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Bonanza Season 6 Episodes
Season 6 Episode Guide
34 Episodes 1964 - 1965
Episode 1
Invention of a Gunfighter
Sun, Sep 20, 196460 mins
Humiliated by a professional gunslinger in front of a bar crowd that included his girlfriend, timid Johnny Chapman asks Little Joe to teach him how to handle a gun. But, Johnny changes as he gains skill and confidence and Joe soon doesn't recognize his friend in the hard, ruthless man he's become.
Episode 2
The Hostage
Sun, Sep 27, 196460 mins
Ben is taken hostage by a gang of four outlaws, who are hoping for a $100,000 ransom from the Cartwrights for his safe return. As his sons formulate a plan to rescue their father, Ben devises one of his own after he senses dissension amongst his captors.
Episode 3
The Wild One
Sun, Oct 4, 196460 mins
Hoss Cartwright, seeking a wild stallion for breeding, becomes involved with a gruff, brawling mountain man, Leif Jessup, and his Quaker wife Prudence, whom Jessup had deserted months before. Hoss Cartwright, seeking a wild stallion for breeding, becomes involved with a gruff, brawling mountain man, Leif Jessup, and his Quaker wife Prudence, whom Jessup had deserted months before.
Episode 4
Thanks for Everything, Friend
Sun, Oct 11, 196460 mins
Tom Wilson saves Adam from drowning. This begins a friendship he starts to regret when Tom steals a girl from her longtime boyfriend, is found with her father's open strongbox and standing over his dead body.
Episode 5
Logan's Treasure
Sun, Oct 18, 196460 mins
After a 20-year stint in prison, Sam Logan is invited to stay at the Ponderosa because Ben believes that his friend doesn't know where the bank's gold is. With three people on the trail of the money, Sam has to decide if his loyalties are with them or his good friend Ben Cartwright.
Episode 6
The Scapegoat
Sun, Oct 25, 196460 mins
Hoss rides up on Waldo Watson bungling yet another suicide attempt. He invites him home and the Cartwrights are wondering if they regret that as three men are trailing him and they mean to do him harm.
Episode 7
A Dime's Worth of Glory
Sun, Nov 1, 196460 mins
Ben and Adam capture a known outlaw that tried to hold up the stage they were passengers on. A reporter who was also a passenger wants to make them both famous, even if he has to amplify the story. But when they take him to jail at the next town, they are met by an aloof sheriff who doesn't mind regaining his past glory with the help of a little creative writing.
Episode 8
Square Deal Sam
Sun, Nov 8, 196460 mins
The Washburns just arrived in town and are looking for work. When Hoss hears about the difficulties they've been through, he invites them to stay at the Ponderosa. After they sell everyone at the ranch a share in a copper mine, the Cartwrights find out the Washburns are not exactly what they appear to be. But this is just the beginning of the yarns Samuel is willing to spin.
Episode 9
Between Heaven and Earth
Sun, Nov 15, 196460 mins
Little Joe and his friend Mitch chase a sheep-killing puma into a canyon and Joe climbs a steep slope to get a better look at the terrain. When he slips, dropping his rifle into a rock crevice, Joe is suddenly paralyzed with fear. Mitch calls to him and Joe manages to climb down, but without his rifle. Ashamed, Joe tells no one of his experience and when his attempts to retrieve his rifle fail in panic, Joe's pent-up frustration causes him to behave recklessly. Ben knows something is wrong and confronts his youngest son. Will Joe reveal his secret and let his father give him the help he desperately needs?
Episode 10
Old Sheba
Sun, Nov 22, 196460 mins
After Hoss injures traveling circus wrestler, Bearcat Sampson, during an exhibition match, Hoss and 'manager' Little Joe agree that Hoss will take the Bearcat's place in the ring while he recovers; but the circus owner squanders Hoss' winnings and the Cartwrights end up with an unconventional paycheck...Old Sheba, the circus elephant.
Episode 11
A Man to Admire
Sun, Dec 6, 196460 mins
Knocked unconscious and framed for the murder of scheming rancher, Flint Durfee, Hoss Cartwright refuses his father's expensive lawyer and trusts his defense to new friend Whit Parker, a troubled trial attorney who is drowning his past in alcohol.
Episode 12
The Underdog
Sun, Dec 13, 196460 mins
Harry Starr, a half-breed Comanche, is hired by the Cartwrights to work on the Ponderosa. When confronted with the prejudice of other hands he turns the other cheek. Meanwhile someone is stealing horses in the valley...is he involved?
Episode 13
A Knight to Remember
Sun, Dec 20, 196460 mins
Arrested for robbing the stagecoach he was riding, Adam can't convince the sheriff that the real bandits were run off by a knight in shining armor who called himself...King Arthur!
Episode 14
The Saga of Squaw Charlie
Sun, Dec 27, 196460 mins
Except for the Cartwrights and a little girl, Squaw Charlie has no friends just because he's an Indian. When the girl goes missing, the whole town wants his blood even though all the evidence against him is purely circumstantial.
Episode 15
The Flapjack Contest
Sun, Jan 3, 196560 mins
Intending to confront the card-shark who he believes bushwhacked and robbed him, Little Joe instead decides to get his money back by betting the shady gambler that big brother Hoss will win the Founders' Day flapjack eating contest against champion Big Ed Simpson. But Hoss isn't sure that winning the five hundred dollar first prize is worth suffering through his little brother's training program, especially when it includes meals consisting of only carrots, apples and water...and no beer!
