Bonanza

A former Army scout, current town drunk is down on his luck, so Hoss encourages him to volunteer to lead a troop through a mostly waterless desert.

After saving Adam's life, a US deputy marshal reveals that he's in town to bring a close friend of the Cartwrights to testify in a statewide trial.

After an accident involving Ben and a gun leaves him paralyzed, Tom Edwards' ranch goes under. The Cartwrights offer to help by building a mill.

When a family of Quakers are targeted by locals and Adam and his new companion, Sam, offer to escort them, Sam devises a plan to rob them instead.

When a number of ranchers are robbed and killed, posses are sent after suspects who are never found--perhaps because they're hiding in plain sight.

When Ben repays an Indian man for saving his life by giving him and his wife some of his land, prejudice erupts on both sides.

The daughter of a rich man is abducted and held for ransom, but the plan unravels when she is killed and her lover finds out who did it.

Fed up with her controlling father, Dolly Kincaid runs away with her boyfriend, who she discovers is a leader to a group of murderous bank robbers.

A long-lost relative of the Cartwright family arrives at the Ponderosa, but he happens to also be the leader of a band of criminals.

Ben hires a drifter to work a cattle drive, not realizing the man is an outlaw planning to kill the sheriff of a town they'll be passing through.

Adam is wounded while protecting a woman against a group of Indians who believed she was a mountain spirit, and the woman nurses him back to health.

Angry with the way a deaf-mute girl is treated by her father, Little Joe takes it upon himself to teach her sign language so they can communicate.

Hoss attempts to mentor a mentally challenged man who is inhumanly large and strong, and becomes extremely dangerous when angered.

After Ben shoots and kills a man in self-defense, the man's teenaged son comes to town with the purpose of avenging his father by killing Ben.

Hoss falls prey to the wiles of a beautiful woman with a gambling addiction and refuses to believe she's only interested in his money.

After Joe kills an arsonist in self-defense, he has to take the man's feisty daughter home, and she and her relatives are now determined to kill Joe.