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Bonanza Season 1

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1x01 A Rose for Lotta aired Sep 12, 1959

The scene opens to Ben and Adam Cartwright looking at the beautiful scenery of the Ponderosa. This episode is about mine owners wanting Ponderosa timber and ... read more

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1x02 Death on Sun Mountain aired Sep 19, 1959

Greedy opportunist Mark Burdette and his accomplice Early Thorne stir up trouble between the Paiute tribe and the citizens of Virginia City. Ben discovers B... read more

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1x03 The Newcomers aired Sep 26, 1959

John Pennington and his crew want to mine the Ponderosa land by hydraulic means. Ben is totally against this method and evicts them in short order. Hoss is g... read more

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1x04 The Paiute War aired Oct 03, 1959

Trader Mike Wilson attempts to escape punishment by the Paiute Indians after mistreating two of their women, by placing the blame on Adam. A fierce war betw... read more

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1x05 Enter Mark Twain aired Oct 10, 1959

Samuel Clemens arrives in Virginia City to write for the Territorial Enterprise at the same time a crooked politician tries to lay claim on the Ponderosa.

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1x06 The Julia Bulette Story aired Oct 17, 1959

Little Joe is infatuated wih saloon owner Julia Bulette, whom he imagines is like his late mother. First episode to reveal backround details concerning Mari... read more

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1x07 The Saga of Annie O'Toole aired Oct 24, 1959

Adam defends the mining claim of Annie O' Toole in a court presided over by Judge Ben Cartwright. Annie comes to the Washoe Diggings with a claim to a mine ... read more

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1x08 The Philip Diedesheimer Story aired Oct 31, 1959

Adam and Hoss assist a German engineer in developing the concept of "square set timbering" in the mines. Based on fact, and the first episode not to include... read more

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1x09 Mr. Henry Comstock aired Nov 07, 1959

In a flashback, the legendary prospector arrives on the Ponderosa and participates in the founding of Virginia City. Coincidentally, guest star Jack Carson ... read more

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1x10 The Magnificent Adah aired Nov 14, 1959

Virginia City is visited by actress Adah Issacs Menken, who happens to be an old acquaintance of Ben's. Joe is badly beaten by Adah's jealous suitor, John C... read more

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1x11 The Truckee Strip aired Nov 21, 1959

Luther Bishop and Ben Cartwright have had an ongoing land dispute for a number of years, over a small tract called the Truckee Strip. One of Bishop's employ... read more

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1x12 The Hanging Posse aired Nov 28, 1959

Adam and Joe reluctantly join a group of vengeful townsmen, who are out to lynch the three men who supposedly killed Vannie Johnson. The posse is run by Pai... read more

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1x13 Vendetta aired Dec 05, 1959

In a variation of "High Noon", Ben and Hoss must face a gang of outlaws practically all alone when most of Virginia City's citizens go into hiding. The most... read more

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1x14 The Sisters aired Dec 12, 1959

This episode begins with Adam defending the honor of Sue Ellen Terry in a duel. No one gets shot because the other man misses Adam and Adam generously shoot... read more

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1x15 The Last Hunt aired Dec 19, 1959

Hoss and Joe come across a pregnant Indian woman while hunting bighorn sheep and must deliver her baby. Despite touches of humor, including a scene in which... read more

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1x16 El Toro Grande aired Jan 02, 1960

Ben sends Hoss and Joe to Monterey to purchase an expensive seed bull. The first of Blocker and Landon's many comic misadventures, although the casual use o... read more

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1x17 The Outcast aired Jan 09, 1960

Because she is related to criminals, a young woman is ostracized by everyone but the the Cartwrights. She unwisely seeks solace with an ex-con friend of Joe... read more

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1x18 A House Divided aired Jan 16, 1960

As the Civil War approaches, Adam and Joe clash over which side to support. The situation is complicated by the arrival of Frederick Kyle, a Southern sympat... read more

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1x19 The Gunmen aired Jan 23, 1960

In the first all-out comic episode of the series, Hoss and Joe travel to Kiowa Flats, Texas, where they are mistaken for the notorious Slade Brothers, also p... read more

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1x20 The Fear Merchants aired Jan 30, 1960

The Cartwrights encounter racial bigotry in Virginia City and end up protecting a Chinese boy from mob violence. Victor Sen Yung, in his largest role to dat... read more

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1x21 The Spanish Grant aired Feb 06, 1960

In "The Spanish Grant", a young bargirl, Rosita Morales is pretending to be a Spanish noblewoman named Isabella Marie Inez de la Cuesta and at the end of the... read more

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1x22 Blood on the Land aired Feb 13, 1960

A shiftless sheepherder, Jeb Drummond, encroaches his herd of sheep on the Ponderosa and refuses to budge. He resists all of Ben's attempts to throw him off... read more

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1x23 Desert Justice aired Feb 20, 1960

When a tough U.S. Marshal from California arrests a Ponderosa hand, Dave Walker, for murder, Adam and Hoss go along to make sure their employee reaches Los A... read more

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1x24 The Stranger aired Feb 27, 1960

Nevada Territory is awaiting statehood, and Ben considers running for governor until he learns he is wanted for murder in New Orleans. Inspector Charles Led... read more

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1x25 Escape to Ponderosa aired Mar 05, 1960

After Adam is bushwhacked by three army deserters, Ben tracks them down, and tackles the brutal Captain Bolton who is pursuing them.

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1x26 The Avenger aired Mar 19, 1960

A restaurant owner whom Ben and Adam have confronted over stolen Ponderosa beef ends up dead one night. His daughter, Sally Byrnes runs the cafe and in her ... read more

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1x27 The Last Trophy aired Mar 26, 1960

Adam takes Ben's friends, Lord Marion Dunsworth and Lady Beatrice, on a hunting expedition, and they are captured by a gang of crude thieves and murderers. ... read more

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1x28 San Francisco aired Apr 02, 1960

In this comic episode, the first to take place far from the ranch, Ben, Hoss, and Joe deliver a herd to San Francisco. Although he warns his sons to be care... read more

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1x29 Bitter Water aired Apr 09, 1960

Len Keith, a miner, wants to purchase some land adjacent to the Ponderosa from rancher Andy McKaren. Andy's son, Tod, is anxious to sell. Keith has offered... read more

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1x30 Feet of Clay aired Apr 16, 1960

Hoss takes Billy Allen, the young son of a convicted felon under his wing, then is forced to kill his father and Billy will not forgive him. The most emotio... read more

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1x31 Dark Star aired Apr 23, 1960

Joe falls in love with Tirza, an undeniably strange gypsy girl who says she is cursed and never does seem to "snap out of it". The first episode of the seri... read more

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1x32 Death at Dawn aired Apr 30, 1960

Virginia City is plagued by organized crime, Sam Bryant and his gang. One of his men, Farmer Perkins, kills a storekeeper, and at his trial, the wife of the... read more

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