1 :01x01 - A Rose for Lotta

Mining tycoon Alpheus Troy hires Lotta Crabtree to tempt one of the Cartwrights into the town, to hold them ransom in exchange for the rights to Ponderosa Timber.

2 :01x02 - The Sun Mountain Herd

Ben Cartwright finds out that opportunists Mark Burdette and Early Thorne is selling antelope meat at large profit to the miners. Ben offers the miners meat at a more reasonable price but Burdette and Thorne retaliate by the Indians for some attacks on the miners.

3 :01x03 - The Newcomers

Ben finds that there are miners camping on the ranch and gets Hoss to escort them away, but Hoss falls in love with Emily Pennington the terminally ill sister of one of the miners.

4 :01x04 - The Paiute War

An Indian war is started by trader Mike Wilson for assaults on Pauite women, but the blame is shifted to Adam who is consequentially taken hostage by the Pauites.

5 :01x05 - Enter Mark Twain

Editorial writer Samuel Clemens visits Virginia City and starts a newspapers battle against a corrupt judge.

6 :01x06 - The Julia Bulette Story

Julia Bulette, a saloon owner with a reputation captures the heart of Little Joe. Her reputation and the age difference between the two of them creates friction between joe and his father.

7 :01x07 - The Saga of Annie O'Toole

Annie O'Toole arrives in Washoe Diggings with a claim for a gold mine filed by her beau Swede Lundberg. Swede actually had two claims, one belonging to Annie and another belonging to an old acquitance called Gregory Spain. There is some confusion over the claims and it must be settled in a Miners Court.

8 :01x08 - The Philip Diedesheimer Story

Adam teams up with Philip Diedeshiemer to set up a timbering system which prevents mine cave-ins.

9 :01x09 - Mr. Henry Comstock

Henry Comstock claims ownership when a major goldstrike is found. The Comstock Lode is the basis for the founding of Virginia City. Meanwhile Little Joe asks for trouble by getting involved with the daughter of Chief Winnemuca.

10 :01x10 - The Magnificent Adah

An old friend of Ben's, Adah Issacs Mencken arrives in Virginia City with her ex-boyfriend John Regan not far behind. Ben offers her his protection but the Cartwright boys are convinced she's bad news.

11 :01x11 - The Truckee Strip

Little Joe and Amy Bishop are in love and want to get married but find it hard whilst their families are embroiled in a feud with each other.

12 :01x12 - The Hanging Posse

Joe and Adam become part of a posse trying to track down the men who murdered the wife of one of their friends. But they soon realise that the group are just a lynch mob. Fearing what may happen they break away from the group and try to find the men before the posse.

13 :01x13 - Vendetta

The residents of Virginia City leave Hoss and Ben to deal with the conflict against an outlaw gang with support only from a doctor and the town drunk.

14 :01x14 - The Sisters

Adam dismisses his father's worries when he dates Sue Ellen Terry, a woman notorious amongst the men of Virginia City. When she is killed, Adam becomes the prime suspect.

15 :01x15 - The Last Hunt

Joe and Hoss bring home a heavily pregnant Indian woman who they discover alone. When she gives birth, the baby has blue eyes. And the Shoshones try to find her.

16 :01x16 - El Toro Grande

Carrying a large amount of cash for the purchase of a prize bull, Joe and Hoss travel to Monterey. Along the way they have to deal with many things including bandits, Indians and a boy who runs away with the bull.

17 :01x17 - The Outcast

Leta Malvet becomes an outcast amongst the townspeople after he father and her brother are both hanged for murder. A former bank robber Clay Renton is the only one who befriends her, and this has the Cartwrights nervous.

18 :01x18 - A House Divided

Little Joe creates problems in the Cartwright household with his friendship with Frederick Kyle who is in town looking for support for the Confederacy.

19 :01x19 - The Gunmen

Hoss and Joe are arrested in Texas when they are mistaken for the Slade brothers, who were involved in a feud between two families. A member of one of the families breaks the two out of jail and Joe ans Hoss try to bring an end to the feud.

20 :01x20 - The Fear Merchants

Andrew Fulmer hates chinese people and is running for mayor. Jimmy Chong comes to the rescue when one of Fulmer's men harasses Sally Ridley but the man tells her father that Jimmy was the one doing the harrassing. When Ridley pulls put a gun his daughter is accidentally killed. Ridley accuses Jimmy of the murder and a lynch mob is formed.

21 :01x21 - The Spanish Grant

Rosita Morales disguises herself as heiress Isabella Marie Inez de la Cuesta in an attempt to gain possession of a land grant which has part of the Ponderosa in it. Ben becomes suspicious and with his sons tries to track down the real heiress.

22 :01x22 - Blood on the Land

Sheepherder Jeb Drummond is passing through the Ponderosa when he decides to camp exactly where he is. He stands up to all of Ben's attempts to get him off the land. h eventually takes Adam hostage in exchange for ownership of the land.

23 :01x23 - Desert Justice

An old friend of the Cartwrights is wanted for murder by an obsessed lawman with a secret passion for revenge.

24 :01x24 - The Stranger

Ben runs for the position of Governor of Nevada. But Charles Leduque shows up to take Ben to New Orleans to face murder charges. Ben goes after explaining to his sons why he ran. After Joe hears that his mother was paying off a blackmailer, he tries to deal with things in his own way.

25 :01x25 - Escape to Ponderosa

Adam is bushwhacked by three escaped convicts, so Ben joins Army Captain Bolton in a search for the convicts.

26 :01x26 - The Avenger

Adam and Ben are going to be hanged for murder and Joe and Hoss struggle to prove their innocence. A man called Lassiter turns up and tries to help the Cartwrights.

27 :01x27 - The Last Trophy

An English couple, Lord Dunsford and his wife Lady Beatrice, come to visit the Cartwrights. Adam offers the Dunsfords to arrange a hunt party. Dunsford accepts and they go in search of a dangerous puma. Just on the moment the Englishman should pull the trigger, he freezes and Adam must intervene to save the day. The Lady seduces Adam. Later the whole hunt party is kidnapped by a renegade named Belcher, who leads a gang of Indians.

28 :01x28 - San Francisco

Ben, Hoss and Joe are in San Francisco searching for two ranch hands when Ben is shanghighed and ready to be shipped away.

29 :01x29 - Bitter Water

The Cartrights are in danger of loosing their water rights and cattle due to events caused by a greedy businessman.

30 :01x30 - Feet of Clay

Hoss developes a special relationship with a boy whos father is a covict on the run.

31 :01x31 - Dark Star

Joe falls in love witha beautiful gypsy girl who has been banished by her family for bearing an ancient gypsy curse.

32 :01x32 - Death at Dawn

33 :02x01 - Showdown

A gang robs a bank and one of the criminals gets a job on the Ponderosa to keep a look out and warn his friends. The Cartwrights all take a shine to him except Joe.

34 :02x02 - The Mission

Hoss suggests to Captain Pender that Charlie Trent could be his new scout. However Trent has become a drunkard after a massacre that he feels responsible for.

35 :02x03 - Badge Without Honor

A crooked Marshal, turned hitman .. is hired to make sure a witness never makes trial.

36 :02x04 - The Mill

The Cartwrights decide to help Tom Edwards, a disabled man who holds Ben responsible for his condition, gain some purpose. However, Edward's foreman distorts his views on the Cartwrights' motives.

37 :02x05 - The Hopefuls

Regina Darien gets Adam to help escort her wagon train safely ona dangerous journey west. Adam helps along with his new traveling companion Sam Bord, unaware of what Sam has planned.

38 :02x06 - Denver McKee

A retired Sheriff and friend of the Cartwrights, is moonlighting as the ring leader of an organized crime wave.

39 :02x07 - Day of Reckoning

An outcast Indian saves Ben's life and in return gives the Indian some land much to the dismay of the Cartwright's neighbour Ike Dagget who hates Indians.

40 :02x08 - The Abduction

Joe and Hoss go to the carnival with some ladies but things go wrong when Joe's companion goes missing.

41 :02x09 - Breed of Violence

Joe's friend Dolly Kincaid gets involved with the wrong kind of people and when she gets together with Vince Dagen, Joes tries to stop her and intervene.

