Bonanza - Season 8

Bonanza - Season 8

Season 8

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Episodes34
DatesSep 11, 1966 - May 14, 1967
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Episodes

Something Hurt, Something Wild
Season 8Episode 160 min

Something Hurt, Something Wild

The Cartwrights' friendship with a neighboring rancher is threatened by his mentally unstable daughter.
Sep 11, 1966
Horse of a Different Hue
Season 8Episode 260 min

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.
Sep 18, 1966
A Time to Step Down
Season 8Episode 360 min

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.
Sep 25, 1966
The Pursued (1)
Season 8Episode 460 min

The Pursued (1)

A Mormon with two wives is badgered by the town's people and then things get much worse.
Oct 2, 1966
The Pursued (2)
Season 8Episode 560 min

The Pursued (2)

As the persecuted party awaits Ben and Hoss' return, Herber is shot and killed. Joe retaliates and shoots Herber's assassin.
Oct 9, 1966
To Bloom for Thee
Season 8Episode 660 min

To Bloom for Thee

Hoss is engaged to Carol Attley, a troubled woman with a past darker than he imagines.
Oct 16, 1966
Credit for a Kill
Season 8Episode 760 min

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.
Oct 23, 1966
Four Sisters from Boston
Season 8Episode 860 min

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.
Oct 30, 1966
Old Charlie
Season 8Episode 960 min

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.
Nov 6, 1966
Ballad of the Ponderosa
Season 8Episode 1060 min

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.
Nov 13, 1966
The Oath
Season 8Episode 1160 min

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.
Nov 20, 1966
A Real Nice, Friendly Little Town
Season 8Episode 1260 min

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.
Nov 27, 1966
The Bridegroom
Season 8Episode 1360 min

The Bridegroom

Joe plays matchmaker in this story of a rancher attempting to marry off his supposedly unremarkable daughter.
Dec 4, 1966
Tommy
Season 8Episode 1460 min

Tommy

The Cartwrights protect a woman and her deaf-mute little son from the boy's outlaw stepfather.
Dec 18, 1966
A Christmas Story
Season 8Episode 1560 min

A Christmas Story

Warbling Andy Walker returns to Virginia City a big success, along with his shifty Uncle Thaddeus.
Dec 25, 1966
Ponderosa Explosion
Season 8Episode 1660 min

Ponderosa Explosion

Two Virginia City old-timers fool Hoss and Joe into raising rabbits, and the Ponderosa is overrun with paws and whiskers.
Jan 1, 1967
Justice
Season 8Episode 1760 min

Justice

When the woman he was planning to marry is strangled, Joe forces the only suspect to come forward.
Jan 8, 1967
A Bride for Buford
Season 8Episode 1860 min

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.
Jan 15, 1967
Black Friday
Season 8Episode 1960 min

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.
Jan 22, 1967
The Unseen Wound
Season 8Episode 2060 min

The Unseen Wound

Ben discovers that his friend, Sheriff Paul Rowan, is suffering from stress brought on by his wartime experiences.
Jan 29, 1967
Journey to Terror
Season 8Episode 2160 min

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.
Feb 5, 1967
Amigo
Season 8Episode 2260 min

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.
Feb 12, 1967
A Woman in the House
Season 8Episode 2360 min

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.
Feb 19, 1967
Judgment at Red Creek
Season 8Episode 2460 min

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.
Feb 26, 1967
Joe Cartwright, Detective
Season 8Episode 2560 min

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.
Mar 5, 1967
Dark Enough to See the Stars
Season 8Episode 2660 min

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.
Mar 12, 1967
The Deed and the Dilemma
Season 8Episode 2760 min

The Deed and the Dilemma

Ben assists Georgio Rossi in his battle for water on adjoining property.
Mar 26, 1967
The Prince
Season 8Episode 2860 min

The Prince

The Cartwrights play host to Russian royals, who are the target of jewel thieves.
Apr 2, 1967
A Man Without Land
Season 8Episode 2960 min

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.
Apr 9, 1967
Napoleon's Children
Season 8Episode 3060 min

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.
Apr 16, 1967
The Wormwood Cup
Season 8Episode 3160 min

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.
Apr 23, 1967
Clarissa
Season 8Episode 3260 min

Clarissa

The Cartwrights' cousin, Clarissa visits. Her assertive, snobbish ways result in nothing but trouble for Ben and his sons.
Apr 30, 1967
Maestro Hoss
Season 8Episode 3360 min

Maestro Hoss

Hoss is conned into buying a violin from a gypsy fortune teller, and everyone on the Ponderosa--except for Hop Sing--suffers the consequences.
May 7, 1967
The Greedy Ones
Season 8Episode 3460 min

The Greedy Ones

The Ponderosa is in danger of being overrun by gold hunters.
May 14, 1967

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