Bonanza

Powerful silver barons scheme to hold Joe (Michael Landon) hostage in return for valuable timber.

Barry Sullivan portrays a greedy opportunist who kills antelope on Indian grounds -- and sells the meat at a large profit.

Hoss (Dan Blocker) invites trouble when he falls for Emily Pennington, the fiancée of a treacherous prospector.

Sinister trader Mike Wilson sparks an Indian war when he assaults two Paiute women -- and shifts the blame to Adam (Pernell Roberts).

Reporter Samuel Clemens spearheads a newspaper's fight against a corrupt judge.

Joe falls into the hands of a gold digger.

Armed with a claim filed by her beau, Annie O'Toole struggles to protect her gold mine from schemers.

Philip Diedesheimer, a Pied Piper, is refused payment after he saves Virginia City's silver mines from a cave-in.

The founding of Virginia City and the discovery of the Comstock Lode are recounted in this story of claim jumper Henry Comstock.

The Cartwright boys suspect that actress Adah Menkin is setting the stage to become their stepmother.

A silver baron plots to grab timber by promoting a feud between neighbors Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene) and Luther Bishop, while Little Joe and Amy Bishop fall in love.

Adam and Joe try to prevent a posse from becoming a lynch mob.

Hoss and a seriously wounded Ben run into cowardice when they seek help in fighting the revenge-seeking Morgan gang.

Ol' Virginny -- who will swear to anything for drinking money -- claims he saw Adam kill a dance-hall girl.

Joe and Hoss shelter a pregnant Indian from a blizzard -- and Shoshones ordered to find her.

En route to California to purchase a bull, Joe and Hoss are ambushed -- and robbed of $15,000.

Ostracized when her father and brother are hanged for murder, Leta Malvet turns to drifter Clay Renton.

Cameron Mitchell as a Confederate sympathizer who splits Virginia City -- and the Cartwrights -- into factions.

Hoss and Joe become embroiled in a family feud when they are mistaken for the Slade brothers while visiting a Texas town. Michael Landon and Dan Blocker play dual roles as the Cartwright and Slade brothers.

The town's Chinese citizens are the targets of a mayoral candidate's "hate outsiders" campaign.

Dance-hall girl Rosita Morales and two swindlers join in a plot to grab Nevada land -- including the Ponderosa -- with the woman's claims that she is really Isabella De La Cuesta, Spanish land heiress.

Greedy sheepherder Jeb Drummond will stop at nothing to fatten his animals on the Ponderosa grasslands.

The Cartwrights step in when ranch hand Dave Walker is arrested by an enraged Marshall Dowd for killing the lawman's wife.

Ben's bid for the governorship is threatened by a vengeful New Orleans police inspector.

Ben has second thoughts about helping a brutal stockade commander capture three escaped prisoners.