42 :02x10 - The Last Viking

Gunnar Borgstrom and his outlaw gang kidnap Joe and his girlfriend on the way to Canada. Little does he know his true links to Joe.

43 :02x11 - The Trail Gang

Outlaw Johnny Logan takes on a job at the Ponderosa with a different name, so he can get revenge on his sheriff father who jailed him previously.

44 :02x12 - The Savage

Adam finds a woman threatened by The Shoshones and in his efforts to protect her he is show in the leg with an arrow. He then relies on a woman known to the Indians as the white buffalo woman to help him.

45 :02x13 - Silent Thunder

Joe tries to teach a death mute girl called Ann sign language. Ben is unsure about it and questions Joe's motives. Joe's efforts are tested when Ann is the only one who can help in a bad situation.

46 :02x14 - The Ape

Hoss becomes friends with a ma nof similar staure but who has never learned to control his temper.

47 :02x15 - The Blood Line

When Ben is forced to kill Luke Grayson, his son tracks down Ben for revenge.

48 :02x16 - The Courtship

Hoss and Joe travel to Sacramento to meet the widow of one of Ben's friends. Hoss falls in love with her and intends to marry her. But Adam is skeptical of her and her intentions.

49 :02x17 - The Spitfire

Little Joe is forced to kill the kin of a backwoods hillbilly family named the Hoads.

Now the Hoads are out to seek their own brand of justice.

50 :02x18 - The Bride

Ben is away when a woman turns up on the Ponderosa claiming to be Ben's new wife. When he returns she says it was a different Ben Cartwright that she married. They decide to travel to find the man, unaware of the woman's plans.

51 :02x19 - Bank Run

Ben puts Joe in charge while he is away on business. Joe's first order of business is to rob a bank with an unwilling Hoss.

52 :02x20 - The Fugitive

Former Ponderosa ranch foreman Will Reagan is killed in Mexico so Adam elects himself to check out the circumstances.

53 :02x21 - Vengeance

In self-defense Hoss accidentally kills Willie Twilight, and Willie's brother swears revenge. He shoots Hoss in the back and while he lay dying, Joe promises to get revenge back.

54 :02x22 - The Tax Collector

Hoss is the only one who wants to help hated tax collector Jock Henry when he has two new arrivals.

55 :02x23 - The Rescue

The Cartwright sons tell their father to take it easy and they go in search of cattle rustlers, which gets them in grave trouble.

56 :02x24 - The Dark Gate

Adam becomes puzzled by his friend Ross' increasingly erratic behaviour and takes away his wife for her safety, when Ross becomes violent.

57 :02x25 - The Duke

Hoss is scheduled to fight against an English prizefighter who only thinks about himself.

58 :02x26 - Cutthroat Junction

Jed Trask and the Cartwrights try to restore order to a town that desperately needs it.

59 :02x27 - The Gift

Joe takes a trip to Yuma to pick up a horse as a present for Ben's birthday. When he gets into trouble, the only person who can help is the man who raised the horse.

60 :02x28 - The Rival

Hoss contends with Jim Appelgate for the heart of a lady called Cameo. But Hoss faces a dilemma when he thinks Jim may have been part of a lynching.

61 :02x29 - The Infernal Machine

Hoss tries to help Daniel Pettibone get some financial investment with his new 'horseless carriage'. When a stranger invests a very big amount of money in it, others follow suit. But then the stranger flees with all the money and Pettibone takes the blame.

62 :02x30 - The Thunderhead Swindle

Ben hears of a strike at the Thunderhead Mine and decides to do some investigating of the new owners, Furnas and Cunningham, for himself.

63 :02x31 - The Secret

Mary Parson's family say she was on her way to meet Little Joe. And when a witness with credibility says he saw them together, Joe is arrested.

64 :02x32 - The Dream Riders

Ben's old friend Major John Cayley arrives with his hot air baloon to do an experiment. But really Cayley and his men have other plans that Ben is unaware of.

65 :02x33 - Elizabeth, My Love

While Adam is ill with a fever, Ben stays with him and recalls his first wife Elizabeth, who was the daughter of the man that Ben served under as First Mate.

66 :02x34 - Sam Hill

The Cartwrights try to help blacksmith Sam Hill recapture land that his mother was buried in.

67 :03x01 - The Smiler

Hoss defends Widow McClure when Arthur Bolling harasses her. During the skirmish Bolling is accidentally killed when his gun goes off. The day of the funeral arrives and Bolling's brother arrives but he doesn't seem to hold a grudge against anyone. But looks can be deceiving.

68 :03x02 - Springtime

A dispute breaks out and Ben's friend Jedidiah Milbank is injured. Ben offers his sons to help Jedidiah and they all go off and do different taks for him.

69 :03x03 - The Honor of Cochise

When Army Captain Moss Johnson is running from an Apache attack, the Cartwrights come to his defense. Surrounded by Cochise, Ben agrees to hear their side of the story. Adam is shot while trying to get water and it leaves Ben with a dilemma.

70 :03x04 - The Lonely House

While Joe is visiting Widow Bolden when a wounded man stumbles in. Realizing that he is a man wanted for bank robbery, he is unsure what to do. But things get complicated when Bolden falls in love with the man not knowing who he really is.

71 :03x05 - The Burma Rarity

Ben feels guilty when two men he introduced to Clementine Hawkins, turn out to be con artists who she purchased a gem from. Convinced that Axe and Morgan sold her a fake, he sets about making things right, little knowing how smart Hawkins is and a surprise she has.

72 :03x06 - Broken Ballad

Adam befriends Ed Payson, who has returned to Virginia City to claim his father's things. Adam learns that Payson wants to do things peacefully now. He finds it hard to help Payson though, as storeowner Will Cass, whose son Dave was killed by Payson in a gunfight, attempts to run him out of town.

73 :03x07 - The Many Faces of Gideon Flinch

Gideon Flich and his niece check into a hotel under an alias, hoping to avoid Bullethead Burke who lost money on advice from Flinch. When Jennifer finds out what has happened, she tries to trick Hoss into posing as her uncle.

74 :03x08 - The Friendship

The Cartwrights have help from prisoners working on the ranch. When Joe is saved by Danny Kidd, one of the prisoners, Joe offers something in return. Danny asks for freedom and Joe must help him adjust to his new life.

75 :03x09 - The Countess

Lady Linda Chadwick, who Ben was in love with twenty years earlier visits, hoping to rekindle their relationship. When Ben doesn't appear interested, she tries to use her power and wealth to make Ben turn to her.

76 :03x10 - The Horse Breaker

When horsebreaker Johnny Lightly is paralyzed after a fall, he moves into the house to get treatment from Doctor's assistant Ann Davis. Johnny doesn't respond to her attention, and when the Cartwright sons go away on a cattle drive, Ben is confronted by a man.

77 :03x11 - Day of the Dragon

Joe takes a bet in a poker game not realising that the offer is a slave girl named Su Ling, who was kidnapped by the card players. At the Ponderosa Joe tries to free her but she won't go. So he turns to his father, not aware that she belongs to General Tsung.

78 :03x12 - The Frenchman

A man claiming to be the reincarmnation of french poet Francois Villon and his sister get kicked out of the hotel. Joe and Hoss bring them to the Ponderosa where Joe falls in love with Francois' sister Eloise. Their relationship is the only thing that stops friction between Francois and Hoss.

79 :03x13 - The Tin Badge

While in Rubicon, Joe is offered the position of sheriff. When he tells his family, they don't take him seriously which angers him, so he takes the job.

80 :03x14 - Gabrielle

Joe and Hoss stumble upon a dead couple with only their daughter who is blind surviving. They take her to the Ponderosa where they find out that they were on their way to see her grandfather, an old recluse. Hoss and Joe take her to see him but the grandfather doesn't want to see her. Ben decides to find her a new home.

81 :03x15 - Land Grab

Ben has old friend and ex army officer Bragg around the place but he doesn't know that Bragg is selling Ponderosa land to settlers, who then turn up claiming their land.

82 :03x16 - The Tall Stranger

Hoss falls in love with Margie Owens but when Mark Connors arrives in Virginia City, Margie falls in love with him and his tales of adventure. Margie and Mark get married and leave town. As Hoss tries to get on with life he is called to Carson City as Margie is having a baby while alone.

83 :03x17 - The Lady from Baltimore

The wife and daughter of Ben's old friend Horace Banning visit the Ponderosa. Deborah Banning wants her daughter to marry a Cartwright son to get them out of poverty. Joe falls in love with the daughter but she wants Adam, who isn't interested.

84 :03x18 - The Ride

While Adam is at the Goat Springs station it is robbed and the Line Manager killed. Adam is sure he recognizes the robber as Bill Enders. But when he claims this, his family doubt it. Adam sets about proving it could have been Enders.

85 :03x19 - The Storm

Laura White makes her father visit the Ponderosa, so she can see her childhood friend Little Joe. Laura and Joe fall in love, but they don't know the problem they will face ahead.

86 :03x20 - The Auld Sod

The Cartwrights are dumbfounded when the mother of town drunk Danny Lynch arrives on the Ponderosa to see the land that her son apparently owns, as he said in letters to his mother. They seek out Danny to tell her the truth.

87 :03x21 - Gift of Water

On his way home, Hoss stops for water at the house of drought stricken family member Jason Gant. While attempting to build a well it caves in on Jason and Hoss saves him. Afterwards Hoss is determined to help Jason strike water.

88 :03x22 - The Jackknife

The Cartwrights set out to find who has been cattle rustling on the Ponderosa. On his travels, Adam finds an injured Matt Grant and is sure he is one of the rustlers. He hopes that Grant will admit it was him before Ben goes through with his plan.

89 :03x23 - The Guilty

When the son of lawman Lem Partridge is shot and killed by Jack Groat, Ben is the only witness. Groat was jailed years earlier for killing Lem's wife. Now he is back seeking revenge.

90 :03x24 - The Wooing of Abigail Jones

Ponderosa ranch hand Hank Myers is in love with someone who doesn't know he exists. Hoss and Joe try to help Hank win Miss Jones' heart. In the end they turn to Adam for help but it backfires when Miss Jones falls for Adam.

91 :03x25 - The Lawmaker

Virginia City needs a new sheriff. Ben's suspicions about the elected sheriff Asa Moran are realized when he abuses the power. When two robbers are killed, Adam decides to question the deputy and Moran decides Adam needs to be silenced.

92 :03x26 - Look to the Stars

Ben is confused when the bright son of his friend is expelled from school. After some investigating he finds that more students have been expelled. When Ben finds out the truth about the teacher, he makes a difficult decision.

93 :03x27 - The Gamble

The Cartwrights are framed for robbery and murder, then thrown in jail. However Little Joe escapes and it is down to him to find the real culprit before the family are hanged.

94 :03x28 - The Crucible

After a successful cattle drive, Adam and Joe go different ways and agree to meet at Signal Rock in three days. On the way home Adam is robbed of everything and left to die in the middle of nowhere. He starts to walk home with no other alternative, and eventually finds a man who is Adam's only hope of getting home. Adam agrees to work in exchange for the use of the man's mule. But Adam doesn't know the real motives behind the man's kindness.

95 :03x29 - Inger, My Love

While Ben waits for Adam and Hoss to return for Hoss' birthday, Ben recalls the story of his first meeting with Hoss' mother.

96 :03x30 - Blessed Are They

With the help of the new minister Reverend Jordan Ben must decide who gets custody of the twin grandchildren between two feuding families.

97 :03x31 - The Dowry

While hitching a ride, Joe sees a man is shot while trying to defend his daughter's dowry. Joe takes the injured man and the daughter to the ranch. While at the ranch, numerous attempts are made to steal the dowry and Ben wonders how they know where the dowry is each time.

98 :03x32 - The Long Night

When Adam is attacked and forced to switch clothes with escaped convict Poindexter, Adam kills Poindexter in self-defense. But he is caught by a posse who think he is the convict. Unfortunately for Adam the posse is led by Poindexter's former partner Trace, who knows Adam has a big sum of money with him.

99 :03x33 - The Mountain Girl

When Joe finds an injured man, he brings him back to the camp where his granddaughter Trudy is tending the sheep flock. The grandfather knows he is dying and makes Joe promise to introduce Trudy to her other wealthy grandfather.

100 :03x34 - The Miracle Maker

While in Virginia City, faith healer Garth meets a young paralyzed girl. He falls in love with her. He promises to heal her if she marries her. But Hoss knows the truth about Garth.

101 :04x01 - The First Born

A man by the name of Clay Stafford starts working at the ranch. Then he kills a man who accuses Clay of cheating at Poker, in what appears to be in self-defense. When the Cartwrights tell Clay to move on, he says he is Joe's brother and Marie was his mother, and they believe him. But Adam and Hoss aren't so sure.

102 :04x02 - The Quest

Joe trys to prove his worth after becoming sick of the trials of being youngest. He bids on a timber contract but refuses any help from his family. But when everything goes wrong, there is only one way he can turn.

103 :04x03 - The Artist

Ben meets a former famous artist called Matthew Raine, who has moved away from society because he went blind. Ben takes him back to the ranch where housekeeper Ann falls in love with Raine. Ben encourages Raine to start painting again but someone has other ideas.

104 :04x04 - A Hot Day for a Hanging

Hoss is arrested for a bank robbery in Dutchman Flats. The sheriff knows fully well that it wasn't Hoss, but is desperate to make himself look the hero by catching the culprit. By the time the sheriff decides to come clean about it all, the situation has gone too far out of control.

105 :04x05 - The Deserter

Colonel Edward J. Dunwoody arrives in Virginia City hunting for the Cartwrights good friend Bill Winters. He says Bill deserted after being ordered to massacre Shoshones. But nobody knows that Bill is the son of the colonel and when the Shoshone find out, it puts Bill in grave danger.

106 :04x06 - The Way Station

Adam meets Jesse, the owner of a way station. With Jesse is his young granddaughter Marty who wants to see things away from the way station where she is isolated by her grandfather. However killer Luke Martin comes to the way station to hide from a posse that is after him. He promises he will take Marty to see the world. Adam discourages Jesse to let her go with the killer and everyone except Marty breathes a sigh of relief when Martin leaves. But he quickly returns and holds them hostage.

107 :04x07 - The War Comes to Washoe

Joe is dating Morvath Terry, daughter of Judge David Terry who wants to become Governor. Realizing the impact it could have, the judge is delighted that his daughter is dating a Cartwright. But Joe has his suspicions about the judge and this creates tension between the two.

108 :04x08 - Knight Errant

Walter Prescott sends his friend Hoss to collect his mail order bride, as Prescott has broken his leg. Things go wrong however the bride falls in love with Hoss. When Hoss introduces her to Walter, she prefers Hoss and runs away. Walter then wants his revenge.

109 :04x09 - The Beginning

Ben hires Billy a white man raised by the Shoshone in the middle of a land dispute with neighbor Milton Tanner. Bill feels he owes Ben, and so confronts Tanner, thinking he is helping. Tanner ends up dead and when the sheriff comes to arrest Billy, he runs away.

110 :04x10 - The Deadly Ones

Ben is taken prisoner on the Ponderosa by General Diaz and his mercenaries. They force Ben to go with them on a ambush on a gold train.

111 :04x11 - Gallagher's Sons

Hoss find himself looking after two orphan girls called Charlie and Will and plans to take them to their Aunt Chloe, despite them wanting to be on their own. Hoss starts heading for Cantill, without knowing he is being followed and what the girls have with them.

112 :04x12 - The Decision

When Hoss is injured, Ben tries to find the doctor, only to discover he is in jail. Ben asks the judge to free him temporarily to save Hoss' life, but he refuses because the doctor is in jail because the judges wife dies in Doctor John's care.

113 :04x13 - The Good Samaritan

Hoss helps bring together a widowed mother and a man whose girlfriend has left him. They get married but Hoss' help has a negative effect on the marriage.

114 :04x14 - The Jury

Jamie Wren is up for robbery and murder and his fate is to be decided by a jury with Hoss on it. Hoss struggles to decide whether the man is guilty or not, and turns to Adam for help.

115 :04x15 - The Colonel

Travelling salesman Frank Medford goes to see his old friend Ben Cartwright. But Frank is a huge liar who tells wild stories until he meets Emily Colfax.

116 :04x16 - Song in the Dark

Danny Morgan who is a friend of Adam's who likes taking rides at night, playing guitar and singing. Then when a woman is killed, somebody says they heard Adam singing at the time of the murder. Danny is then arrested and Adam sets about proving his innocence.

117 :04x17 - Elegy for a Hangman

Bob Jolley arrives in Virginia City and begins to taunt the Cartwight's friend Judge Harry Whitaker, saying he unjustly hung Bob's father. Adam gets involved and then more people to do with the case turn up, and Adam fights for Bob Jolley's case.

118 :04x18 - Half a Rogue

Jim Leyton breaks out of jail but is shot while trying to steal Hoss' horse and passes out. Jailed for stealing and murder, Jim is released due to lack of evidence. But when another man is killed, the deputy searches for Jim.

119 :04x19 - The Last Haircut

While in the barber shop, Duke Miller kills Carlos Rodriquez. Little Joe is knocked out before the murder and therefore there were no witnesses and Miller and his men are freed. Joe takes Carlos' young son Paco to see his grandparents in Juarez, where they again run into Duke Miller in the barber shop.

120 :04x20 - Marie, My Love

When Joe has a nasty fall from a horse, Ben looks after him and recalls how he met Joe's mother and lived with her on the Ponderosa.

121 :04x21 - The Hayburner

To run in the Virginia City race, Adam and Hoss buy a thoroughbred but Hoss loses it in a poker game. Desperately needing the money to buy it back, they know they can't turn to their father for money. So they turn to Little Joe who is working on another ranch at the time, Joe agrees but wants it to be secure.

122 :04x22 - The Actress

Julia Grant doesn't want commit her love to Joe because she dreams of being an actress. Adam gets her an audition with visiting actor Edwin Booth but the verdict isn't one she wants to hear.

123 :04x23 - A Stranger Passed This Way

Hoss is robbed and knocked out. When he comes round, he can't remember who he is. A dutch couple by the name of Vandervoort, who had lost a son anyway, give Hoss a name and a home as if he were there own. When Ben comes to their house, she doesn't let him see Hoss.

124 :04x24 - The Way of Aaron

Salesman Aaron Kaufman and his daughter rebecca visit the Ponderosa and Adam immediately falls for Rebecca. Adam uses the excuse of a gun purchase as a way of make a visit at night. When he arrives he finds they are camping because it is Sabbath. They say they will be fine, but Adam camps nearby and his fears are realised when two outlaws arrive.

125 :04x25 - A Woman Lost

While in San Francisco, Ben finds his fiend Rita Marlowe is an alcoholic. Ben takes her back to Virginia City and Rita finds Mase Sindell, a former prizefighter who quit when he badly injured an opponent. Playing on Mase's affection for Rita, two promoters tell Rita they will pay her a big amount of money if she can get Mase to fight.

126 :04x26 - Any Friend of Walter's

On his way to see Bessie Sue Hightower, Hoss finds himself being fired at. His only cover is an old cabin owned by a man called Obie and his dog.

127 :04x27 - Mirror of a Man

Nobody knows that Jud Lally has a brother called Rube. So nobody is suspicious when Rube and Jud switch places, so he can go with Joe to pick up a stallion that Rube wants to steal.

128 :04x28 - My Brother's Keeper

While hunting, Joe is accidentally shot by Joe. Adam's guilt begins to consume him. A Irish man and his daughter Sheila help tend to Joe, and Sheila encourages leaving the western life behind.

129 :04x29 - Five into the Wind

Joe and other passengers are on a stage when it crashes and kills the driver. One of the other passengers is killed with Joe's knife and the rest are convinced Joe did it. But they also know Joe is the only one who can help them.

130 :04x30 - The Saga of Whizzer McGee

Whizzer McGee, a man with a huge attitude problem becomes friends with Hoss. Hoss gets McGee a job in the mercantile and it seems to be perfect for him.

131 :04x31 - Thunder Man

On the way to Joe's birthday party, Ann Wilson and her father Fred's wagon breaks down. A man whistling a tune stops and kills Ann. Her father's body is found later on. It appears he had a stroke and the only clue he left is the name of the song the man was whistling.

132 :04x32 - Rich Man, Poor Man

Virginia City just mocks Claude Miller until he comes cross silver and becomes rich. He tries to get even with Virginia City by hiring the deputy and buying out mortgages. But he doesn't realise that the deputy has appointed himself power of attorney.

133 :04x33 - The Boss

Tom Slaydon depletes competition and then makes extortionate prices on his freight line. When he spots Joe delivering supplies to the Ponderosa he replies by having Joe shot.

134 :04x34 - Little Man -Ten Feet Tall

Nick Biancci want his son Mario to be a concert pianist. but when Mario sees his father not standing up for himself, he decides he wants to be like his hero Hoss Cartwright.

135 :05x01 - She Walks in Beauty

Emilia Miller's sister Ragan is a beautiful young woman who takes advantage of men. When she visits Emilia, Hoss immediately falls in love with her and plans to marry her. But when Adam returns from San Francisco, he knows of Ragan immediately and could change Hoss' mind.

136 :05x02 - A Passion for Justice

When Charles Dickens' novels are printed in a newspaper along with a negative review, he goes to the newspaper's office to confront them. When he walks into a trashed office, he is arrested and fined, but he refuses to pay. The Cartwrights go out to prove his innocence.

137 :05x03 - Rain from Heaven

In the middle of a drought in Virginia City, Tulsa Weems arrives in town claiming to be a rainmaker. When Ben claims he is a fraud and offers him money, Weems pulls a gun on Ben. He is swiftly arrested and Hoss nurses Weems' daughter through typhoid fever.

138 :05x04 - Twilight Town

Joe is bushwacked and knocked unconcious, before falling into Martinville. The intrigued townspeople nurse Joe back to health and ask him for help to stop Felix Matthews, the man who killed their sheriff. Joe acts as sheriff but finds the people don't want to help. Then they rush into a gun battle with Matthews which ends ina very interesting way.

139 :05x05 - The Toy Soldier

While at Sheep Head, searching for wayward cattle when he finds artist James Callan and his wife. Callan is friends with the Pauites, but they don't trust Adam. He offers them some of the cattle if they help him round them up. He befriends Callan and finds he has an alcohol problem. He also learns Callan has an enemy who is taking the cattle and re-branding them. Adam then has to deal with a new friend and a new enemy.

140 :05x06 - A Question of Strength

Hoss is on a stagecoach with Mother Veronica and Mary Kathleen when the coach is ambushed, and the robbers demand $10,000 that was to be used to rebuild a hospital. Mary Kathleen hands it over much to the dismay of Mother Veronica, who says Kathleen will never make it into the sisterhood. So Mary Kathleen sets out to retrieve the money.

141 :05x07 - Calamity over the Comstock

Joe promises a dying man that he will look after his young charge Cal. Joe realizes that Cal is a girl really, but promises he won't tell anybody if that is what she desires. When he takes her to the Ponderosa, he fins that Cal stands for Calamity, as in the name Calamity Jane. Then Joe meets Jane's friend Doc Holliday. And it becomes a showdown as to who Jane goes with.

142 :05x08 - Journey Remembered

Ben reminisces about Adam and Hoss' mother Inger when his sons were 5 years old and how he and Inger traveled west.

143 :05x09 - The Quality of Mercy

Joe discovers a mine accident involving his friend Seth and his father-in-law to be. Seth says the old man had a broken back and begged to be put out of his misery and so Seth obliged. Seth begs Joe not to reveal the real cause of his death to Seth's fiancee and Joe agrees. But then Joe struggles with his conscience.

144 :05x10 - The Waiting Game

Peggy Dayton is waiting for her father to return home and says that he will definitely be home by the time she counts to one hundred. Meanwhile her father is killed in a horse riding accident, and Peggy's mother Laura can't bear to tell her daughter, so she waits. Adam encourages Laura to tell her daughter the truth not realizing the real reasons behind Laura's silence.

145 :05x11 - The Legacy

When Ben's horse returns to the ranch without Ben and with blood on the saddle, his sons assume that he has been killed and set out for revenge on the men they think killed him. But Ben is actually being tended by Mr. Dorman who takes Ben home to wait for his sons.

146 :05x12 - Hoss and the Leprechauns

Hoss rescues a small man being threatened by a bear. When the bear is gone, the man disappears and leaves behind a strongbox of gold. He takes it home and is laughed at by his family. That night, the gold is stolen and Ben Hoss report it. When the townsfolk hear about it, Hoss regrets mentioning it. Until a small Irish man comes to Hoss' defense. Eventually the Ponderosa is overrun with men looking for gold and leprechauns.

147 :05x13 - The Prime of Life

Ben is determined to complete no matter what but comes to regret that when a worker is killed in an accident. Ben's conscience eats at him, so he leaves the Ponderosa in the hands of his sons and leaves. The Cartwright boys are left with Barney Fuller who wants to make sure the boys don't reach the contract deadlines.

148 :05x14 - The Lila Conrad Story

Accompanying Judge Knowlton and his wife to Virginia City, Joe and Adam find Lila Conrad hidden in the wagon. She claims she was forced to kill a man in self-defense. Joe tries to protect her from those who won't give her a fair trial, and enlists Adam to help him get her to Virginia City, where she would get a fair trial.

149 :05x15 - Ponderosa Matador

Señor Tenino and his daughter Dolores visit the Ponderosa and all the boys vie for her attention. When they find that Adam is probably on top, Hoss and Joe team up for a bullfight that they hope will get her attention. But it is too late when they realize they are way in over their head.

150 :05x16 - My Son, My Son

Ben is looking forward to marrying Katherine Saunders when her son Eden who is on the run from the law turns up at the Ponderosa. He is wanted for a murder of a local woman which he was acquitted from 3 years earlier. Ben defends Eden for Katherine's sake but he finds it hard as the posse get closer and closer.

151 :05x17 - Alias Joe Cartwright

Little Joe is mistaken for Angus Borden, an army deserter who is the spitting image of Joe. Joe gets arrested and is taken to the Army base to face charges. He appeals to the judge but he won't listen.

152 :05x18 - The Gentleman from New Orleans

A man turns up in Virginia City who claims to be Pirate Lafitte but Ben knows Lafitte from his past and he doesn't think that the man is who he claims to be. He tells stories which Hoss likes and so they become friends. Lafitte returns the favour by collecting a debt for Hoss from Amos Whittaker. But when something bad happens and Lafitte is suspected, Hoss is the only one who believes he is innocent.

153 :05x19 - The Cheating Game

Adam checks in on Laura and Peggy Dayton. Laura's husband and Peggy's father had died earlier that year. He finds problems and Laura becomes irritated by Adam's interference. Laura also hires a new man Ward Bannister to help her out with operations on the ranch. Ward says he is a friend of her late husband and claims to have a life insurance policy for her. But really he is in a shady deal with a man called Canfield and things go wrong for Ward when he falls in love with Laura.

154 :05x20 - Bullet for a Bride

Joe is consumed with guilt when he accidentally blinds a girl in a hunting accident. They are taken back to the Ponderosa, where Joe falls in love with her and wants to marry and take care of her. But when her sight is surprisingly recovered, her father doesn't let her tell anyone so she can still marry into the wealthy Cartwright family.

155 :05x21 - King of the Mountain

Jim Leyton returns to Virginia City with his girlfriend he is to marry Julie, and he asks Hoss to be best man. But then Hoss gets involved in a dispute between Jim and his father-in-law to be.

156 :05x22 - Love Me Not

Ben visits his Pauite friends and gives them a gift, in return they give him a white girl, who he can't return or she will be killed. So Ben takes her back to the ranch so he can teach her the ways of the white world.

157 :05x23 - The Pure Truth

While Hoss is suffering from spring fever, Ben is happy when Hoss is appointed deputy and sent on an errand to Rimrock to pick up a prisoner. But Hoss goes to Red Rock Arizona and is arrested on bank robbery charges. He escapes and takes refuge with a recluse called Loulabelle.

158 :05x24 - No Less a Man

The citizens choose to replace Sheriff Coffee as the notorious Wagner gang heads for Virginia City. But they settle at Adam being his assistant rather than replacing him permanently. Then the people grow concerned when Coffee seems to be doing nothing.

159 :05x25 - Return to Honor

Ben travels to pay his respects to his dead nephew Will. But when he gets there he finds his nephew is still alive but with a bullet wound. He goes to the doctors but he won't help. Then Will explains that there are people after him and they must think that Will is dead. Ben tries to take Will back to Virginia City not realizing the men are close behind.

160 :05x26 - The Saga of Muley Jones

Muley Jones, the cousin of the Cartwrights with a glass shattering voice, visits the ranch. One day, Jones and Hoss get arrested on the same day as a very important meeting.

161 :05x27 - The Roper

Will is alone at the ranch when the army soldiers arrive along with a prisoner named Hewitt. Then Hewitt's men arrive and attack the army men. Then Will realizes that they are waiting for Ben, so they can open the safe and Will must come up with a plan.

162 :05x28 - A Pink Cloud Comes from Old Cathay

Hoss is mistakenly sent a bride from Yipee Trading rather than his desired fireworks. Yet he fails in his attempts to return her.

163 :05x29 - The Companeros

Mateo Ibara and his wife Carla are visitors to the ranch. Ibara asks Will to return with them to Mexico. They fought together for Juarez and Ibara saved Will's life. Will feels as though he is obliged to go with him but Ben is suspicious of Ibara.

164 :05x30 - Enter Thomas Bowers

Italian opera singer Thomas Bower is invited to sing at Virginia City, but when he arrives he is shunned by many due to being black. Then word spreads that a slave has escaped so Hoss takes Bower with him.

165 :05x31 - The Dark Past

A bounty hunter is forced to work off the price of a new horse at the ranch as he stops because his is injured. While there he meets Holly Burnside the wife of the man he after.

166 :05x32 - The Pressure Game

Laura Dayton's Aunt Lil is visiting and tries to help hesitant Adam propose to her niece. But her plan to make Adam jealous by using Will backfires hugely.

167 :05x33 - Triangle

Adam and Laura have finally got engaged, and Adam is planning and building a house for their future. But Laura is in love with Will, and he loves her, so they decide to tell Adam. But Adam is in a wheelchair after a fall and they can't tell him out of guilt.

168 :05x34 - Walter and the Outlaws

Hoss looks after his fiend Obie's dog while he leaves town to visit his sister. Hoss finds it a handful to look after the dog and keep it safe from outlaws who want to hold it ransom.

169 :06x01 - Invention of a Gunfighter

Johnny Chapman was shown how to handle a gun by Joe, and now he may regret he had done so. Johnny leaves Virginia City after he abuses his newfound skills. Now he returned years later as a bounty hunter, with Joe as one of his targets.

170 :06x02 - The Hostage

Ben is held hostage in an abandoned mine by outlaws for a ransom.

171 :06x03 - The Wild One

Hoss gets in a spat with a grumpy horse wrangler named Lafe Jessup. Lafe doesn't think too much about being married and now it is discovered that he will soon be a father.

172 :06x04 - Thanks for Everything, Friend

Adam is confident that the man who once saved him from drowning, Tom Wilson, is innocent of killing the beau of a woman he has eyes for.

173 :06x05 - Logan's Treasure

A bounty hunter and the son of a man who was a partner in a robbery both believe the man Ben sent to prison twenty years earlier, is lying over the whereabouts of the stash of money.

174 :06x06 - The Scapegoat

A bumbling fighter named Waldo Watson, running from a group of gamblers from the East, is given a safe haven at the Ponderosa after determining that he was going to kill himself.

175 :06x07 - A Dime's Worth of Glory

A journalist takes the opportunity to cause trouble for Ben, Adam and an aging lawman after the Cartwrights turn down a chance to be written about as heroes during a stagecoach robbery.

176 :06x08 - Square Deal Sam

The Cartwrights and Hop Sing end up being conned by an old man named Sam, when they buy into a phony land deal. Hoss tries to redeem him and changing his way of life.

