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12-04-2003, 09:47 PM
"Bonanza 42 Episode Hoe-down Holiday Marathon"
Saturday, December 13 6:00 a.m. to 6 p.m.; 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. and Sunday, December 14 6 a.m. to 6 a.m.
Tune in to TV Land for 42 classic episodes of Bonanza on Saturday, December 13 and Sunday, December 14 for the Bonanza Hoe-down 42 episode marathon. What better way to spend your weekend watching a western close to the holiday season!
Saturday, December 13
6:00AM Bonanza 001 - A Rose For Lotta Pilot episode: Lotta crobtree is hired by a mining tycoon Alpheus Troy to lure one of the Cartwrights into town, to be held for ransom in exchange for Ponderosa Timber rights.
7:00AM Bonanza 002 - Death On Sun Mountain Ben discovers Mark Burdette and Early Thorne selling antelope meat to the miners and finds the price too high. He offers the miners beef at a more reasonable price. Burdette and Thorne retaliate by framing the Indians for attacks on the miners by dressing like Paiutes. Lorne Greene's first voice-over
8:00AM Bonanza 003 - The Newcomers Ben discovers hydraulic miners camped on the ranch and has Hoss escort them off. In the process Hoss falls in love with the sister of one of the men, not realizing she is terminally ill.
9:00AM Bonanza 004 - The Paiute War The Pauites are falsely accused of attacks and the militia is summoned. Adam is taken hostage by the Pauites.
10:00AM Bonanza 005 - Enter Mark Twain Virginia City is visited by Samuel Clemens who writes editorials for the Territorial Enterprise. One of his first subjects is a politician who is trying to steal the Ponderosa.
11:00AM Bonanza 006 - The Julia Bulette Story Little Joe falls in love with Julia Bulette, a saloon owner with a reputation. That and the fact that she is much older than Joe, puts him and his father at odds.
NOON Bonanza 007 - The Saga Of Annie O'Toole Annie O'Toole comes to Washoe Digging with a claim to mine filed by her beau Swede Lundberg. Swede had two claims and sold one to an old acquaintance of theirs named Gregory Spain. There is some confusion over which claim is hers. A decision must be made in a Miners Court, presided over by Ben Cartwright
1:00PM Bonanza 008 - The Diedeshiemer Story Philip Diedeshiemer works with Adam to create a timbering system called 'square set' to prevent mine cave-ins.
2:00PM Bonanza 009 - Mr. Henry Comstock Jack Carson stars as Mr. Comstock who claims ownership in a major goldstrike. The discovery of the Comstock lode created Virginia City Little Joe asks for trouble by courting the daughter of Chief Winnemuca.
3:00PM Bonanza 010 - The Magnificent Adah Actress Adah Issacs Mencken visits Virginia City and is followed by an old boyfriend John Regan. She is an old friend of Ben's and he stays close by to try to offer her protection. Ben's sons are convinced she's bad news and try dissuade their father from seeing her.
4:00PM Bonanza 011 - The Truckee Strip The Cartwrights are embroiled in a feud with their neighbors the Bishops, but Joe and Amy Bishop want no part of the feud and only have eyes for each other and want to get married.
5:00PM Bonanza 012 - The Hanging Posse Joe and Adam join a posse to help a friend whose wife has been murdered but soon discover their friend has no intention of bringing in the men alive. Fearing the outcome, the brothers seperate from the posse catches up with them.
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MIDNIGHT Bonanza 013 - Vendetta Virginia city residents leave Ben and Hoss to deal with an outlaw gang with only the help of the town drunk and a doctor who has no experience with this kind of conflict.
1:00AM Bonanza 014 - The Sisters Adam is courting Sue Ellen Terry, a woman well known by the menfolk in Virginia City. He dismisses his father's concerns and continues the relationship despite continuing problems. When Sue Ellen is killed Adam becomes the number on suspect.
2:00AM Bonanza 015 - The Last Hunt A sad story about an Indian woman who is brought home by Joe and Hoss after they discover her alone and about to have a baby. After the baby is born they find he has blue eyes. The Shoshone Chief, her father, and the baby's father, a white man, have been looking for her.
