Bonanza

Powerful silver barons scheme to hold Joe (Michael Landon) hostage in return for valuable timber.

Barry Sullivan portrays a greedy opportunist who kills antelope on Indian grounds -- and sells the meat at a large profit.

Hoss (Dan Blocker) invites trouble when he falls for Emily Pennington, the fiancée of a treacherous prospector.

Sinister trader Mike Wilson sparks an Indian war when he assaults two Paiute women -- and shifts the blame to Adam (Pernell Roberts).

Reporter Samuel Clemens spearheads a newspaper's fight against a corrupt judge.

Joe falls into the hands of a gold digger.

Armed with a claim filed by her beau, Annie O'Toole struggles to protect her gold mine from schemers.

Philip Diedesheimer, a Pied Piper, is refused payment after he saves Virginia City's silver mines from a cave-in.

The founding of Virginia City and the discovery of the Comstock Lode are recounted in this story of claim jumper Henry Comstock.

The Cartwright boys suspect that actress Adah Menkin is setting the stage to become their stepmother.

A silver baron plots to grab timber by promoting a feud between neighbors Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene) and Luther Bishop, while Little Joe and Amy Bishop fall in love.

Adam and Joe try to prevent a posse from becoming a lynch mob.

Hoss and a seriously wounded Ben run into cowardice when they seek help in fighting the revenge-seeking Morgan gang.

Ol' Virginny -- who will swear to anything for drinking money -- claims he saw Adam kill a dance-hall girl.

Joe and Hoss shelter a pregnant Indian from a blizzard -- and Shoshones ordered to find her.

En route to California to purchase a bull, Joe and Hoss are ambushed -- and robbed of $15,000.

Ostracized when her father and brother are hanged for murder, Leta Malvet turns to drifter Clay Renton.

Cameron Mitchell as a Confederate sympathizer who splits Virginia City -- and the Cartwrights -- into factions.

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

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.

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.

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.

As is often the case on Bonanza, things are not always as they first seem. Hoss and Adam eventually learn who is the good guy and who is not.

Inspector Leduque comes to take Ben Cartwright back for a 20-year-old murder.