Bonanza: Season 5

1963 · 34 episodes · ★ 4.5

What Season 5 of Bonanza

Season 5 of Bonanza Has 34 episodes and premiered on September 22, 1963. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

34episodes

Sep 22, 1963premiered

May 24, 1964latest episode

27.8 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 She Walks in Beauty
Sep 22, 1963 · 49 min
Hoss wants to marry mysterious Regan Miller, a woman with less than a pristine past. When he thinks Adam is trying to steal her away, he loses control and beats Adam up.
Starring: Gena Rowlands, Victor Sen Yung, Robert Adler, Herschel Graham
5x02 A Passion for Justice
Sep 29, 1963 · 49 min
Renowned English novelist Charles Dickens comes to Virginia City. In short order, he is accused of a crime he didn't commit. The problem then becomes how to convince the stubborn author to defend himself.
Directed by: Murray Golden · Written by: Peter Packer · Starring: Ray Teal, Jonathan Harris, Frank Albertson, Herschel Graham
5x03 Rain from Heaven
Oct 6, 1963 · 49 min
A destitute rainmaker and his family arrive in drought-stricken Virginia City. While Ben tries to help him make rain, Hoss tends to the man's seriously ill little girl.
Directing: Lewis Allen · Writing: Robert Vincent Wright · Starring: Ray Teal, Herbert Lytton, John Anderson, Claudia Bryar
5x04 Twilight Town
Oct 13, 1963 · 49 min
Joe is bushwhacked in the desert and awakens to find himself in Martinville, a town that may or may not be populated by ghosts. An errie, surrealistic and well-produced episode.
Starring: Davey Davison, Doris Dowling, Stacy Harris, Walter Coy
5x05 The Toy Soldier
Oct 20, 1963 · 49 min
Adam encounters drunken artist James Callan, branded a "squaw man" because he is married to an Indian, and whose talent is going to waste in the town of Sheep Head.
Starring: Trevor Bardette, Donna Martell, Morgan Woodward, Philip Abbott
5x06 A Question of Strength
Oct 27, 1963 · 49 min
Hoss and a pair of nuns, the younger one having a difficult time training for the order, are robbed and stranded at a way station.
Starring: Ilka Windish, Judy Carne
5x07 Calamity over the Comstock
Nov 3, 1963 · 49 min
Joe has a run-in with Calamity Jane, and takes her home with him after promising her dying father to take care of her. At first the Cartwrights (besides Joe) think ""Cal"" is a boy, but they soon find out differently. Cal begins to fall in love with Joe, but Joe finds her attentions unwanted...especially when Cal's boyfriend, Doc Holliday, has it in for Joe.
Starring: Stefanie Powers, Herschel Graham
5x08 Journey Remembered
Nov 10, 1963 · 49 min
Ben finds an old journal that he kept while in a wagon train travelling from St. Joseph, Missouri to Ash Hollow. As he is reading it Ben remembers the journey he undertook with his wife Inger and a young Adam. During the trip Hoss is born and they have trouble with some Indians.
Starring: Dee Carroll
5x09 The Quality of Mercy
Nov 17, 1963 · 49 min
Joe struggles to understand whether his friend was right in killing a dying man who pleaded to put out of his misery.
5x10 The Waiting Game
Dec 8, 1963 · 49 min
Adam becomes involved with the recently widowed Laura Dayton and her little girl, Peggy.
Directing: Richard C. Sarafian · Writing: Ed Adamson · Starring: Katie Sweet, Kathie Browne, Jackie Loughery, Bill Quinn
5x11 The Legacy
Dec 15, 1963 · 49 min
Adam, Hoss and Joe mistakenly believe their father was murdered. They split into 3 different directions to confront the supposed killers. In his heart, Ben knows his sons will not act outside the law; but he is not 100% sure that Joe will behave correctly.
Starring: Ray Teal, Phillip Pine, Dayton Lummis, Percy Helton
5x12 Hoss and the Leprechauns
Dec 22, 1963 · 49 min
In what is arguably the best comedy of the series, Hoss swears he has seen green elves running around the Ponderosa and a smooth-talking Irishman complicates matters even worse.
5x13 The Prime of Life
Dec 29, 1963 · 49 min
Ben becomes irritable and reckless when the completion of an important timber contract is hindered by an old rival.
Starring: Victor Sen Yung, Jay C. Flippen, Raymond Guth, Butch Patrick
5x14 The Lila Conrad Story
Jan 5, 1964 · 49 min
Joe and Adam protect a saloon girl, who has killed in self-defense, from an angry lynch mob. The accompanying Judge, along with his wife, takes a liking to Lila, and before it is all over, he and Lila discover much more about themselves.
Starring: Patricia Blair, Stuart Randall, Andrew Duggan, Don Haggerty
5x15 Ponderosa Matador
Jan 12, 1964 · 49 min
Adam, Hoss, and Joe vie for the attention of a pretty young lady named Dolores. Hoss talks Joe into entering a bull fight, but it doesn't work out quite as planned.
Starring: Marianna Hill, Nestor Paiva, Tol Avery, Frank Ferguson
5x16 My Son, My Son
Jan 19, 1964 · 49 min
Ben's plans to marry Katherine Saunders are upset when her son Eden is accused of killing his former girlfriend.
Starring: Victor Sen Yung, Ray Teal, Teresa Wright, Sherwood Price
5x17 Alias Joe Cartwright
Jan 26, 1964 · 49 min
A man who looks similar to Joe uses Joe's name and gets Joe in the position of facing the firing squad.
Starring: Keenan Wynn, Joe Turkel
5x18 The Gentleman from New Orleans
Feb 2, 1964 · 49 min
The new stranger in town claims to be the famous pirate Jean Lafitte, and Hoss believes him.
Starring: Ray Teal, Jean Willes, John Dehner
5x19 The Cheating Game
Feb 9, 1964 · 49 min
In this sequel to "The Waiting Game", Laura resents Adam's advice on how she ought to be running her ranch. A newcomer, Ward Bannister, comes to her aid, but is actually part of a scheme to steal her ranch.
Starring: Katie Sweet, Kathie Browne, Peter Breck, Norman Leavitt
5x20 Bullet for a Bride
Feb 16, 1964 · 49 min
While out hunting for a mountain lion, Joe accidently shots Tessa Caldwell causing her to go blind. As a result of his guilt, Joe ends up proposing to the girl. However, other circumstances arise that cause Tessa to make a rash decision - one that both her and Joe may regret in the future.
Starring: Marlyn Mason, Denver Pyle
5x21 King of the Mountain
Feb 23, 1964 · 49 min
When mountain man Jim Leyton decides to marry, he chooses Hoss as his best man. Julie's father, Grizzly, does not agree and Hoss must come to the rescue.
Starring: Robert Middleton, Laurie Mitchell, Slim Pickens, Rudy Doucette
5x22 Love Me Not
Mar 1, 1964 · 49 min
While talking with an Indian, Ben is given an unexpected present...a woman. She is a young white woman named Joan who has lived with the Indians since she was a little girl. Through a humorous learning experience, Ben tries to teach Joan how to behave like a white woman. In the process, Ben finds himself in an awkward situation.
Starring: Anjanette Comer, Victor Sen Yung, Herschel Graham, Gene Tyburn
5x23 The Pure Truth
Mar 8, 1964 · 49 min
Hoss is suffering from spring fever, goes to the wrong town and is accused of bank robbery.
Starring: Ray Teal, Raymond Guth, Maudie Prickett
5x24 No Less a Man
Mar 15, 1964 · 49 min
The town council feels Roy Coffee can no longer do his job, and with the notorious Wagner gang on their way to rob the bank, everyone is in a panic. Ben and Adam disagree with the town council and do what they can to help Roy out.
Starring: Ray Teal, John Kellogg, Adrienne Marden
5x25 Return to Honor
Mar 22, 1964 · 49 min
Ben must travel to pay his respects after he learns of the death of his nephew Will. When he visits the grave, he finds his nephew barely alive with a bullet wound. He takes him to a doctor and Will insists that he leave, but Ben refuses. Will explains that the men after him must believe that he is dead. Ben decides his best bet is to take Will home. He and Will are followed by the same men who are interested in some valuables Will is carrying.
Starring: Guy Williams, Arch Johnson, Robert J. Wilke, Russell Custer
5x26 The Saga of Muley Jones
Mar 29, 1964 · 49 min
The Cartwrights are visited by their second cousin, Muley Jones of Weedville, Missouri who sings with a window-shattering voice and stirs up trouble with Indian negotiations that Ben is trying to ensure.
Starring: Ray Teal, Bruce Yarnell, Strother Martin, Jack Tornek
5x27 The Roper
Apr 5, 1964 · 49 min
Will is having second thoughts about staying on at the Ponderosa, and outlaws hit the ranch and take him with them. The leader, Lee Hewitt, is a young killer and plans on robbing the Ponderosa, so Will must take action to save himself, Hewitt's wife, the doctor, and his newfound relatives, the Cartwrights.
Starring: Guy Williams, Ray Teal, Julie Sommars
5x28 A Pink Cloud Comes from Old Cathay
Apr 12, 1964 · 49 min
A headstrong Chinese girl (Marlo Thomas) visiting the Cartwrights incites labor unrest among local workers.
Starring: Victor Sen Yung, Marlo Thomas
5x29 The Companeros
Apr 19, 1964 · 49 min
Mateo Ibara and his wife Carla visit the Ponderosa. Ibara asks Will to return to Mexico with him. Ibara and Will fought together for Juarez's cause and Ibara saved Will's life. For this reason, Will feels obligated to Ibara, but Ben is suspicious of the man's motives.
Starring: Guy Williams, Faith Domergue, Frank Silvera
5x30 Enter Thomas Bowers
Apr 26, 1964 · 49 min
After a triumphant tour in Europe, a famous Negro singer encounters racial prejudice in Virginia City when he arrives for a concert.
Starring: Ray Teal, Robert Adler, Ena Hartman, Dorothy Neumann
5x31 The Dark Past
May 3, 1964 · 49 min
Moody bounty hunter, Dev Farnum, shows up on the Ponderosa, where the Cartwrights are harboring the wife of the man he is after.
Starring: Susan Seaforth Hayes, Dennis Hopper
5x32 The Pressure Game
May 10, 1964 · 49 min
Laura Dayton's Aunt Lil comes to visit and quickly decides it's time she help the hesitant Adam propose to her favorite niece. Her plan is to make Adam jealous by using his cousin Will but it doesn't go exactly as planned.
Starring: Guy Williams, Katie Sweet, Kathie Browne, Joan Blondell
5x33 Triangle
May 17, 1964 · 49 min
Adam and Laura are finally engaged. Adam is secretly building a house and planning for the future. Laura realizes that it's Will she is in love with. Adam is then confined to a wheelchair after falling from a ladder and out of guilt, Laura and Will deny their feelings.
Starring: Guy Williams, Katie Sweet, Kathie Browne
5x34 Walter and the Outlaws Season Finale
May 24, 1964 · 49 min
Hilarious sequel to "Any Friend Of Walter's" in which Obie leaves Walter in Hoss' care. The three outlaws, Macy, Teague, and Willard, kidnap Walter and hold him for ransom, leaving Hoss and the returning Obie to rescue him, but matters turn out the other way.
Starring: Arthur Hunnicutt