Episode
Bonanza: A Passion for Justice
Overview
Renowned English novelist Charles Dickens comes to Virginia City. In short order, he is accused of a crime he didn't commit. The problem then becomes how to convince the stubborn author to defend himself.
Details
- Series
- Bonanza
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 1963-09-29
- Runtime
- 49 min
Episode context
A Passion for Justice is Episode 2 in Season 5 of Bonanza. It aired on 1963-09-29. The runtime is 49 min.
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Episode 1: She Walks in Beauty
Hoss wants to marry mysterious Regan Miller, a woman with less than a pristine past. When he thinks Adam is trying to steal her away, he loses control and beats Adam up.
Episode 3: Rain from Heaven
A destitute rainmaker and his family arrive in drought-stricken Virginia City. While Ben tries to help him make rain, Hoss tends to the man's seriously ill little girl.
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Episode 4: Twilight Town
Joe is bushwhacked in the desert and awakens to find himself in Martinville, a town that may or may not be populated by ghosts. An errie, surrealistic and well-produced episode.
Episode 5: The Toy Soldier
Adam encounters drunken artist James Callan, branded a "squaw man" because he is married to an Indian, and whose talent is going to waste in the town of Sheep Head.
Episode 6: A Question of Strength
Hoss and a pair of nuns, the younger one having a difficult time training for the order, are robbed and stranded at a way station.
Episode 7: Calamity over the Comstock
Joe has a run-in with Calamity Jane, and takes her home with him after promising her dying father to take care of her. At first the Cartwrights (besides Joe) think ""Cal"" is a boy, but they soon find out differently. Cal begins to fall in love with Joe, but Joe finds her attentions unwanted...especially when Cal's boyfriend, Doc Holliday, has it in for Joe.
Episode 8: Journey Remembered
Ben finds an old journal that he kept while in a wagon train travelling from St. Joseph, Missouri to Ash Hollow. As he is reading it Ben remembers the journey he undertook with his wife Inger and a young Adam. During the trip Hoss is born and they have trouble with some Indians.
Episode 9: The Quality of Mercy
Joe struggles to understand whether his friend was right in killing a dying man who pleaded to put out of his misery.
Episode 10: The Waiting Game
Adam becomes involved with the recently widowed Laura Dayton and her little girl, Peggy.
Episode 11: The Legacy
Adam, Hoss and Joe mistakenly believe their father was murdered. They split into 3 different directions to confront the supposed killers. In his heart, Ben knows his sons will not act outside the law; but he is not 100% sure that Joe will behave correctly.
Episode 12: Hoss and the Leprechauns
In what is arguably the best comedy of the series, Hoss swears he has seen green elves running around the Ponderosa and a smooth-talking Irishman complicates matters even worse.
Episode 13: The Prime of Life
Ben becomes irritable and reckless when the completion of an important timber contract is hindered by an old rival.