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Bill Tanner, posing as a soldier he had killer earlier, is searching like a predator with Joe and his wagon stocked with goods as his prey. Waking one morning, Joe discovers his goods have been stolen from the wagon and that Bill is now using this as motivation for a good game of cat and mouse...providing more excitement for Bill and his hunt.

Griff posses as Theodora Duffy, the "wife" of a government agent in order to nab a group of wanted war criminals.

Candy is arrested after a man posses as him while robbing an old woman, causing her to suffer a heart attack. His fate is in the hands of a confident, yet inexperienced attorney.

Jamie falls in love with the abused wife of a highly unpopular schoolmaster of Virginia City.

The life of a dog is put on trial when Jamie falls in love with an Irish Setter, but his rightful owner would rather have him destroyed than live at the Ponderosa.

A lonely old man wants to adopt a pair of orphans, but he will need to get past the bureaucrats first, who may just shoot down his plans.

A new doctor in Virginia City is secretly fighting the demons of drug addiction, morphine to be precise.

Ben purchases a beautiful black stallion for Joe's birthday. This present would bring him both joy and sorrow as the horse is stolen and retrieved, yet tragedy will soon ensue.

When Samuel Clemens (AKA Mark Twain) comes nosing around town investigating a the mysterious death of miners, he starts an uprising with accusations of claim jumping and murder.

Outlaws await to rob a stage coach which contains Ben and a pregnant young woman on board.

A parolee is left in Ben's care and brought to the Ponderosa. Griff King has a hard time adjusting as a free man after being hired by Ben as a ranch hand.

Ben is taken as a hostage while inspecting conditions at a Nevada State Prison, as requested by the governor.

A boy is accidentally killed while performing an initiation in a secret club, and one of Jamie's friends is blamed for his death.

John Dundee, an ex-con is helped by Ben to readjust his life in the world. But things are complicated because of the men who framed him, his former business partners, failed to help out his wife as they had promised.

When the men arrive to retrieve the money owed to them, Alice is shot and killed in the ruckus. Joe begins a search for his wife's killers to bring them to justice.

Joe marries Alice Harper, but all is not bliss when a couple of men come to retrieve some money that Alice's brother owes.

Ben's evil twin, Bradley Meredith begins to liquidate the Ponderosa assets while Ben is away on a vacation.

The Cartwright's have purchased a broken down saloon in Upright, Nevada believing it contains a fortune in hidden gold. But when Hoss and Joe arrive to fix up and run the saloon, a woman insists that they are not left in charge in order for the sale to be completed.

Major Donahue is in pursuit of Cody Ransom, a Confederate officer and his men, despite Ben's attempt to arrange a surrender.

Ben and Joe are jailed as part of the Younger clan after arriving in town to free Hoss, who was captured earlier and also mistaken as a Younger Brother.

When a young boy is killed during a bank robbery in Virginia City, Ben and Jamie go on a hunt on behalf of the boy's grandfather to find his murderers.

Ben is accused of murdering Sid Langley, a man he despised and cannot place a day in his life after having suffered a head injury.

Hoss is near death and can only be saved by the man who shot him after an ex-Confederate soldier demands $50,000 from Ben.

Joe and Hoss enter a new world when they arrive in Agua Santos, Mexico. Joe breaks a law by removing his hat in church and Hoss encounters more oddities when trying to gain his release.

Anna Kosovo, a friend of Ben Cartwright, fears for her life when her husband becomes a raging lunatic and barricades the both of them inside their home, threatening to kill anyone who tries to get inside.

Ben is challenged by a fired ranch hand, Cactus, to get himself hired as a ranch hand and prove that Ben's aging body is better than Cactus.

A woman who is thought to be a witch by some of the citizens of Virginia City is enlisted to help in the search for Jamie. The youngster has been missing in the high country and the Cartwright's hope that Judith Coleman can use her gift of clairvoyance to find the boy. Having been treated as an outcast in the past, she first refuses to assist them until her fiancee, a minister, insists she helps as much as possible.

Hop Sing falls in love with a young woman he meets while panning for gold on his vacation. His heart is broken when a judge confirms that the law prohibits an interracial marriage.

After having his horse break a leg, Joe is left stranded alone in the desert. Near exhaustion, he is discovered by an Indian. But the young man leaves Joe behind, stealing his gun. When the grandfather of the young Indian finds out what has happened, he explains that what he has done is wrong and tells him to retrieve Joe.

Jamie's grandfather comes to claim him just as Ben is arranging for his final adoption.

The peace and serenity of the Ponderosa is disrupted when a gambler, Luke Calhoun, brings his daughter with him for a stay after losing all his money in a stock scheme. But things become hectic when the Ponderosa because a make-shift casino.

