Bonanza (1959)
Bonanza is one of the longest-running and most beloved western series in American television history. First airing in 1959 and remaining on screens for fourteen seasons, this legendary production takes viewers back to America's Wi…
Overview
Bonanza is one of the longest-running and most beloved western series in American television history. First airing in 1959 and remaining on screens for fourteen seasons, this legendary production takes viewers back to America's Wild West era through its story set at the Ponderosa Ranch, located near Virginia City, Nevada. The series follows ranch owner Ben Cartwright and his three sons, Adam, Hoss, and Little Joe—each born to a different mother—as they navigate both family bonds and their efforts to maintain justice in the region.
Being one of the first westerns filmed in color gave Bonanza a pioneering status in terms of the television standards of its time. Broadcast by NBC, the series won great acclaim from both critics and audiences thanks to its large family structure, strong character development, and storytelling built around a different moral issue in each episode. Among the cast members was Carmen Zapata, who, through the characters she portrayed in various episodes, also brought the presence of Latin culture in the Wild West to the screen.
Bonanza stands out not merely as a western but also as a drama exploring themes such as family values, friendship, justice, and social responsibility. A ratings powerhouse in its original run, the series continues to be discovered today by classic television enthusiasts and western fans alike.
Plot
At the center of the series lies the Ponderosa Ranch and its owner, Ben Cartwright, along with his family. Ben Cartwright, a widower who has been married three times and had one son from each marriage, raises his children alone. His eldest son, Adam, is known for his intellectual and reserved personality; the middle son, Hoss, despite his large stature, stands out as an exceptionally kind-hearted and gentle character. The youngest son, Little Joe, is the family's most energetic member, with his fiery, impulsive, and romantic nature.
Each episode revolves around various events experienced by the Cartwright family in the Nevada region. Ranch management, land disputes, battles against unlawful activities, family conflicts, and relationships formed with newcomers to the area form the main narrative elements of the series. Family members not only protect their own ranch but also fight for the general welfare and justice of the community in Virginia City.
One of the most notable aspects of the series is that each character has their own distinct perspective and value system. While these differences occasionally create tension within the family, love and respect for one another are always kept at the forefront. Bonanza skillfully blends classic western elements—gunfights, horse chases, outlaws—with family drama, offering viewers a rich narrative.
Why Watch It?
Bonanza, as one of the most important representatives of the western genre in television history, is a classic that anyone interested in this genre should watch. The series' broad range of characters and the different themes explored in each episode offer viewers a diverse, never-monotonous viewing experience.
One of the series' greatest strengths is its in-depth exploration of family bonds. The Cartwright family's devotion to one another represents a remarkably forward-thinking family model for its time. The dynamics among four sons with very different personalities provide viewers with both entertaining and emotional moments.
Additionally, the visuals presented through the color filming technology of the era bring Nevada's stunning natural landscapes to the screen, offering viewers a visual feast. Thanks to the series' long-running structure, the characters gain depth over time, giving viewers the chance to form a strong connection with them.
With contributions from talented actors of the era such as Carmen Zapata, the series is further enriched by incorporating various cultural elements into its story. Such details make Bonanza far more than an ordinary western series.
Who Is It For?
Bonanza is primarily an ideal choice for viewers interested in classic western cinema and television productions. At the same time, viewers who enjoy family drama elements and character-driven stories will also find something for themselves in the series.
Bonanza can be watched with great enjoyment by viewers seeking a nostalgic television experience, as well as those curious about American popular culture in the 1950s and 60s. It is also a suitable production for those who love stories that prioritize family values, honesty, and justice.
Viewers who can dedicate time to long-running series, who are familiar with the classic television format, and who prefer narratives based on character development rather than heavy action sequences will greatly enjoy this series. For younger viewers, it offers an educational experience in understanding the television sensibilities of the era and the origins of the western genre.
Pros and Cons
Pros:
1. Strong and deep family dynamics offer viewers an opportunity to form an emotional connection.
2. Being one of the era's pioneering color television productions creates a visually satisfying experience.
3. The self-contained episode structure, addressing different moral and social issues each time, provides viewers with variety.
Cons:
1. Depending on the television conventions of the time, the pacing in some episodes can feel slow.
2. The large number of seasons requires a significant time investment for those wishing to follow the series in its entirety.
Genre and Tone
Bonanza contains all the essential elements of the classic western genre while blending them with family drama in tone. The series' atmosphere is built on a balanced structure that combines the harsh conditions of the Wild West with warm family bonds.
Although action sequences are present, the series' true strength lies in the relationships between characters and moral dilemmas. The tone is generally serious and thought-provoking, yet balanced by warm family moments and occasionally humorous dialogue. This structure transforms Bonanza from a mere action western into a layered drama series.
Runtime and Viewing Experience
Bonanza is a massive production consisting of fourteen seasons and hundreds of episodes. While each episode generally tells a self-contained story, the development of characters and family dynamics show continuity across seasons. For this reason, watching the series from start to finish helps viewers better understand the characters' evolution.
In keeping with the classic television format, each episode has a self-contained structure, allowing viewers to watch the series episode by episode or at their own pace. Due to its lengthy total runtime, Bonanza is better suited to viewers open to patient, long-term viewing experiences.
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- High Chaparral
Final Assessment
Bonanza remains one of the most enduring and influential examples of the western genre in television history, retaining its value even today. The story of the Cartwright family successfully reflects not only the harsh conditions of the Wild West but also the complexity of human relationships and the strength of family bonds. Enriched by contributions from talented actors of the era such as Carmen Zapata, the series is a must-see work for classic television lovers. Although its long-running structure requires time, the emotional depth and richness of characters it offers more than justify the investment.
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1972 Sezon 1 · 32 bölüm
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A Rose for Lotta
· 12.09.1959
· 49 dk
Lotta Crabtree is hired by mining tycoon Alpheus Troy to lure one of the Cartwrights into town and hold him for ransom in exchange for Ponderosa timber rights.
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Death on Sun Mountain
· 19.09.1959
· 49 dk
Greedy opportunist Mark Burdette and his accomplice Early Thorne stir up trouble between the Paiute tribe and the citizens of Virginia City. Ben discovers Burd…
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The Newcomers
· 26.09.1959
· 49 dk
John Pennington and his crew want to mine the Ponderosa land by hydraulic means. Ben is totally against this method and evicts them in short order. Hoss is give…
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The Paiute War
· 03.10.1959
· 49 dk
Trader Mike Wilson attempts to escape punishment by the Paiute Indians after mistreating two of their women, by placing the blame on Adam. A fierce war between…
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Enter Mark Twain
· 10.10.1959
· 49 dk
Samuel Clemens arrives in Virginia City to write for the Territorial Enterprise at the same time a crooked politician tries to lay claim on the Ponderosa.
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The Julia Bulette Story
· 17.10.1959
· 49 dk
Little Joe is infatuated wih saloon owner Julia Bulette, whom he imagines is like his late mother. First episode to reveal backround details concerning Marie C…
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The Saga of Annie O'Toole
· 24.10.1959
· 49 dk
Adam defends the mining claim of Annie O' Toole in a court presided over by Judge Ben Cartwright. Annie comes to the Washoe Diggings with a claim to a mine fil…
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The Phillip Diedesheimer Story
· 31.10.1959
· 49 dk
Adam and Hoss assist a German engineer in developing the concept of "square set timbering" in the mines. Based on fact, and the first episode not to include al…
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Mr. Henry Comstock
· 07.11.1959
· 49 dk
In a flashback, the legendary prospector arrives on the Ponderosa and participates in the founding of Virginia City. Coincidentally, guest star Jack Carson pla…
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The Magnificent Adah
· 14.11.1959
· 49 dk
Virginia City is visited by actress Adah Issacs Menken, who happens to be an old acquaintance of Ben's. Joe is badly beaten by Adah's jealous suitor, John C. R…
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The Truckee Strip
· 21.11.1959
· 49 dk
Luther Bishop and Ben Cartwright have had an ongoing land dispute for a number of years, over a small tract called the Truckee Strip. One of Bishop's employee'…
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The Hanging Posse
· 28.11.1959
· 49 dk
Adam and Joe reluctantly join a group of vengeful townsmen, who are out to lynch the three men who supposedly killed Vannie Johnson. The posse is run by Paiute…
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Vendetta
· 05.12.1959
· 49 dk
In a variation of "High Noon", Ben and Hoss must face a gang of outlaws practically all alone when most of Virginia City's citizens go into hiding. The most ac…
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The Sisters
· 12.12.1959
· 49 dk
This episode begins with Adam defending the honor of Sue Ellen Terry in a duel. No one gets shot because the other man misses Adam and Adam generously shoots i…
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The Last Hunt
· 19.12.1959
· 49 dk
Hoss and Joe come across a pregnant Indian woman while hunting bighorn sheep and must deliver her baby. Despite touches of humor, including a scene in which Jo…
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El Toro Grande
· 02.01.1960
· 49 dk
Ben sends Hoss and Joe to Monterey to purchase an expensive seed bull. The first of Blocker and Landon's many comic misadventures, although the casual use of v…
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The Outcast
· 09.01.1960
· 49 dk
Because she is related to criminals, a young woman is ostracized by everyone but the the Cartwrights. She unwisely seeks solace with an ex-con friend of Joe's,…
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A House Divided
· 16.01.1960
· 49 dk
As the Civil War approaches, Adam and Joe clash over which side to support. The situation is complicated by the arrival of Frederick Kyle, a Southern sympathiz…
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The Gunmen
· 23.01.1960
· 49 dk
In the first all-out comic episode of the series, Hoss and Joe travel to Kiowa Flats, Texas, where they are mistaken for the notorious Slade Brothers, also play…
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The Fear Merchants
· 30.01.1960
· 49 dk
The Cartwrights encounter racial bigotry in Virginia City and end up protecting a Chinese boy from mob violence. Victor Sen Yung, in his largest role to date, …
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The Spanish Grant
· 06.02.1960
· 49 dk
In "The Spanish Grant", a young bargirl, Rosita Morales is pretending to be a Spanish noblewoman named Isabella Marie Inez de la Cuesta and at the end of the st…
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Blood on the Land
· 13.02.1960
· 49 dk
A shiftless sheepherder, Jeb Drummond, encroaches his herd of sheep on the Ponderosa and refuses to budge. He resists all of Ben's attempts to throw him off hi…
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Desert Justice
· 20.02.1960
· 49 dk
When a tough U.S. Marshal from California arrests a Ponderosa hand, Dave Walker, for murder, Adam and Hoss go along to make sure their employee reaches Los Ange…
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The Stranger
· 27.02.1960
· 49 dk
Nevada Territory is awaiting statehood, and Ben considers running for governor until he learns he is wanted for murder in New Orleans. Inspector Charles Leduqu…
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Escape to Ponderosa
· 05.03.1960
· 49 dk
After Adam is bushwhacked by three army deserters, Ben tracks them down, and tackles the brutal Captain Bolton who is pursuing them.
