Love Me Not
Bonanza - S5 - E22
While talking with an Indian, Ben is given an unexpected present...a woman. She is a young white woman named Joan who has lived with the Indians since she was a little girl. Through a humorous learning experience, Ben tries to teach Joan how to behave like a white woman. In the process, Ben finds himself in an awkward situation.
Bonanza: Season 5 - 34 Episode s
5x1 - She Walks in Beauty
September 22, 1963
Hoss wants to marry mysterious Regan Miller, a woman with less than a pristine past. When he thinks Adam is trying to steal her away, he loses control and beats Adam up.
5x2 - A Passion for Justice
September 29, 1963
Renowned English novelist Charles Dickens comes to Virginia City. In short order, he is accused of a crime he didn't commit. The problem then becomes how to convince the stubborn author to defend himself.
5x3 - Rain from Heaven
October 6, 1963
A destitute rainmaker and his family arrive in drought-stricken Virginia City. While Ben tries to help him make rain, Hoss tends to the man's seriously ill little girl.
5x4 - Twilight Town
October 13, 1963
Joe is bushwhacked in the desert and awakens to find himself in Martinville, a town that may or may not be populated by ghosts. An errie, surrealistic and well-produced episode.
5x5 - The Toy Soldier
October 20, 1963
Adam encounters drunken artist James Callan, branded a "squaw man" because he is married to an Indian, and whose talent is going to waste in the town of Sheep Head.
5x6 - A Question of Strength
October 27, 1963
Hoss and a pair of nuns, the younger one having a difficult time training for the order, are robbed and stranded at a way station.
5x7 - Calamity over the Comstock
November 3, 1963
Joe has a run-in with Calamity Jane, and takes her home with him after promising her dying father to take care of her. At first the Cartwrights (besides Joe) think ""Cal"" is a boy, but they soon find out differently. Cal begins to fall in love with Joe, but Joe finds her attentions unwanted...especially when Cal's boyfriend, Doc Holliday, has it in for Joe.
5x8 - Journey Remembered
November 10, 1963
Ben finds an old journal that he kept while in a wagon train travelling from St. Joseph, Missouri to Ash Hollow. As he is reading it Ben remembers the journey he undertook with his wife Inger and a young Adam. During the trip Hoss is born and they have trouble with some Indians.
5x9 - The Quality of Mercy
November 17, 1963
Joe struggles to understand whether his friend was right in killing a dying man who pleaded to put out of his misery.
5x10 - The Waiting Game
December 8, 1963
Adam becomes involved with the recently widowed Laura Dayton and her little girl, Peggy.
5x11 - The Legacy
December 15, 1963
Adam, Hoss and Joe mistakenly believe their father was murdered. They split into 3 different directions to confront the supposed killers. In his heart, Ben knows his sons will not act outside the law; but he is not 100% sure that Joe will behave correctly.
5x12 - Hoss and the Leprechauns
December 22, 1963
In what is arguably the best comedy of the series, Hoss swears he has seen green elves running around the Ponderosa and a smooth-talking Irishman complicates matters even worse.
5x13 - The Prime of Life
December 29, 1963
Ben becomes irritable and reckless when the completion of an important timber contract is hindered by an old rival.
5x14 - The Lila Conrad Story
January 5, 1964
Joe and Adam protect a saloon girl, who has killed in self-defense, from an angry lynch mob. The accompanying Judge, along with his wife, takes a liking to Lila, and before it is all over, he and Lila discover much more about themselves.
5x15 - Ponderosa Matador
January 12, 1964
Adam, Hoss, and Joe vie for the attention of a pretty young lady named Dolores. Hoss talks Joe into entering a bull fight, but it doesn't work out quite as planned.
5x16 - My Son, My Son
January 19, 1964
Ben's plans to marry Katherine Saunders are upset when her son Eden is accused of killing his former girlfriend.
5x17 - Alias Joe Cartwright
January 26, 1964
A man who looks similar to Joe uses Joe's name and gets Joe in the position of facing the firing squad.
5x18 - The Gentleman from New Orleans
February 2, 1964
The new stranger in town claims to be the famous pirate Jean Lafitte, and Hoss believes him.