When the Doyle gang escape while being transfered to a prison in Virginia City, they take Jamie and three others hostage.

When a former actress kills her former boyfriend, Hoss takes the blame for his death. The dead man is the son of a senator, who vows to take down the Cartwrights as revenge for his son's death.

A blinded veteran of the Civil War returns to Virginia City to find the killer of his brother.

A classmate of Jamie witnesses a brutal murder, but is too terrified to recount what has happened. Her military father believes she is covering up because of her improper behavior.Meanwhile, the killer is hired as a helping hand at the Ponderosa.

When the infant son of a Virginia City doctor dies in childbirth, his wife leaves him behind and the doctor abducts a baby from a woman.

Hoss creates a "fixed" horse race in order to help a lazy dreamer and his family.

Joe volunteers his service in helping the sheriff escort an old outlaw to jail. But when the outlaw kills the lawman and puts a slug into Joe, he is forced to carry on with the task by himself.

Hoss is reluctantly made a judge of a contest for the most beautiful baby in Virginia City.

Joe is found shot in the back and delirious by a pair of cowboys who were roaming the prairie.

Hoss is made responsible for the son by the wife of a man he helped send to prison.

Ben takes Jake on an extended tour of the Ponderosa to teach him a lesson after he recklessly wrecks a wagon which also kills a horse.

Joe searches for a professional fighter who can clear the name of Dusty Rhoades, who is sitting in jail. But Tom Callahan refuses to ever step foot in Virginia City ever again.

An oppressive man known as "The Judge," collects slave labor for mining his gold veins. When the Cartwrights and Candy are captured trespassing on private property, they are sentenced to work at a mining camp which is inescapable. Worse of all is that the Judge has a habit of killing off his workers when he deems them useless.

When a prized steer belonging to the Cartwrights get killed by the foreman of a neighboring ranch owner, his scheming boss plans to take unfair advantage of their mistake.

Ben helps an old friend, April Christopher and her daughter come to terms when April is bitten by a rabid wolf while visiting the Ponderosa.

When Joe is blinded by an explosion, he falls into a summit of self pity. A woman tries to teach him how to survive now that he is sightless, much to his resistance, unaware that she is blind too.

Three men, posing as newspaper reporters, plan on shooting down the whole town with a Gatling gun that they apprehended after killing the Army soldiers who were guarding it.

When an influenza epidemic hits the Ponderosa, the wife of a doctor feels she knows what to do. But Doc Martin insists that the doctor is merely a fraud.

Ben discovers an Army general that he has supported as the next governor, is all for killing Indians.

When the property of an English holding group shows little profit, the owners come from England to Nevada to see exactly why.

A fugitive black man holds Hoss hostage and has no problems killing a white man.

A land deal with the railroad causes confusion when Bradley Meredith, a Ben Cartwright look-a-like, accepts a deal as Ben...a deal that he previously had turned down.

A battle over who will be trail boss on a big cattle drive ensues when the Cartwrights pick Kelly, a former ranch hand on the Ponderosa as their choice, but Mr. Weatherby knows that Kelly was fired on a previous cattle drive for drinking.

Ben searches for Jamie after he breaks a very special rifle he was told to never touch.

When Hoss is accidentally shot, the two settlers from Virginia argue over what to do with him.

The aunt and uncle of a young girl want to gain custody of her with the belief that she holds the rights to a gold mine.

Jamie befriends an old man known as 'Honest John' and his crow, and urges John to rebuild an old wagon so they can leave the Ponderosa.

Hoss and Joe pretend to be part of a gang that robbed a stage coach, but are in danger of being outed when a wife of one of the thieves shows up in town.

Ben gives a job at the Ponderosa to Pepper Shannon, a one-time hero and outlaw made famous in dime novels, on the condition he stays away from Jamie, an admirer of his.

When a greedy miner owner in the town of Prince River forces Mexican farmers off their land, Hoss and Joe come to tgheir rescue.

A father rejects his dying daughter and the son she had out of wedlock.

Joe frantically searches for help when Ben injures his back after his new horse throws him down a steep hill.

Hoss has his hands full when he volunteers to be the acting Sheriff for a town named Trouble. But he seems to have bitten off more than he can chew when he ends up arresting the whole town.

Joe gets himself in danger when he searches for a woman that he witnessed having killed a man. Unsure of who the killer is, he recognizes her picture as being the wife of the local Sheriff.

Ben and Joe play a game of cat and mouse when they chase down a man through the desert, who has shot a Colonel. When they find the man hiding near a watering hole, Ben is unexpectedly injured by a tribe of Indians.

