Bonanza - Season 11

Bonanza - Season 11

Season 11

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Episodes28
DatesSept. 14, 1969 - Apr. 19, 1970
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Episodes

Another Windmill to Go
Season 11Episode 160 min

Another Windmill to Go

A dapper old man rowing a boat across dry grazing land? That's the quixotic scene bewildering all of Virginia City—especially the Cartwrights, who lease the acreage and fear the gentleman may be engineering a swindle.

Sept. 14, 1969
The Witness
Season 11Episode 260 min

The Witness

A young woman, Jenny Winters who is prone to telling tall tales, claims she witnessed the Logan gang holding up a stagecoach. The Cartwrights hide her at the Ponderosa, but that is only the beginning of what Jenny will learn from spinning tall tales.
Sept. 21, 1969
The Silence at Stillwater
Season 11Episode 360 min

The Silence at Stillwater

A young boy positively identifies Candy as the man wanted in Stillwater for robbery, arson and murder.
Sept. 28, 1969
A Lawman's Lot is Not a Happy One
Season 11Episode 460 min

A Lawman's Lot is Not a Happy One

When he is called to testify in an out-of-town lumber shark case, Roy recruits Hoss to temporarily serve as sheriff. Hoss quickly finds his hands full dealing with a reluctant groom, who plans a robbery to make himself less appealing to his assertive fiancé; and a persistent salesman wanting to sell stock for a resort in the Virginia City area. Will Virginia City ever be the same?
Okt. 5, 1969
Anatomy of a Lynching
Season 11Episode 560 min

Anatomy of a Lynching

Will Griner is acquitted of murder which upsets the folks of Virginia City. They feel Griner silenced witnesses and are ready to lynch him. Ben works to reopen the case by finding out the truth about the case before it is too late.
Okt. 12, 1969
To Stop a War
Season 11Episode 660 min

To Stop a War

Dan Logan, a former army scout and lawman who works for the Cartwrights, has his hands full with rustlers, a range war, and a one-time prostitute whose devotion is questionable.
Okt. 19, 1969
The Medal
Season 11Episode 760 min

The Medal

Ben lends a hand to a down and out war veteran, Matthew Rush, who received the Congressional Medal Of Honor.
Okt. 26, 1969
The Stalker
Season 11Episode 860 min

The Stalker

Candy helps the widow of a man he shot and killed in self defense, unaware she is plotting revenge against him.
Nov. 2, 1969
Meena
Season 11Episode 960 min

Meena

Little Joe and Candy defend Meena Calhoun and her crusty father, Luke, from horse rustlers. In the process, Joe helps Meena become assertive and stick up for herself.
Nov. 16, 1969
A Darker Shadow
Season 11Episode 1060 min

A Darker Shadow

A Virginia City store clerk decides to take advantage of his co-worker's paralyzing sensitivity to bright light.
Nov. 23, 1969
Dead Wrong
Season 11Episode 1160 min

Dead Wrong

While in Sunville on business for the Ponderosa, the town's storyteller, Salty - who has a talent for grossly exaggerating his tales - identifies Hoss and Candy as outlaws Big Jack (Hoss) and Sid (Candy). After a frustrating endeavor of convincing Salty of their real identities, Candy and Hoss get him to help stage ""Big Jack's"" death in a gunfight, unaware that the real Big Jack and Sid are in Sunville and plan to take advantage of the townsfolks' distraction to rob the bank.
Dez. 7, 1969
Old Friends
Season 11Episode 1260 min

Old Friends

Ben is sorry to learn that two of his oldest friends are on opposite sides of the law, after 27 years. Charlie Shepard once worked a mining claim with Ben, along with Jess Waddell, now a bounty hunter, and will stop at nothing to kill Charlie, regardless of what anyone tries to persuade him to do otherwise.
Dez. 14, 1969
Abner Willoughby's Return
Season 11Episode 1360 min

Abner Willoughby's Return

Joe agrees to help the man who tried to steal his horse, Abner Willoughby, who has returned to claim the box of gold he hid years ago, before going to sea.
Dez. 21, 1969
It's a Small World
Season 11Episode 1460 min

It's a Small World

A prejudiced Virginia City banker spurns Ben's recommendation of a recent widower (with an infant daughter to raise) for a bank teller's job because he's a midget. The midget, a former circus performer, steals money from the bank to support his daughter.
Jan. 4, 1970
Danger Road
Season 11Episode 1560 min

Danger Road

Ben needs to haul three beams that are 30 feet long and the Cambeau Freight Company will not do it. A new, independent freight hauler may be the answer. However, when Ben meets Gunny, he orders him off the Ponderosa. Ben and Gunny served together in the Mexican war, and chose opposite sides. Ben puts his differences aside with Gunny and helps him win the government contract away from Cambeau Freight Company.
Jan. 11, 1970
The Big Jackpot
Season 11Episode 1660 min

The Big Jackpot

Candy has inherited a fortune from an Indian he helped. He quits his job on the Ponderosa and becomes a vice president for a land promotor who is selling beautiful, fertile land. When it is discovered that the land promotor is selling barren desert land, Candy and the Cartwrights set out to expose the land promotor as a fraud.
Jan. 18, 1970
The Trouble with Amy
Season 11Episode 1760 min

