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Anzahl Episoden: 430
Staffel: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14
Jahr: 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973

Staffel 1

Staffel 1, Folge 1: A Rose for Lotta

Erstausstrahlung: 12. September 1959
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.

Staffel 1, Folge 2: Death on Sun Mountain

Erstausstrahlung: 19. September 1959
The Cartwrights go up against two San Francisco men who plan to get rich by killing off the antelope herds--which the Indians rely on for their food--and selling the meat to Virginia City's swarms of gold miners.

Staffel 1, Folge 3: The Newcomers

Erstausstrahlung: 26. September 1959

Staffel 1, Folge 4: The Paiute War

Erstausstrahlung: 3. Oktober 1959
In order to escape punishment for mistreating two Paiute women, a trader blames it on Adam Cartwright. The Paites seize Adam make him a hostage as war erupts between the tribe and a local militia.

Staffel 1, Folge 5: Enter Mark Twain

Erstausstrahlung: 10. Oktober 1959
The Cartwrights help Virginia City reporter Samuel Langhorne Clemens investigate suspected shady goings-on between a railroad company and a local judge.

Staffel 1, Folge 6: The Julia Bulette Story

Erstausstrahlung: 17. Oktober 1959

Staffel 1, Folge 7: The Saga of Annie O'Toole

Erstausstrahlung: 24. Oktober 1959
Feisty Annie O'Toole comes west with her old Da to mine silver and winds up feeding the silver miners, shanghaiing Adam Cartwright to be her partner in her tent-kitchen, "The Square Meal", and her attorney in Miner's Court when an old enemy challenges her right to her claim.

Staffel 1, Folge 8: The Phillip Diedesheimer Story

Erstausstrahlung: 31. Oktober 1959
Adam and Hoss put their lives and the Cartwright reputation on the line to help Dutch engineer, Philip Diedesheimer, convince greedy silver mine owners and shareholders to use his innovative honeycomb support system to improve mine shaft safety and save miners' lives.

Staffel 1, Folge 9: Mr. Henry Comstock

Erstausstrahlung: 7. November 1959

Staffel 1, Folge 10: The Magnificent Adah

Erstausstrahlung: 14. November 1959

Staffel 1, Folge 11: The Truckee Strip

Erstausstrahlung: 21. November 1959
Caught in the middle of a longtime family feud over a disputed piece of land, star-crossed lovers Joe Cartwright and Amy Bishop try to convince their stubborn fathers to resolve their differences as tension escalates into violence.

Staffel 1, Folge 12: The Hanging Posse

Erstausstrahlung: 28. November 1959

Staffel 1, Folge 13: Vendetta

Erstausstrahlung: 5. Dezember 1959

Staffel 1, Folge 14: The Sisters

Erstausstrahlung: 12. Dezember 1959

Staffel 1, Folge 15: The Last Hunt

Erstausstrahlung: 29. Dezember 1959
Hoss and Little Joe soon discover that the Shoshone Indian brave who tries to rob their hunting camp is actually a soon-due, pregnant Shoshone woman who refuses to tell them why she left her tribe and appears to be making her way towards Virginia City.

Staffel 1, Folge 16: El Toro Grande

Erstausstrahlung: 2. Januar 1960
After tangling with bandits on the way to California to buy a prize bull for the Ponderosa, Little Joe fends off a pretty senorita and her jealous fiancé, while Hoss discovers that the bull has been spirited away by a little boy who is convinced that the Cartwrights plan to kill and eat his big bovine friend.

Staffel 1, Folge 17: The Outcast

Erstausstrahlung: 9. Januar 1960
The Cartwrights come to the aid of Leta Malvet when she is ostracized by the community after her father and brother are hanged by a lynch mob for killing two men while trying to rob the stagecoach that they thought carried the Ponderosa's payroll. But Adam is sure that the gang will try again when they find out that the Malvets came up empty-handed and suspects that it's no coincidence when Leta's beau, bad boy Clay Renton, comes back to town.

Staffel 1, Folge 18: A House Divided

Erstausstrahlung: 16. Januar 1960
Ben tries to uncover the reason gold and silver exporter, Frederick Kyle, has befriended Little Joe before the shadowy businessman's hidden Civil War agenda tears Virginia City, and the Cartwright family, apart.

Staffel 1, Folge 19: The Gunmen

Erstausstrahlung: 23. Januar 1960
Hoss and Little Joe are mistaken for bloodthirsty hired killers in a small Texas town dominated by two feuding families.

Staffel 1, Folge 20: The Fear Merchants

Erstausstrahlung: 30. Januar 1960
The Cartwrights come to the aid of a Chinese-American stable hand accused of murder. Opposing them is a manipulative mayoral candidate who wants all "foreigners" to leave Virginia City.

Staffel 1, Folge 21: The Spanish Grant

Erstausstrahlung: 6. Februar 1960
The Cartwrights try to disprove the validity of a Spanish land grant to stop the De La Cuesta family from seizing part of the Ponderosa and all of the Carson Valley settlers' homestead lands.

Staffel 1, Folge 22: Blood on the Land

Erstausstrahlung: 13. Februar 1960

Staffel 1, Folge 23: Desert Justice

Erstausstrahlung: 20. Februar 1960

Staffel 1, Folge 24: The Stranger

Erstausstrahlung: 27. Februar 1960

Staffel 1, Folge 25: Escape to Ponderosa

Erstausstrahlung: 5. März 1960

Staffel 1, Folge 26: The Avenger

Erstausstrahlung: 19. März 1960

Staffel 1, Folge 27: The Last Trophy

Erstausstrahlung: 26. März 1960

Staffel 1, Folge 28: San Francisco Holiday

Erstausstrahlung: 2. April 1960
The Cartwrights, with Hop Sing, finish a cattle drive in San Francisco. Ben warns the other men of the dangers of the big city. Nevertheless, some of the men are careless and naive. Two of the hired hands disappear, and Ben suspects that the men were shanghaied. With invaluable assistance from several of Hop Sing's cousins, the Cartwrights locate the missing men and break up the racket.

Staffel 1, Folge 29: Bitter Water

Erstausstrahlung: 9. April 1960
A neighboring rancher, Andy, is good friends with Ben, but his son (Todd) wants to sell their land for mining operations which will spoil the water rights agreement that Andy and Ben made years ago.

Staffel 1, Folge 30: Feet of Clay

Erstausstrahlung: 16. April 1960
A woman dies. Her husband is in prison, and the sheriff needs someone to look after the boy until the boy's uncle can come to claim him. The Cartwrights begin to take care of the boy at the Ponderosa. When the boy arrives at the ranch, he does not know that his father is in prison. The boy learns the truth about his dad, and news reaches the Ponderosa that the convict has escaped from prison. The Cartwrights deal with the possibility that the boy's father may be coming their way.

Staffel 1, Folge 31: Dark Star

Erstausstrahlung: 23. April 1960

Staffel 1, Folge 32: Death at Dawn

Erstausstrahlung: 30. April 1960

Staffel 2

Staffel 2, Folge 1: Showdown

Erstausstrahlung: 10. September 1960

Staffel 2, Folge 2: The Mission

Erstausstrahlung: 17. September 1960

Staffel 2, Folge 3: Badge Without Honor

Erstausstrahlung: 24. September 1960

Staffel 2, Folge 4: The Mill

Erstausstrahlung: 1. Oktober 1960
The Cartwrights' neighbor Tom Edwards has lived as a paraplegic, ever since an accident involving Ben Cartwright and a gun. His ranch is going to waste. His wife Joyce is a longtime friend of Ben, and Ben decides to help the Edwards couple by making Tom a business proposition: the Cartwrights will build a grain mill on Edwards' land. In return, Ben only wants his investment money back, plus fifteen percent. Tom and his hired hand Ezekiel are suspicious of Ben, but Tom agrees to the deal. The Cartwright men build the mill, but tension begins to rise when Ezekiel makes comments which rekindle Tom's suspicion.

Staffel 2, Folge 5: The Hopefuls

Erstausstrahlung: 8. Oktober 1960

Staffel 2, Folge 6: Denver McKee

Erstausstrahlung: 15. Oktober 1960

Staffel 2, Folge 7: Day of Reckoning

Erstausstrahlung: 22. Oktober 1960

Staffel 2, Folge 8: The Abduction

Erstausstrahlung: 29. Oktober 1960

Staffel 2, Folge 9: Breed of Violence

Erstausstrahlung: 5. November 1960

Staffel 2, Folge 10: The Last Viking

Erstausstrahlung: 12. November 1960
Gunnar is a long-lost relative of the Cartwright family. When Gunnar arrives at the Ponderosa, the family takes him in for the evening. Gunnar is the brother to one of Ben Cartwright's late wives. Unbeknownst to the Cartwright family, Gunnar is also the leader of a band of criminals called The Comancheros. Little Joe is visiting his girlfriend away from the ranch. When Little Joe and his girlfriend are kidnapped by The Comancheros, the Cartwrights and Gunnar are forced into a difficult situation.

Staffel 2, Folge 11: The Trail Gang

Erstausstrahlung: 26. November 1960

Staffel 2, Folge 12: The Savage

Erstausstrahlung: 3. Dezember 1960

Staffel 2, Folge 13: Silent Thunder

Erstausstrahlung: 10. Dezember 1960

Staffel 2, Folge 14: The Ape

Erstausstrahlung: 17. Dezember 1960
Arnie is a lonely man with big muscles, a little brain and an ugly face. He is friendly by nature, but when somebody jeers at him and calls him an ape, he becomes mad. Then he is very dangerous. Most people avoid Arnie, but Hoss recognizes something of his own nature in Arnie and wants to help him.

