• Roy Rogers (Roy Rogers)
• Roy’s Horse Trigger
• Dale Evans (Lee Madison)
• Andy Devine (Cookie Bullfincher)
• John McGuire (Rex Gridley)

Border Patrolman Roy Rogers is sent to the Mexican border in southwest Texas to investigate mysterious doings at the Rancho San Angelo. There, with the help of local sheriff, Cookie Bullfincher, and Lee Madison, a western pulp magazine writer looking for story material, Roy discovers that the Rancho is actually a front for smuggling silver across the Mexico border into the United States. After rescuing Lee from the gang led by “Red” Grindley, the crooks are bought to justice…and there is a surprise awaiting Sheriff Cookie

Podcast: Download/Stream (Duration: 1:16:17 — 627 MB)

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

After Joe kills a man in self defense who tried to set fire to the Ponderosa to clear himself some land, he has to take his lively, feisty, wild, daughter home and she, and her relatives, are now determined to kill Joe.

Podcast: Download/Stream (Duration: 49:45 — 400 MB)

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

Hoss falls prey to the wiles of a beautiful woman with a gambling addiction and refuses to believe she’s only interested in his money in spite of Adam’s proof to the contrary.

Podcast: Download/Stream (Duration: 49:42 — 400 MB)

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

When 16-year-old Todd Grayson arrives from Boston to Virginia City, he is told that his father has been killed by Ben Cartwright. Ben shot Luke Grayson in self-defense, but Todd won’t listen to this. The boy has only one thing in his head: to avenge his father by killing Ben Cartwright.

Podcast: Download/Stream (Duration: 49:58 — 400 MB)

• Alan Young
• Connie Hines
• Allan Lane

This presentation encourages people to buy U.S. savings bonds.

Podcast: Download/Stream (Duration: 19:58 — 166MB)

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

Hoss mentors a lonely, mentally challenged man who, with superhuman size and strength, becomes extremely dangerous when angered. These efforts are undermined by a saloon girl who only wants this giant man-child to manipulate him.

Podcast: Download/Stream (Duration: 49:46 — 398 MB)

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

Angry with the way a beautiful deaf girl is treated by her father, a sheepherder living in a remote mountain cabin, Little Joe takes it upon himself to teach her sign language so they can communicate better. His plan backfires when the young woman falls in love with him and the girl’s brutish neighbor resents her lavishing attention on the youngest Cartwright.

Podcast: Download/Stream (Duration: 49:40 — 398 MB)

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

Adam rides up on some Indians wanting to harm a white woman they believed was a mountain spirit. He kills them but not before they wound him. The woman nurses him back to health but the rest of the tribe is still out there looking for her.

Podcast: Download/Stream (Duration: 49:44 — 399 MB)

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

About to set out on a cattle drive, Ben hires a young drifter named Sam Jackson as one of his drovers. What he doesn’t know is that Jackson is really outlaw Johnny Logan, who signed on to the drive because he knew it was going to pass near the town of Waycross, and Logan is determined to kill the Waycross sheriff–who is his father.

Podcast: Download/Stream (Duration: 49:37— 398 MB)

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

Ben and Adam are locked in jail, about to hung for a crime they didn’t commit. Joe and Hoss must find out why the witnesses to the alleged crime have perjured themselves before the execution takes place. They receive help from an unexpected source, a drifter called Lassiter who is searching for the men who committed a lynching in Kansas years ago.

Podcast: Download/Stream (Duration: 49:45 — 399 MB)

• Bob Denver
• Forrest Tucker
• Ivor Francis
• Jeannine Riley
• Lori Saunders
• Lynn Wood
• William Cort

Dusty finds a stray horse and tames it, only to be arrested as a horse thief by a vigilante crew who wants to hang him in the morning.

Podcast: Download/Stream (Duration: 24:42 — 196MB)

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

Co-Stars:

• Neville Brand
• Sonya Wilde
• Al Ruscio
• Louis Mercier
• Ric Marlow
• Herbert Lytton

Gunnar is a long-lost relative of the Cartwright family. When Gunnar arrives at the Ponderosa, the family takes him in for the evening. Gunnar is the brother to one of Ben Cartwright’s late wives. Unbeknownst to the Cartwright family, Gunnar is also the leader of a band of criminals called The Comancheros. Little Joe is visiting his girlfriend away from the ranch. When Little Joe and his girlfriend are kidnapped by The Comancheros, the Cartwright’s and Gunnar are forced into a difficult situation.

