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Bonanza chronicles the weekly adventures of the Cartwright family, headed by the thrice-widowed patriarch Ben Cartwright. He had three sons, each by a different wife: the eldest was the urbane architect Adam Cartwright who built the ranch house; the second was the warm and lovable giant Eric "Hoss" Cartwright; and the youngest was the hotheaded and impetuous Joseph or "Little Joe". The family's cook was the Chinese immigrant Hop Sing.

Genres: Drama | Action | Western
Station: NBC (US)
Rating: 0/10 from 0 users
Status: Ended
Start: 1959-09-12

Bonanza Season 2 Air Dates

Sunday
Sep 11, 1960

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S02E01 - Showdown Air Date: Sep 11, 1960 00:00 - 65 years ago

An outlaw gang robs Virginia City's bank and makes off with almost all of its money. The youngest member of the gang manages to get a job on the Ponderosa as a bronc buster with the intention of informing the bank robbers of any posses that may threaten their hideout. While Ben, Adam and Hoss welcome the newcomer, Little Joe becomes suspicious of his activities

Sunday
Sep 18, 1960

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S02E02 - The Mission Air Date: Sep 18, 1960 00:00 - 65 years ago

Charlie Trent used to be an Army scout. Now he's the town drunk. Hoss helps him regain his self-esteem when he has him volunteer to lead a gold-bearing troop through the desert where there's very little water. 

Sunday
Sep 25, 1960

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S02E03 - Badge Without Honor Air Date: Sep 25, 1960 00:00 - 65 years ago

After a U.S. deputy marshal apparently saves Adam's life by gunning down two men who shot at him, he eventually reveals that he is in town to bring a close friend of the Cartwrights to San Francisco to testify in a statewide racketeering trial, but the Deputy Marshal's motives soon become suspect as to what he really wants to do with the reluctant witness.

Sunday
Oct 02, 1960

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S02E04 - The Mill Air Date: Oct 02, 1960 00:00 - 65 years ago

The Cartwrights' neighbor Tom Edwards has lived as a paraplegic, ever since an accident involving Ben Cartwright and a gun. His ranch is going to waste. His wife Joyce is a longtime friend of Ben, and Ben decides to help the Edwards couple by making Tom a business proposition: the Cartwrights will build a grain mill on Edwards' land. In return, Ben only wants his investment money back, plus fifteen percent. Tom and his hired hand Ezekiel are suspicious of Ben, but Tom agrees to the deal. The Cartwright men build the mill, but tension begins to rise when Ezekiel makes comments which rekindle Tom's suspicion.

Sunday
Oct 09, 1960

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S02E05 - The Hopefuls Air Date: Oct 09, 1960 00:00 - 65 years ago

A wagon train of Quakers from Ohio are passing through town heading to Slaytersville. Adam tags along as he is smitten with the leader's daughter. Little does he know that the man he just befriended in town has eyes on the gold they're carrying to their promised land.

Sunday
Oct 16, 1960

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S02E06 - Denver McKee Air Date: Oct 16, 1960 00:00 - 65 years ago

Ranchers are being killed, cattle stolen, and retired U.S. Deputy Marshall Denver McKee leads various posses after the suspects but never seems to be able to find them. In the meantime, McKee seems to have plenty of money to take care of his gorgeous daughter back home from schooling in the East. 

Sunday
Oct 23, 1960

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S02E07 - Day of Reckoning Air Date: Oct 23, 1960 00:00 - 65 years ago

When an Indian saves Ben Cartwright's life from a near fatal knife attack by another Indian, Ben later gives the Indian and his pregnant wife a strip of fertile farming land. Unfortunately the land is next to a very racist farmer and things turn deadly.

Sunday
Oct 30, 1960

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S02E08 - The Abduction Air Date: Oct 30, 1960 00:00 - 65 years ago

Jennifer Beale is abducted in the hopes her rich father, Joshua, the richest silver baron on the Comstock, will pay a $1M ransom. The plan unravels when the beautiful Della is killed and Hercules, who loves her, finds out who did it. 

Sunday
Nov 06, 1960

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S02E09 - Breed of Violence Air Date: Nov 06, 1960 01:00 - 65 years ago

Dolly Kincaid is so fed up with her extremely dominant, controlling, sheriff father, that she runs away with her boyfriend. She later finds out he is the leader of some murderous bank robbers and when they kidnap Hoss and Joe, she still sticks with him.

