Bonanza Season 3

(1961) September - May | # of Episodes : 34

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7.5

7.3

Series Details

Seasons: 14

Total Episodes: 431

Creators: David Dortort

Networks: NBC

Status: Ended

First Air Date: Sep 12, 1959

Recent Air Date: Jan 16, 1973

Run Time: m

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Original Language: English

Age Rating: TV-PG

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Production Companies: NBC , NBC Studios

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Main Cast

Lorne Greene

Ben Cartwright

Age : N/A | Popularity : 9%

Pernell Roberts

Adam Cartwright

Age : N/A | Popularity : 7%

Dan Blocker

Hoss Cartwright

Age : N/A | Popularity : 63%

Michael Landon

Joe Cartwright

Age : N/A | Popularity : 8%

Episodes

Episode 1

24 September 1961 - The Smiler

A drunk is killed in a saloon brawl with Hoss, and though the man's brother insists there are no hard feelings, he is actually a silver-tongued devil bent on revenge.

Episode 2

01 October 1961 - Springtime

A friend of Ben's (Mr. Milbank) arrives at the Ponderosa at a bad time...when the Cartwright boys are fighting in the mud. Mr. Milbank, who is injured by a flying log during the fight, gives an assignment to each of the three boys. Can they fulfill the assignments, or has Springtime gotten to them all?

Episode 3

08 October 1961 - The Honor of Cochise

The Cartwrights and a bigoted army captain are pinned down by Cochise and his braves, who claim the officer poisoned 30 of their people.

Episode 4

15 October 1961 - The Lonely House

Little Joe pays a visit to the widow Lee Bolden, and brings her a bank draft for her husband's investments with Ben. Actually, the investments were losing propositions. Ben just wanted to help out his friend. During his visit, a wounded man stumbles into the house, and Joe recognizes him as Trock, who had just robbed the local bank. Lee Bolden was a nurse to her husband physician, and removes the bullet from Trock. Joe soon learns that Lee is in love with Trock, and that is the only thing standing between him and an early grave.

Episode 5

22 October 1961 - The Burma Rarity

In this comic episode involving a precious emerald and the sweet widow, Clemantine Hawkins who is attracted to Ben, turns the tables on a pair of land swindlers.

Episode 6

29 October 1961 - Broken Ballad

Adam tries to help a reformed gunman who wants only to live peacefully near Virginia City. Good story without a tidy ending. Pernell's first chance to sing on the series.

Episode 7

05 November 1961 - The Many Faces of Gideon Flinch

Hoss and Joe become involved when "Bullethead" Burke vows revenge on an old man he claims cheated him in an investment deal.

Episode 8

12 November 1961 - The Friendship

Joe befriends and takes responsibility for an ex-convict named Danny. Danny loves horses and is not used to people's ways on the outside of jail. Will his rough jailhouse upbringing mar any hopes of friendship?

Episode 9

19 November 1961 - The Countess

A woman Ben once loved, Lady Chadwick, returns and attempts to trick him into marrying her by ruining his business. Ben says almost losing the Ponderosa will make him and his sons appreciate it more.

Episode 10

26 November 1961 - The Horse Breaker

A professional wrangler working for the Cartwrights is paralyzed when thrown by a particularly mean bronco. The woman nursing him was once engaged to the late son of a neighboring rancher out to get Ben.

Episode 11

03 December 1961 - Day of the Dragon

Joe wins a card game and an unexpected prize...a young lady. She goes to the Ponderosa and serves them, not wanting to be set free. Meanwhile, an army is looking for her and the Cartwrights.

Episode 12

10 December 1961 - The Frenchman

An irritating man who boasts of being the reincarnation of French poet Francois Villion shows up causing trouble for the Cartwrights.

Episode 13

17 December 1961 - The Tin Badge

Joe accepts the job of temporary sheriff in the town of Rubicon, unaware he is being used to facilitate a scheme involving murder.

Episode 14

24 December 1961 - Gabrielle

In this Christmas story, inspired by Johanna Spyri's "Heidi", Hoss and Joe come across a blind girl whose family has been killed in a wagon wreck, learning later that her grandfather is a bitter hermit who spent 21 years in prison for a murder he did not commit.

Episode 15

31 December 1961 - Land Grab

The Ponderosa is overrun with settlers bearing phony property deeds, and one of Ben's oldest friends is responsible.

Episode 16

07 January 1962 - The Tall Stranger

Hoss plans to marry Margie, a pretty blonde, but Margie becomes fascinated with a tall, traveling stranger named Mark Connors. Margie marries Mark but soon finds it was far from a match made in heaven.

