Bonanza

Bonanza (1959)

America's Favorite TV Western

  • Genre: Western, Action & Adventure, Drama, Family
  • Creator: David Dortort
  • First Air Date: 1959-09-12
  • Last Air Date: 1973-01-16
  • Total Seasons: 14
  • Total Episodes: 431
  • Status: Ended
  • Episode Runtime: 49 min.
  • Production Company: NBC
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Network: NBC
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From 429 Ratings

Summary

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.

  • Keywords: nevada, ranch, family, single father, cowboy, wild west, 19th century, early america
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    Bonanza Seasons

    Season 1

    First Air Date: 1959-09-12
    32 Episodes

    Season 2

    First Air Date: 1960-09-10
    34 Episodes

    Season 3

    First Air Date: 1961-09-24
    34 Episodes

    Season 4

    First Air Date: 1962-09-23
    34 Episodes

    Season 5

    First Air Date: 1963-09-22
    34 Episodes

    Season 6

    First Air Date: 1964-09-20
    34 Episodes

    Season 7

    First Air Date: 1965-09-12
    33 Episodes

    Season 8

    First Air Date: 1966-09-11
    34 Episodes

    Season 9

    First Air Date: 1967-09-17
    34 Episodes

    Season 10

    First Air Date: 1968-09-15
    30 Episodes

    Season 11

    First Air Date: 1969-09-14
    28 Episodes

    Season 12

    First Air Date: 1970-09-13
    28 Episodes

    Season 13

    First Air Date: 1971-09-19
    26 Episodes

    Season 14

    First Air Date: 1972-09-12
    16 Episodes

    Bonanza Episodes

    Title Air Date Duration
    Season 1Episode 1A Rose for Lotta (Pilot)60 min
    Season 1Episode 2Death on Sun Mountain60 min
    Season 1Episode 3The Newcomers60 min
    Season 1Episode 4The Paiute War60 min
    Season 1Episode 5Enter Mark Twain60 min
    Season 1Episode 6The Julia Bulette Story60 min
    Season 1Episode 7The Saga of Annie O'Toole60 min
    Season 1Episode 8The Phillip Diedesheimer Story60 min
    Season 1Episode 9Mr. Henry Comstock60 min
    Season 1Episode 10The Magnificent Adah60 min
    Season 1Episode 11The Truckee Strip60 min
    Season 1Episode 12The Hanging Posse60 min
    Season 1Episode 13Vendetta60 min
    Season 1Episode 14The Sisters60 min
    Season 1Episode 15The Last Hunt60 min
    Season 1Episode 16El Toro Grande60 min
    Season 1Episode 17The Outcast60 min
    Season 1Episode 18A House Divided60 min
    Season 1Episode 19The Gunmen60 min
    Season 1Episode 20The Fear Merchants60 min
    Season 1Episode 21The Spanish Grant60 min
    Season 1Episode 22Blood on the Land60 min
    Season 1Episode 23Desert Justice60 min
    Season 1Episode 24The Stranger60 min
    Season 1Episode 25Escape to Ponderosa60 min
    Season 1Episode 26The Avenger60 min
    Season 1Episode 27The Last Trophy60 min
    Season 1Episode 28San Francisco60 min
    Season 1Episode 29Bitter Water60 min
    Season 1Episode 30Feet of Clay60 min
    Season 1Episode 31Dark Star60 min
    Season 1Episode 32Death at Dawn60 min
    Season 2Episode 1Showdown60 min
    Season 2Episode 2The Mission60 min
    Season 2Episode 3Badge Without Honor60 min
    Season 2Episode 4The Mill60 min
    Season 2Episode 5The Hopefuls60 min
    Season 2Episode 6Denver McKee60 min
    Season 2Episode 7Day of Reckoning60 min
    Season 2Episode 8The Abduction60 min
    Season 2Episode 9Breed of Violence60 min
    Season 2Episode 10The Last Viking60 min
    Season 2Episode 11The Trail Gang60 min
    Season 2Episode 12The Savage60 min