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The Avenger
· 19.03.1960
· 49 dk
A restaurant owner whom Ben and Adam have confronted over stolen Ponderosa beef ends up dead one night. His daughter, Sally Byrnes runs the cafe and in her res…
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The Last Trophy
· 26.03.1960
· 49 dk
Adam takes Ben's friends, Lord Marion Dunsworth and Lady Beatrice, on a hunting expedition, and they are captured by a gang of crude thieves and murderers. Dur…
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San Francisco
· 02.04.1960
· 49 dk
In this comic episode, the first to take place far from the ranch, Ben, Hoss, and Joe deliver a herd to San Francisco. Although he warns his sons to be careful…
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Bitter Water
· 09.04.1960
· 49 dk
Len Keith, a miner, wants to purchase some land adjacent to the Ponderosa from rancher Andy McKaren. Andy's son, Tod, is anxious to sell. Keith has offered hi…
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Feet of Clay
· 16.04.1960
· 49 dk
Hoss takes Billy Allen, the young son of a convicted felon under his wing, then is forced to kill his father and Billy will not forgive him. The most emotional…
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Dark Star
· 23.04.1960
· 49 dk
Joe falls in love with Tirza, an undeniably strange gypsy girl who says she is cursed and never does seem to "snap out of it". The first episode of the series …
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Death at Dawn
· 30.04.1960
· 49 dk
Virginia City is plagued by organized crime, Sam Bryant and his gang. One of his men, Farmer Perkins, kills a storekeeper, and at his trial, the wife of the st…
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Showdown
· 10.09.1960
· 49 dk
A young bank robber hires on at the Ponderosa in order to keep his gang informed of the law's efforts to discover their whereabouts.
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The Mission
· 17.09.1960
· 49 dk
Filmed almost entirely outdoors, this is more like a feature than a series. Captain Pender is looking for a scout to lead him and his company of men across the…
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Badge Without Honor
· 24.09.1960
· 49 dk
Adam's life is saved by an enigmatic U. S. Marshal who has come to Virginia City to arrest a friend of the Cartwrights.
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The Mill
· 01.10.1960
· 49 dk
The Cartwrights construct a grist mill to provide income for a crippled rancher who blames Ben for his predicament. Ben has to contend with the man's depraved …
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The Hopefuls
· 08.10.1960
· 49 dk
Adam guides a wagon train of Quakers and falls for the leader's daughter, Regina. The force Adam must employ to protect them, conflicts with their passive phil…
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Denver McKee
· 15.10.1960
· 49 dk
While celebrating the return of his daughter Connie, former lawman McKee is asked to assist in the capture of an outlaw gang. While Joe is courting Connie, no o…
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Day of Reckoning
· 22.10.1960
· 49 dk
Prejudice erupts on both sides when Ben gives an Indian named Matsou and his wife, some of his land, after saving Ben's life from a renegade Indian who almost k…
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The Abduction
· 29.10.1960
· 49 dk
Hoss and Joe take their sweethearts to a colorful and strange carnival for the day. Joe's recent girlfriend Jennifer Beale is abducted by the sinister owner, P…
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Breed of Violence
· 05.11.1960
· 49 dk
Joe's friend Dolly Kincaid is the daughter of the sheriff and she's always getting caught up with the wrong crowd. When she gets close to Vince Dagen, Joe gets …
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The Last Viking
· 12.11.1960
· 49 dk
Gunnar Borgstrom is the leader of a vicious band called the Commancheros. They burn houses, kill people and steal anything of value. When the Commancheros get t…
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The Trail Gang
· 26.11.1960
· 49 dk
On a cattle drive back to Nevada from Texas, Ben hires a young man who is both an outlaw and the son of the sheriff whose town the Ponderosa cowhands are enteri…
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The Savage
· 03.12.1960
· 49 dk
Adam's life is saved by a woman known to the Indians as White Buffalo Woman, but who is actually the daughter of Norwegian immigrants.
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Silent Thunder
· 10.12.1960
· 49 dk
Captivated by the pretty, deaf-mute daughter of a reclusive mountain man, Little Joe teaches the young woman sign language. Thrilled with her newfound ability …
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The Ape
· 17.12.1960
· 49 dk
Hoss becomes friends with dull-witted Arnie Gurnie, who is a brute of a man with the mentality of a child. His temper scares everybody, including the Cartwrigh…
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The Blood Line
· 31.12.1960
· 49 dk
Ben feels responsible for the son of a man he was forced to kill, but the young man is determined to get even. A professional gunman offers to do the job for h…
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The Courtship
· 07.01.1961
· 49 dk
Hoss plans to marry the widow of one of Ben's friends, not knowing she is a compulsive gambler and refusing to believe it when the other Cartwrights confront hi…
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The Spitfire
· 14.01.1961
· 49 dk
Joe becomes the target of a tough and vengeful Kentucky family, after he kills one of them who almost sets the Ponderosa on fire and the Cartwrights take in the…
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The Bride
· 21.01.1961
· 49 dk
The Cartwright boys are surprised to find that a woman, claiming to have recently married their father, shows up on their doorstep. When Ben gets home, he is j…
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Bank Run
· 28.01.1961
· 49 dk
When they "rob" the bank in Virginia City to save depositors from being cleaned out by its president, Hoss and Joe wind up wanted by the law.
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The Fugitive
· 04.02.1961
· 49 dk
Adam goes to Mexico to find out how the son of a family friend was killed, only to learn the man is still alive.
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Vengeance
· 11.02.1961
· 49 dk
Hoss accidentally kills a drunk he was trying to disarm. The man's brother bushwhacks Hoss, who has lost the will to live. Joe makes a promise to Hoss that he…
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The Tax Collector
· 18.02.1961
· 49 dk
The kindness Hoss extends to shiftless Jock Henry is not exactly repaid when Henry becomes an assistant assessor and raises the Ponderosa's annual tax bill from…
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The Rescue
· 25.02.1961
· 49 dk
The Cartwright boys are concerned that Ben might be getting on in years, yet it is he who saves them from cattle rustlers.
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The Dark Gate
· 04.03.1961
· 49 dk
Adam is confused by the sudden behavior of his good friend, Ross Marquette. He beats up his wife, Delphine, after accusing her of having an affair with Adam. …
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The Duke
· 11.03.1961
· 49 dk
Hoss takes on The Duke Of London, an arrogant, abusive bare-knuckle fighter, though his brawn is no match for the Duke's agile skills.
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Cutthroat Junction
· 18.03.1961
· 49 dk
When freight company detective Jed Trask is fired after a decade of service, he joins the thieves preventing supplies from reaching Virginia City.
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The Gift
· 01.04.1961
· 49 dk
While crossing the desert to Yuma, Arizona with a white stallion intended as a birthday present for Ben, Joe runs into a pack of merciless comancheros. His com…
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The Rival
· 15.04.1961
· 49 dk
Jim Applegate, Hoss' rival for the affections of Cameo Johnson, is a member of a vigilante group who lynched an innocent man and his wife.
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The Infernal Machine
· 22.04.1961
· 49 dk
Hoss believes in his friend's primitive version of the automobile in this lighthearted, yet sad episode. When the "car" uses up the last of its fuel, Hoss rema…
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The Thunderhead Swindle
· 29.04.1961
· 49 dk
With Virginia City on the verge of economic ruin, out of work miners put their hopes in word of a strike at a mine everybody believed was played out. Ben suspe…
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The Secret
· 06.05.1961
· 49 dk
Joe is the victim of an elaborate frame-up, accused of murdering a pregnant girl. When Ben is asked if Joe is telling the truth, he replies, "If I were to star…
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The Dream Riders
· 20.05.1961
· 49 dk
To finance his dream of constructing an airship capable of crossing the Atlantic, Ben's old friend plans to rob the Virginia City bank while diverting the citiz…
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Elizabeth, My Love
· 27.05.1961
· 49 dk
At the bedside of a seriously ill Adam, Ben thinks back to his days as a first mate in the merchant marines and his marriage to Adam's mother, Elizabeth Stoddar…
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Sam Hill
· 03.06.1961
· 49 dk
Blacksmith Sam Hill fights to keep the land on which his mother is buried, after his drunken father signs the deed over to Colonel Tyson and his private army. …
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The Smiler
· 24.09.1961
· 49 dk
A drunk is killed in a saloon brawl with Hoss, and though the man's brother insists there are no hard feelings, he is actually a silver-tongued devil bent on re…
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Springtime
· 01.10.1961
· 49 dk
A friend of Ben's (Mr. Milbank) arrives at the Ponderosa at a bad time...when the Cartwright boys are fighting in the mud. Mr. Milbank, who is injured by a flyi…
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The Honor of Cochise
· 08.10.1961
· 49 dk
The Cartwrights and a bigoted army captain are pinned down by Cochise and his braves, who claim the officer poisoned 30 of their people.
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The Lonely House
· 15.10.1961
· 49 dk
Little Joe pays a visit to the widow Lee Bolden, and brings her a bank draft for her husband's investments with Ben. Actually, the investments were losing prop…
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The Burma Rarity
· 22.10.1961
· 49 dk
In this comic episode involving a precious emerald and the sweet widow, Clemantine Hawkins who is attracted to Ben, turns the tables on a pair of land swindlers…
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Broken Ballad
· 29.10.1961
· 49 dk
Adam tries to help a reformed gunman who wants only to live peacefully near Virginia City. Good story without a tidy ending. Pernell's first chance to sing on…
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The Many Faces of Gideon Flinch
· 05.11.1961
· 49 dk
Hoss and Joe become involved when "Bullethead" Burke vows revenge on an old man he claims cheated him in an investment deal.
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The Friendship
· 12.11.1961
· 49 dk
Joe befriends and takes responsibility for an ex-convict named Danny. Danny loves horses and is not used to people's ways on the outside of jail. Will his rou…
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The Countess
· 19.11.1961
· 49 dk
A woman Ben once loved, Lady Chadwick, returns and attempts to trick him into marrying her by ruining his business. Ben says almost losing the Ponderosa will m…
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The Horse Breaker
· 26.11.1961
· 49 dk
A professional wrangler working for the Cartwrights is paralyzed when thrown by a particularly mean bronco. The woman nursing him was once engaged to the late …
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Day of the Dragon
· 03.12.1961
· 49 dk
Joe wins a card game and an unexpected prize...a young lady. She goes to the Ponderosa and serves them, not wanting to be set free. Meanwhile, an army is look…
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The Frenchman
· 10.12.1961
· 49 dk
An irritating man who boasts of being the reincarnation of French poet Francois Villion shows up causing trouble for the Cartwrights.
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The Tin Badge
· 17.12.1961
· 49 dk
Joe accepts the job of temporary sheriff in the town of Rubicon, unaware he is being used to facilitate a scheme involving murder.
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Gabrielle
· 24.12.1961
· 49 dk
In this Christmas story, inspired by Johanna Spyri's "Heidi", Hoss and Joe come across a blind girl whose family has been killed in a wagon wreck, learning late…
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Land Grab
· 31.12.1961
· 49 dk
The Ponderosa is overrun with settlers bearing phony property deeds, and one of Ben's oldest friends is responsible.
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The Tall Stranger
· 07.01.1962
· 49 dk
Hoss plans to marry Margie, a pretty blonde, but Margie becomes fascinated with a tall, traveling stranger named Mark Connors. Margie marries Mark but soon fin…
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The Lady from Baltimore
· 14.01.1962
· 49 dk
An overbearing friend of the family tries to force her daughter into marrying Joe, though she does not love him. The situation grows more complex when Adam stu…
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The Ride
· 21.01.1962
· 49 dk
Adam races against the clock to prove a man who was once his friend is guilty of robbery and murder and Adam is convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt he is guilt…
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The Storm
· 28.01.1962
· 49 dk
Joe plans to marry Laura White, daughter of a man Ben once sailed with, but she is fatally ill. Ben consoles him with words spoken years before, by the father …
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The Auld Sod
· 04.02.1962
· 49 dk
The Cartwrights pretend the Ponderosa belongs to the town lush, when his aging mother from Ireland arrives.