Hoss escapes from a prison wagon, along with a woman who he believes is innocent of her alleged crime, after he is arrested by a sheriff who doesn't seem to care if he is innocent or not.

The Cartwrights discover how much trouble that ex-Civil War veterans are having, trying to resume their former lives.

The Cartwrights discover that their friend Dusty Rhoades has taken in a young boy, who's father was a slain rainmaker.

Roy Coffey and Clem are on a search for an arsonist, who is torching ranches around Virginia City. Clem is devastated to discover that his fiancée, Janine is a prime suspect.

After the other Cartwrights leave on a cattle drive, Joe stays behind to tend to the Ponderosa but gets seriously injured by a berserk horse.

Hoss tries to prevent a bank robbery from being committed by two men whom he met on the trail.

Hoss and Joe attempt to make a quick buck by selling horses. Things don't go exactly as planned.

Hoss dons an Easter Bunny suit to entertain the children at an orphanage but before he can amuse the kiddies he must contend with a gang of inept outlaws.

Ben is forced to kill a corrupt town boss. The man's son then vows revenge.

Two shady drifters target a friend of Joe's who has just struck gold.

Hoss is smitten with a beautiful actress but when her jealous leading man is found murdered he's the leading suspect.

Ben and a fellow cattleman try to foil the scheme of a meat packer trying to make them sell their herds at rock bottom prices.

The widow of a teacher demands immediate punishment of the student she blames for her husband's death.

A damsel walks out of her wedding with the intention of marrying another man--Ben Cartwright.

It seems as though everyone wants a piece of a ranch hand who makes a gold strike---including a hot chick who might have ulterior motives.

A neighbor of eccentric Amy Wilder tries to have her declared mentally incompetent so that he can snatch her land for mining. Ben steps in to help out Amy.

Candy faces unexpected troubles when he's left a great deal of money by an old friend.

Ben is forced to confront a former gunnery officer.

Ben tries to help midget George Marshall, who has an infant daughter to support, get a job in a bank but the banker doesn't want to hire a smaller person. Marshall then decides to steal money from the bank in order to support his daughter.

Former miner Abner Willoughby returns to Virginia City in search of money he buried somewhere in the area years ago.

Hoss finds himself taken prisoner by an outlaw who's got a bounty hunter on his trail.

In the town of Sunville, Hoss and Candy are mistaken for a pair of notorious outlaws. Whilst the duo tries to prove their true identities, the real outlaws slip into town in order to rob the bank amidst all the confusion.

Joe gives chase when his pal and a shipment of bank funds both disappear at the same time.

Joe and Candy help a shy and timid young damsel stand up to her domineering father.

Candy runs into major trouble when he tries to help out the widow of a man he was forced to kill in self-defense.

The Civil War is still being fought by some when a bitter Southerner begins harassing a former Unionist.

When a range war breaks out, a gunman is hired to clean things up.

After being acquitted of a murder, a man finds himself the target of a lynch mob.

After being called out of town on a case, Sheriff Coffee appoints Hoss acting sheriff of Virginia City. The biggest Cartwright soon has his hands full.

In the town of Stillwater, Candy is a victim of mistaken identity and finds himself jailed.

The Cartwrights agree to protect a girl who witnessed a stagecoach robbery. They're unaware that the lass has a serious problem with the truth.

An eccentric who calls himself Don Q. Hought arrives in Virginia City and has a series of misadventures.

Tobias and April Horn, posing as wealthy business people, run a con with Mr. Spain, a former Army scout. They have stashed food across the desert and poisoned the known waterholes, and plan on robbing the Virginia City ban and making their getaway across the desert. But when Ben is seriously wounded in the caper, Hoss and Joe take part in the search posse, bent on catching the thieves.

Former inmates of a Confederate prison camp want their revenge against Sam Masters, one time guard of the site and current travel companions of Ben and Hoss.

When Coley Clayborn's mother who abandoned him as a child returns to Virginia City, he believes she has come back to claim his father's gold mine.

The daughter of a Marshal runs away with the man who he suspects had tried to kill him earlier.

Joe and Candy discover that one of Ben's oldest friends has been burning down the houses of those he believes are squatters in Butlerville. But Cam Butler refuses to let the defendant testify at his trial.

Joe is caught in a love triangle when he meets up with an old girlfriend, Emily, who he had planned on marrying. Emily plans a romantic meeting with Joe without informing him that she is already married.

Candy and Joe find a soldier who is up for desertion, but band together when a tribe of Indians plan on buying rapid-fire rifles.

Hoss gets a taste of racism when he spends a two-month vacation helping a black family get their farm in working condition.

Ben and three others are trapped when the floor of the courthouse collapses. One of the trapped men may be a murderer.

