Bonanza
"America's Favorite TV Western"
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
Season 5 Episodes
E1
Hoss wants to marry mysterious Regan Miller, a woman with less than a pristine past. When he thinks Adam is trying to s…
E2
Renowned English novelist Charles Dickens comes to Virginia City. In short order, he is accused of a crime he didn't com…
E3
A destitute rainmaker and his family arrive in drought-stricken Virginia City. While Ben tries to help him make rain, H…
E4
Joe is bushwhacked in the desert and awakens to find himself in Martinville, a town that may or may not be populated by …
E5
Adam encounters drunken artist James Callan, branded a "squaw man" because he is married to an Indian, and whose talent …
E6
Hoss and a pair of nuns, the younger one having a difficult time training for the order, are robbed and stranded at a wa…
E7
Joe has a run-in with Calamity Jane, and takes her home with him after promising her dying father to take care of her. …
E8
Ben finds an old journal that he kept while in a wagon train travelling from St. Joseph, Missouri to Ash Hollow. As he …
E9
Joe struggles to understand whether his friend was right in killing a dying man who pleaded to put out of his misery.
E10
Adam becomes involved with the recently widowed Laura Dayton and her little girl, Peggy.
E11
Adam, Hoss and Joe mistakenly believe their father was murdered. They split into 3 different directions to confront the…
E12
In what is arguably the best comedy of the series, Hoss swears he has seen green elves running around the Ponderosa and …
E13
Ben becomes irritable and reckless when the completion of an important timber contract is hindered by an old rival.
E14
Joe and Adam protect a saloon girl, who has killed in self-defense, from an angry lynch mob. The accompanying Judge, al…
E15
Adam, Hoss, and Joe vie for the attention of a pretty young lady named Dolores. Hoss talks Joe into entering a bull fig…
E16
Ben's plans to marry Katherine Saunders are upset when her son Eden is accused of killing his former girlfriend.
E17
A man who looks similar to Joe uses Joe's name and gets Joe in the position of facing the firing squad.
E18
The new stranger in town claims to be the famous pirate Jean Lafitte, and Hoss believes him.
E19
In this sequel to "The Waiting Game", Laura resents Adam's advice on how she ought to be running her ranch. A newcomer,…
E20
While out hunting for a mountain lion, Joe accidently shots Tessa Caldwell causing her to go blind. As a result of his …
E21
When mountain man Jim Leyton decides to marry, he chooses Hoss as his best man. Julie's father, Grizzly, does not agree…
E22
While talking with an Indian, Ben is given an unexpected present...a woman. She is a young white woman named Joan who h…
E23
Hoss is suffering from spring fever, goes to the wrong town and is accused of bank robbery.
E24
The town council feels Roy Coffee can no longer do his job, and with the notorious Wagner gang on their way to rob the b…
E25
Ben must travel to pay his respects after he learns of the death of his nephew Will. When he visits the grave, he finds …
E26
The Cartwrights are visited by their second cousin, Muley Jones of Weedville, Missouri who sings with a window-shatterin…
E27
Will is having second thoughts about staying on at the Ponderosa, and outlaws hit the ranch and take him with them. The…
E28
A headstrong Chinese girl (Marlo Thomas) visiting the Cartwrights incites labor unrest among local workers.
E29
Mateo Ibara and his wife Carla visit the Ponderosa. Ibara asks Will to return to Mexico with him. Ibara and Will fought…
E30
After a triumphant tour in Europe, a famous Negro singer encounters racial prejudice in Virginia City when he arrives fo…
E31
Moody bounty hunter, Dev Farnum, shows up on the Ponderosa, where the Cartwrights are harboring the wife of the man he i…
E32
Laura Dayton's Aunt Lil comes to visit and quickly decides it's time she help the hesitant Adam propose to her favorite …
E33
Adam and Laura are finally engaged. Adam is secretly building a house and planning for the future. Laura realizes that …
E34
Hilarious sequel to "Any Friend Of Walter's" in which Obie leaves Walter in Hoss' care. The three outlaws, Macy, Teague…
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