Bonanza
TVPG
Drama
Western
Set during and after the Civil War, the Cartwright clan manages their sprawling Ponderosa Ranch in Nevada, while confronting social and criminal issues of the time.
Cast & Crew
Lorne Greene Ben Cartwright
Michael Landon Little Joe Cartwright
Dan Blocker Eric "Hoss" Cartwright
Pernell Roberts Adam Cartwright
Victor Sen Yung Hop Sing
Ray Teal Sheriff Roy Coffee
Bing Russell Deputy Clem Foster
David Canary Candy
Lou Frizzell Dusty Rhoades
Mitch Vogel Jamie Hunter
Tim Matheson Griff King
David Dortort Creator
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Upcoming TV Airings
The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.
Thursday, October 9
Clarissa
Season 8 • Episode 32
Ben's visiting cousin (Nina Foch) uses the Cartwrights' sympathy to gain control of the household.
Thursday, October 9
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.
Friday, October 10
Shanklin
Season 13 • Episode 20
A gang of ex-Confederates take over the Ponderosa to force Ben to give them a fortune in cash.
Saturday, October 11
Search in Limbo
Season 13 • Episode 21
Ben is linked to a murder after suffering memory loss while on a business trip.
Monday, October 13
Maestro Hoss
Season 8 • Episode 33
A Gypsy fortuneteller (Zsa Zsa Gabor) convinces Hoss he is a musical genius.
Monday, October 13
Death at Dawn
Season 1 • Episode 32
The deputized Cartwrights sentence a murderer to hang at dawn.
Monday, October 13
Showdown
Season 2 • Episode 1
A bank robber takes a job with the Cartwrights to hide his accomplices on the Ponderosa.
Monday, October 13
He Was Only Seven
Season 13 • Episode 22
Jamie and Joe help a man in a wheelchair who sets out on the trail of his grandson's killers.
Monday, October 13
The Mission
Season 2 • Episode 2
Hoss befriends a former Army scout (Henry Hull) who drinks to forget the massacre of his troop.
Monday, October 13
Badge Without Honor
Season 2 • Episode 3
A Deputy U.S. Marshal arrives to accompany a Cartwright friend back to a California court.
Monday, October 13
The Mill
Season 2 • Episode 4
A hired hand (Claude Akins) victimizes the Cartwrights' disabled neighbor (Harry Townes).
Monday, October 13
The Hopefuls
Season 2 • Episode 5
Outlaws plot to steal a trunk containing the savings of a religious group.
Monday, October 13
Denver McKee
Season 2 • Episode 6
The Cartwrights help a former decorated Army scout find security for his daughter.
Monday, October 13
Day of Reckoning
Season 2 • Episode 7
Hoss' bandit uncle (Neville Brand) decides to bypass the Ponderosa, but his gang disagrees.
Monday, October 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, October 13
Breed of Violence
Season 2 • Episode 9
Bank robbers hide on a ranch that Hoss and Little Joe are visiting.
Tuesday, October 14
The Last Viking
Season 2 • Episode 10
For saving his life, Ben offers some Ponderosa farmland to an American Indian.
Tuesday, October 14
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, October 14
The Savage
Season 2 • Episode 12
When Adam passes through a sacred Indian burial ground, Shoshone braves attack him in revenge.
Tuesday, October 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, October 14
The Sure Thing
Season 9 • Episode 9
A girl's father sells the horse she planned to ride in the annual race to the Cartwrights.
Tuesday, October 14
The Younger Brothers' Younger Brother
Season 13 • Episode 23
Hoss is identified as a member of the Younger brothers' gang.
Wednesday, October 15
Six Black Horses
Season 9 • Episode 11
Ben's old friend (Burgess Meredith) admits to a scheme to invest funds from political graft.
Wednesday, October 15
A Place to Hide
Season 13 • Episode 24
Ben learns a visitor's (Suzanne Pleshette) husband (Jon Cypher) is sought as a Confederate traitor.
Thursday, October 16
The Gold Detector
Season 9 • Episode 14
Hoss is a laughingstock when he helps hunt for gold with a mechanical contraption.
Thursday, October 16
A Visit to Upright
Season 13 • Episode 25
Hidden treasure is believed to be buried on a piece Cartwright property.
Friday, October 17
One Ace Too Many
Season 13 • Episode 26
A look-alike for Ben dictates a deathbed wish to Sheriff Coffee.
Saturday, October 18
Dark Star
Season 1 • Episode 31
Little Joe falls for a Gypsy who believes she is a witch and, therefore, an outcast.
Monday, October 20
The Crime of Johnny Mule
Season 9 • Episode 21
A prospector accused of murder escapes and seeks protection from Hoss.
Monday, October 20
The Ape
Season 2 • Episode 14
Adam and Little Joe try to warn Hoss when he befriends a violent man (Cal Bolder).
Monday, October 20
The Blood Line
Season 2 • Episode 15
An Easterner looking for his father learns a Cartwright killed him in self-defense.
Monday, October 20
Forever
Season 14 • Episode 1
Joe falls for a woman who arrives with her brother in Virginia City.
Monday, October 20
The Courtship
Season 2 • Episode 16
Adam tells betrothed Hoss his intended is a compulsive gambler who caused her husband's death.
Monday, October 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, October 20
The Gunmen
Season 1 • Episode 19
Little Joe and Hoss, mistaken for gunmen, get caught between feuding families.
Monday, October 20
The Fear Merchants
Season 1 • Episode 20
A mayoral candidate hires two hoodlums to harass Chinese residents, resulting in murder.
Monday, October 20
Spanish Grant
Season 1 • Episode 21
Ex-dancehall girl poses as Spanish aristocrat to obtain large piece of property.
Monday, October 20
Blood on the Land
Season 1 • Episode 22
Disreputable shepherd moves herd across Ponderosa, destroying rich pasture land.
Monday, October 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.
Monday, October 20
The Stranger
Season 1 • Episode 24
A disabled New Orleans police inspector comes to arrest Ben on a 20-year-old murder charge.
Tuesday, October 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, October 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, October 21
The Last Trophy
Season 1 • Episode 27
A Britisher (Edward Ashley), once a great game hunter, visits the Ponderosa and displays cowardice.
Tuesday, October 21
San Francisco
Season 1 • Episode 28
Two traildrivers are shanghaied shortly after the Ponderosa cattle herd arrives in San Francisco.
Tuesday, October 21
Star Crossed
Season 9 • Episode 23
Candy learns his fiancee is being blackmailed for a phony murder charge.
Tuesday, October 21
Forever
Season 14 • Episode 2
John's gambling debts mount after Alice rejects him because of his alcoholism.
Wednesday, October 22
Trouble Town
Season 9 • Episode 24
The Cartwrights and Candy attempt to free a town from the grip of a murderous sheriff.
Wednesday, October 22
Heritage of Anger
Season 14 • Episode 3
A man returns from prison to find his land neglected and his wife exhausted.
Thursday, October 23
A Dream to Dream
Season 9 • Episode 26
A young mother (Julie Harris) victimized by her alcoholic husband falls in love with visiting Hoss.
Thursday, October 23
The Initiation
Season 14 • Episode 4
The leader of a boy's club forces his followers to cover up an initiate's death.
Friday, October 24
Riot!
Season 14 • Episode 5
A convict stages a prison riot that ensnares Ben; guest Aldo Ray.
Saturday, October 25
New Man
Season 14 • Episode 6
Ex-convict Griff (Tim Matheson) has trouble adjusting to life on the Ponderosa; guest Ronny Cox.
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