Lotta Crabtree is hired by mining tycoon Alpheus Troy to lure one of the Cartwrights into town and h...

Greedy opportunist Mark Burdette and his accomplice Early Thorne stir up trouble between the Paiute...

John Pennington and his crew want to mine the Ponderosa land by hydraulic means. Ben is totally agai...

Trader Mike Wilson attempts to escape punishment by the Paiute Indians after mistreating two of thei...

Samuel Clemens arrives in Virginia City to write for the Territorial Enterprise at the same time a c...

Little Joe is infatuated wih saloon owner Julia Bulette, whom he imagines is like his late mother....

Adam defends the mining claim of Annie O' Toole in a court presided over by Judge Ben Cartwright. A...

Adam and Hoss assist a German engineer in developing the concept of "square set timbering" in the mi...

In a flashback, the legendary prospector arrives on the Ponderosa and participates in the founding o...

Virginia City is visited by actress Adah Issacs Menken, who happens to be an old acquaintance of Ben...

Luther Bishop and Ben Cartwright have had an ongoing land dispute for a number of years, over a smal...

Adam and Joe reluctantly join a group of vengeful townsmen, who are out to lynch the three men who s...

In a variation of "High Noon", Ben and Hoss must face a gang of outlaws practically all alone when m...

This episode begins with Adam defending the honor of Sue Ellen Terry in a duel. No one gets shot be...

Hoss and Joe come across a pregnant Indian woman while hunting bighorn sheep and must deliver her ba...

Ben sends Hoss and Joe to Monterey to purchase an expensive seed bull. The first of Blocker and Lan...

Because she is related to criminals, a young woman is ostracized by everyone but the the Cartwrights...

As the Civil War approaches, Adam and Joe clash over which side to support. The situation is compli...

In the first all-out comic episode of the series, Hoss and Joe travel to Kiowa Flats, Texas, where t...

The Cartwrights encounter racial bigotry in Virginia City and end up protecting a Chinese boy from m...

In "The Spanish Grant", a young bargirl, Rosita Morales is pretending to be a Spanish noblewoman nam...

A shiftless sheepherder, Jeb Drummond, encroaches his herd of sheep on the Ponderosa and refuses to...

When a tough U.S. Marshal from California arrests a Ponderosa hand, Dave Walker, for murder, Adam an...

Nevada Territory is awaiting statehood, and Ben considers running for governor until he learns he is...

After Adam is bushwhacked by three army deserters, Ben tracks them down, and tackles the brutal Capt...

A restaurant owner whom Ben and Adam have confronted over stolen Ponderosa beef ends up dead one nig...

Adam takes Ben's friends, Lord Marion Dunsworth and Lady Beatrice, on a hunting expedition, and they...

In this comic episode, the first to take place far from the ranch, Ben, Hoss, and Joe deliver a herd...

Len Keith, a miner, wants to purchase some land adjacent to the Ponderosa from rancher Andy McKaren....

Hoss takes Billy Allen, the young son of a convicted felon under his wing, then is forced to kill hi...

Joe falls in love with Tirza, an undeniably strange gypsy girl who says she is cursed and never does...

Virginia City is plagued by organized crime, Sam Bryant and his gang. One of his men, Farmer Perkin...

A young bank robber hires on at the Ponderosa in order to keep his gang informed of the law's effort...

Filmed almost entirely outdoors, this is more like a feature than a series. Captain Pender is looki...

Adam's life is saved by an enigmatic U. S. Marshal who has come to Virginia City to arrest a friend...

The Cartwrights construct a grist mill to provide income for a crippled rancher who blames Ben for h...

Adam guides a wagon train of Quakers and falls for the leader's daughter, Regina. The force Adam mu...

While celebrating the return of his daughter Connie, former lawman McKee is asked to assist in the c...

Prejudice erupts on both sides when Ben gives an Indian named Matsou and his wife, some of his land,...

Hoss and Joe take their sweethearts to a colorful and strange carnival for the day. Joe's recent gi...

Joe's friend Dolly Kincaid is the daughter of the sheriff and she's always getting caught up with th...

Gunnar Borgstrom is the leader of a vicious band called the Commancheros. They burn houses, kill peo...

On a cattle drive back to Nevada from Texas, Ben hires a young man who is both an outlaw and the son...

Adam's life is saved by a woman known to the Indians as White Buffalo Woman, but who is actually the...

Captivated by the pretty, deaf-mute daughter of a reclusive mountain man, Little Joe teaches the you...

Hoss becomes friends with dull-witted Arnie Gurnie, who is a brute of a man with the mentality of a...

Ben feels responsible for the son of a man he was forced to kill, but the young man is determined to...

Hoss plans to marry the widow of one of Ben's friends, not knowing she is a compulsive gambler and r...

Joe becomes the target of a tough and vengeful Kentucky family, after he kills one of them who almos...

The Cartwright boys are surprised to find that a woman, claiming to have recently married their fath...

When they "rob" the bank in Virginia City to save depositors from being cleaned out by its president...

Adam goes to Mexico to find out how the son of a family friend was killed, only to learn the man is...

Hoss accidentally kills a drunk he was trying to disarm. The man's brother bushwhacks Hoss, who has...