Podcast: Download/Stream (Duration: 49:48 — 398 MB)

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

Co-Stars:

• John Ericson
• Myrna Fahey
• Val Avery
• Hal Baylor
• Norman Alden
• Paul Lukather
• Stuart Randall
• Charles Wagenheim

Dolly Kincaid so feed up with her extremely dominant, controlling, sheriff father, that she runs away with her boyfriend. She later finds out he is the leader of some murderous bank robbers and when they kidnap Hoss and Joe, she still sticks with him.

Podcast: Download/Stream (Duration: 49:48 — 398 MB)

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

Co-Stars:

• Bob Hopkins
• Barbara Lawrence
• Theodore Marcuse
• Laurie Mitchell
• Gerald Mohr
• Jerry Oddo
• Mary Orozco
• Stafford Repp
• Jackie Russell

Jennifer Beale is abducted in the hopes her rich father, Joshua, the richest silver baron on the Comstock, will pay a $1M ransom. The plan unravels when the beautiful Della is killed and Hercules, who loves her, finds out who did it.

Podcast: Download/Stream (Duration: 49:54 — 408 MB)

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

When an Indian saves Ben Cartwright’s life from a near fatal knife attack by another Indian, Ben later gives the Indian and his pregnant wife a strip of fertile farming land. Unfortunately the land is next to and very racist farmer and things turn deadly.

Podcast: Download/Stream (Duration: 50:00 — 399 MB)

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

Ranchers are being killed, cattle stolen, and retired U.S. Deputy Marshall Denver McKee leads various posses after the suspects but never seems to be able to find them. In the meantime, McKee seems to have plenty of money to take care of his gorgeous daughter back home from schooling in the East.

Podcast: Download/Stream (Duration: 50:05 — 310 MB)

• Clayton Moore (Lone Ranger)
• Jay Silverheels (Tonto)

A compilation of the first 3 half hour episodes of “The Lone Ranger” (1949) edited to 50 minutes. This “Origin Of The Lone Ranger” depicts the ambush of The Texas Rangers and the rescue of the one “Lone Ranger” by Tonto, his old childhood friend.

Podcast: Download/Stream (Duration: 69:13 — 947MB)

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

A wagon train of Quakers from Ohio are passing through town heading to Slaytersville. Adam tags along as he is smitten with the leader’s daughter. Little does he know that the man he just befriended in town has eyes on the gold they’re carrying to their promised land.

Podcast: Download/Stream (Duration: 49:48 — 309 MB)

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

The Cartwrights’ neighbor Tom Edwards has lived as a paraplegic, ever since an accident involving Ben Cartwright and a gun. His ranch is going to waste. His wife Joyce is a longtime friend of Ben, and Ben decides to help the Edwards couple by making Tom a business proposition: the Cartwrights will build a grain mill on Edwards’ land. In return, Ben only wants his investment money back, plus fifteen percent. Tom and his hired hand Ezekiel are suspicious of Ben, but Tom agrees to the deal. The Cartwright men build the mill, but tension begins to rise when Ezekiel makes comments which rekindle Tom’s suspicion.

Podcast: Download/Stream (Duration: 49:46 — 309 MB)

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

After a U.S. deputy marshal apparently saves Adam’s life by gunning down two men who shot at him, he eventually reveals that he in town to bring a close friend of the Cartwrights to San Francisco to testify in a statewide racketeering trial, but the Deputy Marshal’s motives soon become suspect as to what he really want to do with the reluctant witness.

Podcast: Download/Stream (Duration: 49:47 — 304 MB)

• Jim Davis (Matt Clark)
• Mary Castle (Frankie Adams)
• Kim Spalding (Dr. John H. ‘Doc’ Holliday)
• Frank Richards (Ike Clanton)
• James Craven (Wyatt Earp)

Matt goes after Doc Holliday, the ruthless Doctor Jeckyll and Mister Hyde of the Old West.

Podcast: Download/Stream (Duration: 30:29 — 420.4MB)

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

Charlie Trent used to be an Army scout. Now he’s the town drunk. Hoss helps him regain his self-esteem when he has him volunteer to lead a gold-bearing troop through the desert where there’s very little water.