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Gift of Water
· 11.02.1962
· 49 dk
The Cartwrights dig a well, build a rig and a windmill for a drought-stricken farm family.
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The Jackknife
· 18.02.1962
· 49 dk
Adam gives a second chance to a family man he suspects is one of the rustlers who has been hitting the Ponderosa herds.
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The Guilty
· 25.02.1962
· 49 dk
When Ben fails to prevent the death of a friend's son, Adam and Joe, concerned by their father's depression, attempt to prove there was nothing he could have do…
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The Wooing of Abigail Jones
· 04.03.1962
· 49 dk
In order to keep peace on the ranch, Hoss and Joe try to help ranch hand, Hank Meyers woo the the plain-looking schoolteacher, Abigail Jones. When their first …
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The Lawmaker
· 11.03.1962
· 49 dk
Ben supports the appointment of Asa Moran as Virginia City's temporary sheriff, but Moran goes overboard with his authority, jailing Adam in the process and pis…
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Look to the Stars
· 18.03.1962
· 49 dk
A young genius, Albert Michaelson, vies for a scholarship. Adam assists Albert in the boy's experiments. Albert only needs the school teacher's approval to be…
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The Gamble
· 01.04.1962
· 49 dk
In the town of Alkali, the Cartwrights are jailed on false charges of robbery and murder, but Joe escapes and returns with an army of Ponderosa hands.
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The Crucible
· 08.04.1962
· 49 dk
Adam is left to die in the desert after two thieves take $5,000 and his horse from him. Near death, he stumbles into an old prospector named Kane who offers to…
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Inger, My Love
· 15.04.1962
· 49 dk
Ben indulges in a nostalgic reverie about Hoss's deceased mother. Having worked his way west to Galesburg, IL., Ben is befriended by a girl named Inger, the fi…
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Blessed Are They
· 22.04.1962
· 49 dk
When two feuding families argue over the custody of two orphaned children, a reluctant Ben is called upon to straighten out the situation before real trouble er…
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The Dowry
· 29.04.1962
· 49 dk
The Cartwrights get mixed up in the romance of a phony heiress and an equally phony land baron.
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The Long Night
· 06.05.1962
· 49 dk
Ben, Joe and Adam travel to Bowleg to pay the yearly taxes on the Ponderosa. After the transaction is completed, Ben and Joe ride over the summit to join the c…
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The Mountain Girl
· 13.05.1962
· 49 dk
Joe promises a dying sheepman he will make sure the old man's granddaughter gets her rightful inheritance from a wealthy San Francisco family. This episode was…
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The Miracle Maker
· 20.05.1962
· 49 dk
Hoss blames himself when a young woman is crippled in a wagon accident, and hopes a faith healer can help her walk again.
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The First Born
· 23.09.1962
· 49 dk
Clay Stafford signs on to work for the Cartwrights and shortly afterwards shoots and kills a man who accuses him of cheating at poker. The miners warn Clay to …
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The Quest
· 30.09.1962
· 49 dk
Determined to prove he can succeed at something without the help of his Pa, Hoss, and Adam, Joe sets out on his quest and wins a timber contract for Ponderosa t…
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The Artist
· 07.10.1962
· 49 dk
Ben helps Matthew Raine, a famous painter who has gone blind and now wallows in self-pity, discover a new purpose in life. However, Raine's employee Gavin has …
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A Hot Day for a Hanging
· 14.10.1962
· 49 dk
Hoss is jailed for robbing the bank in Dutchman Flats, a town on the brink of economic collapse, even the sheriff knows he is innocent, but a lynch mob gathers …
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The Deserter
· 21.10.1962
· 49 dk
An Indian-hating officer, Colonel Edward J. Dunwoody, comes to the Ponderosa looking for army deserter Bill Winters, who is a good friend of the Cartwrights. B…
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The Way Station
· 29.10.1962
· 49 dk
With a storm brewing, Adam takes refuge at a way station, run by cantankerous Jesse and his young grandaughter Marty, who yearns to see what exists away from th…
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The War Comes to Washoe
· 04.11.1962
· 49 dk
The Civil War once again divides the citizens of Nevada, as well as Adam and Joe Cartwright. One of season four's highlights, the plot involving British spy Bi…
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Knight Errant
· 18.11.1962
· 49 dk
Hoss volunteers to pickup an injured neighbor's mail-order bride, but by the time they return, she has fallen in love with Hoss and a price is put on Hoss' head…
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The Beginning
· 25.11.1962
· 49 dk
Billy Horne is a white man who was captured by the Shoshone when he was six. He comes into Ben & Joe's campsite one night uninvited. They capture him and take h…
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The Deadly Ones
· 02.12.1962
· 49 dk
The Ponderosa becomes a war zone when it is invaded by a detachment of Mexican mercenaries under General Diaz. The general is furious when one of his men, Fors…
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Gallagher's Sons
· 09.12.1962
· 49 dk
Hoss helps Charlie and Will (Charlotte and Willomina), two young girls who just lost their father. They go on a journey to find their only nearby relative, Aun…
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The Decision
· 16.12.1962
· 49 dk
Hoss is seriously injured internally and Ben seeks help from the only doctor within 50 miles, who happens to be in prison for murder. Ben talks to the judge, a…
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The Good Samaritan
· 23.12.1962
· 49 dk
Hoss decides to help out Wade Tyree and introduces him to Abigail and her daughter, Bonnie. Hoss hopes this will stop Wade's constant drinking. Wade soon marr…
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The Jury
· 30.12.1962
· 49 dk
When Hoss is responsible for causing a hung jury, Ben tells him, "a man is never wrong doing what he thinks is right", and Adam attempts to validate his brother…
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The Colonel
· 06.01.1963
· 49 dk
Frank Medford, a figure from Ben's "wild, misspent youth", shows up in Virginia City, and though down on his luck, creates troubles for the Cartwrights by claim…
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Song in the Dark
· 13.01.1963
· 49 dk
Adam's guitar-strumming friend, ranch hand Danny Morgan, is arrested on suspicion of murdering and robbing the Widow Baker. Someone had reported hearing Danny …
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Elegy for a Hangman
· 20.01.1963
· 49 dk
A stranger, Bob Jolly, arrives in Virginia City to accuse a drunken Judge Harry Whitaker of sending his innocent father, Carl, to the gallows. Adam defends the…
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Half a Rogue
· 27.01.1963
· 49 dk
In this entertaining episode, laced with humor, Hoss first meets mountain man Jim Leyton. Bing Russell makes his first appearance as Deputy Clem Foster.
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The Last Haircut
· 03.02.1963
· 49 dk
A vain outlaw murders a man in front of witnesses, including Joe, but a clever lawyer is able to get him acquitted. Though enraged, Joe has to convince the dea…
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Marie, My Love
· 10.02.1963
· 49 dk
When Cochise falls on Joe, Ben cannot help but remember that is how Marie Cartwright was killed. He thinks back to meeting her in New Orleans in a rather confu…
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The Hayburner
· 17.02.1963
· 49 dk
For a change, it is Adam rather than Joe who becomes mixed up in one of Hoss' funny exploits. Together they purchase a thoroughbred horse, and end up competing…
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The Actress
· 24.02.1963
· 49 dk
Joe becomes romantically involved with a woman who considers herself a serious dramatic actress. Unfortunately, she is the only one who does.
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A Stranger Passed This Way
· 03.03.1963
· 49 dk
Hoss develops amnesia after being bushwhacked and hit over the head by two outlaws and moves in with a Dutch couple. The woman regards him as a substitute for …
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The Way of Aaron
· 10.03.1963
· 49 dk
Adam takes a shine to Rebecca Kaufman, the daughter of a Jewish peddler, and bandits are convinced the Kaufman wagon is worth robbing.
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A Woman Lost
· 17.03.1963
· 49 dk
Ben's attempt to rehabilitate an alcoholic singer he knew in better days are complicated by her involvment with a former prize fighter.
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Any Friend of Walter's
· 24.03.1963
· 49 dk
Classic comedy in which Hoss first meets prospector Obie and his lazy but allegedly brilliant mongrel dog, Walter.
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Mirror of a Man
· 31.03.1963
· 49 dk
The peaceful world of a Ponderosa hand is disturbed by the arrival of his no-good father and twin brother, who is a wanted man.
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My Brother's Keeper
· 07.04.1963
· 49 dk
While hunting for a wolf, Joe is attacked by the wolf. Adam also hunting for the wolf, hears Joe struggling with the wolf comes to Joe's aid. He fires his rif…
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Five into the Wind
· 21.04.1963
· 49 dk
After their stagecoach crashes, a group of rag-tag passengers and Joe must get out of the desert alive. One of the passengers may or may not be a murderer and …
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Saga of Whizzer McGee
· 28.04.1963
· 49 dk
Hoss becomes concerned for the welfare of an insecure, belligerent fellow who is as small as Hoss is large. Interesting blend of comedy and pathos that ends un…
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Thunder Man
· 05.05.1963
· 49 dk
Little Joe's 19-year old girlfriend is killed by a good samaritan, an explosives expert who had stopped to render aid to the woman's uncle after he suffers a st…
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Rich Man, Poor Man
· 12.05.1963
· 49 dk
Claude Miller, the laughingstock of Virginia City, gets even with everyone who made fun of him when he strikes it rich.
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The Boss
· 19.05.1963
· 49 dk
Ben regrets that he helped Tom Slayden start a freight hauling business when Slayden sets out to ruin all the competition, and Joe is shot in the process.
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Little Man... Ten Feet Tall
· 26.05.1963
· 49 dk
When a Italian immigrant comes to the Ponderosa, he decides he wants to give up the guitar to become a cowboy.
Sezon 5 · 34 bölüm
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She Walks in Beauty
· 22.09.1963
· 49 dk
Hoss wants to marry mysterious Regan Miller, a woman with less than a pristine past. When he thinks Adam is trying to steal her away, he loses control and beat…
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A Passion for Justice
· 29.09.1963
· 49 dk
Renowned English novelist Charles Dickens comes to Virginia City. In short order, he is accused of a crime he didn't commit. The problem then becomes how to con…
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Rain from Heaven
· 06.10.1963
· 49 dk
A destitute rainmaker and his family arrive in drought-stricken Virginia City. While Ben tries to help him make rain, Hoss tends to the man's seriously ill lit…
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Twilight Town
· 13.10.1963
· 49 dk
Joe is bushwhacked in the desert and awakens to find himself in Martinville, a town that may or may not be populated by ghosts. An errie, surrealistic and well…
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The Toy Soldier
· 20.10.1963
· 49 dk
Adam encounters drunken artist James Callan, branded a "squaw man" because he is married to an Indian, and whose talent is going to waste in the town of Sheep H…
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A Question of Strength
· 27.10.1963
· 49 dk
Hoss and a pair of nuns, the younger one having a difficult time training for the order, are robbed and stranded at a way station.
