Seasons & episodes
S8 · E1Something Hurt, Something Wild 1966-09-11 · 49 min
The Cartwrights' friendship with a neighboring rancher is threatened by his mentally unstable daughter.
S8 · E2Horse of a Different Hue 1966-09-18 · 49 min
So the Cartwrights will not be killed, one of Ben's oldest friends must make sure Joe does not win a horse race.
S8 · E3A Time to Step Down 1966-09-25 · 49 min
After the Cartwrights put wrangler Dan Tolliver out to pasture, the embittered old man plans to take part in robbing the Ponderosa.
S8 · E4The Pursued (1) 1966-10-02 · 49 min
A Mormon with two wives is badgered by the town's people and then things get much worse.
S8 · E5The Pursued (2) 1966-10-09 · 49 min
As the persecuted party awaits Ben and Hoss' return, Herber is shot and killed. Joe retaliates and shoots Herber's assassin.
S8 · E6To Bloom for Thee 1966-10-16 · 49 min
Hoss is engaged to Carol Attley, a troubled woman with a past darker than he imagines.
S8 · E7Credit for a Kill 1966-10-23 · 49 min
Though his friend is badly in need of the reward money, Joe insists it belongs to him, to protect his friend from the dead outlaws' brothers.
S8 · E8Four Sisters from Boston 1966-10-30 · 49 min
The Cartwrights come to the rescue of four inexperienced homesteaders, when devious cattle ranchers try to run them off their property.
S8 · E9Old Charlie 1966-11-06 · 49 min
A young cowpoke is killed during a fight with Hoss, but the old blowhard who runs the Virginia City stables, takes the credit, placing him in danger from the dead man's brothers.
S8 · E10Ballad of the Ponderosa 1966-11-13 · 49 min
A young troubadour, who blames Ben for the death of his father, returns to Virginia City. In one scene, Ben says the young man is welcome to use Adam's guitar.
S8 · E11The Oath 1966-11-20 · 49 min
While in another town, on business, Ben runs into a saloon employee who is a big figure, and after he kills an old miner, who has burned down his house, Ben takes him into the sheriff. He is sentenced and hung. Before his departure, Charlie Monahan, has made his half-breed son, Charlie Two, swear an oath to kill Ben. Little Joe is made aware of this and must track him down to prevent him from carrying out his oath against Ben. Charlie Two is unaware that Joe is Ben's son, as they meet on the trail.
S8 · E12A Real Nice, Friendly Little Town 1966-11-27 · 49 min
When the woman he was planning to marry is strangled, Joe forces the only suspect to come forward, in a very tense-filled episode.
S8 · E13The Bridegroom 1966-12-04 · 49 min
Joe plays matchmaker in this story of a rancher attempting to marry off his supposedly unremarkable daughter.
S8 · E14Tommy 1966-12-18 · 49 min
The Cartwrights protect a woman and her deaf-mute little son from the boy's outlaw stepfather.
S8 · E15A Christmas Story 1966-12-25 · 49 min
Warbling Andy Walker returns to Virginia City a big success, along with his shifty Uncle Thaddeus.
S8 · E16Ponderosa Explosion 1967-01-01 · 49 min
Two Virginia City old-timers fool Hoss and Joe into raising rabbits, and the Ponderosa is overrun with paws and whiskers.
S8 · E17Justice 1967-01-08 · 49 min
When the woman he was planning to marry is strangled, Joe forces the only suspect to come forward.
S8 · E18A Bride for Buford 1967-01-15 · 49 min
Dolly Bantree has a crooked manager ""Blackie"", who blackmails Dolly to fleece newly rich miner Buford out of his newfound wealth. Hoss suspects something and gets all duded up to pose as a rich mark to test Dolly.
S8 · E19Black Friday 1967-01-22 · 49 min
In the town of Chiso, Joe encounters a former Ponderosa cowhand who is now a gunfighter and expecting to be killed on Friday the 13th. John Saxon makes the first of his three appearances in the series, in this episode as Steven Friday.
S8 · E20The Unseen Wound 1967-01-29 · 49 min
Ben discovers that his friend, Sheriff Paul Rowan, is suffering from stress brought on by his wartime experiences.
S8 · E21Journey to Terror 1967-02-05 · 49 min
Joe visits his married friends in Arizona Territory, only to discover the husband has become a criminal and is secretly part of a notorious gang.
S8 · E22Amigo 1967-02-12 · 49 min
A wounded comanchero sides with the Cartwrights when the rest of the gang, led by Captain Fenner, shows up to burn and rob the Ponderosa.
S8 · E23A Woman in the House 1967-02-19 · 49 min
Mary Wharton, an old friend of the family, comes to live on the Ponderosa with her shiftless husband. When Ben learns Mary is the victim of domestic abuse, he sends Russ packing.
S8 · E24Judgment at Red Creek 1967-02-26 · 49 min
Hoss and Joe have their doubts as to who really robbed a way station, suspecting the two men they captured are innocent.