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Episodes of the television show Bonanza, which focused on Ben Cartwright, owner of a the Ponderosa ranch in Virgina City, Nevada, and his three sons, Adam, Hoss, and Little Joe.

Two episodes of Bonanza, originally broadcast on NBC. Fear merchants: The mayor and an angry mob try to blame a Chinese youth for the death of a local. Feet of clay: The Cartwrights take in a young boy whose jailed father fulfills the boy's hopes by escaping and coming to get him.

Comes a horse: When hard times come to Eagle Station many of the ranchers want to give up and sell out, but after working together to rescue a wild horse many of them decide to give it one more try. The lesser of two evils: Adam Cartwright has fallen in love with Isabella, when she goes back to Mexico to visit a childhood sweetheart, Adam has to decide whether to trust his instincts in waiting to ask her to marry him.

Bonanza followed the High-Sierra adventures of the Cartwright family: wise patriarch Ben Cartwright and his three dissimilar sons, Adam, Hoss and 'Little Joe' as they attempt to maintain and operate their sprawling timberland ranch, the Ponderosa, in an era of violence and lawlessness in mid-1800s Nevada.

"Set in Nevada, in the 1860s, Bonanza chronicled the adventures of the Cartwright family who owned a large ranch: the Ponderosa. In The avenger, Ben and Adam are in the Virginia City jail waiting to be hanged. Last minute bids by Joe and Hoss to get them out are hindered by another rancher who wants to see Ben dead. A stranger arrives in town looking for his father's murderer, but is he a help or a hinderance in Joe and Hoss's quest to set their father...

Nestled amongst the pines above the shores of Lake Tahoe is the Ponderosa ranch, the thousand-acre home of Ben Cartwright and his sons, Adam, Hoss, and Joe. The Cartwrights run their ranch while helping out the community that surrounds them. Includes the classic show's first eighteen action-packed episodes from the second season, plus exclusive special features including: episodic on-air promos, audio interviews, a photo gallery, and more.

Ben Cartwright and his sons run their ranch, the Ponderosa, on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe and contribute to taming the wild West. Badge without honor: A stranger arrives in town saying he's a Deputy Marshall and needs Jackson Blaine, a friend of the Cartwrights to ride with him to San Francisco to testify against the Murdock Gang. Adam get suspicious and insists on riding along. The Blood line: Ben is forced by circumstance to kill Luke Grayson....

Twenty episodes of the television show Bonanza, which focused on Ben Cartwright, owner of the Ponderosa ranch in Virginia City, Nevada, and his three sons, Adam, Hoss and Little Joe.