Seasons & episodes
S10 · E10The Sound of Drums 1968-11-17 · 49 min
In the third and final installment of the Rossi family, Georgio Rossi doesn't understand why he cannot allow Indians who have left the reservation to live on his land.
S10 · E11Queen High 1968-12-01 · 49 min
Joe and Candy win a stamping mill in a poker game, but the fact of them not knowing how to run it, is the least of their worries.
S10 · E12Yonder Man 1968-12-08 · 49 min
An army scout Ben once knew comes to the Ponderosa and asks Ben to stake a cattle ranch in Mira Flores, Mexico.
S10 · E13Mark of Guilt 1968-12-15 · 49 min
Hop Sing tells Hoss and Candy they can use the ancient Chinese art of fingerprinting to prove Joe is innocent of murder.
S10 · E14A World Full of Cannibals 1968-12-22 · 49 min
Ben agrees to hide a government witness in a land fraud case at the Ponderosa as part of the witness protection program. However, the witness - who along with eight men committed various crimes in connection with the case - is in constant danger, as his co-defendants ruthlessly track him down in an attempt to seal his silence.
S10 · E15Sweet Annie Laurie 1969-01-05 · 49 min
Hoss offers to help Annie Laurie, a beautiful young woman who is running away from her abusive husband, a career criminal who is determined to keep his wife under his control and travel with her throughout the southwest, any which way he can.
S10 · E16My Friend, My Enemy 1969-01-12 · 49 min
Only the testimony of an Indian wanted for horse theft can clear Candy of murder.
S10 · E17Mrs. Wharton and the Lesser Breeds 1969-01-19 · 49 min
Candy sets out to help a feisty and elderly British woman recover the jewels stolen from her in a stage holdup.
S10 · E18Erin 1969-01-26 · 49 min
A neighbor of the Cartwrights threatens Hoss' fiancé, Erin - a beautiful young woman who has been raised by Indians since her childhood - when Ben allows the Paiutes to camp on Ponderosa land.
S10 · E19Company of Forgotten Men 1969-02-02 · 49 min
A retired Army sergeant, bitter that he never received his pension from the government, kidnaps one-time friend Candy and forces him to go along with a daring plan to blow up the U.S. mint in Carson City and hold the gold and silver for ransom.
S10 · E20The Clarion 1969-02-09 · 49 min
Ben's friend is struggling to keep her newspaper going in the face of harrassment by the town boss of Gunlock, so without telling her, Ben buys the business.
S10 · E21The Lady and the Mountain Lion 1969-02-23 · 49 min
A shady magician, with his twin daughters, comes to Virginia City and there is a lot of confusion with the daughters of the magician, twin confusion!
S10 · E22Five Candles 1969-03-02 · 49 min
The floor of the Virginia City courthouse collapses, trapping Ben in the basement with three other people, one of whom may or may not be guilty of murder.
S10 · E23The Wish 1969-03-09 · 49 min
Hoss spends his two-month vacation helping a black family get their farm in shape, and dealing with racism in the neighboring town.
S10 · E24The Deserter 1969-03-16 · 49 min
Candy comes upon a soldier who is running from charges of desertion, and with Joe's help they foil a plan to sell rapid-fire rifles to the Indians.
S10 · E25Emily 1969-03-23 · 49 min
Joe is shocked to see his ex-fiancee, Emily Anderson, in Virginia City. He had met her in Monterey five years earlier, and they had planned to get married. But her strict father thought Joe was too wild, and he burned all of Joe's letters before Emily saw them. Emily and Joe are still in love with each other, but Emily conveniently forgets to tell Joe that she is now Emily McPhail, the wife of Deputy Marshal Wade McPhail. Wade is on assignment with Marshal Calhoun to help guard a $90,000 currency shipment. Emily tells Wade they have to leave Virginia City immediately, since Joe's presence might interfere with their marriage, but he refuses to leave. He finds Joe and Emily embracing and engages with Joe in a savage fight, almost killing him at gunpoint. That is the first Joe hears of Emily's marriage. That is by no means the end of her lies, which eventually get Joe shot and nearly framed for murder.
S10 · E26The Running Man 1969-03-30 · 49 min
Joe and Candy travel to Butlerville and learn that one of Ben's closest friends is burning out new settlers, whom he regards as squatters. Candy's old ex-flame is married to Jess Parker, who always saw Candy as a rival in the past, but things have changed with both men and Jess' wife Barbara. Cal Butler is the real problem: he will stop at nothing to keep Parker from testifying alive.
S10 · E27The Unwanted 1969-04-06 · 49 min
Feeling unloved, a Marshal's daughter runs off with a Ponderosa hand her father thinks may be related to the man that shot him.
S10 · E28Speak No Evil 1969-04-20 · 49 min
Coley Clayborn, who has always thought his mother abandoned him and his father, thinks she is only after the gold mine he inherited when she recently returned to Virginia City.
S10 · E29The Fence 1969-04-27 · 49 min
While Ben and Hoss visit an old friend to negotiate the purchase of a mine, former Confederate soldiers arrive wanting to exact revenge on the Cartwrights' friend for starving POWs during the Civil War.
S10 · E30A Ride in the Sun 1969-05-11 · 49 min
A pair of con artists swindle Ben out of nearly $30,000 after convincing the Cartwright patriarch to enter into a deal to buy his cattle. The brother and sister shoot Ben, rob the Virginia City Bank and go on the run with Little Joe hot on their trail.
S11 · E1Another Windmill to Go 1969-09-14 · 49 min
An Englishman with a passion for challenging ridiculous laws shows up on the Ponderosa grazing in a land-rowing boat mounted on a wagon.
S11 · E2The Witness 1969-09-21 · 49 min
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.
S11 · E3The Silence at Stillwater 1969-09-28 · 49 min
A young boy positively identifies Candy as the man wanted in Stillwater for robbery, arson and murder.