Seasons & episodes
S6 · E25Hound Dog 1965-03-21 · 49 min
Cousin Muley Jones returns to the Ponderosa, along with a pack of noisy hound dogs, in this funny sequel to "The Saga Of Muley Jones".
S6 · E26The Trap 1965-03-28 · 49 min
One of Joe's old girlfriends thinks he killed her husband so they could come together. Unfortunately, that is what her husband's twin brother also believes.
S6 · E27Dead and Gone 1965-04-04 · 49 min
Adam tries to find the good in Howard Mead, a talented troubadour who refuses to stay on the right side of the law. Dramatic debut of singer/songwriter Hoyt Axton. Last episode Pernell Roberts worked on, although he appears in the next two, that were made prior to this episode and aired afterwards.
S6 · E28A Good Night's Rest 1965-04-11 · 49 min
First Ben's sons are making lots of noise, so he goes into town to sleep in the hotel. Then, various noises and things interrupt Ben's sleep. Will he ever get his desired good night's rest?
S6 · E29To Own the World 1965-04-18 · 49 min
One of the wealthiest men in the world, Charles Augustus Hackett, offers to buy the Ponderosa, price no object. Ben says the ranch is not for sale and Hackett refuses to give up.
S6 · E30Lothario Larkin 1965-04-25 · 49 min
Ladies' man Lothario Larkin creates havoc whenever he hits Virginia City, so Roy Coffee orders him out of town. Naturally, Hoss takes him in.
S6 · E31The Return 1965-05-02 · 49 min
No one in Virginia City is happy to see ex-con Trace Cordell, especially the man he crippled in a gunfight, now married to Cordell's former girlfriend.
S6 · E32Jonah 1965-05-09 · 49 min
The Ponderosa hands are upset when new hand George Whitman is hired on, it is rumored he is a jinx. Hoss tells George to ignore such foolishness, but a gypsy fortune teller says otherwise.
S6 · E33The Spotlight 1965-05-16 · 49 min
Ben invites opera singer Angela Bergstrom to perform at Virginia City's anniversary celebration. She accepts, but does not tell him that her famous singing voice is long gone
S6 · E34Patchwork Man 1965-05-23 · 49 min
Hoss befriends a self-demeaning recluse named Patch, who makes the best apple pie Hoss has ever tasted. Hoss is so impressed with him, especially his pie, that he hires him to work on the Ponderosa. Ben, however, is unimpressed with Hoss' new friend when the Cartwrights get into a gunfight with a mining outfit, and Patch cowers. He has a deepseeded fear of violence stemming from an incident in his teen years, but he knows in order to survive in the West, he must overcome it.
S7 · E1The Debt 1965-09-12 · 49 min
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.
S7 · E2The Dilemma 1965-09-19 · 49 min
Ben helps a convict win a parole only to have the man later become the chief suspect in a bank robbery.
S7 · E3The Brass Box 1965-09-26 · 49 min
Juan Ortega claims he has a land grant which gives him ownership of the entire Nevada Territory.
S7 · E4The Other Son 1965-10-03 · 49 min
A mule skinner and his two sons are hired by Ben to transport nitroglycerin to California.
S7 · E5The Lonely Runner 1965-10-10 · 49 min
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.
S7 · E6Devil on Her Shoulder 1965-10-17 · 49 min
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.
S7 · E7Found Child 1965-10-24 · 49 min
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.
S7 · E8The Meredith Smith 1965-10-31 · 49 min
Ben must determine who is the rightful heir to a fortune that includes water rights vital to the Ponderosa.
S7 · E9Mighty is the Word 1965-11-07 · 49 min
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.
S7 · E10The Strange One 1965-11-14 · 49 min
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?"
S7 · E11The Reluctant Rebel 1965-11-21 · 49 min
The Generation Gap, Western-style, as Hoss tries to bring a young man and his father closer together.
S7 · E12Five Sundowns to Sunup 1965-12-05 · 49 min
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.
S7 · E13A Natural Wizard 1965-12-12 · 49 min
Hoss finds a kindred spirit in Skeeter Dexter, a lonesome young man who feels closer to animals than most people.
S7 · E14All Ye His Saints 1965-12-19 · 49 min
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.