Staffel 2, Folge 15: The Blood Line

Erstausstrahlung: 31. Dezember 1960
When 16 year old Todd Grayson arrives from Boston to Virginia City, he is told that his father has been killed by Ben Cartwright. Ben has shot Luke Grayson in self-defence, but Todd won't listen to this. The boy has only one thing in his head: to revenge his father by killing Ben Cartwright.

Staffel 2, Folge 16: The Courtship

Erstausstrahlung: 7. Januar 1961
Hoss falls prey to the wiles of a beautiful woman with a gambling addiction and refuses to believe she's only interested in his money in spite of Adam's proof to the contrary.

Staffel 2, Folge 17: The Spitfire

Erstausstrahlung: 14. Januar 1961

Staffel 2, Folge 18: The Bride

Erstausstrahlung: 21. Januar 1961
The Cartwright boys are shocked by the unexpected arrival of a beautiful young woman who claims to be Mrs. Ben Cartwright. But when Ben comes home to the Ponderosa that night, the new bride declares that he is not the man she married and the Cartwrights soon find themselves involved in what could become a fatal case of mistaken identity.

Staffel 2, Folge 19: Bank Run

Erstausstrahlung: 28. Januar 1961
Hoss and Joe rob a bank for altruistic reasons in and are pursued by the law.

Staffel 2, Folge 20: The Fugitive

Erstausstrahlung: 4. Februar 1961

Staffel 2, Folge 21: Vengeance

Erstausstrahlung: 11. Februar 1961

Staffel 2, Folge 22: The Tax Collector

Erstausstrahlung: 18. Februar 1961

Staffel 2, Folge 23: The Rescue

Erstausstrahlung: 25. Februar 1961

Staffel 2, Folge 24: The Dark Gate

Erstausstrahlung: 4. März 1961

Staffel 2, Folge 25: The Duke

Erstausstrahlung: 11. März 1961
The Cartwrights challenge an arrogant and cruel British prizefighter, the Duke, and his alcoholic manager to a bout with John Heenan (the Benicia Boy), after the Cartwrights' meek friend J.D. gets pulverized by the Duke in a bar-fight. J.D. is adored by saloon girl Marge, but he has been too shy to return her affections. While the Cartwrights wait to see if Heenan will actually take the bout and come from San Francisco, the Duke pursues Marge and assaults her when she rebuffs him. When the manager comes to Marge's rescue, he too is beaten up by the Duke (who, it turns out, is the manager's brother). Infuriated by all this, Hoss Cartwright himself challenges the Duke, and him knocks out in the fourth round of a bare-knuckle fight refereed by Sheriff Roy Coffee. The Duke and his brother-manager reconcile in the humility of defeat, then learn that the Benicia Boy will accept the proposed bout, but only the Duke comes to San Francisco. The Duke apologizes to all he has offended while in Virginia City and heads west to fight Heenan.

Staffel 2, Folge 26: Cutthroat Junction

Erstausstrahlung: 18. März 1961

Staffel 2, Folge 27: The Gift

Erstausstrahlung: 1. April 1961

Staffel 2, Folge 28: The Rival

Erstausstrahlung: 15. April 1961

Staffel 2, Folge 29: The Infernal Machine

Erstausstrahlung: 22. April 1961

Staffel 2, Folge 30: The Thunderhead Swindle

Erstausstrahlung: 29. April 1961

Staffel 2, Folge 31: The Secret

Erstausstrahlung: 6. Mai 1961
Joe is accused of murdering a girl. Her father and brothers want to hang Joe and The Cartwrights race to prove his innocence.

Staffel 2, Folge 32: The Dream Riders

Erstausstrahlung: 20. Mai 1961
Hoss gets diverted by a hot air balloon while a family friend robs the Virginia City bank.

Staffel 2, Folge 33: Elizabeth, My Love

Erstausstrahlung: 27. Mai 1961
At the bedside of a seriously ill Adam, Ben thinks back to his days as a first mate on a sailing ship and his marriage to Adam's mother, Elizabeth Stoddard.

Staffel 2, Folge 34: Sam Hill

Erstausstrahlung: 3. Juni 1961

Staffel 3

Staffel 3, Folge 1: The Smiler

Erstausstrahlung: 24. September 1961
The brother of a man Hoss killed in self-defense says he understands but secretly plans revenge.

Staffel 3, Folge 2: Springtime

Erstausstrahlung: 1. Oktober 1961
When their spring-fever antics injure miserly businessman, Jedediah Milbank, requiring recuperation at the Ponderosa, Ben orders each of his sons to carry out one of Mr. Milbank's seemingly simple tasks, unaware that they may prove impossible for the kind-hearted Cartwright boys to complete.

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2:00 PM

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Staffel 3, Folge 3: The Honor of Cochise

Erstausstrahlung: 8. Oktober 1961
The Cartwrights must try to get help for Adam, seriously wounded by an Apache bullet, and find out why Cochise and his warriors have threatened to kill them all if they don't hand over an army captain taking refuge in their trail camp.

Staffel 3, Folge 4: The Lonely House

Erstausstrahlung: 15. Oktober 1961
Joe Cartwright and the young widow of a family friend are held hostage on her isolated ranch outside Platte City by the same gang that robbed Little Joe in the town bank earlier that day.

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Staffel 3, Folge 5: The Burma Rarity

Erstausstrahlung: 21. Oktober 1961

Staffel 3, Folge 6: Broken Ballad

Erstausstrahlung: 29. Oktober 1961

Staffel 3, Folge 7: The Many Faces of Gideon Flinch

Erstausstrahlung: 5. November 1961

Staffel 3, Folge 8: The Friendship

Erstausstrahlung: 12. November 1961
The Cartwrights convince the prison warden to free 23-year-old chain-gang convict, Danny Kid, imprisoned since he was an orphan of thirteen, and take him on as a ranch-hand to repay him for saving Little Joe from being dragged to death by a spooked horse.

Staffel 3, Folge 9: The Countess

Erstausstrahlung: 19. November 1961
Unsettling events that could spell financial ruin for the Ponderosa mysteriously coincide with the arrival of a wealthy countess who seems determined to win the love of Ben Cartwright, the man she spurned twenty years before in New Orleans.

Staffel 3, Folge 10: The Horse Breaker

Erstausstrahlung: 26. November 1961
The Cartwrights hope that time and therapy will get bronc breaker, Johnny Lightly, back in the saddle after a bad fall. But Johnny soon faces thinly veiled hostility from the young nurse sent to help him, threats from a rancher who blames Ben Cartwright for his family's calamities, and a growing fear that he may never walk again.

Staffel 3, Folge 11: Day of the Dragon

Erstausstrahlung: 3. Dezember 1961
His search for the two men who kidnapped his bride-to-be, Su Ling, will soon take angry Chinese warlord, General Tsung, from San Francisco to the Ponderosa where Little Joe has been challenged to explain how he won the girl in a poker game.

Staffel 3, Folge 12: The Frenchman

Erstausstrahlung: 10. Dezember 1961
Hoss insults a feisty Frenchman who demands satisfaction with swords, unaware that the little rogue believes himself to be the reincarnation of medieval, outlaw poet Francois Villon and is destined to suffer his namesake's fate of being sentenced to death on the gallows for murder.

Staffel 3, Folge 13: The Tin Badge

Erstausstrahlung: 17. Dezember 1961

Staffel 3, Folge 14: Gabrielle

Erstausstrahlung: 24. Dezember 1961
The Cartwrights find a loving home for Gabrielle, a blind eleven year old girl, whose parents were killed in an overturned wagon; but Gabrielle wants to live with her grandfather, a crusty mountain hermit who wants nothing to do with anyone...including his orphaned granddaughter.

Staffel 3, Folge 15: Land Grab

Erstausstrahlung: 31. Dezember 1961
The Cartwrights play host to an eccentric old soldier friend of Ben's while trying to track down a mysterious swindler named Polk who is illegally deeding parcels of the Ponderosa to settlers looking for homesteads.

Staffel 3, Folge 16: The Tall Stranger

Erstausstrahlung: 7. Januar 1962
A handsome, charismatic con man sweeps Margie Owens off her feet with promises of excitement and adventure, jeopardizing Hoss Cartwright's hopes to wed the pretty rancher's daughter.

Staffel 3, Folge 17: The Lady from Baltimore

Erstausstrahlung: 14. Januar 1962
Bitterly disappointed in her husband's financial failures, genteel matriarch Deborah Banning travels to visit her friends on the Ponderosa, hoping to turn her family's fortunes around by marrying her only daughter off to a Cartwright son.

Staffel 3, Folge 18: The Ride

Erstausstrahlung: 21. Januar 1962
Because he didn't see the gunman's face, witness Adam Cartwright can't convince his family and the sheriff of his certainty that good friend, Bill Enders, was one of the hooded men responsible for robbing a way station and killing the attendant.

