Episode
Bonanza: The Jackknife
Overview
Adam gives a second chance to a family man he suspects is one of the rustlers who has been hitting the Ponderosa herds.
Details
- Series
- Bonanza
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 22
- Air date
- 1962-02-18
- Runtime
- 49 min
Episode context
The Jackknife is Episode 22 in Season 3 of Bonanza. It aired on 1962-02-18. The runtime is 49 min.
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Episode 21: Gift of Water
The Cartwrights dig a well, build a rig and a windmill for a drought-stricken farm family.
Episode 23: The Guilty
When Ben fails to prevent the death of a friend's son, Adam and Joe, concerned by their father's depression, attempt to prove there was nothing he could have done.
More episodes from this season
Episode 20: The Auld Sod
The Cartwrights pretend the Ponderosa belongs to the town lush, when his aging mother from Ireland arrives.
Episode 24: The Wooing of Abigail Jones
In order to keep peace on the ranch, Hoss and Joe try to help ranch hand, Hank Meyers woo the the plain-looking schoolteacher, Abigail Jones. When their first plan backfires, they convince Adam (who doesn't want to get involved) to help and this makes things worse because Abigail believes it is Adam who is wooing her and Hank Meyers believes Adam wants to steal her away.
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 25: The Lawmaker
Ben supports the appointment of Asa Moran as Virginia City's temporary sheriff, but Moran goes overboard with his authority, jailing Adam in the process and pistol-whipping a Ponderosa hand.
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 26: Look to the Stars
A young genius, Albert Michaelson, vies for a scholarship. Adam assists Albert in the boy's experiments. Albert only needs the school teacher's approval to be granted a scholarship-which will be very difficult to get considering Albert was expelled from school.
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 27: The Gamble
In the town of Alkali, the Cartwrights are jailed on false charges of robbery and murder, but Joe escapes and returns with an army of Ponderosa hands.
Episode 16: The Tall Stranger
Hoss plans to marry Margie, a pretty blonde, but Margie becomes fascinated with a tall, traveling stranger named Mark Connors. Margie marries Mark but soon finds it was far from a match made in heaven.
Episode 28: The Crucible
Adam is left to die in the desert after two thieves take $5,000 and his horse from him. Near death, he stumbles into an old prospector named Kane who offers to lend him a mule and supplies in exchange for three day's work at his mine. Kane, however, turns out to be a demented madman. He holds Adam prisoner and tortures him to prove his theory that anyone could be driven to kill, even a man as rational as Adam. This is Pernell Robert's favorite episode along with "The Wooing Of Abigail Jones".