David CanaryFilmography

Born:: August 25, 1938 in Elwood, IN
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: David Hoyt Canary
Biography:: Square-jawed, mellow-voiced character actor David Canary achieved his greatest prominence on television, in roles that typecast him as a "man's man" with an unmistakably tough edge but a smooth demeanor and approach. Born in Elwood, IN, Canary grew up in Ohio as the son of a JC Penney manager. He...Read More

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Touched By an Angel: Shallow Water, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of Touched by an Angel's two-part Season Seven finale, Monica (Roma Downey) is celebrating her newly acquired ability to see humans "from the inside out." It doesn't take long to find the perfect test for her new skills, as manifested in a famous gospel-singing aggregation Read More

2001
Touched By an Angel: Shallow Water, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Touched by an Angel's two-part Season Seven finale, angel Monica (Roma Downey) and psychiatrist Rebecca Markham (Faye Dunaway) continue their (extremely separate!) efforts to help Diana Winslow (Delta Burke), a member of a famous gospel-singing family group, come to grips with Read More

2001
Law & Order: Venom

Synopsis: A "black widow killer" is at the center of this episode. First, detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Curtis (Benjamin Bratt). Next, A.D.A.'s McCoy (Sam Waterston) and Carmichael (Angie Harmon) shed the spotlight of suspicion on Dennis Pollock (Matt Keeslar), a young man who is romantically Read More

1998
Reading Rainbow: Worksong

Actors: LeVar Burton

Synopsis: Young viewers gain a broader understanding of the working world in this Reading Rainbow episode. The featured book, Worksong, written by Gary Paulsen and read by David Canary, honors working people like nurses, farmers, soldiers, and office workers. The program examines a range of jobs, as host Read More

1998
In A Pig's Eye

Actors: Marian Seldes, David Canary, Tudor Sherrard, Alexa Lambert

Synopsis: The Hotel Copacabana is about to host members of the tobacco industry for a convention of some sort. It is unclear why they have chosen this particular ill-managed and slightly run-down hotel. Perhaps the odd scientific studies by the hotel's owner, which seek to prove that tobacco is harmless Read More

1989
King of America

Synopsis: In this PBS American Playhouse presentation, a Greek immigrant (Michael Welden) battles a notorious labor leader for his honor and freedom. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1980
Posse

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Bruce Dern, Bo Hopkins, James Stacy, Luke Askew

Synopsis: Kirk Douglas produced, directed, and starred in this cynical western concerning Howard Nightingale (Kirk Douglas) a United States marshal who uses the pursuit of an outlaw to further his political career. Nightingale organizes a posse to track down Jack Strawhorn (Bruce Dern), a notorious bank Read More

1975
Johnny Firecloud

Actors: Frank de Kova, Victor Mojica

Synopsis: Puerto Rican actor Victor Mohica plays the title character, a Native American who has returned to his small California desert home town after service in Vietnam to face a new enemy -- a gang of ruthless racist thugs led by town boss Colby (Ralph Meeker). Pushed to his breaking point by a Read More

1975
Sharks' Treasure

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Yaphet Kotto, John Neilson, Cliff Osmond, David Canary

Synopsis: When a group of treasure hunters attempt to locate a sunken fortune, they enlist the help of an adventure-hungry fisherman (Cornel Wilde). This film was written, directed, and produced by Cornel Wilde, who has the starring role as well. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
The Melvin Purvis: G-Man

Actors: Dale Robertson, Harris Yulin

Synopsis: Melvin Purvis: G-Man was one of two TV pilot films intended to launch a series based on the life of famed FBI agent Purvis. Dale Robertson played the title role in both, emphasizing the heroics and downpedalling Purvis' shameless self-aggrandizement (he was so rabid a publicity hound that many Read More

1974
Bonanza: The Witness

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Tim Matheson, Sally Kemp

Synopsis: Once again, Bonanza ranch hand Candy has been thrown in jail on a trumped-up murder charge. As his trial approaches, Candy must put his life in the hands of attorney Oscar Hammer (Stephen Nathan), a 20-year-old fresh out of law school. The outcome of the trial hinges on the testimony of an Read More

1973
Bonanza: The Marriage of Theodora Duffy

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Mitch Vogel, Tim Matheson

Synopsis: Ponderosa ranchhaned Griff King agrees to pose as the husband of one Theodora Duffy (Karen Carlson). There is nothing personal in this arrangement: Theodora wants to solve a crime, and pretending to be Mrs. King is merely a means to an end. Also in the cast are Ramon Bieri as Jonas Holt, Robert Read More