Staffel 3, Folge 19: The Storm

Erstausstrahlung: 28. Januar 1962
While visiting the Ponderosa, Ben's old friend, sea Captain Matthew White, is forced to reveal a terrible secret after Little Joe Cartwright falls in love with and plans to wed the Captain's daughter, Laura, once a freckle-faced playmate from Joe's childhood in New Orleans, now grown into a beautiful woman.

Staffel 3, Folge 20: The Auld Sod

Erstausstrahlung: 4. Februar 1962
Town drunk Danny Lynch's letters written to his dear Irish mother tell her of his life as a wealthy Nevada rancher, and when the old lady comes to America to pay her son a surprise visit, Danny convinces the Cartwrights to let him pretend that he is the owner of the Ponderosa and they are the hired hands.

Staffel 3, Folge 21: Gift of Water

Erstausstrahlung: 11. Februar 1962
A drought has ravaged the flat lands and Hoss stops to water at the Ganther farm where Jason Ganther is attempting to dig a well and get to water which he believes is just a few further feet down. Hoss decides to help him and they begin drilling for water. Meanwhile ranchers in the high country have started up a vigilante group to keep families from leaving the flat lands and settling in the high country where water is plentiful. Disgusted by the vigilantes the entire Cartwright family soon begins helping the Ganthers. Tensions mount between the two groups as the Cartwrights race against time to find the water before violence erupts.

Staffel 3, Folge 22: The Jacknife

Erstausstrahlung: 18. Februar 1962
Searching for missing Ponderosa cattle, Adam Cartwright stops to aid injured rancher, Matt Grant, takes him home and stays to help his wife and son while he recovers. But Adam doesn't know that Matt is part of a gang of rustlers responsible for the missing cattle, and now that Adam can identify him, they want him dead before their next job.

Staffel 3, Folge 23: The Guilty

Erstausstrahlung: 25. Februar 1962
Tuscon gunman, Jack Groat, swore to kill Sheriff Lem Partridge for putting him in prison after a bullet from Groat's gun during a drunken street brawl accidentally killed Sheriff Partridge's wife. Now, 10 years later and fresh out of prison, Groat has tracked retired Lem Partridge to Virginia City and is soon holding Lem's son, Jimmy, and good friend Ben Cartwright hostage. But things go bad and Ben must soon explain to Lem... and try to convince himself... that there was nothing he could have done that day to stop Groat from shooting Jimmy in the back.

Staffel 3, Folge 24: The Wooing of Abigail Jones

Erstausstrahlung: 4. März 1962
The Cartwright boys help cowhand Hank romance reluctant teacher Abigail.

Staffel 3, Folge 25: The Lawmaker

Erstausstrahlung: 11. März 1962
The Cartwrights may have to take the law into their own hands when Virginia City's temporary sheriff, rancher Asa Moran, uses his new badge as a license to kill.

Staffel 3, Folge 26: Look to the Stars

Erstausstrahlung: 18. März 1962
The Cartwrights encourage young genius, Albert Michelson, to pursue his scientific experiments while trying to discover why schoolmaster, George Norton, expelled Albert from school and seems determined to stand in the way of his appointment to the prestigious Annapolis Naval Academy.

Staffel 3, Folge 27: The Gamble

Erstausstrahlung: 1. April 1962
Little Joe is his family's only hope when he escapes from a kangaroo court that has framed the Cartwrights for a bank robbery and sentenced them all to hang.

Staffel 3, Folge 28: The Crucible

Erstausstrahlung: 8. April 1962
After being robbed in the desert, Adam stumbles onto a seemingly chivalrous prospector named Peter Kane, who offers him a mule and supplies for three days work. However, Kane is a demented madman who is interested in psychological torture, hoping to drive a seemingly rational man like Adam to murder. As Ben, Hoss and Little Joe try to retrace the missing Adam's footsteps, Adam must rely on his own wits to defeat Kane.

Staffel 3, Folge 29: Inger, My Love

Erstausstrahlung: 15. April 1962
The back story behind Ben's three wives is up to Inger, Ben's second wife (and mother of Hoss). The story relates the first meeting between Ben and Inger, as Ben and a young Adam were traveling west.

Staffel 3, Folge 30: Blessed Are They

Erstausstrahlung: 22. April 1962
Ben Cartwright and Virginia City's enigmatic new minister work together to decide which set of feuding grandparents, the Mahans or the Clarkes, will have custody of their recently orphaned twin grandchildren.

Staffel 3, Folge 31: The Dowry

Erstausstrahlung: 29. April 1962
A stagecoach carrying Alexander Dubois, his daughter Michele and her fiancé Don Ricardo Fernandez is held up. Her dowry is stolen and Miseur Dubois is injured trying to get it back. Little Joe brings them all to the Ponderosa where Dubois can recuperate from his wound. Adam and Hoss track the bandits and recover the dowry but the bandits get away and more attempts to steal it are made. The Cartwrights begin to grow suspicious of Don Fernandez and the way he seems to take all of this in stride.

Staffel 3, Folge 32: The Long Night

Erstausstrahlung: 6. Mai 1962

Staffel 3, Folge 33: The Mountain Girl

Erstausstrahlung: 13. Mai 1962

Staffel 3, Folge 34: The Miracle Maker

Erstausstrahlung: 20. Mai 1962

Staffel 4

Staffel 4, Folge 1: The First Born

Erstausstrahlung: 23. September 1962

Staffel 4, Folge 2: The Quest

Erstausstrahlung: 30. September 1962
Wanting to prove his independence and (at the same time) break out of the shadows of his Pa and older brothers, Little Joe sets out to win a lucrative timber contract for the Ponderosa.

Staffel 4, Folge 3: The Artist

Erstausstrahlung: 7. Oktober 1962

Staffel 4, Folge 4: A Hot Day for a Hanging

Erstausstrahlung: 14. Oktober 1962

Staffel 4, Folge 5: The Deserter

Erstausstrahlung: 21. Oktober 1962

Staffel 4, Folge 6: The Way Station

Erstausstrahlung: 28. Oktober 1962
Adam finds shelter overnight at a stagecoach way station. There he meets others ranging from a beautiful girl to a dangerous outlaw on the run.

Staffel 4, Folge 7: The War Comes to Washoe

Erstausstrahlung: 11. November 1962

Staffel 4, Folge 8: Knight Errant

Erstausstrahlung: 18. November 1962
Hoss Cartwright's good deed results in hard feelings when the mail order bride he has volunteered to escort to a neighboring rancher falls in love with him before she reaches her intended groom.

Staffel 4, Folge 9: The Beginning

Erstausstrahlung: 25. November 1962

Staffel 4, Folge 10: The Deadly Ones

Erstausstrahlung: 2. Dezember 1962
Mexican freedom fighters loyal to Benito Juárez take over the Ponderosa, gravely wound Little Joe, and force Ben to guide them to a wagon train loaded with gold being smuggled to California by Emperor Maximilian.

Staffel 4, Folge 11: Gallagher's Sons

Erstausstrahlung: 9. Dezember 1962

Staffel 4, Folge 12: The Decision

Erstausstrahlung: 16. Dezember 1962
Hoss suffers a life-threatening injury. Only surgery by a doctor in jail for murder can save him.

Staffel 4, Folge 13: The Good Samaritan

Erstausstrahlung: 23. Dezember 1962

Staffel 4, Folge 14: The Jury

Erstausstrahlung: 30. Dezember 1962
Hoss faces scorn and accusations of bribery when he refuses to vote with his fellow jurors to convict a man for murder based solely on the testimony of the victim's brother who witnessed the act on a dark night.

Staffel 4, Folge 15: The Colonel

Erstausstrahlung: 6. Januar 1963
One of Ben Cartwright's old war buddies who claims to be a business tycoon developing a new territory, woos a wealthy Virginia City widow and jeopardizes a Ponderosa land deal.

Staffel 4, Folge 16: Song in the Dark

Erstausstrahlung: 13. Januar 1963
Incriminating scratches on cowhand Danny Morgan's arm and his penchant for riding alone through the night strumming his guitar makes him the prime suspect when a woman is found strangled the morning after witnesses heard Danny's voice singing in the dark outside her cabin.

Staffel 4, Folge 17: Elegy for a Hangman

Erstausstrahlung: 20. Januar 1963
Adam helps an angry young man to confront the "hanging judge" who sentenced his father to death in a high-stakes miscarriage of justice.

Staffel 4, Folge 18: Half a Rogue

Erstausstrahlung: 27. Januar 1963
Hoss harbors kindred spirit Big Jim Layton on the Ponderosa while trying to clear the wounded mountain man's name from charges of theft and murder.

Staffel 4, Folge 19: The Last Haircut

Erstausstrahlung: 3. Februar 1963
Little Joe finds himself at the scene of a murder, and befriends the victim's vengeance-minded son.

Staffel 4, Folge 20: Marie, My Love

Erstausstrahlung: 10. Februar 1963
Ben recounts his adventure in New Orleans during which he met his third wife, the then future mother of Little Joe.

Staffel 4, Folge 21: The Hayburner

Erstausstrahlung: 17. Februar 1963
Unlucky Hoss loses his valuable Kentucky thoroughbred racehorse in a poker game then schemes with brother Adam to buy it back before the end-of-the-month entry deadline for the Virginia City Sweepstakes race.

Staffel 4, Folge 22: The Actress

Erstausstrahlung: 24. Februar 1963
Little Joe falls in love with a beautiful woman who aspires to be an actress.