The kindness Hoss extends to shiftless Jock Henry is not exactly repaid when Henry becomes an assist...

The Cartwright boys are concerned that Ben might be getting on in years, yet it is he who saves them...

Adam is confused by the sudden behavior of his good friend, Ross Marquette. He beats up his wife, D...

Hoss takes on The Duke Of London, an arrogant, abusive bare-knuckle fighter, though his brawn is no...

When freight company detective Jed Trask is fired after a decade of service, he joins the thieves pr...

While crossing the desert to Yuma, Arizona with a white stallion intended as a birthday present for...

Jim Applegate, Hoss' rival for the affections of Cameo Johnson, is a member of a vigilante group who...

Hoss believes in his friend's primitive version of the automobile in this lighthearted, yet sad epis...

With Virginia City on the verge of economic ruin, out of work miners put their hopes in word of a st...

Joe is the victim of an elaborate frame-up, accused of murdering a pregnant girl. When Ben is asked...

To finance his dream of constructing an airship capable of crossing the Atlantic, Ben's old friend p...

At the bedside of a seriously ill Adam, Ben thinks back to his days as a first mate in the merchant...

Blacksmith Sam Hill fights to keep the land on which his mother is buried, after his drunken father...

A drunk is killed in a saloon brawl with Hoss, and though the man's brother insists there are no har...

A friend of Ben's (Mr. Milbank) arrives at the Ponderosa at a bad time...when the Cartwright boys ar...

The Cartwrights and a bigoted army captain are pinned down by Cochise and his braves, who claim the...

Little Joe pays a visit to the widow Lee Bolden, and brings her a bank draft for her husband's inves...

In this comic episode involving a precious emerald and the sweet widow, Clemantine Hawkins who is at...

Adam tries to help a reformed gunman who wants only to live peacefully near Virginia City. Good sto...

Hoss and Joe become involved when "Bullethead" Burke vows revenge on an old man he claims cheated hi...

Joe befriends and takes responsibility for an ex-convict named Danny. Danny loves horses and is not...

A woman Ben once loved, Lady Chadwick, returns and attempts to trick him into marrying her by ruinin...

A professional wrangler working for the Cartwrights is paralyzed when thrown by a particularly mean...

Joe wins a card game and an unexpected prize...a young lady. She goes to the Ponderosa and serves t...

An irritating man who boasts of being the reincarnation of French poet Francois Villion shows up cau...

Joe accepts the job of temporary sheriff in the town of Rubicon, unaware he is being used to facilit...

In this Christmas story, inspired by Johanna Spyri's "Heidi", Hoss and Joe come across a blind girl...

The Ponderosa is overrun with settlers bearing phony property deeds, and one of Ben's oldest friends...

Hoss plans to marry Margie, a pretty blonde, but Margie becomes fascinated with a tall, traveling st...

An overbearing friend of the family tries to force her daughter into marrying Joe, though she does n...

Adam races against the clock to prove a man who was once his friend is guilty of robbery and murder...

Joe plans to marry Laura White, daughter of a man Ben once sailed with, but she is fatally ill. Ben...

The Cartwrights pretend the Ponderosa belongs to the town lush, when his aging mother from Ireland a...

The Cartwrights dig a well, build a rig and a windmill for a drought-stricken farm family.

Adam gives a second chance to a family man he suspects is one of the rustlers who has been hitting t...

When Ben fails to prevent the death of a friend's son, Adam and Joe, concerned by their father's dep...

In order to keep peace on the ranch, Hoss and Joe try to help ranch hand, Hank Meyers woo the the pl...

Ben supports the appointment of Asa Moran as Virginia City's temporary sheriff, but Moran goes overb...

A young genius, Albert Michaelson, vies for a scholarship. Adam assists Albert in the boy's experim...

In the town of Alkali, the Cartwrights are jailed on false charges of robbery and murder, but Joe es...

Adam is left to die in the desert after two thieves take $5,000 and his horse from him. Near death,...

Ben indulges in a nostalgic reverie about Hoss's deceased mother. Having worked his way west to Gal...

When two feuding families argue over the custody of two orphaned children, a reluctant Ben is called...

The Cartwrights get mixed up in the romance of a phony heiress and an equally phony land baron.

Ben, Joe and Adam travel to Bowleg to pay the yearly taxes on the Ponderosa. After the transaction...

Joe promises a dying sheepman he will make sure the old man's granddaughter gets her rightful inheri...

Hoss blames himself when a young woman is crippled in a wagon accident, and hopes a faith healer can...

Clay Stafford signs on to work for the Cartwrights and shortly afterwards shoots and kills a man who...

Determined to prove he can succeed at something without the help of his Pa, Hoss, and Adam, Joe sets...

Ben helps Matthew Raine, a famous painter who has gone blind and now wallows in self-pity, discover...

Hoss is jailed for robbing the bank in Dutchman Flats, a town on the brink of economic collapse, eve...

An Indian-hating officer, Colonel Edward J. Dunwoody, comes to the Ponderosa looking for army desert...

With a storm brewing, Adam takes refuge at a way station, run by cantankerous Jesse and his young gr...

The Civil War once again divides the citizens of Nevada, as well as Adam and Joe Cartwright. One of...

Hoss volunteers to pickup an injured neighbor's mail-order bride, but by the time they return, she h...

Billy Horne is a white man who was captured by the Shoshone when he was six. He comes into Ben & Joe...

The Ponderosa becomes a war zone when it is invaded by a detachment of Mexican mercenaries under Gen...

Hoss helps Charlie and Will (Charlotte and Willomina), two young girls who just lost their father....

Hoss is seriously injured internally and Ben seeks help from the only doctor within 50 miles, who ha...

Hoss decides to help out Wade Tyree and introduces him to Abigail and her daughter, Bonnie. Hoss ho...

When Hoss is responsible for causing a hung jury, Ben tells him, "a man is never wrong doing what he...

Frank Medford, a figure from Ben's "wild, misspent youth", shows up in Virginia City, and though dow...

Adam's guitar-strumming friend, ranch hand Danny Morgan, is arrested on suspicion of murdering and r...

A stranger, Bob Jolly, arrives in Virginia City to accuse a drunken Judge Harry Whitaker of sending...

In this entertaining episode, laced with humor, Hoss first meets mountain man Jim Leyton. Bing Russ...

A vain outlaw murders a man in front of witnesses, including Joe, but a clever lawyer is able to get...

When Cochise falls on Joe, Ben cannot help but remember that is how Marie Cartwright was killed. He...

For a change, it is Adam rather than Joe who becomes mixed up in one of Hoss' funny exploits. Toget...

Joe becomes romantically involved with a woman who considers herself a serious dramatic actress. Un...

Hoss develops amnesia after being bushwhacked and hit over the head by two outlaws and moves in with...

Adam takes a shine to Rebecca Kaufman, the daughter of a Jewish peddler, and bandits are convinced t...

Ben's attempt to rehabilitate an alcoholic singer he knew in better days are complicated by her invo...

Classic comedy in which Hoss first meets prospector Obie and his lazy but allegedly brilliant mongre...

The peaceful world of a Ponderosa hand is disturbed by the arrival of his no-good father and twin br...

While hunting for a wolf, Joe is attacked by the wolf. Adam also hunting for the wolf, hears Joe st...

After their stagecoach crashes, a group of rag-tag passengers and Joe must get out of the desert ali...

Hoss becomes concerned for the welfare of an insecure, belligerent fellow who is as small as Hoss is...

Little Joe's 19-year old girlfriend is killed by a good samaritan, an explosives expert who had stop...

Claude Miller, the laughingstock of Virginia City, gets even with everyone who made fun of him when...

Ben regrets that he helped Tom Slayden start a freight hauling business when Slayden sets out to rui...

When a Italian immigrant comes to the Ponderosa, he decides he wants to give up the guitar to become...

Hoss wants to marry mysterious Regan Miller, a woman with less than a pristine past. When he thinks...

Renowned English novelist Charles Dickens comes to Virginia City. In short order, he is accused of a...

A destitute rainmaker and his family arrive in drought-stricken Virginia City. While Ben tries to h...

Joe is bushwhacked in the desert and awakens to find himself in Martinville, a town that may or may...

Adam encounters drunken artist James Callan, branded a "squaw man" because he is married to an India...

Hoss and a pair of nuns, the younger one having a difficult time training for the order, are robbed...

Joe has a run-in with Calamity Jane, and takes her home with him after promising her dying father to...

Ben finds an old journal that he kept while in a wagon train travelling from St. Joseph, Missouri to...

Joe struggles to understand whether his friend was right in killing a dying man who pleaded to put o...

Adam becomes involved with the recently widowed Laura Dayton and her little girl, Peggy.

Adam, Hoss and Joe mistakenly believe their father was murdered. They split into 3 different direct...

In what is arguably the best comedy of the series, Hoss swears he has seen green elves running aroun...

Ben becomes irritable and reckless when the completion of an important timber contract is hindered b...

Joe and Adam protect a saloon girl, who has killed in self-defense, from an angry lynch mob. The ac...

Adam, Hoss, and Joe vie for the attention of a pretty young lady named Dolores. Hoss talks Joe into...

Ben's plans to marry Katherine Saunders are upset when her son Eden is accused of killing his former...

A man who looks similar to Joe uses Joe's name and gets Joe in the position of facing the firing squ...

The new stranger in town claims to be the famous pirate Jean Lafitte, and Hoss believes him.

In this sequel to "The Waiting Game", Laura resents Adam's advice on how she ought to be running her...

While out hunting for a mountain lion, Joe accidently shots Tessa Caldwell causing her to go blind....

When mountain man Jim Leyton decides to marry, he chooses Hoss as his best man. Julie's father, Gri...

While talking with an Indian, Ben is given an unexpected present...a woman. She is a young white wo...

Hoss is suffering from spring fever, goes to the wrong town and is accused of bank robbery.

The town council feels Roy Coffee can no longer do his job, and with the notorious Wagner gang on th...

Ben must travel to pay his respects after he learns of the death of his nephew Will. When he visits...

The Cartwrights are visited by their second cousin, Muley Jones of Weedville, Missouri who sings wit...

Will is having second thoughts about staying on at the Ponderosa, and outlaws hit the ranch and take...

A headstrong Chinese girl (Marlo Thomas) visiting the Cartwrights incites labor unrest among local w...

Mateo Ibara and his wife Carla visit the Ponderosa. Ibara asks Will to return to Mexico with him. I...

After a triumphant tour in Europe, a famous Negro singer encounters racial prejudice in Virginia Cit...

Moody bounty hunter, Dev Farnum, shows up on the Ponderosa, where the Cartwrights are harboring the...

Laura Dayton's Aunt Lil comes to visit and quickly decides it's time she help the hesitant Adam prop...

Adam and Laura are finally engaged. Adam is secretly building a house and planning for the future....

Hilarious sequel to "Any Friend Of Walter's" in which Obie leaves Walter in Hoss' care. The three o...

Joe teaches Johnny Chapman how to use a gun for defense. What Joe doesn't see is the deadly consequ...

Outlaws capture Ben and hide him in an abandoned mine, holding him for a ransom. The boys must come...

Lafe Jessup doesn't really want to be married, and now he's about to be a father! The horse wrangle...

After inadvertantly falling into the river, Adam is rescued by Tom Wilson. Wilson has feelings for...

Sam Logan is released from jail after serving his twenty year sentence for stealing $100,000 worth o...

Hoss hires Waldo as a ranch hand after keeping Waldo from killing himself. Hoss soon learns that Wa...

An author is inspired to write about the heroic Cartwrights after watching first-hand as they fight...

A conman heads into town and takes advantage of the Cartwrights with a fake land deal. The conman e...

When Joe and his friend Mitch go after a puma, Joe climbs a big peak and throws his gun up higher, i...

As payment for a performance in a circus, Joe and Hoss are given an elephant. They want to keep it...

Hoss relies on clever attorney Whitney Parker, who has a drinking problem, to clear him of a murder...

Little Joe convinces Ben to hire Harry Starr, a half-Indian who is accused by other ranchers of bein...

Two robberies take place on stagecoaches that Adam is traveling on, and both times a knight in shini...

A peaceful Indian is framed for the kidnapping of a young girl, a stunt which ends of tragedy.

Hoss unknowingly enters a flapjack contest and Joe puts Hoss on a diet which Hoss doesn't care for....

On their way to prevent a young woman from encountering the renegade Indians, Joe and Tuck are captu...

Ben's friend, Don Miguel, visits the Ponderosa with his two daughters, Margarita and Elena, and Elen...

Kellie Conrad dances and her father plays the fiddle to earn a living. Hoss feels a sense of guilt...

Adam becomes involved with a quick-triggered range detective hired by the Virginia City Cattleman's...

Professor Klump and Amanda pull Hoss into their flying machine scheme. The ""Hoss-mobile"" doesn't s...

Adam sets out to track down the man who has been impersonating him to clear his reputation.

The Cartwrights play host to Guido Borelli, a world renowed aerial acrobat who once saved Ben's life...

Hoss' latest acquaintance, an Englishman named Professor Poppy, is actually Percival Alexander Mundy...

While working as a substitute teacher, Adam uncovers an ugly secret about the territory's past that...

Cousin Muley Jones returns to the Ponderosa, along with a pack of noisy hound dogs, in this funny se...

One of Joe's old girlfriends thinks he killed her husband so they could come together. Unfortunatel...

Adam tries to find the good in Howard Mead, a talented troubadour who refuses to stay on the right s...

First Ben's sons are making lots of noise, so he goes into town to sleep in the hotel. Then, various...

One of the wealthiest men in the world, Charles Augustus Hackett, offers to buy the Ponderosa, price...

Ladies' man Lothario Larkin creates havoc whenever he hits Virginia City, so Roy Coffee orders him o...

No one in Virginia City is happy to see ex-con Trace Cordell, especially the man he crippled in a gu...

The Ponderosa hands are upset when new hand George Whitman is hired on, it is rumored he is a jinx....

Ben invites opera singer Angela Bergstrom to perform at Virginia City's anniversary celebration. Sh...

Hoss befriends a self-demeaning recluse named Patch, who makes the best apple pie Hoss has ever tast...

Wiley and Annie Kane arrive at the Ponderosa to work off their father's debt to Ben. It seems as tho...

Ben helps a convict win a parole only to have the man later become the chief suspect in a bank robbe...

Juan Ortega claims he has a land grant which gives him ownership of the entire Nevada Territory.

A mule skinner and his two sons are hired by Ben to transport nitroglycerin to California.

A judge awards itinerant horse breeder Jim Acton's beloved mare to rancher Sam Whipple. Jim tries to...

Ben is attracted to Sarah Reynolds, a member of a religious order led by her fanatical uncle. When...

Hoss comes upon an overturned stagecoach and discovers a little girl suffering from shock. After th...

Ben must determine who is the rightful heir to a fortune that includes water rights vital to the Pon...

Virginia City's newest preacher is an ex-gunfighter who wants only to build a new church, but the br...

Hoss and Joe find a woman abandoned by a wagon train because her gift of prophecy is considered a cu...

The Generation Gap, Western-style, as Hoss tries to bring a young man and his father closer together...