1973
Bonanza: The 26th Grave

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Mitch Vogel, Ken Howard

Synopsis: Humorist Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, makes his third Bonanza appearance, this time in the person of actor Ken Howard (fresh from his Broadway and Hollywood triumph in the musical 1776). As editor of the Virginia City Enterprise, Clemens is determined to prove that a government assayer is Read More

1972
Bonanza: New Man

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Mitch Vogel, Tim Matheson

Synopsis: Having saved Ben Cartwright's life during a prison riot, convict Griff King (played by new Bonanza regular Tim Matheson) is released into Ben's custody. In hiring Griff as a Ponderosa ranchhand, Ben faces the challenge of convincing the former prisoner to forsake his deep and abiding grudge Read More

1972
Bonanza: The Hidden Enemy

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Mike Farrell, Melissa Murphy

Synopsis: Circuitously commenting upon the drug culture of the 1970s, this Bonanza episode probes the dangers of the onetime "wonder drug" morphine. Future MASH regular Mike Farrell is cast as Dr. Will Agar, who is revealed to be a morphine addict after he inadvertently causes the death of a young patient Read More

1972
Bonanza: Stallion

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Clu Gulager, Mitzi Hoag

Synopsis: The beautiful black stallion given by Ben Cartwright as a birthday present to his son, Joe, is stolen. Searching for the horse, Joe comes across a family of drifters, and is soon embroiled in a potentially deadly rivalry between Bill Brenner (Clu Gulager) and his son, Tommy (Vincent Van Patten). Mitzi Hoag Read More

1972
Bonanza: The Bucket Dog

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Mitch Vogel, Tim Matheson

Synopsis: Jamie's new bird dog April, an Irish setter, is denigrated as a "bucket dog" by Tim Riley (Don Knight), an employee of the man responsible for bringing this particular breed of dogs to the United States. As such, April may well be destroyed if unable to prove its mettle. To save the dog's life Read More

1972
Bonanza: Forever

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Mitch Vogel, Bonnie Bedelia

Synopsis: The fourteenth and final season of Bonanza began on September 12, 1972 with a special two-hour episode. As originally written by series star Michael Landon (who also directed), "Forever" was supposed to have focused on the ill-starred marriage between Hoss Cartwright (Dan Blocker) and Alice Harper Read More

1972
Incident on a Dark Street

Actors: David Canary

Synopsis: This TV movie was the pilot for a series that would have been titled The Prosecutors...had it sold. David Canary and Robert Pine play two green law school graduates, sent to work at the Department of Justice's office in Manhattan. The standard-issue "gruff but lovable" father figure is US Read More

1972
Bonanza: Riot!

Actors: Michael Landon, David Canary, Aldo Ray, Marco St. John, Gregory Walcott

Synopsis: The shadow of the recent Attica uprising looms large over the October 3, 1972 Bonanza episode "Riot!" While on a tour of the Nevada State Prison, Ben Cartwright and several other prominent men are taken hostage by rioting prisoners. Though some of the inmates hope to escape, most of the others Read More

1972
Bonanza: Kingdom of Fear

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Alfred Ryder

Synopsis: All three Cartwright men-Ben, Hoss and Joe-are arrested for trespassing along with their ranch hand Candy. The men are summarily sentenced to a brutal prison camp run by a despot known as The Judge (Alfred Ryder), who specializes in acquiring slave labor to work his gold mine, then in killing his Read More

1971
The F.B.I.: The Last Job

Synopsis: John McIntire is cast as Michael "Doc" Lacy, a lifelong criminal whose career stretches back to the Dillinger era. Having never truly succeeded in his chosen profession, Lacy escapes from prison in hopes of pulling off one last "dream" robbery. Inasmuch as the old man's target is a huge military Read More

1971
Bonanza: Is There Any Man Here?

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Mariette Hartley

Synopsis: In her third Bonanza appearance, Mariette Hartley is here cast as Jennifer, the daughter of Ben Cartwright's old friend Harry Carlis (John McLiam). Slated to be wed to influential banker Tuttle Ames (Burr DeBennings, Jennifer leaves her intended at the altar and makes a beeline to the Ponderosa Read More