Sunday
Nov 13, 1960

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S02E10 - The Last Viking Air Date: Nov 13, 1960 01:00 - 65 years ago

Gunnar is a long-lost relative of the Cartwright family. When Gunnar arrives at the Ponderosa, the family takes him in for the evening. Gunnar is the brother to one of Ben Cartwright's late wives. Unbeknownst to the Cartwright family, Gunnar is also the leader of a band of criminals called The Comancheros. Little Joe is visiting his girlfriend away from the ranch. When Little Joe and his girlfriend are kidnapped by The Comancheros, the Cartwrights and Gunnar are forced into a difficult situation

Sunday
Nov 27, 1960

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S02E11 - The Trail Gang Air Date: Nov 27, 1960 01:00 - 65 years ago

About to set out on a cattle drive, Ben hires a young drifter named Sam Jackson as one of his drovers. What he doesn't know is that Jackson is really outlaw Johnny Logan, who signed on to the drive because he knew it was going to pass near the town of Waycross, and Logan is determined to kill the Waycross sheriff--who is also his father.

Sunday
Dec 04, 1960

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S02E12 - The Savage Air Date: Dec 04, 1960 01:00 - 65 years ago

Adam rides up on some Indians trying to kidnap a white woman they believe to be white mountain woman spirit. He kills them but not before they wound him. The woman nurses him back to health but the rest of the tribe is still out there looking for her and their shaman believes she has the power to cure his tribe of a sickness they have.

Sunday
Dec 11, 1960

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S02E13 - Silent Thunder Air Date: Dec 11, 1960 01:00 - 65 years ago

Angry with the way a beautiful deaf girl is treated by her father, a sheepherder living in a remote mountain cabin, Little Joe takes it upon himself to teach her sign language so they can communicate better. His plan backfires when the young woman falls in love with him and the girl's brutish neighbor resents her lavishing attention on the youngest Cartwright.

Sunday
Dec 18, 1960

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S02E14 - The Ape Air Date: Dec 18, 1960 01:00 - 65 years ago

Arnie is a lonely man with big muscles, a little brain and an ugly face. He is friendly by nature, but when somebody jeers at him and calls him an ape, he becomes mad. Then he is very dangerous. Most people avoid Arnie, but Hoss recognizes something of his own nature in Arnie and wants to help him

Sunday
Jan 01, 1961

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S02E15 - The Blood Line Air Date: Jan 01, 1961 01:00 - 65 years ago

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When 16-year-old Todd Grayson arrives from Boston to Virginia City, he is told that his father has been killed by Ben Cartwright. Ben shot Luke Grayson in self-defense, but Todd won't listen to this. The boy has only one thing in his head: to avenge his father by killing Ben Cartwright.

Sunday
Jan 08, 1961

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S02E16 - The Courtship Air Date: Jan 08, 1961 01:00 - 65 years ago

Hoss and Little Joe travel to Sacramento to help the widow of an old friend of the Cartwrights. Hoss discovers that the widow is a beautiful young woman and immediately falls in love with her. He brings her back to the Ponderosa where Adam and Little Joe soon discover that the woman is in love with Hoss's money, not him, which she needs to fund her gambling addiction. When Hoss refuses to believe his brothers, Adam is forced to provide demonstrable proof in Virginia City casino.

Sunday
Jan 15, 1961

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S02E17 - The Spitfire Air Date: Jan 15, 1961 01:00 - 65 years ago

After Joe kills a man in self defense who tried to set fire to the Ponderosa to clear himself some land, he has to take his lively, feisty, wild, daughter home and she, and her relatives, are now determined to kill Joe. 

Sunday
Jan 22, 1961

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S02E18 - The Bride Air Date: Jan 22, 1961 01:00 - 65 years ago

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A woman shows up to the Ponderosa claiming to have just married Ben. The problem is, Ben has never seen her before in his life! Adam West is a key player in this case of mistaken identity.

Sunday
Jan 29, 1961

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S02E19 - Bank Run Air Date: Jan 29, 1961 01:00 - 65 years ago

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Hoss and Joe "rob" a bank for altruistic reasons and are pursued not by the law but by a more serious force, Ben and Adam.

Sunday
Feb 05, 1961

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S02E20 - The Fugitive Air Date: Feb 05, 1961 01:00 - 64 years ago

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Adam goes to Mexico to investigate the death of a friend, only to face hostile townspeople and the dead man's wife.