Episode 17

14 January 1962 - The Lady from Baltimore

An overbearing friend of the family tries to force her daughter into marrying Joe, though she does not love him. The situation grows more complex when Adam stumbles onto the scheme.

Episode 18

21 January 1962 - The Ride

Adam races against the clock to prove a man who was once his friend is guilty of robbery and murder and Adam is convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt he is guilty.

Episode 19

28 January 1962 - The Storm

Joe plans to marry Laura White, daughter of a man Ben once sailed with, but she is fatally ill. Ben consoles him with words spoken years before, by the father of Adam's mother.

Episode 20

04 February 1962 - The Auld Sod

The Cartwrights pretend the Ponderosa belongs to the town lush, when his aging mother from Ireland arrives.

Episode 21

11 February 1962 - Gift of Water

The Cartwrights dig a well, build a rig and a windmill for a drought-stricken farm family.

Episode 22

18 February 1962 - The Jackknife

Adam gives a second chance to a family man he suspects is one of the rustlers who has been hitting the Ponderosa herds.

Episode 23

25 February 1962 - The Guilty

When Ben fails to prevent the death of a friend's son, Adam and Joe, concerned by their father's depression, attempt to prove there was nothing he could have done.

Episode 24

04 March 1962 - The Wooing of Abigail Jones

In order to keep peace on the ranch, Hoss and Joe try to help ranch hand, Hank Meyers woo the the plain-looking schoolteacher, Abigail Jones. When their first plan backfires, they convince Adam (who doesn't want to get involved) to help and this makes things worse because Abigail believes it is Adam who is wooing her and Hank Meyers believes Adam wants to steal her away.

Episode 25

11 March 1962 - The Lawmaker

Ben supports the appointment of Asa Moran as Virginia City's temporary sheriff, but Moran goes overboard with his authority, jailing Adam in the process and pistol-whipping a Ponderosa hand.

Episode 26

18 March 1962 - Look to the Stars

A young genius, Albert Michaelson, vies for a scholarship. Adam assists Albert in the boy's experiments. Albert only needs the school teacher's approval to be granted a scholarship-which will be very difficult to get considering Albert was expelled from school.

Episode 27

01 April 1962 - The Gamble

In the town of Alkali, the Cartwrights are jailed on false charges of robbery and murder, but Joe escapes and returns with an army of Ponderosa hands.

Episode 28

08 April 1962 - The Crucible

Adam is left to die in the desert after two thieves take $5,000 and his horse from him. Near death, he stumbles into an old prospector named Kane who offers to lend him a mule and supplies in exchange for three day's work at his mine. Kane, however, turns out to be a demented madman. He holds Adam prisoner and tortures him to prove his theory that anyone could be driven to kill, even a man as rational as Adam. This is Pernell Robert's favorite episode along with "The Wooing Of Abigail Jones".

Episode 29

15 April 1962 - Inger, My Love

Ben indulges in a nostalgic reverie about Hoss's deceased mother. Having worked his way west to Galesburg, IL., Ben is befriended by a girl named Inger, the fiancee of the tavern owner who gave him a job.

Episode 30

22 April 1962 - Blessed Are They

When two feuding families argue over the custody of two orphaned children, a reluctant Ben is called upon to straighten out the situation before real trouble erupts.

Episode 31

29 April 1962 - The Dowry

The Cartwrights get mixed up in the romance of a phony heiress and an equally phony land baron.

Episode 32

06 May 1962 - The Long Night

Ben, Joe and Adam travel to Bowleg to pay the yearly taxes on the Ponderosa. After the transaction is completed, Ben and Joe ride over the summit to join the cattle drive. Adam is on his way to Genoa and is carrying a $10,000 bank draft his father has given him. A prison guard rides into town and announces two hombres have broke out and escaped who are holdup men and killers. Elmer Trace and his partner Poindexter were assisted by a guard in escaping prison and they betray him on the trail. Trace takes his clothes, horse and firearms, leaving Poindexter with only a rifle and rides off. Meanwhile, the Sheriff of Bowleg organizes a posse immediately.

Episode 33

13 May 1962 - The Mountain Girl

Joe promises a dying sheepman he will make sure the old man's granddaughter gets her rightful inheritance from a wealthy San Francisco family. This episode was filmed immediately after "Inger, My Love", which explains why Blocker's arm is still in a sling.

Episode 34

20 May 1962 - The Miracle Maker

Hoss blames himself when a young woman is crippled in a wagon accident, and hopes a faith healer can help her walk again.

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Lorne Greene

Pernell Roberts

Dan Blocker

Michael Landon

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