Bonanza

Season 8 (Episode 31)

Air Date: 23 April 1967

Teleplay: Joy Dexter and Michael Landon

Story: Joy Dexter

Director: William F. Claxton

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Bing Russell (Clem), Victor Sen Yung (Hop Sing)

Guest Stars
Frank Overton (Amos Crenshaw), Judi Meredith (Linda Roberts), Clay Tanner (DeWitt), Will J. White (Flores), Robert B. Williams (Clerk), Myron Healey (Sam), Quentin Sondergaard (Luke), Walter Kray (Caleb)

Notable Guest Stars

Judi Meredith

Frank Overton

Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwright: Joe
• Saloon: The Silver Dollar

Season 8 (Episode 30)

Air Date: 16 April 1967

Writers: Judith and Robert Guy Burrows

Director: Christian Nyby

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Bing Russell (Clem), Victor Sen Yung (Hop Sing)

Guest Stars
Michael Burns (Donnie), Robert Biheller (Ted), Woodrow Parfrey (Professor), Phyllis Hill (Grace), Eugene Martin (J.W.), Kevin O’Neal (Reb), Ken Del Conte (Sampson)

Notable Guest Stars

Michael Burns

Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwright: Joe
• Ben mentions that he has three sons

Season 8 (Episode 29)

Air Date: 9 April 1967

Writer: Steve McNeil

Director: Don Daves

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Bing Russell (Clem), Victor Sen Yung (Hop Sing)

Guest Stars
Jeremy Slate (Ed Philips), Royal Dano (Matt Jeffers), Joan Marshall (Millie Perkins), James Gammon (Harry Jeffers), Tol Avery (Coroner), Russ Conway (Grant), Grandon Rhodes (Dr. Martin), William Fawcett (Jake)

Notable Guest Stars

Royal Dano

Jeremy Slate

Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwrights: Ben and Joe
• Saloon: The Silver Dollar
• Harry Jeffers was 22 years old

Season 8 (Episode 28)

Air Date: 2 April 1967

Teleplay: John Hawkins

Story: Melvin Levy

Director: William F. Claxton

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Victor Sen Yung (Hop Sing)

Guest Stars
Lloyd Bochner (Andy Peters/Prince Vladimir Pavalitch Presnov), Warren Stevens (Count Alexis), Claire Griswold (Countess Elena), Adam Williams (Hardesty), Noah Keen (Dixon), Jerry Summers (Slim Rivers), Clyde Howdy (Sergeant Bell), Gil Perkins (Porter), Bill Hickman (Ketch)

Notable Guest Stars

Lloyd Bochner

Noah Keen

Episode Notes

• This episode is set a number of years after the Crimean War, which ended in 1856

Season 8 (Episode 27)

Air Date: 26 March 1967

Writer: William F. Leicester

Director: William F. Claxton

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Bing Russell (Clem)

Guest Stars
Jack Kruschen (Georgio Rossi), Brioni Farrell (Regina Rossi), Penny Santon (Maria Rossi), Michael Stefani (Lorenzo Rossi), Donald Woods (Gurney), Robert F. Lyons (Sandy), Chris Alcaide (Blake)

Notable Guest Stars

Jack Kruschen

Production Notes

• This episode was intended to be a pilot episode for a spin-off TV series
• The second of three episodes centred on the Rossi family (Big Shadow on the Land; Sound of Drums)

Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwright: Ben

Season 8 (Episode 26)

Air Date: 12 March 1967

Writer: Kelly Covin

Director: Don Daves

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Victor Sen Yung (Hop Sing)

Guest Stars
Richard Evans (Billy Wilcox), Linda Foster (Jennifer Yardley), Richard Eastham (Tom Yardley), Willard Sage (Marshal Sam Denton), Grandon Rhodes (Dr. Martin), Rita Lynn (Angel Mendoza), Steven Marlo (Barclay), Baynes Barron (Marshall)

Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwright: Ben

Season 8 (Episode 25)

Air Date: 5 March 1967

Teleplay: Michael Landon

Story: Oliver Crawford

Director: William F. Claxton

Synopsis
Joe’s interest in detective and crime novels becomes a problem for Ben and Deputy Clem Foster. Joe gets Hoss to help him to thwart two bank robbers before they rob the Cattleman’s Bank. Things go from bad to worse as Joe becomes more obsessed with solving a crime that hasn’t been committed.