177 :06x09 - Between Heaven and Earth

Little Joe becomes obsessed when his fear of heights gets the best of him after losing his rifle on a mountainside. His frame of mind causes him to alienate a friend he beats in an arm wrestling contest, believing this is a show of his manhood.

178 :06x10 - Old Sheba

Ben insists that Hoss and Joe get rid of an elephant they received as payment for their work in a circus which passed through town.

179 :06x11 - A Man to Admire

Hoss' freedom lies in the hands of a clever, but alcoholic attorney, Whitney Parker, when he is charged with murder.

180 :06x12 - The Underdog

A half-breed Indian in which the Cartwrights have entrusted, is in fact the leader of a group of horse thieves that no one has been able to apprehend.

181 :06x13 - A Knight to Remember

A man, dressed in armor, is riding around the area in search of dragons and robbers and believes he is King Arthur. When a stage that Adam is in gets robbed by a band of Mexican bandit, it is King Arthur who scares them off.

182 :06x14 - The Saga of Squaw Charlie

When a young girl is kidnapped, a friendly Indian is framed for the crime.

183 :06x15 - The Flapjack Contest

In training to win a flapjack eating contest, Joe puts Hoss on a strict diet to ensure victory. While the town is busy watching the contest, thieves attempt to rob the Virginia City bank.

184 :06x16 - The Far, Far Better Thing

Joe encounters an old school friend, an Indian named Sharp Tongue, and must engage him in a fight when as the leader of renegade Indians, become captured along with Tuck.

185 :06x17 - Woman of Fire

Adam has the task of taming a young, hot-tempered woman, Margarita, who along with her sister Elena, are on their way to California to meet her suitor. Elena would like to get married but must follow tradition and wait till her sister marries first, which may take some time since she alienates every man she comes in contact with.

186 :06x18 - The Ballerina

A young dancer struggles between her love of ballet and her father, who she teams up with as a dancer to his violin music. Without Kellie, her father cannot make a living, but if she stays she will lose her chance to become a ballerina.

187 :06x19 - The Flannel-Mouth Gun

A series of cattle rustling has the Cattle Association sending in a hired detective, with an itchy trigger finger.

188 :06x20 - The Ponderosa Birdman

Hoss helps an inventor, Professor Klump, and his daughter work on a contraption which will make a man able to fly.

189 :06x21 - The Search

Adam goes on a search to hunt down the man who has been impersonating him, soiling his reputation.

190 :06x22 - The Deadliest Game

An old friend of Ben, Guido Borelli, who once saved him while in Italy, visits Virginia City along with his acrobatic troupe.

191 :06x23 - Once a Doctor

Hoss needs the help of a new acquaintance, Professor Poppy, when he is shot in the back, knowing that he used to go by the name of Dr. Percival Alexander Mundy.

192 :06x24 - Right is the Fourth R

Adam finds out a secret truth about the past of the territory that many would rather leave unknown when he becomes a substitute teacher.

193 :06x25 - Hound Dog

The Ponderosa is overrun by a pack of noisy hound dogs when Cousin Muley Jones makes his return.

194 :06x26 - The Trap

Joe is caught in an accusation from his former girlfriend and the twin brother of a dead man, that he had a hand in the death of her husband.

195 :06x27 - Dead and Gone

Adam wants to have faith in a talented singer, Howard Mead, if only he could stay on the side of law and order.

196 :06x28 - A Good Night's Rest

In search for a good night's sleep, Ben heads to the Virginia City hotel. But instead of peace and quiet, Ben winds up being charged with murder.

197 :06x29 - To Own the World

Charles Augustus Hackett, one of the world's richest men, wants to purchase the Ponderosa and refuses to take no for an answer.

198 :06x30 - Lothario Larkin

A real ladies-man known as Lothario Larkin, is taken in by Hoss after Sheriff Coffee runs him out of town before trouble can occur.

199 :06x31 - The Return

Ex-con Tracey Cordell has returned to Virginia City and not everyone is happy to see his face, especially his former girlfriend who is now married to a man he once crippled in a gunfight.

200 :06x32 - The Jonah

A new hired hand at the Ponderosa, George Whitman, brings with him a rumor that he is a jinx, which makes the other hands feel uneasy. Although he is told to ignore the men, Hoss is told by a gypsy to heed her warning.

201 :06x33 - The Spotlight

A famous opera singer, Angela Bergstrom, is invited to perform at the Virginia City's anniversary celebration by Ben, who is unaware that she can no longer sing.

202 :06x34 - Patchwork Man

Hoss' new friend Patch may be a great apple pie maker, but when the Cartwrights get in a gunfight with a mining outfit, Patch is unable to pick up a gun and Ben is wounded as a result. Later Patch explains that he saw his father and brothers gunned down and developed a pathological fear of guns.

203 :07x01 - The Debt

Wiley and Annie Kane arrive at the Ponderosa to work off their father's debt to Ben. It seems as though the elder Kane once swindled the Cartwright patriarch.

204 :07x02 - The Dilemma

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

205 :07x03 - The Brass Box

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

206 :07x04 - The Other Son

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

207 :07x05 - The Lonely Runner

Jim Acton owns a prize mare that he's determined to keep--even when a judge awards the animal to another man in settlement of a debt.

208 :07x06 - Devil on Her Shoulder

A religious sect, which has suffered through a series of misfortunes, accuses one its members of being possessed by the devil.

209 :07x07 - Found Child

The Cartwrights give shelter to the lone survivor of a stagecoach robbery/massacre--a young girl whose life is still in danger because the culprits think she can identify them.

210 :07x08 - The Meredith Smith

Jake Smith dies and leaves his estate to Meredith Smith. Then several claimants to the estate show up saying they are Meredith. It's up to Ben, the executor of the estate, to determine the true heir.

211 :07x09 - Mighty is the Word

A gunfighter gets religion and becomes a preacher only to be confronted by a vengeful man whose brother he once killed.

212 :07x10 - The Strange One

The Ponderosa becomes a site of refuge for a woman suspected of being a witch.

213 :07x11 - The Reluctant Rebel

When the Cartwrights catch young Billy Penn trying to steal some of their cattle they try to set the young rustler on the straight and narrow.

214 :07x12 - Five Sundowns to Sunup

A family embarks upon a kidnapping spree in an attempt to halt an execution.

215 :07x13 - A Natural Wizard

A young man loves animals so much that he frees them from traps set by hunters--including his own father's.

216 :07x14 - All Ye His Saints

After his father becomes seriously ill, a young boy decides to climb a mountain and seek God's help.

217 :07x15 - A Dublin Lad

It's 12 Angry Men in the Old West when juror Joe becomes the lone hold-out for acquittal in a murder trial.

218 :07x16 - To Kill a Buffalo

A badly injured Native American rejects Hoss's attempts at helping him.

219 :07x17 - Ride the Wind (1)

The Pony Express sets up an office in Virginia City and Joe joins up as a rider.

220 :07x18 - Ride the Wind (2)

In the second of two parts, the Cartwrights provide much needed aid to the fledling Pony Express office in Virginia City.

221 :07x19 - Destiny's Child

Two strangers help Ben when his wagon gets bogged down in the mud. He later tries to return the favor by helping them find employment.

222 :07x20 - Peace Officer

When Sheriff Coffee takes a leave of absence, a ruthless, Dirty Harry type lawman is hired to take his place.

223 :07x21 - The Code

Joe Cartwright finds himself goaded into a duel where a lot of money is being bet against him.

224 :07x22 - Three Brides for Hoss

A woman from Kentucky arrives in Virginia City and announces that she's Hoss Cartwright's mail order bride. Needless to say, Hoss is stunned at this situation.

225 :07x23 - The Emperor Norton

A self-styled emperor arrives at the Ponderosa bringing his own private war along with him.

226 :07x24 - Her Brother's Keeper

Ben falls for Claire Amory but her invalid brother might end up tossing a monkey wrench into the romance.

227 :07x25 - The Trouble with Jamie

A visit by the Cartwrights' spoiled Eastern cousin disrupts life at the Ponderosa.

228 :07x26 - Shining in Spain

Joe falls for a girl whose filled with stories of her absent father and his many adventures.