1970
Bonanza: Long Way to Ogden

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Walter Barnes

Synopsis: Ben and his fellow cattlemen find themselves at the mercy of Chicago meat packer Emmett J. Whitney (Walter Barnes). Having purchased the rights to all railroad cattle cars, the greedy Whitney refuses to allow anyone to use those cars unless they allow him to purchase their stock at the Read More

1970
Bonanza: The Law and Billy Burgess

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Mercedes McCambridge

Synopsis: Making her second Bonanza appearance, Mercedes McCambridge is cast as wealthy widow Matilda Curtis, who helps Ben Cartwright establish a free school for the children of Ponderosa's employees and tenant farmers. When the schoolmaster is murdered, troublesome student Billy Burgess (a pre-Partridge Read More

1970
Bonanza: The Lady and the Mark

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Christopher Connelly

Synopsis: Having accumulated $67,000 from a gold strike, prospector Chris Keller (Christopher Connelly) finds himself the target of virtually every confidence trickster in the country. To save himself and his cash, Chris hides out at the Ponderosa, only to be lured into the open by lovely Charity McGill Read More

1970
Bonanza: Danger Road

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Robert Lansing

Synopsis: Robert Lansing is cast as Gunny, a former Army officer dishonorably discharged for desertion, and now the owner of a small freight-hauling concern. Though Ben Cartwright cannot forgive Gunny for his dereliction of duty, he is willing to let the man prove his mettle by delivering three 30-foot Read More

1970
Bonanza: It's a Small World

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Michael Dunn

Synopsis: Multi-talanted dwarf actor Michael Dunn guest-stars as George Marshall, a former circus midget who, fulfilling a promise to his late wife, gives up show business to lead a normal life in Virginia City. Despite the assistance of his friend Ben Cartwright, George is unable to secure employment Read More

1970
Bonanza: The Big Jackpot

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Walter Brooke

Synopsis: Inheriting a fortune from an Indian benefactor, Candy fulfills his long-standing ambition to quit the Ponderosa. Before long, Candy has accepted an executive position with a prosperous-looking land promoter (Walter Brooke). But when he discovers that his boss is a crook, Candy enlists the aid of Read More

1970
Bonanza: What Are Pardners For?

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Slim Pickens

Synopsis: Innocent Hoss Cartwright is thrown in jail, suspected of complicity in a bank robbery. The real bandits are a pair of Easterners named Luke (John Beck) and Calvin (Hamilton Camp), who'd been drawn to the west after reading an abundance of dime novels. Hoping to live up to the exploits of their Read More

1970
Bonanza: A Matter of Circumstance

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Ted Gehring

Synopsis: The eleventh season of Bonanza was wrapped up on April 19, 1970 with the powerhouse episode "A Matter of Circumstance." Though several prominent actors-notably young Vincent Van Patten-appear in the supporting cast, the episode is virtually a one-man show, focusing on Michael Landon as Joe Read More

1970
All My Children [TV Series]

Actors: Andrew Jackson

1970
Bonanza: Return Engagement

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Sally Kellerman

Synopsis: When Bonanza debuted in 1959, its first episode was "A Rose for Lotta", guest-starring Yvonne DeCarlo as real-life musical peformer Lotta Crabtree. Written by Stanley Roberts, the series' March 1, 1970 episode "Return Engagement" found Sally Kellerman in the role of the fabulous Lotta. As Read More

1970
Bonanza: The Gold Mine

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Tony DeCosta

Synopsis: Tony De Costa is cast as Ramon, a Mexican youth who has suffered a lifetime of abuse at the hands of his father, and now is under the thumb of his cruel boss. Mad at the world, Ramon refuses to reveal the fact that he's discovered a rich gold vein. And then, inevitably, the boy is befriended by Read More

1970
Bonanza: Caution, Easter Bunny Crossing

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Marc Lawrence

Synopsis: Perhaps the silliest Bonanza episode ever filmed, "Caution, Easter Bunny Crossing" was written by Larry Markes. This is the one in which Hoss Cartwright dresses up in a huge rabbit costume to entertain a group of orphans at an Easter party. En route to the festivities, Hoss runs afoul of four Read More

1970
Bonanza: The Silence at Stillwater

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Pat Hingle

Synopsis: Sheriff Austin (Pat Hingle) of Stillwater jails Candy on the basis of highly suspicious eyewitness testimony. Not only does Austin refuse to tell Candy that he's suspected of robbery and murder, but he also refuses to inform the Cartwrights of their top hand's whereabouts. Why is the Sheriff Read More

