Bonanza
Cast & Crew
Upcoming TV Airings
The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.
Monday, May 6
The Saga of Muley Jones
Season 5 • Episode 26
An itinerant singer who comes to Virginia City turns out to be a lost cousin of the Cartwrights.
Monday, May 6
Cassie
Season 13 • Episode 6
After purchasing an Arabian stallion Hoss is challenged to a race by the animal's previous owner.
Monday, May 6
Bitter Water
Season 1 • Episode 29
A miner persuades a prospective son-in-law to sell him land that supplies water to the Ponderosa.
Monday, May 6
Feet of Clay
Season 1 • Episode 30
The Cartwrights take in a motherless boy whose father is in prison for murder; guest David Ladd.
Monday, May 6
Dark Star
Season 1 • Episode 31
Little Joe falls for a Gypsy who believes she is a witch and, therefore, an outcast.
Monday, May 6
Death at Dawn
Season 1 • Episode 32
The deputized Cartwrights sentence a murderer to hang at dawn.
Monday, May 6
Showdown
Season 2 • Episode 1
A bank robber takes a job with the Cartwrights to hide his accomplices on the Ponderosa.
Monday, May 6
The Mission
Season 2 • Episode 2
Hoss befriends a former Army scout (Henry Hull) who drinks to forget the massacre of his troop.
Tuesday, May 7
Badge Without Honor
Season 2 • Episode 3
A Deputy U.S. Marshal arrives to accompany a Cartwright friend back to a California court.
Tuesday, May 7
The Mill
Season 2 • Episode 4
A hired hand (Claude Akins) victimizes the Cartwrights' disabled neighbor (Harry Townes).
Tuesday, May 7
The Hopefuls
Season 2 • Episode 5
Outlaws plot to steal a trunk containing the savings of a religious group.
Tuesday, May 7
Denver McKee
Season 2 • Episode 6
The Cartwrights help a former decorated Army scout find security for his daughter.
Tuesday, May 7
The Roper
Season 5 • Episode 27
Will prevents an ambush of the Cartwrights by heading off outlaws.
Tuesday, May 7
Don't Cry My Son
Season 13 • Episode 7
Guilt-ridden Dr. Sloan (Richard Mulligan) kidnaps a child after the death of his own son.
Wednesday, May 8
A Pink Cloud Comes From Old Cathay
Season 5 • Episode 28
Hoss gets more fireworks than he can handle when he gets a mail-order bride by accident.
Wednesday, May 8
Face of Fear
Season 13 • Episode 8
A murderer assumes his victim's identity in a plot to claim the man's inheritance.
Thursday, May 9
The Companeros
Season 5 • Episode 29
Will, Ben's nephew, upsets a plot to overthrow the president of Mexico.
Thursday, May 9
Blind/Hunch
Season 13 • Episode 9
Jamie becomes the eyes for a blind man (Rip Torn) seeking his brother's killer.
Friday, May 10
Enter Thomas Bowers
Season 5 • Episode 30
Suspicion and prejudice plague a world-famous black singer when he comes to Virginia City.
Friday, May 10
The Iron Butterfly
Season 13 • Episode 10
Hoss confesses to a murder committed by a celebrity (Mariette Hartley) he is protecting.
Saturday, May 11
The Rattlesnake Brigade
Season 13 • Episode 11
A gang of convicts that escaped from prison take Jamie and three others hostage.
Saturday, May 11
Six Black Horses
Season 9 • Episode 11
Ben's old friend (Burgess Meredith) admits to a scheme to invest funds from political graft.
Monday, May 13
Easy Come, Easy Go
Season 13 • Episode 12
The Cartwrights seek permission to cross a piece of land for their timber operation.
Monday, May 13
Day of Reckoning
Season 2 • Episode 7
Hoss' bandit uncle (Neville Brand) decides to bypass the Ponderosa, but his gang disagrees.
Monday, May 13
The Abduction
Season 2 • Episode 8
Little Joe and Hoss seek Joe's date, who disappeared while the trio was at a carnival.