    Season 2Episode 13Silent Thunder60 min
    Season 2Episode 14The Ape60 min
    Season 2Episode 15The Blood Line60 min
    Season 2Episode 16The Courtship60 min
    Season 2Episode 17The Spitfire60 min
    Season 2Episode 18The Bride60 min
    Season 2Episode 19Bank Run60 min
    Season 2Episode 20The Fugitive60 min
    Season 2Episode 21Vengeance60 min
    Season 2Episode 22The Tax Collector60 min
    Season 2Episode 23The Rescue60 min
    Season 2Episode 24The Dark Gate60 min
    Season 2Episode 25The Duke60 min
    Season 2Episode 26Cutthroat Junction60 min
    Season 2Episode 27The Gift60 min
    Season 2Episode 28The Rival60 min
    Season 2Episode 29The Infernal Machine60 min
    Season 2Episode 30The Thunderhead Swindle60 min
    Season 2Episode 31The Secret60 min
    Season 2Episode 32The Dream Riders60 min
    Season 2Episode 33Elizabeth, My Love60 min
    Season 2Episode 34Sam Hill60 min
    Season 3Episode 1The Smiler60 min
    Season 3Episode 2Springtime60 min
    Season 3Episode 3The Honor of Cochise60 min
    Season 3Episode 4The Lonely House60 min
    Season 3Episode 5The Burma Rarity60 min
    Season 3Episode 6Broken Ballad60 min
    Season 3Episode 7The Many Faces of Gideon Flinch60 min
    Season 3Episode 8The Friendship60 min
    Season 3Episode 9The Countess60 min
    Season 3Episode 10The Horse Breaker60 min
    Season 3Episode 11Day of the Dragon60 min
    Season 3Episode 12The Frenchman60 min
    Season 3Episode 13The Tin Badge60 min
    Season 3Episode 14Gabrielle60 min
    Season 3Episode 15Land Grab60 min
    Season 3Episode 16The Tall Stranger60 min
    Season 3Episode 17The Lady from Baltimore60 min
    Season 3Episode 18The Ride60 min
    Season 3Episode 19The Storm60 min
    Season 3Episode 20The Auld Sod60 min
    Season 3Episode 21Gift of Water60 min
    Season 3Episode 22The Jackknife60 min
    Season 3Episode 23The Guilty60 min
    Season 3Episode 24The Wooing of Abigail Jones60 min
    Season 3Episode 25The Lawmaker60 min
    Season 3Episode 26Look to the Stars60 min
    Season 3Episode 27The Gamble60 min
    Season 3Episode 28The Crucible60 min
    Season 3Episode 29Inger, My Love60 min
    Season 3Episode 30Blessed Are They60 min
    Season 3Episode 31The Dowry60 min
    Season 3Episode 32The Long Night60 min
    Season 3Episode 33The Mountain Girl60 min
    Season 3Episode 34The Miracle Maker60 min
    Season 4Episode 1The First Born60 min
    Season 4Episode 2The Quest60 min
    Season 4Episode 3The Artist60 min
    Season 4Episode 4A Hot Day for a Hanging60 min
    Season 4Episode 5The Deserter60 min
    Season 4Episode 6The Way Station60 min
    Season 4Episode 7The War Comes to Washoe60 min
    Season 4Episode 8Knight Errant60 min
    Season 4Episode 9The Beginning60 min
    Season 4Episode 10The Deadly Ones60 min
    Season 4Episode 11Gallagher's Sons60 min
    Season 4Episode 12The Decision60 min
    Season 4Episode 13The Good Samaritan60 min
    Season 4Episode 14The Jury60 min
    Season 4Episode 15The Colonel60 min
    Season 4Episode 16Song in the Dark60 min
    Season 4Episode 17Elegy for a Hangman60 min
    Season 4Episode 18Half a Rogue60 min
    Season 4Episode 19The Last Haircut60 min
    Season 4Episode 20Marie, My Love60 min
    Season 4Episode 21The Hayburner60 min
    Season 4Episode 22The Actress60 min
    Season 4Episode 23A Stranger Passed This Way60 min
    Season 4Episode 24The Way of Aaron60 min
    Season 4Episode 25A Woman Lost60 min
    Season 4Episode 26Any Friend of Walter's60 min
    Season 4Episode 27Mirror of a Man60 min
