Episode
Bonanza: Land Grab
Overview
The Ponderosa is overrun with settlers bearing phony property deeds, and one of Ben's oldest friends is responsible.
Details
- Series
- Bonanza
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 1961-12-31
- Runtime
- 49 min
Episode context
Land Grab is Episode 15 in Season 3 of Bonanza. It aired on 1961-12-31. The runtime is 49 min.
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Episode 13: The Tin Badge
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Episode 17: The Lady from Baltimore
An overbearing friend of the family tries to force her daughter into marrying Joe, though she does not love him. The situation grows more complex when Adam stumbles onto the scheme.
Episode 12: The Frenchman
An irritating man who boasts of being the reincarnation of French poet Francois Villion shows up causing trouble for the Cartwrights.
Episode 18: The Ride
Adam races against the clock to prove a man who was once his friend is guilty of robbery and murder and Adam is convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt he is guilty.
Episode 11: Day of the Dragon
Joe wins a card game and an unexpected prize...a young lady. She goes to the Ponderosa and serves them, not wanting to be set free. Meanwhile, an army is looking for her and the Cartwrights.
Episode 19: The Storm
Joe plans to marry Laura White, daughter of a man Ben once sailed with, but she is fatally ill. Ben consoles him with words spoken years before, by the father of Adam's mother.
Episode 10: The Horse Breaker
A professional wrangler working for the Cartwrights is paralyzed when thrown by a particularly mean bronco. The woman nursing him was once engaged to the late son of a neighboring rancher out to get Ben.
Episode 20: The Auld Sod
The Cartwrights pretend the Ponderosa belongs to the town lush, when his aging mother from Ireland arrives.
Episode 9: The Countess
A woman Ben once loved, Lady Chadwick, returns and attempts to trick him into marrying her by ruining his business. Ben says almost losing the Ponderosa will make him and his sons appreciate it more.
Episode 21: Gift of Water
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