Bonanza - Season 5

Bonanza - Season 5

Season 5

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Episodes34
DatesSep 22, 1963 - May 24, 1964
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Episodes

She Walks in Beauty
Season 5Episode 160 min

She Walks in Beauty

Hoss wants to marry mysterious Regan Miller, a woman with less than a pristine past. When he thinks Adam is trying to steal her away, he loses control and beats Adam up.
Sep 22, 1963
A Passion for Justice
Season 5Episode 260 min

A Passion for Justice

Renowned English novelist Charles Dickens comes to Virginia City. In short order, he is accused of a crime he didn't commit. The problem then becomes how to convince the stubborn author to defend himself.
Sep 29, 1963
Rain from Heaven
Season 5Episode 360 min

Rain from Heaven

A destitute rainmaker and his family arrive in drought-stricken Virginia City. While Ben tries to help him make rain, Hoss tends to the man's seriously ill little girl.
Oct 6, 1963
Twilight Town
Season 5Episode 460 min

Twilight Town

Joe is bushwhacked in the desert and awakens to find himself in Martinville, a town that may or may not be populated by ghosts. An errie, surrealistic and well-produced episode.
Oct 13, 1963
The Toy Soldier
Season 5Episode 560 min

The Toy Soldier

Adam encounters drunken artist James Callan, branded a "squaw man" because he is married to an Indian, and whose talent is going to waste in the town of Sheep Head.
Oct 20, 1963
A Question of Strength
Season 5Episode 660 min

A Question of Strength

Hoss and a pair of nuns, the younger one having a difficult time training for the order, are robbed and stranded at a way station.
Oct 27, 1963
Calamity Over the Comstock
Season 5Episode 760 min

Calamity Over the Comstock

A girl (Stefanie Powers) named Cal causes chaos on the Ponderosa and leads Little Joe into a confrontation with Doc Holliday. Trouble with a capital "T" that rhymes with "C" comes to Virginia City when Little Joe brings young Calamity Jane home to the Ponderosa after rescuing her from a deadly prairie raid.


 

Nov 3, 1963
Journey Remembered
Season 5Episode 860 min

Journey Remembered

Ben finds Hoss in the barn waiting for a mare to give birth. Ben can't help but remember that's how Hoss' mother (Inger) was. He then finds an old journal wherein he wrote down their trek West. While Hoss waits, Ben reads it and recalls how their trek was arduous. And Inger was pregnant with Hoss and they had to deal with Indians and a drunken wagon master.

Nov 10, 1963
The Quality of Mercy
Season 5Episode 960 min

The Quality of Mercy

Little Joe struggles with his conscience, trying to believe that his friend, Seth Pruitt, did the right thing after Seth admits to the mercy-killing of his fiancée's father when the man was in agony from a broken back and begging for death.

Nov 17, 1963
The Waiting Game
Season 5Episode 1060 min

The Waiting Game

Adam becomes involved with the recently widowed Laura Dayton and her little girl, Peggy.
Dec 8, 1963
The Legacy
Season 5Episode 1160 min

The Legacy

Adam, Hoss and Joe mistakenly believe their father was murdered. They split into 3 different directions to confront the supposed killers. In his heart, Ben knows his sons will not act outside the law; but he is not 100% sure that Joe will behave correctly.
Dec 15, 1963
Hoss and the Leprechauns
Season 5Episode 1260 min

Hoss and the Leprechauns

In what is arguably the best comedy of the series, Hoss swears he has seen green elves running around the Ponderosa and a smooth-talking Irishman complicates matters even worse.
Dec 22, 1963
The Prime of Life
Season 5Episode 1360 min

The Prime of Life

Ben becomes irritable and reckless when the completion of an important timber contract is hindered by an old rival.
Dec 29, 1963
The Lila Conrad Story
Season 5Episode 1460 min

The Lila Conrad Story

Joe and Adam protect a saloon girl, who has killed in self-defense, from an angry lynch mob. The accompanying Judge, along with his wife, takes a liking to Lila, and before it is all over, he and Lila discover much more about themselves.
Jan 5, 1964
Ponderosa Matador
Season 5Episode 1560 min

Ponderosa Matador

Adam, Hoss, and Joe vie for the attention of a pretty young lady named Dolores. Hoss talks Joe into entering a bull fight, but it doesn't work out quite as planned.
Jan 12, 1964
My Son, My Son
Season 5Episode 1660 min

My Son, My Son

Ben's plans to wed widow Katherine Saunders are jeopardized after her son is accused of murder.

