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America's Favorite TV Western
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
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Checked Jul 22, 2026
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The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
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Episode 1
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.
Guest stars Tommy Sands, Brooke Bundy, Ford Rainey, Ray Teal
Episode 2
Ben helps a convict win a parole only to have the man later become the chief suspect in a bank robbery.
Guest stars Tom Tully, Elizabeth Perry, Kelly Thordsen, Ray Teal, Jack Gordon, John Hubbard, Dayton Lummis, Anthony D. Call
Episode 3
Juan Ortega claims he has a land grant which gives him ownership of the entire Nevada Territory.
Guest stars Michael Dante, Adam Williams, Jack Gordon
Episode 4
A mule skinner and his two sons are hired by Ben to transport nitroglycerin to California.
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Episode 5
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.
Guest stars Marie Windsor, John Hoyt
Episode 6
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.
Guest stars Ina Balin, John Doucette
Episode 7
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.
Guest stars Eileen Baral, Ray Teal
Episode 8
Ben must determine who is the rightful heir to a fortune that includes water rights vital to the Ponderosa.
Guest stars Anne Helm, Strother Martin, Burt Mustin
Episode 9
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.
Guest stars Glenn Corbett, Sue Randall, Julie Gregg, Jack Gordon
Episode 10
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?"
Guest stars Louise Sorel
Episode 11
The Generation Gap, Western-style, as Hoss tries to bring a young man and his father closer together.
Guest stars Al Bain, Janis Hansen, Jack Gordon, Gary Epper, Jack Tornek, Tim Considine
Episode 12
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.
Guest stars Ray Teal, Douglas Henderson, Stacy Harris, John Alderson, Norman Leavitt, Marie Windsor
Episode 13
Hoss finds a kindred spirit in Skeeter Dexter, a lonesome young man who feels closer to animals than most people.
Guest stars Jacqueline Scott, Victor Sen Yung
Episode 14
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.
Guest stars Clint Howard, Leif Erickson, Harvey Stephens
Episode 15
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.
Guest stars Ray Teal, Jack Gordon
Episode 16
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.
Guest stars Victor Sen Yung, Jack Gordon
Episode 17
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.
Guest stars Tom Lowell, DeForest Kelley, Jack Gordon, Victor Jory, Rod Cameron, Warren Vanders, Raymond Guth
Episode 18
Conclusion to the previous-week's episode, where the Cartwrights provide needed assistance to the Pony Express.
Guest stars Tom Lowell, DeForest Kelley, Victor Sen Yung, Rod Cameron, Warren Vanders, Jack Tornek
Episode 19
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.
Guest stars Ray Teal, Dick Peabody, Steve Raines, Jack Gordon, Walter Burke, C. Lindsay Workman, Grandon Rhodes, Jack Tornek
Episode 20
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.
Guest stars Eric Fleming, Ted Knight, Ron Foster
Episode 21
Joe is goaded into facing gunman Dan Taggert, unaware there is more to be prearranged than he realizes.
Guest stars Jan Shepard, Jack Gordon
Episode 22
Not one, but three mail-order brides show up unexpectedly at the Ponderosa, all of them believing they are to marry Hoss.
Guest stars Majel Barrett, Victor Sen Yung
Episode 23
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.
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Episode 24
Ben and Claire Armory fall in love, but their future is jeopardized by her disabled brother.
Guest stars Nancy Gates, Wesley Lau, Norman Leavitt
Episode 25
The Cartwrights attempt to straighten out the snobbish young son of Ben's cousin.
Guest stars Victor Sen Yung, Ray Teal, Tracy Olsen
Episode 26
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.
Guest stars Judi Rolin
Episode 27
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.
Guest stars Troy Melton
Episode 28
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.
Guest stars Jack Gordon, Anne Jeffreys
Episode 29
Italian immigrants are determined to establish their own vineyard on Ponderosa property.
Guest stars Jack Gordon, Penny Santon, Michael Stefani, Robert Foulk
Episode 30
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.
Guest stars Victor Sen Yung, Rudy Doucette, Michael Conrad, Cal Bolder, Gene Tyburn, Jack Gordon, John Indrisano
Episode 31
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.
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Episode 32
Ben and Hoss unwittingly aid a vengeful army colonel who plans to wipe out every Indian he can with a Gatling gun.
Guest stars R.G. Armstrong, Victor Sen Yung
Episode 33
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.
Guest stars Sally Kellerman, Elisha Cook Jr., Victor Sen Yung, Ray Teal, Robert Foulk, John Breen, Mabel Albertson, Hampton Fancher
Episode information updated Jul 24, 2026
Lorne GreeneBen Cartwright
Pernell RobertsAdam Cartwright
Dan BlockerHoss Cartwright
Michael LandonJoe Cartwright
David CanaryCandy Canaday
Tim MathesonGriff King
Mitch VogelJamie Hunter Cartwright
Victor Sen YungHop Sing
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