A young bank robber gets a job on the Ponderosa to prevent the sheriff from finding the other members of his gang.
Hoss 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.
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.
Outlaws plot to steal a trunk containing the savings of a religious group heading for a new life in the West.
The Cartwrights' neighbor (Franchot Tone), a former soldier and lawman, seeks security for his daughter.
Hoss' bandit uncle decides to bypass the Ponderosa, but his gang disagrees.
Hoss and Little Joe spend the most unforgettable night at the carnival when Little Joe's date disappears.
A sheriff's daughter runs off with her boyfriend (John Ericson), unaware he is a murderous bank robber.
For saving his life, Ben offers some Ponderosa farmland to an American Indian.
An outlaw joins the Cartwrights' cattle drive, knowing it will take him to the town where his father is the sheriff.
Attacked by Shoshones while crossing a burial ground, Adam discovers that the Indian woman tending him is white.
Little Joe runs into romantic complications when he tries to teach a deaf girl sign language; guest Albert Salmi.
Adam and Little Joe warn Hoss when he tries to help Arnie, a man with the mind of a child and an uncontrollable temper.
An Easterner swears revenge for the death of his father, a drunk that a Cartwright killed in self-defense.
Maud Hoad leads her revenge-seeking family against Joe, who was forced to shoot treacherous Jeb Hoad.
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.
A potential mayoral candidate attempts to stir up trouble between majority and minority groups in town.
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.
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.
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.
Two British socialites find that they still have a lot to learn when they visit their friends, the Cartwrights.
When a neighbor agrees to sell his property, the Cartwrights fear the loss of water rights for their cattle.
The Cartwrights befriend a boy whose father has been sent to jail and whose mother has recently died.
Little Joe falls for a girl who has been disowned by her people because they think she is a witch and, therefore, an outcast.
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.