3:00AM Bonanza 016 - El Toro Grande Hoss and Joe travel to Monterey Carrying a large amount of cash for the purchase of a prize bull. Along the way they have to deal with bandits, a duel, a boy who runs away with the bull, a love struck young woman who stows away in the Cartwrights wagon, and hungry Indians.
4:00AM Bonanza 017 - The Outcast Leta Malvet has become an outcast with the people of town, after her father and brother are hanged for murder. Now she can only look to her friend Clay Renton, a former banck robber, who is staying at the Cartwrights.
5:00AM Bonanza 018 - House Divided Frederick Kyle has created problems in the Cartwright hom, and Virginia City when her arrives in town. Frederick came to town to gain support for the Confederacy
Sunday, December 14
6:00AM Bonanza 019 - The Gunmen When Joe and Hoss are in Texas they are mistaken for the Slade brothers who were involved in a feud between two familes. Because they are thought to be the Slade brothers they are thrown and jail and have to be rescued by one of the members of the feuding familes. Joe and Hoss know they must stop this feud so they turn to the women of the feuding families to help them to stop the fighting.
7:00AM Bonanza 020 - The Fear Merchants Andrew Fulmer is running for mayor, and he hates Chinese people. This becomes a large problem for Jimmy Chong who rescues Sally Ridley from being harassed by one of Fulmer's men, and is then blamed for the murder of Sally, who is shot by her father accidentally.
8:00AM Bonanza 021 - The Spanish Grant Rosita Morales pretends to be a heiress Isabella Marie Inez de la Cuesta in order to get a land grant which also includes part of the Ponderosa. She is not able to fool Ben though, who tries to find the real heiress, with the help of his sons.
9:00AM Bonanza 022 - Blood On The Land A sheepherder who was originally just passing through the Ponderosa decides to stay there, permanently, regardless of Ben's attempts to kick him off the land. The sheepherder takes drastic measures to stay there when he takes Adam prisoner in order to get ownership of the land.
10:00AM Bonanza 023 - Desert Justice Dave Walker has been accused of kiling the wife of Marshall Dowd. The Cartwrights discover that Dave, who is Ben's ranch hand, has been getting beaten up in jail, so they decide to go to Los Angelos where his trial is to be.
11:00AM Bonanza 024 - The Stranger Ben was charged for the crime of murder twenty years ago, and is taken to New Orleans to face the charges. This all happens while he is running for Governor of Nevada. Ben agrees to go to New Orleans after telling his sons why he ran earlier.
NOON Bonanza 025 - Escape To The Ponderosa Adam is attacked by men who escaped from jail, while Ben joins Army Captain Bolton who is searching for the convicts.
1:00PM Bonanza 026 - The Avenger Hoss and Joe are looking for a way to prevent Adam and Ben from getting hanged. Then a stranger, Lassiter comes to town and helps them to prove Adam and Ben's innocence with out explanation.
2:00PM Bonanza 027 - The Last Trophy Lady Beatrice is married to Lord Marion Dunsford, who she considers to be a coward. Since they ar both friends with Ben the come to stay at the Ponderosa, where Lady Beatrice thinks she has finally found her "real man"--Adam.
3:00PM Bonanza 028 - San Francisco Ben, Hoss and Joe are visiting San Francisco with some of their hands, when the hands all turn up missing. When they are searching for them, Ben finds himself shanghighed and detained for Hong Kong.
4:00PM Bonanza 029 - Bitter Water When miner Lem Keith plans to buy land next to the Ponderosa, he goes to the owner's son, Todd to help him, since the he knows the owner will never sell to him. Todd is more than willing to help Lem because he is in love with his daughter, and also plots with him to turn against the Cartwright's, and Lem plants a tick infestation in the Cartwright's cattle herd.
5:00PM Bonanza 030 - Feet Of Clay A boy Billy Allen's mother has died and now he is waiting for his father at the Cartwright's. His father is a prisoner who has broken out of jail, but Billy does not know about his father's history. Hoss is worried about Billy because he has grown close to him, and is weary of his father, and when his father commits a robbery and murder Hoss is forced to kill him.
