—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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Season 19 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.
Hoss and Little Joe discover the daughter of the chief of the Shoshonis who was lost in the mountains.
A potential mayoral candidate attempts to stir up trouble between majority and minority groups in town.
A former dance hall girl poses as a Spanish heiress to claim a land grant that includes part of the Ponderosa; guest Sebastian Cabot.
Adam is taken hostage by a band of U.S. Army prisoners who have escaped and sought refuge on the Ponderosa.
The Cartwrights befriend a boy whose father has been sent to jail and whose mother has recently died.

A Deputy U.S. Marshal arrives to escort a man to California to testify against a gang; guest Dan Duryea.
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Ben tries to help his paraplegic neighbor Tom by setting up a grain mill on his unused land; Tom's hired hand raises his suspicion about Ben's plan.
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The Morgan gang swears revenge for the death of young Billy Morgan whom Ben killed during a bank robbery.
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Accused of killing a dance hall girl, Adam tries to evade lynchers and uncover the truth; guest Buddy Ebsen.
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An unscrupulous mine owner targets Little Joe and Candy after they prove strikers' claims that the mines are unsafe.
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Newspaperman Samuel Clemens (Howard Duff), writing as Mark Twain, battles a judge involved in land fraud.
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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.

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

A former dance hall girl poses as a Spanish heiress to claim a land grant that includes part of the Ponderosa; guest Sebastian Cabot.
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Jeb Drummond is a murderous sheep herder who has Adam taken hostage to try and force Ben to sign over a large section of Ponderosa land to him.
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A Ponderosa ranch hand faces charges of killing the wife of the U.S. marshal who came to arrest him.
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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.
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