Episode

Bonanza: A Christmas Story

Name: Bonanza: A Christmas Story
Released: 1966-12-25
Duration: 49 min
Cast: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Pernell Roberts, Victor Sen Yung

BonanzaSeason 81966-12-25

Overview

Warbling Andy Walker returns to Virginia City a big success, along with his shifty Uncle Thaddeus.

Details

Series: Bonanza
Season: Season 8
Episode: Episode 15
Air date: 1966-12-25
Runtime: 49 min

Episode context

A Christmas Story is Episode 15 in Season 8 of Bonanza. It aired on 1966-12-25. The runtime is 49 min.

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Episode 14: Tommy 1966-12-18 | 49 min The Cartwrights protect a woman and her deaf-mute little son from the boy's outlaw stepfather.

Episode 16: Ponderosa Explosion 1967-01-01 | 49 min Two Virginia City old-timers fool Hoss and Joe into raising rabbits, and the Ponderosa is overrun with paws and whiskers.

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Episode 13: The Bridegroom 1966-12-04 | 49 min Joe plays matchmaker in this story of a rancher attempting to marry off his supposedly unremarkable daughter.

Episode 17: Justice 1967-01-08 | 49 min When the woman he was planning to marry is strangled, Joe forces the only suspect to come forward.

Episode 12: A Real Nice, Friendly Little Town 1966-11-27 | 49 min When the woman he was planning to marry is strangled, Joe forces the only suspect to come forward, in a very tense-filled episode.

Episode 18: A Bride for Buford 1967-01-15 | 49 min Dolly Bantree has a crooked manager ""Blackie"", who blackmails Dolly to fleece newly rich miner Buford out of his newfound wealth. Hoss suspects something and gets all duded up to pose as a rich mark to test Dolly.

Episode 11: The Oath 1966-11-20 | 49 min While in another town, on business, Ben runs into a saloon employee who is a big figure, and after he kills an old miner, who has burned down his house, Ben takes him into the sheriff. He is sentenced and hung. Before his departure, Charlie Monahan, has made his half-breed son, Charlie Two, swear an oath to kill Ben. Little Joe is made aware of this and must track him down to prevent him from carrying out his oath against Ben. Charlie Two is unaware that Joe is Ben's son, as they meet on the trail.

Episode 19: Black Friday 1967-01-22 | 49 min In the town of Chiso, Joe encounters a former Ponderosa cowhand who is now a gunfighter and expecting to be killed on Friday the 13th. John Saxon makes the first of his three appearances in the series, in this episode as Steven Friday.

Episode 10: Ballad of the Ponderosa 1966-11-13 | 49 min A young troubadour, who blames Ben for the death of his father, returns to Virginia City. In one scene, Ben says the young man is welcome to use Adam's guitar.

Episode 20: The Unseen Wound 1967-01-29 | 49 min Ben discovers that his friend, Sheriff Paul Rowan, is suffering from stress brought on by his wartime experiences.

Episode 9: Old Charlie 1966-11-06 | 49 min A young cowpoke is killed during a fight with Hoss, but the old blowhard who runs the Virginia City stables, takes the credit, placing him in danger from the dead man's brothers.

Episode 21: Journey to Terror 1967-02-05 | 49 min Joe visits his married friends in Arizona Territory, only to discover the husband has become a criminal and is secretly part of a notorious gang.