Bonanza

Season 3 (Episode 8)

Air Date: 12 November 1961

Writer: Frank Chase

Director: Don McDougall

Synopsis

Guest Stars
Dean Jones (Danny Kidd), Janet Lake (Ann Carter), Ed Faulkner (Bob Stevens), Norm Alden (Teller), Rusty Lane (Warden), Stafford Repp (Mr. Carter), Roy Wright (Travis)

Notable Guest Stars

Dean Jones

Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwright: Joe
• Location: Yuma Territorial Prison

Season 3 (Episode 7)

Air Date: 5 November 1961

Writer: Robert Vincent Wright

Director: Robert Altman

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Ray Teal (Sheriff Roy Coffee)

Guest Stars
Sue Ane Langdon (Jennifer Flinch), Arnold Stang (Jake “The Weasel”), Ian Wolfe (Gideon Flinch), Harry Swoger (William “Bullethead” Burke), Joe Turkel (Thug #1), Robert Jordan (Thug #2), Robert Foulk (Clem), Clem Bevans (Jeb), Burt Mustin (Lucas), Rickey Kelman (Little Boy), Charles Horvath (Drunk in grey hat), George Dunn (Drunk #2), Owen Bush (Hotel Clerk)

Notable Guest Stars

Sue Ane Langdon

Production Notes

• First episode filmed for Season Three

Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwrights: Hoss and Joe
• Gideon Flinch uses the alias Homer T. Cranston
• VC Businesses: Garson’s Restaurant; Commercial Hotel

Season 3 (Episode 6)

Air Date: 29 October 1961

Writer: John T. Kelley

Director: Robert Butler

Synopsis

Guest Stars
Robert Culp (Ed Payson), Ray Daley (Billy Buckley), Abbagail Shelton (Sally Cass), Dabbs Greer (Will Cass), Robert Christopher (Deputy Sheriff Cahill), Richard Rosmini (Jamie), John Graham (Cass’s Attorney)

Notable Guest Stars

Robert Culp

Dabbs Greer

Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwright: Adam
• VC Business: Cass General Store

Season 3 (Episode 5)

Air Date: 22 October 1961

Writer: N.B. Stone, Jr.

Director: William Witney

Synopsis
Ben unwittingly introduces two conmen to Widow Hawkins, on the pretence that they are in Virginia City looking for land to buy. The conmen sell her an emerald, which Ben later finds out is fake. Ben, Hoss, and Joe then get involved in a comedy of errors when Joe and Hoss end up stealing the real emerald.

Recurring Actors/Characters
Victor Sen Yung (Hop Sing), Ray Teal (Sheriff Roy Coffee)

Guest Stars
Beatrice Kay (Clementine Hawkins), James Griffith (“Smiling” Sam Pearson), Charles Watts (Harry Jefferson), Joan Staley (Blonde Girl), Wally Brown (Henry Morgan), Dave Willock (Phil Axe), Nestor Paiva (Chief Crazy Horse), William Keene (Mr. Nagel), Howard Wright (Insurance Man)

Notable Guest Stars

Beatrice Kay

Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwright: Ben
• Clementine Hawkins is also known as Widow Hawkins
• “Smiling” Sam Pearson is the mayor of Virginia City and in this episode is campaigning for re-election
• Harry Jefferson is the manager of the Virginia City Bank. Mr. Nagel is a jeweller.
• Saloon: The Red Dog

Season 3 (Episode 4)

Air Date: 15 October 1961

Writer: Frank Chase

Director: William Witney

Synopsis

Guest Stars
Paul Richards (Trock), Faith Domergue (Lee Bolden), Jim Beck (Gavin), Vito Scotti (Pooch), Ray Hemphill (Banker)

Notable Guest Stars

Faith Domergue

Production Notes

• Pernell Roberts does not appear in this episode

Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwright: Joe

Season 3 (Episode 3)

Air Date: 8 October 1961

Writer: Elliott Arnold

Director: Don McDougall

Synopsis

Guest Stars
Jeff Morrow (Cochise), DeForest Kelley (Capt. Moss Johnson), Stacy Harris (Col. Clinton Wilcox), Bing Russell (Major Reynolds), Al Ruscio (Delgado), Hal Jon Norman (Apache Warrior), Robert Rothwell (Lt. Culver), Raymond Mayo (Doctor)

Notable Guest Stars

DeForest Kelley

Bing Russell

Production Notes

• Joe was originally slated to be the one who gets shot and Adam was to carry him to safety. Pernell Roberts couldn’t do this due to a bad back, so it was decided that Roberts’ stand-in, Betty Endicott would do it instead. Roberts’ was not pleased at the thought of this – a woman just over 5ft carrying Michael Landon. Michael Landon and Pernell Roberts worked out a way to have Joe carry Adam instead during their lunch break. The script was then re-written to have Adam as the shooting victim instead.

