Episode
Bonanza: Honest John
Overview
Jamie forms a bond with a bum and his tame crow. Before long, Jamie suggests they repair an old wagon and leave the Ponderosa.
Details
- Series
- Bonanza
- Season
- Season 12
- Episode
- Episode 13
- Air date
- 1970-12-20
- Runtime
- 49 min
Episode context
Honest John is Episode 13 in Season12 of Bonanza. It aired on 1970-12-20. The runtime is 49 min.
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Episode 12: The Impostors
Hoss and Joe pretend to be stage robbers' partners in order to recover stolen Cartwright money. All goes well until the wife of one of the thieves shows up.
Episode 14: For a Young Lady
A girl's uncle and aunt want custody of her only because they believe she has the rights to her late grandfather's mine.
More episodes from this season
Episode 11: The Luck of Pepper Shannon
Pepper Shannon is a dime novel hero and outlaw. Ben gives a job to Pepper Shannon on the condition the one-time outlaw stays away from Jamie, who happens to admire him.
Episode 15: A Single Pilgrim
Settlers from Virginia argue over Hoss' fate after one of them accidentally shoots him.
Episode 10: El Jefe
Ben and Hoss come to the rescue of Mexican farmers who are forced off their land by the greedy mine owner who runs the town of Prince River.
Episode 16: The Gold-Plated Rifle
An insecure Jamie is unsure of his place in the family, having trouble adjusting at his new school and keeps getting harassed by a bully. When he takes Ben's prized gold-plated rifle and breaks it, he runs away, sending Ben to go looking for him.
Episode 9: The Love Child
A dying woman and her son are rejected by her father because she had a child out of wedlock.
Episode 17: Top Hand
The Cartwrights are about to start a major cattle drive with other ranchers. It has been decided that Ben's foreman will be trail boss on the drive. Weatherby, a fellow rancher who is also with Ben, has agreed to have Kelly as trail boss, until he finds out that Kelly was previously on a cattle drive with him, and fired him for drinking.
Weatherby also suggests that his younger wrangler take the job as trail boss, and a conflict is started between both Ben's foreman and Weatherby's wrangler.
Episode 8: Thornton's Account
Ben's new horse throws him down a steep slope, injuring his back. Joe tries to round up some help, but the settlers in the valley live in fear of the devious owner and his hired help. Joe goes for help from a man named Thornton, but he is wounded by the lowlife cowboys, and has no choice but to ask them for help. A very imaginitive and visually creative dream Ben has of Joe calling out to him and falling beside him, before waking up and realizes he has just had a terrifying nightmare.
Episode 18: A Deck of Aces
Bradley Meredith, a Ben Cartwright look-a-like, causes trouble when he sells land to the railroad. Ben has already turned down the deal, but Meredith, acting as Ben, accepts the deal, which stirs up all kinds of trouble.
Episode 7: The Trouble with Trouble
When Hoss volunteers to be Sheriff of a town called Trouble, he soon finds out that the town had correctly been named. Hoss almost manages to arrest the whole town, and captures the Clanton gang all by himself.
Episode 19: The Desperado
Hoss is held prisoner by a fugitive black couple who they admit hate white people and have nothing to lose by killing them.