The Mission
12 June 2026Hoss befriends Charlie Trent, a man who went from top Army scout to town drunk after he led his troops into a massacre.
A Deputy U.S. Marshal arrives to escort a man to California to testify against a gang; guest Dan Duryea.
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Hoss befriends Charlie Trent, a man who went from top Army scout to town drunk after he led his troops into a massacre.
A young bank robber gets a job on the Ponderosa to prevent the sheriff from finding the other members of his gang.
A member of a powerful gang murders a shopkeeper; the deputized Cartwrights sentence a murderer to hang at dawn when the leader of the gang kidnaps Ben and holds him hostage.
Shortly after the Ponderosa cattle herd arrives in San Francisco at the hands of Hoss, Joe and Ben, two of their traildrivers are shanghaied and destined for Hong Kong.
Little Joe falls for a girl who has been disowned by her people because they think she is a witch and, therefore, an outcast.
Two British socialites find that they still have a lot to learn when they visit their friends, the Cartwrights.
Adam and Little Joe warn Hoss when he tries to help Arnie, a man with the mind of a child and an uncontrollable temper.
A Deputy U.S. Marshal arrives to escort a man to California to testify against a gang; guest Dan Duryea.
A sheriff's daughter runs off with her boyfriend (John Ericson), unaware he is a murderous bank robber.
Adam attempts to reform a temperamental Mexican beauty (Joan Hackett) before she meets her future husband.
Little Joe runs into romantic complications when he tries to teach a deaf girl sign language; guest Albert Salmi.
When a neighbor agrees to sell his property, the Cartwrights fear the loss of water rights for their cattle.
Hoss agrees to help an elderly inventor (Ed Wynn) and his granddaughter, until the pair asks him to test a flying machine.
In a plan to recoup his gambling losses, Little Joe sets Hoss on a rigorous training schedule to insure his victory in an eating contest.
Little Joe competes for the affections of a woman who gets herself in trouble when she sets off to meet Paiute Indians; guest X. Brands.
Adam comes to the defense of a professional assassin (Earl Holliman) with a hair trigger, accused of shooting a rancher's wife.
A saloon dancer refuses to believe she may have the talent for ballet, until she meets a former dancer who offers to be her teacher.
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Ben tries to help his paraplegic neighbor Tom by setting up a grain mill on his unused land; Tom's hired hand raises his suspicion about Ben's plan.
An Easterner swears revenge for the death of his father, a drunk that a Cartwright killed in self-defense.
Hoss falls prey to a beautiful woman with a gambling addiction and refuses to believe she's only interested in his money.
Adam is jailed for stagecoach robbery when authorities fail to believe the real robber was chased away by a knight on a white horse.
An old Indian who has vowed that he will never again fight with white men is accused of murdering a child.
Little Joe convinces his father to give a half-Indian man (Charles Bronson) a responsible job to bolster his self-confidence.
Adam searches for a look-alike former convict who is ruining his reputation; guest Lola Albright.
Adam is taken hostage by a band of U.S. Army prisoners who have escaped and sought refuge on the Ponderosa.
A wanderer seeking his parents' lynchers, arrives in Virginia City as Ben and Adam are convicted of murder.
A shepherd ignores the Cartwrights' warning not to drive his flock across the Ponderosa; guest Everett Sloane.
A Ponderosa ranch hand faces charges of killing the wife of the U.S. marshal who came to arrest him.
A former dance hall girl poses as a Spanish heiress to claim a land grant that includes part of the Ponderosa; guest Sebastian Cabot.
A potential mayoral candidate attempts to stir up trouble between majority and minority groups in town.
Little Joe and Hoss are mistaken for gunmen while in a small Texas town; they find themselves in the middle of a dangerous feud between two families.
Maud Hoad leads her revenge-seeking family against Joe, who was forced to shoot treacherous Jeb Hoad.
As Ben prepares to run for governor, Joe must come to his rescue when a disabled police officer from New Orleans comes to arrest Ben on a 20-year-old murder charge.
When an aging trapeze artist's (Cesar Romero) pretty assistant shows interest in Little Joe, her fiance challenges him to a fight.
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Ben takes over an old friend's newspaper when he learns a man (Simon Oakland) is trying to buy it to conceal thefts of government land.
Candy's former friend and gang force him into helping them in a plan to rob the Carson City mint.
A neighbor threatens Hoss' fiancee, a white girl raised by Indians, when the Cartwrights allow her friends to trade wild horses for food.
When Indian poachers move onto his land, a man refuses to move them off and stands alone in the fight for their freedom.
After four years as a captive, a woman (Mariette Hartley) returns to a town and husband who reject her and her half-Indian baby.
A distant relative (Antoinette Bower) sends her unruly daughter (Linda Sue Risk) to the Ponderosa.