The mother of a young outlaw condemned to hang, threatens to have her gang's hostages killed if her...

Hoss finds a kindred spirit in Skeeter Dexter, a lonesome young man who feels closer to animals than...

In this series' highlight, little Michael Thorpe heads to the high country to ask God to spare his c...

After sitting on a jury that has convicted Terrence O' Tool of murder, Joe has second thoughts about...

Hoss finds a wounded young Indian on the prairie, who is torn between accepting the ways of the whit...

The Pony Express sets up office in Virginia and Joe is one of the first to join up. Ben also decide...

Conclusion to the previous-week's episode, where the Cartwrights provide needed assistance to the Po...

After his only friend is killed, the Cartwrights take in a slow-witted man, who Roy Coffee informs t...

While Sheriff Coffee is in Saint Louis, the Morrisey bunch decides to work off excess energy by wrec...

Joe is goaded into facing gunman Dan Taggert, unaware there is more to be prearranged than he realiz...

Not one, but three mail-order brides show up unexpectedly at the Ponderosa, all of them believing th...

Joshua Norton, an eccentric and formerly wealthy San Francisco merchant who considers himself Empero...

Ben and Claire Armory fall in love, but their future is jeopardized by her disabled brother.

The Cartwrights attempt to straighten out the snobbish young son of Ben's cousin.

Young, adoring Wendy Daniels has come to Virginia City to meet up with her father, Taylor Daniels, w...

Hoss chooses a difficult path when he decides to rehabilitate a famous poet, Will Smith, who is real...

Everyone feels Andy Walker is an outstanding singer but his father, who feels the boy should concent...

Italian immigrants are determined to establish their own vineyard on Ponderosa property.

Feeling guilty for unintentionally ending the career of a professional boxer, Hoss vows never to fig...

A sailor, claiming to be one of Adam's closest friends, is given a warm welcome by the Cartwrights,...

Ben and Hoss unwittingly aid a vengeful army colonel who plans to wipe out every Indian he can with...

Hoss finds himself in another mess, this one involving a beautiful blonde, a moonshiner, and a nears...

The Cartwrights' friendship with a neighboring rancher is threatened by his mentally unstable daught...

So the Cartwrights will not be killed, one of Ben's oldest friends must make sure Joe does not win a...

After the Cartwrights put wrangler Dan Tolliver out to pasture, the embittered old man plans to take...

A Mormon with two wives is badgered by the town's people and then things get much worse.

As the persecuted party awaits Ben and Hoss' return, Herber is shot and killed. Joe retaliates and s...

Hoss is engaged to Carol Attley, a troubled woman with a past darker than he imagines.

Though his friend is badly in need of the reward money, Joe insists it belongs to him, to protect hi...

The Cartwrights come to the rescue of four inexperienced homesteaders, when devious cattle ranchers...

A young cowpoke is killed during a fight with Hoss, but the old blowhard who runs the Virginia City...

A young troubadour, who blames Ben for the death of his father, returns to Virginia City. In one sc...

While in another town, on business, Ben runs into a saloon employee who is a big figure, and after h...

When the woman he was planning to marry is strangled, Joe forces the only suspect to come forward, i...

Joe plays matchmaker in this story of a rancher attempting to marry off his supposedly unremarkable...

The Cartwrights protect a woman and her deaf-mute little son from the boy's outlaw stepfather.

Warbling Andy Walker returns to Virginia City a big success, along with his shifty Uncle Thaddeus.

Two Virginia City old-timers fool Hoss and Joe into raising rabbits, and the Ponderosa is overrun wi...

When the woman he was planning to marry is strangled, Joe forces the only suspect to come forward.

Dolly Bantree has a crooked manager ""Blackie"", who blackmails Dolly to fleece newly rich miner Bu...

In the town of Chiso, Joe encounters a former Ponderosa cowhand who is now a gunfighter and expectin...

Ben discovers that his friend, Sheriff Paul Rowan, is suffering from stress brought on by his wartim...

Joe visits his married friends in Arizona Territory, only to discover the husband has become a crimi...

A wounded comanchero sides with the Cartwrights when the rest of the gang, led by Captain Fenner, sh...

Mary Wharton, an old friend of the family, comes to live on the Ponderosa with her shiftless husband...

Hoss and Joe have their doubts as to who really robbed a way station, suspecting the two men they ca...

Joe becomes fascinated by detective literature and drags Hoss into the picture when he suspects the...

Young Billy Wilcox wanders onto the Ponderosa, sick, hungry, and alone. Ben finds him, and after he...

Ben assists Georgio Rossi in his battle for water on adjoining property.

The Cartwrights play host to Russian royals, who are the target of jewel thieves.

The foreman of a neighboring ranch frames Joe for murder as part of a scheme to get his employer's p...

A gang of juvenile delinquents, led by an intelligent runt, who calls himself Napoleon, terrorizes V...

A woman - convinced Little Joe intentionally killed her brother - offers $1,000 to the man who kills...

The Cartwrights' cousin, Clarissa visits. Her assertive, snobbish ways result in nothing but trouble...

Hoss is conned into buying a violin from a gypsy fortune teller, and everyone on the Ponderosa--exce...

The Ponderosa is in danger of being overrun by gold hunters.

Renegade Indians have been on the rampage attacking settlers and raising havoc in the West. Joe and...

Ben, Hoss and Little Joe help the Virginia City militia escort a renegade Indian, who believes he is...

A band of Mexican kidnaps Little Joe for a $25,000 ransom. A group of cowboys plan to rescue Joe, ki...

Candy is arrested for committing murder in the town of Olympus. He is accused of killing Jed Wheelo...

A sadistic outlaw named Dibbs along with his gang, take siege of the Ponderosa, holding Joe, Hoss, a...

While at the bank in Sandust, Little Joe and the bank's secretary witness an armed robbery. During a...

Most people consider Mark Cole a coward, but he does not hesitate to step forward when his brother a...

Driving horses to Utah, the Cartwrights and Candy discover only two people left in a town wiped out...

A young girl's ownership of a beloved stallion is jeopardized by the "big plans" of her scheming fat...

A career robber who claims to be a lumber man, and his gang plan to use Ben's new freight paddleboat...

Ben's old friend has stolen money from corrupt politicians in New York and plans to invest in Nevada...

An injured rancher, who has enlisted the aid of the Cartwrights to buy back one of his horses after...

An anguished Hoss discovers that his testimony helped hang an innocent man accused of murder. As he...

Hoss wants to buy a mine thought to be worthless and orders a fancy invention to prove it isn't and...

A man, recently released from prison for bank robbery, is accused of robbing the same Virginia City...

Trick photography is employed to help a killer beat a murder rap, to prove he was not there at the t...

The ranchers are once again losing stock to rustlers and not everyone agrees with range detective Ma...

A cruel, sadistic, alcoholic and racist rancher named Aaron Gore stalks the wife of Ben's friend, wh...

When a young woman inherits her late father's salt mine, a greedy rancher wants to buy all the salt...

A band of outlaws enact a scheme to rob the Ponderosa, by tricking Hoss and Little Joe away from the...

Hoss stands alone in refusing to convict Johnny Mule, a ""slow"" ranch hand who is accused of robbin...

In order to ruin the plans of a corrupt politician, Ben allows everyone to think that an attempt on...

Candy falls in love with a beautiful young woman, unaware that the man claiming to be her cousin is...

The Ponderosa ranch hands are at Riverbend during a cattle drive. While there, Candy meets an old f...

When a horse steps on Candy's hand out on the trail, he and Joe go to Angelus to find a doctor. Whe...

An alcoholic rancher, drinking away his bitterness, makes live unbearable for his wife and children....

Davey - a orphaned Yute that Ben helped raise and has worked as a ranch hand on the Ponderosa - fall...

While the others are away, Ben and Candy are lured by an old friend of Ben's to go somewhere. The "...

Hoss is accused of stabbing a man to death, and his only hope of acquittal is a once great trial law...

Eddie McKay, the son of a robber and murderer who Hoss killed several years ago in a shootout, retur...

Joe and Candy sell a herd to the Farrell Brothers in Arizona, but are paid a worthless bank draft....

Joe reluctantly takes a job as a substitute teacher and must contend with two older students who hav...

An untalented gypsy girl tries to get the Cartwrights to finance her career as an opera singer.

Hoss and Joe rival for the affections of visiting entertainer Mademoiselle Denise, though she is mor...

The 10th season opens as Joe helps a widowed mountain woman, a recluse who is suffering from an infe...

While Hoss is in a remote town on business, he is arrested for murder and robbery. The town's riche...

When on a cattle drive on Ponderosa land, the Cartwrights and Candy find a dying cavalry officer on...

Ben is in charge of a vicious prisoner and gets virtually no help from the cowardly citizens of the...

The son of a rancher to whom the Cartwrights are selling a prize bull is trying to get his father ru...

Hoss and Joe's bickering leads them into taking opposite sides in the Virginia City mayoral race. T...

The residents of Tin Bucket claim the Cartwrights and Candy are dealing in stolen cattle hides. With...

A bratty 10-year-old girl named Samantha, whose mother is Ben's cousin and is a third cousin of Hoss...

A white woman abducted years before by the Paiutes is reunited with her husband, who is less than pl...

In the third and final installment of the Rossi family, Georgio Rossi doesn't understand why he cann...

Joe and Candy win a stamping mill in a poker game, but the fact of them not knowing how to run it, i...

An army scout Ben once knew comes to the Ponderosa and asks Ben to stake a cattle ranch in Mira Flor...

Hop Sing tells Hoss and Candy they can use the ancient Chinese art of fingerprinting to prove Joe is...

Ben agrees to hide a government witness in a land fraud case at the Ponderosa as part of the witness...

Hoss offers to help Annie Laurie, a beautiful young woman who is running away from her abusive husba...

Only the testimony of an Indian wanted for horse theft can clear Candy of murder.

Candy sets out to help a feisty and elderly British woman recover the jewels stolen from her in a st...

A neighbor of the Cartwrights threatens Hoss' fiancé, Erin - a beautiful young woman who has been ra...

A retired Army sergeant, bitter that he never received his pension from the government, kidnaps one-...

Ben's friend is struggling to keep her newspaper going in the face of harrassment by the town boss o...

A shady magician, with his twin daughters, comes to Virginia City and there is a lot of confusion wi...

The floor of the Virginia City courthouse collapses, trapping Ben in the basement with three other p...

Hoss spends his two-month vacation helping a black family get their farm in shape, and dealing with...

Candy comes upon a soldier who is running from charges of desertion, and with Joe's help they foil a...

Joe is shocked to see his ex-fiancee, Emily Anderson, in Virginia City. He had met her in Monterey...

Joe and Candy travel to Butlerville and learn that one of Ben's closest friends is burning out new s...

Feeling unloved, a Marshal's daughter runs off with a Ponderosa hand her father thinks may be relate...

Coley Clayborn, who has always thought his mother abandoned him and his father, thinks she is only a...

While Ben and Hoss visit an old friend to negotiate the purchase of a mine, former Confederate soldi...

A pair of con artists swindle Ben out of nearly $30,000 after convincing the Cartwright patriarch to...

An Englishman with a passion for challenging ridiculous laws shows up on the Ponderosa grazing in a...

A young woman, Jenny Winters who is prone to telling tall tales, claims she witnessed the Logan gang...

A young boy positively identifies Candy as the man wanted in Stillwater for robbery, arson and murde...

When he is called to testify in an out-of-town lumber shark case, Roy recruits Hoss to temporarily s...

Will Griner is acquitted of murder which upsets the folks of Virginia City. They feel Griner silenc...

Dan Logan, a former army scout and lawman who works for the Cartwrights, has his hands full with rus...

Ben lends a hand to a down and out war veteran, Matthew Rush, who received the Congressional Medal O...

Candy helps the widow of a man he shot and killed in self defense, unaware she is plotting revenge a...

Little Joe and Candy defend Meena Calhoun and her crusty father, Luke, from horse rustlers. In the p...

A Virginia City store clerk decides to take advantage of his co-worker's paralyzing sensitivity to b...

While in Sunville on business for the Ponderosa, the town's storyteller, Salty - who has a talent fo...

Ben is sorry to learn that two of his oldest friends are on opposite sides of the law, after 27 year...

Joe agrees to help the man who tried to steal his horse, Abner Willoughby, who has returned to claim...

A prejudiced Virginia City banker spurns Ben's recommendation of a recent widower (with an infant da...

Ben needs to haul three beams that are 30 feet long and the Cambeau Freight Company will not do it....

Candy has inherited a fortune from an Indian he helped. He quits his job on the Ponderosa and becom...

Ben comes to the aid of Amy Wilder, an eccentric animal lover whose mental competency is questioned...

A new wealthy Ponderosa employee with a weakness for women becomes the target of con artists.

When the daughter of a friend declares her love for him, Ben agonizes over what to do.

Ben seriously doubts an angry young man committed several murders to which he has confessed to.

Ben gambles the future of the Ponderosa when a convincing meat packer from Chicago, sets out to ruin...

En route to San Francisco, actress Lotta Crabtree arrives in Virginia City for a special performance...

Two drifters come to the Ponderosa and they try to rob the Cartwrights but are driven away. Joe beco...

Ben and Joe stop in Los Robles for a couple of beers and a night's rest. Ben sees the town boss, Jo...

""Here comes Hoss Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail... "" That's what the folks of Virginia C...

In this second episode to feature Meena Calhoun and her father, Hoss and Joe's plans to sell horses...

Hoss meets two men. He forms a rapport with them and they tell him that they plan to rob the bank i...

Little Joe stays back at the Ponderosa to tend to its operation as Ben, Hoss, Candy and Hop Sing lea...

In the 12th season premiere, a series of destructive fires strike Virginia City, and always late at...

Dusty takes in orphaned Jamie Hunter, the son of a recently-deceased rainmaker. Jamie is determined...

The Weary Willies are hippie-like former Civil War veterans who are now drifters and live off the la...

After being taken into custody by a sheriff who does not care if he is guilty or innocent of a crime...

A man called Davis has shot Colonel Clayton and escapes on horseback. Joe and Ben join the posse th...

On the trail, Joe witnesses a woman kill a man, but the woman rides away before he can positively id...

When Hoss volunteers to be Sheriff of a town called Trouble, he soon finds out that the town had cor...

Ben's new horse throws him down a steep slope, injuring his back. Joe tries to round up some help,...

A dying woman and her son are rejected by her father because she had a child out of wedlock.

Ben and Hoss come to the rescue of Mexican farmers who are forced off their land by the greedy mine...

Pepper Shannon is a dime novel hero and outlaw. Ben gives a job to Pepper Shannon on the condition...

Hoss and Joe pretend to be stage robbers' partners in order to recover stolen Cartwright money. All...

Jamie forms a bond with a bum and his tame crow. Before long, Jamie suggests they repair an old wag...

A girl's uncle and aunt want custody of her only because they believe she has the rights to her late...

Settlers from Virginia argue over Hoss' fate after one of them accidentally shoots him.

An insecure Jamie is unsure of his place in the family, having trouble adjusting at his new school a...