A shady magician creates confusion in Virginia City, along with his identical twin daughters.

Ben buys up a newspaper in Gunlock, when the town boss creates a nuisance for the owner.

A group of Army soldiers staying at the Ponderosa are plotting to rob the U.S. mint in Carson City.

A conservative rancher disrupts Hoss and Erin's romance because she is part Sioux Indian.

When the jewels of an elderly British woman are stolen, Candy comes to her aide to help retrieve them from the thieves.

Candy has been accused of murder and only the testimony of an Indian, wanted for stealing horses can prove her innocent.

A frightened woman, running from her outlaw husband is given a hand from Hoss.

When a government witness wants to stay at the Ponderosa, Candy exclaims that they will encounter trouble if they do so.

Hop Sing tries to prove Joe is innocent of a murder by teaching Hoss and Candy the ancient Chinese art of finger printing.

Ben is asked by an old friend, once an Army scout, to open a cattle ranch in Mira Flores, Mexico.

Joe and Candy haven't a clue of what to do with a stamping mill they won in a poker game.

Georgio Rossi is confused when he is forbidden to let Indians live on his land who had fled the reservations.

A man is reunited with his wife after she had been abducted years earlier by the Paiutes Indians. But all is not well when he discovers she has an half-Indian baby.

A young brat, who is a distant relative of the Cartwrights, disrupts everyone when he comes for a visit to the Ponderosa.

A rumor that the Ponderosa is about to go broke creates problems for the Cartwrights and Candy while in Tinbucket.

Hoss and Joe become politically active when they make a friendly wager of a trip to San Fransisco, on who will win the Virginia City mayoral campaign.

The rancher in which the Cartwrights are selling a prize bull to, is being deemed incompetent by his son and will let no one stand in his way.

Ben gets virtually no help from a town filled with cowards as he put in charge of a vicious criminal.

The Cartwrights and Candy wander upon an injured soldier who asks them to help his Commander hold off Mexican bandits who are after their barrels of gold. Candy recognizes one of the outlaws as a childhood friend, and the Sergeant helped raise him as a youth. The story of Candy's childhood is discovered throughout the episode.

Hoss is in line for a hanging when he is accused of murdering a wealthy man. But the town is more concerned over where his fortune is than Hoss' punishment.

Joe tries to drive an old woman away from a destructive strip miner, which she mistakes as an attempt to grab up her land.

Hoss and Little Joe vie for the attention of visiting entertainer "Mademoiselle Denise" but she has no time for them. All of her attention is focused elsewhere...

Rosalita hopes to win the Cartwrights as patrons of her opera career. There's just one problem with her plan: she lacks the skill to make a career of opera!

Joe becomes a substitute teacher, and must deal with a pair of hooligans bent on challenging him.

The crooked Farrell brothers pay Joe and Candy for a herd with a worthless bank draft. The key to getting their money might just be an enemy the Farrell's made in their own family, the widow of a man they shot.

Years ago, Hoss shot and killed Eddie McKay's criminal father. Now Eddie's trying to make a new start, and Hoss would like to help, but Eddie still harbors a lot of bitterness and won't let him. Then he changes his mind and accepts Hoss's offer of a job, but he might just have an ulterior motive...

After Hoss is accused of stabbing a man to death, his hopes for acquittal rest on the skills of Barney Sturgess, a once great lawyer who has crawled inside a bottle.

A man convicted on Ben's testimony seeks revenge. He lures Ben and Candy to an abandoned mineshaft and traps them there. They're dependent on his goodwill, for as long as it lasts. And after a month, folks start to believe they're dead...

Utes abandoned Davey at the battle of Red Fork, years earlier. Ben found and cared for the boy, who has grown into manhood and now works at the Ponderosa. But while Ben attempts to negotiate a treaty with Chief Lone Spear of the Utes, Davey notices the chief's daughter Bright Moon. That causes problems with bigots in both camps that lead to murder and threaten the treaty.

Bitter, alcoholic Josh Carter makes like miserable for his wife Sarah and children Sally and Timmy, until Hoss takes him in hand and helps him mend his ways.

Candy and Joe visit Angelus in search of a doctor to patch up Candy's injured hand. There, Joe meets his friend Steve Regan, a miner, who explains that the miners have gone on strike because of hazards in the mine. Joe offers the jobless man a day's wages to fill in for the injured Candy, but there is a trail accident and Steve dies. Joe feels responsible, so he sets out to help the miners, pitting himself against a company the Cartwrights hold stock in! Worse, a large amount of dynamite is missing, and the miners claim they have it, and will use it...