Ben faces lynching when he nears finding the man responsible for accusing the Cartwrights; guest Slim Pickens.
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An irresponsible adventurer's daughter takes refuge at the Ponderosa.
Ben decides to make a man out of Jamie, the spoiled son of his cousin.
Ben lends money to a neighbor who has no intention of repaying him.
The owner of a mining company tries to have a man committed after being accused of lacking safety devices.
Three women arrive after each receives pictures and letters with promises of marriage from Hoss.
A professional gunman (George Montgomery) sparks a fight with Little Joe.
After rowdies accidentally kill the deputy, townsfolk hire Wes Dunn (Eric Fleming) to restore order in the sheriff's absence.
Two drifters (Dick Peobody, Walter Burke), one of whom is wanted for murder in Arizona, seek temporary work at the Ponderosa.
The Paiutes intensify their attacks on the Pony Express and Little Joe barely escapes death while Hoss tends a way station.
Ben invests in the Pony Express, suffering great losses from the attacks of Winnemuca (Richard Hale) and his Paiutes.
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A starving, wounded Indian (Jose De Vega), rescued by the Cartwrights, remains hostile to white men and steals a horse.
A man (Liam Sullivan) sentenced to hang for murder claims innocence; Little Joe begins to doubt his guilt.
A boy (Clint Howard), seeking help for his wounded father, thinks a murderer (Leif Erickson) is God.
Hoss releases a young boy (Eddie Hodges) caught in one of his stepfather's traps and brings him to the Ponderosa to live.
The Lassiters kidnap Little Joe and threaten to kill him unless Harry Lassiter is released from jail; guest Marie Windsor.
Hoss befriends a young boy (Tim Considine) hanging out with hoodlums because he is ashamed of his father.
A woman (Louise Sorel) is labeled a witch after her prediction about an illness comes true.
Cliff Rexford (Michael Witney) reveals that the Rev. Watson (Glenn Corbett) killed his brother in a gunfight.
While on his deathbed, an old friend asks Ben to see to it that his estate be given to a certain relative.
The family tries to identify a girl, found clinging to a rag doll near the bodies of her murdered parents.
A religious group accuses a woman (Ina Balin) of witchcraft and abandons her in the wilderness.
A man (Gilbert Roland) loses his horse by court order, then is charged with murder when he fights to regain it.
Hostility erupts between a mule-packer (Ed Begley) and his youngest son during the transport of explosives.
A man (Ramon Navarro) who boasts about his ancestry possesses a legitimate land grant.
Ben refuses a robber's offer to return the loot in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
A con man's (Ford Rainey) children (Tommy Sands, Brooke Bundy) want to clear their family name by working for his victims.
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Hoss tries to instill courage in a hermit he convinced to leave a ghost-town to work on the Ponderosa.
Hoss and Little Joe fear Ben has fallen for an opera singer (Viveca Lindfors) he engaged for the Virginia City Founder's Day celebration.
A man (Andrew Prine) who saved Hoss' life is rewarded with a job on the Ponderosa, but the other ranch hands consider him a jinx.
A banker, crippled during a robbery 10 years before, tries to prevent the now-released thief from settling again in Virginia City.
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When the women of Virginia City swoon over Lothario Larkin, the men scheme to run him out of town. Guest star: Noah Beery Jr.
A multi-millionaire decides that he will buy the Ponderosa, even if he has to destroy the Cartwrights in the process.
Ben's foray to a quiet hotel room for some peaceful sleep is interrupted by a weeping bride, flying bullets and a murder charge.
Adam helps to clear a charming singer (Hoyt Axton) of a robbery charge, then brings him -- and trouble -- to the Ponderosa.
When a widow announces plans to marry Little Joe, the citizens of Virginia City doubt his story that he shot her husband by accident.
The Cartwrights find little peace when cousin Muley pays another visit, this time accompanied by a pack of howling dogs.
Adam's life is endangered when he takes over an injured teacher's (Mariette Hartley) class and researches Virginia City's history.
A British doctor (Michael Rennie) finds love in Virginia City while fleeing a widower claiming surgery killed his wife.
When an aging trapeze artist's (Cesar Romero) pretty assistant shows interest in Little Joe, her fiance challenges him to a fight.
Adam searches for a look-alike former convict who is ruining his reputation; guest Lola Albright.
Hoss agrees to help an elderly inventor (Ed Wynn) and his granddaughter, until the pair asks him to test a flying machine.
Adam comes to the defense of a professional assassin (Earl Holliman) with a hair trigger, accused of shooting a rancher's wife.
A saloon dancer refuses to believe she may have the talent for ballet, until she meets a former dancer who offers to be her teacher.
Adam attempts to reform a temperamental Mexican beauty (Joan Hackett) before she meets her future husband.
