Episode
Bonanza: Anatomy of a Lynching
Overview
Will Griner is acquitted of murder which upsets the folks of Virginia City. They feel Griner silenced witnesses and are ready to lynch him. Ben works to reopen the case by finding out the truth about the case before it is too late.
Details
- Series
- Bonanza
- Season
- Season 11
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 1969-10-12
- Runtime
- 49 min
Episode context
Anatomy of a Lynching is Episode 5 in Season 11 of Bonanza. It aired on 1969-10-12. The runtime is 49 min.
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Episode 4: A Lawman's Lot Is Not a Happy One
When he is called to testify in an out-of-town lumber shark case, Roy recruits Hoss to temporarily serve as sheriff. Hoss quickly finds his hands full dealing with a reluctant groom, who plans a robbery to make himself less appealing to his assertive fiancé; and a persistent salesman wanting to sell stock for a resort in the Virginia City area. Will Virginia City ever be the same?
Episode 6: To Stop a War
Dan Logan, a former army scout and lawman who works for the Cartwrights, has his hands full with rustlers, a range war, and a one-time prostitute whose devotion is questionable.
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A young boy positively identifies Candy as the man wanted in Stillwater for robbery, arson and murder.
Episode 7: The Medal
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Episode 2: The Witness
A young woman, Jenny Winters who is prone to telling tall tales, claims she witnessed the Logan gang holding up a stagecoach. The Cartwrights hide her at the Ponderosa, but that is only the beginning of what Jenny will learn from spinning tall tales.
Episode 8: The Stalker
Candy helps the widow of a man he shot and killed in self defense, unaware she is plotting revenge against him.
Episode 1: Another Windmill to Go
An Englishman with a passion for challenging ridiculous laws shows up on the Ponderosa grazing in a land-rowing boat mounted on a wagon.
Episode 9: Meena
Little Joe and Candy defend Meena Calhoun and her crusty father, Luke, from horse rustlers. In the process, Joe helps Meena become assertive and stick up for herself.
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 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 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 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.