The Fence

April 27, 1969

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Bonanza - 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.

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Bonanza: Season 10 - 30 Episode s

10x1 - Different Pines, Same Wind
September 15, 1968
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.
10x2 - Child
September 22, 1968
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.
10x3 - Salute to Yesterday
September 29, 1968
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.
10x4 - The Real People of Muddy Creek
October 6, 1968
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.
10x5 - The Passing of a King
October 13, 1968
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.
10x6 - The Last Vote
October 20, 1968
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.
10x7 - Catch as Catch Can
October 27, 1968
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.
10x8 - Little Girl Lost
November 3, 1968
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.
10x9 - The Survivors
November 10, 1968
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.
10x10 - The Sound of Drums
November 17, 1968
In the third and final installment of the Rossi family, Georgio Rossi doesn't understand why he cannot allow Indians who have left the reservation to live on his land.
10x11 - Queen High
December 1, 1968
Joe and Candy win a stamping mill in a poker game, but the fact of them not knowing how to run it, is the least of their worries.
10x12 - Yonder Man
December 8, 1968
An army scout Ben once knew comes to the Ponderosa and asks Ben to stake a cattle ranch in Mira Flores, Mexico.
10x13 - Mark of Guilt
December 15, 1968
Hop Sing tells Hoss and Candy they can use the ancient Chinese art of fingerprinting to prove Joe is innocent of murder.
10x14 - A World Full of Cannibals
December 22, 1968
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.
10x15 - Sweet Annie Laurie
January 5, 1969
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.
10x16 - My Friend, My Enemy
January 12, 1969
Only the testimony of an Indian wanted for horse theft can clear Candy of murder.
10x17 - Mrs. Wharton and the Lesser Breeds
January 19, 1969
Candy sets out to help a feisty and elderly British woman recover the jewels stolen from her in a stage holdup.
10x18 - Erin
January 26, 1969
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.
10x19 - Company of Forgotten Men
February 2, 1969
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.
10x20 - The Clarion
February 9, 1969
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.
10x21 - The Lady and the Mountain Lion
February 23, 1969
A shady magician, with his twin daughters, comes to Virginia City and there is a lot of confusion with the daughters of the magician, twin confusion!
10x22 - Five Candles
March 2, 1969
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.
10x23 - The Wish
March 9, 1969
Hoss spends his two-month vacation helping a black family get their farm in shape, and dealing with racism in the neighboring town.
10x24 - The Deserter
March 16, 1969
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.
10x25 - Emily
March 23, 1969
Joe is shocked to see his ex-fiancee, Emily Anderson, in Virginia City. He had met her in Monterey five years earlier, and they had planned to get married. But her strict father thought Joe was too wild, and he burned all of Joe's letters before Emily saw them. Emily and Joe are still in love with each other, but Emily conveniently forgets to tell Joe that she is now Emily McPhail, the wife of Deputy Marshal Wade McPhail. Wade is on assignment with Marshal Calhoun to help guard a ,000 currency shipment. Emily tells Wade they have to leave Virginia City immediately, since Joe's presence might interfere with their marriage, but he refuses to leave. He finds Joe and Emily embracing and engages with Joe in a savage fight, almost killing him at gunpoint. That is the first Joe hears of Emily's marriage. That is by no means the end of her lies, which eventually get Joe shot and nearly framed for murder.
10x26 - The Running Man
March 30, 1969
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.
10x27 - The Unwanted
April 6, 1969
Feeling unloved, a Marshal's daughter runs off with a Ponderosa hand her father thinks may be related to the man that shot him.
10x28 - Speak No Evil
April 20, 1969
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.
10x29 - The Fence
April 27, 1969
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.
10x30 - A Ride in the Sun
May 11, 1969
A pair of con artists swindle Ben out of nearly ,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.

10x1 - Different Pines, Same Wind

10x2 - Child

10x3 - Salute to Yesterday

10x4 - The Real People of Muddy Creek

10x5 - The Passing of a King

10x6 - The Last Vote

10x7 - Catch as Catch Can

10x8 - Little Girl Lost

10x9 - The Survivors

10x10 - The Sound of Drums

10x11 - Queen High

10x12 - Yonder Man

10x13 - Mark of Guilt

10x14 - A World Full of Cannibals

10x15 - Sweet Annie Laurie

10x16 - My Friend, My Enemy

10x17 - Mrs. Wharton and the Lesser Breeds

10x18 - Erin

10x19 - Company of Forgotten Men

10x20 - The Clarion

10x21 - The Lady and the Mountain Lion

10x22 - Five Candles

10x23 - The Wish

10x24 - The Deserter

10x25 - Emily

10x26 - The Running Man

10x27 - The Unwanted

10x28 - Speak No Evil

10x29 - The Fence

10x30 - A Ride in the Sun

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