Episode
Bonanza: The Code
Overview
Joe is goaded into facing gunman Dan Taggert, unaware there is more to be prearranged than he realizes.
Details
- Series
- Bonanza
- Season
- Season 7
- Episode
- Episode 21
- Air date
- 1966-02-13
- Runtime
- 49 min
Episode context
The Code is Episode 21 in Season 7 of Bonanza. It aired on 1966-02-13. The runtime is 49 min.
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Episode 20: Peace Officer
While Sheriff Coffee is in Saint Louis, the Morrisey bunch decides to work off excess energy by wrecking the saloon in a violent spree. When Deputy Bill Harris tries to arrest them, they hit him on the head with a whiskey bottle, accidentally killing him. All of them get away except Cliff, who is put in jail. He refuses to say the names or locations of his friends. Mayor Garrett holds an emergency meeting of the Virginia City town council.
They hire legendary lawman Wes Dunn, as the temporary sheriff. He is a humorless man who is determined to restore order in town. He beats Cliff almost to death to find out where his friends are, but Cliff will not say anything. Meanwhile, Hoss finds Chuck, a wounded gang member. When he tries to take Chuck's gun away, he shoots Hoss. Joe goes with Dunn to find the other men. He thinks Dunn is a hero until he sees him murder one of the suspects in cold blood.
Episode 22: Three Brides for Hoss
Not one, but three mail-order brides show up unexpectedly at the Ponderosa, all of them believing they are to marry Hoss.
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Episode 19: Destiny's Child
After his only friend is killed, the Cartwrights take in a slow-witted man, who Roy Coffee informs them, is wanted for murder by Arizona authorities.
Episode 23: The Emperor Norton
Joshua Norton, an eccentric and formerly wealthy San Francisco merchant who considers himself Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, comes to the Ponderosa. Authorities want to have him committed, and Ben contacts Mark Twain to testify to Norton's sanity.
Episode 18: Ride the Wind (2)
Conclusion to the previous-week's episode, where the Cartwrights provide needed assistance to the Pony Express.
Episode 24: Her Brother's Keeper
Ben and Claire Armory fall in love, but their future is jeopardized by her disabled brother.
Episode 17: Ride the Wind (1)
The Pony Express sets up office in Virginia and Joe is one of the first to join up. Ben also decides to invest in the fledgling enterprise. However, troubles soon plague the Pony Express with the Paiutes and a newspaper reporter, both trying to get their own agendas across.
Episode 25: The Trouble with Jamie
The Cartwrights attempt to straighten out the snobbish young son of Ben's cousin.
Episode 16: To Kill a Buffalo
Hoss finds a wounded young Indian on the prairie, who is torn between accepting the ways of the white man or returning to his old life.
Episode 26: Shining in Spain
Young, adoring Wendy Daniels has come to Virginia City to meet up with her father, Taylor Daniels, who has been traveling on business for the last five years. Joe is attracted to Wendy, but he faces stiff competition for her affections. She idolizes her father and cannot stop talking about his great business visions, although she has not seen him in five years.
The Cartwrights realize there is something wrong when Wendy's supposedly rich father leaves her stranded in Virginia City with no money. When she is evicted from the hotel after running up a debt of $50, Joe takes her to the Ponderosa, only to have her dreams of her father shattered when he shows up flat broke.
Episode 15: The Dublin Lad
After sitting on a jury that has convicted Terrence O' Tool of murder, Joe has second thoughts about the verdict and decides to do some investigating of his own.
Episode 27: The Genius
Hoss chooses a difficult path when he decides to rehabilitate a famous poet, Will Smith, who is really William Warlock Evans, who spends too much time drinking and eventually his wife arrives at the Ponderosa.