6:00PM Bonanza 018 - House Divided Frederick Kyle has created problems in the Cartwright hom, and Virginia City when her arrives in town. Frederick came to town to gain support for the Confederacy
7:00PM Bonanza 059 - The Gift While in Arizona to buy horses, Joe takes a lone trip to Yuma to pick up a gift for his father's birthday a beautiful white horse. Finding himself caught in an Indian uprising, he must rely on his traveling companion, Emeliano, the man who raised the horse to get them through safely.
8:00PM Bonanza 068 - Springtime It's Spring and the boys are irritable after a long, rough, hard winter. Another dispute lands the three of them in a mud wrestling match and in the ruckus Ben's visiting friend Jedidiah Milbank is injured. Ben offers to have his sons take care of Milbank's affairs while he recovers, and so Adam, Hoss, and Joe set off in different directions to carry out the tasks assigned to them.
9:00PM Bonanza 121 - The Hayburner Adam and Hoss purchase an honest to gosh thoroughbred to run in the Virginai Cityrace, but Hoss puts him up for security in a poker game and loses. They desperately need the money to buy him back buty theyknow their father will never loan them money for a horse that doesn't earn his keep on the ranch.
10:00PM Bonanza 146 - Hoss And The Leprechauns Hoss comes to the rescue of a little man being pursued by a bear. When Hoss scares the bear off he finds thee little man is gone and has left behind a strongbox full of gold. When Hoss tries to tell people about his story no one believes him. Later that night he finds that the strongbox was stolen. This sets off a hilarious chain of events as the Ponderosa is overrun with gold seekers and Leprechaun hunters.
11:00PM Bonanza 165 - The Dark Past A bounty hunter stops at the Ponderosa with an injured horse and is forced to stay on to work off the cost of a new horse. While there he meets another guest, Holly Burnside, the wife of the man he is after, Jamie Boy Briggs. Ben learns the young man is the son of a famous preacher and is curious to find out why the man seems so hateful and aloof.
MIDNIGHT Bonanza 183 - The Flapjack Contest Ben sends Joe into Virginia City to pick up the mail. Joe picks up the mail including a letter and a package form Adam, then gets into a poker game and wins $100 by drawing to an inside straight. Joe is bushwhacked on the way home and the package from Adam is stolen. The letter from Adam states that he is sending home a valuable ruby that he bought for $1,000. Little Joe Hides the theft from his father to keep Pa from asking too many questions about his poker-playing and late night activities. Little Joe enters Hoss in the flapjack contest and bets against the opponent in an attempt to win $1,000 to pay Adam for the Ruby.
1:00AM Bonanza 197 - To Own The World The world's richest man Charles Hacket decides he wants the Ponderosa and he will stop at nothing to get it. He blackmails one of Ben's friends into selling him the land and water rights that Ben needs and he buys up the supplies of grain Ben needs. In the process Hacket almost looses the only person who ever truly loved him, his wife.
2:00AM Bonanza 031 - Dark Star A gypsy girl named Tirza has come to stay at the Ponderosa because she ahs been disowned by her people because they believe she is a witch. While staying with the Cartwright's Joe falls in love with her and tries to show her that her people are wrong.
3:00AM Bonanza 032 - Death At Dawn A wife of a storeowner witnesses her husbands death by the hands of a member of a gang that has been terrorizing citizens and is taking over the town. The killer is still sentenced to be hanged, but the leader of the gang he is part of kidnaps Ben in order to swap Ben for the killer.
4:00AM Bonanza 033 - Showdown Sam Kriby (Cooper) is a young bank robber who gets a job with the Cartwrights to prevent the sheriff from learning the whereabouts of his accomplices -- the feared Pardo gang - who are hiding out on the Ponderosa. Kirby hopes to keep the gang informed should a search party head their way. Ben and his two sons, Adam and Hoss, accept the new hand but Litltle Joe has reservations about the new-comer, especially when Kirby is attracted to his girl.
5:00AM Bonanza 034 - The Mission Captain Pender is looking for a scout so Hoss suggests Charlie Trent, a former scout, who now spends most of his time in the bottle because of guilt about a massacre he feels responsible for.
