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Episode 149 min1966-09-11

Something Hurt, Something Wild

The Cartwrights' friendship with a neighboring rancher is threatened by his mentally unstable daughter.

Episode 249 min1966-09-18

Horse of a Different Hue

So the Cartwrights will not be killed, one of Ben's oldest friends must make sure Joe does not win a horse race.

Episode 349 min1966-09-25

A Time to Step Down

After the Cartwrights put wrangler Dan Tolliver out to pasture, the embittered old man plans to take part in robbing the Ponderosa.

Episode 449 min1966-10-02

The Pursued (1)

A Mormon with two wives is badgered by the town's people and then things get much worse.

Episode 549 min1966-10-09

The Pursued (2)

As the persecuted party awaits Ben and Hoss' return, Herber is shot and killed. Joe retaliates and shoots Herber's assassin.

Episode 649 min1966-10-16

To Bloom for Thee

Hoss is engaged to Carol Attley, a troubled woman with a past darker than he imagines.

Episode 749 min1966-10-23

Credit for a Kill

Though his friend is badly in need of the reward money, Joe insists it belongs to him, to protect his friend from the dead outlaws' brothers.

Episode 849 min1966-10-30

Four Sisters from Boston

The Cartwrights come to the rescue of four inexperienced homesteaders, when devious cattle ranchers try to run them off their property.

Episode 949 min1966-11-06

Old Charlie

A young cowpoke is killed during a fight with Hoss, but the old blowhard who runs the Virginia City stables, takes the credit, placing him in danger from the dead man's brothers.

Episode 1049 min1966-11-13

Ballad of the Ponderosa

A young troubadour, who blames Ben for the death of his father, returns to Virginia City. In one scene, Ben says the young man is welcome to use Adam's guitar.

Episode 1149 min1966-11-20

The Oath

While in another town, on business, Ben runs into a saloon employee who is a big figure, and after he kills an old miner, who has burned down his house, Ben takes him into the sheriff. He is sentenced and hung. Before his departure, Charlie Monahan, has made his half-breed son, Charlie Two, swear an oath to kill Ben. Little Joe is made aware of this and must track him down to prevent him from carrying out his oath against Ben. Charlie Two is unaware that Joe is Ben's son, as they meet on the trail.

Episode 1249 min1966-11-27

A Real Nice, Friendly Little Town

When the woman he was planning to marry is strangled, Joe forces the only suspect to come forward, in a very tense-filled episode.

Episode 1349 min1966-12-04

The Bridegroom

Joe plays matchmaker in this story of a rancher attempting to marry off his supposedly unremarkable daughter.

Episode 1449 min1966-12-18

Tommy

The Cartwrights protect a woman and her deaf-mute little son from the boy's outlaw stepfather.

Episode 1549 min1966-12-25

A Christmas Story

Warbling Andy Walker returns to Virginia City a big success, along with his shifty Uncle Thaddeus.

Episode 1649 min1967-01-01

Ponderosa Explosion

Two Virginia City old-timers fool Hoss and Joe into raising rabbits, and the Ponderosa is overrun with paws and whiskers.

Episode 1749 min1967-01-08

Justice

When the woman he was planning to marry is strangled, Joe forces the only suspect to come forward.

Episode 1849 min1967-01-15

A Bride for Buford

Dolly Bantree has a crooked manager ""Blackie"", who blackmails Dolly to fleece newly rich miner Buford out of his newfound wealth. Hoss suspects something and gets all duded up to pose as a rich mark to test Dolly.

Episode 1949 min1967-01-22

Black Friday

In the town of Chiso, Joe encounters a former Ponderosa cowhand who is now a gunfighter and expecting to be killed on Friday the 13th. John Saxon makes the first of his three appearances in the series, in this episode as Steven Friday.

Episode 2049 min1967-01-29

The Unseen Wound

Ben discovers that his friend, Sheriff Paul Rowan, is suffering from stress brought on by his wartime experiences.

Episode 2149 min1967-02-05

Journey to Terror

Joe visits his married friends in Arizona Territory, only to discover the husband has become a criminal and is secretly part of a notorious gang.

Episode 2249 min1967-02-12

Amigo

A wounded comanchero sides with the Cartwrights when the rest of the gang, led by Captain Fenner, shows up to burn and rob the Ponderosa.

Episode 2349 min1967-02-19

A Woman in the House

Mary Wharton, an old friend of the family, comes to live on the Ponderosa with her shiftless husband. When Ben learns Mary is the victim of domestic abuse, he sends Russ packing.

Episode 2449 min1967-02-26

Judgment at Red Creek

Hoss and Joe have their doubts as to who really robbed a way station, suspecting the two men they captured are innocent.

Episode 2549 min1967-03-05

Joe Cartwright, Detective

Joe becomes fascinated by detective literature and drags Hoss into the picture when he suspects the bank is going to be robbed.

Episode 2649 min1967-03-12

Dark Enough to See the Stars

Young Billy Wilcox wanders onto the Ponderosa, sick, hungry, and alone. Ben finds him, and after he regains his strength, offers Billy a job. Jennifer Yardley, who with her father is visiting the Cartwrights, is interested in Billy. Billy is more concerned about a lawman that has come to town because he has a past that could be problematic: he killed a man in self-defense and ran.

Episode 2749 min1967-03-26

The Deed and the Dilemma

Ben assists Georgio Rossi in his battle for water on adjoining property.

Episode 2849 min1967-04-02

The Prince

The Cartwrights play host to Russian royals, who are the target of jewel thieves.

Episode 2949 min1967-04-09

A Man Without Land

The foreman of a neighboring ranch frames Joe for murder as part of a scheme to get his employer's property.

Episode 3049 min1967-04-16

Napoleon's Children

A gang of juvenile delinquents, led by an intelligent runt, who calls himself Napoleon, terrorizes Virginia City and the Ponderosa as well.

Episode 3149 min1967-04-23

The Wormwood Cup

A woman - convinced Little Joe intentionally killed her brother - offers $1,000 to the man who kills the youngest Cartwright in what she deems a ""fair fight."" Joe, meanwhile, must overcome his guilt over killing another man in self defense while trying to avoid the dead man's bitterly grieving father.