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Calamity over the Comstock
· 03.11.1963
· 49 dk
Joe has a run-in with Calamity Jane, and takes her home with him after promising her dying father to take care of her. At first the Cartwrights (besides Joe) t…
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Journey Remembered
· 10.11.1963
· 49 dk
Ben finds an old journal that he kept while in a wagon train travelling from St. Joseph, Missouri to Ash Hollow. As he is reading it Ben remembers the journey …
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The Quality of Mercy
· 17.11.1963
· 49 dk
Joe struggles to understand whether his friend was right in killing a dying man who pleaded to put out of his misery.
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The Waiting Game
· 08.12.1963
· 49 dk
Adam becomes involved with the recently widowed Laura Dayton and her little girl, Peggy.
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The Legacy
· 15.12.1963
· 49 dk
Adam, Hoss and Joe mistakenly believe their father was murdered. They split into 3 different directions to confront the supposed killers. In his heart, Ben kn…
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Hoss and the Leprechauns
· 22.12.1963
· 49 dk
In what is arguably the best comedy of the series, Hoss swears he has seen green elves running around the Ponderosa and a smooth-talking Irishman complicates ma…
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The Prime of Life
· 29.12.1963
· 49 dk
Ben becomes irritable and reckless when the completion of an important timber contract is hindered by an old rival.
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The Lila Conrad Story
· 05.01.1964
· 49 dk
Joe and Adam protect a saloon girl, who has killed in self-defense, from an angry lynch mob. The accompanying Judge, along with his wife, takes a liking to Lil…
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Ponderosa Matador
· 12.01.1964
· 49 dk
Adam, Hoss, and Joe vie for the attention of a pretty young lady named Dolores. Hoss talks Joe into entering a bull fight, but it doesn't work out quite as pla…
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My Son, My Son
· 19.01.1964
· 49 dk
Ben's plans to marry Katherine Saunders are upset when her son Eden is accused of killing his former girlfriend.
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Alias Joe Cartwright
· 26.01.1964
· 49 dk
A man who looks similar to Joe uses Joe's name and gets Joe in the position of facing the firing squad.
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The Gentleman from New Orleans
· 02.02.1964
· 49 dk
The new stranger in town claims to be the famous pirate Jean Lafitte, and Hoss believes him.
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The Cheating Game
· 09.02.1964
· 49 dk
In this sequel to "The Waiting Game", Laura resents Adam's advice on how she ought to be running her ranch. A newcomer, Ward Bannister, comes to her aid, but i…
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Bullet for a Bride
· 16.02.1964
· 49 dk
While out hunting for a mountain lion, Joe accidently shots Tessa Caldwell causing her to go blind. As a result of his guilt, Joe ends up proposing to the girl…
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King of the Mountain
· 23.02.1964
· 49 dk
When mountain man Jim Leyton decides to marry, he chooses Hoss as his best man. Julie's father, Grizzly, does not agree and Hoss must come to the rescue.
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Love Me Not
· 01.03.1964
· 49 dk
While talking with an Indian, Ben is given an unexpected present...a woman. She is a young white woman named Joan who has lived with the Indians since she was …
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The Pure Truth
· 08.03.1964
· 49 dk
Hoss is suffering from spring fever, goes to the wrong town and is accused of bank robbery.
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No Less a Man
· 15.03.1964
· 49 dk
The town council feels Roy Coffee can no longer do his job, and with the notorious Wagner gang on their way to rob the bank, everyone is in a panic. Ben and Ad…
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Return to Honor
· 22.03.1964
· 49 dk
Ben must travel to pay his respects after he learns of the death of his nephew Will. When he visits the grave, he finds his nephew barely alive with a bullet wo…
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The Saga of Muley Jones
· 29.03.1964
· 49 dk
The Cartwrights are visited by their second cousin, Muley Jones of Weedville, Missouri who sings with a window-shattering voice and stirs up trouble with Indian…
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The Roper
· 05.04.1964
· 49 dk
Will is having second thoughts about staying on at the Ponderosa, and outlaws hit the ranch and take him with them. The leader, Lee Hewitt, is a young killer a…
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A Pink Cloud Comes from Old Cathay
· 12.04.1964
· 49 dk
A headstrong Chinese girl (Marlo Thomas) visiting the Cartwrights incites labor unrest among local workers.
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The Companeros
· 19.04.1964
· 49 dk
Mateo Ibara and his wife Carla visit the Ponderosa. Ibara asks Will to return to Mexico with him. Ibara and Will fought together for Juarez's cause and Ibara s…
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Enter Thomas Bowers
· 26.04.1964
· 49 dk
After a triumphant tour in Europe, a famous Negro singer encounters racial prejudice in Virginia City when he arrives for a concert.
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The Dark Past
· 03.05.1964
· 49 dk
Moody bounty hunter, Dev Farnum, shows up on the Ponderosa, where the Cartwrights are harboring the wife of the man he is after.
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The Pressure Game
· 10.05.1964
· 49 dk
Laura Dayton's Aunt Lil comes to visit and quickly decides it's time she help the hesitant Adam propose to her favorite niece. Her plan is to make Adam jealous…
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Triangle
· 17.05.1964
· 49 dk
Adam and Laura are finally engaged. Adam is secretly building a house and planning for the future. Laura realizes that it's Will she is in love with. Adam is t…
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Walter and the Outlaws
· 24.05.1964
· 49 dk
Hilarious sequel to "Any Friend Of Walter's" in which Obie leaves Walter in Hoss' care. The three outlaws, Macy, Teague, and Willard, kidnap Walter and hold hi…
Sezon 6 · 34 bölüm
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Invention of a Gunfighter
· 20.09.1964
· 49 dk
Joe teaches Johnny Chapman how to use a gun for defense. What Joe doesn't see is the deadly consequences that it has in the long run when Johnny becomes a gunf…
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The Hostage
· 27.09.1964
· 49 dk
Outlaws capture Ben and hide him in an abandoned mine, holding him for a ransom. The boys must come up with a plan to save him before it's too late.
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The Wild One
· 04.10.1964
· 49 dk
Lafe Jessup doesn't really want to be married, and now he's about to be a father! The horse wrangler finds a fight with Hoss at his reluctance to perform his d…
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Thanks for Everything, Friend
· 11.10.1964
· 49 dk
After inadvertantly falling into the river, Adam is rescued by Tom Wilson. Wilson has feelings for Sue Miller, which bring him into trouble after her father is…
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Logan's Treasure
· 18.10.1964
· 49 dk
Sam Logan is released from jail after serving his twenty year sentence for stealing $100,000 worth of gold dust. He is followed by a bounty hunter who believes…
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The Scapegoat
· 25.10.1964
· 49 dk
Hoss hires Waldo as a ranch hand after keeping Waldo from killing himself. Hoss soon learns that Waldo is lousy at his job and only causes problems for everyon…
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A Dime's Worth of Glory
· 01.11.1964
· 49 dk
An author is inspired to write about the heroic Cartwrights after watching first-hand as they fight off an attempted robbery of a stage. As Ben and Adam see no…
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Square Deal Sam
· 08.11.1964
· 49 dk
A conman heads into town and takes advantage of the Cartwrights with a fake land deal. The conman ends up staying in Virginia city to run an orphanage.
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Between Heaven and Earth
· 15.11.1964
· 49 dk
When Joe and his friend Mitch go after a puma, Joe climbs a big peak and throws his gun up higher, intending to crawl up after it. But as he looks down, things…
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Old Sheba
· 22.11.1964
· 49 dk
As payment for a performance in a circus, Joe and Hoss are given an elephant. They want to keep it but encounter opposition from Adam and Ben.
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A Man to Admire
· 06.12.1964
· 49 dk
Hoss relies on clever attorney Whitney Parker, who has a drinking problem, to clear him of a murder charge.
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The Underdog
· 13.12.1964
· 49 dk
Little Joe convinces Ben to hire Harry Starr, a half-Indian who is accused by other ranchers of being a chronic horse thief. Joe sets out to prove the others wr…
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A Knight to Remember
· 20.12.1964
· 49 dk
Two robberies take place on stagecoaches that Adam is traveling on, and both times a knight in shining armor scares the robbers away. Adam is accused of robber…
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The Saga of Squaw Charlie
· 27.12.1964
· 49 dk
A peaceful Indian is framed for the kidnapping of a young girl, a stunt which ends of tragedy.
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The Flapjack Contest
· 03.01.1965
· 49 dk
Hoss unknowingly enters a flapjack contest and Joe puts Hoss on a diet which Hoss doesn't care for. Joe's betting on the flapjack contest could get him into so…
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The Far, Far Better Thing
· 10.01.1965
· 49 dk
On their way to prevent a young woman from encountering the renegade Indians, Joe and Tuck are captured, and in order to save them all, Joe must fight Sharp Ton…
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Woman of Fire
· 17.01.1965
· 49 dk
Ben's friend, Don Miguel, visits the Ponderosa with his two daughters, Margarita and Elena, and Elena's two very anxious suitors. Their mission? They're on the…
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The Ballerina
· 24.01.1965
· 49 dk
Kellie Conrad dances and her father plays the fiddle to earn a living. Hoss feels a sense of guilt after he unintentionally hurts the arm that Kellie's father …
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The Flannel-Mouth Gun
· 31.01.1965
· 49 dk
Adam becomes involved with a quick-triggered range detective hired by the Virginia City Cattleman's Association to find out who is responsible for all the rustl…
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The Ponderosa Birdman
· 07.02.1965
· 49 dk
Professor Klump and Amanda pull Hoss into their flying machine scheme. The ""Hoss-mobile"" doesn't seem to be destined for a great take-off.
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The Search
· 14.02.1965
· 49 dk
Adam sets out to track down the man who has been impersonating him to clear his reputation.
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The Deadliest Game
· 21.02.1965
· 49 dk
The Cartwrights play host to Guido Borelli, a world renowed aerial acrobat who once saved Ben's life in Italy. Borelli's troup is beset by internal strife, and…
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Once a Doctor
· 28.02.1965
· 49 dk
Hoss' latest acquaintance, an Englishman named Professor Poppy, is actually Percival Alexander Mundy, M.D., who has given up the practice of medicine. However,…
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Right Is the Fourth R
· 07.03.1965
· 49 dk
While working as a substitute teacher, Adam uncovers an ugly secret about the territory's past that others prefer remain hidden.
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Hound Dog
· 21.03.1965
· 49 dk
Cousin Muley Jones returns to the Ponderosa, along with a pack of noisy hound dogs, in this funny sequel to "The Saga Of Muley Jones".
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The Trap
· 28.03.1965
· 49 dk
One of Joe's old girlfriends thinks he killed her husband so they could come together. Unfortunately, that is what her husband's twin brother also believes.
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Dead and Gone
· 04.04.1965
· 49 dk
Adam tries to find the good in Howard Mead, a talented troubadour who refuses to stay on the right side of the law. Dramatic debut of singer/songwriter Hoyt Ax…
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A Good Night's Rest
· 11.04.1965
· 49 dk
First Ben's sons are making lots of noise, so he goes into town to sleep in the hotel. Then, various noises and things interrupt Ben's sleep. Will he ever get …
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To Own the World
· 18.04.1965
· 49 dk
One of the wealthiest men in the world, Charles Augustus Hackett, offers to buy the Ponderosa, price no object. Ben says the ranch is not for sale and Hackett …
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Lothario Larkin
· 25.04.1965
· 49 dk
Ladies' man Lothario Larkin creates havoc whenever he hits Virginia City, so Roy Coffee orders him out of town. Naturally, Hoss takes him in.
