Episode
Bonanza: Kingdom of Fear
Overview
Ben, Hoss and Joe, along with Candy and a fellow rancher, are jailed on false trespassing charges by a greedy mining tycoon. The despot runs a gold mine (i.e., a thinly-veiled prison camp) and acquires slave labor by pressing phony criminal charges against the unfortunate inmates.
Details
- Series
- Bonanza
- Season
- Season 12
- Episode
- Episode 27
- Air date
- 1971-04-04
- Runtime
- 49 min
Episode context
Kingdom of Fear is Episode 27 in Season12 of Bonanza. It aired on 1971-04-04. The runtime is 49 min.
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Episode 28: An Earthquake Called Callahan
The only person who can get Dusty out of jail is a professional fighter who will not return to Virginia City, so Joe stays on the man's heels no matter where he goes.
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Episode 25: A Time to Die
While visiting the Ponderosa, Ben's friend, April Christopher, is bitten by a rabid wolf. Ben and April and her daughter must come to terms with her illness as they all realize the terrible fate that awaits April.
Episode 24: The Stillness Within
Blinded by an explosion, Joe wallows in self-pity, and at first resists the efforts of a woman trying to teach him to live without sight, not knowing she is also blind.
Episode 23: Terror at 2:00
A racist and his henchmen steal a Gatling gun, with plans to massacre everyone - including the Cartwrights - involved in a peace treaty signing between the U.S. Army and the Paitues in Virginia City. The man's hope is that the tragedy will spark another war and eventually lead to the genocide of all Native Americans.
Episode 22: The Silent Killer
An epidemic of influenza hits the Ponderosa and the only person who seems sure of what to do is the wife of a doctor, whom Doc Martin says is a fraud.
Episode 21: Shadow of a Hero
Ben is shocked to learn the Army general he is backing as governor, advocates a policy of genocide towards all Indians.
Episode 20: The Reluctant American
An English couple comes to Nevada to learn why a ranch owned by the British investment firm is the only company holding not showing a profit.
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.
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 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 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.