Recurring Actors/Characters
Bing Russell (Clem), Victor Sen Yung (Hop Sing)

Guest Stars
Mort Mills (Harry Perkins), Ken Lynch (George Simms), Ed Prentiss (Tom Barnes), Herb Vigran (Charlie), Robert B. Williams (Clerk)

Production Notes

• The main fight scene in this episode is a send-up of fight scenes from the then popular series Batman

Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwright: Joe
• Book: How to Solve Crimes by Inspector Foote
• Saloon: The Silver Dollar

Season 8 (Episode 24)

Air Date: 26 February 1967

Writer: Robert Sabaroff

Director: William F. Claxton

Synopsis

Guest Stars
John Ireland (Will Rimbau), John Rayner (Stub Morgan), Martin West (Johnny Hill), Harry Carey (Mapes), Bartlett Robinson (Willow), James Sikking (Jack Rimbau)

Notable Guest Stars

John Ireland

Production Notes

• Lorne Greene does not appear in this episode

Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwright: Joe

Season 8 (Episode 23)

Air Date: 19 February 1967

Writer: Joel Murcott

Director: Gerd Oswald

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Victor Sen Yung (Hop Sing)

Guest Stars
Diane Baker (Mary Wharton), Paul Richards (Russ Wharton), Dennis Cross (Monk), Raymond Guth (Goliath), Robert Brubaker (Lassiter)

Notable Guest Stars

Diane Baker

Paul Richards

Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwright: Ben

Season 8 (Episode 22)

Air Date: 12 February 1967

Teleplay: John Hawkins and Jack Turley

Story: Jack Turley

Director: William F. Claxton

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Ray Teal (Roy Coffee)

Guest Stars
Henry Darrow (Amigo), Gregory Walcott (Capt. John Fenner), Warren Kemmerling (Hartley), Anna Navarro (Consuelo), Tim Herbert (Mosquito), Grandon Rhodes (Dr. Martin), Robert J. Stevenson (Benton), Troy Melton (Carson)

Notable Guest Stars

Henry Darrow

Anna Navarro

Production Notes

• Dan Blocker does not appear in this episode
• The role of Amigo was originally written for Sammy Davis, Jr.

Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwrights: Ben and Joe
• This episode is set sometime after the end of the Civil War

Season 8 (Episode 21)

Air Date: 5 February 1967

Writer: Joel Murcott

Director: Lewis Allen

Synopsis

Guest Stars
John Ericson (Wade Hollister), Jason Evers (Tom Blackwell), Elizabeth Rogers (Ellie Sue Blackwell), Kevin Hagen (Sheriff King), Kerry MacLane (Benjie Blackwell), Lindsay Workman (Doc Jensen), Richard Hale (Neal Hollister), Lory Patrick (Rita)

Notable Guest Stars

John Ericson

Elizabeth Rogers

Lindsay Workman

Production Notes

• Dan Blocker does not appear in this episode

Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwright: Joe

Season 8 (Episode 20)

Air Date: 29 January 1967

Writer: Frank Chase

Director: Gerd Oswald

Synopsis

Guest Stars
Leslie Nielsen (Sheriff Paul Rowen), Nancy Malone (Catherine Rowen), Jack Lambert (Landers), Bill Fletcher (Tollar), Douglas Henderson (Dr. Evens), Cal Bartlett (Garrett), Frankie Kabott (Timmy Rowen), Percy Helton (Bleeker)

Notable Guest Stars

Nancy Malone

Leslie Nielsen

Production Notes

• Dan Blocker and Michael Landon do not appear in this episode
• Leslie Nielsen previously studied acting under Lorne Greene in their home country, Canada

Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwright: Ben
• Towns: Concho; Minden