Episode
Bonanza: The Real People of Muddy Creek
Overview
Ben is in charge of a vicious prisoner and gets virtually no help from the cowardly citizens of the town where he is holding him from the law.
Details
- Series
- Bonanza
- Season
- Season 10
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 1968-10-06
- Runtime
- 49 min
Episode context
The Real People of Muddy Creek is Episode 4 in Season 10 of Bonanza. It aired on 1968-10-06. The runtime is 49 min.
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Episode 3: Salute to Yesterday
When on a cattle drive on Ponderosa land, the Cartwrights and Candy find a dying cavalry officer on the trail. With his last breath, he asks them to go help his commanding officer, Captain Harris. Riding atop a slope, they see Captain Harris and his soldiers fighting off Mexican bandits who are trying to steal the four kegs of gold hidden in the Army ambulance. The Cartwrights and Candy cut right between the soldiers and the Mexican bandits, in a spectacular chase through a little valley and wind up at a high and rocky outcrop, taking cover and assisting the soldiers.
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The son of a rancher to whom the Cartwrights are selling a prize bull is trying to get his father ruled mentally incompetant, and will let no one stand in his way.
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