The story of the Cartwright family on their Ponderosa ranch. Pernell Roberts appeared in the first six seasons, and Dan Blocker in the first 13.

The classic series about Hoss and little Joe and life on the Ponderosa.

Join the Cartwright clan in life on the Ponderosa.

An escaped mental patient (Tom Skerritt) makes Joe the object of a bizarre hunt.

A deputy U.S. marshal (Karen Carlson) poses as Griff's wife to catch a Civil War criminal (Richard Eastham).

Griff tries to locate the witness (Sally Kemp) who can clear Candy of murder and theft charges.

Jamie falls for the wife (Pamela Franklin) of an insanely jealous schoolmaster (Jordan Rhodes).

To keep his Irish setter, Jamie must enter her in a field trial against a champion; guest Don Knight.

An elderly man (Jack Albertson) takes in runaway orphan brothers, one of whom is mute.

A doctor's (Mike Farrell) morphine addiction is revealed during his trial for murder; guest David Huddleston.

Joe must risk his beloved stallion to save a wounded boy; guests Clu Gulager, Mitzi Hoag, Vincent Van Patten.

Editor Samuel Clemens (Ken Howard) asks the Cartwrights to help him prove a government assayer is a killer.

Would-be robbers plan to use a pregnant woman (Sian Barbara Allen) as a decoy to stop a stagecoach; guest James Olson.

Ex-convict Griff (Tim Matheson) has trouble adjusting to life on the Ponderosa; guest Ronny Cox.

A convict stages a prison riot that ensnares Ben; guest Aldo Ray.

The leader (Ronny Howard) of a boy's club forces his followers, including Jamie, to cover up an initiate's death.

A man (Robert Lansing) returns from prison to find his land neglected and his wife (Fionnula Flanagan) exhausted.

John's gambling debts mount after Alice rejects him because of his alcoholism.

Joe falls for a woman (Bonnie Bedelia) who arrives with her brother (Andrew Robinson) in Virginia City.

A look-alike for Ben dictates a deathbed wish to Sheriff Coffee, asking him to liquidate the Ponderosa.

When hidden treasure is believed to be buried on a piece Cartwright property, the ranchers are deluged with offers to buy the land.

Ben learns a visitor's (Suzanne Pleshette) husband (Jon Cypher) is sought as a Confederate traitor.

Hoss is identified as a member of the Younger brothers' (Strother Martin, Ted Gehring, Chuck McCann) gang, recently released from prison.

Jamie and Joe help a man (Roscoe Lee Brown) in a wheelchair who sets out on the trail of his grandson's killers.

Ben is linked to a murder after suffering memory loss while on a business trip.