    Season 4Episode 28My Brother's Keeper60 min
    Season 4Episode 29Five Into the Wind60 min
    Season 4Episode 30Saga of Whizzer McGee60 min
    Season 4Episode 31Thunder Man60 min
    Season 4Episode 32Rich Man, Poor Man60 min
    Season 4Episode 33The Boss60 min
    Season 4Episode 34Little Man... Ten Feet Tall60 min
    Season 5Episode 1She Walks in Beauty60 min
    Season 5Episode 2A Passion for Justice60 min
    Season 5Episode 3Rain from Heaven60 min
    Season 5Episode 4Twilight Town60 min
    Season 5Episode 5The Toy Soldier60 min
    Season 5Episode 6A Question of Strength60 min
    Season 5Episode 7Calamity Over the Comstock60 min
    Season 5Episode 8Journey Remembered60 min
    Season 5Episode 9The Quality of Mercy60 min
    Season 5Episode 10The Waiting Game60 min
    Season 5Episode 11The Legacy60 min
    Season 5Episode 12Hoss and the Leprechauns60 min
    Season 5Episode 13The Prime of Life60 min
    Season 5Episode 14The Lila Conrad Story60 min
    Season 5Episode 15Ponderosa Matador60 min
    Season 5Episode 16My Son, My Son60 min
    Season 5Episode 17Alias Joe Cartwright60 min
    Season 5Episode 18The Gentleman from New Orleans60 min
    Season 5Episode 19The Cheating Game60 min
    Season 5Episode 20Bullet for a Bride60 min
    Season 5Episode 21King of the Mountain60 min
    Season 5Episode 22Love Me Not60 min
    Season 5Episode 23The Pure Truth60 min
    Season 5Episode 24No Less a Man60 min
    Season 5Episode 25Return to Honor60 min
    Season 5Episode 26The Saga of Muley Jones60 min
    Season 5Episode 27The Roper60 min
    Season 5Episode 28A Pink Cloud Comes from Old Cathay60 min
    Season 5Episode 29The Companeros60 min
    Season 5Episode 30Enter Thomas Bowers60 min
    Season 5Episode 31The Dark Past60 min
    Season 5Episode 32The Pressure Game60 min
    Season 5Episode 33Triangle60 min
    Season 5Episode 34Walter and the Outlaws60 min
    Season 6Episode 1Invention of a Gunfighter60 min
    Season 6Episode 2The Hostage60 min
    Season 6Episode 3The Wild One60 min
    Season 6Episode 4Thanks for Everything, Friend60 min
    Season 6Episode 5Logan's Treasure60 min
    Season 6Episode 6The Scapegoat60 min
    Season 6Episode 7A Dime's Worth of Glory60 min
    Season 6Episode 8Square Deal Sam60 min
    Season 6Episode 9Between Heaven and Earth60 min
    Season 6Episode 10Old Sheba60 min
    Season 6Episode 11A Man to Admire60 min
    Season 6Episode 12The Underdog60 min
    Season 6Episode 13A Knight to Remember60 min
    Season 6Episode 14The Saga of Squaw Charlie60 min
    Season 6Episode 15The Flapjack Contest60 min
    Season 6Episode 16The Far, Far Better Thing60 min
    Season 6Episode 17Woman of Fire60 min
    Season 6Episode 18The Ballerina60 min
    Season 6Episode 19The Flannel-Mouth Gun60 min
    Season 6Episode 20The Ponderosa Birdman60 min
    Season 6Episode 21The Search60 min
    Season 6Episode 22The Deadliest Game60 min
    Season 6Episode 23Once a Doctor60 min
    Season 6Episode 24Right is the Fourth R60 min
    Season 6Episode 25Hound Dog60 min
    Season 6Episode 26The Trap60 min
    Season 6Episode 27Dead and Gone60 min
    Season 6Episode 28A Good Night's Rest60 min
    Season 6Episode 29To Own the World60 min
    Season 6Episode 30Lothario Larkin60 min
    Season 6Episode 31The Return60 min
    Season 6Episode 32Jonah60 min
    Season 6Episode 33The Spotlight60 min
    Season 6Episode 34Patchwork Man60 min
    Season 7Episode 1The Debt60 min
    Season 7Episode 2The Dilemma60 min
    Season 7Episode 3The Brass Box60 min
