Category:Bonanza – Season 8

Season 8 (Episode 11)

Air Date: 20 November 1966

Writer: Martha Wilkerson

Director: Gerd Oswald

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Bing Russell (Clem)

Guest Stars
Tony Bill (Charlie Two), Douglas Kennedy (Big Charlie Monahan), Dallas McKennon (Jenkins), Rusty Lane (Fielding), Ben Gage (Sheriff Calvin), Howard Wright (Sam)

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Notable Guest Stars

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Production Notes

• Michael Landon sings briefly a variation of Cindy, a US folk song

Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwright: Joe
• Town: Downieville

 

← Ballad of the Ponderosa

A Real Nice, Friendly Little Town →

Season 8 (Episode 10)

Air Date: 13 November 1966

Teleplay: Michael Landon and Rik Vollaerts

Story: Rik Vollaerts

Director: William F. Claxton

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Victor Sen Yung (Hop Sing)

Guest Stars
Randy Boone (Colter Preston), Ann Doran (Lisa Stanley), Roger Davis (Harold Stanley), John Archer (Dave Sinclair), Charles Irving (Judge Borman), Robert Foulk (Sheriff), Robert B. Williams (Simpson), Will J. White (Hank), Lane Bradford (Charlie)

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Notable Guest Stars

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Production Notes

• Song: Ballad of the Ponderosa

Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwright: Ben
• This episode contains a reference to Adam

Detailed synopsis and analysis

 

← Old Charlie

The Oath →

Season 8 (Episode 9)

Air Date: 6 November 1966

Writers: Robert and Wanda Duncan

Director: William F. Claxton

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Ray Teal (Roy Coffee)

Guest Stars
John McIntire (Charlie Connors), Jeanette Nolan (Annie Connors), Tim McIntire (Billy Barker/George Barker), Hal Baylor (Jack Barker), Bill Fletcher (Sam), Bruno Ve Sota (Bartender), Dick Winslow (Heckler)

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Notable Guest Stars

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Production Notes

• John McIntire’s wife Jeanette Nolan played Annie and their son is Tim McIntire

Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwright: Hoss
• VC Business: Charlie’s Livery Stable

 

← Four Sisters from Boston

Ballad of the Ponderosa →

Season 8 (Episode 8)

Air Date: 30 October 1966

Writer: John M. Chester

Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.

Synopsis

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

Guest Stars
Vera Miles (Sarah Lowell), Lyn Edgington (Gabrielle Lowell), Madeline Mack (Lorraine Lowell), Melinda Plowman (Heather Lowell), Morgan Woodward (Catlin), Quentin Sondergaard (Crocker), Owen Bush (Billings), Rand Brooks (Cowboy), Raymond Guth (Toothless)

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Notable Guest Stars

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Episode Notes

• Business: Catlin and Crocker Cattle Co.

 

← Credit for a Kill

Old Charlie →

Season 8 (Episode 7)

Air Date: 23 October 1966

Writer: Frederic Louis Fox

Director: William F. Claxton

Synopsis
While on his way to Elson, Joe stops off at the Tanner place. He and Morgan Tanner are walking up to the house when they come across a rider, who is stealing Tanner’s horse. Both men are shot at by the thief. In self-defence, both Joe and Morgan shoot at the same time, killing the thief. They take the body to Elson and explain things to Sheriff Fenton. He tells them that the man they killed was Luke Jordan – a wanted man with a $2,000 bounty on his head. Since neither Joe or Morgan know who fired the fatal bullet, they agree to share the reward. Things change drastically, when Luke Jordan’s brothers arrive on the scene and Joe decides to keep the reward all to himself.

Guest Stars
Don Collier (Sheriff Fenton), Luana Patten (Lorna), Dean Harens (Morgan Tanner), Regina Gleason (Martha Tanner), Charles Maxwell (Virgil Jordan), Ed Faulkner (Casey), Ted Markland (Boone Jordan), Troy Melton (Walt Jordan), John “Red” Fox (Bartender)

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Notable Guest Stars

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Production Notes

• Song: Beautiful Dreamer by Stephen Collins Foster (1864)

Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwright: Joe

 

← To Bloom for Thee

Four Sisters from Boston →

Season 8 (Episode 6)

Air Date: 16 October 1966

Writer: June Randolph

Director: Sutton Roley

Synopsis

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

Guest Stars
Geraldine Brooks (Carol Attley), Don Haggerty (Demers), Robert B. Williams (Hotel Clerk), Phil Chambers (Storeman), Paul Micale (Barber), Clint Sharp (Stage Driver)

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Notable Guest Stars

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Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwright: Hoss
• Business: Palace Hotel
• Carol’s mother, Kate Attley died in 1858

 

← The Pursued – Part II

Credit for a Kill →

Season 8 (Episode 5)

Air Date: 9 October 1966

Teleplay: Thomas Thompson

Story: Thomas Thompson and Mark Michaels

Director: William Witney

Synopsis

Guest Stars
Eric Fleming (Heber Clawson), Dina Merrill (Susannah Clawson), Lois Nettleton (Elizabeth Ann Clawson), Vincent Beck (Grant Carbo), Booth Colman (Parley), Nelson Leigh (Dr. Bingham), Byron Morrow (Reverend Blaisdale), Dee Carroll (Mrs. Blaisdale), Clay Tanner (Tex), Bill Clark (Dave)

Production Notes

• Made on location at Lone Pine, California

 

← The Pursued – Part I

To Bloom for Thee →

Season 8 (Episode 4)

Air Date: 2 October 1966

Teleplay: Thomas Thompson

Story: Thomas Thompson and Mark Michaels

Director: William Witney

Synopsis

Guest Stars
Eric Fleming (Heber Clawson), Dina Merrill (Susannah Clawson), Lois Nettleton (Elizabeth Ann Clawson), Vincent Beck (Grant Carbo), Booth Colman (Parley), Robert Brubaker (Menken), Jean Inness (Mrs. Lang), Donald Elson (Mr. Lang), Clay Tanner (Tex), Bill Clark (Dave)

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Notable Guest Stars

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ProductionNotes

• Made on location at Lone Pine, California

Episode Notes

• Town: Beehive (Nevada)

 

← A Time to Step Down

The Pursued – Part II →

Season 8 (Episode 3)

Air Date: 25 September 1966

Writer: Frank Chase

Director: Paul Henreid

Synopsis

Guest Stars
Ed Begley Sr. (Dan Tolliver), Audrey Totter (Beth Riley), Sherwood Price (Sand), Donald Barry (Temple), Renny McEnvoy (Flint), Bruno Ve Sota (Bartender)

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Notable Guest Stars

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Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwrights: Ben and Joe

 

← Horse of a Different Hue

The Pursued – Part I →

Season 8 (Episode 2)

Air Date: 18 September 1966

Writer: William R. Cox

Director: William Witney

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Bing Russell (Clem)

Guest Stars
Charlie Ruggles (Col. Robert Fairchild), Julie Parrish (Patty Lou Fairchild), Skip Homeier (Jack Geller), Johnny Silver (Snowden), Joe Haworth (O’Leary), Steven Marlo (Mackaye), John McKee (Fairly), Kenneth MacDonald (Sheriff), Chuck Roberson (Larcher)

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Notable Guest Stars

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Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwright: Joe

 

← Something Hurt, Something Wild

A Time to Step Down →

Season 8 (Episode 1)

Air Date: 11 September 1966

Writers: Jerry Adelman and William Driskill

Director: Lewis Allen

Synopsis

Guest Stars
Lynn Loring (Laurie Ferguson), Lyle Bettger (Jed Ferguson), Ron Foster (Stark), Erik Holland (Cleve Ferguson), David Pritchard (Bret), Bruno Ve Sota (Sam – Bartender), Bruce MacFarlane (Will – Clerk)

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Notable Guest Stars

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Episode Notes

• Featured Cartwright: Joe

 

← A Dollar’s Worth of Trouble

Horse of a Different Hue →

Art Direction

• Hal Pereira
• Earl Hedrick

Assistant Director

• Clancy Herne: Something Hurt, Something Wild; Horse of a Different Hue; The Pursued – Part II; Four Sisters from Boston; The Oath; A Real Nice, Friendly Little Town; The Bridegroom; Tommy; A Christmas Story; Justice; Black Friday; Amigo; Judgement at Red Creek; Joe Cartwright, Detective; The Deed and the Dilemma; The Prince; The Wormwood Cup; Maestro Hoss
• Miles S. Middough: A Time to Step Down; The Pursued – Part I; To Bloom for Thee; The Greedy Ones
  Don Daves: Credit for a Kill; Old Charlie; Ballad of the Ponderosa; Ponderosa Explosion; A Bride for Buford; The Unseen Wound; Journey to Terror; A Woman in the House; Napoleon’s Children; Clarissa
• Sherry Shrouds: Dark Enough to See the Stars; A Man Without Land

Casting Supervisor: William Maybery

Color Consultant: Edward P. Ancona Jr.

Costumer: Dario Piazza

Director of Photography

• Haskell Boggs: Something Hurt, Something Wild; Credit for a Kill; Old Charlie; Ballad of the Ponderosa; Ponderosa Explosion; A Bride for Buford; The Unseen Wound; Amigo; Judgement at Red Creek; Joe Cartwright, Detective; The Deed and the Dilemma; The Prince; The Wormwood Cup; Maestro Hoss
• William F. Whitley: Horse of a Different Hue; A Time to Step Down; The Pursued – Part I; The Pursued – Part II; To Bloom for Thee; Four Sisters from Boston; The Oath; A Real Nice, Friendly Little Town; The Bridegroom; Tommy; A Christmas Story; Justice; Black Friday; Journey to Terror; A Woman in the House; Dark Enough to See the Stars; A Man Without Land; Napoleon’s Children; Clarissa; The Greedy Ones

Editor

• Marvin Coil: Something Hurt, Something Wild; A Time to Step Down; The Pursued – Part II; Credit for a Kill; Tommy; A Bride for Buford; Black Friday; Judgement at Red Creek; Dark Enough to See the Stars; The Deed and the Dilemma; Clarissa
• Everett Douglas: Horse of a Different Hue; The Pursued – Part I; Ballad of the Ponderosa; The Oath; Justice; The Unseen Wound; Journey to Terror; Joe Cartwright, Detective
• Ellsworth Hoagland: To Bloom for Thee; Four Sisters from Boston; Old Charlie; A Real Nice, Friendly Little Town; The Bridegroom; A Christmas Story; Ponderosa Explosion; Amigo; A Woman in the House; The Prince; Napoleon’s Children; Maestro Hoss
• Archie Marshek: A Man Without Land; The Wormwood Cup; The Greedy Ones

Executive Consultant

• Thomas Thompson: The Pursued – Part I; The Pursued – Part II; Credit for a Kill; Old Charlie; Ballad of the Ponderosa; The Oath; A Real Nice, Friendly Little Town; Tommy; A Christmas Story; Ponderosa Explosion; Justice; A Bride for Buford; Black Friday; The Unseen Wound; Journey to Terror; Amigo; A Woman in the House; Judgement at Red Creek; Joe Cartwright, Detective; Dark Enough to See the Stars; The Deed and the Dilemma; The Prince; A Man Without Land; Napoleon’s Children; The Wormwood Cup; Clarissa; Maestro Hoss; The Greedy Ones

Hairstyle Supervision: Nellie Manley

Makeup Supervision: Wally Westmore

Music: David Rose

Set Decoration

• Robert Benton
• Grace Gregory

Sound Recording

• Lyle Figland
• Joel Moss

Story Consultant

• William Douglas Lansford: Something Hurt, Something Wild; Horse of a Different Hue; To Bloom for Thee; Four Sisters from Boston
• Denne Petitclerc: The Bridegroom
• John Hawkins: A Christmas Story; Justice; A Bride for Buford; Black Friday; The Unseen Wound; Journey to Terror; Amigo; A Woman in the House; Judgement at Red Creek; Joe Cartwright, Detective, Dark Enough to See the Stars; The Deed and the Dilemma; The Prince; A Man Without Land; Napoleon’s Children; The Wormwood Cup; Clarissa; Maestro Hoss; The Greedy Ones

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Created by David Dortort

Producer: David Dortort

Associate Producer: James W. Lane

Production Manager: Kent McCray

Song: “Bonanza” by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans

Processed by Consolidated Film Industries

Filmed at Paramount Studios, Hollywood, California

Episodes Copyright: 1966 (1-17, 34), 1967 (18-33)

TV Ratings (USA): 29.1 (No. 1) Estimated Audience: 16,042,830

NBC Television Network Presentation

 

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