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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!

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 11 Ratings Summary

"Another Windmill to Go" is the best rated episode of "Bonanza" season 11. It scored 6.9/10 based on 98 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/14/1969. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "The Witness".

  • Another Windmill to Go
    6.9/1098 votes

    #1 - Another Windmill to Go

    Season 11 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1969

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Witness
    7.3/1098 votes

    #2 - The Witness

    Season 11 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1969

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Silence at Stillwater
    7.4/1088 votes

    #3 - The Silence at Stillwater

    Season 11 Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1969

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Lawman's Lot Is Not a Happy One
    7.0/1098 votes

    #4 - A Lawman's Lot Is Not a Happy One

    Season 11 Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1969

    When he is called to testify in an out-of-town lumber shark case, Roy recruits Hoss to temporarily serve as sheriff. Hoss quickly finds his hands full dealing with a reluctant groom, who plans a robbery to make himself less appealing to his assertive fiancé; and a persistent salesman wanting to sell stock for a resort in the Virginia City area. Will Virginia City ever be the same?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Anatomy of a Lynching
    7.2/1076 votes

    #5 - Anatomy of a Lynching

    Season 11 Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1969

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • To Stop a War
    7.8/1097 votes

    #6 - To Stop a War

    Season 11 Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/1969

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Medal
    7.8/10101 votes

    #7 - The Medal

    Season 11 Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1969

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Stalker
    7.5/1094 votes

    #8 - The Stalker

    Season 11 Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1969

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Meena
    7.3/1093 votes

    #9 - Meena

    Season 11 Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1969

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Darker Shadow
    7.4/1085 votes

    #10 - A Darker Shadow

    Season 11 Episode 10 - Aired 11/23/1969

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dead Wrong
    7.9/1095 votes

    #11 - Dead Wrong

    Season 11 Episode 11 - Aired 12/7/1969

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Old Friends
    7.2/1079 votes

    #12 - Old Friends

    Season 11 Episode 12 - Aired 12/14/1969

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Abner Willoughby's Return
    7.4/10102 votes

    #13 - Abner Willoughby's Return

    Season 11 Episode 13 - Aired 12/21/1969

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • It's a Small World
    7.6/1090 votes

    #14 - It's a Small World

    Season 11 Episode 14 - Aired 1/4/1970

    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

  • Danger Road
    7.3/1080 votes

    #15 - Danger Road

    Season 11 Episode 15 - Aired 1/11/1970

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Jackpot
    7.2/1080 votes

    #16 - The Big Jackpot

    Season 11 Episode 16 - Aired 1/18/1970

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Trouble with Amy
    7.8/10108 votes

    #17 - The Trouble with Amy

    Season 11 Episode 17 - Aired 1/25/1970

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Lady and the Mark
    6.6/1087 votes

    #18 - The Lady and the Mark

    Season 11 Episode 18 - Aired 2/1/1970

    A new wealthy Ponderosa employee with a weakness for women becomes the target of con artists.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Is There Any Man Here
    6.5/1086 votes

    #19 - Is There Any Man Here

    Season 11 Episode 19 - Aired 2/8/1970

    When the daughter of a friend declares her love for him, Ben agonizes over what to do.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Law and Billy Burgess
    7.0/10102 votes

    #20 - The Law and Billy Burgess

    Season 11 Episode 20 - Aired 2/15/1970

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Long Way to Ogden
    7.7/1086 votes

    #21 - Long Way to Ogden

    Season 11 Episode 21 - Aired 2/22/1970

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Return Engagement
    7.0/1090 votes

    #22 - Return Engagement

    Season 11 Episode 22 - Aired 3/1/1970

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Gold Mine
    7.3/1089 votes

    #23 - The Gold Mine

    Season 11 Episode 23 - Aired 3/8/1970

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Decision at Los Robles
    7.8/10105 votes

    #24 - Decision at Los Robles

    Season 11 Episode 24 - Aired 3/22/1970

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Caution, Easter Bunny Crossing
    7.2/10109 votes

    #25 - Caution, Easter Bunny Crossing

    Season 11 Episode 25 - Aired 3/29/1970

    ""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