Sunday
Feb 12, 1961

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S02E21 - Vengeance Air Date: Feb 12, 1961 01:00 - 64 years ago

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Hoss accidentally kills Willie the town drunk. His remorse may not be enough to stop Willie's hate-filled brother who only wants revenge even though the townspeople know it wasn't Hoss' fault.

Sunday
Feb 19, 1961

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S02E22 - The Tax Collector Air Date: Feb 19, 1961 01:00 - 64 years ago

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Jock Henry is a very likeable fellow. Ask anyone. When he's given the job of collecting taxes, his peculiar methods of figuring out what people owe causes everyone to reconsider.

Sunday
Feb 26, 1961

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S02E23 - The Rescue Air Date: Feb 26, 1961 01:00 - 64 years ago

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The Cartwrights deal with cattle rustlers.

Sunday
Mar 05, 1961

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S02E24 - The Dark Gate Air Date: Mar 05, 1961 01:00 - 64 years ago

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Ross Marquette's behavior over the past few months can't be easily explained -- beating his wife, rustling cattle, robbing a stage, killing a man. Adam is determined to find out why his friend is acting so strangely before it's too late.

Sunday
Mar 12, 1961

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S02E25 - The Duke Air Date: Mar 12, 1961 01:00 - 64 years ago

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The Cartwrights challenge an arrogant and cruel British prizefighter, the Duke, and his alcoholic manager to a bout with John Heenan (the Benicia Boy), after the Cartwrights' meek friend J.D. gets pulverized by the Duke in a bar-fight. J.D. is adored by saloon girl Marge, but he has been too shy to return her affections. While the Cartwrights wait to see if Heenan will actually take the bout and come from San Francisco, the Duke pursues Marge and assaults her when she rebuffs him. When the manager comes to Marge's rescue, he too is beaten up by the Duke (who, it turns out, is the manager's brother). Infuriated by all this, Hoss Cartwright himself challenges the Duke, and knocks him out in the fourth round of a bare-knuckle fight refereed by Sheriff Roy Coffee. The Duke and his brother-manager reconcile in the humility of defeat, then learn that the Benicia Boy will accept the proposed bout, but only the Duke comes to San Francisco. The Duke apologizes to all he has offended while in Virginia City and heads west to fight Heenan.

Sunday
Mar 19, 1961

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S02E26 - Cutthroat Junction Air Date: Mar 19, 1961 01:00 - 64 years ago

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Jed Trask has been with the Sierra Mail & Stage Lines for many years. When a group of gunmen in the town of Latigo cuts off delivery of the goods and mail, he goes after those responsible with the help of some on the Virginia City council - the Cartwrights.

Sunday
Apr 02, 1961

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S02E27 - The Gift Air Date: Apr 02, 1961 01:00 - 64 years ago

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Little Joe is off to buy a gift for his pa's birthday. He's unaware that where he is heading the local Indians are on the war path and they've got him in their gun sights.

Sunday
Apr 16, 1961

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S02E28 - The Rival Air Date: Apr 16, 1961 01:00 - 64 years ago

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Hoss suspects his rival for a woman's love was one of the masked vigilantes who hanged a man and his wife.

Sunday
Apr 23, 1961

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S02E29 - The Infernal Machine Air Date: Apr 23, 1961 01:00 - 64 years ago

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Hoss helps out a shy inventor who needs financial backing to build a horseless carriage. Things do not go well until a slick promoter sells shares into the new automobile. But things turn sour when the promoter skips town.

Sunday
Apr 30, 1961

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S02E30 - The Thunderhead Swindle Air Date: Apr 30, 1961 01:00 - 64 years ago

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Sunday
May 07, 1961

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S02E31 - The Secret Air Date: May 07, 1961 00:00 - 64 years ago

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Sunday
May 21, 1961

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S02E32 - The Dream Riders Air Date: May 21, 1961 00:00 - 64 years ago

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Sunday
May 28, 1961

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S02E33 - Elizabeth, My Love Air Date: May 28, 1961 00:00 - 64 years ago

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At the bedside of a seriously ill Adam, Ben thinks back to his days as a first mate on a sailing ship and his marriage to Adam's mother, Elizabeth Stoddard. 

Sunday
Jun 04, 1961

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S02E34 - Sam Hill Air Date: Jun 04, 1961 00:00 - 64 years ago

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The Cartwrights join to help mystical blacksmith Sam Hill save the land his drunk, sea-dog father signed away to an old enemy, discover the circumstances behind his mother's death, and solve the mystery of why a tropical tree flourishes in spite of cold Nevada winters.

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