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The Best Episodes of Bonanza Season 10

Every episode of Bonanza Season 10 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Bonanza Season 10!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Bonanza Season 10 Episode 23 - The Wish
    8.4/10(150 votes)

    S10:E23

    Hoss spends his two-month vacation helping a black family get their farm in shape, and dealing with racism in the neighboring town.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Michael Landon

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  2. Bonanza Season 10 Episode 13 - Mark of Guilt
    8.3/10(132 votes)

    S10:E13

    Hop Sing tells Hoss and Candy they can use the ancient Chinese art of fingerprinting to prove Joe is innocent of murder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Bonanza Season 10 Episode 16 - My Friend, My Enemy
    8.1/10(117 votes)

    S10:E16

    Only the testimony of an Indian wanted for horse theft can clear Candy of murder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Bonanza Season 10 Episode 1 - Different Pines, Same Wind
    7.9/10(129 votes)

    S10:E1

    The 10th season opens as Joe helps a widowed mountain woman, a recluse who is suffering from an infection that has become serious, in a battle to save her land from an unscrupulous timber baron.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Bonanza Season 10 Episode 5 - The Passing of a King
    7.9/10(115 votes)

    S10:E5

    The son of a rancher to whom the Cartwrights are selling a prize bull is trying to get his father ruled mentally incompetant, and will let no one stand in his way.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Bonanza Season 10 Episode 29 - The Fence
    7.9/10(103 votes)

    S10:E29

    While Ben and Hoss visit an old friend to negotiate the purchase of a mine, former Confederate soldiers arrive wanting to exact revenge on the Cartwrights' friend for starving POWs during the Civil War.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Bonanza Season 10 Episode 30 - A Ride in the Sun
    7.9/10(117 votes)

    S10:E30

    A pair of con artists swindle Ben out of nearly $30,000 after convincing the Cartwright patriarch to enter into a deal to buy his cattle. The brother and sister shoot Ben, rob the Virginia City Bank and go on the run with Little Joe hot on their trail.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Bonanza Season 10 Episode 22 - Five Candles
    7.8/10(108 votes)

    S10:E22

    The floor of the Virginia City courthouse collapses, trapping Ben in the basement with three other people, one of whom may or may not be guilty of murder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Bonanza Season 10 Episode 24 - The Deserter
    7.8/10(110 votes)

    S10:E24

    Candy comes upon a soldier who is running from charges of desertion, and with Joe's help they foil a plan to sell rapid-fire rifles to the Indians.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Bonanza Season 10 Episode 26 - The Running Man
    7.8/10(108 votes)

    S10:E26

    Joe and Candy travel to Butlerville and learn that one of Ben's closest friends is burning out new settlers, whom he regards as squatters. Candy's old ex-flame is married to Jess Parker, who always saw Candy as a rival in the past, but things have changed with both men and Jess' wife Barbara. Cal Butler is the real problem: he will stop at nothing to keep Parker from testifying alive.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Bonanza Season 10 Episode 4 - The Real People of Muddy Creek
    7.7/10(131 votes)

    S10:E4

    Ben is in charge of a vicious prisoner and gets virtually no help from the cowardly citizens of the town where he is holding him from the law.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Bonanza Season 10 Episode 17 - Mrs. Wharton and the Lesser Breeds
    7.7/10(119 votes)

    S10:E17

    Candy sets out to help a feisty and elderly British woman recover the jewels stolen from her in a stage holdup.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Bonanza Season 10 Episode 20 - The Clarion
    7.7/10(114 votes)

    S10:E20

    Ben's friend is struggling to keep her newspaper going in the face of harrassment by the town boss of Gunlock, so without telling her, Ben buys the business.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Bonanza Season 10 Episode 27 - The Unwanted
    7.7/10(109 votes)

    S10:E27

    Feeling unloved, a Marshal's daughter runs off with a Ponderosa hand her father thinks may be related to the man that shot him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Bonanza Season 10 Episode 3 - Salute to Yesterday
    7.6/10(110 votes)

