6.9/10116 votes#1 - Something Hurt, Something Wild
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/1966
The Cartwrights' friendship with a neighboring rancher is threatened by his mentally unstable daughter.
Director: N/A
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6.9/1097 votes#2 - Horse of a Different Hue
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/1966
So the Cartwrights will not be killed, one of Ben's oldest friends must make sure Joe does not win a horse race.
Director: N/A
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7.5/10103 votes#3 - A Time to Step Down
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/1966
After the Cartwrights put wrangler Dan Tolliver out to pasture, the embittered old man plans to take part in robbing the Ponderosa.
Director: N/A
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7.2/10104 votes#4 - The Pursued (1)
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 10/2/1966
A Mormon with two wives is badgered by the town's people and then things get much worse.
Director: N/A
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7.2/1094 votes#5 - The Pursued (2)
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/1966
As the persecuted party awaits Ben and Hoss' return, Herber is shot and killed. Joe retaliates and shoots Herber's assassin.
Director: N/A
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6.6/10105 votes#6 - To Bloom for Thee
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 10/16/1966
Hoss is engaged to Carol Attley, a troubled woman with a past darker than he imagines.
Director: N/A
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7.8/10110 votes#7 - Credit for a Kill
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 10/23/1966
Though his friend is badly in need of the reward money, Joe insists it belongs to him, to protect his friend from the dead outlaws' brothers.
Director: N/A
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7.1/10121 votes#8 - Four Sisters from Boston
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 10/30/1966
The Cartwrights come to the rescue of four inexperienced homesteaders, when devious cattle ranchers try to run them off their property.
Director: N/A
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7.5/10102 votes#9 - Old Charlie
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 11/6/1966
A young cowpoke is killed during a fight with Hoss, but the old blowhard who runs the Virginia City stables, takes the credit, placing him in danger from the dead man's brothers.
Director: N/A
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6.6/10101 votes#10 - Ballad of the Ponderosa
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 11/13/1966
A young troubadour, who blames Ben for the death of his father, returns to Virginia City. In one scene, Ben says the young man is welcome to use Adam's guitar.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1099 votes#11 - The Oath
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 11/20/1966
While in another town, on business, Ben runs into a saloon employee who is a big figure, and after he kills an old miner, who has burned down his house, Ben takes him into the sheriff. He is sentenced and hung. Before his departure, Charlie Monahan, has made his half-breed son, Charlie Two, swear an oath to kill Ben. Little Joe is made aware of this and must track him down to prevent him from carrying out his oath against Ben. Charlie Two is unaware that Joe is Ben's son, as they meet on the trail.
Director: N/A
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7.1/10117 votes#12 - A Real Nice, Friendly Little Town
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 11/27/1966
When the woman he was planning to marry is strangled, Joe forces the only suspect to come forward, in a very tense-filled episode.
Director: N/A
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7.2/10109 votes#13 - The Bridegroom
Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 12/4/1966
Joe plays matchmaker in this story of a rancher attempting to marry off his supposedly unremarkable daughter.
Director: N/A
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7.6/10103 votes#14 - Tommy
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/1966
The Cartwrights protect a woman and her deaf-mute little son from the boy's outlaw stepfather.
Director: N/A
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7.0/10133 votes#15 - A Christmas Story
Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 12/25/1966
Warbling Andy Walker returns to Virginia City a big success, along with his shifty Uncle Thaddeus.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10106 votes#16 - Ponderosa Explosion
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 1/1/1967
Two Virginia City old-timers fool Hoss and Joe into raising rabbits, and the Ponderosa is overrun with paws and whiskers.
Director: N/A
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7.0/10108 votes#17 - Justice
Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 1/8/1967
When the woman he was planning to marry is strangled, Joe forces the only suspect to come forward.
Director: N/A
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6.9/1092 votes#18 - A Bride for Buford
Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 1/15/1967
Dolly Bantree has a crooked manager ""Blackie"", who blackmails Dolly to fleece newly rich miner Buford out of his newfound wealth. Hoss suspects something and gets all duded up to pose as a rich mark to test Dolly.
Director: N/A
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7.6/10105 votes#19 - Black Friday
Season 8 Episode 19 - Aired 1/22/1967
In the town of Chiso, Joe encounters a former Ponderosa cowhand who is now a gunfighter and expecting to be killed on Friday the 13th. John Saxon makes the first of his three appearances in the series, in this episode as Steven Friday.
Director: N/A
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7.5/10104 votes#20 - The Unseen Wound
Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 1/29/1967
Ben discovers that his friend, Sheriff Paul Rowan, is suffering from stress brought on by his wartime experiences.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10107 votes#21 - Journey to Terror
Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 2/5/1967
Joe visits his married friends in Arizona Territory, only to discover the husband has become a criminal and is secretly part of a notorious gang.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10104 votes#22 - Amigo
Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 2/12/1967
A wounded comanchero sides with the Cartwrights when the rest of the gang, led by Captain Fenner, shows up to burn and rob the Ponderosa.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.6/1099 votes#23 - A Woman in the House
Season 8 Episode 23 - Aired 2/19/1967
Mary Wharton, an old friend of the family, comes to live on the Ponderosa with her shiftless husband. When Ben learns Mary is the victim of domestic abuse, he sends Russ packing.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1095 votes#24 - Judgment at Red Creek
Season 8 Episode 24 - Aired 2/26/1967
Hoss and Joe have their doubts as to who really robbed a way station, suspecting the two men they captured are innocent.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10111 votes#25 - Joe Cartwright, Detective
Season 8 Episode 25 - Aired 3/5/1967
Joe becomes fascinated by detective literature and drags Hoss into the picture when he suspects the bank is going to be robbed.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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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 8 Ratings Summary
"Something Hurt, Something Wild" is the best rated episode of "Bonanza" season 8. It scored 6.9/10 based on 116 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/11/1966. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Horse of a Different Hue".