Bonanza

Saturday, January 18

The Flapjack Contest

Season 6 • Episode 15

Little Joe plans rigorous training for Hoss to make sure he wins eating contest.

Sunday, January 19

All Ye His Saints

Season 7 • Episode 14

A boy (Clint Howard), seeking help for his wounded father, thinks a murderer (Leif Erickson) is God.

Monday, January 20

The Fighters

Season 7 • Episode 30

Hoss accepts a promoter's challenge to box an aging fighter (Michael Conrad) for $200.

Monday, January 20

Badge Without Honor

Season 2 • Episode 3

A Deputy U.S. Marshal arrives to accompany a Cartwright friend back to a California court.

Monday, January 20

The Mill

Season 2 • Episode 4

A hired hand (Claude Akins) victimizes the Cartwrights' disabled neighbor (Harry Townes).

Monday, January 20

The Far, Far Better Thing

Season 6 • Episode 16

Little Joe and Tuck compete for the affections of beautiful Lucinda Melviney.

Monday, January 20

The Hopefuls

Season 2 • Episode 5

Outlaws plot to steal a trunk containing the savings of a religious group.

Monday, January 20

Denver McKee

Season 2 • Episode 6

The Cartwrights help a former decorated Army scout find security for his daughter.

Monday, January 20

Day of Reckoning

Season 2 • Episode 7

Hoss' bandit uncle (Neville Brand) decides to bypass the Ponderosa, but his gang disagrees.

Monday, January 20

The Abduction

Season 2 • Episode 8

Little Joe and Hoss seek Joe's date, who disappeared while the trio was at a carnival.

Monday, January 20

Breed of Violence

Season 2 • Episode 9

Bank robbers hide on a ranch that Hoss and Little Joe are visiting.

Monday, January 20

The Last Viking

Season 2 • Episode 10

For saving his life, Ben offers some Ponderosa farmland to an American Indian.

Monday, January 20

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.

Tuesday, January 21

The Savage

Season 2 • Episode 12

When Adam passes through a sacred Indian burial ground, Shoshone braves attack him in revenge.

Tuesday, January 21

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, January 21

The Ape

Season 2 • Episode 14

Adam and Little Joe try to warn Hoss when he befriends a violent man (Cal Bolder).

Tuesday, January 21

The Blood Line

Season 2 • Episode 15

An Easterner looking for his father learns a Cartwright killed him in self-defense.

Tuesday, January 21

The Courtship

Season 2 • Episode 16

Adam tells betrothed Hoss his intended is a compulsive gambler who caused her husband's death.

Tuesday, January 21

Home From the Sea

Season 7 • Episode 31

A man claiming to be Adam's shipmate arrives at the ranch as part of a plan to rob the Cartwights.

Tuesday, January 21

Gabrielle

Season 3 • Episode 14

The Cartwrights reluctantly agree to help a blind, orphaned girl find her grandfather.

Tuesday, January 21

Woman of Fire

Season 6 • Episode 17

Adam sets out to rebuild a Mexican woman's personality when she comes to visit the Ponderosa.

Wednesday, January 22

The Last Mission

Season 7 • Episode 32

Ben becomes a pawn in an army colonel's plot to destroy an Indian tribe that massacred his family.

Wednesday, January 22

Land Grab

Season 3 • Episode 15

A range war looms when settlers with phony deeds move onto the Ponderosa; guest John McGiver.

Wednesday, January 22

Ballerina

Season 6 • Episode 18

A rowdy saloon dancer scorns the idea that she may have the talent of a classic ballet artist.

Thursday, January 23

A Dollar's Worth of Trouble

Season 7 • Episode 33

A clairvoyant predicts a beautiful girl (Sally Kellerman) will fall for Hoss.

Thursday, January 23

The Tall Stranger

Season 3 • Episode 16

Hoss loses the woman he loves to a swindler who is only interested in her father's money.

Thursday, January 23

The Flannel-Mouth Gun

Season 6 • Episode 19

A hired killer who shoots first and asks questions later comes to Virginia City.

Friday, January 24

Something Hurt, Something Wild

Season 8 • Episode 1

A young woman falsely accuses Joe of assault, ending the Cartwrights' friendship with her family.

Friday, January 24

Lady From Baltimore

Season 3 • Episode 17

A scheming woman plots to have her daughter marry Little Joe.

Friday, January 24

Ponderosa Birdmen

Season 6 • Episode 20

Hoss helps an old inventor and his granddaughter when they're laughed out of town.

Saturday, January 25

The Search

Season 6 • Episode 21

Adam searches for a look-alike former convict who is ruining his reputation; guest Lola Albright.

