Seasons & episodes
S4 · E21The Hayburner 1963-02-17 · 49 min
For a change, it is Adam rather than Joe who becomes mixed up in one of Hoss' funny exploits. Together they purchase a thoroughbred horse, and end up competing against their little brother in the big Virginia City race. This is Pernell Robert's favorite comedy episode.
S4 · E22The Actress 1963-02-24 · 49 min
Joe becomes romantically involved with a woman who considers herself a serious dramatic actress. Unfortunately, she is the only one who does.
S4 · E23A Stranger Passed This Way 1963-03-03 · 49 min
Hoss develops amnesia after being bushwhacked and hit over the head by two outlaws and moves in with a Dutch couple. The woman regards him as a substitute for her dead son, and unless he recovers his memory, the other Cartwrights fear he will leave them forever.
S4 · E24The Way of Aaron 1963-03-10 · 49 min
Adam takes a shine to Rebecca Kaufman, the daughter of a Jewish peddler, and bandits are convinced the Kaufman wagon is worth robbing.
S4 · E25A Woman Lost 1963-03-17 · 49 min
Ben's attempt to rehabilitate an alcoholic singer he knew in better days are complicated by her involvment with a former prize fighter.
S4 · E26Any Friend of Walter's 1963-03-24 · 49 min
Classic comedy in which Hoss first meets prospector Obie and his lazy but allegedly brilliant mongrel dog, Walter.
S4 · E27Mirror of a Man 1963-03-31 · 49 min
The peaceful world of a Ponderosa hand is disturbed by the arrival of his no-good father and twin brother, who is a wanted man.
S4 · E28My Brother's Keeper 1963-04-07 · 49 min
While hunting for a wolf, Joe is attacked by the wolf. Adam also hunting for the wolf, hears Joe struggling with the wolf comes to Joe's aid. He fires his rifle but the bullet hits Joe. Adam hurries over knocks the wolf off Joe, shoots, and then kills the wolf. The damage has already been done with the wolf bite and Adam's bullet in Joe. Adam has to rush his little brother back to the Ponderosa. Will he make it back to save Little Joe's life, since the wolf's bite is fatal?
S4 · E29Five into the Wind 1963-04-21 · 49 min
After their stagecoach crashes, a group of rag-tag passengers and Joe must get out of the desert alive. One of the passengers may or may not be a murderer and Joe is accused.
S4 · E30Saga of Whizzer McGee 1963-04-28 · 49 min
Hoss becomes concerned for the welfare of an insecure, belligerent fellow who is as small as Hoss is large. Interesting blend of comedy and pathos that ends unpredictably.
S4 · E31Thunder Man 1963-05-05 · 49 min
Little Joe's 19-year old girlfriend is killed by a good samaritan, an explosives expert who had stopped to render aid to the woman's uncle after he suffers a stroke. Unable to talk, the only clue he can offer the investigating Cartwrights is a scrawled title of the song the assailant was whistling — ""New Orleans Woman.""
S4 · E32Rich Man, Poor Man 1963-05-12 · 49 min
Claude Miller, the laughingstock of Virginia City, gets even with everyone who made fun of him when he strikes it rich.
S4 · E33The Boss 1963-05-19 · 49 min
Ben regrets that he helped Tom Slayden start a freight hauling business when Slayden sets out to ruin all the competition, and Joe is shot in the process.
S4 · E34Little Man... Ten Feet Tall 1963-05-26 · 49 min
When a Italian immigrant comes to the Ponderosa, he decides he wants to give up the guitar to become a cowboy.
S5 · E1She Walks in Beauty 1963-09-22 · 49 min
Hoss wants to marry mysterious Regan Miller, a woman with less than a pristine past. When he thinks Adam is trying to steal her away, he loses control and beats Adam up.
S5 · E2A Passion for Justice 1963-09-29 · 49 min
Renowned English novelist Charles Dickens comes to Virginia City. In short order, he is accused of a crime he didn't commit. The problem then becomes how to convince the stubborn author to defend himself.
S5 · E3Rain from Heaven 1963-10-06 · 49 min
A destitute rainmaker and his family arrive in drought-stricken Virginia City. While Ben tries to help him make rain, Hoss tends to the man's seriously ill little girl.
S5 · E4Twilight Town 1963-10-13 · 49 min
Joe is bushwhacked in the desert and awakens to find himself in Martinville, a town that may or may not be populated by ghosts. An errie, surrealistic and well-produced episode.
S5 · E5The Toy Soldier 1963-10-20 · 49 min
Adam encounters drunken artist James Callan, branded a "squaw man" because he is married to an Indian, and whose talent is going to waste in the town of Sheep Head.
S5 · E6A Question of Strength 1963-10-27 · 49 min
Hoss and a pair of nuns, the younger one having a difficult time training for the order, are robbed and stranded at a way station.
S5 · E7Calamity over the Comstock 1963-11-03 · 49 min
Joe has a run-in with Calamity Jane, and takes her home with him after promising her dying father to take care of her. At first the Cartwrights (besides Joe) think ""Cal"" is a boy, but they soon find out differently. Cal begins to fall in love with Joe, but Joe finds her attentions unwanted...especially when Cal's boyfriend, Doc Holliday, has it in for Joe.
S5 · E8Journey Remembered 1963-11-10 · 49 min
Ben finds an old journal that he kept while in a wagon train travelling from St. Joseph, Missouri to Ash Hollow. As he is reading it Ben remembers the journey he undertook with his wife Inger and a young Adam. During the trip Hoss is born and they have trouble with some Indians.
S5 · E9The Quality of Mercy 1963-11-17 · 49 min
Joe struggles to understand whether his friend was right in killing a dying man who pleaded to put out of his misery.
S5 · E10The Waiting Game 1963-12-08 · 49 min
Adam becomes involved with the recently widowed Laura Dayton and her little girl, Peggy.