Monday, May 13
Breed of Violence
Season 2 • Episode 9
Bank robbers hide on a ranch that Hoss and Little Joe are visiting.
Monday, May 13
The Last Viking
Season 2 • Episode 10
For saving his life, Ben offers some Ponderosa farmland to an American Indian.
Monday, May 13
The Trail Gang
Season 2 • Episode 11
An outlaw joins the cattle drive, knowing it will take him to the town where his father is sheriff.
Monday, May 13
The Savage
Season 2 • Episode 12
When Adam passes through a sacred Indian burial ground, Shoshone braves attack him in revenge.
Tuesday, May 14
Silent Thunder
Season 2 • Episode 13
Little Joe's efforts to help a deaf-mute girl backfire when she falls in love with him.
Tuesday, May 14
The Ape
Season 2 • Episode 14
Adam and Little Joe try to warn Hoss when he befriends a violent man (Cal Bolder).
Tuesday, May 14
The Blood Line
Season 2 • Episode 15
An Easterner looking for his father learns a Cartwright killed him in self-defense.
Tuesday, May 14
The Courtship
Season 2 • Episode 16
Adam tells betrothed Hoss his intended is a compulsive gambler who caused her husband's death.
Tuesday, May 14
A Home for Jamie
Season 13 • Episode 13
Jamie's grandfather arrives to take him back East, but the boy runs away; guest Robert Carradine.
Wednesday, May 15
Warbonnet
Season 13 • Episode 14
Red Cloud may meet his death trying to retrieve an Indian headdress from Frank Ryan's saloon.
Thursday, May 16
Lonely Man
Season 13 • Episode 15
Hop Sing goes on vacation and falls in love with a woman while panning for gold.
Friday, May 17
Second Sight
Season 13 • Episode 16
When Jamie becomes lost, Hoss calls on Judith Corman's special powers.
Saturday, May 18
Saddle Stiff
Season 13 • Episode 17
Ben fires a hired hand for improperly saddling a horse but learns he might have assumed too quickly.
Saturday, May 18
The Gold Detector
Season 9 • Episode 14
Hoss is a laughingstock when he helps hunt for gold with a mechanical contraption.
Monday, May 20
Frenzy
Season 13 • Episode 18
Ben's friend fears for her life when her hot-tempered immigrant husband barricades their home.
Monday, May 20
The Spitfire
Season 2 • Episode 17
A Kentucky mountain clan swears revenge on Little Joe after he shoots a family member for arson.
Monday, May 20
The Gunmen
Season 1 • Episode 19
Little Joe and Hoss, mistaken for gunmen, get caught between feuding families.
Monday, May 20
The Fear Merchants
Season 1 • Episode 20
A mayoral candidate hires two hoodlums to harass Chinese residents, resulting in murder.
Monday, May 20
Spanish Grant
Season 1 • Episode 21
Ex-dancehall girl poses as Spanish aristocrat to obtain large piece of property.
Monday, May 20
Blood on the Land
Season 1 • Episode 22
Disreputable shepherd moves herd across Ponderosa, destroying rich pasture land.
Monday, May 20
Desert Justice
Season 1 • Episode 23
A Ponderosa ranch hand faces charges of killing the wife of the U.S. marshal who came to arrest him.
Tuesday, May 21
The Stranger
Season 1 • Episode 24
A disabled New Orleans police inspector comes to arrest Ben on a 20-year-old murder charge.
Tuesday, May 21
Escape to the Ponderosa
Season 1 • Episode 25
The Cartwrights help search for three Army prisoners who stole Adam's gun and hid on the Ponderosa.
Tuesday, May 21
The Avenger
Season 1 • Episode 26
Adam and Ben are accused of murdering a cattle buyer on the testimony of the victim's daughter.
Tuesday, May 21
The Last Trophy
Season 1 • Episode 27
A Britisher (Edward Ashley), once a great game hunter, visits the Ponderosa and displays cowardice.
Tuesday, May 21
Customs of the Country
Season 13 • Episode 19
After landing in a Mexican bordertown jail, Joe and Hoss throw a party and try to escape.