Bonanza - Season 6
Season 6
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Episodes34
DatesSep 20, 1964 - May 23, 1965
Episodes
Season 6Episode 160 min
Invention of a Gunfighter
Joe teaches Johnny Chapman how to use a gun for defense. What Joe doesn't see is the deadly consequences that it has in the long run when Johnny becomes a gunfighter.
Sep 20, 1964
Season 6Episode 260 min
The Hostage
Outlaws capture Ben and hide him in an abandoned mine, holding him for a ransom. The boys must come up with a plan to save him before it's too late.
Sep 27, 1964
Season 6Episode 360 min
The Wild One
Lafe Jessup doesn't really want to be married, and now he's about to be a father! The horse wrangler finds a fight with Hoss at his reluctance to perform his duties.
Oct 4, 1964
Season 6Episode 460 min
Thanks for Everything, Friend
After inadvertantly falling into the river, Adam is rescued by Tom Wilson. Wilson has feelings for Sue Miller, which bring him into trouble after her father is killed.
Oct 11, 1964
Season 6Episode 560 min
Logan's Treasure
Sam Logan is released from jail after serving his twenty year sentence for stealing $100,000 worth of gold dust. He is followed by a bounty hunter who believes Sam will lead him to where the gold is buried.
Oct 18, 1964
Season 6Episode 660 min
The Scapegoat
Hoss hires Waldo as a ranch hand after keeping Waldo from killing himself. Hoss soon learns that Waldo is lousy at his job and only causes problems for everyone else due to his clumsiness. Although Hoss is willing to defend him, he soon finds out a secret about Waldo.
Oct 25, 1964
Season 6Episode 760 min
A Dime's Worth of Glory
An author is inspired to write about the heroic Cartwrights after watching first-hand as they fight off an attempted robbery of a stage. As Ben and Adam see no use for the glory of such a novel, they turn the writer down forcing him to turn to the sherriff who quickly accepts.
Nov 1, 1964
Season 6Episode 860 min
Square Deal Sam
A conman heads into town and takes advantage of the Cartwrights with a fake land deal. The conman ends up staying in Virginia city to run an orphanage.
Nov 8, 1964
Season 6Episode 960 min
Between Heaven and Earth
When Joe and his friend Mitch go after a puma, Joe climbs a big peak and throws his gun up higher, intending to crawl up after it. But as he looks down, things begin to spin. He realises he can't go any higher, and he retreats down the hill. Needing to prove himself, Joe spars against Mitch.
Nov 15, 1964
Season 6Episode 1060 min
Old Sheba
As payment for a performance in a circus, Joe and Hoss are given an elephant. They want to keep it but encounter opposition from Adam and Ben.
Nov 22, 1964
Season 6Episode 1160 min
A Man to Admire
Hoss relies on clever attorney Whitney Parker, who has a drinking problem, to clear him of a murder charge.
Dec 6, 1964
Season 6Episode 1260 min
The Underdog
Little Joe convinces Ben to hire Harry Starr, a half-Indian who is accused by other ranchers of being a chronic horse thief. Joe sets out to prove the others wrong, but is the youngest Cartwright's trust misplaced?
Dec 13, 1964
Season 6Episode 1360 min
A Knight to Remember
Two robberies take place on stagecoaches that Adam is traveling on, and both times a knight in shining armor scares the robbers away. Adam is accused of robbery, and his story about the knight is none too helpful.
Dec 20, 1964
Season 6Episode 1460 min
The Saga of Squaw Charlie
A peaceful Indian is framed for the kidnapping of a young girl, a stunt which ends of tragedy.
Dec 27, 1964
Season 6Episode 1560 min
The Flapjack Contest
Hoss unknowingly enters a flapjack contest and Joe puts Hoss on a diet which Hoss doesn't care for. Joe's betting on the flapjack contest could get him into some trouble and will he ever succeed in getting the window pane his Pa wants?
Jan 3, 1965
Season 6Episode 1660 min
The Far, Far Better Thing
On their way to prevent a young woman from encountering the renegade Indians, Joe and Tuck are captured, and in order to save them all, Joe must fight Sharp Tongue, who is the leader of the band who went to school with Joe as a youth.
Jan 10, 1965
Season 6Episode 1760 min
Woman of Fire
Ben's friend, Don Miguel, visits the Ponderosa with his two daughters, Margarita and Elena, and Elena's two very anxious suitors. Their mission? They're on their way to California to meet Margarita's suitor, Don Luis. Trouble is, Margarita is a "woman of fire" who manages to scare away all suitors with her hot temper. Since Margarita is the older daughter, she must be married before Elena. Elena's two suitors are quickly losing their patience, and Don Miguel fears his name will be disgraced if Margarita rejects Don Luis.
