• Air date: 14 Sep '69 28 episodes
      The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
  • List of Episodes (28)
    • 1. Another Windmill to Go

      14 Sep '69
      An Englishman with a passion for challenging ridiculous laws shows up on the Ponderosa grazing in a land-rowing boat mounted on a wagon.
    • 2. The Witness

      21 Sep '69
      A young woman, Jenny Winters who is prone to telling tall tales, claims she witnessed the Logan gang holding up a stagecoach. The Cartwrights hide her at the Ponderosa, but that is only the beginning of what Jenny will learn from spinning tall tales.
    • 3. The Silence at Stillwater

      28 Sep '69
      A young boy positively identifies Candy as the man wanted in Stillwater for robbery, arson and murder.
    • 4. A Lawman's Lot Is Not a Happy One

      05 Oct '69
      When he is called to testify in an out-of-town lumber shark case, Roy recruits Hoss to temporarily serve as sheriff. Hoss quickly finds his hands full dealing with a reluctant groom, who plans a robbery to make himself less appealing to his assertive fiancé; and a persistent salesman wanting to sell stock for a resort in the Virginia City area. Will Virginia City ever be the same?
    • 5. Anatomy of a Lynching

      12 Oct '69
      Will Griner is acquitted of murder which upsets the folks of Virginia City. They feel Griner silenced witnesses and are ready to lynch him. Ben works to reopen the case by finding out the truth about the case before it is too late.
    • 6. To Stop a War

      19 Oct '69
      Dan Logan, a former army scout and lawman who works for the Cartwrights, has his hands full with rustlers, a range war, and a one-time prostitute whose devotion is questionable.
    • 7. The Medal

      26 Oct '69
      Ben lends a hand to a down and out war veteran, Matthew Rush, who received the Congressional Medal Of Honor.
    • 8. The Stalker

      02 Nov '69
      Candy helps the widow of a man he shot and killed in self defense, unaware she is plotting revenge against him.
    • 9. Meena

      16 Nov '69
      Little Joe and Candy defend Meena Calhoun and her crusty father, Luke, from horse rustlers. In the process, Joe helps Meena become assertive and stick up for herself.
    • 10. A Darker Shadow

      23 Nov '69
      A Virginia City store clerk decides to take advantage of his co-worker's paralyzing sensitivity to bright light.
    • 11. Dead Wrong

      07 Dec '69
      While in Sunville on business for the Ponderosa, the town's storyteller, Salty - who has a talent for grossly exaggerating his tales - identifies Hoss and Candy as outlaws Big Jack (Hoss) and Sid (Candy). After a frustrating endeavor of convincing Salty of their real identities, Candy and Hoss get him to help stage ""Big Jack's"" death in a gunfight, unaware that the real Big Jack and Sid are in Sunville and plan to take advantage of the townsfolks' distraction to rob the bank.
    • 12. Old Friends

      14 Dec '69
      Ben is sorry to learn that two of his oldest friends are on opposite sides of the law, after 27 years. Charlie Shepard once worked a mining claim with Ben, along with Jess Waddell, now a bounty hunter, and will stop at nothing to kill Charlie, regardless of what anyone tries to persuade him to do otherwise.
    • 13. Abner Willoughby's Return

      21 Dec '69
      Joe agrees to help the man who tried to steal his horse, Abner Willoughby, who has returned to claim the box of gold he hid years ago, before going to sea.
    • 14. It's a Small World

      04 Jan '70
      A prejudiced Virginia City banker spurns Ben's recommendation of a recent widower (with an infant daughter to raise) for a bank teller's job because he's a midget. The midget, a former circus performer, steals money from the bank to support his daughter.
    • 15. Danger Road

      11 Jan '70
      Ben needs to haul three beams that are 30 feet long and the Cambeau Freight Company will not do it. A new, independent freight hauler may be the answer. However, when Ben meets Gunny, he orders him off the Ponderosa. Ben and Gunny served together in the Mexican war, and chose opposite sides. Ben puts his differences aside with Gunny and helps him win the government contract away from Cambeau Freight Company.
    • 16. The Big Jackpot

      18 Jan '70
      Candy has inherited a fortune from an Indian he helped. He quits his job on the Ponderosa and becomes a vice president for a land promotor who is selling beautiful, fertile land. When it is discovered that the land promotor is selling barren desert land, Candy and the Cartwrights set out to expose the land promotor as a fraud.
    • 17. The Trouble with Amy

      25 Jan '70
      Ben comes to the aid of Amy Wilder, an eccentric animal lover whose mental competency is questioned when a neighbor declares an interest in her land for mining. The neighbor asks the court for a hearing to have Amy declared senile so he can obtain her land, setting off Ben's race against time to track down Amy's relatives to defend her mental state.
    • 18. The Lady and the Mark

      01 Feb '70
      A new wealthy Ponderosa employee with a weakness for women becomes the target of con artists.
    • 19. Is There Any Man Here

      08 Feb '70
      When the daughter of a friend declares her love for him, Ben agonizes over what to do.
    • 20. The Law and Billy Burgess

      15 Feb '70
      Ben seriously doubts an angry young man committed several murders to which he has confessed to.
    • 21. Long Way to Ogden

      22 Feb '70
      Ben gambles the future of the Ponderosa when a convincing meat packer from Chicago, sets out to ruin the local cattle industry.
    • 22. Return Engagement

      01 Mar '70
      En route to San Francisco, actress Lotta Crabtree arrives in Virginia City for a special performance. Hoss is smitten by the beautiful actress, which makes her leading man jealous. When he is killed during a performance, Lotta and then Hoss are suspected of the death. It is up to Ben to set things straight.
    • 23. The Gold Mine

      08 Mar '70
      Two drifters come to the Ponderosa and they try to rob the Cartwrights but are driven away. Joe becomes close to the young Mexican, Ramon, who is with them. After they get into a little disagreement they throw Ramon out. The drifters then discover that Ramon has found gold. Ramon returns to the Ponderosa and is welcomed. The Cartwrights learn that Ramon's father, who had to take care of his large family, sold his son to the two men. The two drifters grab Ramon and force him to tell them where he
    • 24. Decision at Los Robles

      22 Mar '70
      Ben and Joe stop in Los Robles for a couple of beers and a night's rest. Ben sees the town boss, John Walker, bullying the saloon waitress, and he comes to her defense. When Ben steps outside of the saloon, Walker shoots him in the back. Badly wounded, Ben shoots back, killing Walker just before he falls unconscious. While Joe keeps a vigil at Ben's bedside, the priest tells him Los Robles had always been ruled unquestionably by John Walker and his son Jed. Now Jed will certainly want reven
    • 25. Caution, Easter Bunny Crossing

      29 Mar '70
      ""Here comes Hoss Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail... "" That's what the folks of Virginia City were probably thinking when a Quaker woman talks a reluctant Hoss into dressing as the Easter Bunny for the orphanage's children. While hippety-hopping and waiting for Easter to be its way, Hoss - while dressed in the Easter Bunny costume - contends with a group of inept outlaws, who commit a comedy of errors in their attempts to rob stagecoaches.