Saturday, December 13 6:00 a.m. to 6 p.m.; 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. and Sunday, December 14 6 a.m. to 6 a.m.
Tune in to TV Land for 42 classic episodes of Bonanza on Saturday, December 13 and Sunday, December 14 for the Bonanza Hoe-down 42 episode marathon. What better way to spend your weekend watching a western close to the holiday season!
Saturday, December 13
6:00AM Bonanza 001 - A Rose For Lotta Pilot episode: Lotta crobtree is hired by a mining tycoon Alpheus Troy to lure one of the Cartwrights into town, to be held for ransom in exchange for Ponderosa Timber rights.
7:00AM Bonanza 002 - Death On Sun Mountain Ben discovers Mark Burdette and Early Thorne selling antelope meat to the miners and finds the price too high. He offers the miners beef at a more reasonable price. Burdette and Thorne retaliate by framing the Indians for attacks on the miners by dressing like Paiutes. Lorne Greene's first voice-over
8:00AM Bonanza 003 - The Newcomers Ben discovers hydraulic miners camped on the ranch and has Hoss escort them off. In the process Hoss falls in love with the sister of one of the men, not realizing she is terminally ill.
9:00AM Bonanza 004 - The Paiute War The Pauites are falsely accused of attacks and the militia is summoned. Adam is taken hostage by the Pauites.
10:00AM Bonanza 005 - Enter Mark Twain Virginia City is visited by Samuel Clemens who writes editorials for the Territorial Enterprise. One of his first subjects is a politician who is trying to steal the Ponderosa.
11:00AM Bonanza 006 - The Julia Bulette Story Little Joe falls in love with Julia Bulette, a saloon owner with a reputation. That and the fact that she is much older than Joe, puts him and his father at odds.
NOON Bonanza 007 - The Saga Of Annie O'Toole Annie O'Toole comes to Washoe Digging with a claim to mine filed by her beau Swede Lundberg. Swede had two claims and sold one to an old acquaintance of theirs named Gregory Spain. There is some confusion over which claim is hers. A decision must be made in a Miners Court, presided over by Ben Cartwright
1:00PM Bonanza 008 - The Diedeshiemer Story Philip Diedeshiemer works with Adam to create a timbering system called 'square set' to prevent mine cave-ins.
2:00PM Bonanza 009 - Mr. Henry Comstock Jack Carson stars as Mr. Comstock who claims ownership in a major goldstrike. The discovery of the Comstock lode created Virginia City Little Joe asks for trouble by courting the daughter of Chief Winnemuca.
3:00PM Bonanza 010 - The Magnificent Adah Actress Adah Issacs Mencken visits Virginia City and is followed by an old boyfriend John Regan. She is an old friend of Ben's and he stays close by to try to offer her protection. Ben's sons are convinced she's bad news and try dissuade their father from seeing her.
4:00PM Bonanza 011 - The Truckee Strip The Cartwrights are embroiled in a feud with their neighbors the Bishops, but Joe and Amy Bishop want no part of the feud and only have eyes for each other and want to get married.
5:00PM Bonanza 012 - The Hanging Posse Joe and Adam join a posse to help a friend whose wife has been murdered but soon discover their friend has no intention of bringing in the men alive. Fearing the outcome, the brothers seperate from the posse catches up with them.
6p-12a 12 Shows of Christmas Marathon
MIDNIGHT Bonanza 013 - Vendetta Virginia city residents leave Ben and Hoss to deal with an outlaw gang with only the help of the town drunk and a doctor who has no experience with this kind of conflict.
1:00AM Bonanza 014 - The Sisters Adam is courting Sue Ellen Terry, a woman well known by the menfolk in Virginia City. He dismisses his father's concerns and continues the relationship despite continuing problems. When Sue Ellen is killed Adam becomes the number on suspect.
2:00AM Bonanza 015 - The Last Hunt A sad story about an Indian woman who is brought home by Joe and Hoss after they discover her alone and about to have a baby. After the baby is born they find he has blue eyes. The Shoshone Chief, her father, and the baby's father, a white man, have been looking for her.