Staffel 4, Folge 23: A Stranger Passed This Way

Erstausstrahlung: 3. März 1963
Bushwacked and suffering from amnesia, Hoss is found wandering down the road by the Vandervorts, an older couple who are happy to take the gentle giant into their family to replace the son they lost. But when Ben comes looking for his missing son, the Vandervorts lie about seeing him and refuse to tell Hoss who he really is, planning to take him to Michigan with them and away from his real family, and the Ponderosa, for good.

Staffel 4, Folge 24: The Way of Aaron

Erstausstrahlung: 10. März 1963
Adam helps a beautiful woman, and her father, a peddler of devout Jewish faith.

Staffel 4, Folge 25: A Woman Lost

Erstausstrahlung: 17. März 1963
An alcoholic saloon girl changes her life with the help of Ben and an ex-prizefighter who falls in love with her.

Staffel 4, Folge 26: Any Friend of Walter's

Erstausstrahlung: 24. März 1963
Attacked by outlaws, Hoss takes cover in a prospector's shack with the old prospector and with Walter, the old man's surprisingly communicative dog.

Staffel 4, Folge 27: Mirror of a Man

Erstausstrahlung: 31. März 1963
One of Ben's ranch hands on the Ponderosa finds his past catching up with him when his twin brother murders a man.

Staffel 4, Folge 28: My Brother's Keeper

Erstausstrahlung: 7. April 1963
During a wolf hunt, Adam accidentally shoots Little Joe, and must find help if Joe is to survive.

Staffel 4, Folge 29: Five into the Wind

Erstausstrahlung: 21. April 1963
A stagecoach accident in a windstorm leaves 5 stranded, after which Little Joe is accused when a man is found murdered with Joe's knife.

Staffel 4, Folge 30: The Saga of Whizzer McGee

Erstausstrahlung: 28. April 1963
Hoss tries to help Whizzer McGee, a man with a short height, short fuse, thin skin, and big ideas.

Staffel 4, Folge 31: Thunder Man

Erstausstrahlung: 5. Mai 1963
As the uncle of Little Joe's girlfriend suffers a crippling stroke, a man posing as a Good Samaritan rapes and kills the woman. As the killer - a seemingly genial munitions expert who has gotten a job clearing stumps off the Ponderosa - ponders his next move, Little Joe vows to track down the killer. The only clue he has to go on: the uncle's feebly scrawled note saying "New Orleans Woman."

Staffel 4, Folge 32: Rich Man, Poor Man

Erstausstrahlung: 12. Mai 1963

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Fri. Aug. 22

4:00 PM

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Staffel 4, Folge 33: The Boss

Erstausstrahlung: 19. Mai 1963
Ben confronts a former friend who has become a local strongman after monopolizing the freight business.

Staffel 4, Folge 34: Little Man... Ten Feet Tall

Erstausstrahlung: 26. Mai 1963
An Italian immigrant and his son seek a new life after fleeing violence in their home country.

Staffel 5

Staffel 5, Folge 1: She Walks in Beauty

Erstausstrahlung: 22. September 1963
Hoss falls under the spell of a beautiful shady lady from San Francisco and asks her to be his wife, believing his love can change her even after she tries to seduce his brother Adam.

Staffel 5, Folge 2: A Passion for Justice

Erstausstrahlung: 29. September 1963
Famous author Charles Dickens visits the Ponderosa, and finds himself embroiled in controversy.

Staffel 5, Folge 3: Rain from Heaven

Erstausstrahlung: 6. Oktober 1963
A drought brings a rainmaker with a very sick daughter to Virginia City.

Staffel 5, Folge 4: Twilight Town

Erstausstrahlung: 13. Oktober 1963
Little Joe is attacked by outlaws, but finds that his biggest challenge is fighting his way through the secrets of a town shrouded in mystery.

Staffel 5, Folge 5: The Toy Soldier

Erstausstrahlung: 20. Oktober 1963
Adam helps an alcoholic artist married to a lovely Piute woman to find a new way to help the Piute Indians oppressed by a powerful local rancher.

Staffel 5, Folge 6: A Question of Strength

Erstausstrahlung: 27. Oktober 1963
A stagecoach containing Hoss and two nuns is robbed. Later, one of the badly wounded robbers finds himself in their power.

Staffel 5, Folge 7: Calamity Over the Comstock

Erstausstrahlung: 3. November 1963

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1:00 PM

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Staffel 5, Folge 8: Journey Remembered

Erstausstrahlung: 10. November 1963
While Hoss is waiting for a mare to be born Ben begins reading from an old journal which tells of the journey he and Inger, Hoss' mother, made by wagon train out West. Ben is the leader of the small wagon train which will link up with a larger train in Ash Hollow. There are many obstacles on the way to contend with including a drunken wagon master, Indians, and the fact that Inger is with child. All of these things slow down their pace and it is essential to make good time to avoid impending winter snows.

Staffel 5, Folge 9: The Quality of Mercy

Erstausstrahlung: 17. November 1963
Little Joe struggles with his conscience, trying to believe that his friend, Seth Pruitt, did the right thing after Seth admits to the mercy-killing of his fiancée's father when the man was in agony from a broken back and begging for death.

Staffel 5, Folge 10: The Waiting Game

Erstausstrahlung: 8. Dezember 1963
When Frank Dayton is thrown from his horse and killed, his wife Laura tells their daughter, Peggy, that he went on a long trip, preferring to let the little girl hold onto the hope that her daddy would come home again someday. But Laura's plan to shelter Peggy from her father's death is soon challenged when Adam Cartwright comes to call and the pretty widow finds herself falling in love.

Staffel 5, Folge 11: The Legacy

Erstausstrahlung: 15. Dezember 1963

Staffel 5, Folge 12: Hoss and the Leprechauns

Erstausstrahlung: 22. Dezember 1963
Hoss scares a bear that has treed a green-clad little man, subsequently finds a buried strongbox filled with bags of gold dust and, when both the treasure and its owner disappear, unsuccessfully tries to convince his skeptical family that he'd discovered a leprechaun's hoard. But the whole town goes searching for the mythical men after a newly arrived Irish professor confirms the presence of multiple leprechauns...and their gold!

Staffel 5, Folge 13: The Prime of Life

Erstausstrahlung: 29. Dezember 1963
Ben Cartwright doubts his fitness to run the Ponderosa when his impatience results in a logging camp accident that causes serious injury to himself and an old friend's death.

Staffel 5, Folge 14: The Lila Conrad Story

Erstausstrahlung: 5. Januar 1964
Adam and Little Joe try to find a fair trial for a saloon girl accused of theft and murder, hiding her from a corrupt sheriff's lynch mob after she stows away in the back of their supply wagon, all while escorting a self-righteous, hard-nosed judge to Virginia City.

Staffel 5, Folge 15: Ponderosa Matador

Erstausstrahlung: 12. Januar 1964
While Adam relies on his charm and guitar to impress a visiting senorita, Hoss and Little Joe scheme to win her heart in a more south-of-the-border way...a bull fight!

Staffel 5, Folge 16: My Son, My Son

Erstausstrahlung: 19. Januar 1964
Ben's plans to wed widow Katherine Saunders are jeopardized after her son is accused of murder.

Staffel 5, Folge 17: Alias Joe Cartwright

Erstausstrahlung: 26. Januar 1964
A stubborn, career army sergeant appears to be his only hope when Little Joe is arrested after being robbed and knocked unconscious by a look-a-like escaped army prisoner and is unable to convince the fort commander that he isn't the man who has been sentenced to face the firing squad.

Staffel 5, Folge 18: The Gentleman from New Orleans

Erstausstrahlung: 2. Februar 1964
Credible Hoss meets a flamboyant, sword-brandishing drunk claiming to be none other than the notorious pirate Jean LaFitte. Believing LaFitte is who he says he is and remembering that history considered him a patriot for his aid at the Battle of New Orleans, Hoss chooses to treat LaFitte like a hero and invites him to the Ponderosa. While skeptical Ben contacts old friends in New Orleans to try to verify his identity, LaFitte is accused of murder and Hoss must try to find not only the real killer but the answer to the question: who is Jean LaFitte?

Staffel 5, Folge 19: The Cheating Game

Erstausstrahlung: 9. Februar 1964
Angry with Adam Cartwright for constantly criticizing her decisions and refusing to take the next step in their romance, Laura Dayton becomes easy prey for a handsome grifter.

Staffel 5, Folge 20: Bullet for a Bride

Erstausstrahlung: 16. Februar 1964
Joe blames himself after a ricocheting bullet from his rifle blinds a young woman and decides that the only way he can atone for the accident is to make her his wife.

Staffel 5, Folge 21: King of the Mountain

Erstausstrahlung: 23. Februar 1964
Hoss finds himself smack dab in the middle of a mountain family feud when he agrees to be the best man at ornery Big Jim Leyton's wedding.

Staffel 5, Folge 22: Love Me Not

Erstausstrahlung: 1. März 1964
Ben's Pygmalion-like efforts to 'civilize' a young, white woman, raised by a neighboring Paiute Indian tribe, have an unintended result when, instead of choosing a husband from among the eligible young men he has rounded up for her, she falls in love with him.

Staffel 5, Folge 23: The Pure Truth

Erstausstrahlung: 8. März 1964
When Hoss is set up to take the fall for a bank robbery in another town, the help of an eccentric gold prospector appears to be all that stands between him and the real bandit's bullet.

Staffel 5, Folge 24: No Less a Man

Erstausstrahlung: 15. März 1964
Certain that he is too old to stand against a notorious gang of bank robbers when news arrives that Virginia City will soon be next in a long string of successful raids, the terrified townsfolk demand Sheriff Coffee's resignation to make way for a younger lawman.

Staffel 5, Folge 25: Return to Honor

Erstausstrahlung: 22. März 1964

Staffel 5, Folge 26: The Saga of Muley Jones

Erstausstrahlung: 29. März 1964

Staffel 5, Folge 27: The Roper

Erstausstrahlung: 5. April 1964

Staffel 5, Folge 28: A Pink Cloud Comes from Old Cathay

Erstausstrahlung: 12. April 1964

Staffel 5, Folge 29: The Companeros

Erstausstrahlung: 19. April 1964

Staffel 5, Folge 30: Enter Thomas Bowers

Erstausstrahlung: 26. April 1964

Staffel 5, Folge 31: The Dark Past

Erstausstrahlung: 3. Mai 1964

Staffel 5, Folge 32: The Pressure Game

Erstausstrahlung: 10. Mai 1964
Virginia City gossip and meddling Aunt Lil combine with unexpected attention from another Cartwright to complicate Laura Dayton's already fragile romance with Adam, especially when his preoccupation with Ponderosa business appears to be hiding an unwillingness to marry her.

Staffel 5, Folge 33: Triangle

Erstausstrahlung: 17. Mai 1964
Laura's and Adam's wedding plans begin to derail when another man's kiss puts doubt in Laura's heart and a bad fall from the roof of the house he is secretly building for their new life together lands Adam in a wheelchair.

Staffel 5, Folge 34: Walter and the Outlaws

Erstausstrahlung: 24. Mai 1964
Hoping the clever canine will lead them to his master's gold, a trio of hapless outlaws plan to dog-nap Walter, Otis the prospector's best friend, after the old man goes on a brief vacation and temporarily leaves the pup with Hoss at the Ponderosa.

Staffel 6

Staffel 6, Folge 1: Invention of a Gunfighter

Erstausstrahlung: 20. September 1964
Humiliated by a professional gunslinger in front of a bar crowd that included his girlfriend, timid Johnny Chapman asks Little Joe to teach him how to handle a gun. But, Johnny changes as he gains skill and confidence and Joe soon doesn't recognize his friend in the hard, ruthless man he's become.

Staffel 6, Folge 2: The Hostage

Erstausstrahlung: 27. September 1964

Staffel 6, Folge 3: The Wild One

Erstausstrahlung: 4. Oktober 1964

Staffel 6, Folge 4: Thanks for Everything, Friend

Erstausstrahlung: 11. Oktober 1964

Staffel 6, Folge 5: Logan's Treasure

Erstausstrahlung: 18. Oktober 1964

Staffel 6, Folge 6: The Scapegoat

Erstausstrahlung: 25. Oktober 1964

Staffel 6, Folge 7: A Dime's Worth of Glory

Erstausstrahlung: 1. November 1964

Staffel 6, Folge 8: Square Deal Sam

Erstausstrahlung: 8. November 1964

Staffel 6, Folge 9: Between Heaven and Earth

Erstausstrahlung: 15. November 1964
Little Joe and his friend Mitch chase a sheep-killing puma into a canyon and Joe climbs a steep slope to get a better look at the terrain. When he slips, dropping his rifle into a rock crevice, Joe is suddenly paralyzed with fear. Mitch calls to him and Joe manages to climb down, but without his rifle. Ashamed, Joe tells no one of his experience and when his attempts to retrieve his rifle fail in panic, Joe's pent-up frustration causes him to behave recklessly. Ben knows something is wrong and confronts his youngest son. Will Joe reveal his secret and let his father give him the help he desperately needs?

Staffel 6, Folge 10: Old Sheba

Erstausstrahlung: 22. November 1964
After Hoss injures traveling circus wrestler, Bearcat Sampson, during an exhibition match, he and manager, Little Joe, agree that Hoss will take the Bearcat's place in the ring while he recovers; but the circus owner squanders Hoss' winnings and the Cartwrights end up with an unconventional paycheck...Old Sheba, the circus elephant.

Staffel 6, Folge 11: A Man to Admire

Erstausstrahlung: 6. Dezember 1964
Knocked unconscious and framed for the murder of scheming rancher, Flint Durfee, Hoss Cartwright refuses his father's expensive lawyer and trusts his defense to new friend Whit Parker, a troubled trial attorney who is drowning his past in alcohol.

Staffel 6, Folge 12: The Underdog

Erstausstrahlung: 13. Dezember 1964
Harry Starr, a half breed Commanche, is hired by the Cartwrights to work on the Ponderosa. When confronted with the prejudice of other hands he turns the other cheek. Meanwhile someone is stealing horses in the valley...is he involved?

Staffel 6, Folge 13: A Knight to Remember

Erstausstrahlung: 20. Dezember 1964
Arrested for robbing the stagecoach he was riding, Adam can't convince the sheriff that the real bandits were run off by a knight in shining armor who called himself...King Arthur!

Staffel 6, Folge 14: The Saga of Squaw Charlie

Erstausstrahlung: 27. Dezember 1964

Staffel 6, Folge 15: The Flapjack Contest

Erstausstrahlung: 3. Januar 1965
Intending to confront the card-shark who he believes bushwhacked and robbed him, Little Joe instead decides to get his money back by betting the shady gambler that big brother Hoss will win the Founders' Day flapjack eating contest against champion Big Ed Simpson. But Hoss isn't sure that winning the five hundred dollar first prize is worth suffering through his little brother's training program, especially when it includes meals consisting of only carrots, apples and water...and no beer!

Staffel 6, Folge 16: The Far, Far Better Thing

Erstausstrahlung: 10. Januar 1965
Little Joe and his friend Tuck vie for the affections of pretty Lucy Melviney, a sheltered, naive young woman who soon puts all of their lives in danger when she chooses to believe that real life should mirror what she reads in the pages of her classic romantic novels.

Staffel 6, Folge 17: Woman of Fire

Erstausstrahlung: 17. Januar 1965
Shakespeare-inspired Adam tries to tame a shrewish senorita while she waits at the Ponderosa for her never-met husband-to-be.

Staffel 6, Folge 18: The Ballerina

Erstausstrahlung: 24. Januar 1965
A crippled former ballet dancer falls in love while teaching classical dance to the daughter of a traveling violinist, wants to help her audition for the San Francisco ballet but meets resistance from her father who wants her to keep performing with him.

Staffel 6, Folge 19: The Flannel-Mouth Gun

Erstausstrahlung: 31. Januar 1965
Worrying that a hired gun may just cause more trouble for the ranchers, Adam Cartwright votes no when the Cattleman's Association asks ruthless range detective, Sherman Clegg, to stop a region-wide rustling problem; but when tragedy follows and Clegg is accused of murder, Adam appears to be the only one to take the side of the very man he originally opposed.

Staffel 6, Folge 20: The Ponderosa Birdman

Erstausstrahlung: 7. Februar 1965
Hoss goes above and beyond to help an eccentric, aging inventor and his overly-protective granddaughter realize their dream of manned flight.

Staffel 6, Folge 21: The Search

Erstausstrahlung: 14. Februar 1965

Staffel 6, Folge 22: The Deadliest Game

Erstausstrahlung: 21. Februar 1965

Staffel 6, Folge 23: Once a Doctor

Erstausstrahlung: 28. Februar 1965
Suffering from an infected foot, Hoss finds unexpected relief from Professor Poppy, an itinerant patent medicine peddler who secretly carries a medical bag. But Hoss soon finds that the professor may really be Doctor P.A. Mundy who is being trailed by a vengeful Englishman claiming that Mundy murdered his wife.

Staffel 6, Folge 24: Right Is the Fourth R

Erstausstrahlung: 7. März 1965
Substitute teacher Adam Cartwright is unprepared for the violent resistance he meets when his research into the territory's history gets him too close to uncovering a long-buried Virginia City secret.

Staffel 6, Folge 25: Hound Dog

Erstausstrahlung: 21. März 1965
The Cartwrights and their cousin Muley Jones tangle with feisty Tracy Ledbetter when she claims Cousin Muley stole her precious pack of baying bird dogs.

Staffel 6, Folge 26: The Trap

Erstausstrahlung: 28. März 1965

Staffel 6, Folge 27: Dead and Gone

Erstausstrahlung: 4. April 1965

Staffel 6, Folge 28: A Good Night's Rest

Erstausstrahlung: 11. April 1965
When Hoss' snoring, Adam's guitar playing and Little Joe's courting shenanigans keep a dog-tired Ben Cartwright awake, he rides wearily away from the Ponderosa to try to find a quiet room at the Virginia City hotel; but the wild, frontier town's chaotic night life soon makes him think he would have been better off back at the ranch.

Staffel 6, Folge 29: To Own the World

Erstausstrahlung: 18. April 1965
A rich tycoon who is known for destroying anything that stands in the way of getting what he wants, vows to have the Ponderosa, no matter what the cost.