Jan 19, 1964
Alias Joe Cartwright
Season 5Episode 1760 min

Alias Joe Cartwright

A man who looks similar to Joe uses Joe's name and gets Joe in the position of facing the firing squad.
Jan 26, 1964
The Gentleman from New Orleans
Season 5Episode 1860 min

The Gentleman from New Orleans

The new stranger in town claims to be the famous pirate Jean Lafitte, and Hoss believes him.
Feb 2, 1964
The Cheating Game
Season 5Episode 1960 min

The Cheating Game

In this sequel to "The Waiting Game", Laura resents Adam's advice on how she ought to be running her ranch. A newcomer, Ward Bannister, comes to her aid, but is actually part of a scheme to steal her ranch.
Feb 9, 1964
Bullet for a Bride
Season 5Episode 2060 min

Bullet for a Bride

While out hunting for a mountain lion, Joe accidently shots Tessa Caldwell causing her to go blind. As a result of his guilt, Joe ends up proposing to the girl. However, other circumstances arise that cause Tessa to make a rash decision - one that both her and Joe may regret in the future.
Feb 16, 1964
King of the Mountain
Season 5Episode 2160 min

King of the Mountain

When mountain man Jim Leyton decides to marry, he chooses Hoss as his best man. Julie's father, Grizzly, does not agree and Hoss must come to the rescue.
Feb 23, 1964
Love Me Not
Season 5Episode 2260 min

Love Me Not

While talking with an Indian, Ben is given an unexpected present...a woman. She is a young white woman named Joan who has lived with the Indians since she was a little girl. Through a humorous learning experience, Ben tries to teach Joan how to behave like a white woman. In the process, Ben finds himself in an awkward situation.
Mar 1, 1964
The Pure Truth
Season 5Episode 2360 min

The Pure Truth

When Hoss catches spring fever, it takes a little old lady named "Looney" to help cure him.

Mar 8, 1964
No Less a Man
Season 5Episode 2460 min

No Less a Man

The town council feels Roy Coffee can no longer do his job, and with the notorious Wagner gang on their way to rob the bank, everyone is in a panic. Ben and Adam disagree with the town council and do what they can to help Roy out.
Mar 15, 1964
Return to Honor
Season 5Episode 2560 min

Return to Honor

Ben must travel to pay his respects after he learns of the death of his nephew Will. When he visits the grave, he finds his nephew barely alive with a bullet wound. He takes him to a doctor and Will insists that he leave, but Ben refuses. Will explains that the men after him must believe that he is dead. Ben decides his best bet is to take Will home. He and Will are followed by the same men who are interested in some valuables Will is carrying.
Mar 22, 1964
The Saga of Muley Jones
Season 5Episode 2660 min

The Saga of Muley Jones

The Cartwrights are visited by their second cousin, Muley Jones of Weedville, Missouri who sings with a window-shattering voice and stirs up trouble with Indian negotiations that Ben is trying to ensure.
Mar 29, 1964
The Roper
Season 5Episode 2760 min

The Roper

Will is having second thoughts about staying on at the Ponderosa, and outlaws hit the ranch and take him with them. The leader, Lee Hewitt, is a young killer and plans on robbing the Ponderosa, so Will must take action to save himself, Hewitt's wife, the doctor, and his newfound relatives, the Cartwrights.
Apr 5, 1964
A Pink Cloud Comes from Old Cathay
Season 5Episode 2860 min

A Pink Cloud Comes from Old Cathay

A headstrong Chinese girl (Marlo Thomas) visiting the Cartwrights incites labor unrest among local workers.
Apr 12, 1964
The Companeros
Season 5Episode 2960 min

The Companeros

Mateo Ibara and his wife Carla visit the Ponderosa. Ibara asks Will to return to Mexico with him. Ibara and Will fought together for Juarez's cause and Ibara saved Will's life. For this reason, Will feels obligated to Ibara, but Ben is suspicious of the man's motives.
Apr 19, 1964
Enter Thomas Bowers
Season 5Episode 3060 min

Enter Thomas Bowers

After a triumphant tour in Europe, a famous Negro singer encounters racial prejudice in Virginia City when he arrives for a concert.
Apr 26, 1964
The Dark Past
Season 5Episode 3160 min

The Dark Past

Moody bounty hunter, Dev Farnum, shows up on the Ponderosa, where the Cartwrights are harboring the wife of the man he is after.
May 3, 1964
The Pressure Game
Season 5Episode 3260 min

The Pressure Game

Laura Dayton's Aunt Lil comes to visit and quickly decides it's time she help the hesitant Adam propose to her favorite niece. Her plan is to make Adam jealous by using his cousin Will but it doesn't go exactly as planned.
May 10, 1964
Triangle
Season 5Episode 3360 min

Triangle

Adam and Laura are finally engaged. Adam is secretly building a house and planning for the future. Laura realizes that it's Will she is in love with. Adam is then confined to a wheelchair after falling from a ladder and out of guilt, Laura and Will deny their feelings.
May 17, 1964
Walter and the Outlaws
Season 5Episode 3460 min

Walter and the Outlaws

Hilarious sequel to "Any Friend Of Walter's" in which Obie leaves Walter in Hoss' care. The three outlaws, Macy, Teague, and Willard, kidnap Walter and hold him for ransom, leaving Hoss and the returning Obie to rescue him, but matters turn out the other way.
May 24, 1964

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