Bonanza - Season 7
Season 7
Network
Episodes33
DatesSep 12, 1965 - May 15, 1966
Episodes
Season 7Episode 160 min
The Debt
Wiley and Annie Kane arrive at the Ponderosa to work off their father's debt to Ben. It seems as though the elder Kane once swindled the Cartwright patriarch.
Sep 12, 1965
Season 7Episode 260 min
The Dilemma
Ben helps a convict win a parole only to have the man later become the chief suspect in a bank robbery.
Sep 19, 1965
Season 7Episode 360 min
The Brass Box
Juan Ortega claims he has a land grant which gives him ownership of the entire Nevada Territory.
Sep 26, 1965
Season 7Episode 460 min
The Other Son
A mule skinner and his two sons are hired by Ben to transport nitroglycerin to California.
Oct 3, 1965
Season 7Episode 560 min
The Lonely Runner
A judge awards itinerant horse breeder Jim Acton's beloved mare to rancher Sam Whipple. Jim tries to buy her back, but Whipple refuses his offer, after which a fight ensues and Jim kills Whipple in self-defense. The Cartwrights want to bring Jim in to make sure he receives a fair trial, but an ambitious and overzealous deputy doesn't care how he brings him in.
Oct 10, 1965
Season 7Episode 660 min
Devil on Her Shoulder
Ben is attracted to Sarah Reynolds, a member of a religious order led by her fanatical uncle. When she is accused of being a witch, the Cartwrights step in.
Oct 17, 1965
Season 7Episode 760 min
Found Child
Hoss comes upon an overturned stagecoach and discovers a little girl suffering from shock. After the Cartwrights suceed in bringing her around, Hoss is disappointed she has relatives and cannot stay. The girl's uncle turns out to be the enemy and Hoss saves her.
Oct 24, 1965
Season 7Episode 860 min
The Meredith Smith
Ben must determine who is the rightful heir to a fortune that includes water rights vital to the Ponderosa.
Oct 31, 1965
Season 7Episode 960 min
Mighty is the Word
Virginia City's newest preacher is an ex-gunfighter who wants only to build a new church, but the brother of one of his victims has other ideas. The blueprints for the church are said to be a gift from Adam.
Nov 7, 1965
Season 7Episode 1060 min
The Strange One
Hoss and Joe find a woman abandoned by a wagon train because her gift of prophecy is considered a curse. "Wouldn't it be wonderful," says Ben, "if eveybody made a real effort to understand whatever's strange and unfamiliar rather to fear it and try to destroy it?"
Nov 14, 1965
Season 7Episode 1160 min
The Reluctant Rebel
The Generation Gap, Western-style, as Hoss tries to bring a young man and his father closer together.
Nov 21, 1965
Season 7Episode 1260 min
Five Sundowns to Sunup
The mother of a young outlaw condemned to hang, threatens to have her gang's hostages killed if her son is not set free. One of the hostages is Joe.
Dec 5, 1965
Season 7Episode 1360 min
A Natural Wizard
Hoss finds a kindred spirit in Skeeter Dexter, a lonesome young man who feels closer to animals than most people.
Dec 12, 1965
Season 7Episode 1460 min
All Ye His Saints
In this series' highlight, little Michael Thorpe heads to the high country to ask God to spare his critically wounded father, believing he has found Him in the form of longtime fugitive Tom Cain.
Dec 19, 1965
Season 7Episode 1560 min
The Dublin Lad
After sitting on a jury that has convicted Terrence O' Tool of murder, Joe has second thoughts about the verdict and decides to do some investigating of his own.
Jan 2, 1966
Season 7Episode 1660 min
To Kill a Buffalo
Hoss finds a wounded young Indian on the prairie, who is torn between accepting the ways of the white man or returning to his old life.
Jan 9, 1966
Season 7Episode 1760 min
Ride the Wind (1)
The Pony Express sets up office in Virginia and Joe is one of the first to join up. Ben also decides to invest in the fledgling enterprise. However, troubles soon plague the Pony Express with the Paiutes and a newspaper reporter, both trying to get their own agendas across.
Jan 16, 1966
Season 7Episode 1860 min
Ride the Wind (2)
Conclusion to the previous-week's episode, where the Cartwrights provide needed assistance to the Pony Express.
