Episode

Bonanza: The Pursued (1)

Name: Bonanza: The Pursued (1)
Released: 1966-10-02
Duration: 49 min
Cast: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Pernell Roberts, Victor Sen Yung

BonanzaSeason 81966-10-02

Overview

A Mormon with two wives is badgered by the town's people and then things get much worse.

Details

Series: Bonanza
Season: Season 8
Episode: Episode 4
Air date: 1966-10-02
Runtime: 49 min

Episode context

The Pursued (1) is Episode 4 in Season 8 of Bonanza. It aired on 1966-10-02. The runtime is 49 min.

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Episode 3: A Time to Step Down 1966-09-25 | 49 min After the Cartwrights put wrangler Dan Tolliver out to pasture, the embittered old man plans to take part in robbing the Ponderosa.

Episode 5: The Pursued (2) 1966-10-09 | 49 min As the persecuted party awaits Ben and Hoss' return, Herber is shot and killed. Joe retaliates and shoots Herber's assassin.

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Episode 2: Horse of a Different Hue 1966-09-18 | 49 min So the Cartwrights will not be killed, one of Ben's oldest friends must make sure Joe does not win a horse race.

Episode 6: To Bloom for Thee 1966-10-16 | 49 min Hoss is engaged to Carol Attley, a troubled woman with a past darker than he imagines.

Episode 1: Something Hurt, Something Wild 1966-09-11 | 49 min The Cartwrights' friendship with a neighboring rancher is threatened by his mentally unstable daughter.

Episode 7: Credit for a Kill 1966-10-23 | 49 min Though his friend is badly in need of the reward money, Joe insists it belongs to him, to protect his friend from the dead outlaws' brothers.

Episode 8: Four Sisters from Boston 1966-10-30 | 49 min The Cartwrights come to the rescue of four inexperienced homesteaders, when devious cattle ranchers try to run them off their property.

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 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 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 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 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.