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The Return
· 02.05.1965
· 49 dk
No one in Virginia City is happy to see ex-con Trace Cordell, especially the man he crippled in a gunfight, now married to Cordell's former girlfriend.
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Jonah
· 09.05.1965
· 49 dk
The Ponderosa hands are upset when new hand George Whitman is hired on, it is rumored he is a jinx. Hoss tells George to ignore such foolishness, but a gypsy f…
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The Spotlight
· 16.05.1965
· 49 dk
Ben invites opera singer Angela Bergstrom to perform at Virginia City's anniversary celebration. She accepts, but does not tell him that her famous singing voi…
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Patchwork Man
· 23.05.1965
· 49 dk
Hoss befriends a self-demeaning recluse named Patch, who makes the best apple pie Hoss has ever tasted. Hoss is so impressed with him, especially his pie, that…
Sezon 7 · 33 bölüm
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The Debt
· 12.09.1965
· 49 dk
Wiley and Annie Kane arrive at the Ponderosa to work off their father's debt to Ben. It seems as though the elder Kane once swindled the Cartwright patriarch.
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The Dilemma
· 19.09.1965
· 49 dk
Ben helps a convict win a parole only to have the man later become the chief suspect in a bank robbery.
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The Brass Box
· 26.09.1965
· 49 dk
Juan Ortega claims he has a land grant which gives him ownership of the entire Nevada Territory.
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The Other Son
· 03.10.1965
· 49 dk
A mule skinner and his two sons are hired by Ben to transport nitroglycerin to California.
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The Lonely Runner
· 10.10.1965
· 49 dk
A judge awards itinerant horse breeder Jim Acton's beloved mare to rancher Sam Whipple. Jim tries to buy her back, but Whipple refuses his offer, after which a …
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Devil on Her Shoulder
· 17.10.1965
· 49 dk
Ben is attracted to Sarah Reynolds, a member of a religious order led by her fanatical uncle. When she is accused of being a witch, the Cartwrights step in.
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Found Child
· 24.10.1965
· 49 dk
Hoss comes upon an overturned stagecoach and discovers a little girl suffering from shock. After the Cartwrights suceed in bringing her around, Hoss is disappo…
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The Meredith Smith
· 31.10.1965
· 49 dk
Ben must determine who is the rightful heir to a fortune that includes water rights vital to the Ponderosa.
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Mighty is the Word
· 07.11.1965
· 49 dk
Virginia City's newest preacher is an ex-gunfighter who wants only to build a new church, but the brother of one of his victims has other ideas. The blueprints…
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The Strange One
· 14.11.1965
· 49 dk
Hoss and Joe find a woman abandoned by a wagon train because her gift of prophecy is considered a curse. "Wouldn't it be wonderful," says Ben, "if eveybody mad…
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The Reluctant Rebel
· 21.11.1965
· 49 dk
The Generation Gap, Western-style, as Hoss tries to bring a young man and his father closer together.
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Five Sundowns to Sunup
· 05.12.1965
· 49 dk
The mother of a young outlaw condemned to hang, threatens to have her gang's hostages killed if her son is not set free. One of the hostages is Joe.
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A Natural Wizard
· 12.12.1965
· 49 dk
Hoss finds a kindred spirit in Skeeter Dexter, a lonesome young man who feels closer to animals than most people.
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All Ye His Saints
· 19.12.1965
· 49 dk
In this series' highlight, little Michael Thorpe heads to the high country to ask God to spare his critically wounded father, believing he has found Him in the …
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The Dublin Lad
· 02.01.1966
· 49 dk
After sitting on a jury that has convicted Terrence O' Tool of murder, Joe has second thoughts about the verdict and decides to do some investigating of his own…
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To Kill a Buffalo
· 09.01.1966
· 49 dk
Hoss finds a wounded young Indian on the prairie, who is torn between accepting the ways of the white man or returning to his old life.
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Ride the Wind (1)
· 16.01.1966
· 49 dk
The Pony Express sets up office in Virginia and Joe is one of the first to join up. Ben also decides to invest in the fledgling enterprise. However, troubles …
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Ride the Wind (2)
· 23.01.1966
· 49 dk
Conclusion to the previous-week's episode, where the Cartwrights provide needed assistance to the Pony Express.
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Destiny's Child
· 30.01.1966
· 49 dk
After his only friend is killed, the Cartwrights take in a slow-witted man, who Roy Coffee informs them, is wanted for murder by Arizona authorities.
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Peace Officer
· 06.02.1966
· 49 dk
While Sheriff Coffee is in Saint Louis, the Morrisey bunch decides to work off excess energy by wrecking the saloon in a violent spree. When Deputy Bill Harris…
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The Code
· 13.02.1966
· 49 dk
Joe is goaded into facing gunman Dan Taggert, unaware there is more to be prearranged than he realizes.
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Three Brides for Hoss
· 20.02.1966
· 49 dk
Not one, but three mail-order brides show up unexpectedly at the Ponderosa, all of them believing they are to marry Hoss.
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The Emperor Norton
· 27.02.1966
· 49 dk
Joshua Norton, an eccentric and formerly wealthy San Francisco merchant who considers himself Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, comes to the…
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Her Brother's Keeper
· 06.03.1966
· 49 dk
Ben and Claire Armory fall in love, but their future is jeopardized by her disabled brother.
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The Trouble with Jamie
· 20.03.1966
· 49 dk
The Cartwrights attempt to straighten out the snobbish young son of Ben's cousin.
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Shining in Spain
· 27.03.1966
· 49 dk
Young, adoring Wendy Daniels has come to Virginia City to meet up with her father, Taylor Daniels, who has been traveling on business for the last five years. …
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The Genius
· 03.04.1966
· 49 dk
Hoss chooses a difficult path when he decides to rehabilitate a famous poet, Will Smith, who is really William Warlock Evans, who spends too much time drinking …
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The Unwritten Commandment
· 10.04.1966
· 49 dk
Everyone feels Andy Walker is an outstanding singer but his father, who feels the boy should concentrate on ranch work instead. Joe mentions receiving a letter…
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Big Shadow on the Land
· 17.04.1966
· 49 dk
Italian immigrants are determined to establish their own vineyard on Ponderosa property.
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The Fighters
· 24.04.1966
· 49 dk
Feeling guilty for unintentionally ending the career of a professional boxer, Hoss vows never to fight again. But things change when Joe is nearly beaten to de…
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Home from the Sea
· 01.05.1966
· 49 dk
A sailor, claiming to be one of Adam's closest friends, is given a warm welcome by the Cartwrights, who have no way of knowing the man and his accomplice plan o…
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The Last Mission
· 08.05.1966
· 49 dk
Ben and Hoss unwittingly aid a vengeful army colonel who plans to wipe out every Indian he can with a Gatling gun.
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A Dollar's Worth of Trouble
· 15.05.1966
· 49 dk
Hoss finds himself in another mess, this one involving a beautiful blonde, a moonshiner, and a nearsighted outlaw who is allergic to chocolate and flowers.
Sezon 8 · 34 bölüm
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Something Hurt, Something Wild
· 11.09.1966
· 49 dk
The Cartwrights' friendship with a neighboring rancher is threatened by his mentally unstable daughter.
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Horse of a Different Hue
· 18.09.1966
· 49 dk
So the Cartwrights will not be killed, one of Ben's oldest friends must make sure Joe does not win a horse race.
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A Time to Step Down
· 25.09.1966
· 49 dk
After the Cartwrights put wrangler Dan Tolliver out to pasture, the embittered old man plans to take part in robbing the Ponderosa.
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The Pursued (1)
· 02.10.1966
· 49 dk
A Mormon with two wives is badgered by the town's people and then things get much worse.
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The Pursued (2)
· 09.10.1966
· 49 dk
As the persecuted party awaits Ben and Hoss' return, Herber is shot and killed. Joe retaliates and shoots Herber's assassin.
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To Bloom for Thee
· 16.10.1966
· 49 dk
Hoss is engaged to Carol Attley, a troubled woman with a past darker than he imagines.
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Credit for a Kill
· 23.10.1966
· 49 dk
Though his friend is badly in need of the reward money, Joe insists it belongs to him, to protect his friend from the dead outlaws' brothers.
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Four Sisters from Boston
· 30.10.1966
· 49 dk
The Cartwrights come to the rescue of four inexperienced homesteaders, when devious cattle ranchers try to run them off their property.
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Old Charlie
· 06.11.1966
· 49 dk
A young cowpoke is killed during a fight with Hoss, but the old blowhard who runs the Virginia City stables, takes the credit, placing him in danger from the de…
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Ballad of the Ponderosa
· 13.11.1966
· 49 dk
A young troubadour, who blames Ben for the death of his father, returns to Virginia City. In one scene, Ben says the young man is welcome to use Adam's guitar.
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The Oath
· 20.11.1966
· 49 dk
While in another town, on business, Ben runs into a saloon employee who is a big figure, and after he kills an old miner, who has burned down his house, Ben tak…
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A Real Nice, Friendly Little Town
· 27.11.1966
· 49 dk
When the woman he was planning to marry is strangled, Joe forces the only suspect to come forward, in a very tense-filled episode.
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The Bridegroom
· 04.12.1966
· 49 dk
Joe plays matchmaker in this story of a rancher attempting to marry off his supposedly unremarkable daughter.
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Tommy
· 18.12.1966
· 49 dk
The Cartwrights protect a woman and her deaf-mute little son from the boy's outlaw stepfather.
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A Christmas Story
· 25.12.1966
· 49 dk
Warbling Andy Walker returns to Virginia City a big success, along with his shifty Uncle Thaddeus.
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Ponderosa Explosion
· 01.01.1967
· 49 dk
Two Virginia City old-timers fool Hoss and Joe into raising rabbits, and the Ponderosa is overrun with paws and whiskers.
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Justice
· 08.01.1967
· 49 dk
When the woman he was planning to marry is strangled, Joe forces the only suspect to come forward.
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A Bride for Buford
· 15.01.1967
· 49 dk
Dolly Bantree has a crooked manager ""Blackie"", who blackmails Dolly to fleece newly rich miner Buford out of his newfound wealth. Hoss suspects something and…
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Black Friday
· 22.01.1967
· 49 dk
In the town of Chiso, Joe encounters a former Ponderosa cowhand who is now a gunfighter and expecting to be killed on Friday the 13th. John Saxon makes the fir…
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The Unseen Wound
· 29.01.1967
· 49 dk
Ben discovers that his friend, Sheriff Paul Rowan, is suffering from stress brought on by his wartime experiences.
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Journey to Terror
· 05.02.1967
· 49 dk
Joe visits his married friends in Arizona Territory, only to discover the husband has become a criminal and is secretly part of a notorious gang.
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Amigo
· 12.02.1967
· 49 dk
A wounded comanchero sides with the Cartwrights when the rest of the gang, led by Captain Fenner, shows up to burn and rob the Ponderosa.
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A Woman in the House
· 19.02.1967
· 49 dk
Mary Wharton, an old friend of the family, comes to live on the Ponderosa with her shiftless husband. When Ben learns Mary is the victim of domestic abuse, he …
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Judgment at Red Creek
· 26.02.1967
· 49 dk
Hoss and Joe have their doubts as to who really robbed a way station, suspecting the two men they captured are innocent.
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Joe Cartwright, Detective
· 05.03.1967
· 49 dk
Joe becomes fascinated by detective literature and drags Hoss into the picture when he suspects the bank is going to be robbed.
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Dark Enough to See the Stars
· 12.03.1967
· 49 dk
Young Billy Wilcox wanders onto the Ponderosa, sick, hungry, and alone. Ben finds him, and after he regains his strength, offers Billy a job. Jennifer Yardley…
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The Deed and the Dilemma
· 26.03.1967
· 49 dk
Ben assists Georgio Rossi in his battle for water on adjoining property.
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The Prince
· 02.04.1967
· 49 dk
The Cartwrights play host to Russian royals, who are the target of jewel thieves.
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A Man Without Land
· 09.04.1967
· 49 dk
The foreman of a neighboring ranch frames Joe for murder as part of a scheme to get his employer's property.
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Napoleon's Children
· 16.04.1967
· 49 dk
A gang of juvenile delinquents, led by an intelligent runt, who calls himself Napoleon, terrorizes Virginia City and the Ponderosa as well.
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The Wormwood Cup
· 23.04.1967
· 49 dk
A woman - convinced Little Joe intentionally killed her brother - offers $1,000 to the man who kills the youngest Cartwright in what she deems a ""fair fight.""…
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Clarissa
· 30.04.1967
· 49 dk
The Cartwrights' cousin, Clarissa visits. Her assertive, snobbish ways result in nothing but trouble for Ben and his sons.
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Maestro Hoss
· 07.05.1967
· 49 dk
Hoss is conned into buying a violin from a gypsy fortune teller, and everyone on the Ponderosa--except for Hop Sing--suffers the consequences.
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The Greedy Ones
· 14.05.1967
· 49 dk
The Ponderosa is in danger of being overrun by gold hunters.
Sezon 9 · 34 bölüm
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Second Chance
· 17.09.1967
· 49 dk
Renegade Indians have been on the rampage attacking settlers and raising havoc in the West. Joe and Hoss have gone to warn the settlers when Joe is shot with a…
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Sense of Duty
· 24.09.1967
· 49 dk
Ben, Hoss and Little Joe help the Virginia City militia escort a renegade Indian, who believes he is the Almighty, through hostile Indian territory to prison.
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The Conquistadors
· 01.10.1967
· 49 dk
A band of Mexican kidnaps Little Joe for a $25,000 ransom. A group of cowboys plan to rescue Joe, kill him and claim the gold for themselves.
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Judgment at Olympus
· 08.10.1967
· 49 dk
Candy is arrested for committing murder in the town of Olympus. He is accused of killing Jed Wheelock, the son of wealthy A. Z. Wheelock. He insists on findin…
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Night of Reckoning
· 15.10.1967
· 49 dk
A sadistic outlaw named Dibbs along with his gang, take siege of the Ponderosa, holding Joe, Hoss, and Candy prisoners. Their foreman, Donny Buckler, has stash…
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False Witness
· 22.10.1967
· 49 dk
While at the bank in Sandust, Little Joe and the bank's secretary witness an armed robbery. During a subsequent gunfight, the main culprit kills the banker, but…
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The Gentle Ones
· 29.10.1967
· 49 dk
Most people consider Mark Cole a coward, but he does not hesitate to step forward when his brother attempts to break a horse by torturing it.
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Desperate Passage
· 05.11.1967
· 49 dk
Driving horses to Utah, the Cartwrights and Candy discover only two people left in a town wiped out by rampaging Paiute Indians. Together, Mary Burns and Josh …
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The Sure Thing
· 12.11.1967
· 49 dk
A young girl's ownership of a beloved stallion is jeopardized by the "big plans" of her scheming father.
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Showdown at Tahoe
· 19.11.1967
· 49 dk
A career robber who claims to be a lumber man, and his gang plan to use Ben's new freight paddleboat to haul a $1 million currency shipment to San Francisco.
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Six Black Horses
· 26.11.1967
· 49 dk
Ben's old friend has stolen money from corrupt politicians in New York and plans to invest in Nevada.
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Check Rein
· 03.12.1967
· 49 dk
An injured rancher, who has enlisted the aid of the Cartwrights to buy back one of his horses after his farm is foreclosed, must avoid getting killed by his rut…
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Justice Deferred
· 17.12.1967
· 49 dk
An anguished Hoss discovers that his testimony helped hang an innocent man accused of murder. As he struggles to bring the real killer to justice, Hoss must als…
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The Gold Detector
· 24.12.1967
· 49 dk
Hoss wants to buy a mine thought to be worthless and orders a fancy invention to prove it isn't and becomes the local laughingstock in town
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The Trackers
· 07.01.1968
· 49 dk
A man, recently released from prison for bank robbery, is accused of robbing the same Virginia City bank and gunning down a teller. The Cartwrights try to prote…
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A Girl Named George
· 14.01.1968
· 49 dk
Trick photography is employed to help a killer beat a murder rap, to prove he was not there at the time of the murder he committed. However, the camera also pr…
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The Thirteenth Man
· 21.01.1968
· 49 dk
The ranchers are once again losing stock to rustlers and not everyone agrees with range detective Marcus Alley's preventive methods.
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The Burning Sky
· 28.01.1968
· 49 dk
A cruel, sadistic, alcoholic and racist rancher named Aaron Gore stalks the wife of Ben's friend, whom he has hired as a horse trainer. The woman is a glowingly…
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The Price of Salt
· 04.02.1968
· 49 dk
When a young woman inherits her late father's salt mine, a greedy rancher wants to buy all the salt for himself. Ben, standing for the smaller ranchers who cann…
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Blood Tie
· 18.02.1968
· 49 dk
A band of outlaws enact a scheme to rob the Ponderosa, by tricking Hoss and Little Joe away from the ranch and leaving a wounded Ben alone at home.
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The Crime of Johnny Mule
· 25.02.1968
· 49 dk
Hoss stands alone in refusing to convict Johnny Mule, a ""slow"" ranch hand who is accused of robbing and murdering his boss. So when Johnny Mule - fearing he'l…
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The Late Ben Cartwright
· 03.03.1968
· 49 dk
In order to ruin the plans of a corrupt politician, Ben allows everyone to think that an attempt on his life was successful.
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Star Crossed
· 10.03.1968
· 49 dk
Candy falls in love with a beautiful young woman, unaware that the man claiming to be her cousin is a bounty hunter who is not only harassing her but has framed…
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Trouble Town
· 17.03.1968
· 49 dk
The Ponderosa ranch hands are at Riverbend during a cattle drive. While there, Candy meets an old friend, Lilah Holden, working in a saloon. When the cattle d…
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Commitment at Angelus
· 07.04.1968
· 49 dk
When a horse steps on Candy's hand out on the trail, he and Joe go to Angelus to find a doctor. When they arrive, Joe sees his friend, Steve Regan, an Angelus …
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A Dream to Dream
· 14.04.1968
· 49 dk
An alcoholic rancher, drinking away his bitterness, makes live unbearable for his wife and children. Hoss helps reform his friend while bringing happiness and s…
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In Defense of Honor
· 28.04.1968
· 49 dk
Davey - a orphaned Yute that Ben helped raise and has worked as a ranch hand on the Ponderosa - falls in love with one of his own. A fellow Yute's jealousy over…
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To Die in Darkness
· 05.05.1968
· 49 dk
While the others are away, Ben and Candy are lured by an old friend of Ben's to go somewhere. The ""friend"" traps them in a deep pit. He comes back to give t…
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The Bottle Fighter
· 12.05.1968
· 49 dk
Hoss is accused of stabbing a man to death, and his only hope of acquittal is a once great trial lawyer who is now a hopeless drunk.
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The Arrival of Eddie
· 19.05.1968
· 49 dk
Eddie McKay, the son of a robber and murderer who Hoss killed several years ago in a shootout, returns to Virginia City to make a good start. Hoss wants to help…
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The Stronghold
· 26.05.1968
· 49 dk
Joe and Candy sell a herd to the Farrell Brothers in Arizona, but are paid a worthless bank draft. The widow of the man one of the brothers killed helps them g…
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Pride of a Man
· 02.06.1968
· 49 dk
Joe reluctantly takes a job as a substitute teacher and must contend with two older students who have no use for an education.
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A Severe Case of Matrimony
· 07.07.1968
· 49 dk
An untalented gypsy girl tries to get the Cartwrights to finance her career as an opera singer.
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Stage Door Johnnies
· 28.07.1968
· 49 dk
Hoss and Joe rival for the affections of visiting entertainer Mademoiselle Denise, though she is more concerned for her little dog, Andre, than anything else.
Sezon 10 · 30 bölüm
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Different Pines, Same Wind
· 15.09.1968
· 49 dk
The 10th season opens as Joe helps a widowed mountain woman, a recluse who is suffering from an infection that has become serious, in a battle to save her land …
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Child
· 22.09.1968
· 49 dk
While Hoss is in a remote town on business, he is arrested for murder and robbery. The town's richest man has just been killed, and the townspeople are less co…
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Salute to Yesterday
· 29.09.1968
· 49 dk
When on a cattle drive on Ponderosa land, the Cartwrights and Candy find a dying cavalry officer on the trail. With his last breath, he asks them to go help hi…
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The Real People of Muddy Creek
· 06.10.1968
· 49 dk
Ben is in charge of a vicious prisoner and gets virtually no help from the cowardly citizens of the town where he is holding him from the law.
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The Passing of a King
· 13.10.1968
· 49 dk
The son of a rancher to whom the Cartwrights are selling a prize bull is trying to get his father ruled mentally incompetant, and will let no one stand in his w…
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The Last Vote
· 20.10.1968
· 49 dk
Hoss and Joe's bickering leads them into taking opposite sides in the Virginia City mayoral race. Their zealous actions leads into dividing Virginia City's cit…
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Catch as Catch Can
· 27.10.1968
· 49 dk
The residents of Tin Bucket claim the Cartwrights and Candy are dealing in stolen cattle hides. With most of the town accusing Joe, Hoss and Candy of various cr…
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Little Girl Lost
· 03.11.1968
· 49 dk
A bratty 10-year-old girl named Samantha, whose mother is Ben's cousin and is a third cousin of Hoss and Little Joe, comes to the Ponderosa. While she proves to…
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The Survivors
· 10.11.1968
· 49 dk
A white woman abducted years before by the Paiutes is reunited with her husband, who is less than pleased to learn she has given birth to an Indian baby.
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The Sound of Drums
· 17.11.1968
· 49 dk
In the third and final installment of the Rossi family, Georgio Rossi doesn't understand why he cannot allow Indians who have left the reservation to live on hi…
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Queen High
· 01.12.1968
· 49 dk
Joe and Candy win a stamping mill in a poker game, but the fact of them not knowing how to run it, is the least of their worries.
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Yonder Man
· 08.12.1968
· 49 dk
An army scout Ben once knew comes to the Ponderosa and asks Ben to stake a cattle ranch in Mira Flores, Mexico.
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Mark of Guilt
· 15.12.1968
· 49 dk
Hop Sing tells Hoss and Candy they can use the ancient Chinese art of fingerprinting to prove Joe is innocent of murder.
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A World Full of Cannibals
· 22.12.1968
· 49 dk
Ben agrees to hide a government witness in a land fraud case at the Ponderosa as part of the witness protection program. However, the witness - who along with e…
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Sweet Annie Laurie
· 05.01.1969
· 49 dk
Hoss offers to help Annie Laurie, a beautiful young woman who is running away from her abusive husband, a career criminal who is determined to keep his wife und…
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My Friend, My Enemy
· 12.01.1969
· 49 dk
Only the testimony of an Indian wanted for horse theft can clear Candy of murder.
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Mrs. Wharton and the Lesser Breeds
· 19.01.1969
· 49 dk
Candy sets out to help a feisty and elderly British woman recover the jewels stolen from her in a stage holdup.
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Erin
· 26.01.1969
· 49 dk
A neighbor of the Cartwrights threatens Hoss' fiancé, Erin - a beautiful young woman who has been raised by Indians since her childhood - when Ben allows the Pa…
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Company of Forgotten Men
· 02.02.1969
· 49 dk
A retired Army sergeant, bitter that he never received his pension from the government, kidnaps one-time friend Candy and forces him to go along with a daring p…
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The Clarion
· 09.02.1969
· 49 dk
Ben's friend is struggling to keep her newspaper going in the face of harrassment by the town boss of Gunlock, so without telling her, Ben buys the business.
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The Lady and the Mountain Lion
· 23.02.1969
· 49 dk
A shady magician, with his twin daughters, comes to Virginia City and there is a lot of confusion with the daughters of the magician, twin confusion!
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Five Candles
· 02.03.1969
· 49 dk
The floor of the Virginia City courthouse collapses, trapping Ben in the basement with three other people, one of whom may or may not be guilty of murder.
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The Wish
· 09.03.1969
· 49 dk
Hoss spends his two-month vacation helping a black family get their farm in shape, and dealing with racism in the neighboring town.
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The Deserter
· 16.03.1969
· 49 dk
Candy comes upon a soldier who is running from charges of desertion, and with Joe's help they foil a plan to sell rapid-fire rifles to the Indians.
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Emily
· 23.03.1969
· 49 dk
Joe is shocked to see his ex-fiancee, Emily Anderson, in Virginia City. He had met her in Monterey five years earlier, and they had planned to get married. Bu…
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The Running Man
· 30.03.1969
· 49 dk
Joe and Candy travel to Butlerville and learn that one of Ben's closest friends is burning out new settlers, whom he regards as squatters. Candy's old ex-flame…
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The Unwanted
· 06.04.1969
· 49 dk
Feeling unloved, a Marshal's daughter runs off with a Ponderosa hand her father thinks may be related to the man that shot him.
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Speak No Evil
· 20.04.1969
· 49 dk
Coley Clayborn, who has always thought his mother abandoned him and his father, thinks she is only after the gold mine he inherited when she recently returned t…
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The Fence
· 27.04.1969
· 49 dk
While Ben and Hoss visit an old friend to negotiate the purchase of a mine, former Confederate soldiers arrive wanting to exact revenge on the Cartwrights' frie…
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A Ride in the Sun
· 11.05.1969
· 49 dk
A pair of con artists swindle Ben out of nearly $30,000 after convincing the Cartwright patriarch to enter into a deal to buy his cattle. The brother and sister…
Sezon 11 · 28 bölüm
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Another Windmill to Go
· 14.09.1969
· 49 dk
An Englishman with a passion for challenging ridiculous laws shows up on the Ponderosa grazing in a land-rowing boat mounted on a wagon.
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The Witness
· 21.09.1969
· 49 dk
A young woman, Jenny Winters who is prone to telling tall tales, claims she witnessed the Logan gang holding up a stagecoach. The Cartwrights hide her at the P…
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The Silence at Stillwater
· 28.09.1969
· 49 dk
A young boy positively identifies Candy as the man wanted in Stillwater for robbery, arson and murder.
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A Lawman's Lot Is Not a Happy One
· 05.10.1969
· 49 dk
When he is called to testify in an out-of-town lumber shark case, Roy recruits Hoss to temporarily serve as sheriff. Hoss quickly finds his hands full dealing w…
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Anatomy of a Lynching
· 12.10.1969
· 49 dk
Will Griner is acquitted of murder which upsets the folks of Virginia City. They feel Griner silenced witnesses and are ready to lynch him. Ben works to reope…
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To Stop a War
· 19.10.1969
· 49 dk
Dan Logan, a former army scout and lawman who works for the Cartwrights, has his hands full with rustlers, a range war, and a one-time prostitute whose devotion…
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The Medal
· 26.10.1969
· 49 dk
Ben lends a hand to a down and out war veteran, Matthew Rush, who received the Congressional Medal Of Honor.
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The Stalker
· 02.11.1969
· 49 dk
Candy helps the widow of a man he shot and killed in self defense, unaware she is plotting revenge against him.
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Meena
· 16.11.1969
· 49 dk
Little Joe and Candy defend Meena Calhoun and her crusty father, Luke, from horse rustlers. In the process, Joe helps Meena become assertive and stick up for he…
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A Darker Shadow
· 23.11.1969
· 49 dk
A Virginia City store clerk decides to take advantage of his co-worker's paralyzing sensitivity to bright light.
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Dead Wrong
· 07.12.1969
· 49 dk
While in Sunville on business for the Ponderosa, the town's storyteller, Salty - who has a talent for grossly exaggerating his tales - identifies Hoss and Candy…
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Old Friends
· 14.12.1969
· 49 dk
Ben is sorry to learn that two of his oldest friends are on opposite sides of the law, after 27 years. Charlie Shepard once worked a mining claim with Ben, alo…
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Abner Willoughby's Return
· 21.12.1969
· 49 dk
Joe agrees to help the man who tried to steal his horse, Abner Willoughby, who has returned to claim the box of gold he hid years ago, before going to sea.
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It's a Small World
· 04.01.1970
· 49 dk
A prejudiced Virginia City banker spurns Ben's recommendation of a recent widower (with an infant daughter to raise) for a bank teller's job because he's a midg…
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Danger Road
· 11.01.1970
· 49 dk
Ben needs to haul three beams that are 30 feet long and the Cambeau Freight Company will not do it. A new, independent freight hauler may be the answer. Howev…
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The Big Jackpot
· 18.01.1970
· 49 dk
Candy has inherited a fortune from an Indian he helped. He quits his job on the Ponderosa and becomes a vice president for a land promotor who is selling beaut…
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The Trouble with Amy
· 25.01.1970
· 49 dk
Ben comes to the aid of Amy Wilder, an eccentric animal lover whose mental competency is questioned when a neighbor declares an interest in her land for mining.…
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The Lady and the Mark
· 01.02.1970
· 49 dk
A new wealthy Ponderosa employee with a weakness for women becomes the target of con artists.
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Is There Any Man Here
· 08.02.1970
· 49 dk
When the daughter of a friend declares her love for him, Ben agonizes over what to do.
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The Law and Billy Burgess
· 15.02.1970
· 49 dk
Ben seriously doubts an angry young man committed several murders to which he has confessed to.
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Long Way to Ogden
· 22.02.1970
· 49 dk
Ben gambles the future of the Ponderosa when a convincing meat packer from Chicago, sets out to ruin the local cattle industry.
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Return Engagement
· 01.03.1970
· 49 dk
En route to San Francisco, actress Lotta Crabtree arrives in Virginia City for a special performance. Hoss is smitten by the beautiful actress, which makes her …
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The Gold Mine
· 08.03.1970
· 49 dk
Two drifters come to the Ponderosa and they try to rob the Cartwrights but are driven away. Joe becomes close to the young Mexican, Ramon, who is with them. Aft…
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Decision at Los Robles
· 22.03.1970
· 49 dk
Ben and Joe stop in Los Robles for a couple of beers and a night's rest. Ben sees the town boss, John Walker, bullying the saloon waitress, and he comes to her…
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Caution, Easter Bunny Crossing
· 29.03.1970
· 49 dk
""Here comes Hoss Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail... "" That's what the folks of Virginia City were probably thinking when a Quaker woman talks a reluc…
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The Horse Traders
· 05.04.1970
· 49 dk
In this second episode to feature Meena Calhoun and her father, Hoss and Joe's plans to sell horses from the livery stables in town is thwarted. Virgil and his…
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What Are Pardners For?
· 12.04.1970
· 49 dk
Hoss meets two men. He forms a rapport with them and they tell him that they plan to rob the bank in the town they are going to. Hoss tries to stop them but he…
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A Matter of Circumstance
· 19.04.1970
· 49 dk
Little Joe stays back at the Ponderosa to tend to its operation as Ben, Hoss, Candy and Hop Sing leave for a cattle drive, who leave as a severe thunderstorm ap…
Sezon 12 · 28 bölüm
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The Night Virginia City Died
· 13.09.1970
· 49 dk
In the 12th season premiere, a series of destructive fires strike Virginia City, and always late at night. Is it the work of a ruthless arsonist, or someone ver…
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A Matter of Faith
· 20.09.1970
· 49 dk
Dusty takes in orphaned Jamie Hunter, the son of a recently-deceased rainmaker. Jamie is determined to carry on his father's tradition by using drought-stricken…
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The Weary Willies
· 27.09.1970
· 49 dk
The Weary Willies are hippie-like former Civil War veterans who are now drifters and live off the land. Despite protests from fellow ranchers and the people of …
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The Wagon
· 04.10.1970
· 49 dk
After being taken into custody by a sheriff who does not care if he is guilty or innocent of a crime, Hoss escapes from the prison wagon with a woman he is conv…
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The Power of Life and Death
· 11.10.1970
· 49 dk
A man called Davis has shot Colonel Clayton and escapes on horseback. Joe and Ben join the posse that sets out to find Davis. Ben and Joe volunteer to cross t…
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Gideon, the Good
· 18.10.1970
· 49 dk
On the trail, Joe witnesses a woman kill a man, but the woman rides away before he can positively identify her. He rides into the nearest town, Black River and…
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The Trouble with Trouble
· 25.10.1970
· 49 dk
When Hoss volunteers to be Sheriff of a town called Trouble, he soon finds out that the town had correctly been named. Hoss almost manages to arrest the whole …
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Thornton's Account
· 01.11.1970
· 49 dk
Ben's new horse throws him down a steep slope, injuring his back. Joe tries to round up some help, but the settlers in the valley live in fear of the devious o…
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The Love Child
· 08.11.1970
· 49 dk
A dying woman and her son are rejected by her father because she had a child out of wedlock.
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El Jefe
· 15.11.1970
· 49 dk
Ben and Hoss come to the rescue of Mexican farmers who are forced off their land by the greedy mine owner who runs the town of Prince River.
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The Luck of Pepper Shannon
· 22.11.1970
· 49 dk
Pepper Shannon is a dime novel hero and outlaw. Ben gives a job to Pepper Shannon on the condition the one-time outlaw stays away from Jamie, who happens to ad…
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The Impostors
· 13.12.1970
· 49 dk
Hoss and Joe pretend to be stage robbers' partners in order to recover stolen Cartwright money. All goes well until the wife of one of the thieves shows up.
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Honest John
· 20.12.1970
· 49 dk
Jamie forms a bond with a bum and his tame crow. Before long, Jamie suggests they repair an old wagon and leave the Ponderosa.
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For a Young Lady
· 27.12.1970
· 49 dk
A girl's uncle and aunt want custody of her only because they believe she has the rights to her late grandfather's mine.