5x19 - The Cheating Game
February 9, 1964
In this sequel to "The Waiting Game", Laura resents Adam's advice on how she ought to be running her ranch. A newcomer, Ward Bannister, comes to her aid, but is actually part of a scheme to steal her ranch.
5x20 - Bullet for a Bride
February 16, 1964
While out hunting for a mountain lion, Joe accidently shots Tessa Caldwell causing her to go blind. As a result of his guilt, Joe ends up proposing to the girl. However, other circumstances arise that cause Tessa to make a rash decision - one that both her and Joe may regret in the future.
5x21 - King of the Mountain
February 23, 1964
When mountain man Jim Leyton decides to marry, he chooses Hoss as his best man. Julie's father, Grizzly, does not agree and Hoss must come to the rescue.
5x22 - Love Me Not
March 1, 1964
While talking with an Indian, Ben is given an unexpected present...a woman. She is a young white woman named Joan who has lived with the Indians since she was a little girl. Through a humorous learning experience, Ben tries to teach Joan how to behave like a white woman. In the process, Ben finds himself in an awkward situation.
5x23 - The Pure Truth
March 8, 1964
Hoss is suffering from spring fever, goes to the wrong town and is accused of bank robbery.
5x24 - No Less a Man
March 15, 1964
The town council feels Roy Coffee can no longer do his job, and with the notorious Wagner gang on their way to rob the bank, everyone is in a panic. Ben and Adam disagree with the town council and do what they can to help Roy out.
5x25 - Return to Honor
March 22, 1964
Ben must travel to pay his respects after he learns of the death of his nephew Will. When he visits the grave, he finds his nephew barely alive with a bullet wound. He takes him to a doctor and Will insists that he leave, but Ben refuses. Will explains that the men after him must believe that he is dead. Ben decides his best bet is to take Will home. He and Will are followed by the same men who are interested in some valuables Will is carrying.
5x26 - The Saga of Muley Jones
March 29, 1964
The Cartwrights are visited by their second cousin, Muley Jones of Weedville, Missouri who sings with a window-shattering voice and stirs up trouble with Indian negotiations that Ben is trying to ensure.
5x27 - The Roper
April 5, 1964
Will is having second thoughts about staying on at the Ponderosa, and outlaws hit the ranch and take him with them. The leader, Lee Hewitt, is a young killer and plans on robbing the Ponderosa, so Will must take action to save himself, Hewitt's wife, the doctor, and his newfound relatives, the Cartwrights.
5x28 - A Pink Cloud Comes from Old Cathay
April 12, 1964
A headstrong Chinese girl (Marlo Thomas) visiting the Cartwrights incites labor unrest among local workers.
5x29 - The Companeros
April 19, 1964
Mateo Ibara and his wife Carla visit the Ponderosa. Ibara asks Will to return to Mexico with him. Ibara and Will fought together for Juarez's cause and Ibara saved Will's life. For this reason, Will feels obligated to Ibara, but Ben is suspicious of the man's motives.
5x30 - Enter Thomas Bowers
April 26, 1964
After a triumphant tour in Europe, a famous Negro singer encounters racial prejudice in Virginia City when he arrives for a concert.
5x31 - The Dark Past
May 3, 1964
Moody bounty hunter, Dev Farnum, shows up on the Ponderosa, where the Cartwrights are harboring the wife of the man he is after.
5x32 - The Pressure Game
May 10, 1964
Laura Dayton's Aunt Lil comes to visit and quickly decides it's time she help the hesitant Adam propose to her favorite niece. Her plan is to make Adam jealous by using his cousin Will but it doesn't go exactly as planned.
5x33 - Triangle
May 17, 1964
Adam and Laura are finally engaged. Adam is secretly building a house and planning for the future. Laura realizes that it's Will she is in love with. Adam is then confined to a wheelchair after falling from a ladder and out of guilt, Laura and Will deny their feelings.
5x34 - Walter and the Outlaws
May 24, 1964
Hilarious sequel to "Any Friend Of Walter's" in which Obie leaves Walter in Hoss' care. The three outlaws, Macy, Teague, and Willard, kidnap Walter and hold him for ransom, leaving Hoss and the returning Obie to rescue him, but matters turn out the other way.
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