The Cartwrights are about to start a major cattle drive with other ranchers. It has been decided th...

Bradley Meredith, a Ben Cartwright look-a-like, causes trouble when he sells land to the railroad....

Hoss is held prisoner by a fugitive black couple who they admit hate white people and have nothing t...

An English couple comes to Nevada to learn why a ranch owned by the British investment firm is the o...

Ben is shocked to learn the Army general he is backing as governor, advocates a policy of genocide t...

An epidemic of influenza hits the Ponderosa and the only person who seems sure of what to do is the...

A racist and his henchmen steal a Gatling gun, with plans to massacre everyone - including the Cartw...

Blinded by an explosion, Joe wallows in self-pity, and at first resists the efforts of a woman tryin...

While visiting the Ponderosa, Ben's friend, April Christopher, is bitten by a rabid wolf. Ben and A...

The foreman of a neighboring ranch shoots a special steer belonging to the Cartwrights, and his sche...

Ben, Hoss and Joe, along with Candy and a fellow rancher, are jailed on false trespassing charges by...

The only person who can get Dusty out of jail is a professional fighter who will not return to Virgi...

Jamie deliberately disobeys Ben's order not to drive the supply wagons. During his recklessness, the...

An alcoholic woman lashes out at Hoss after his testimony sends her husband to prison. She gets back...

Joe is shot and wounded while he is on a cattle drive in the Nevada desert. Two ranchers find him, d...

Hoss becomes a judge in a contest--he has to pick the perfect/prettiest baby. The parents of the ba...

Joe volunteers to help an old lawman escort a slick outlaw to jail, but when their prisoner kills th...

To help the hapless wife and daughter of a lazy dreamer, Hoss arranges a "fixed" horse race.

The wife of Virginia City's new doctor leaves him, after their son dies in childbirth. The doctor s...

Neta, a teen-age girl who is a friend of Jamie's, witnesses an assault and robbery. The victim - Mr....

A veteran blinded by the last battle of the Civil War, returns to Virginia City, to solve the myster...

Hoss takes the blame when a visiting actress kills her former boyfriend. The ex-boyfriend's father,...

Jamie and three teen-agers - a girl and two boys - are kidnapped by Doyle, a hardened criminal with...

When Luke Calhoun loses all his money in a stock scheme, he and his daughter Meena stay at the Ponde...

Just as Ben begins to formally adopt Jamie, his grandfather shows up to take him away. Ben tells th...

Joe is stranded in the desert when his mare falls and breaks her leg. He falls unconscious from exh...

While panning for gold on his vacation, Hop Sing meets and falls in love with a shy woman. Their fu...

Hoss enlists the aid of Judith Coleman, a clairvoyant woman who has the gift of "second sight" to fi...

Fired ranch hand, Cactus, suggests that Ben is too old to put in a real work's week and challenges B...

Ben helps shepherd a young family, the Kosovos (Nick; his wife, Anna; and his son, Sandor), who had...

All about Joe and Hoss' visit to a small Mexican town named Agua Santos, which seems to have some ra...

A band of ex-Confederate soldiers demands $25,000 from Ben. When Hoss resists their demands and trie...

Sid Langley is a real estate broker who is not well liked in Nevada, thanks to his shady ways of doi...

A 7-year-old boy is killed after he walks into a bank during a robbery by the ruthless Springer gang...

A comic tale of mistaken identity, as Hoss (and eventually Ben and Joe) are held in connection with...

The Cartwrights are once again brought in the middle of the Civil War. This time, the wife of former...

Ben's ability to close a lucrative livestock contract with a conspicuous widow hinges on the sale of...

While the Cartwrights are away to Carson City, ruthless land baron Bradley Meredith (Lorene Greene i...

Little Joe finds true love in newcomer Alice Harper. Following a courtship, the two are engaged. Unl...

Little Joe learns of the tragic and savagely brutal circumstances of Alice's death and is determined...

Ex-con John Dundee, a friend of the Cartwights, is being released from prison. Ben tries to help Joh...

Jamie's friend, Ted Hoag, is unfairly blamed for the death of another young fellow during a club ini...

While at the Nevada State Prison to inspect conditions, Ben is taken hostage in a riot. The riot is...

In what was essentially the second part of a two-part episode centering on Griff King, the young par...

Ben and a pregnant woman named Teresa are held hostage by desperate outlaws, who plot to rob a stage...

Mark Twain ruffles dangerous feathers in Virginia City with accusations of claim-jumping and murder.

The moving tale of Little Joe and his beloved black stallion, which Ben purchases for his son as a b...

Dr. Will Agar is Virginia City's new town doctor, and brings with him new skills and expertise to tr...

A lonely old man opens his home to two orphan boys but runs into bureaucratic opposition when attemp...

Jamie obtains an Irish setter pup and forms a special bond between dog and man. The dog's owner lear...

Jamie becomes friends with the wife of an unpopular schoolmaster, who often browbeats her.

An elderly business associate of Ben's is killed after a man, posing as Candy, tries to rob her; the...

A serious game of ""let's pretend"" begins when Griff and government agent Theodora Duffy pose as hu...

In what turned out to be the series finale, Little Joe is making a delivery for Ben when he meets Bi...