Monday, January 27

Horse of a Different Hue

Season 8 • Episode 2

An impoverished Southerner inadvertently sets the Cartwrights up as victims of a crooked horse race.

Monday, January 27

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Monday, January 27

The Spitfire

Season 2 • Episode 17

A Kentucky mountain clan swears revenge on Little Joe after he shoots a family member for arson.

Monday, January 27

The Gunmen

Season 1 • Episode 19

Little Joe and Hoss, mistaken for gunmen, get caught between feuding families.

Monday, January 27

The Deadliest Game

Season 6 • Episode 22

Borello, an aging trapeze artist, brings a circus -- and death -- to the Ponderosa.

Monday, January 27

The Fear Merchants

Season 1 • Episode 20

A mayoral candidate hires two hoodlums to harass Chinese residents, resulting in murder.

Monday, January 27

Spanish Grant

Season 1 • Episode 21

Ex-dancehall girl poses as Spanish aristocrat to obtain large piece of property.

Monday, January 27

Blood on the Land

Season 1 • Episode 22

Disreputable shepherd moves herd across Ponderosa, destroying rich pasture land.

Monday, January 27

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.

Monday, January 27

The Stranger

Season 1 • Episode 24

A disabled New Orleans police inspector comes to arrest Ben on a 20-year-old murder charge.

Monday, January 27

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.

Monday, January 27

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, January 28

The Last Trophy

Season 1 • Episode 27

A Britisher (Edward Ashley), once a great game hunter, visits the Ponderosa and displays cowardice.

Tuesday, January 28

San Francisco

Season 1 • Episode 28

Two traildrivers are shanghaied shortly after the Ponderosa cattle herd arrives in San Francisco.

Tuesday, January 28

Bitter Water

Season 1 • Episode 29

A miner persuades a prospective son-in-law to sell him land that supplies water to the Ponderosa.

Tuesday, January 28

Feet of Clay

Season 1 • Episode 30

The Cartwrights take in a motherless boy whose father is in prison for murder; guest David Ladd.

Tuesday, January 28

Dark Star

Season 1 • Episode 31

Little Joe falls for a Gypsy who believes she is a witch and, therefore, an outcast.

Tuesday, January 28

To Bloom for Thee

Season 8 • Episode 6

Hoss falls in love with a pretty stranger despite words of caution from Ben and Little Joe.

Tuesday, January 28

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Tuesday, January 28

Once a Doctor

Season 6 • Episode 23

An English surgeon flees to the American West pursued by a dead patient's husband.

Wednesday, January 29

Ballad of the Ponderosa

Season 8 • Episode 10

A young minstrel's (Randy Boone) ballad claims his father was sent to jail because Ben lied.

Wednesday, January 29

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Wednesday, January 29

Right Is the Fourth R

Season 6 • Episode 24

Adam's life is threatened when he substitutes for the local schoolteacher.

Thursday, January 30

The Bridegroom

Season 8 • Episode 13

Little Joe helps bolster a plain girl's (Joanne Linville) self-esteem to catch a widower's eye.

Thursday, January 30

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Thursday, January 30

Hound Dog

Season 6 • Episode 25

The Cartwrights' cousin, Muley, comes to visit and brings his pet dogs with him.

Friday, January 31

Tommy

Season 8 • Episode 14

An outlaw's harassment forces his wife to leave her deaf son and the safety of the Cartwright home.

Friday, January 31

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Friday, January 31

The Trap

Season 6 • Episode 26

The wife of the man Little Joe accidentally killed says she plans to marry him.

Saturday, February 1

Dead and Gone

Season 6 • Episode 27

A happy-go-lucky singer charms his way out of jail and into the confidence of the Cartwright family.

Sunday, February 2

A Dublin Lad

Season 7 • Episode 15

Little Joe believes that a man who is sentenced to hang for murder is really innocent.

Monday, February 3

Ponderosa Explosion

Season 8 • Episode 16

Entrepreneurs Hoss and Joe hope to clothe the nation's women in rabbit-skin coats.

Monday, February 3

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Monday, February 3

A Good Night's Rest

Season 6 • Episode 28

Seeking a good night's sleep in town, Ben finds more confusion than he left at home.

Tuesday, February 4

Justice

Season 8 • Episode 17

Little Joe's romance with a pretty bank clerk is threatened by a lovesick youth.

Tuesday, February 4

Life on the Ponderosa with the Cartwright clan.

Tuesday, February 4

To Own the World

Season 6 • Episode 29

A multimillionaire (Telly Savalas) is willing to destroy the Cartwrights to possess the Ponderosa.