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The Best Episodes of Bonanza Season 11

Every episode of Bonanza Season 11 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Bonanza Season 11!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Bonanza Season 11 Episode 17 - The Trouble with Amy
    8.1/10(126 votes)

    S11:E17

    Ben comes to the aid of Amy Wilder, an eccentric animal lover whose mental competency is questioned when a neighbor declares an interest in her land for mining. The neighbor asks the court for a hearing to have Amy declared senile so he can obtain her land, setting off Ben's race against time to track down Amy's relatives to defend her mental state.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Bonanza Season 11 Episode 7 - The Medal
    8.0/10(119 votes)

    S11:E7

    Ben lends a hand to a down and out war veteran, Matthew Rush, who received the Congressional Medal Of Honor.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Bonanza Season 11 Episode 11 - Dead Wrong
    7.9/10(106 votes)

    S11:E11

    While in Sunville on business for the Ponderosa, the town's storyteller, Salty - who has a talent for grossly exaggerating his tales - identifies Hoss and Candy as outlaws Big Jack (Hoss) and Sid (Candy). After a frustrating endeavor of convincing Salty of their real identities, Candy and Hoss get him to help stage ""Big Jack's"" death in a gunfight, unaware that the real Big Jack and Sid are in Sunville and plan to take advantage of the townsfolks' distraction to rob the bank.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Bonanza Season 11 Episode 21 - Long Way to Ogden
    7.9/10(102 votes)

    S11:E21

    Ben gambles the future of the Ponderosa when a convincing meat packer from Chicago, sets out to ruin the local cattle industry.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Bonanza Season 11 Episode 24 - Decision at Los Robles
    7.9/10(120 votes)

    S11:E24

    Ben and Joe stop in Los Robles for a couple of beers and a night's rest. Ben sees the town boss, John Walker, bullying the saloon waitress, and he comes to her defense. When Ben steps outside of the saloon, Walker shoots him in the back. Badly wounded, Ben shoots back, killing Walker just before he falls unconscious. While Joe keeps a vigil at Ben's bedside, the priest tells him Los Robles had always been ruled unquestionably by John Walker and his son Jed. Now Jed will certainly want revenge. Sure enough, he tells Joe if he doesn't hand Ben over in 24 hours, he will kill every citizen in Los Robles, one an hour. To complicate matters more, Walker's foreman, Garth, deliberately tells Jed that Ben shot his father in the back, in hopes that Joe will kill Walker, so he can run the Walker ranch. When Joe tries to mobilize a few citizens to fight Walker and his army of men, he finds a town full of cowards. The biggest coward of all is the doctor. He purposely left the bullet in Ben's back, hoping that he'd die within 24 hours. Jed and Garth make final plans to blow up Los Robles with dynamite, unless Joe surrenders Ben to him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Bonanza Season 11 Episode 6 - To Stop a War
    7.8/10(112 votes)

    S11:E6

    Dan Logan, a former army scout and lawman who works for the Cartwrights, has his hands full with rustlers, a range war, and a one-time prostitute whose devotion is questionable.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Bonanza Season 11 Episode 8 - The Stalker
    7.7/10(112 votes)

    S11:E8

    Candy helps the widow of a man he shot and killed in self defense, unaware she is plotting revenge against him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Bonanza Season 11 Episode 14 - It's a Small World
    7.7/10(110 votes)

    S11:E14

    A prejudiced Virginia City banker spurns Ben's recommendation of a recent widower (with an infant daughter to raise) for a bank teller's job because he's a midget. The midget, a former circus performer, steals money from the bank to support his daughter.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Michael Landon

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  9. Bonanza Season 11 Episode 3 - The Silence at Stillwater
    7.5/10(103 votes)

    S11:E3

    A young boy positively identifies Candy as the man wanted in Stillwater for robbery, arson and murder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Bonanza Season 11 Episode 5 - Anatomy of a Lynching
    7.5/10(95 votes)

    S11:E5

    Will Griner is acquitted of murder which upsets the folks of Virginia City. They feel Griner silenced witnesses and are ready to lynch him. Ben works to reopen the case by finding out the truth about the case before it is too late.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Bonanza Season 11 Episode 9 - Meena
    7.5/10(106 votes)

    S11:E9

    Little Joe and Candy defend Meena Calhoun and her crusty father, Luke, from horse rustlers. In the process, Joe helps Meena become assertive and stick up for herself.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Bonanza Season 11 Episode 10 - A Darker Shadow
    7.5/10(98 votes)

    S11:E10

    A Virginia City store clerk decides to take advantage of his co-worker's paralyzing sensitivity to bright light.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Bonanza Season 11 Episode 13 - Abner Willoughby's Return
    7.5/10(121 votes)

    S11:E13

    Joe agrees to help the man who tried to steal his horse, Abner Willoughby, who has returned to claim the box of gold he hid years ago, before going to sea.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Bonanza Season 11 Episode 2 - The Witness
    7.4/10(112 votes)