229 :07x27 - The Genius

Hoss tries to help an alcoholic poet stay on the wagon.

230 :07x28 - The Unwritten Commandment

Ben tries to bring an estranged father and son back together.

231 :07x29 - Big Shadow on the Land

Immigrant winemakers decide to plant their grapes on Ponderosa land.

232 :07x30 - The Fighters

Hoss befriends a washed-up prizefighter who's having a hard time adjusting to life outside the squared circle.

233 :07x31 - Home from the Sea

Gilly Maples arrives at the Ponderosa claiming to be a friend of Adam's but in reality his intentions are to rob a shipment of gold.

234 :07x32 - The Last Mission

Ben and an Army colonel undertake a peace mission to the Paiute tribe.

235 :07x33 - A Dollar's Worth of Trouble

A fortune teller predicts that two people will soon enter and change Hoss's life: a hot blonde chick and a dangerous gunman.

236 :08x01 - Something Hurt, Something Wild

The Cartwrights' friendship with a neighboring rancher is threatened when their mentally unstable daughter accuses Joe of attacking her.

237 :08x02 - Horse of a Different Hue

One of Ben's oldest friends must make sure Joe loses a horse race in order to protect a family member from being killed.

238 :08x03 - A Time to Step Down

After wrangler Dan Tolliver is let loose by the Cartwrights, he makes plans to come back and rob the Ponderosa.

239 :08x04 - The Pursued (1)

The Cartwrights head to Beehive, Nevada to purchase horses from a Mormon rancher named Herb Clausen. Herb is not welcomed in the area by the Christians because of his religious practices and because he has two wives. Joe helps the Clausen's escape after they are burned out of their home and head to the desert, along with one of Clausen's wives who is near to giving birth.

240 :08x05 - The Pursued (2)

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

241 :08x06 - To Bloom for Thee

Hoss is unaware that his fiancée is a troubled woman with a hidden, dark past.

242 :08x07 - Credit for a Kill

Joe tries to protect his friend from the brothers of a dead outlaw by claiming the reward money himself.

243 :08x08 - Four Sisters from Boston

When devious cattle ranchers attempt to drive four novice homesteaders off their property, the Cartwrights come to their rescue.

244 :08x09 - Old Charlie

An old blow hard takes the credit for the killing of a young rancher that Hoss was fighting, which endangers him of retaliation from the dead man's brothers.

245 :08x10 - Ballad of the Ponderosa

A young singer returns to Virginia City where he claims that Ben Cartwright is responsible for the death of his father.

246 :08x11 - The Oath

Joe is in search of Charlie Two, the half breed son of Charlie Monohan, a man who Ben turned in to the sheriff after killing a miner and was sentenced to hang, then had Charlie Two swear to revenge his death.

247 :08x12 - A Real Nice, Friendly Little Town

Hoss gets messed up with two youngsters and their hornery mother when he searches for the person named J.R., who shot Little Joe in the butt.

248 :08x13 - The Bridegroom

Joe searches for a groom when a rancher makes plans to marry off his plain-looking daughter.

249 :08x14 - Tommy

The father of a deaf-mute boy comes looking for him and his mother, both who are being protected by the Cartwrights.

250 :08x15 - A Christmas Story

A young singer named Andy Walker returns to Virginia City at Christmas time and agrees to appear at the annual orphan's Christmas benefit. But his shifty manager and Uncle Thaddeus insists on ten percent of the cut. The Cartwrights plan on showing Thaddeus the errors of his ways and the meaning of the season.

251 :08x16 - Ponderosa Explosion

The Ponderosa is overrun with furry critters when two unscrupulous old men convince Hoss and Joe to raise rabbits.

252 :08x17 - Justice

Joe forces the only suspect to the murder of his fiancée to come forward after she is found strangled.

253 :08x18 - A Bride for Buford

When a woman shows interest in a young prospector, Hoss is out to prove she is really only interested in his fortune.

254 :08x19 - Black Friday

Joe discovers that a former Ponderosa cowhand, now a gunfighter in Chiso, is expected to be killed on Friday the 13th.

255 :08x20 - The Unseen Wound

Sheriff Paul Rowan, a friend of Ben Cartwright, has broken under the stress of old wartime memories and has turned his gun on the citizens of his town.

256 :08x21 - Journey to Terror

While visiting a married couple in the Arizona territory, Joe discovers his friend has become an outlaw and is now the member of a gang.

257 :08x22 - Amigo

A group of Comancheros who are raiding the Ponderosa to rob and burn it to the ground, find resistance from a wounded member being helped by the Cartwrights.

258 :08x23 - A Woman in the House

Mary Wharton, an old friend of the Cartwrights, comes with her husband to live at the Ponderosa. But when Ben discovers her husband has been abusing her, he is kicked off the property.

259 :08x24 - Judgement at Red Creek

Hoss and Joe have second thoughts of who really robbed the way station, fearing the two men they hold captive may be innocent.

260 :08x25 - Joe Cartwright, Detective

The reading of crime literature has Joe convincing Hoss that the local bank will soon be robbed.

261 :08x26 - Dark Enough to See the Stars

A young man, Billy Wilcox, who has wandered onto the Ponderosa sick and hungry, fears that the new lawman who rode into town may know that he had once killed a man in self-defense and then ran away.

262 :08x27 - The Deed and the Dilemma

Ben and George Rossi assist each other in an attempt to stop a man from claiming the water from an adjourning ranch.

263 :08x28 - The Prince

Russian royalty that are targets of jewel thieves are guests of the Cartwrights at the Ponderosa.

264 :08x29 - A Man Without Land

In a scheme to claim his employer's ranch, the foreman of a neighboring ranch accuses Joe of murder.

265 :08x30 - Napoleon's Children

Virginia City and the Ponderosa are terrorized by Napoleon, an intelligent, pint-sized leader of a gang of outlaws.

266 :08x31 - The Wormwood Cup

Joe, recently pronounced "not guilty" for the murder of Zach Crenshaw, is named on a wanted poster with a $1,000 reward for anyone who kills him, by the sister of the dead man. After a masked man accepts her offer, the sheriff contacts her with the name of her brother's true killer. But Joe is now being hunted down by a bounty hunter.

267 :08x32 - Clarissa

Clarissa, the Cartwright's cousin from back East, visits the Ponderosa and seems to disrupt the sanctity of the everyday peace and tranquility.

268 :08x33 - Maestro Hoss

The peace at the Ponderosa is disrupted when Hoss is conned into purchasing a violin by a gypsy fortune teller.

269 :08x34 - The Greedy Ones

Gold hunters storm the Ponderosa after a rumor abounds that prospector Gus Schultz has struck it rich. A mining tycoon known as Shasta, refuses to be kept from finding his pot of gold.

270 :09x01 - Second Chance

Joe and Hoss go to warn settlers about Indian attacks. But the renegades catch them en route, and Joe winds up with an arrow in his shoulder. When he attempts to remove it, all he manages to do is break the tip off. Hoss must find help for his gravely injured younger brother. Has he found it when he discovers a wagon trail full of colorful characters?

271 :09x02 - Sense of Duty

Ben discovers the Army has reactivated his Army commission and want him to escort Wabuska, an Indian warrior who claims to be a demi-god and has roused the tribes against the white man. Ben takes Hoss, Little Joe, and a motley group of volunteers along with them to take Wabuska to prison. The Indian tribes have other ideas, though.

272 :09x03 - The Conquistadors

Mexican prospectors capture Little Joe, and demand a $25,000 ransom payment. Anderson and Perkins learn of this, and ride off to find the prospectors. They plan to kill the prospectors AND Little Joe, and keep the money for themselves, blaming the Mexicans.

273 :09x04 - Judgment at Olympus

In the small town of Olympus, Candy stands accused of murdering Jed Wheelock, the son of wealthy A. Z. Wheelock. Wheelock demands a fair trial. Little Joe comes to Olympus, and gets into hot water himself - he's accused of murdering the witness whose testimony likely would have sent Candy to the gallows. With Candy and Little Joe both in jail, it falls to Hoss to figure out what really happened in Olympus.

