7.6/10105 votes#1 - Different Pines, Same Wind
Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1968
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10101 votes#2 - Child
Season 10 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1968
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1095 votes#3 - Salute to Yesterday
Season 10 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1968
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10114 votes#4 - The Real People of Muddy Creek
Season 10 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1968
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1097 votes#5 - The Passing of a King
Season 10 Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1968
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/1098 votes#6 - The Last Vote
Season 10 Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1968
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10100 votes#7 - Catch as Catch Can
Season 10 Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1968
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10101 votes#8 - Little Girl Lost
Season 10 Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1968
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1093 votes#9 - The Survivors
Season 10 Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1968
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.3/10106 votes#10 - The Sound of Drums
Season 10 Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1968
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.9/1088 votes#11 - Queen High
Season 10 Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/1968
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/10101 votes#12 - Yonder Man
Season 10 Episode 12 - Aired 12/8/1968
An army scout Ben once knew comes to the Ponderosa and asks Ben to stake a cattle ranch in Mira Flores, Mexico.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/10110 votes#13 - Mark of Guilt
Season 10 Episode 13 - Aired 12/15/1968
Hop Sing tells Hoss and Candy they can use the ancient Chinese art of fingerprinting to prove Joe is innocent of murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1087 votes#14 - A World Full of Cannibals
Season 10 Episode 14 - Aired 12/22/1968
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/10100 votes#15 - Sweet Annie Laurie
Season 10 Episode 15 - Aired 1/5/1969
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/10105 votes#16 - My Friend, My Enemy
Season 10 Episode 16 - Aired 1/12/1969
Only the testimony of an Indian wanted for horse theft can clear Candy of murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10101 votes#17 - Mrs. Wharton and the Lesser Breeds
Season 10 Episode 17 - Aired 1/19/1969
Candy sets out to help a feisty and elderly British woman recover the jewels stolen from her in a stage holdup.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10113 votes#18 - Erin
Season 10 Episode 18 - Aired 1/26/1969
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1092 votes#19 - Company of Forgotten Men
Season 10 Episode 19 - Aired 2/2/1969
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1097 votes#20 - The Clarion
Season 10 Episode 20 - Aired 2/9/1969
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.8/10101 votes#21 - The Lady and the Mountain Lion
Season 10 Episode 21 - Aired 2/23/1969
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!
Director: N/A
Writer: Larry Markes
7.8/1095 votes#22 - Five Candles
Season 10 Episode 22 - Aired 3/2/1969
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/10124 votes#23 - The Wish
Season 10 Episode 23 - Aired 3/9/1969
Hoss spends his two-month vacation helping a black family get their farm in shape, and dealing with racism in the neighboring town.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Michael Landon
7.6/1098 votes#24 - The Deserter
Season 10 Episode 24 - Aired 3/16/1969
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.9/1094 votes#25 - Emily
Season 10 Episode 25 - Aired 3/23/1969
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 $90,000 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Bonanza Season 10
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The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
Genres:WesternAction & AdventureDramaFamily
Network:NBC
Season 10 Ratings Summary
"Different Pines, Same Wind" is the best rated episode of "Bonanza" season 10. It scored 7.6/10 based on 105 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/15/1968. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Child".