Episode
Bonanza: The Big Jackpot
Overview
Candy has inherited a fortune from an Indian he helped. He quits his job on the Ponderosa and becomes a vice president for a land promotor who is selling beautiful, fertile land. When it is discovered that the land promotor is selling barren desert land, Candy and the Cartwrights set out to expose the land promotor as a fraud.
Details
- Series
- Bonanza
- Season
- Season 11
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 1970-01-18
- Runtime
- 49 min
Episode context
The Big Jackpot is Episode 16 in Season 11 of Bonanza. It aired on 1970-01-18. The runtime is 49 min.
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Episode 15: Danger Road
Ben needs to haul three beams that are 30 feet long and the Cambeau Freight Company will not do it. A new, independent freight hauler may be the answer. However, when Ben meets Gunny, he orders him off the Ponderosa. Ben and Gunny served together in the Mexican war, and chose opposite sides. Ben puts his differences aside with Gunny and helps him win the government contract away from Cambeau Freight Company.
Episode 17: The Trouble with Amy
Ben comes to the aid of Amy Wilder, an eccentric animal lover whose mental competency is questioned when a neighbor declares an interest in her land for mining. The neighbor asks the court for a hearing to have Amy declared senile so he can obtain her land, setting off Ben's race against time to track down Amy's relatives to defend her mental state.
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Episode 18: The Lady and the Mark
A new wealthy Ponderosa employee with a weakness for women becomes the target of con artists.
Episode 13: Abner Willoughby's Return
Joe agrees to help the man who tried to steal his horse, Abner Willoughby, who has returned to claim the box of gold he hid years ago, before going to sea.
Episode 19: Is There Any Man Here
When the daughter of a friend declares her love for him, Ben agonizes over what to do.
Episode 12: Old Friends
Ben is sorry to learn that two of his oldest friends are on opposite sides of the law, after 27 years. Charlie Shepard once worked a mining claim with Ben, along with Jess Waddell, now a bounty hunter, and will stop at nothing to kill Charlie, regardless of what anyone tries to persuade him to do otherwise.
Episode 20: The Law and Billy Burgess
Ben seriously doubts an angry young man committed several murders to which he has confessed to.
Episode 11: Dead Wrong
While in Sunville on business for the Ponderosa, the town's storyteller, Salty - who has a talent for grossly exaggerating his tales - identifies Hoss and Candy as outlaws Big Jack (Hoss) and Sid (Candy). After a frustrating endeavor of convincing Salty of their real identities, Candy and Hoss get him to help stage ""Big Jack's"" death in a gunfight, unaware that the real Big Jack and Sid are in Sunville and plan to take advantage of the townsfolks' distraction to rob the bank.
Episode 21: Long Way to Ogden
Ben gambles the future of the Ponderosa when a convincing meat packer from Chicago, sets out to ruin the local cattle industry.
Episode 10: A Darker Shadow
A Virginia City store clerk decides to take advantage of his co-worker's paralyzing sensitivity to bright light.
Episode 22: Return Engagement
En route to San Francisco, actress Lotta Crabtree arrives in Virginia City for a special performance. Hoss is smitten by the beautiful actress, which makes her leading man jealous. When he is killed during a performance, Lotta and then Hoss are suspected of the death. It is up to Ben to set things straight.