Overview
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
Created by: David Dortort
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Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1: A Rose for Lotta
Sep 12, 1959
Lotta Crabtree is hired by mining tycoon Alpheus Troy to lure one of the Cartwrights into town and hold him for ransom in exchange for Ponderosa timbe...
Episode 2: Death on Sun Mountain
Sep 19, 1959
Greedy opportunist Mark Burdette and his accomplice Early Thorne stir up trouble between the Paiute tribe and the citizens of Virginia City. Ben disc...
Episode 3: The Newcomers
Sep 26, 1959
John Pennington and his crew want to mine the Ponderosa land by hydraulic means. Ben is totally against this method and evicts them in short order. Ho...
Episode 4: The Paiute War
Oct 03, 1959
Trader Mike Wilson attempts to escape punishment by the Paiute Indians after mistreating two of their women, by placing the blame on Adam. A fierce w...
Episode 5: Enter Mark Twain
Oct 10, 1959
Samuel Clemens arrives in Virginia City to write for the Territorial Enterprise at the same time a crooked politician tries to lay claim on the Ponder...
Episode 6: The Julia Bulette Story
Oct 17, 1959
Little Joe is infatuated wih saloon owner Julia Bulette, whom he imagines is like his late mother. First episode to reveal backround details concerni...
Episode 7: The Saga of Annie O'Toole
Oct 24, 1959
Adam defends the mining claim of Annie O' Toole in a court presided over by Judge Ben Cartwright. Annie comes to the Washoe Diggings with a clai...
Episode 8: The Phillip Diedesheimer Story
Oct 31, 1959
Adam and Hoss assist a German engineer in developing the concept of "square set timbering" in the mines. Based on fact, and the first episo...
Episode 9: Mr. Henry Comstock
Nov 07, 1959
In a flashback, the legendary prospector arrives on the Ponderosa and participates in the founding of Virginia City. Coincidentally, guest star Jack ...
Episode 10: The Magnificent Adah
Nov 14, 1959
Virginia City is visited by actress Adah Issacs Menken, who happens to be an old acquaintance of Ben's. Joe is badly beaten by Adah's jealo...
Episode 11: The Truckee Strip
Nov 21, 1959
Luther Bishop and Ben Cartwright have had an ongoing land dispute for a number of years, over a small tract called the Truckee Strip. One of Bishop&#...
Episode 12: The Hanging Posse
Nov 28, 1959
Adam and Joe reluctantly join a group of vengeful townsmen, who are out to lynch the three men who supposedly killed Vannie Johnson. The posse is run...
Episode 13: Vendetta
Dec 05, 1959
In a variation of "High Noon", Ben and Hoss must face a gang of outlaws practically all alone when most of Virginia City's citizens go ...
Episode 14: The Sisters
Dec 12, 1959
This episode begins with Adam defending the honor of Sue Ellen Terry in a duel. No one gets shot because the other man misses Adam and Adam generousl...
Episode 15: The Last Hunt
Dec 19, 1959
Hoss and Joe come across a pregnant Indian woman while hunting bighorn sheep and must deliver her baby. Despite touches of humor, including a scene i...
Episode 16: El Toro Grande
Jan 02, 1960
Ben sends Hoss and Joe to Monterey to purchase an expensive seed bull. The first of Blocker and Landon's many comic misadventures, although the ...
Episode 17: The Outcast
Jan 09, 1960
Because she is related to criminals, a young woman is ostracized by everyone but the the Cartwrights. She unwisely seeks solace with an ex-con friend...
Episode 18: A House Divided
Jan 16, 1960
As the Civil War approaches, Adam and Joe clash over which side to support. The situation is complicated by the arrival of Frederick Kyle, a Southern...
Episode 19: The Gunmen
Jan 23, 1960
In the first all-out comic episode of the series, Hoss and Joe travel to Kiowa Flats, Texas, where they are mistaken for the notorious Slade Brothers,...
Episode 20: The Fear Merchants
Jan 30, 1960
The Cartwrights encounter racial bigotry in Virginia City and end up protecting a Chinese boy from mob violence. Victor Sen Yung, in his largest role...
Episode 21: The Spanish Grant
Feb 06, 1960
In "The Spanish Grant", a young bargirl, Rosita Morales is pretending to be a Spanish noblewoman named Isabella Marie Inez de la Cuesta and ...
Episode 22: Blood on the Land
Feb 13, 1960
A shiftless sheepherder, Jeb Drummond, encroaches his herd of sheep on the Ponderosa and refuses to budge. He resists all of Ben's attempts to t...
Episode 23: Desert Justice
Feb 20, 1960
When a tough U.S. Marshal from California arrests a Ponderosa hand, Dave Walker, for murder, Adam and Hoss go along to make sure their employee reache...
Episode 24: The Stranger
Feb 27, 1960
Nevada Territory is awaiting statehood, and Ben considers running for governor until he learns he is wanted for murder in New Orleans. Inspector Char...
Episode 25: Escape to Ponderosa
Mar 05, 1960
After Adam is bushwhacked by three army deserters, Ben tracks them down, and tackles the brutal Captain Bolton who is pursuing them.
Episode 26: The Avenger
Mar 19, 1960
A restaurant owner whom Ben and Adam have confronted over stolen Ponderosa beef ends up dead one night. His daughter, Sally Byrnes runs the cafe and ...
Episode 27: The Last Trophy
Mar 26, 1960
Adam takes Ben's friends, Lord Marion Dunsworth and Lady Beatrice, on a hunting expedition, and they are captured by a gang of crude thieves and ...
Episode 28: San Francisco
Apr 02, 1960
In this comic episode, the first to take place far from the ranch, Ben, Hoss, and Joe deliver a herd to San Francisco. Although he warns his sons to ...
Episode 29: Bitter Water
Apr 09, 1960
Len Keith, a miner, wants to purchase some land adjacent to the Ponderosa from rancher Andy McKaren. Andy's son, Tod, is anxious to sell. Keith...
Episode 30: Feet of Clay
Apr 16, 1960
Hoss takes Billy Allen, the young son of a convicted felon under his wing, then is forced to kill his father and Billy will not forgive him. The most...
Episode 31: Dark Star
Apr 23, 1960
Joe falls in love with Tirza, an undeniably strange gypsy girl who says she is cursed and never does seem to "snap out of it". The first ep...
Episode 32: Death at Dawn
Apr 30, 1960
Virginia City is plagued by organized crime, Sam Bryant and his gang. One of his men, Farmer Perkins, kills a storekeeper, and at his trial, the wife...
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