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

An outlaw gang robs Virginia City’s bank and makes off with almost all of its money. The youngest member of the gang manages to get a job on the Ponderosa as a bronc buster with the intention of informing the bank robbers of any posses that may threaten their hideout. While Ben, Adam and Hoss welcome the newcomer, Little Joe becomes suspicious of his activities.

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

Little Joe comes upon a gypsy girl. Frightened, she runs and falls becoming unconscious. When she wakes, they discover that she believes she is bewitched and so do her people who banished her. Her birth under a dark star has fostered this belief. Little Joe, smitten, must rescue her from this belief, her people and someone posing as a wolf.

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

A woman dies. Her husband is in prison, and the sheriff needs someone to look after the boy until the boy’s uncle can come to claim him. The Cartwrights begin to take care of the boy at the Ponderosa. When the boy arrives at the ranch, he does not know that his father is in prison. The boy learns the truth about his dad, and news reaches the Ponderosa that the convict has escaped from prison. The Cartwrights deal with the possibility that the boy’s father may be coming their way

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

A neighboring rancher, Andy, is good friends with Ben, but his son (Todd) wants to sell their land for mining operations which will spoil the water rights agreement that Andy and Ben made years ago.

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

The Cartwrights, with Hop Sing, finish a cattle drive in San Francisco. Ben warns the other men of the dangers of the big city. Nevertheless, some of the men are careless and naive. Two of the hired hands disappear, and Ben suspects that the men were shanghaied. With invaluable assistance from several of Hop Sing’s cousins, the Cartwrights locate the missing men and break up the racket.

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

When an English couple comes to the Ponderosa on vacation, the beautiful wife slowly makes it clear that is no longer proud of her great hunter husband, because he has become less of the action man she married and more of a peaceful man, but that could all change when they are kidnapped for ransom along with Adam Cartwright.

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

Three deserters escaped from an Army stockade to the Ponderosa. When a Captain comes looking for them, Ben realizes what they’ve had to deal with and promises to let his good friend in charge of that fort know the real truth.

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

Inspector Leduque comes from New Orleans to Virginia City to take Ben Cartwright back for a 20 year murder. When Ben declares publicly that he is withdrawing from the Governor’s race, the townsfolk are upset not just about this but Little Joe has also been accused of gunning down Leduque’s deputy in cold blood.

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

Co-Stars:

• Claude Akins (Marshal Emmett Dowd)
• Fintan Meyler (Andrea Strasser)
• Wesley Lau (Dave Walker)
• John Wengraf (Dr. Anton Strasser)
• Will Wright (Micah Bailey)
• Ron Hayes (Hurd Cutler)
• Bud Osborne (Charlie – Stagecoach Driver)
• Tom Greenway (Deputy Dan)

When a brutal U.S. Marshal arrests one of the Ponderosa’s workers for murder to transport him to Los Angeles for trial, and a doubtful Hoss and Adam come along in the stagecoach, along with a Dr. and his beautiful daughter, to make sure the Marshal doesn’t kill him before they get there. The question also arises later of whether the ranch worker is really guilty and dangerous after all.

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

When a cold blooded, murdering sheep herder and his men try to cross the Ponderosa with their large herd of sheep, Ben Cartwright orders them off his property. The owner of the sheep then plots to kidnap one of the Cartwrights and force Ben to sign over 50,000 acres of his land to him.

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

The Cartwrights try to disprove the validity of a Spanish land grant to stop the De La Cuesta family from seizing part of the Ponderosa and all of the Carson Valley settlers’ homestead lands.

• Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright)
• Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright)
• Dan Blocker (Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright)
• Michael Landon (Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright)

The Cartwrights come to the aid of a Chinese-American stable hand accused of murder. Opposing them is a manipulative mayoral candidate who wants all “foreigners” to leave Virginia City.

Bonanza – 600123 – S01E19 – The Gunmen
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Classic TV Show
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW or (707) 986-8739
Stars:
Dan Blocker (Hoss)
Michael Landon (Little Joe)

• Duncan Renaldo (Cisco)
• Leo Carrillo (Pancho)

Release Date:
21 September 1938
Stars:
Douglass Dumbrille – (Pecos Bill / Ben Wade)
Sidney Toler – (Frosty Kilburn)
Runtime: