While the Cartwrights are away to Carson City, ruthless land baron Bradley Meredith (Lorene Greene in a dual role) poses as Ben in a scheme to get control of the…

The Cartwrights are once again brought in the middle of the Civil War. This time, the wife of former Civil War Col. Cody Ransom brings her young daughter to the…

Ben’s ability to close a lucrative livestock contract with a conspicuous widow hinges on the sale of a dilapidated saloon in Upright that Hoss and Joe had impulsively purchased. However,…

A comic tale of mistaken identity, as Hoss (and eventually Ben and Joe) are held in connection with a series of road gang robberies by the bumbling Younger Brothers.

A 7-year-old boy is killed after he walks into a bank during a robbery by the ruthless Springer gang. Joe and Jamie help the boy’s angrily grieving grandfather track down…

A band of ex-Confederate soldiers demands $25,000 from Ben. When Hoss resists their demands and tries to fight them, their leader, Shanklin, shoots Hoss in the abdomen. Hoss lingers near…

Sid Langley is a real estate broker who is not well liked in Nevada, thanks to his shady ways of doing business. An irritable Ben is barely polite with Langley…

All about Joe and Hoss’ visit to a small Mexican town named Agua Santos, which seems to have some rather peculiar laws. The two Cartwright boys soon find them in…

Fired ranch hand, Cactus, suggests that Ben is too old to put in a real work’s week and challenges Ben to take a job as a ranch hand under the…

Ben helps shepherd a young family, the Kosovos (Nick; his wife, Anna; and his son, Sandor), who had recently immigrated from Serbia. Nick soon finds he can’t handle the pressure…

Hoss enlists the aid of Judith Coleman, a clairvoyant woman who has the gift of “second sight” to find Jamie. He has been missing in the high country and cannot…

While panning for gold on his vacation, Hop Sing meets and falls in love with a shy woman. Their future plans are dashed when a judge confirms what Ben has…

Just as Ben begins to formally adopt Jamie, his grandfather shows up to take him away. Ben tells the gentleman, “He’s a young man with his roots in Ponderosa soil….

Joe is stranded in the desert when his mare falls and breaks her leg. He falls unconscious from exhaustion and lack of water, and is found near death by a…

When Luke Calhoun loses all his money in a stock scheme, he and his daughter Meena stay at the Ponderosa with disruptive consequences. Luke turns the ranch into a casino…

Jamie and three teen-agers – a girl and two boys – are kidnapped by Doyle, a hardened criminal with nothing to lose, and his gang of outlaws. The desperate outlaws…

Hoss takes the blame when a visiting actress kills her former boyfriend. The ex-boyfriend’s father, a senator, sets out to destroy the Cartwrights and the Ponderosa as retaliation, for the…

A veteran blinded by the last battle of the Civil War, returns to Virginia City, to solve the mystery surrounding who killed his brother.

Neta, a teen-age girl who is a friend of Jamie’s, witnesses an assault and robbery. The victim – Mr. Trumbull, a man who is about to inherit a fortune –…

To help the hapless wife and daughter of a lazy dreamer, Hoss arranges a “fixed” horse race.

The wife of Virginia City’s new doctor leaves him, after their son dies in childbirth. The doctor snaps and abducts another woman’s baby.

Joe volunteers to help an old lawman escort a slick outlaw to jail, but when their prisoner kills the sheriff and wounds Joe, he must face the task alone.

Hoss becomes a judge in a contest–he has to pick the perfect/prettiest baby. The parents of the babies nearly all try to influence Hoss, so he has a hard time…

Joe is shot and wounded while he is on a cattle drive in the Nevada desert. Two ranchers find him, delirious from thirst and the heat, and take him to…

Jamie deliberately disobeys Ben’s order not to drive the supply wagons. During his recklessness, the wagon goes out of control on a sharp curve and is wrecked. Nobody is hurt…

An alcoholic woman lashes out at Hoss after his testimony sends her husband to prison. She gets back at him by forcing the big guy to take custody of her…

The only person who can get Dusty out of jail is a professional fighter who will not return to Virginia City, so Joe stays on the man’s heels no matter…

Ben, Hoss and Joe, along with Candy and a fellow rancher, are jailed on false trespassing charges by a greedy mining tycoon. The despot runs a gold mine (i.e., a…

The foreman of a neighboring ranch shoots a special steer belonging to the Cartwrights, and his scheming boss plots to take unfair advantage of the mistake.

While visiting the Ponderosa, Ben’s friend, April Christopher, is bitten by a rabid wolf. Ben and April and her daughter must come to terms with her illness as they all…

Blinded by an explosion, Joe wallows in self-pity, and at first resists the efforts of a woman trying to teach him to live without sight, not knowing she is also…

A racist and his henchmen steal a Gatling gun, with plans to massacre everyone – including the Cartwrights – involved in a peace treaty signing between the U.S. Army and…

An epidemic of influenza hits the Ponderosa and the only person who seems sure of what to do is the wife of a doctor, whom Doc Martin says is a…

Ben is shocked to learn the Army general he is backing as governor, advocates a policy of genocide towards all Indians.

An English couple comes to Nevada to learn why a ranch owned by the British investment firm is the only company holding not showing a profit.

Hoss is held prisoner by a fugitive black couple who they admit hate white people and have nothing to lose by killing them.

Bradley Meredith, a Ben Cartwright look-a-like, causes trouble when he sells land to the railroad. Ben has already turned down the deal, but Meredith, acting as Ben, accepts the deal,…

The Cartwrights are about to start a major cattle drive with other ranchers. It has been decided that Ben’s foreman will be trail boss on the drive. Weatherby, a fellow…

An insecure Jamie is unsure of his place in the family, having trouble adjusting at his new school and keeps getting harassed by a bully. When he takes Ben’s prized…

Settlers from Virginia argue over Hoss’ fate after one of them accidentally shoots him.