Bonanza

Hoss and Little Joe are mistaken for bloodthirsty hired killers in a small Texas town dominated by two feuding families.

When a Chinese-American is accused of murder, the Cartwrights protect him from a manipulative mayoral candidate who wants all "foreigners" to leave.

When a family with a land grant try to seize the homes of locals and part of the Ponderosa, the Cartwrights try to disprove the validity of the grant.

As is often the case on Bonanza, things are not always as they first seem. Hoss and Adam eventually learn who is the good guy and who is not.

When an inspector comes from New Orleans to arrest Ben Cartwright for a 20-year-old murder, Ben must withdraw from the Governor's race.

When three army deserters escape imprisonment and enter the Ponderosa, Ben realizes what they've had to deal with and promises to protect them.

When Ben and Adam are falsely imprisoned and set to hang, Joe and Hoss must uncover the plot behind the witnesses to the crime, who are all lying.

When an English couple comes to the Ponderosa, the wife expresses disappointment in her husband, a great hunter who is becoming more peaceful.

While in San Francisco, two of Ben's hired hands get shanghaied and so does Ben in the process of looking for them.

The son of a neighboring rancher wants to sell land off for mining, violating a water rights agreement that Ben made with his father years ago.

With his mother dead and his father in prison, a young boy comes to stay with the Cartwrights. But trouble arises when the boy's father escapes.

While hunting a predator wolf, Little Joe finds a gypsy woman who has been rejected from her people because she is believed to be a witch.

When a powerful gang plagues Virginia City with a murderous protection racket, the Cartwrights are determined to stop it even as it threatens them.