The Trouble with Amy

Ben comes to the aid of Amy Wilder, an eccentric animal lover whose mental competency is questioned when a neighbor declares an interest in her land for mining. The neighbor asks the court for a hearing to have Amy declared senile so he can obtain her land, setting off Ben's race against time to track down Amy's relatives to defend her mental state.
Jan. 25, 1970
The Lady and the Mark
Season 11Episode 1860 min

The Lady and the Mark

A new wealthy Ponderosa employee with a weakness for women becomes the target of con artists.
Feb. 1, 1970
Is There Any Man Here
Season 11Episode 1960 min

Is There Any Man Here

When the daughter of a friend declares her love for him, Ben agonizes over what to do.
Feb. 8, 1970
The Law and Billy Burgess
Season 11Episode 2060 min

The Law and Billy Burgess

Ben seriously doubts an angry young man committed several murders to which he has confessed to.
Feb. 15, 1970
Long Way to Ogden
Season 11Episode 2160 min

Long Way to Ogden

Ben gambles the future of the Ponderosa when a convincing meat packer from Chicago, sets out to ruin the local cattle industry.
Feb. 22, 1970
Return Engagement
Season 11Episode 2260 min

Return Engagement

En route to San Francisco, actress Lotta Crabtree arrives in Virginia City for a special performance. Hoss is smitten by the beautiful actress, which makes her leading man jealous. When he is killed during a performance, Lotta and then Hoss are suspected of the death. It is up to Ben to set things straight.
März 1, 1970
The Gold Mine
Season 11Episode 2360 min

The Gold Mine

Two drifters come to the Ponderosa and they try to rob the Cartwrights but are driven away. Joe becomes close to the young Mexican, Ramon, who is with them. After they get into a little disagreement they throw Ramon out. The drifters then discover that Ramon has found gold. Ramon returns to the Ponderosa and is welcomed. The Cartwrights learn that Ramon's father, who had to take care of his large family, sold his son to the two men. The two drifters grab Ramon and force him to tell them where he found the gold. They are about to make their claim when the Cartwrights stop them and let Ramon claim the gold as his. Ramon then goes back to Mexico with his fortune.
März 8, 1970
Decision at Los Robles
Season 11Episode 2460 min

Decision at Los Robles

Ben and Joe stop in Los Robles for a couple of beers and a night's rest. Ben sees the town boss, John Walker, bullying the saloon waitress, and he comes to her defense. When Ben steps outside of the saloon, Walker shoots him in the back. Badly wounded, Ben shoots back, killing Walker just before he falls unconscious. While Joe keeps a vigil at Ben's bedside, the priest tells him Los Robles had always been ruled unquestionably by John Walker and his son Jed. Now Jed will certainly want revenge. Sure enough, he tells Joe if he doesn't hand Ben over in 24 hours, he will kill every citizen in Los Robles, one an hour. To complicate matters more, Walker's foreman, Garth, deliberately tells Jed that Ben shot his father in the back, in hopes that Joe will kill Walker, so he can run the Walker ranch. When Joe tries to mobilize a few citizens to fight Walker and his army of men, he finds a town full of cowards. The biggest coward of all is the doctor. He purposely left the bullet in Ben's back, hoping that he'd die within 24 hours. Jed and Garth make final plans to blow up Los Robles with dynamite, unless Joe surrenders Ben to him.
März 22, 1970
Caution, Easter Bunny Crossing
Season 11Episode 2560 min

Caution, Easter Bunny Crossing

""Here comes Hoss Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail... "" That's what the folks of Virginia City were probably thinking when a Quaker woman talks a reluctant Hoss into dressing as the Easter Bunny for the orphanage's children. While hippety-hopping and waiting for Easter to be its way, Hoss - while dressed in the Easter Bunny costume - contends with a group of inept outlaws, who commit a comedy of errors in their attempts to rob stagecoaches.
März 29, 1970
The Horse Traders
Season 11Episode 2660 min

The Horse Traders

In this second episode to feature Meena Calhoun and her father, Hoss and Joe's plans to sell horses from the livery stables in town is thwarted. Virgil and his two brothers also go into the livery business which creates troubles for Hoss and Joe.
Apr. 5, 1970
What Are Pardners For?
Season 11Episode 2760 min

What Are Pardners For?

Hoss meets two men. He forms a rapport with them and they tell him that they plan to rob the bank in the town they are going to. Hoss tries to stop them but he fails. Hoss decides to go into the town to warn the sheriff but is too late. The sheriff then arrests Hoss.
Apr. 12, 1970
A Matter of Circumstance
Season 11Episode 2860 min

A Matter of Circumstance

Little Joe stays back at the Ponderosa to tend to its operation as Ben, Hoss, Candy and Hop Sing leave for a cattle drive, who leave as a severe thunderstorm approaches. Joe goes to the barn to calm a horse that was spooked by the thunder and lightning. But just when it seems like the horse has settled down, the horse goes wild, knocking down Joe and crushing his left arm and breaking his leg. Joe goes in and out of consciousness and, after struggling against driving rain and winds to get into the house, treats his wounds. However, the arm is infected and Joe, fearing gangrene has set in, debates whether to amputate the wound.
Apr. 19, 1970

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