Seasons & episodes
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.
S7 · E15The Dublin Lad 1966-01-02 · 49 min
After sitting on a jury that has convicted Terrence O' Tool of murder, Joe has second thoughts about the verdict and decides to do some investigating of his own.
S7 · E16To Kill a Buffalo 1966-01-09 · 49 min
Hoss finds a wounded young Indian on the prairie, who is torn between accepting the ways of the white man or returning to his old life.
S7 · E17Ride the Wind (1) 1966-01-16 · 49 min
The Pony Express sets up office in Virginia and Joe is one of the first to join up. Ben also decides to invest in the fledgling enterprise. However, troubles soon plague the Pony Express with the Paiutes and a newspaper reporter, both trying to get their own agendas across.
S7 · E18Ride the Wind (2) 1966-01-23 · 49 min
Conclusion to the previous-week's episode, where the Cartwrights provide needed assistance to the Pony Express.
S7 · E19Destiny's Child 1966-01-30 · 49 min
After his only friend is killed, the Cartwrights take in a slow-witted man, who Roy Coffee informs them, is wanted for murder by Arizona authorities.
S7 · E20Peace Officer 1966-02-06 · 49 min
While Sheriff Coffee is in Saint Louis, the Morrisey bunch decides to work off excess energy by wrecking the saloon in a violent spree. When Deputy Bill Harris tries to arrest them, they hit him on the head with a whiskey bottle, accidentally killing him. All of them get away except Cliff, who is put in jail. He refuses to say the names or locations of his friends. Mayor Garrett holds an emergency meeting of the Virginia City town council. They hire legendary lawman Wes Dunn, as the temporary sheriff. He is a humorless man who is determined to restore order in town. He beats Cliff almost to death to find out where his friends are, but Cliff will not say anything. Meanwhile, Hoss finds Chuck, a wounded gang member. When he tries to take Chuck's gun away, he shoots Hoss. Joe goes with Dunn to find the other men. He thinks Dunn is a hero until he sees him murder one of the suspects in cold blood.
S7 · E21The Code 1966-02-13 · 49 min
Joe is goaded into facing gunman Dan Taggert, unaware there is more to be prearranged than he realizes.
S7 · E22Three Brides for Hoss 1966-02-20 · 49 min
Not one, but three mail-order brides show up unexpectedly at the Ponderosa, all of them believing they are to marry Hoss.
S7 · E23The Emperor Norton 1966-02-27 · 49 min
Joshua Norton, an eccentric and formerly wealthy San Francisco merchant who considers himself Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, comes to the Ponderosa. Authorities want to have him committed, and Ben contacts Mark Twain to testify to Norton's sanity.
S7 · E24Her Brother's Keeper 1966-03-06 · 49 min
Ben and Claire Armory fall in love, but their future is jeopardized by her disabled brother.