Episode 1
A Rose for Lotta
Lotta Crabtree is hired by mining tycoon Alpheus Troy to lure one of the Cartwrights into town and hold him fo...
Episode 2
Death on Sun Mountain
Greedy opportunist Mark Burdette and his accomplice Early Thorne stir up trouble between the Paiute tribe and...
Episode 3
The Newcomers
John Pennington and his crew want to mine the Ponderosa land by hydraulic means. Ben is totally against this m...
Episode 4
The Paiute War
Trader Mike Wilson attempts to escape punishment by the Paiute Indians after mistreating two of their women, b...
Episode 5
Enter Mark Twain
Samuel Clemens arrives in Virginia City to write for the Territorial Enterprise at the same time a crooked pol...
Episode 6
The Julia Bulette Story
Little Joe is infatuated wih saloon owner Julia Bulette, whom he imagines is like his late mother. First epis...
Episode 7
The Saga of Annie O'Toole
Adam defends the mining claim of Annie O' Toole in a court presided over by Judge Ben Cartwright. Annie comes...
Episode 8
The Phillip Diedesheimer Story
Adam and Hoss assist a German engineer in developing the concept of "square set timbering" in the mines. Base...
Episode 9
Mr. Henry Comstock
In a flashback, the legendary prospector arrives on the Ponderosa and participates in the founding of Virginia...
Episode 10
The Magnificent Adah
Virginia City is visited by actress Adah Issacs Menken, who happens to be an old acquaintance of Ben's. Joe i...
Episode 11
The Truckee Strip
Luther Bishop and Ben Cartwright have had an ongoing land dispute for a number of years, over a small tract ca...
Episode 12
The Hanging Posse
Adam and Joe reluctantly join a group of vengeful townsmen, who are out to lynch the three men who supposedly...
Episode 13
Vendetta
In a variation of "High Noon", Ben and Hoss must face a gang of outlaws practically all alone when most of Vir...
Episode 14
The Sisters
This episode begins with Adam defending the honor of Sue Ellen Terry in a duel. No one gets shot because the...
Episode 15
The Last Hunt
Hoss and Joe come across a pregnant Indian woman while hunting bighorn sheep and must deliver her baby. Despi...
Episode 16
El Toro Grande
Ben sends Hoss and Joe to Monterey to purchase an expensive seed bull. The first of Blocker and Landon's many...
Episode 17
The Outcast
Because she is related to criminals, a young woman is ostracized by everyone but the the Cartwrights. She unw...
Episode 18
A House Divided
As the Civil War approaches, Adam and Joe clash over which side to support. The situation is complicated by t...
Episode 19
The Gunmen
In the first all-out comic episode of the series, Hoss and Joe travel to Kiowa Flats, Texas, where they are mi...
Episode 20
The Fear Merchants
The Cartwrights encounter racial bigotry in Virginia City and end up protecting a Chinese boy from mob violenc...
Episode 21
The Spanish Grant
In "The Spanish Grant", a young bargirl, Rosita Morales is pretending to be a Spanish noblewoman named Isabell...
Episode 22
Blood on the Land
A shiftless sheepherder, Jeb Drummond, encroaches his herd of sheep on the Ponderosa and refuses to budge. He...
Episode 23
Desert Justice
When a tough U.S. Marshal from California arrests a Ponderosa hand, Dave Walker, for murder, Adam and Hoss go...
Episode 24
The Stranger
Nevada Territory is awaiting statehood, and Ben considers running for governor until he learns he is wanted fo...
Episode 25
Escape to Ponderosa
After Adam is bushwhacked by three army deserters, Ben tracks them down, and tackles the brutal Captain Bolton...
Episode 26
The Avenger
A restaurant owner whom Ben and Adam have confronted over stolen Ponderosa beef ends up dead one night. His d...
Episode 27
The Last Trophy
Adam takes Ben's friends, Lord Marion Dunsworth and Lady Beatrice, on a hunting expedition, and they are captu...
Episode 28
San Francisco
In this comic episode, the first to take place far from the ranch, Ben, Hoss, and Joe deliver a herd to San Fr...
Episode 29
Bitter Water
Len Keith, a miner, wants to purchase some land adjacent to the Ponderosa from rancher Andy McKaren. Andy's s...
Episode 30
Feet of Clay
Hoss takes Billy Allen, the young son of a convicted felon under his wing, then is forced to kill his father a...
Episode 31
Dark Star
Joe falls in love with Tirza, an undeniably strange gypsy girl who says she is cursed and never does seem to "...
Episode 32
Death at Dawn
Virginia City is plagued by organized crime, Sam Bryant and his gang. One of his men, Farmer Perkins, kills a...