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A Single Pilgrim
· 03.01.1971
· 49 dk
Settlers from Virginia argue over Hoss' fate after one of them accidentally shoots him.
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The Gold-Plated Rifle
· 10.01.1971
· 49 dk
An insecure Jamie is unsure of his place in the family, having trouble adjusting at his new school and keeps getting harassed by a bully. When he takes Ben's pr…
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Top Hand
· 17.01.1971
· 49 dk
The Cartwrights are about to start a major cattle drive with other ranchers. It has been decided that Ben's foreman will be trail boss on the drive. Weatherby…
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A Deck of Aces
· 31.01.1971
· 49 dk
Bradley Meredith, a Ben Cartwright look-a-like, causes trouble when he sells land to the railroad. Ben has already turned down the deal, but Meredith, acting a…
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The Desperado
· 07.02.1971
· 49 dk
Hoss is held prisoner by a fugitive black couple who they admit hate white people and have nothing to lose by killing them.
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The Reluctant American
· 14.02.1971
· 49 dk
An English couple comes to Nevada to learn why a ranch owned by the British investment firm is the only company holding not showing a profit.
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Shadow of a Hero
· 21.02.1971
· 49 dk
Ben is shocked to learn the Army general he is backing as governor, advocates a policy of genocide towards all Indians.
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The Silent Killer
· 28.02.1971
· 49 dk
An epidemic of influenza hits the Ponderosa and the only person who seems sure of what to do is the wife of a doctor, whom Doc Martin says is a fraud.
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Terror at 2:00
· 07.03.1971
· 49 dk
A racist and his henchmen steal a Gatling gun, with plans to massacre everyone - including the Cartwrights - involved in a peace treaty signing between the U.S.…
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The Stillness Within
· 14.03.1971
· 49 dk
Blinded by an explosion, Joe wallows in self-pity, and at first resists the efforts of a woman trying to teach him to live without sight, not knowing she is als…
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A Time to Die
· 21.03.1971
· 49 dk
While visiting the Ponderosa, Ben's friend, April Christopher, is bitten by a rabid wolf. Ben and April and her daughter must come to terms with her illness as…
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Winter Kill
· 28.03.1971
· 49 dk
The foreman of a neighboring ranch shoots a special steer belonging to the Cartwrights, and his scheming boss plots to take unfair advantage of the mistake.
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Kingdom of Fear
· 04.04.1971
· 49 dk
Ben, Hoss and Joe, along with Candy and a fellow rancher, are jailed on false trespassing charges by a greedy mining tycoon. The despot runs a gold mine (i.e., …
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An Earthquake Called Callahan
· 11.04.1971
· 49 dk
The only person who can get Dusty out of jail is a professional fighter who will not return to Virginia City, so Joe stays on the man's heels no matter where he…
Sezon 13 · 26 bölüm
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The Grand Swing
· 19.09.1971
· 49 dk
Jamie deliberately disobeys Ben's order not to drive the supply wagons. During his recklessness, the wagon goes out of control on a sharp curve and is wrecked. …
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Fallen Woman
· 26.09.1971
· 49 dk
An alcoholic woman lashes out at Hoss after his testimony sends her husband to prison. She gets back at him by forcing the big guy to take custody of her young …
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Bushwhacked
· 03.10.1971
· 49 dk
Joe is shot and wounded while he is on a cattle drive in the Nevada desert. Two ranchers find him, delirious from thirst and the heat, and take him to their hom…
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Rock-a-Bye, Hoss
· 10.10.1971
· 49 dk
Hoss becomes a judge in a contest--he has to pick the perfect/prettiest baby. The parents of the babies nearly all try to influence Hoss, so he has a hard time…
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The Prisoners
· 17.10.1971
· 49 dk
Joe volunteers to help an old lawman escort a slick outlaw to jail, but when their prisoner kills the sheriff and wounds Joe, he must face the task alone.
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Cassie
· 24.10.1971
· 49 dk
To help the hapless wife and daughter of a lazy dreamer, Hoss arranges a "fixed" horse race.
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Don't Cry, My Son
· 31.10.1971
· 49 dk
The wife of Virginia City's new doctor leaves him, after their son dies in childbirth. The doctor snaps and abducts another woman's baby.
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Face of Fear
· 14.11.1971
· 49 dk
Neta, a teen-age girl who is a friend of Jamie's, witnesses an assault and robbery. The victim - Mr. Trumbull, a man who is about to inherit a fortune - dies. T…
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Blind Hunch
· 21.11.1971
· 49 dk
A veteran blinded by the last battle of the Civil War, returns to Virginia City, to solve the mystery surrounding who killed his brother.
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The Iron Butterfly
· 28.11.1971
· 49 dk
Hoss takes the blame when a visiting actress kills her former boyfriend. The ex-boyfriend's father, a senator, sets out to destroy the Cartwrights and the Pond…
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The Rattlesnake Brigade
· 05.12.1971
· 49 dk
Jamie and three teen-agers - a girl and two boys - are kidnapped by Doyle, a hardened criminal with nothing to lose, and his gang of outlaws. The desperate outl…
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Easy Come, Easy Go
· 12.12.1971
· 49 dk
When Luke Calhoun loses all his money in a stock scheme, he and his daughter Meena stay at the Ponderosa with disruptive consequences. Luke turns the ranch int…
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A Home for Jamie
· 19.12.1971
· 49 dk
Just as Ben begins to formally adopt Jamie, his grandfather shows up to take him away. Ben tells the gentleman, "He's a young man with his roots in Ponderosa s…
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Warbonnet
· 26.12.1971
· 49 dk
Joe is stranded in the desert when his mare falls and breaks her leg. He falls unconscious from exhaustion and lack of water, and is found near death by a Paiu…
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A Lonely Man
· 02.01.1972
· 49 dk
While panning for gold on his vacation, Hop Sing meets and falls in love with a shy woman. Their future plans are dashed when a judge confirms what Ben has tol…
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Second Sight
· 09.01.1972
· 49 dk
Hoss enlists the aid of Judith Coleman, a clairvoyant woman who has the gift of "second sight" to find Jamie. He has been missing in the high country and canno…
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The Saddle Stiff
· 16.01.1972
· 49 dk
Fired ranch hand, Cactus, suggests that Ben is too old to put in a real work's week and challenges Ben to take a job as a ranch hand under the name "Ben Brown".…
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Frenzy
· 30.01.1972
· 49 dk
Ben helps shepherd a young family, the Kosovos (Nick; his wife, Anna; and his son, Sandor), who had recently immigrated from Serbia. Nick soon finds he can't ha…
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Customs of the Country
· 06.02.1972
· 49 dk
All about Joe and Hoss' visit to a small Mexican town named Agua Santos, which seems to have some rather peculiar laws. The two Cartwright boys soon find them i…
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Shanklin
· 13.02.1972
· 49 dk
A band of ex-Confederate soldiers demands $25,000 from Ben. When Hoss resists their demands and tries to fight them, their leader, Shanklin, shoots Hoss in the …
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Search in Limbo
· 20.02.1972
· 49 dk
Sid Langley is a real estate broker who is not well liked in Nevada, thanks to his shady ways of doing business. An irritable Ben is barely polite with Langley …
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He Was Only Seven
· 05.03.1972
· 49 dk
A 7-year-old boy is killed after he walks into a bank during a robbery by the ruthless Springer gang. Joe and Jamie help the boy's angrily grieving grandfather …
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The Younger Brothers' Younger Brother
· 12.03.1972
· 49 dk
A comic tale of mistaken identity, as Hoss (and eventually Ben and Joe) are held in connection with a series of road gang robberies by the bumbling Younger Brot…
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A Place to Hide
· 19.03.1972
· 49 dk
The Cartwrights are once again brought in the middle of the Civil War. This time, the wife of former Civil War Col. Cody Ransom brings her young daughter to the…
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A Visit to Upright
· 26.03.1972
· 49 dk
Ben's ability to close a lucrative livestock contract with a conspicuous widow hinges on the sale of a dilapidated saloon in Upright that Hoss and Joe had impul…
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One Ace Too Many
· 02.04.1972
· 49 dk
While the Cartwrights are away to Carson City, ruthless land baron Bradley Meredith (Lorene Greene in a dual role) poses as Ben in a scheme to get control of th…
Sezon 14 · 16 bölüm
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Forever
· 12.09.1972
· 49 dk
Little Joe finds true love in newcomer Alice Harper. Following a courtship, the two are engaged. Unlike most of the Cartwrights' previous girlfriends, Alice mak…
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Forever (2)
· 12.09.1972
· 49 dk
Little Joe learns of the tragic and savagely brutal circumstances of Alice's death and is determined to bring her killers to justice. While a good part of this…
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Heritage of Anger
· 19.09.1972
· 49 dk
Ex-con John Dundee, a friend of the Cartwights, is being released from prison. Ben tries to help John readjust to society, but John wants revenge on those who s…
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The Initiation
· 26.09.1972
· 49 dk
Jamie's friend, Ted Hoag, is unfairly blamed for the death of another young fellow during a club initiation. In the end, it's a lesson in responsibility for the…
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Riot!
· 03.10.1972
· 49 dk
While at the Nevada State Prison to inspect conditions, Ben is taken hostage in a riot. The riot is an attempt by frustrated inmates to expose horrific conditio…
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New Man
· 10.10.1972
· 49 dk
In what was essentially the second part of a two-part episode centering on Griff King, the young parolee arrives at the Ponderosa and is hired as a ranch hand. …
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Ambush at Rio Lobo
· 24.10.1972
· 49 dk
Ben and a pregnant woman named Teresa are held hostage by desperate outlaws, who plot to rob a stagecoach and force the two to go along with the scheme.
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The 26th Grave
· 31.10.1972
· 49 dk
Mark Twain ruffles dangerous feathers in Virginia City with accusations of claim-jumping and murder.
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Stallion
· 14.11.1972
· 49 dk
The moving tale of Little Joe and his beloved black stallion, which Ben purchases for his son as a birthday gift.
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The Hidden Enemy
· 28.11.1972
· 49 dk
Dr. Will Agar is Virginia City's new town doctor, and brings with him new skills and expertise to treat area residents' health maladies. Only thing is, Dr. Agar…
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The Sound of Sadness
· 05.12.1972
· 49 dk
A lonely old man opens his home to two orphan boys but runs into bureaucratic opposition when attempting to adopt them.
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The Bucket Dog
· 19.12.1972
· 49 dk
Jamie obtains an Irish setter pup and forms a special bond between dog and man. The dog's owner learns the puppy is at the Ponderosa and arrives to claim it ...…
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First Love
· 26.12.1972
· 49 dk
Jamie becomes friends with the wife of an unpopular schoolmaster, who often browbeats her.
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The Witness
· 02.01.1973
· 49 dk
An elderly business associate of Ben's is killed after a man, posing as Candy, tries to rob her; the woman suffers a fatal heart attack, which - since it happen…
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The Marriage of Theodora Duffy
· 09.01.1973
· 49 dk
A serious game of ""let's pretend"" begins when Griff and government agent Theodora Duffy pose as husband and wife to capture a gang of war criminals.
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The Hunter
· 16.01.1973
· 49 dk
In what turned out to be the series finale, Little Joe is making a delivery for Ben when he meets Bill Tanner, a psychotic killer that is posing as a soldier he…
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