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Bonanza: Season 10

30 episodes · first aired Sep 15, 1968

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1 Different Pines, Same Wind Sep 15, 1968 · 49m The 10th season opens as Joe helps a widowed mountain woman, a recluse who is suffering from an infection that has become serious, in a battle to save her land from an unscrupulous timber…
2 Child Sep 22, 1968 · 49m While Hoss is in a remote town on business, he is arrested for murder and robbery. The town's richest man has just been killed, and the townspeople are less concerned with justice, rather…
3 Salute to Yesterday Sep 29, 1968 · 49m When on a cattle drive on Ponderosa land, the Cartwrights and Candy find a dying cavalry officer on the trail. With his last breath, he asks them to go help his commanding officer, Captain…
4 The Real People of Muddy Creek Oct 6, 1968 · 49m Ben is in charge of a vicious prisoner and gets virtually no help from the cowardly citizens of the town where he is holding him from the law.
5 The Passing of a King Oct 13, 1968 · 49m The son of a rancher to whom the Cartwrights are selling a prize bull is trying to get his father ruled mentally incompetant, and will let no one stand in his way.
6 The Last Vote Oct 20, 1968 · 49m Hoss and Joe's bickering leads them into taking opposite sides in the Virginia City mayoral race. Their zealous actions leads into dividing Virginia City's citizens into 2 factions that…
7 Catch as Catch Can Oct 27, 1968 · 49m The residents of Tin Bucket claim the Cartwrights and Candy are dealing in stolen cattle hides. With most of the town accusing Joe, Hoss and Candy of various crimes, it is Ben who faces…
8 Little Girl Lost Nov 3, 1968 · 49m A bratty 10-year-old girl named Samantha, whose mother is Ben's cousin and is a third cousin of Hoss and Little Joe, comes to the Ponderosa. While she proves to be a handful, Ben (who…
9 The Survivors Nov 10, 1968 · 49m A white woman abducted years before by the Paiutes is reunited with her husband, who is less than pleased to learn she has given birth to an Indian baby.
10 The Sound of Drums Nov 17, 1968 · 49m In the third and final installment of the Rossi family, Georgio Rossi doesn't understand why he cannot allow Indians who have left the reservation to live on his land.
11 Queen High Dec 1, 1968 · 49m Joe and Candy win a stamping mill in a poker game, but the fact of them not knowing how to run it, is the least of their worries.
12 Yonder Man Dec 8, 1968 · 49m An army scout Ben once knew comes to the Ponderosa and asks Ben to stake a cattle ranch in Mira Flores, Mexico.
13 Mark of Guilt Dec 15, 1968 · 49m Hop Sing tells Hoss and Candy they can use the ancient Chinese art of fingerprinting to prove Joe is innocent of murder.
14 A World Full of Cannibals Dec 22, 1968 · 49m Ben agrees to hide a government witness in a land fraud case at the Ponderosa as part of the witness protection program. However, the witness - who along with eight men committed various…
15 Sweet Annie Laurie Jan 5, 1969 · 49m Hoss offers to help Annie Laurie, a beautiful young woman who is running away from her abusive husband, a career criminal who is determined to keep his wife under his control and travel…
16 My Friend, My Enemy Jan 12, 1969 · 49m Only the testimony of an Indian wanted for horse theft can clear Candy of murder.
17 Mrs. Wharton and the Lesser Breeds Jan 19, 1969 · 49m Candy sets out to help a feisty and elderly British woman recover the jewels stolen from her in a stage holdup.
18 Erin Jan 26, 1969 · 49m A neighbor of the Cartwrights threatens Hoss' fiancé, Erin - a beautiful young woman who has been raised by Indians since her childhood - when Ben allows the Paiutes to camp on Ponderosa…
19 Company of Forgotten Men Feb 2, 1969 · 49m A retired Army sergeant, bitter that he never received his pension from the government, kidnaps one-time friend Candy and forces him to go along with a daring plan to blow up the U.S. mint…
20 The Clarion Feb 9, 1969 · 49m Ben's friend is struggling to keep her newspaper going in the face of harrassment by the town boss of Gunlock, so without telling her, Ben buys the business.
21 The Lady and the Mountain Lion Feb 23, 1969 · 49m A shady magician, with his twin daughters, comes to Virginia City and there is a lot of confusion with the daughters of the magician, twin confusion!
22 Five Candles Mar 2, 1969 · 49m The floor of the Virginia City courthouse collapses, trapping Ben in the basement with three other people, one of whom may or may not be guilty of murder.
23 The Wish Mar 9, 1969 · 49m Hoss spends his two-month vacation helping a black family get their farm in shape, and dealing with racism in the neighboring town.
24 The Deserter Mar 16, 1969 · 49m Candy comes upon a soldier who is running from charges of desertion, and with Joe's help they foil a plan to sell rapid-fire rifles to the Indians.
25 Emily Mar 23, 1969 · 49m Joe is shocked to see his ex-fiancee, Emily Anderson, in Virginia City. He had met her in Monterey five years earlier, and they had planned to get married. But her strict father thought…
26 The Running Man Mar 30, 1969 · 49m Joe and Candy travel to Butlerville and learn that one of Ben's closest friends is burning out new settlers, whom he regards as squatters. Candy's old ex-flame is married to Jess Parker…
27 The Unwanted Apr 6, 1969 · 49m Feeling unloved, a Marshal's daughter runs off with a Ponderosa hand her father thinks may be related to the man that shot him.
28 Speak No Evil Apr 20, 1969 · 49m Coley Clayborn, who has always thought his mother abandoned him and his father, thinks she is only after the gold mine he inherited when she recently returned to Virginia City.
29 The Fence Apr 27, 1969 · 49m While Ben and Hoss visit an old friend to negotiate the purchase of a mine, former Confederate soldiers arrive wanting to exact revenge on the Cartwrights' friend for starving POWs during…
30 A Ride in the Sun May 11, 1969 · 49m A pair of con artists swindle Ben out of nearly $30,000 after convincing the Cartwright patriarch to enter into a deal to buy his cattle. The brother and sister shoot Ben, rob the Virginia…