    Season 7Episode 4The Other Son60 min
    Season 7Episode 5The Lonely Runner60 min
    Season 7Episode 6Devil on Her Shoulder60 min
    Season 7Episode 7Found Child60 min
    Season 7Episode 8The Meredith Smith60 min
    Season 7Episode 9Mighty is the Word60 min
    Season 7Episode 10The Strange One60 min
    Season 7Episode 11The Reluctant Rebel60 min
    Season 7Episode 12Five Sundowns to Sunup60 min
    Season 7Episode 13A Natural Wizard60 min
    Season 7Episode 14All Ye His Saints60 min
    Season 7Episode 15The Dublin Lad60 min
    Season 7Episode 16To Kill a Buffalo60 min
    Season 7Episode 17Ride the Wind (1)60 min
    Season 7Episode 18Ride the Wind (2)60 min
    Season 7Episode 19Destiny's Child60 min
    Season 7Episode 20Peace Officer60 min
    Season 7Episode 21The Code60 min
    Season 7Episode 22Three Brides for Hoss60 min
    Season 7Episode 23The Emperor Norton60 min
    Season 7Episode 24Her Brother's Keeper60 min
    Season 7Episode 25The Trouble with Jamie60 min
    Season 7Episode 26Shining in Spain60 min
    Season 7Episode 27The Genius60 min
    Season 7Episode 28The Unwritten Commandment60 min
    Season 7Episode 29Big Shadows on the Land60 min
    Season 7Episode 30The Fighters60 min
    Season 7Episode 31Home from the Sea60 min
    Season 7Episode 32The Last Mission60 min
    Season 7Episode 33A Dollar's Worth of Trouble60 min
    Season 8Episode 1Something Hurt, Something Wild60 min
    Season 8Episode 2Horse of a Different Hue60 min
    Season 8Episode 3A Time to Step Down60 min
    Season 8Episode 4The Pursued (1)60 min
    Season 8Episode 5The Pursued (2)60 min
    Season 8Episode 6To Bloom for Thee60 min
    Season 8Episode 7Credit for a Kill60 min
    Season 8Episode 8Four Sisters from Boston60 min
    Season 8Episode 9Old Charlie60 min
    Season 8Episode 10Ballad of the Ponderosa60 min
    Season 8Episode 11The Oath60 min
    Season 8Episode 12A Real Nice, Friendly Little Town60 min
    Season 8Episode 13The Bridegroom60 min
    Season 8Episode 14Tommy60 min
    Season 8Episode 15A Christmas Story60 min
    Season 8Episode 16Ponderosa Explosion60 min
    Season 8Episode 17Justice60 min
    Season 8Episode 18A Bride for Buford60 min
    Season 8Episode 19Black Friday60 min
    Season 8Episode 20The Unseen Wound60 min
    Season 8Episode 21Journey to Terror60 min
    Season 8Episode 22Amigo60 min
    Season 8Episode 23A Woman in the House60 min
    Season 8Episode 24Judgment at Red Creek60 min
    Season 8Episode 25Joe Cartwright, Detective60 min
    Season 8Episode 26Dark Enough to See the Stars60 min
    Season 8Episode 27The Deed and the Dilemma60 min
    Season 8Episode 28The Prince60 min
    Season 8Episode 29A Man Without Land60 min
    Season 8Episode 30Napoleon's Children60 min
    Season 8Episode 31The Wormwood Cup60 min
    Season 8Episode 32Clarissa60 min
    Season 8Episode 33Maestro Hoss60 min
    Season 8Episode 34The Greedy Ones60 min
    Season 9Episode 1Second Chance60 min
    Season 9Episode 2Sense of Duty60 min
    Season 9Episode 3The Conquistadors60 min
    Season 9Episode 4Judgment at Olympus60 min
    Season 9Episode 5Night of Reckoning60 min
    Season 9Episode 6False Witness60 min
    Season 9Episode 7The Gentle Ones60 min
    Season 9Episode 8Desperate Passage60 min
    Season 9Episode 9The Sure Thing60 min
    Season 9Episode 10Showdown at Tahoe60 min
    Season 9Episode 11Six Black Horses60 min
    Season 9Episode 12Check Rein60 min
    Season 9Episode 13Justice Deferred60 min
    Season 9Episode 14The Gold Detector60 min
