vogel
Mitch Vogel
Jamie Hunter Cartwright

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