Seasons & episodes
S10 · E1Different Pines, Same Wind 1968-09-15 · 49 min
The 10th season opens as Joe helps a widowed mountain woman, a recluse who is suffering from an infection that has become serious, in a battle to save her land from an unscrupulous timber baron.
S10 · E2Child 1968-09-22 · 49 min
While Hoss is in a remote town on business, he is arrested for murder and robbery. The town's richest man has just been killed, and the townspeople are less concerned with justice, rather the old man's money. They are convinced that if they threaten Hoss, he'll break down and tell them where he hid the fortune. A few of the town's top citizens, including the mayor, form a lynch mob, but only hang Hoss "part of the way". But when cowboy Child Barnett sees the lynch mob coming, he breaks Hoss out of jail, and the two men form a friendship on the run.
S10 · E3Salute to Yesterday 1968-09-29 · 49 min
When on a cattle drive on Ponderosa land, the Cartwrights and Candy find a dying cavalry officer on the trail. With his last breath, he asks them to go help his commanding officer, Captain Harris. Riding atop a slope, they see Captain Harris and his soldiers fighting off Mexican bandits who are trying to steal the four kegs of gold hidden in the Army ambulance. The Cartwrights and Candy cut right between the soldiers and the Mexican bandits, in a spectacular chase through a little valley and wind up at a high and rocky outcrop, taking cover and assisting the soldiers.
S10 · E4The Real People of Muddy Creek 1968-10-06 · 49 min
Ben is in charge of a vicious prisoner and gets virtually no help from the cowardly citizens of the town where he is holding him from the law.
S10 · E5The Passing of a King 1968-10-13 · 49 min
The son of a rancher to whom the Cartwrights are selling a prize bull is trying to get his father ruled mentally incompetant, and will let no one stand in his way.
S10 · E6The Last Vote 1968-10-20 · 49 min
Hoss and Joe's bickering leads them into taking opposite sides in the Virginia City mayoral race. Their zealous actions leads into dividing Virginia City's citizens into 2 factions that causes nothing but arguments, fights and havoc in town.
S10 · E7Catch as Catch Can 1968-10-27 · 49 min
The residents of Tin Bucket claim the Cartwrights and Candy are dealing in stolen cattle hides. With most of the town accusing Joe, Hoss and Candy of various crimes, it is Ben who faces the most serious trouble when he determines who is actually responsible for the hide thefts.
S10 · E8Little Girl Lost 1968-11-03 · 49 min
A bratty 10-year-old girl named Samantha, whose mother is Ben's cousin and is a third cousin of Hoss and Little Joe, comes to the Ponderosa. While she proves to be a handful, Ben (who tracks down the girl's mother) really has his hands full when her grandfather comes to the Ponderosa demanding custody.
S10 · E9The Survivors 1968-11-10 · 49 min
A white woman abducted years before by the Paiutes is reunited with her husband, who is less than pleased to learn she has given birth to an Indian baby.
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.