Little Joe competes for the affections of a woman who gets herself in trouble when she sets off to meet Paiute Indians; guest X. Brands.
In a plan to recoup his gambling losses, Little Joe sets Hoss on a rigorous training schedule to insure his victory in an eating contest.
An old Indian who has vowed that he will never again fight with white men is accused of murdering a child.
Adam is jailed for stagecoach robbery when authorities fail to believe the real robber was chased away by a knight on a white horse.
Little Joe convinces his father to give a half-Indian man (Charles Bronson) a responsible job to bolster his self-confidence.
Ben, Little Joe and Adam work to keep sober the lawyer (James Gregory) hired to defend Hoss on a murder charge.
For saving his life, Ben offers some Ponderosa farmland to an American Indian.
Ben, Little Joe and Adam work to keep sober the lawyer (James Gregory) hired to defend Hoss on a murder charge.
Maud Hoad leads her revenge-seeking family against Joe, who was forced to shoot treacherous Jeb Hoad.
Hoss falls prey to a beautiful woman with a gambling addiction and refuses to believe she's only interested in his money.
An Easterner swears revenge for the death of his father, a drunk that a Cartwright killed in self-defense.
Adam and Little Joe warn Hoss when he tries to help Arnie, a man with the mind of a child and an uncontrollable temper.
Little Joe runs into romantic complications when he tries to teach a deaf girl sign language; guest Albert Salmi.
Attacked by Shoshones while crossing a burial ground, Adam discovers that the Indian woman tending him is white.
Attacked by Shoshones while crossing a burial ground, Adam discovers that the Indian woman tending him is white.
An outlaw joins the Cartwrights' cattle drive, knowing it will take him to the town where his father is the sheriff.
For saving his life, Ben offers some Ponderosa farmland to an American Indian.
A sheriff's daughter runs off with her boyfriend (John Ericson), unaware he is a murderous bank robber.
Hoss and Little Joe spend the most unforgettable night at the carnival when Little Joe's date disappears.
Hoss and Little Joe spend the most unforgettable night at the carnival when Little Joe's date disappears.
Hoss' bandit uncle decides to bypass the Ponderosa, but his gang disagrees.
Hoss' bandit uncle decides to bypass the Ponderosa, but his gang disagrees.
The Cartwrights' neighbor (Franchot Tone), a former soldier and lawman, seeks security for his daughter.
The Cartwrights' neighbor (Franchot Tone), a former soldier and lawman, seeks security for his daughter.
Outlaws plot to steal a trunk containing the savings of a religious group heading for a new life in the West.
Outlaws plot to steal a trunk containing the savings of a religious group heading for a new life in the West.
Ben tries to help his paraplegic neighbor Tom by setting up a grain mill on his unused land; Tom's hired hand raises his suspicion about Ben's plan.
A Deputy U.S. Marshal arrives to escort a man to California to testify against a gang; guest Dan Duryea.
Hoss befriends Charlie Trent, a man who went from top Army scout to town drunk after he led his troops into a massacre.
A young bank robber gets a job on the Ponderosa to prevent the sheriff from finding the other members of his gang.
A member of a powerful gang murders a shopkeeper; the deputized Cartwrights sentence a murderer to hang at dawn when the leader of the gang kidnaps Ben and holds him hostage.
Little Joe falls for a girl who has been disowned by her people because they think she is a witch and, therefore, an outcast.
The Cartwrights befriend a boy whose father has been sent to jail and whose mother has recently died.
When a neighbor agrees to sell his property, the Cartwrights fear the loss of water rights for their cattle.
Shortly after the Ponderosa cattle herd arrives in San Francisco at the hands of Hoss, Joe and Ben, two of their traildrivers are shanghaied and destined for Hong Kong.
Two British socialites find that they still have a lot to learn when they visit their friends, the Cartwrights.
A wanderer seeking his parents' lynchers, arrives in Virginia City as Ben and Adam are convicted of murder.
Adam is taken hostage by a band of U.S. Army prisoners who have escaped and sought refuge on the Ponderosa.
As Ben prepares to run for governor, Joe must come to his rescue when a disabled police officer from New Orleans comes to arrest Ben on a 20-year-old murder charge.
A Ponderosa ranch hand faces charges of killing the wife of the U.S. marshal who came to arrest him.
An outlaw joins the Cartwrights' cattle drive, knowing it will take him to the town where his father is the sheriff.
A shepherd ignores the Cartwrights' warning not to drive his flock across the Ponderosa; guest Everett Sloane.
A former dance hall girl poses as a Spanish heiress to claim a land grant that includes part of the Ponderosa; guest Sebastian Cabot.
A potential mayoral candidate attempts to stir up trouble between majority and minority groups in town.
Little Joe and Hoss are mistaken for gunmen while in a small Texas town; they find themselves in the middle of a dangerous feud between two families.