Bonanza

Joshua's daughter, Jennifer Beale, is abducted in hopes that he'll pay a $1M ransom for her. Starring: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker

Hoss mentors a mentally challenged man who has superhuman size and strength, but his efforts are undermined by a saloon girl who only wants the giant to manipulate him. Starring: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker

Ben and Adam are locked up in jail and set to be hung for a crime they didn't commit. Joe and Huss must find out why the witnesses have committed perjury and lied about what they saw. Starring: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker

The U.S Deputy Marshal that saves Adam's life by gunning down two men who shot at him, reveals that he's in town to bring a witness to San Francisco to testify in a statewide rackateering trial. His motives for bringing the reluctant witness soon become suspect though. Starring: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker

The son of Ben's good friend, Andy, wants to sell their land for mining operations, which would spoil the water rights agreement that Andy and Ben made years back. Strring: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker

Ben Cartwright kills Luke Grayson in self defense, but his son, Todd, will not hear him out when he arrives in Virginia City. Todd is blinded by his desire to kill Ben to avenge his father. Starring: Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Jan Sterling

Adam is taken hostage by murderous sheep herder, Jeb Drummond, to get Ben to sign over a large section of Ponderosa to him. Starring: Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon

Fed up with her overly controlling and dominant father, Dolly Kincaid runs away with her boyfriend, not knowing he is the leader of some murderous bank robbers. Even after they kidnap Hoss and Joe, Dolly still sticks by his side. Starring: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon

Hoss is so in love with a beautiful woman he met, that he can't see she's only interested in using him for his money so she can feed her gambling addiction. Even after Adam shows him proof of her deception, Hoss refuses to believe him. Starring: Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon

Little Joe comes upon a gypsy girl who has been banished by her people for believing she is bewitched. He is smitten with her, and must show her and her people that she is not actually bewitched. Starring: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker

After an Indian saves Ben Cartwright's life, Ben gives the Indian and his pregnant wife a strip of fertile farming land. Unfortunately, the strip of land is next to an extremely racist farmer and things take a turn for the worst. Starring: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker

Virginia City becomes the victim of organized crime, in the form of a protection racket. Starring: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts Dan Blocker

Ranchers are being killed, cattle stolen, and even after U.S Deputy Marshal, Denver McKee, sends posses after the suspects, they are never found. Meanwhile, McKee suspiciously has plenty of money to take of his daughter and her schooling back East. Starring: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts Dan Blocker

Ranch hand is arrested and taken away for trial. Starring: Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene

Three deserters escape from an Army Stockade to the Ponderosa. After a Captain comes searching for them, Ben sees what they've been dealing with and promises them he'll let his friend in charge of the fort know the real truth. Starring: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker

The Cartwrights help a Chinese-American stable hand fight charges of murder against a manipulative mayoral candidate who wants all "foreigners" to leave Virginia City. Starring: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker

The Carwrights take in a boy whose father has been imprisoned, and whose mother has died. While at the Ponderosa, the boy learns that his father is in prison, and news reaches them that the convict has escaped from prison. The Cartwrights must now deal with the possibility that the father might be coming for his boy. Starring: Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon

Hoss and Little Joe are mistaken for vicious hired killers in a small Texas town, dominated by two feuding families. Starring: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker

Adam tags along with a wagon train of Quakers passing through town towards Slaytersville after he becomes smitten with the leader's daughter. Little does he know that the man he has befriended is actually interested on the gold they're carrying. Starring: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker

An English couple comes to Ponderosa on vacation, but the wife slowly makes it clear that she is disappointed that her husband, a great hunter and "action man" is becoming more peaceful, and not the man she married, though things may change for her after they are kidnapped for ransom along with Adam Cartwright. Starring: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker

Gunnar, a long-lost relative of the Cartwright family arrives at the Ponderosa and is taken in by the family. The Cartwrights don't know that Gunnar is the leader of a band of criminals called The Comancheros. Starring: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker

Ben Cartwright and his sons build a flour mill to help an old friend make some money. Starring: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker

Hoss helps the town drunk and former Army scout, Charlie Trent, regain his self-esteem and has him volunteer to lead a gold-bearing troop through the desert. Starring: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker

The Cartwrights and Hop Sing finish a cattle drive in San Francisco. Even after Ben warns the men about the dangers of the big city, two of the hired hands disappear. Ben believes they've been Shanghaied, and with the help of some of Hop Sing's cousins, they are able to locate the men. Starring: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon