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Bonanza

Bonanza

—Ben Cartwright is the patriarch of an all-male Nevada ranching family. Set during and after the Civil War, "Bonanza" is the story of life on the family's thousand-acre spread, known as the Ponderosa, near Virginia City. Ben has his three sons, each with a different (and deceased) mother. Serious eldest son Adam hopes to follow in his father's footsteps; middle son Hoss is a gentle giant -- physically strong, but sometimes naive; and youngest son Little Joe is the most impetuous and romantic of the offspring.
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98 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    The Ride
    The Storm
    The Stranger
    Escape to the Ponderosa
    The Last Hunt
    El Toro Grande
    Desperate Passage
    The Auld Sod
    Gift of Water
    The Avenger
  • The Ride

    Adam tries to disprove the alibi of a friend he recognized as one of a pair of stagecoach robbers.
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  • The Storm

    Little Joe's childhood sweetheart (Brooke Hayward), intent on marriage, arrives with her stubborn, seafaring father.
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  • The Stranger

    As Ben prepares to run for governor, Joe must come to his rescue when a disabled police officer from New Orleans comes to arrest Ben on a 20-year-old murder charge.
    Upcoming
  • Escape to the Ponderosa

    Adam is taken hostage by a band of U.S. Army prisoners who have escaped and sought refuge on the Ponderosa.
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  • The Last Hunt

    Hoss and Little Joe discover the daughter of the chief of the Shoshonis who was lost in the mountains.
    Upcoming
  • El Toro Grande

    Outlaws attack Little Joe and Hoss on their trip to California to purchase a prize bull.
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Season 14 of 32 Episodes

  • A mining tycoon holds Little Joe hostage to divide the Cartwright clan and take over the Ponderosa; guest Yvonne De Carlo.

  • Newspaperman Samuel Clemens (Howard Duff), writing as Mark Twain, battles a judge involved in land fraud.

  • Henry Comstock, discoverer of the Comstock Silver Lode, seeks fortune in Nevada; Little Joe romances a Paiute girl.

  • A silver baron promotes a feud between the Cartwrights and the Bishops over timber rights on disputed land; guest James Coburn.
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Ben Cartwright is the patriarch of an all-male Nevada ranching family. Set during and after the Civil War, "Bonanza" is the story of life on the family's thousand-acre spread, known as the Ponderosa, near Virginia City. Ben has his three sons, each with a different (and deceased) mother. Serious eldest son Adam hopes to follow in his father's footsteps; middle son Hoss is a gentle giant -- physically strong, but sometimes naive; and youngest son Little Joe is the most impetuous and romantic of the offspring.

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Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Pernell Roberts, Victor Sen Yung, Ray Teal, Bing Russell, David Canary, Lou Frizzell, Mitch Vogel

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  • Bigoted Ike Daggett takes action when Ben gives an Indian and his wife land after the Indian saves his life.

  • A sheriff's daughter runs off with her boyfriend (John Ericson), unaware he is a murderous bank robber.

  • For saving his life, Ben offers some Ponderosa farmland to an American Indian.

  • An outlaw joins the Cartwrights' cattle drive, knowing it will take him to the town where his father is the sheriff.

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