Jan 17, 1965
Season 6Episode 1860 min
The Ballerina
Kellie Conrad dances and her father plays the fiddle to earn a living. Hoss feels a sense of guilt after he unintentionally hurts the arm that Kellie's father uses to play the fiddle, in a saloon fight with some roughnecks. He gets them to stay at the Ponderosa while the girl's father recuperates. While there, Ben introduces Kellie to his friend Paul Mandel, a ballet star before an explosion cut his dancing career short.
Kellie persuades Paul to help her learn ballet. She soon comes to the realization that she loves both the ballet and Paul. She struggles inwardly to make a choice between her love of ballet and giving it all up for the love of her father.
Jan 24, 1965
Season 6Episode 1960 min
The Flannel-Mouth Gun
Adam becomes involved with a quick-triggered range detective hired by the Virginia City Cattleman's Association to find out who is responsible for all the rustling going on in the area.
Jan 31, 1965
Season 6Episode 2060 min
The Ponderosa Birdman
Professor Klump and Amanda pull Hoss into their flying machine scheme. The ""Hoss-mobile"" doesn't seem to be destined for a great take-off.
Feb 7, 1965
Season 6Episode 2160 min
The Search
Adam sets out to track down the man who has been impersonating him to clear his reputation.
Feb 14, 1965
Season 6Episode 2260 min
The Deadliest Game
The Cartwrights play host to Guido Borelli, a world renowed aerial acrobat who once saved Ben's life in Italy. Borelli's troup is beset by internal strife, and is performing in Virginia City.
Feb 21, 1965
Season 6Episode 2360 min
Once a Doctor
Hoss' latest acquaintance, an Englishman named Professor Poppy, is actually Percival Alexander Mundy, M.D., who has given up the practice of medicine. However, when Hoss is shot in the back, only Mundy's skill can save his life.
Feb 28, 1965
Season 6Episode 2460 min
Right is the Fourth R
While working as a substitute teacher, Adam uncovers an ugly secret about the territory's past that others prefer remain hidden.
Mar 7, 1965
Season 6Episode 2560 min
Hound Dog
Cousin Muley Jones returns to the Ponderosa, along with a pack of noisy hound dogs, in this funny sequel to "The Saga Of Muley Jones".
Mar 21, 1965
Season 6Episode 2660 min
The Trap
One of Joe's old girlfriends thinks he killed her husband so they could come together. Unfortunately, that is what her husband's twin brother also believes.
Mar 28, 1965
Season 6Episode 2760 min
Dead and Gone
Adam tries to find the good in Howard Mead, a talented troubadour who refuses to stay on the right side of the law. Dramatic debut of singer/songwriter Hoyt Axton. Last episode Pernell Roberts worked on, although he appears in the next two, that were made prior to this episode and aired afterwards.
Apr 4, 1965
Season 6Episode 2860 min
A Good Night's Rest
First Ben's sons are making lots of noise, so he goes into town to sleep in the hotel. Then, various noises and things interrupt Ben's sleep. Will he ever get his desired good night's rest?
Apr 11, 1965
Season 6Episode 2960 min
To Own the World
One of the wealthiest men in the world, Charles Augustus Hackett, offers to buy the Ponderosa, price no object. Ben says the ranch is not for sale and Hackett refuses to give up.
Apr 18, 1965
Season 6Episode 3060 min
Lothario Larkin
Ladies' man Lothario Larkin creates havoc whenever he hits Virginia City, so Roy Coffee orders him out of town. Naturally, Hoss takes him in.
Apr 25, 1965
Season 6Episode 3160 min
The Return
No one in Virginia City is happy to see ex-con Trace Cordell, especially the man he crippled in a gunfight, now married to Cordell's former girlfriend.
May 2, 1965
Season 6Episode 3260 min
Jonah
The Ponderosa hands are upset when new hand George Whitman is hired on, it is rumored he is a jinx. Hoss tells George to ignore such foolishness, but a gypsy fortune teller says otherwise.
May 9, 1965
Season 6Episode 3360 min
The Spotlight
Ben invites opera singer Angela Bergstrom to perform at Virginia City's anniversary celebration. She accepts, but does not tell him that her famous singing voice is long gone
May 16, 1965
Season 6Episode 3460 min
Patchwork Man
Hoss befriends a self-demeaning recluse named Patch, who makes the best apple pie Hoss has ever tasted. Hoss is so impressed with him, especially his pie, that he hires him to work on the Ponderosa. Ben, however, is unimpressed with Hoss' new friend when the Cartwrights get into a gunfight with a mining outfit, and Patch cowers. He has a deepseeded fear of violence stemming from an incident in his teen years, but he knows in order to survive in the West, he must overcome it.
May 23, 1965
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