Staffel 6, Folge 30: Lothario Larkin

Erstausstrahlung: 25. April 1965

Staffel 6, Folge 31: The Return

Erstausstrahlung: 2. Mai 1965
When Trace Cordell comes back to Virginia City after serving his time for bank robbery, Ben Cartwright is among those at the stage to welcome his former neighbor home. But, except for Ben, no one is happy when the ex-con wants to take up where he left off, running his family's ranch outside of town; especially not banker Paul Dorn, the man who was put in a wheelchair by Cordell's bullet five years earlier.

Staffel 6, Folge 32: The Jonah

Erstausstrahlung: 9. Mai 1965
A ranch hand who saves Hoss's life is offers a job on the Ponderosa, despite a rumor that he's a jinx.

Staffel 6, Folge 33: The Spotlight

Erstausstrahlung: 16. Mai 1965

Staffel 6, Folge 34: Patchwork Man

Erstausstrahlung: 23. Mai 1965

Staffel 7

Staffel 7, Folge 1: The Debt

Erstausstrahlung: 12. September 1965

Staffel 7, Folge 2: The Dilemma

Erstausstrahlung: 19. September 1965

Staffel 7, Folge 3: The Brass Box

Erstausstrahlung: 26. September 1965

Staffel 7, Folge 4: The Other Son

Erstausstrahlung: 3. Oktober 1965

Staffel 7, Folge 5: The Lonely Runner

Erstausstrahlung: 10. Oktober 1965

Staffel 7, Folge 6: Devil on Her Shoulder

Erstausstrahlung: 17. Oktober 1965

Staffel 7, Folge 7: Found Child

Erstausstrahlung: 24. Oktober 1965

Staffel 7, Folge 8: The Meredith Smith

Erstausstrahlung: 31. Oktober 1965

Staffel 7, Folge 9: Mighty Is the Word

Erstausstrahlung: 7. November 1965

Staffel 7, Folge 10: The Strange One

Erstausstrahlung: 14. November 1965

Staffel 7, Folge 11: The Reluctant Rebel

Erstausstrahlung: 21. November 1965

Staffel 7, Folge 12: Five Sundowns to Sunup

Erstausstrahlung: 5. Dezember 1965

Staffel 7, Folge 13: A Natural Wizard

Erstausstrahlung: 12. Dezember 1965

Staffel 7, Folge 14: All Ye His Saints

Erstausstrahlung: 19. Dezember 1965

Staffel 7, Folge 15: A Dublin Lad

Erstausstrahlung: 2. Januar 1966

Staffel 7, Folge 16: To Kill a Buffalo

Erstausstrahlung: 9. Januar 1966

Staffel 7, Folge 17: Ride the Wind: Part 1

Erstausstrahlung: 16. Januar 1966

Staffel 7, Folge 18: Ride the Wind: Part 2

Erstausstrahlung: 23. Januar 1966

Staffel 7, Folge 19: Destiny's Child

Erstausstrahlung: 30. Januar 1966

Staffel 7, Folge 20: Peace Officer

Erstausstrahlung: 6. Februar 1966

Staffel 7, Folge 21: The Code

Erstausstrahlung: 13. Februar 1966

Staffel 7, Folge 22: Three Brides for Hoss

Erstausstrahlung: 20. Februar 1966

Staffel 7, Folge 23: The Emperor Norton

Erstausstrahlung: 27. Februar 1966

Staffel 7, Folge 24: Her Brother's Keeper

Erstausstrahlung: 6. März 1966

Staffel 7, Folge 25: The Trouble with Jamie

Erstausstrahlung: 20. März 1966

Staffel 7, Folge 26: Shining in Spain

Erstausstrahlung: 27. März 1966

Staffel 7, Folge 27: The Genius

Erstausstrahlung: 3. April 1966

Staffel 7, Folge 28: The Unwritten Commandment

Erstausstrahlung: 10. April 1966

Staffel 7, Folge 29: Big Shadows on the Land

Erstausstrahlung: 17. April 1966

Staffel 7, Folge 30: The Fighters

Erstausstrahlung: 24. April 1966

Staffel 7, Folge 31: Home from the Sea

Erstausstrahlung: 1. Mai 1966

Staffel 7, Folge 32: The Last Mission

Erstausstrahlung: 8. Mai 1966

Staffel 7, Folge 33: A Dollar's Worth of Trouble

Erstausstrahlung: 15. Mai 1966

Staffel 8

Staffel 8, Folge 1: Something Hurt, Something Wild

Erstausstrahlung: 11. September 1966

Staffel 8, Folge 2: Horse of a Different Hue

Erstausstrahlung: 18. September 1966

Staffel 8, Folge 3: A Time to Step Down

Erstausstrahlung: 25. September 1966

Staffel 8, Folge 4: The Pursued: Part 1

Erstausstrahlung: 2. Oktober 1966

Staffel 8, Folge 5: The Pursued: Part 2

Erstausstrahlung: 9. Oktober 1966

Staffel 8, Folge 6: To Bloom for Thee

Erstausstrahlung: 16. Oktober 1966

Staffel 8, Folge 7: Credit for a Kill

Erstausstrahlung: 23. Oktober 1966

Staffel 8, Folge 8: Four Sisters from Boston

Erstausstrahlung: 30. Oktober 1966

Staffel 8, Folge 9: Old Charlie

Erstausstrahlung: 6. November 1966

Staffel 8, Folge 10: Ballad of the Ponderosa

Erstausstrahlung: 13. November 1966

Staffel 8, Folge 11: The Oath

Erstausstrahlung: 20. November 1966

Staffel 8, Folge 12: A Real Nice, Friendly Little Town

Erstausstrahlung: 27. November 1966

Staffel 8, Folge 13: The Bridegroom

Erstausstrahlung: 4. Dezember 1966

Staffel 8, Folge 14: Tommy

Erstausstrahlung: 18. Dezember 1966

Staffel 8, Folge 15: A Christmas Story

Erstausstrahlung: 25. Dezember 1966

Staffel 8, Folge 16: Ponderosa Explosion

Erstausstrahlung: 1. Januar 1967

Staffel 8, Folge 17: Justice

Erstausstrahlung: 8. Januar 1967

Staffel 8, Folge 18: A Bride for Buford

Erstausstrahlung: 15. Januar 1967

Staffel 8, Folge 19: Black Friday

Erstausstrahlung: 22. Januar 1967

Staffel 8, Folge 20: The Unseen Wound

Erstausstrahlung: 29. Januar 1967

Staffel 8, Folge 21: Journey to Terror

Erstausstrahlung: 5. Februar 1967
Initially suspected as being part of the bank-robbing Hollister gang while on his way to visit Tom and Ellie Blackwell's drought-stricken ranch, Little Joe is soon held hostage and his friends terrorized by the real desperadoes on the run to Mexico with a wounded man.

Staffel 8, Folge 22: Amigo

Erstausstrahlung: 12. Februar 1967
While riding posse after a band of vicious marauders led by a renegade ex-cavalry officer, Ben Cartwright captures a wounded comanchero and tries to protect him from the angry ranchers who want to lynch him, his own gang who wants the money he was carrying for them and an angry Little Joe who lost a friend when his ranch was raided.

Staffel 8, Folge 23: A Woman in the House

Erstausstrahlung: 19. Februar 1967

Staffel 8, Folge 24: Judgement at Red Creek

Erstausstrahlung: 26. Februar 1967

Staffel 8, Folge 25: Joe Cartwright, Detective

Erstausstrahlung: 5. März 1967

Staffel 8, Folge 26: Dark Enough to See the Stars

Erstausstrahlung: 12. März 1967

Staffel 8, Folge 27: The Deed and the Dilemma

Erstausstrahlung: 26. März 1967

Staffel 8, Folge 28: The Prince

Erstausstrahlung: 2. April 1967

Staffel 8, Folge 29: The Man Without Land

Erstausstrahlung: 9. April 1967

Staffel 8, Folge 30: Napoleon's Children

Erstausstrahlung: 16. April 1967

Staffel 8, Folge 31: The Wormwood Cup

Erstausstrahlung: 23. April 1967

Staffel 8, Folge 32: Clarissa

Erstausstrahlung: 30. April 1967

Staffel 8, Folge 33: Maestro Hoss

Erstausstrahlung: 7. Mai 1967

Staffel 8, Folge 34: The Greedy Ones

Next US airings:

Mon. Aug. 25

3:00 PM

Erstausstrahlung: 7. Juli 1968

Staffel 9, Folge 34: Stage Door Johnnies

Erstausstrahlung: 28. Juli 1968

Staffel 10

Staffel 10, Folge 1: Different Pines, Same Wind

Erstausstrahlung: 15. September 1968

Staffel 10, Folge 2: Child

Erstausstrahlung: 22. September 1968

Staffel 10, Folge 3: Salute to Yesterday

Erstausstrahlung: 29. September 1968

Staffel 10, Folge 4: The Real People of Muddy Creek

Erstausstrahlung: 6. Oktober 1968

Staffel 10, Folge 5: The Passing of a King

Erstausstrahlung: 13. Oktober 1968

Staffel 10, Folge 6: The Last Vote

Erstausstrahlung: 20. Oktober 1968
Hoss and Little Joe turn two old friends against each other and the town upside down when they become competing campaign managers in Virginia City's mayoral race.

Staffel 10, Folge 7: Catch as Catch Can

Erstausstrahlung: 27. Oktober 1968

Staffel 10, Folge 8: Little Girl Lost

Erstausstrahlung: 3. November 1968

Staffel 10, Folge 9: The Survivors

Erstausstrahlung: 10. November 1968

Staffel 10, Folge 10: The Sound of Drums

Erstausstrahlung: 17. November 1968
Brand new U.S. citizen and vintner, Georgio Rossi, riles his neighbors and risks government wrath when he allows an Indian family to break treaty and camp on his land; meanwhile, Candy woos pretty Regina Rossi, stirring up some trouble of his own when she and her mother try to take over the smitten ranch hand's life...and Hop Sing's kitchen!

Staffel 10, Folge 11: Queen High

Erstausstrahlung: 24. November 1968

Staffel 10, Folge 12: Yonder Man

Erstausstrahlung: 1. Dezember 1968

Staffel 10, Folge 13: Mark of Guilt

Erstausstrahlung: 15. Dezember 1968

Staffel 10, Folge 14: A World Full of Cannibals

Erstausstrahlung: 22. Dezember 1968

Staffel 10, Folge 15: Sweet Annie Laurie

Erstausstrahlung: 5. Januar 1969
A beautiful young woman running from a sinister gunman brings danger to the Ponderosa when she hides in Hoss' wagon while he's in Virginia City getting supplies.

Staffel 10, Folge 16: My Friend, My Enemy

Erstausstrahlung: 12. Januar 1969

Staffel 10, Folge 17: Mrs. Wharton and the Lesser Breeds

Erstausstrahlung: 19. Januar 1969

Staffel 10, Folge 18: Erin

Erstausstrahlung: 26. Januar 1969

Staffel 10, Folge 19: Company of Forgotten Men

Erstausstrahlung: 2. Februar 1969

Staffel 10, Folge 20: The Clarion

Erstausstrahlung: 9. Februar 1969

Staffel 10, Folge 21: The Lady and the Mountain Lion

Erstausstrahlung: 23. Februar 1969

Staffel 10, Folge 22: Five Candles

Erstausstrahlung: 2. März 1969

Staffel 10, Folge 23: The Wish

Erstausstrahlung: 9. März 1969

Staffel 10, Folge 24: Deserter, the (II)

Erstausstrahlung: 16. März 1969

Staffel 10, Folge 25: Emily

Erstausstrahlung: 23. März 1969

Staffel 10, Folge 26: The Running Man

Erstausstrahlung: 30. März 1969

Staffel 10, Folge 27: The Unwanted

Erstausstrahlung: 6. April 1969

Staffel 10, Folge 28: Speak No Evil

Erstausstrahlung: 20. April 1969

Staffel 10, Folge 29: The Fence

Erstausstrahlung: 27. April 1969

Staffel 10, Folge 30: A Ride in the Sun

Erstausstrahlung: 11. Mai 1969

Staffel 11

Staffel 11, Folge 1: Another Windmill to Go

Erstausstrahlung: 14. September 1969
An eccentric Englishman arrives at the Ponderosa, his mode of transportation a land-rowing boat. His aim, as the Cartwrights learn, is to expose and challenge Nevada's silly, obscure laws.

Staffel 11, Folge 2: The Witness: Part 1

Erstausstrahlung: 21. September 1969
A young woman named Jenny Winters claims to have witnessed a stagecoach robbery which involves one man being killed. After she identifies the culprits as the Logan gang, Ben allows Jenny to stay in protective custody at the Ponderosa. However, the Cartwrights soon learn Jenny is not a very trustworthy person.

Staffel 11, Folge 3: The Silence at Stillwater

Erstausstrahlung: 28. September 1969
Candy is accused of a string of serious crimes, including murder, robbery and arson in Stillwater, and when the Cartwrights come to his defense, the sheriff refuses to cooperate. Even worse: A young boy claims he positively saw the Ponderosa foreman commit those crimes. The Cartwrights work with the boy to jog his memory before an innocent Candy is convicted and sentenced to hang.

Staffel 11, Folge 4: A Lawman's Lot Is Not a Happy One

Erstausstrahlung: 5. Oktober 1969
When Sheriff Roy Coffee and Ben are subpoenaed to testify in a land sharking trial in San Francisco, Hoss is appointed the acting sheriff of Virginia City. Hoss soon finds plenty of trouble on his hands, namely dealing reluctant bridegroom Hiram Peabody, who wants to get arrested so as to avoid an impending marriage to an undesirable woman (whom has been his pen pal and has never met in person). He also must deal with a smooth-talking salesman who plans to sell shares in a planned resort in Virginia City.

Staffel 11, Folge 5: Anatomy of a Lynching

Erstausstrahlung: 12. Oktober 1969
Will Griner is acquitted of a murder after two key witnesses disappeared before the trial. When a bloodthirsty lynch mob comes after him, thinking him to have silenced the witnesses, Griner goes to the Cartwrights for help.

Staffel 11, Folge 6: To Stop a War

Erstausstrahlung: 19. Oktober 1969
Joe's old friend, Dan Logan, is hired as a range detective to stop a cattle rustling outbreak. While the usual problems arise, Logan's job is jeopardized when a ruthless rancher shoots a suspected rustler in the back and then pins the blame on Logan.

Staffel 11, Folge 7: The Medal

Erstausstrahlung: 26. Oktober 1969
Ben offers moral support to Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Matthew Rush when comes down on his luck. But that's the least of Matthew's problems, for he must also contend with the embittered Nagle clan, who has been transplanted from Georgia after they lost their house and land to Yankees. When the Nagles' daughter, Susan, falls in love with Matthew, she risks much more than just estrangement from her family and, in the process, the Cartwrights become involved.

Staffel 11, Folge 8: The Stalker

Erstausstrahlung: 2. November 1969
After Candy shoots and kills armed robber James Campbell in self defense, he learns that he left behind his widow, Lisa, and young son ... and a farm to operate. A remorseful Candy decides to help the young woman out, not knowing that Lisa plans to hire a hit man to kill the Ponderosa's foreman in revenge. However, Lisa learns that Candy had all the qualities that her husband never had and changes her mind, but then they must work together to stop the hit man from completing his mission.

Staffel 11, Folge 9: Meena

Erstausstrahlung: 9. November 1969
Joe and Candy compete for the attention of pretty Miss Meena Calhoun, who has come to Virginia City with her irascible gold panning father, Luke. While pursuing the young lass, they run into the Potts brothers, a trio of gold claim jumpers who are convinced that Joe and Candy have more than love on their minds.

Staffel 11, Folge 10: A Darker Shadow

Erstausstrahlung: 23. November 1969
Joe's friend Wade Turner, a storekeeper who is engaged and has been offered a promotion at work, tries to deal with a devastating brain tumor that leaves him with a paralyzing sensitivity to bright light and will soon render him blind. Turner lets his pride get in the way and decides to put off both his marriage and a surgery that could save his sight, but his attitude could be far more costly when a co-worker tries to rob him in a remote area.

Staffel 11, Folge 11: Dead Wrong

Erstausstrahlung: 7. Dezember 1969
During a long ride back to the Ponderosa, thirsty Hoss and Candy stop at the Sunville saloon where Salty Hubbard, known for his tall tales and practical jokes, tells his cronies that Hoss is the notorious bank robber, Big Jack. The town folk initially scoff at Salty's claim but a series of unfortunate events gives the prevarication a ring of truth and there is talk of a hanging. When a contrite Salty admits to Hoss that he lied to impress his friends, Candy thinks of a way to save both Salty's pride and Hoss' life but, as with most best laid plans, this one goes awry when the real Big Jack comes to town.

Staffel 11, Folge 12: Old Friends

Erstausstrahlung: 14. Dezember 1969
Two men whom Ben once worked with during a gold claim arrive in Virigina City ... on opposite sides of the law. Naturally, Ben is caught in the middle.

Staffel 11, Folge 13: Abner Willoughby's Return

Erstausstrahlung: 21. Dezember 1969
While returning home from a horse-buying trip, Joe is met by old seafaring friend Abner Willoughby, who has returned to Nevada to find a stash of gold he hid 17 years earlier in Glory Hole.

Staffel 11, Folge 14: It's a Small World

Erstausstrahlung: 4. Januar 1970
Circus midget and new widower George Marshall struggles to deal with the prejudice of Mr. Flynt, the town's banker, when he refuses to hire him despite Ben's recommendation.

Staffel 11, Folge 15: Danger Road

Erstausstrahlung: 11. Januar 1970

Staffel 11, Folge 16: The Big Jackpot

Erstausstrahlung: 18. Januar 1970
Candy quits his job at the Ponderosa after inheriting a fortune from an old Indian friend. He takes a job as vice president of a land promotion firm, unaware that the president is defrauding customers by selling barren desert land in lieu of the fertile farmland he promised them. Candy soon finds out and recruits the Cartwrights to expose the fraud.

Staffel 11, Folge 17: The Trouble with Amy

Erstausstrahlung: 25. Januar 1970
Ben comes to the aid of Amy Wilder, an eccentric old woman and animal hoarder, when a scheming neighbor wants her declared incompetent so he can purchase her home and property.

Staffel 11, Folge 18: The Lady and the Mark

Erstausstrahlung: 1. Februar 1970
Former Ponderosa ranch hand Chris Keller seeks refuge at his old workplace after con artists stalk him for his $67,000 fortune. While at the Ponderosa, he meets a beautiful young woman who has plans of her own for the money.

Staffel 11, Folge 19: Is There Any Man Here?