    Season 9Episode 15The Trackers60 min
    Season 9Episode 16A Girl Named George60 min
    Season 9Episode 17The Thirteenth Man60 min
    Season 9Episode 18The Burning Sky60 min
    Season 9Episode 19The Price of Salt60 min
    Season 9Episode 20Blood Tie60 min
    Season 9Episode 21The Crime of Johnny Mule60 min
    Season 9Episode 22The Late Ben Cartwright60 min
    Season 9Episode 23Star Crossed60 min
    Season 9Episode 24Trouble Town60 min
    Season 9Episode 25Commitment at Angelus60 min
    Season 9Episode 26A Dream to Dream60 min
    Season 9Episode 27In Defense of Honor60 min
    Season 9Episode 28To Die in Darkness60 min
    Season 9Episode 29The Bottle Fighter60 min
    Season 9Episode 30The Arrival of Eddie60 min
    Season 9Episode 31The Stronghold60 min
    Season 9Episode 32Pride of a Man60 min
    Season 9Episode 33A Severe Case of Matrimony60 min
    Season 9Episode 34Stage Door Johnnies60 min
    Season 10Episode 1Different Pines, Same Wind60 min
    Season 10Episode 2Child60 min
    Season 10Episode 3Salute to Yesterday60 min
    Season 10Episode 4The Real People of Muddy Creek60 min
    Season 10Episode 5The Passing of a King60 min
    Season 10Episode 6The Last Vote60 min
    Season 10Episode 7Catch as Catch Can60 min
    Season 10Episode 8Little Girl Lost60 min
    Season 10Episode 9The Survivors60 min
    Season 10Episode 10The Sound of Drums60 min
    Season 10Episode 11Queen High60 min
    Season 10Episode 12Yonder Man60 min
    Season 10Episode 13Mark of Guilt60 min
    Season 10Episode 14A World Full of Cannibals60 min
    Season 10Episode 15Sweet Annie Laurie60 min
    Season 10Episode 16My Friend, My Enemy60 min
    Season 10Episode 17Mrs. Wharton and the Lesser Breeds60 min
    Season 10Episode 18Erin60 min
    Season 10Episode 19Company of Forgotten Men60 min
    Season 10Episode 20The Clarion60 min
    Season 10Episode 21The Lady and the Mountain Lion60 min
    Season 10Episode 22Five Candles60 min
    Season 10Episode 23The Wish60 min
    Season 10Episode 24The Deserter60 min
    Season 10Episode 25Emily60 min
    Season 10Episode 26The Running Man60 min
    Season 10Episode 27The Unwanted60 min
    Season 10Episode 28Speak No Evil60 min
    Season 10Episode 29The Fence60 min
    Season 10Episode 30A Ride in the Sun60 min
    Season 11Episode 1Another Windmill to Go60 min
    Season 11Episode 2The Witness60 min
    Season 11Episode 3The Silence at Stillwater60 min
    Season 11Episode 4A Lawman's Lot is Not a Happy One60 min
    Season 11Episode 5Anatomy of a Lynching60 min
    Season 11Episode 6To Stop a War60 min
    Season 11Episode 7The Medal60 min
    Season 11Episode 8The Stalker60 min
    Season 11Episode 9Meena60 min
    Season 11Episode 10A Darker Shadow60 min
    Season 11Episode 11Dead Wrong60 min
    Season 11Episode 12Old Friends60 min
    Season 11Episode 13Abner Willoughby's Return60 min
    Season 11Episode 14It's a Small World60 min
    Season 11Episode 15Danger Road60 min
    Season 11Episode 16The Big Jackpot60 min
    Season 11Episode 17The Trouble with Amy60 min
    Season 11Episode 18The Lady and the Mark60 min
    Season 11Episode 19Is There Any Man Here60 min
    Season 11Episode 20The Law and Billy Burgess60 min
    Season 11Episode 21Long Way to Ogden60 min
    Season 11Episode 22Return Engagement60 min
    Season 11Episode 23The Gold Mine60 min
    Season 11Episode 24Decision at Los Robles60 min
    Season 11Episode 25Caution, Easter Bunny Crossing60 min
    Season 11Episode 26The Horse Traders60 min