Season 3 (Episode 2)

Air Date: 1 October 1961

Writer: John Furia, Jr.

Director: Christian Nyby

Synopsis

Guest Stars
John Carradine (Jedediah Milbank), John Qualen (Parley), Jena Engstrom (Ann), Claude Johnson (Paul), Denver Pyle (Theodore Hackett), Lorna Thayer (Maina Hackett), Clegg Hoyt (Livery Stable Owner), Selmer Jackson (Doctor)

Notable Guest Stars

John Carradine

Denver Pyle

Production Notes

• Lorne Greene does a voice over at the beginning of the episode

Episode Notes

• The Cartwrights have improved the stock on the Ponderosa
• The Cartwrights lost a lot of cattle to mountain lions during one of the worst winters they ever had

Season 3 (Episode 1)

Air Date: 24 September 1961

Writer: Lewis Reed

Director: Thomas Carr

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Ray Teal (Sheriff Roy Coffee)

Guest Stars
Herschel Bernardi (Clarence Bolling), Catherine McLeod (Mrs. McClure), Bill Zuckert (Gilbert), Robert Foulk (Deputy Sheriff), Scatman Crothers (Jud), Hy Terman (Arthur Bolling)

Production Notes

• This episode marked the move (during its original run) to the 9pm Sunday time slot, where Bonanza would stay for the next eleven years

Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwright: Hoss

Season 2 (Episode 34)

Air Date: 3 June 1961

Writer: David Dortort

Director: Robert Altman

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Ray Teal (Sheriff Roy Coffee)

Guest Stars
Claude Akins (Sam Hill), Edgar Buchanan (John Henry Hill), Ford Rainey (Colonel Tyson), Robert Ridgely (Billy Joe), Caroline Richter (Lonesome Lil), Howard Wendell (Willis), Mickey Simpson (Bartender), Richard Bartell (Hathaway), Nesdon Booth (Hotel Clerk)

Notable Guest Stars

Claude Akins

Ford Rainey

Season 2 (Episode 33)

Air Date: 27 May 1961

Writer: Anthony Lawrence

Director: Lewis Allen

Synopsis
While Adam is suffering from a fever, Ben remembers his life with Adam’s mother Elizabeth.

Guest Stars
Geraldine Brooks (Elizabeth Stoddard), Torin Thatcher (Capt. Abel Morgan Stoddard), Berry Kroeger (Mandible), Richard Collier (Otto), Ted Knight (Halloran), Bob Hopkins (Mariner), Bill Quinn (Doctor), Molly Roden (Mrs. Callahan), Alex Sharp (Blackmer), Selmer Jackson (Elizabeth’s Doctor), John Close (Bell), Max Slaten (Bartender)

Notable Guest Stars

Geraldine Brooks

Ted Knight

Alex Sharp

Torin Thatcher

Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwright: Ben

Season 2 (Episode 32)

Air Date: 20 May 1961

Writers: Jack McClain and James Van Wagoner

Director: Robert Altman

Synopsis
An old friend of Ben’s, Major Cayley, arrives at the Ponderosa. He is there to conduct a top-secret experiment on behalf of the army. Adam has doubts about the man’s intentions but decides to remain quiet. Cayley’s daughter then arrives and it seems there is more going on than just an experiment into the possibilities of man-powered flight.

Guest Stars
Sidney Blackmer (Major John F. Cayley), Diana Millay (Diana Cayley), Burt Douglas (Pvt. Bill Kingsley), Stuart Nisbet (Sgt. Hines), Jonathan Hole (Mr. Herschell)

Notable Guest Stars

Sidney Blackmer

Season 2 (Episode 31)

Air Date: 6 May 1961

Writer: John Hawkins

Director: Robert Altman

Synopsis
Joe is accused of murdering Mary Parson, who prior to her death told her father that Joe was courting her. Joe continually protests his innocence and tells Mary’s father he hasn’t seen her in ages. Things go from bad to worse when a witness testifies at the Coroner’s Inquest that he saw Joe with Mary the afternoon she was killed. The rest of the Cartwrights believe that Joe is innocent and set about proving it.

Guest Stars
Stephen Joyce (Jerome Bell), Pat Michon (Betty May Wood), Graham Denton (Jake Parson), Russell Collins (John Hardner), Dayton Lummis (Hiram Wood), Morgan Woodward (Deputy Sheriff Rick Conley), Sherwood Price (Pete Parson), Bob Harris (Bill Parson), Roy Engel (Dr. Paul Martin), Bill Edwards (Man)

Notable Guest Stars

Pat Michon

Morgan Woodward

Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwright: Joe
• Hiram Wood is the Cartwright’s lawyer
• A Coroner’s Inquest is held during this episode in the sheriff’s office
• Location: Indian Leap