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.

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Season 5 Episodes

S5E1
E1
She Walks in Beauty
49 min 1963

Hoss wants to marry mysterious Regan Miller, a woman with less than a pristine past. When he thinks Adam is trying to s…

S5E2
E2
A Passion for Justice
49 min 1963

Renowned English novelist Charles Dickens comes to Virginia City. In short order, he is accused of a crime he didn't com…

S5E3
E3
Rain from Heaven
49 min 1963

A destitute rainmaker and his family arrive in drought-stricken Virginia City. While Ben tries to help him make rain, H…

S5E4
E4
Twilight Town
49 min 1963

Joe is bushwhacked in the desert and awakens to find himself in Martinville, a town that may or may not be populated by …

S5E5
E5
The Toy Soldier
49 min 1963

Adam encounters drunken artist James Callan, branded a "squaw man" because he is married to an Indian, and whose talent …

S5E6
E6
A Question of Strength
49 min 1963

Hoss and a pair of nuns, the younger one having a difficult time training for the order, are robbed and stranded at a wa…

S5E7
E7
Calamity over the Comstock
49 min 1963

Joe has a run-in with Calamity Jane, and takes her home with him after promising her dying father to take care of her. …

S5E8
E8
Journey Remembered
49 min 1963

Ben finds an old journal that he kept while in a wagon train travelling from St. Joseph, Missouri to Ash Hollow. As he …

S5E9
E9
The Quality of Mercy
49 min 1963

Joe struggles to understand whether his friend was right in killing a dying man who pleaded to put out of his misery.

S5E10
E10
The Waiting Game
49 min 1963

Adam becomes involved with the recently widowed Laura Dayton and her little girl, Peggy.

S5E11
E11
The Legacy
49 min 1963

Adam, Hoss and Joe mistakenly believe their father was murdered. They split into 3 different directions to confront the…

S5E12
E12
Hoss and the Leprechauns
49 min 1963

In what is arguably the best comedy of the series, Hoss swears he has seen green elves running around the Ponderosa and …

S5E13
E13
The Prime of Life
49 min 1963

Ben becomes irritable and reckless when the completion of an important timber contract is hindered by an old rival.

S5E14
E14
The Lila Conrad Story
49 min 1964

Joe and Adam protect a saloon girl, who has killed in self-defense, from an angry lynch mob. The accompanying Judge, al…

S5E15
E15
Ponderosa Matador
49 min 1964

Adam, Hoss, and Joe vie for the attention of a pretty young lady named Dolores. Hoss talks Joe into entering a bull fig…

S5E16
E16
My Son, My Son
49 min 1964

Ben's plans to marry Katherine Saunders are upset when her son Eden is accused of killing his former girlfriend.

S5E17
E17
Alias Joe Cartwright
49 min 1964

A man who looks similar to Joe uses Joe's name and gets Joe in the position of facing the firing squad.

S5E18
E18
The Gentleman from New Orleans
49 min 1964

The new stranger in town claims to be the famous pirate Jean Lafitte, and Hoss believes him.

S5E19
E19
The Cheating Game
49 min 1964

In this sequel to "The Waiting Game", Laura resents Adam's advice on how she ought to be running her ranch. A newcomer,…

S5E20
E20
Bullet for a Bride
49 min 1964

While out hunting for a mountain lion, Joe accidently shots Tessa Caldwell causing her to go blind. As a result of his …

S5E21
E21
King of the Mountain
49 min 1964

When mountain man Jim Leyton decides to marry, he chooses Hoss as his best man. Julie's father, Grizzly, does not agree…

S5E22
E22
Love Me Not
49 min 1964

While talking with an Indian, Ben is given an unexpected present...a woman. She is a young white woman named Joan who h…

S5E23
E23
The Pure Truth
49 min 1964

Hoss is suffering from spring fever, goes to the wrong town and is accused of bank robbery.

S5E24
E24
No Less a Man
49 min 1964

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…

S5E25
E25
Return to Honor
49 min 1964

Ben must travel to pay his respects after he learns of the death of his nephew Will. When he visits the grave, he finds …

S5E26
E26
The Saga of Muley Jones
49 min 1964

The Cartwrights are visited by their second cousin, Muley Jones of Weedville, Missouri who sings with a window-shatterin…

S5E27
E27
The Roper
49 min 1964

Will is having second thoughts about staying on at the Ponderosa, and outlaws hit the ranch and take him with them. The…

S5E28
E28
A Pink Cloud Comes from Old Cathay
49 min 1964

A headstrong Chinese girl (Marlo Thomas) visiting the Cartwrights incites labor unrest among local workers.

S5E29
E29
The Companeros
49 min 1964

Mateo Ibara and his wife Carla visit the Ponderosa. Ibara asks Will to return to Mexico with him. Ibara and Will fought…

S5E30
E30
Enter Thomas Bowers
49 min 1964

After a triumphant tour in Europe, a famous Negro singer encounters racial prejudice in Virginia City when he arrives fo…

S5E31
E31
The Dark Past
49 min 1964

Moody bounty hunter, Dev Farnum, shows up on the Ponderosa, where the Cartwrights are harboring the wife of the man he i…

S5E32
E32
The Pressure Game
49 min 1964

Laura Dayton's Aunt Lil comes to visit and quickly decides it's time she help the hesitant Adam propose to her favorite …

S5E33
E33
Triangle
49 min 1964

Adam and Laura are finally engaged. Adam is secretly building a house and planning for the future. Laura realizes that …

S5E34
E34
Walter and the Outlaws
49 min 1964

Hilarious sequel to "Any Friend Of Walter's" in which Obie leaves Walter in Hoss' care. The three outlaws, Macy, Teague…

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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