Episode 16
The Far, Far Better Thing
Sun, Jan 10, 196560 mins
Little Joe and his friend Tuck vie for the affections of pretty Lucy Melviney, a sheltered, naive young woman who soon puts all of their lives in danger when she chooses to believe that real life should mirror what she reads in the pages of her classic romantic novels.
Episode 17
Woman of Fire
Sun, Jan 17, 196560 mins
Shakespeare-inspired Adam tries to tame a shrewish senorita while she waits at the Ponderosa for her never-met husband-to-be.
Episode 18
The Ballerina
Sun, Jan 24, 196560 mins
A former ballet dancer falls in love while teaching classical dance to the daughter of a traveling violinist. He wants to help her audition for the San Francisco ballet but meets resistance from her father who wants her to keep performing with him.
Episode 19
The Flannel-Mouth Gun
Sun, Jan 31, 196560 mins
Worrying that a hired gun may just cause more trouble for the ranchers, Adam Cartwright votes 'no' when the Cattlemen's Association asks ruthless range detective, Sherman Clegg, to stop a region-wide rustling problem; but when tragedy follows and Clegg is accused of murder, Adam appears to be the only one to take the side of the very man he originally opposed.
Episode 20
The Ponderosa Birdman
Sun, Feb 7, 196560 mins
Hoss goes above and beyond to help an eccentric, aging inventor and his overly-protective granddaughter realize their dream of manned flight.
Episode 21
The Search
Sun, Feb 14, 196560 mins
Adam's search for troublesome look-a-like Tom Burns lands him in the Placerville jail for two murders committed by Burns.
Episode 22
The Deadliest Game
Sun, Feb 21, 196560 mins
While his troupe visits the Ponderosa, lonely, aging aerialist Guido Borelli hides his true feelings for his beautiful, young partner, Petina, but is quick to comfort her after a fistfight with her hot-tempered boyfriend, Carlo, lands Little Joe in jail for attempted murder.
Episode 23
Once a Doctor
Sun, Feb 28, 196560 mins
Suffering from an infected foot, Hoss finds unexpected relief from Professor Poppy, an itinerant patent-medicine peddler who secretly carries a medical bag. But Hoss soon finds that the professor may really be Doctor P.A. Mundy who is being trailed by a vengeful Englishman claiming that Mundy murdered his wife.
Episode 24
Right Is the Fourth R
Sun, Mar 7, 196560 mins
Substitute teacher Adam Cartwright is unprepared for the violent resistance he meets when his research into the territory's history gets him too close to uncovering a long-buried Virginia City secret.
Episode 25
Hound Dog
Sun, Mar 21, 196560 mins
The Cartwrights and their cousin Muley Jones tangle with feisty Tracy Ledbetter when she claims Cousin Muley stole her precious pack of baying bird dogs.
Episode 26
The Trap
Sun, Mar 28, 196560 mins
Burk knew his wife was sweet on Little Joe so he devises a plan to get rid of him. When his plan backfires, his twin brother, a lawman, returns to marry the widow and get rid of Little Joe for good.
Episode 27
Dead and Gone
Sun, Apr 4, 196560 mins
Adam stops Howard Mead from robbing Johann Brunner and his sister Hilda. However, Howard's talent for singing and guitar playing, along with his hard-luck stories, persuade Adam to give him another chance, and Hilda agrees to drop the charges. This may be a mistake, as Howard's talents cannot hide his dark side even as Hilda falls for him.
Episode 28
A Good Night's Rest
Sun, Apr 11, 196560 mins
When Hoss' snoring, Adam's guitar playing and Little Joe's courting shenanigans keep a dog-tired Ben Cartwright awake, he rides wearily away from the Ponderosa to try to find a quiet room at the Virginia City hotel; but the wild, frontier town's chaotic night life soon makes him think he would have been better off back at the ranch.
Episode 29
To Own the World
Sun, Apr 18, 196560 mins
A rich tycoon who is known for destroying anything that stands in the way of getting what he wants, vows to have the Ponderosa, no matter what the cost.
Episode 30
Lothario Larkin
Sun, Apr 25, 196560 mins
The Cartwrights re-acquaint themselves (for better or worse) with a noted womanizer known as Lothario Larkin.
Episode 31
The Return
Sun, May 2, 196560 mins
When Trace Cordell comes back to Virginia City after serving his time for bank robbery, Ben Cartwright is among those at the stage to welcome his former neighbor home. But, except for Ben, no one is happy when the ex-con wants to take up where he left off, running his family's ranch outside of town; especially not banker Paul Dorn, the man who was put in a wheelchair by Cordell's bullet ten years earlier.
Episode 32
Jonah
Sun, May 9, 196560 mins
A ranch hand who saves Hoss's life is offered a job on the Ponderosa, despite a rumor that he's a jinx, a 'jonah.'
Episode 33
The Spotlight
Sun, May 16, 196560 mins
The ladies on the Entertainment Committee want something a bit different for the town's anniversary celebration. They want a play or maybe Shakespeare. It's voted that Ben has the connections to find just the act the ladies had all ordered.
Episode 34
Patchwork Man
Sun, May 23, 196560 mins
Hoss meets 'Patch' while doing some menial labor in a deserted town. He invites him to work at the Ponderosa. Hoss soon learns the truth about his past and decides to help him if he'll let him.