Jan 23, 1966
Season 7Episode 1960 min
Destiny's Child
After his only friend is killed, the Cartwrights take in a slow-witted man, who Roy Coffee informs them, is wanted for murder by Arizona authorities.
Jan 30, 1966
Season 7Episode 2060 min
Peace Officer
While Sheriff Coffee is in Saint Louis, the Morrisey bunch decides to work off excess energy by wrecking the saloon in a violent spree. When Deputy Bill Harris tries to arrest them, they hit him on the head with a whiskey bottle, accidentally killing him. All of them get away except Cliff, who is put in jail. He refuses to say the names or locations of his friends. Mayor Garrett holds an emergency meeting of the Virginia City town council.
They hire legendary lawman Wes Dunn, as the temporary sheriff. He is a humorless man who is determined to restore order in town. He beats Cliff almost to death to find out where his friends are, but Cliff will not say anything. Meanwhile, Hoss finds Chuck, a wounded gang member. When he tries to take Chuck's gun away, he shoots Hoss. Joe goes with Dunn to find the other men. He thinks Dunn is a hero until he sees him murder one of the suspects in cold blood.
Feb 6, 1966
Season 7Episode 2160 min
The Code
Joe is goaded into facing gunman Dan Taggert, unaware there is more to be prearranged than he realizes.
Feb 13, 1966
Season 7Episode 2260 min
Three Brides for Hoss
Not one, but three mail-order brides show up unexpectedly at the Ponderosa, all of them believing they are to marry Hoss.
Feb 20, 1966
Season 7Episode 2360 min
The Emperor Norton
Joshua Norton, an eccentric and formerly wealthy San Francisco merchant who considers himself Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, comes to the Ponderosa. Authorities want to have him committed, and Ben contacts Mark Twain to testify to Norton's sanity.
Feb 27, 1966
Season 7Episode 2460 min
Her Brother's Keeper
Ben and Claire Armory fall in love, but their future is jeopardized by her disabled brother.
Mar 6, 1966
Season 7Episode 2560 min
The Trouble with Jamie
The Cartwrights attempt to straighten out the snobbish young son of Ben's cousin.
Mar 20, 1966
Season 7Episode 2660 min
Shining in Spain
Young, adoring Wendy Daniels has come to Virginia City to meet up with her father, Taylor Daniels, who has been traveling on business for the last five years. Joe is attracted to Wendy, but he faces stiff competition for her affections. She idolizes her father and cannot stop talking about his great business visions, although she has not seen him in five years.
The Cartwrights realize there is something wrong when Wendy's supposedly rich father leaves her stranded in Virginia City with no money. When she is evicted from the hotel after running up a debt of $50, Joe takes her to the Ponderosa, only to have her dreams of her father shattered when he shows up flat broke.
Mar 27, 1966
Season 7Episode 2760 min
The Genius
Hoss chooses a difficult path when he decides to rehabilitate a famous poet, Will Smith, who is really William Warlock Evans, who spends too much time drinking and eventually his wife arrives at the Ponderosa.
Apr 3, 1966
Season 7Episode 2860 min
The Unwritten Commandment
Everyone feels Andy Walker is an outstanding singer but his father, who feels the boy should concentrate on ranch work instead. Joe mentions receiving a letter from Adam, currently in Paris.
Apr 10, 1966
Season 7Episode 2960 min
Big Shadows on the Land
Italian immigrants are determined to establish their own vineyard on Ponderosa property.
Apr 17, 1966
Season 7Episode 3060 min
The Fighters
Feeling guilty for unintentionally ending the career of a professional boxer, Hoss vows never to fight again. But things change when Joe is nearly beaten to death.
Apr 24, 1966
Season 7Episode 3160 min
Home from the Sea
A sailor, claiming to be one of Adam's closest friends, is given a warm welcome by the Cartwrights, who have no way of knowing the man and his accomplice plan on robbing them.
May 1, 1966
Season 7Episode 3260 min
The Last Mission
Ben and Hoss unwittingly aid a vengeful army colonel who plans to wipe out every Indian he can with a Gatling gun.
May 8, 1966
Season 7Episode 3360 min
A Dollar's Worth of Trouble
Hoss finds himself in another mess, this one involving a beautiful blonde, a moonshiner, and a nearsighted outlaw who is allergic to chocolate and flowers.
May 15, 1966
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