274 :09x05 - Night of Reckoning

Ponderosa foreman Donny Buckler has hidden $60,000. An outlaw named Dibbs gets wind of it and comes with his gang to get it, taking Joe, Hoss and Candy prisoner.

275 :09x06 - False Witness

Candy decides to leave for Chicago after completing a cattle drive at the small town of Sand Dusk. But then Billy Slater and his gang rob the bank and shoot the banker. The law catches up to Slater. Joe, Hoss, and Candy witnessed the killing, so Slater's gang decides to gun them down...

276 :09x07 - The Gentle Ones

Is Mark Cole a coward? People seem to think so. But when Frank Cole, his own brother, decides to break a horse by torturing it, Mark intervenes.

277 :09x08 - Desperate Passage

The Cartwrights and Candy set out to Utah with a herd of horses. On the way, they discover that Paiutes have annihilated a small town, leaving just two survivors. Mary Burns and Josh Tanner join the Cartwrights, but all of them will have a challenging trip to Utah, evading and fighting off the Paiute.

278 :09x09 - The Sure Thing

Trudy Loughlin loves her horse, a wild stallion. But her father has plans of his own, and they are likely to leave the girl heartbroken.

279 :09x10 - Showdown at Tahoe

Jameson Fillmore plans to steal a million dollars from the Cartwright's lumber operation. He takes advantage of knowing the Captain of Ben's new freight boat to wangle an introduction as a lumberman. But on the boat, Candy becomes suspicious and tricks Fillmore into revealing his plan, leading to a climactic gunfight.

280 :09x11 - Six Black Horses

An old friend of Ben's comes to Nevada with money to invest. Ben is initially delighted. But then his discovers how his old friend got the money - he stole it from corrupt New York politicians.

281 :09x12 - Check Rein

The Cartwrights step in to help a young man whose ruthless and crafty uncle plans to seize control of his ranch. After the bank foreclosed on the rancher, they stepped in to help, but the man's uncle isn't through with him yet...

282 :09x13 - Justice Deferred

Hoss offers testimony that helps hang a murderer. And then he discovers that the hanged man wasn't the murderer at all! Distraught at his role in the death of an innocent man, Hoss sets out to right the wrong. But to do it he'll have to persuade a reluctant witness and an even more reluctant jury foreman.

283 :09x14 - The Gold Detector

Hoss is sure there's gold in a worked out mine he wants to buy, and he has the gold detector to prove it. But the gold detector and it's inventor aren't what's claimed, and soon enough Hoss is the talk of Virginia City... humorists!

284 :09x15 - The Trackers

Ben sent Cully Mako to prison for bank robbery five years ago. So when Cully gets out, and someone hits the same bank again, people look at Cully first. And when enough of them do, a lynch mob forms. Cully maintains that he did not commit either robbery, and Ben elects to protect him from the mob.

285 :09x16 - A Girl Named George

Cato Troxell, accused of murder, produces a photograph that proves he cannot have committed the crime. But the Cartwrights aren't sure, so they investigate further...

286 :09x17 - The Thirteenth Man

When stock begins disappearing into the hands of rustlers, the ranchers hire Marcus Alley to put a stop to it. But his methods are drastic - men start dying who ought to end up in custody.

287 :09x18 - The Burning Sky

Aaron Gore is about as worthless as they come. A sadistic alcoholic racist, he's infuriated when his son hires Moon Holt, a beautiful Sioux, as a horse trainer. Her husband Will is a friend and hand of Ben's, so Ben gets involved.

288 :09x19 - The Price of Salt

A young woman inherits a salt mine, and proposes to sell all of the mineral to a wealthy rancher, despite the large number of others who need it for their own herds. Ben steps in with a bid of his own to prevent it.

289 :09x20 - Blood Tie

A charming and clever thief tricks Little Joe and Hoss into leaving the Ponderosa, which he and his gang plan to rob. Only a wounded Ben remains to defend it.

290 :09x21 - The Crime of Johnny Mule

Johnny Mule, a somewhat thick-headed ranch hand, stands accused of robbery and murder. Hoss is the lone dissenting voice on the jury. Mule, fearing a lynching, escapes while the jury deliberates, and Hoss takes the blame.

291 :09x22 - The Late Ben Cartwright

When an attempt on his life fails, Ben decides to act as if it succeeded. As a dead man, he can discover and foil the plans of the individual behind the attempt, a crooked politician.

292 :09x23 - Star Crossed

Candy falls in love with Tisha Sterling, a young woman being blackmailed by a man named Passmore, a marshal from another town who pretends to be her cousin.

293 :09x24 - Trouble Town

A Cartwright cattle drive stops in River Bend. There Candy meets an old friend named Lilah Holden. Then he discovers she's got problems, so he resigns to stay on and help her. Before long, the Cartwrights are neck deep in it, too...

294 :09x25 - Commitment at Angelus

Candy and Joe visit Angelus in search of a doctor to patch up Candy's injured hand. There, Joe meets his friend Steve Regan, a miner, who explains that the miners have gone on strike because of hazards in the mine. Joe offers the jobless man a day's wages to fill in for the injured Candy, but there is a trail accident and Steve dies. Joe feels responsible, so he sets out to help the miners, pitting himself against a company the Cartwrights hold stock in! Worse, a large amount of dynamite is missing, and the miners claim they have it, and will use it...

295 :09x26 - A Dream to Dream

Bitter, alcoholic Josh Carter makes like miserable for his wife Sarah and children Sally and Timmy, until Hoss takes him in hand and helps him mend his ways.

296 :09x27 - In Defense of Honor

Utes abandoned Davey at the battle of Red Fork, years earlier. Ben found and cared for the boy, who has grown into manhood and now works at the Ponderosa. But while Ben attempts to negotiate a treaty with Chief Lone Spear of the Utes, Davey notices the chief's daughter Bright Moon. That causes problems with bigots in both camps that lead to murder and threaten the treaty.

297 :09x28 - To Die in Darkness

A man convicted on Ben's testimony seeks revenge. He lures Ben and Candy to an abandoned mineshaft and traps them there. They're dependent on his goodwill, for as long as it lasts. And after a month, folks start to believe they're dead...

298 :09x29 - The Bottle Fighter

After Hoss is accused of stabbing a man to death, his hopes for acquittal rest on the skills of Barney Sturgess, a once great lawyer who has crawled inside a bottle.

299 :09x30 - The Arrival of Eddie

Years ago, Hoss shot and killed Eddie McKay's criminal father. Now Eddie's trying to make a new start, and Hoss would like to help, but Eddie still harbors a lot of bitterness and won't let him. Then he changes his mind and accepts Hoss's offer of a job, but he might just have an ulterior motive...

300 :09x31 - The Stronghold

The crooked Farrell brothers pay Joe and Candy for a herd with a worthless bank draft. The key to getting their money might just be an enemy the Farrell's made in their own family, the widow of a man they shot.

301 :09x32 - Pride of a Man

Joe becomes a substitute teacher, and must deal with a pair of hooligans bent on challenging him.

302 :09x33 - A Severe Case of Matrimony

Rosalita hopes to win the Cartwrights as patrons of her opera career. There's just one problem with her plan: she lacks the skill to make a career of opera!

303 :09x34 - Stage Door Johnnies

Hoss and Little Joe vie for the attention of visiting entertainer "Mademoiselle Denise" but she has no time for them. All of her attention is focused elsewhere...

304 :10x01 - Different Pines, Same Wind

Joe tries to drive an old woman away from a destructive strip miner, which she mistakes as an attempt to grab up her land.

305 :10x02 - Child

Hoss is in line for a hanging when he is accused of murdering a wealthy man. But the town is more concerned over where his fortune is than Hoss' punishment.

306 :10x03 - Salute to Yesterday

The Cartwrights and Candy wander upon an injured soldier who asks them to help his Commander hold off Mexican bandits who are after their barrels of gold. Candy recognizes one of the outlaws as a childhood friend, and the Sergeant helped raise him as a youth. The story of Candy's childhood is discovered throughout the episode.

307 :10x04 - The Real People of Muddy Creek

Ben gets virtually no help from a town filled with cowards as he put in charge of a vicious criminal.

308 :10x05 - The Passing of a King