    S11:E2

    A young woman, Jenny Winters who is prone to telling tall tales, claims she witnessed the Logan gang holding up a stagecoach. The Cartwrights hide her at the Ponderosa, but that is only the beginning of what Jenny will learn from spinning tall tales.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Bonanza Season 11 Episode 15 - Danger Road
    7.4/10(96 votes)

    S11:E15

    Ben needs to haul three beams that are 30 feet long and the Cambeau Freight Company will not do it. A new, independent freight hauler may be the answer. However, when Ben meets Gunny, he orders him off the Ponderosa. Ben and Gunny served together in the Mexican war, and chose opposite sides. Ben puts his differences aside with Gunny and helps him win the government contract away from Cambeau Freight Company.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Bonanza Season 11 Episode 23 - The Gold Mine
    7.4/10(97 votes)

    S11:E23

    Two drifters come to the Ponderosa and they try to rob the Cartwrights but are driven away. Joe becomes close to the young Mexican, Ramon, who is with them. After they get into a little disagreement they throw Ramon out. The drifters then discover that Ramon has found gold. Ramon returns to the Ponderosa and is welcomed. The Cartwrights learn that Ramon's father, who had to take care of his large family, sold his son to the two men. The two drifters grab Ramon and force him to tell them where he found the gold. They are about to make their claim when the Cartwrights stop them and let Ramon claim the gold as his. Ramon then goes back to Mexico with his fortune.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Bonanza Season 11 Episode 25 - Caution, Easter Bunny Crossing
    7.4/10(126 votes)

    S11:E25

    ""Here comes Hoss Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail... "" That's what the folks of Virginia City were probably thinking when a Quaker woman talks a reluctant Hoss into dressing as the Easter Bunny for the orphanage's children. While hippety-hopping and waiting for Easter to be its way, Hoss - while dressed in the Easter Bunny costume - contends with a group of inept outlaws, who commit a comedy of errors in their attempts to rob stagecoaches.

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writer:Larry Markes

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  18. Bonanza Season 11 Episode 28 - A Matter of Circumstance
    7.4/10(114 votes)

    S11:E28

    Little Joe stays back at the Ponderosa to tend to its operation as Ben, Hoss, Candy and Hop Sing leave for a cattle drive, who leave as a severe thunderstorm approaches. Joe goes to the barn to calm a horse that was spooked by the thunder and lightning. But just when it seems like the horse has settled down, the horse goes wild, knocking down Joe and crushing his left arm and breaking his leg. Joe goes in and out of consciousness and, after struggling against driving rain and winds to get into the house, treats his wounds. However, the arm is infected and Joe, fearing gangrene has set in, debates whether to amputate the wound.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Bonanza Season 11 Episode 12 - Old Friends
    7.3/10(94 votes)

    S11:E12

    Ben is sorry to learn that two of his oldest friends are on opposite sides of the law, after 27 years. Charlie Shepard once worked a mining claim with Ben, along with Jess Waddell, now a bounty hunter, and will stop at nothing to kill Charlie, regardless of what anyone tries to persuade him to do otherwise.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Bonanza Season 11 Episode 26 - The Horse Traders
    7.3/10(97 votes)

    S11:E26

    In this second episode to feature Meena Calhoun and her father, Hoss and Joe's plans to sell horses from the livery stables in town is thwarted. Virgil and his two brothers also go into the livery business which creates troubles for Hoss and Joe.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Bonanza Season 11 Episode 16 - The Big Jackpot
    7.2/10(93 votes)

    S11:E16

    Candy has inherited a fortune from an Indian he helped. He quits his job on the Ponderosa and becomes a vice president for a land promotor who is selling beautiful, fertile land. When it is discovered that the land promotor is selling barren desert land, Candy and the Cartwrights set out to expose the land promotor as a fraud.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Bonanza Season 11 Episode 22 - Return Engagement
    7.2/10(105 votes)

    S11:E22

    En route to San Francisco, actress Lotta Crabtree arrives in Virginia City for a special performance. Hoss is smitten by the beautiful actress, which makes her leading man jealous. When he is killed during a performance, Lotta and then Hoss are suspected of the death. It is up to Ben to set things straight.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Bonanza Season 11 Episode 20 - The Law and Billy Burgess
    7.1/10(116 votes)

    S11:E20

    Ben seriously doubts an angry young man committed several murders to which he has confessed to.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Bonanza Season 11 Episode 27 - What Are Pardners For?
    7.1/10(105 votes)

    S11:E27

    Hoss meets two men. He forms a rapport with them and they tell him that they plan to rob the bank in the town they are going to. Hoss tries to stop them but he fails. Hoss decides to go into the town to warn the sheriff but is too late. The sheriff then arrests Hoss.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Bonanza Season 11 Episode 1 - Another Windmill to Go
    7.0/10(118 votes)

    S11:E1

    An Englishman with a passion for challenging ridiculous laws shows up on the Ponderosa grazing in a land-rowing boat mounted on a wagon.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 11 Ratings Summary

"The Trouble with Amy" is the best rated episode of Bonanza season 11. It scored 8.1/10 from 126 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on January 25, 1970. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Medal".