Erstausstrahlung: 8. Februar 1970
The daughter of Ben's friend Harry Carlisle, Jennifer, develops a huge crush for the Cartwright patriarch. Ben notes that Jennifer is the same age as oldest son (and long-since departed Adam), but that doesn't matter. It soon does matter when Jennifer's ex-fiancé, a wealthy banker from San Francisco, shows up demanding to take her back ... or else it will be the end of the Ponderosa!

Staffel 11, Folge 20: The Law and Billy Burgess

Erstausstrahlung: 15. Februar 1970
A new school is opened in Virginia City, and one of the students is an angry teen-aged boy named Billy Burgess. After a difficult day at school, Billy angrily wishes that his teacher would die. Sure enough, the teacher is found murdered and Billy is fingered as the suspect. Ben, who has been working to counsel the teen and get at the root of his anger, knows the lad is innocent comes to his aid - even if Billy insists that he killed his teacher.

Staffel 11, Folge 21: Long Way to Ogden

Erstausstrahlung: 22. Februar 1970
A ruthless meat packer named Emit Whitney schemes to monopolize the local cattle industry by buying the rail line that is used to transport the cattle to market, then force the cattle farmers to sell at deeply reduced prices. Ben, championing the smaller farmers and knowing that Whitney could drive many of the Cartwrights' friends out of business, devises a plan to drive Whitney out - even if it means he will lose the Ponderosa if his plan fails.

Staffel 11, Folge 22: Return Engagement

Erstausstrahlung: 1. März 1970
Eleven years after her last stop in Virginia City caused trouble for a young Joe Cartwright, actress Lotta Crabtree returns for another engagement in the Nevada town. This time, it's Hoss who finds himself in the thick of a murder case when he is accused of killing Lotta's co-star during a performance.

Staffel 11, Folge 23: The Gold Mine

Erstausstrahlung: 8. März 1970
Joe helps a young Mexican boy who has suffered from years of abuse by two sadistic slave owners who now want the lad's gold claim and will do anything to get it.

Staffel 11, Folge 24: Decision at Los Robles

Erstausstrahlung: 15. März 1970
While in Los Robles, Mexico, Ben is critically wounded by the town's cruel boss, John Walker. Ben manages to shoot and kill Walker, but now his son - the splitting image of his father - is hellbent on revenge. While Joe tends to his father's care, he tries in vain to embolden the town's residents, who for years have been intimidated into submission by Walker and their cronies. Eventually, Joe's efforts pay off and the Los Robles residents mount a stand against Walker's gang.

Staffel 11, Folge 25: Caution, Easter Bunny Crossing

Erstausstrahlung: 29. März 1970
In the series' only Easter-themed episode, a Quaker woman convinces Hoss to pose as the Easter bunny for the orphanage. While wearing a rabbit costume, Hoss must try to foil the efforts of a bumbling gang that is plotting to loot the Wells Fargo coach.

Staffel 11, Folge 26: The Horse Traders

Erstausstrahlung: 5. April 1970
Meena Calhoun has gotten engaged to bumbling outlaw Virgil Potts, who is now trying to make an honest living in the livery business. Virgil soon finds himself in a heated rivalry with Joe and Hoss, who have opened up a stable of their own.

Staffel 11, Folge 27: What Are Pardners For?

Erstausstrahlung: 12. April 1970
A pair of Easterners have read tall tales about the Wild West and come to Virginia City to live out their dream - be bank robbers in the tradition of their heroes. Hoss somehow becomes involved with their adventures.

Staffel 11, Folge 28: A Matter of Circumstance

Erstausstrahlung: 19. April 1970
Alone at the Ponderosa while everyone else is away on a cattle drive, Joe suffers a compound fracture in his left arm when he kicked by a horse spooked by a severe thunderstorm. Joe fights to stay conscious and treat his wounds. When he becomes delirious, he fears that gangrene has infected his arm, leaving Joe with a difficult decision: Amputate, or not amputate?

Staffel 12

Staffel 12, Folge 1: The Night Virginia City Died

Erstausstrahlung: 13. September 1970
A series of destructive fires has Virginia City residents on edge and anxious to catch the arsonist. But Deputy Clem's new love interest seems to know a lot more about the fires than what she's letting on.

Staffel 12, Folge 2: A Matter of Faith

Erstausstrahlung: 20. September 1970
An orphaned rainmaker named Jamie Hunter comes to Virginia City, hoping to help relieve the drought-stricken area. When Jamie's efforts aren't immediately successful, Ben helps the lad fend off the frustrated ranchers.

Staffel 12, Folge 3: The Weary Willies

Erstausstrahlung: 27. September 1970
The Cartwrights lend their support to The Weary Willies, a group of Civil War veterans who are struggling to re-enter society.

Staffel 12, Folge 4: The Wagon

Erstausstrahlung: 5. Oktober 1970
A murder suspect escapes a prison wagon. Sheriff Price Buchanan, who covets an appointment to Deputy U.S. Marshal, finds an injured Hoss. Buchanan, knowing his career is at risk if he fails his appointed duty, arrests Hoss and plans to substitute him in as his prisoner. Hoss befriends a fellow prisoner named Madge Tucker, whom knows Hoss was falsely arrested. Together, the two scheme to escape the wagon and Buchanan's clutches.

Staffel 12, Folge 5: The Power of Life and Death

Erstausstrahlung: 11. Oktober 1970
The Cartwrights are part of a posse that is after Davis, who shot and killed an Army colonel. When Ben and Joe capture Davis in the desert, they are attacked by a rouge Indian tribe, and Ben is seriously wounded. While Joe crosses the desert on foot to seek medical attention (for his Pa) and the posse (to take Davis into custody), Ben and Davis must set their differences aside to survive their hostile surroundings.

Staffel 12, Folge 6: Gideon the Good

Erstausstrahlung: 18. Oktober 1970
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Episode list for"Bonanza" (1959)

Staffel 1

Staffel 1, Folge 1: A Rose for Lotta

Staffel 1, Folge 2: Death on Sun Mountain

Staffel 1, Folge 3: The Newcomers

Staffel 1, Folge 4: The Paiute War

Staffel 1, Folge 5: Enter Mark Twain

Staffel 1, Folge 6: The Julia Bulette Story

Staffel 1, Folge 7: The Saga of Annie O'Toole

Staffel 1, Folge 8: The Phillip Diedesheimer Story

Staffel 1, Folge 9: Mr. Henry Comstock

Staffel 1, Folge 10: The Magnificent Adah

Staffel 1, Folge 11: The Truckee Strip

Staffel 1, Folge 12: The Hanging Posse

Staffel 1, Folge 13: Vendetta

Staffel 1, Folge 14: The Sisters

Staffel 1, Folge 15: The Last Hunt

Staffel 1, Folge 16: El Toro Grande

Staffel 1, Folge 17: The Outcast

Staffel 1, Folge 18: A House Divided

Staffel 1, Folge 19: The Gunmen

Staffel 1, Folge 20: The Fear Merchants

Staffel 1, Folge 21: The Spanish Grant

Staffel 1, Folge 22: Blood on the Land

Staffel 1, Folge 23: Desert Justice

Staffel 1, Folge 24: The Stranger

Staffel 1, Folge 25: Escape to Ponderosa

Staffel 1, Folge 26: The Avenger

Staffel 1, Folge 27: The Last Trophy

Staffel 1, Folge 28: San Francisco Holiday

Staffel 1, Folge 29: Bitter Water

Staffel 1, Folge 30: Feet of Clay

Staffel 1, Folge 31: Dark Star

Staffel 1, Folge 32: Death at Dawn

Staffel 2

Staffel 2, Folge 1: Showdown

Staffel 2, Folge 2: The Mission

Staffel 2, Folge 3: Badge Without Honor

Staffel 2, Folge 4: The Mill

Staffel 2, Folge 5: The Hopefuls

Staffel 2, Folge 6: Denver McKee

Staffel 2, Folge 7: Day of Reckoning

Staffel 2, Folge 8: The Abduction

Staffel 2, Folge 9: Breed of Violence

Staffel 2, Folge 10: The Last Viking

Staffel 2, Folge 11: The Trail Gang

Staffel 2, Folge 12: The Savage

Staffel 2, Folge 13: Silent Thunder

Staffel 2, Folge 14: The Ape

Staffel 2, Folge 15: The Blood Line

Staffel 2, Folge 16: The Courtship

Staffel 2, Folge 17: The Spitfire

Staffel 2, Folge 18: The Bride

Staffel 2, Folge 19: Bank Run

Staffel 2, Folge 20: The Fugitive

Staffel 2, Folge 21: Vengeance

Staffel 2, Folge 22: The Tax Collector

Staffel 2, Folge 23: The Rescue

Staffel 2, Folge 24: The Dark Gate

Staffel 2, Folge 25: The Duke

Staffel 2, Folge 26: Cutthroat Junction

Staffel 2, Folge 27: The Gift

Staffel 2, Folge 28: The Rival

Staffel 2, Folge 29: The Infernal Machine

Staffel 2, Folge 30: The Thunderhead Swindle

Staffel 2, Folge 31: The Secret

Staffel 2, Folge 32: The Dream Riders

Staffel 2, Folge 33: Elizabeth, My Love

Staffel 2, Folge 34: Sam Hill

Staffel 3

Staffel 3, Folge 1: The Smiler

Episode list for
"Bonanza" (1959)