3:00AM Bonanza 016 - El Toro Grande Hoss and Joe travel to Monterey Carrying a large amount of cash for the purchase of a prize bull. Along the way they have to deal with bandits, a duel, a boy who runs away with the bull, a love struck young woman who stows away in the Cartwrights wagon, and hungry Indians.
4:00AM Bonanza 017 - The Outcast Leta Malvet has become an outcast with the people of town, after her father and brother are hanged for murder. Now she can only look to her friend Clay Renton, a former banck robber, who is staying at the Cartwrights.
5:00AM Bonanza 018 - House Divided Frederick Kyle has created problems in the Cartwright hom, and Virginia City when her arrives in town. Frederick came to town to gain support for the Confederacy
Sunday, December 14
6:00AM Bonanza 019 - The Gunmen When Joe and Hoss are in Texas they are mistaken for the Slade brothers who were involved in a feud between two familes. Because they are thought to be the Slade brothers they are thrown and jail and have to be rescued by one of the members of the feuding familes. Joe and Hoss know they must stop this feud so they turn to the women of the feuding families to help them to stop the fighting.
7:00AM Bonanza 020 - The Fear Merchants Andrew Fulmer is running for mayor, and he hates Chinese people. This becomes a large problem for Jimmy Chong who rescues Sally Ridley from being harassed by one of Fulmer's men, and is then blamed for the murder of Sally, who is shot by her father accidentally.
8:00AM Bonanza 021 - The Spanish Grant Rosita Morales pretends to be a heiress Isabella Marie Inez de la Cuesta in order to get a land grant which also includes part of the Ponderosa. She is not able to fool Ben though, who tries to find the real heiress, with the help of his sons.
9:00AM Bonanza 022 - Blood On The Land A sheepherder who was originally just passing through the Ponderosa decides to stay there, permanently, regardless of Ben's attempts to kick him off the land. The sheepherder takes drastic measures to stay there when he takes Adam prisoner in order to get ownership of the land.
10:00AM Bonanza 023 - Desert Justice Dave Walker has been accused of kiling the wife of Marshall Dowd. The Cartwrights discover that Dave, who is Ben's ranch hand, has been getting beaten up in jail, so they decide to go to Los Angelos where his trial is to be.
11:00AM Bonanza 024 - The Stranger Ben was charged for the crime of murder twenty years ago, and is taken to New Orleans to face the charges. This all happens while he is running for Governor of Nevada. Ben agrees to go to New Orleans after telling his sons why he ran earlier.
NOON Bonanza 025 - Escape To The Ponderosa Adam is attacked by men who escaped from jail, while Ben joins Army Captain Bolton who is searching for the convicts.
1:00PM Bonanza 026 - The Avenger Hoss and Joe are looking for a way to prevent Adam and Ben from getting hanged. Then a stranger, Lassiter comes to town and helps them to prove Adam and Ben's innocence with out explanation.
2:00PM Bonanza 027 - The Last Trophy Lady Beatrice is married to Lord Marion Dunsford, who she considers to be a coward. Since they ar both friends with Ben the come to stay at the Ponderosa, where Lady Beatrice thinks she has finally found her "real man"--Adam.
3:00PM Bonanza 028 - San Francisco Ben, Hoss and Joe are visiting San Francisco with some of their hands, when the hands all turn up missing. When they are searching for them, Ben finds himself shanghighed and detained for Hong Kong.
4:00PM Bonanza 029 - Bitter Water When miner Lem Keith plans to buy land next to the Ponderosa, he goes to the owner's son, Todd to help him, since the he knows the owner will never sell to him. Todd is more than willing to help Lem because he is in love with his daughter, and also plots with him to turn against the Cartwright's, and Lem plants a tick infestation in the Cartwright's cattle herd.
5:00PM Bonanza 030 - Feet Of Clay A boy Billy Allen's mother has died and now he is waiting for his father at the Cartwright's. His father is a prisoner who has broken out of jail, but Billy does not know about his father's history. Hoss is worried about Billy because he has grown close to him, and is weary of his father, and when his father commits a robbery and murder Hoss is forced to kill him.
