September 12, 1959 • 49m
Lotta Crabtree is hired by mining tycoon Alpheus Troy to lure one of the Cartwrights into town and hold him for ransom in exchange...Read more
September 19, 1959 • 49m
Greedy opportunist Mark Burdette and his accomplice Early Thorne stir up trouble between the Paiute tribe and the citizens of Virg...Read more
September 26, 1959 • 49m
John Pennington and his crew want to mine the Ponderosa land by hydraulic means. Ben is totally against this method and evicts the...Read more
October 3, 1959 • 49m
Trader Mike Wilson attempts to escape punishment by the Paiute Indians after mistreating two of their women, by placing the blame ...Read more
October 10, 1959 • 49m
Samuel Clemens arrives in Virginia City to write for the Territorial Enterprise at the same time a crooked politician tries to lay...Read more
October 17, 1959 • 49m
Little Joe is infatuated wih saloon owner Julia Bulette, whom he imagines is like his late mother. First episode to reveal backro...Read more
October 24, 1959 • 49m
Adam defends the mining claim of Annie O' Toole in a court presided over by Judge Ben Cartwright. Annie comes to the Washoe Diggi...Read more
October 31, 1959 • 49m
Adam and Hoss assist a German engineer in developing the concept of "square set timbering" in the mines. Based on fact, and the f...Read more
November 7, 1959 • 49m
In a flashback, the legendary prospector arrives on the Ponderosa and participates in the founding of Virginia City. Coincidental...Read more
November 14, 1959 • 49m
Virginia City is visited by actress Adah Issacs Menken, who happens to be an old acquaintance of Ben's. Joe is badly beaten by Ad...Read more
November 21, 1959 • 49m
Luther Bishop and Ben Cartwright have had an ongoing land dispute for a number of years, over a small tract called the Truckee Str...Read more
November 28, 1959 • 49m
Adam and Joe reluctantly join a group of vengeful townsmen, who are out to lynch the three men who supposedly killed Vannie Johnso...Read more
December 5, 1959 • 49m
In a variation of "High Noon", Ben and Hoss must face a gang of outlaws practically all alone when most of Virginia City's citizen...Read more
December 12, 1959 • 49m
This episode begins with Adam defending the honor of Sue Ellen Terry in a duel. No one gets shot because the other man misses Ada...Read more
December 19, 1959 • 49m
Hoss and Joe come across a pregnant Indian woman while hunting bighorn sheep and must deliver her baby. Despite touches of humor,...Read more
January 2, 1960 • 49m
Ben sends Hoss and Joe to Monterey to purchase an expensive seed bull. The first of Blocker and Landon's many comic misadventures...Read more
January 9, 1960 • 49m
Because she is related to criminals, a young woman is ostracized by everyone but the the Cartwrights. She unwisely seeks solace w...Read more
January 16, 1960 • 49m
As the Civil War approaches, Adam and Joe clash over which side to support. The situation is complicated by the arrival of Freder...Read more
January 23, 1960 • 49m
In the first all-out comic episode of the series, Hoss and Joe travel to Kiowa Flats, Texas, where they are mistaken for the notor...Read more
January 30, 1960 • 49m
The Cartwrights encounter racial bigotry in Virginia City and end up protecting a Chinese boy from mob violence. Victor Sen Yung,...Read more
February 6, 1960 • 49m
In "The Spanish Grant", a young bargirl, Rosita Morales is pretending to be a Spanish noblewoman named Isabella Marie Inez de la C...Read more
February 13, 1960 • 49m
A shiftless sheepherder, Jeb Drummond, encroaches his herd of sheep on the Ponderosa and refuses to budge. He resists all of Ben'...Read more
February 20, 1960 • 49m
When a tough U.S. Marshal from California arrests a Ponderosa hand, Dave Walker, for murder, Adam and Hoss go along to make sure t...Read more
February 27, 1960 • 49m
Nevada Territory is awaiting statehood, and Ben considers running for governor until he learns he is wanted for murder in New Orle...Read more
March 5, 1960 • 49m
After Adam is bushwhacked by three army deserters, Ben tracks them down, and tackles the brutal Captain Bolton who is pursuing them.
March 19, 1960 • 49m
A restaurant owner whom Ben and Adam have confronted over stolen Ponderosa beef ends up dead one night. His daughter, Sally Byrne...Read more
March 26, 1960 • 49m
Adam takes Ben's friends, Lord Marion Dunsworth and Lady Beatrice, on a hunting expedition, and they are captured by a gang of cru...Read more
April 2, 1960 • 49m
In this comic episode, the first to take place far from the ranch, Ben, Hoss, and Joe deliver a herd to San Francisco. Although h...Read more
April 9, 1960 • 49m
Len Keith, a miner, wants to purchase some land adjacent to the Ponderosa from rancher Andy McKaren. Andy's son, Tod, is anxious ...Read more
April 16, 1960 • 49m
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 fo...Read more
April 23, 1960 • 49m
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". Th...Read more
April 30, 1960 • 49m
Virginia City is plagued by organized crime, Sam Bryant and his gang. One of his men, Farmer Perkins, kills a storekeeper, and at...Read more