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 8 Episodes
E1
The Cartwrights' friendship with a neighboring rancher is threatened by his mentally unstable daughter.
E2
So the Cartwrights will not be killed, one of Ben's oldest friends must make sure Joe does not win a horse race.
E3
After the Cartwrights put wrangler Dan Tolliver out to pasture, the embittered old man plans to take part in robbing the…
E4
A Mormon with two wives is badgered by the town's people and then things get much worse.
E5
As the persecuted party awaits Ben and Hoss' return, Herber is shot and killed. Joe retaliates and shoots Herber's assas…
E6
Hoss is engaged to Carol Attley, a troubled woman with a past darker than he imagines.
E7
Though his friend is badly in need of the reward money, Joe insists it belongs to him, to protect his friend from the de…
E8
The Cartwrights come to the rescue of four inexperienced homesteaders, when devious cattle ranchers try to run them off …
E9
A young cowpoke is killed during a fight with Hoss, but the old blowhard who runs the Virginia City stables, takes the c…
E10
A young troubadour, who blames Ben for the death of his father, returns to Virginia City. In one scene, Ben says the yo…
E11
While in another town, on business, Ben runs into a saloon employee who is a big figure, and after he kills an old miner…
E12
When the woman he was planning to marry is strangled, Joe forces the only suspect to come forward, in a very tense-fille…
E13
Joe plays matchmaker in this story of a rancher attempting to marry off his supposedly unremarkable daughter.
E14
The Cartwrights protect a woman and her deaf-mute little son from the boy's outlaw stepfather.
E15
Warbling Andy Walker returns to Virginia City a big success, along with his shifty Uncle Thaddeus.
E16
Two Virginia City old-timers fool Hoss and Joe into raising rabbits, and the Ponderosa is overrun with paws and whiskers…
E17
When the woman he was planning to marry is strangled, Joe forces the only suspect to come forward.
E18
Dolly Bantree has a crooked manager ""Blackie"", who blackmails Dolly to fleece newly rich miner Buford out of his newf…
E19
In the town of Chiso, Joe encounters a former Ponderosa cowhand who is now a gunfighter and expecting to be killed on Fr…
E20
Ben discovers that his friend, Sheriff Paul Rowan, is suffering from stress brought on by his wartime experiences.
E21
Joe visits his married friends in Arizona Territory, only to discover the husband has become a criminal and is secretly …
E22
A wounded comanchero sides with the Cartwrights when the rest of the gang, led by Captain Fenner, shows up to burn and r…
E23
Mary Wharton, an old friend of the family, comes to live on the Ponderosa with her shiftless husband. When Ben learns M…
E24
Hoss and Joe have their doubts as to who really robbed a way station, suspecting the two men they captured are innocent.
E25
Joe becomes fascinated by detective literature and drags Hoss into the picture when he suspects the bank is going to be …
E26
Young Billy Wilcox wanders onto the Ponderosa, sick, hungry, and alone. Ben finds him, and after he regains his strengt…
E27
Ben assists Georgio Rossi in his battle for water on adjoining property.
E28
The Cartwrights play host to Russian royals, who are the target of jewel thieves.
E29
The foreman of a neighboring ranch frames Joe for murder as part of a scheme to get his employer's property.
E30
A gang of juvenile delinquents, led by an intelligent runt, who calls himself Napoleon, terrorizes Virginia City and the…
E31
A woman - convinced Little Joe intentionally killed her brother - offers $1,000 to the man who kills the youngest Cartwr…
E32
The Cartwrights' cousin, Clarissa visits. Her assertive, snobbish ways result in nothing but trouble for Ben and his son…
E33
Hoss is conned into buying a violin from a gypsy fortune teller, and everyone on the Ponderosa--except for Hop Sing--suf…
E34
The Ponderosa is in danger of being overrun by gold hunters.
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