6:00PM Bonanza 018 - House Divided Frederick Kyle has created problems in the Cartwright hom, and Virginia City when her arrives in town. Frederick came to town to gain support for the Confederacy
7:00PM Bonanza 059 - The Gift While in Arizona to buy horses, Joe takes a lone trip to Yuma to pick up a gift for his father's birthday a beautiful white horse. Finding himself caught in an Indian uprising, he must rely on his traveling companion, Emeliano, the man who raised the horse to get them through safely.
8:00PM Bonanza 068 - Springtime It's Spring and the boys are irritable after a long, rough, hard winter. Another dispute lands the three of them in a mud wrestling match and in the ruckus Ben's visiting friend Jedidiah Milbank is injured. Ben offers to have his sons take care of Milbank's affairs while he recovers, and so Adam, Hoss, and Joe set off in different directions to carry out the tasks assigned to them.
9:00PM Bonanza 121 - The Hayburner Adam and Hoss purchase an honest to gosh thoroughbred to run in the Virginai Cityrace, but Hoss puts him up for security in a poker game and loses. They desperately need the money to buy him back buty theyknow their father will never loan them money for a horse that doesn't earn his keep on the ranch.
10:00PM Bonanza 146 - Hoss And The Leprechauns Hoss comes to the rescue of a little man being pursued by a bear. When Hoss scares the bear off he finds thee little man is gone and has left behind a strongbox full of gold. When Hoss tries to tell people about his story no one believes him. Later that night he finds that the strongbox was stolen. This sets off a hilarious chain of events as the Ponderosa is overrun with gold seekers and Leprechaun hunters.
11:00PM Bonanza 165 - The Dark Past A bounty hunter stops at the Ponderosa with an injured horse and is forced to stay on to work off the cost of a new horse. While there he meets another guest, Holly Burnside, the wife of the man he is after, Jamie Boy Briggs. Ben learns the young man is the son of a famous preacher and is curious to find out why the man seems so hateful and aloof.
MIDNIGHT Bonanza 183 - The Flapjack Contest Ben sends Joe into Virginia City to pick up the mail. Joe picks up the mail including a letter and a package form Adam, then gets into a poker game and wins $100 by drawing to an inside straight. Joe is bushwhacked on the way home and the package from Adam is stolen. The letter from Adam states that he is sending home a valuable ruby that he bought for $1,000. Little Joe Hides the theft from his father to keep Pa from asking too many questions about his poker-playing and late night activities. Little Joe enters Hoss in the flapjack contest and bets against the opponent in an attempt to win $1,000 to pay Adam for the Ruby.
1:00AM Bonanza 197 - To Own The World The world's richest man Charles Hacket decides he wants the Ponderosa and he will stop at nothing to get it. He blackmails one of Ben's friends into selling him the land and water rights that Ben needs and he buys up the supplies of grain Ben needs. In the process Hacket almost looses the only person who ever truly loved him, his wife.
2:00AM Bonanza 031 - Dark Star A gypsy girl named Tirza has come to stay at the Ponderosa because she ahs been disowned by her people because they believe she is a witch. While staying with the Cartwright's Joe falls in love with her and tries to show her that her people are wrong.
3:00AM Bonanza 032 - Death At Dawn A wife of a storeowner witnesses her husbands death by the hands of a member of a gang that has been terrorizing citizens and is taking over the town. The killer is still sentenced to be hanged, but the leader of the gang he is part of kidnaps Ben in order to swap Ben for the killer.
4:00AM Bonanza 033 - Showdown Sam Kriby (Cooper) is a young bank robber who gets a job with the Cartwrights to prevent the sheriff from learning the whereabouts of his accomplices -- the feared Pardo gang - who are hiding out on the Ponderosa. Kirby hopes to keep the gang informed should a search party head their way. Ben and his two sons, Adam and Hoss, accept the new hand but Litltle Joe has reservations about the new-comer, especially when Kirby is attracted to his girl.
5:00AM Bonanza 034 - The Mission Captain Pender is looking for a scout so Hoss suggests Charlie Trent, a former scout, who now spends most of his time in the bottle because of guilt about a massacre he feels responsible for.