A Cartwright cattle drive stops in River Bend. There Candy meets an old friend named Lilah Holden. Then he discovers she's got problems, so he resigns to stay on and help her. Before long, the Cartwrights are neck deep in it, too...

Candy falls in love with Tisha Sterling, a young woman being blackmailed by a man named Passmore, a marshal from another town who pretends to be her cousin.

When an attempt on his life fails, Ben decides to act as if it succeeded. As a dead man, he can discover and foil the plans of the individual behind the attempt, a crooked politician.

Johnny Mule, a somewhat thick-headed ranch hand, stands accused of robbery and murder. Hoss is the lone dissenting voice on the jury. Mule, fearing a lynching, escapes while the jury deliberates, and Hoss takes the blame.

A charming and clever thief tricks Little Joe and Hoss into leaving the Ponderosa, which he and his gang plan to rob. Only a wounded Ben remains to defend it.

A young woman inherits a salt mine, and proposes to sell all of the mineral to a wealthy rancher, despite the large number of others who need it for their own herds. Ben steps in with a bid of his own to prevent it.

Aaron Gore is about as worthless as they come. A sadistic alcoholic racist, he's infuriated when his son hires Moon Holt, a beautiful Sioux, as a horse trainer. Her husband Will is a friend and hand of Ben's, so Ben gets involved.

When stock begins disappearing into the hands of rustlers, the ranchers hire Marcus Alley to put a stop to it. But his methods are drastic - men start dying who ought to end up in custody.

Cato Troxell, accused of murder, produces a photograph that proves he cannot have committed the crime. But the Cartwrights aren't sure, so they investigate further...

Ben sent Cully Mako to prison for bank robbery five years ago. So when Cully gets out, and someone hits the same bank again, people look at Cully first. And when enough of them do, a lynch mob forms. Cully maintains that he did not commit either robbery, and Ben elects to protect him from the mob.

Hoss is sure there's gold in a worked out mine he wants to buy, and he has the gold detector to prove it. But the gold detector and it's inventor aren't what's claimed, and soon enough Hoss is the talk of Virginia City... humorists!

Hoss offers testimony that helps hang a murderer. And then he discovers that the hanged man wasn't the murderer at all! Distraught at his role in the death of an innocent man, Hoss sets out to right the wrong. But to do it he'll have to persuade a reluctant witness and an even more reluctant jury foreman.

The Cartwrights step in to help a young man whose ruthless and crafty uncle plans to seize control of his ranch. After the bank foreclosed on the rancher, they stepped in to help, but the man's uncle isn't through with him yet...

An old friend of Ben's comes to Nevada with money to invest. Ben is initially delighted. But then his discovers how his old friend got the money - he stole it from corrupt New York politicians.

Jameson Fillmore plans to steal a million dollars from the Cartwright's lumber operation. He takes advantage of knowing the Captain of Ben's new freight boat to wangle an introduction as a lumberman. But on the boat, Candy becomes suspicious and tricks Fillmore into revealing his plan, leading to a climactic gunfight.

Trudy Loughlin loves her horse, a wild stallion. But her father has plans of his own, and they are likely to leave the girl heartbroken.

The Cartwrights and Candy set out to Utah with a herd of horses. On the way, they discover that Paiutes have annihilated a small town, leaving just two survivors. Mary Burns and Josh Tanner join the Cartwrights, but all of them will have a challenging trip to Utah, evading and fighting off the Paiute.

Is Mark Cole a coward? People seem to think so. But when Frank Cole, his own brother, decides to break a horse by torturing it, Mark intervenes.

Candy decides to leave for Chicago after completing a cattle drive at the small town of Sand Dusk. But then Billy Slater and his gang rob the bank and shoot the banker. The law catches up to Slater. Joe, Hoss, and Candy witnessed the killing, so Slater's gang decides to gun them down...

Ponderosa foreman Donny Buckler has hidden $60,000. An outlaw named Dibbs gets wind of it and comes with his gang to get it, taking Joe, Hoss and Candy prisoner.

In the small town of Olympus, Candy stands accused of murdering Jed Wheelock, the son of wealthy A. Z. Wheelock. Wheelock demands a fair trial. Little Joe comes to Olympus, and gets into hot water himself - he's accused of murdering the witness whose testimony likely would have sent Candy to the gallows. With Candy and Little Joe both in jail, it falls to Hoss to figure out what really happened in Olympus.

Mexican prospectors capture Little Joe, and demand a $25,000 ransom payment. Anderson and Perkins learn of this, and ride off to find the prospectors. They plan to kill the prospectors AND Little Joe, and keep the money for themselves, blaming the Mexicans.

