Hoss chooses a difficult path when he decides to rehabilitate a famous poet, Will Smith, who is really William Warlock Evans, who spends too much time drinking and eventually his wife arrives at the Ponderosa.
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S7 E1The Debt
Sep 12, 196549 min
Wiley and Annie Kane arrive at the Ponderosa to work off their father's debt to Ben. It seems as though the elder Kane once swindled the Cartwright patriarch.
S7 E2The Dilemma
Sep 19, 196549 min
Ben helps a convict win a parole only to have the man later become the chief suspect in a bank robbery.
S7 E3The Brass Box
Sep 26, 196549 min
Juan Ortega claims he has a land grant which gives him ownership of the entire Nevada Territory.
S7 E4The Other Son
Oct 3, 196549 min
A mule skinner and his two sons are hired by Ben to transport nitroglycerin to California.
S7 E5The Lonely Runner
Oct 10, 196549 min
A judge awards itinerant horse breeder Jim Acton's beloved mare to rancher Sam Whipple. Jim tries to buy her back, but Whipple refuses his offer, after which a fight ensues and Jim kills Whipple in self-defense. The Cartwrights want to brin
S7 E6Devil on Her Shoulder
Oct 17, 196549 min
Ben is attracted to Sarah Reynolds, a member of a religious order led by her fanatical uncle. When she is accused of being a witch, the Cartwrights step in.