    Season 11Episode 27What Are Pardners For?60 min
    Season 11Episode 28A Matter of Circumstance60 min
    Season 12Episode 1The Night Virginia City Died60 min
    Season 12Episode 2A Matter of Faith60 min
    Season 12Episode 3The Weary Willies60 min
    Season 12Episode 4The Wagon60 min
    Season 12Episode 5The Power of Life and Death60 min
    Season 12Episode 6Gideon, the Good60 min
    Season 12Episode 7The Trouble with Trouble60 min
    Season 12Episode 8Thornton's Account60 min
    Season 12Episode 9The Love Child60 min
    Season 12Episode 10El Jefe60 min
    Season 12Episode 11The Luck of Pepper Shannon60 min
    Season 12Episode 12The Impostors60 min
    Season 12Episode 13Honest John60 min
    Season 12Episode 14For a Young Lady60 min
    Season 12Episode 15A Single Pilgrim60 min
    Season 12Episode 16The Gold-Plated Rifle60 min
    Season 12Episode 17Top Hand60 min
    Season 12Episode 18A Deck of Aces60 min
    Season 12Episode 19The Desperado60 min
    Season 12Episode 20The Reluctant American60 min
    Season 12Episode 21Shadow of a Hero60 min
    Season 12Episode 22The Silent Killer60 min
    Season 12Episode 23Terror at 2:0060 min
    Season 12Episode 24The Stillness Within60 min
    Season 12Episode 25A Time to Die60 min
    Season 12Episode 26Winter Kill60 min
    Season 12Episode 27Kingdom of Fear60 min
    Season 12Episode 28An Earthquake Called Callahan60 min
    Season 13Episode 1The Grand Swing60 min
    Season 13Episode 2Fallen Woman60 min
    Season 13Episode 3Bushwhacked60 min
    Season 13Episode 4Rock-a-Bye, Hoss60 min
    Season 13Episode 5The Prisoners60 min
    Season 13Episode 6Cassie60 min
    Season 13Episode 7Don't Cry, My Son60 min
    Season 13Episode 8Face of Fear60 min
    Season 13Episode 9Blind Hunch60 min
    Season 13Episode 10The Iron Butterfly60 min
    Season 13Episode 11The Rattlesnake Brigade60 min
    Season 13Episode 12Easy Come, Easy Go60 min
    Season 13Episode 13A Home for Jamie60 min
    Season 13Episode 14Warbonnet60 min
    Season 13Episode 15A Lonely Man60 min
    Season 13Episode 16Second Sight60 min
    Season 13Episode 17The Saddle Stiff60 min
    Season 13Episode 18Frenzy60 min
    Season 13Episode 19Customs of the Country60 min
    Season 13Episode 20Shanklin60 min
    Season 13Episode 21Search in Limbo60 min
    Season 13Episode 22He Was Only Seven60 min
    Season 13Episode 23The Younger Brothers' Younger Brother60 min
    Season 13Episode 24A Place to Hide60 min
    Season 13Episode 25A Visit to Upright60 min
    Season 13Episode 26One Ace Too Many60 min
    Season 14Episode 1Forever (1)60 min
    Season 14Episode 2Forever (2)60 min
    Season 14Episode 3Heritage of Anger60 min
    Season 14Episode 4The Initiation60 min
    Season 14Episode 5Riot!60 min
    Season 14Episode 6New Man60 min
    Season 14Episode 7Ambush at Rio Lobo60 min
    Season 14Episode 8The 26th Grave60 min
    Season 14Episode 9Stallion60 min
    Season 14Episode 10The Hidden Enemy60 min
    Season 14Episode 11The Sound of Sadness60 min
    Season 14Episode 12The Bucket Dog60 min
    Season 14Episode 13First Love60 min
    Season 14Episode 14The Witness60 min
    Season 14Episode 15The Marriage of Theodora Duffy60 min
    Season 14Episode 16The Hunter60 min
    • Lorne Greene

      as Ben Cartwright
    • Michael Landon

      as Joe Cartwright
    • David Canary

      as Candy Canaday
    • Tim Matheson

      as Griff King
    • Mitch Vogel

      as Jamie Hunter Cartwright
    Crew Bobby Somers Stunts

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