Ben discovers the Army has reactivated his Army commission and want him to escort Wabuska, an Indian warrior who claims to be a demi-god and has roused the tribes against the white man. Ben takes Hoss, Little Joe, and a motley group of volunteers along with them to take Wabuska to prison. The Indian tribes have other ideas, though.

Joe and Hoss go to warn settlers about Indian attacks. But the renegades catch them en route, and Joe winds up with an arrow in his shoulder. When he attempts to remove it, all he manages to do is break the tip off. Hoss must find help for his gravely injured younger brother. Has he found it when he discovers a wagon trail full of colorful characters?

Gold hunters storm the Ponderosa after a rumor abounds that prospector Gus Schultz has struck it rich. A mining tycoon known as Shasta, refuses to be kept from finding his pot of gold.

The peace at the Ponderosa is disrupted when Hoss is conned into purchasing a violin by a gypsy fortune teller.

Clarissa, the Cartwright's cousin from back East, visits the Ponderosa and seems to disrupt the sanctity of the everyday peace and tranquility.

Joe, recently pronounced "not guilty" for the murder of Zach Crenshaw, is named on a wanted poster with a $1,000 reward for anyone who kills him, by the sister of the dead man. After a masked man accepts her offer, the sheriff contacts her with the name of her brother's true killer. But Joe is now being hunted down by a bounty hunter.

Virginia City and the Ponderosa are terrorized by Napoleon, an intelligent, pint-sized leader of a gang of outlaws.

In a scheme to claim his employer's ranch, the foreman of a neighboring ranch accuses Joe of murder.

Russian royalty that are targets of jewel thieves are guests of the Cartwrights at the Ponderosa.

Ben and George Rossi assist each other in an attempt to stop a man from claiming the water from an adjourning ranch.

A young man, Billy Wilcox, who has wandered onto the Ponderosa sick and hungry, fears that the new lawman who rode into town may know that he had once killed a man in self-defense and then ran away.

The reading of crime literature has Joe convincing Hoss that the local bank will soon be robbed.

Hoss and Joe have second thoughts of who really robbed the way station, fearing the two men they hold captive may be innocent.

Mary Wharton, an old friend of the Cartwrights, comes with her husband to live at the Ponderosa. But when Ben discovers her husband has been abusing her, he is kicked off the property.

A group of Comancheros who are raiding the Ponderosa to rob and burn it to the ground, find resistance from a wounded member being helped by the Cartwrights.

While visiting a married couple in the Arizona territory, Joe discovers his friend has become an outlaw and is now the member of a gang.

Sheriff Paul Rowan, a friend of Ben Cartwright, has broken under the stress of old wartime memories and has turned his gun on the citizens of his town.

Joe discovers that a former Ponderosa cowhand, now a gunfighter in Chiso, is expected to be killed on Friday the 13th.

When a woman shows interest in a young prospector, Hoss is out to prove she is really only interested in his fortune.

Joe forces the only suspect to the murder of his fiancée to come forward after she is found strangled.

The Ponderosa is overrun with furry critters when two unscrupulous old men convince Hoss and Joe to raise rabbits.

A young singer named Andy Walker returns to Virginia City at Christmas time and agrees to appear at the annual orphan's Christmas benefit. But his shifty manager and Uncle Thaddeus insists on ten percent of the cut. The Cartwrights plan on showing Thaddeus the errors of his ways and the meaning of the season.

The father of a deaf-mute boy comes looking for him and his mother, both who are being protected by the Cartwrights.

Joe searches for a groom when a rancher makes plans to marry off his plain-looking daughter.

Hoss gets messed up with two youngsters and their hornery mother when he searches for the person named J.R., who shot Little Joe in the butt.

Joe is in search of Charlie Two, the half breed son of Charlie Monohan, a man who Ben turned in to the sheriff after killing a miner and was sentenced to hang, then had Charlie Two swear to revenge his death.

A young singer returns to Virginia City where he claims that Ben Cartwright is responsible for the death of his father.

An old blow hard takes the credit for the killing of a young rancher that Hoss was fighting, which endangers him of retaliation from the dead man's brothers.

When devious cattle ranchers attempt to drive four novice homesteaders off their property, the Cartwrights come to their rescue.

Joe tries to protect his friend from the brothers of a dead outlaw by claiming the reward money himself.

Hoss is unaware that his fiancée is a troubled woman with a hidden, dark past.

As the persecuted party awaits Ben and Hoss' return, Herber is shot and killed. Joe retaliates and shoots Herber's assassin.

The Cartwrights head to Beehive, Nevada to purchase horses from a Mormon rancher named Herb Clausen. Herb is not welcomed in the area by the Christians because of his religious practices and because he has two wives. Joe helps the Clausen's escape after they are burned out of their home and head to the desert, along with one of Clausen's wives who is near to giving birth.

After wrangler Dan Tolliver is let loose by the Cartwrights, he makes plans to come back and rob the Ponderosa.

One of Ben's oldest friends must make sure Joe loses a horse race in order to protect a family member from being killed.

The Cartwrights' friendship with a neighboring rancher is threatened when their mentally unstable daughter accuses Joe of attacking her.

A fortune teller predicts that two people will soon enter and change Hoss's life: a hot blonde chick and a dangerous gunman.

Ben and an Army colonel undertake a peace mission to the Paiute tribe.

Gilly Maples arrives at the Ponderosa claiming to be a friend of Adam's but in reality his intentions are to rob a shipment of gold.

Hoss befriends a washed-up prizefighter who's having a hard time adjusting to life outside the squared circle.

Immigrant winemakers decide to plant their grapes on Ponderosa land.

Ben tries to bring an estranged father and son back together.

Hoss tries to help an alcoholic poet stay on the wagon.

Joe falls for a girl whose filled with stories of her absent father and his many adventures.

A visit by the Cartwrights' spoiled Eastern cousin disrupts life at the Ponderosa.

Ben falls for Claire Amory but her invalid brother might end up tossing a monkey wrench into the romance.

A self-styled emperor arrives at the Ponderosa bringing his own private war along with him.

A woman from Kentucky arrives in Virginia City and announces that she's Hoss Cartwright's mail order bride. Needless to say, Hoss is stunned at this situation.

Joe Cartwright finds himself goaded into a duel where a lot of money is being bet against him.

When Sheriff Coffee takes a leave of absence, a ruthless, Dirty Harry type lawman is hired to take his place.

Two strangers help Ben when his wagon gets bogged down in the mud. He later tries to return the favor by helping them find employment.

In the second of two parts, the Cartwrights provide much needed aid to the fledling Pony Express office in Virginia City.

The Pony Express sets up an office in Virginia City and Joe joins up as a rider.

A badly injured Native American rejects Hoss's attempts at helping him.

It's 12 Angry Men in the Old West when juror Joe becomes the lone hold-out for acquittal in a murder trial.

After his father becomes seriously ill, a young boy decides to climb a mountain and seek God's help.

A young man loves animals so much that he frees them from traps set by hunters--including his own father's.

A family embarks upon a kidnapping spree in an attempt to halt an execution.

When the Cartwrights catch young Billy Penn trying to steal some of their cattle they try to set the young rustler on the straight and narrow.

The Ponderosa becomes a site of refuge for a woman suspected of being a witch.

A gunfighter gets religion and becomes a preacher only to be confronted by a vengeful man whose brother he once killed.

Jake Smith dies and leaves his estate to Meredith Smith. Then several claimants to the estate show up saying they are Meredith. It's up to Ben, the executor of the estate, to determine the true heir.

The Cartwrights give shelter to the lone survivor of a stagecoach robbery/massacre--a young girl whose life is still in danger because the culprits think she can identify them.

A religious sect, which has suffered through a series of misfortunes, accuses one its members of being possessed by the devil.

Jim Acton owns a prize mare that he's determined to keep--even when a judge awards the animal to another man in settlement of a debt.

A mule skinner and his two sons are hired by Ben to transport nitroglycerin to California.

Juan Ortega claims he has a land grant which gives him ownership of the entire Nevada Territory.

Ben helps a convict win a parole only to have the man later become the chief suspect in a bank robbery.

Wiley and Annie Kane arrive at the Ponderosa to work off their father's debt to Ben. It seems as though the elder Kane once swindled the Cartwright patriarch.

Hoss' new friend Patch may be a great apple pie maker, but when the Cartwrights get in a gunfight with a mining outfit, Patch is unable to pick up a gun and Ben is wounded as a result. Later Patch explains that he saw his father and brothers gunned down and developed a pathological fear of guns.

A famous opera singer, Angela Bergstrom, is invited to perform at the Virginia City's anniversary celebration by Ben, who is unaware that she can no longer sing.

A new hired hand at the Ponderosa, George Whitman, brings with him a rumor that he is a jinx, which makes the other hands feel uneasy. Although he is told to ignore the men, Hoss is told by a gypsy to heed her warning.

Ex-con Tracey Cordell has returned to Virginia City and not everyone is happy to see his face, especially his former girlfriend who is now married to a man he once crippled in a gunfight.

A real ladies-man known as Lothario Larkin, is taken in by Hoss after Sheriff Coffee runs him out of town before trouble can occur.

Charles Augustus Hackett, one of the world's richest men, wants to purchase the Ponderosa and refuses to take no for an answer.

In search for a good night's sleep, Ben heads to the Virginia City hotel. But instead of peace and quiet, Ben winds up being charged with murder.

Adam wants to have faith in a talented singer, Howard Mead, if only he could stay on the side of law and order.

Joe is caught in an accusation from his former girlfriend and the twin brother of a dead man, that he had a hand in the death of her husband.

The Ponderosa is overrun by a pack of noisy hound dogs when Cousin Muley Jones makes his return.

Adam finds out a secret truth about the past of the territory that many would rather leave unknown when he becomes a substitute teacher.

Hoss needs the help of a new acquaintance, Professor Poppy, when he is shot in the back, knowing that he used to go by the name of Dr. Percival Alexander Mundy.

An old friend of Ben, Guido Borelli, who once saved him while in Italy, visits Virginia City along with his acrobatic troupe.

Adam goes on a search to hunt down the man who has been impersonating him, soiling his reputation.

Hoss helps an inventor, Professor Klump, and his daughter work on a contraption which will make a man able to fly.

A series of cattle rustling has the Cattle Association sending in a hired detective, with an itchy trigger finger.

A young dancer struggles between her love of ballet and her father, who she teams up with as a dancer to his violin music. Without Kellie, her father cannot make a living, but if she stays she will lose her chance to become a ballerina.

Adam has the task of taming a young, hot-tempered woman, Margarita, who along with her sister Elena, are on their way to California to meet her suitor. Elena would like to get married but must follow tradition and wait till her sister marries first, which may take some time since she alienates every man she comes in contact with.

Joe encounters an old school friend, an Indian named Sharp Tongue, and must engage him in a fight when as the leader of renegade Indians, become captured along with Tuck.

In training to win a flapjack eating contest, Joe puts Hoss on a strict diet to ensure victory. While the town is busy watching the contest, thieves attempt to rob the Virginia City bank.

When a young girl is kidnapped, a friendly Indian is framed for the crime.

A man, dressed in armor, is riding around the area in search of dragons and robbers and believes he is King Arthur. When a stage that Adam is in gets robbed by a band of Mexican bandit, it is King Arthur who scares them off.

A half-breed Indian in which the Cartwrights have entrusted, is in fact the leader of a group of horse thieves that no one has been able to apprehend.

Hoss' freedom lies in the hands of a clever, but alcoholic attorney, Whitney Parker, when he is charged with murder.

Ben insists that Hoss and Joe get rid of an elephant they received as payment for their work in a circus which passed through town.

Little Joe becomes obsessed when his fear of heights gets the best of him after losing his rifle on a mountainside. His frame of mind causes him to alienate a friend he beats in an arm wrestling contest, believing this is a show of his manhood.

The Cartwrights and Hop Sing end up being conned by an old man named Sam, when they buy into a phony land deal. Hoss tries to redeem him and changing his way of life.

A journalist takes the opportunity to cause trouble for Ben, Adam and an aging lawman after the Cartwrights turn down a chance to be written about as heroes during a stagecoach robbery.

A bumbling fighter named Waldo Watson, running from a group of gamblers from the East, is given a safe haven at the Ponderosa after determining that he was going to kill himself.

A bounty hunter and the son of a man who was a partner in a robbery both believe the man Ben sent to prison twenty years earlier, is lying over the whereabouts of the stash of money.

Adam is confident that the man who once saved him from drowning, Tom Wilson, is innocent of killing the beau of a woman he has eyes for.

Hoss gets in a spat with a grumpy horse wrangler named Lafe Jessup. Lafe doesn't think too much about being married and now it is discovered that he will soon be a father.

Ben is held hostage in an abandoned mine by outlaws for a ransom.

Johnny Chapman was shown how to handle a gun by Joe, and now he may regret he had done so. Johnny leaves Virginia City after he abuses his newfound skills. Now he returned years later as a bounty hunter, with Joe as one of his targets.

Hoss looks after his fiend Obie's dog while he leaves town to visit his sister. Hoss finds it a handful to look after the dog and keep it safe from outlaws who want to hold it ransom.

Adam and Laura have finally got engaged, and Adam is planning and building a house for their future. But Laura is in love with Will, and he loves her, so they decide to tell Adam. But Adam is in a wheelchair after a fall and they can't tell him out of guilt.

Laura Dayton's Aunt Lil is visiting and tries to help hesitant Adam propose to her niece. But her plan to make Adam jealous by using Will backfires hugely.

A bounty hunter is forced to work off the price of a new horse at the ranch as he stops because his is injured. While there he meets Holly Burnside the wife of the man he after.

Italian opera singer Thomas Bower is invited to sing at Virginia City, but when he arrives he is shunned by many due to being black. Then word spreads that a slave has escaped so Hoss takes Bower with him.