    S10:E3

    When on a cattle drive on Ponderosa land, the Cartwrights and Candy find a dying cavalry officer on the trail. With his last breath, he asks them to go help his commanding officer, Captain Harris. Riding atop a slope, they see Captain Harris and his soldiers fighting off Mexican bandits who are trying to steal the four kegs of gold hidden in the Army ambulance. The Cartwrights and Candy cut right between the soldiers and the Mexican bandits, in a spectacular chase through a little valley and wind up at a high and rocky outcrop, taking cover and assisting the soldiers.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Bonanza Season 10 Episode 18 - Erin
    7.6/10(125 votes)

    S10:E18

    A neighbor of the Cartwrights threatens Hoss' fiancé, Erin - a beautiful young woman who has been raised by Indians since her childhood - when Ben allows the Paiutes to camp on Ponderosa land.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Bonanza Season 10 Episode 2 - Child
    7.5/10(122 votes)

    S10:E2

    While Hoss is in a remote town on business, he is arrested for murder and robbery. The town's richest man has just been killed, and the townspeople are less concerned with justice, rather the old man's money. They are convinced that if they threaten Hoss, he'll break down and tell them where he hid the fortune. A few of the town's top citizens, including the mayor, form a lynch mob, but only hang Hoss "part of the way". But when cowboy Child Barnett sees the lynch mob coming, he breaks Hoss out of jail, and the two men form a friendship on the run.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Bonanza Season 10 Episode 7 - Catch as Catch Can
    7.5/10(117 votes)

    S10:E7

    The residents of Tin Bucket claim the Cartwrights and Candy are dealing in stolen cattle hides. With most of the town accusing Joe, Hoss and Candy of various crimes, it is Ben who faces the most serious trouble when he determines who is actually responsible for the hide thefts.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Bonanza Season 10 Episode 9 - The Survivors
    7.5/10(108 votes)

    S10:E9

    A white woman abducted years before by the Paiutes is reunited with her husband, who is less than pleased to learn she has given birth to an Indian baby.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Bonanza Season 10 Episode 19 - Company of Forgotten Men
    7.5/10(103 votes)

    S10:E19

    A retired Army sergeant, bitter that he never received his pension from the government, kidnaps one-time friend Candy and forces him to go along with a daring plan to blow up the U.S. mint in Carson City and hold the gold and silver for ransom.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Bonanza Season 10 Episode 14 - A World Full of Cannibals
    7.4/10(98 votes)

    S10:E14

    Ben agrees to hide a government witness in a land fraud case at the Ponderosa as part of the witness protection program. However, the witness - who along with eight men committed various crimes in connection with the case - is in constant danger, as his co-defendants ruthlessly track him down in an attempt to seal his silence.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Bonanza Season 10 Episode 28 - Speak No Evil
    7.4/10(106 votes)

    S10:E28

    Coley Clayborn, who has always thought his mother abandoned him and his father, thinks she is only after the gold mine he inherited when she recently returned to Virginia City.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Bonanza Season 10 Episode 8 - Little Girl Lost
    7.3/10(119 votes)

    S10:E8

    A bratty 10-year-old girl named Samantha, whose mother is Ben's cousin and is a third cousin of Hoss and Little Joe, comes to the Ponderosa. While she proves to be a handful, Ben (who tracks down the girl's mother) really has his hands full when her grandfather comes to the Ponderosa demanding custody.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Bonanza Season 10 Episode 15 - Sweet Annie Laurie
    7.3/10(115 votes)

    S10:E15

    Hoss offers to help Annie Laurie, a beautiful young woman who is running away from her abusive husband, a career criminal who is determined to keep his wife under his control and travel with her throughout the southwest, any which way he can.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Bonanza Season 10 Episode 6 - The Last Vote
    7.2/10(112 votes)

    S10:E6

    Hoss and Joe's bickering leads them into taking opposite sides in the Virginia City mayoral race. Their zealous actions leads into dividing Virginia City's citizens into 2 factions that causes nothing but arguments, fights and havoc in town.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 10 Ratings Summary

"The Wish" is the best rated episode of Bonanza season 10. It scored 8.4/10 from 150 votes. Written and directed by Michael Landon, it aired on March 9, 1969. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Mark of Guilt".