1969
Bonanza: The Witness

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Melissa Murphy

Synopsis: Melissa Murphy is cast as Jenny Winters, who claims she can identify the outlaw Logan gang as the men who robbed a stagecoach and murdered the driver. Hoping to protect Jenny from the Logans, Joe Cartwright and Candy offer the girl shelter at the Ponderosa. What neither the good guys nor the bad Read More

1969
Bonanza: Anatomy of a Lynching

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Guy Stockwell

Synopsis: When Will Griner (Walter Barnes) is acquitted of murder, the angry townsfolk, convinced that the trial was rigged in Will's favor, organize a lynch mob. It is up to the Cartwrights, Candy, and Sherriff Coffee to protect Will throughout a long and violent night. Meanwhile, Ben quietly re-opens the Read More

1969
Bonanza: A Lawman's Lot is Not a Happy One

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Tom Bosley

Synopsis: While Sheriff Coffee testifies at a trial in San Francisco, Hoss Cartwright serves as temporary sheriff of Virginia City. Before long, Hoss has outraged and astonished the townsfolk by locking up millionaire Paul Forbes (Robert Emhardt) and his valet Fairfax (Jay Novello), for reasons which remain Read More

1969
Bonanza: The Unwanted

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Bonnie Bedelia

Synopsis: Before she played Joe Cartwright's ill-fated love interest in the 1972 Bonanza episode "Forever," Bonnie Bedelia guest-starred in the series' April 6, 1969 episode "The Unwanted." Bedelia is cast as Lorrie, the daughter of Ben Cartwright's old friend, lawman Luke Mansfield (Charles McGraw). Read More

1969
Bonanza: The Running Man

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Will Geer

Synopsis: Joe Cartwright and Candy head to Butlerville, there to help out Candy's old friend Jess Parker (Robert Pine). The town is run with an iron hand by Calvin Butler (Will Geer), who will stop at nothing to drive all "squatters" out of the territory. Having witnessed Butler's brutality first hand Read More

1969
Bonanza: Another Windmill to Go

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Laurence Naismith

Synopsis: The "Don Quixote" legend was given a 19th century western spin on Bonanza's inaugural eleventh-season entry "Another Windmill to Go." The Cartwrights are dumbstruck when they find Don Q. Hought (Laurence Naismath) rowing a wheeled boat across their grazing land. But Don Q. is not as daffy as he Read More

1969
Bonanza: Speak No Evil

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Patricia Smith

Synopsis: Self-reliant 14-year-old Coley (Kevin Burchett) inherits a valuable gold mine from his otherwise luckless father. Having spent most of his life being rejected by the adult world, Coley suddenly finds himself in the middle of a custody tug-of-war between his long-estranged mother Margaret Read More

1969
Bonanza: Old Friends

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Victor Sen Yung

Synopsis: Ben Cartwright finds himself in the uncomfortable position of choosing between two old and treasured friends, both of whom abuptly re-enter his life after 27 years. Charlie Sheppard (Robert Wilke), formerly Ben's prospecting partner, is now a wanted outlaw, while Jess Waddell (Morgan Woodward) has Read More

1969
Bonanza: Dead Wrong

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Arthur Hunnicutt

Synopsis: Although Salty Hubbard (Arthur Hunnicutt) is Sunville's biggest liar, everyone in town believes Salty's claim that stranger Hoss Cartwright is really notorious outlaw Big Jack (Mike Mazurki). To stay alive, Hoss is forced to fake his own death, funeral and all. Meanwhile, the real Big Jack Read More

1969
Bonanza: Season 11

Actors: Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, David Canary

Synopsis: Season 11 of Bonanza marks the temporary departure of David Canary as Candy, enigmatic ranch hand at the Ponderosa spread run by Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene); Candy would not return to the series until its 14th and final season. Highlights during Bonanza's 11th year on the air include "Another Windmill to Go Read More

1969
Bonanza: Abner Willoughby's Return

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, John Astin

Synopsis: John Astin and Emmaline Henry, who back in 1962 played husband and wife in the short-lived sitcom I'm Dickens-He's Fenster, were reunited in the December 21, 1969 Bonanza episode "Abner Willoughby's Return." Astin is cast as ex-miner Abner, who after 17 years at sea comes back to Virginia City to Read More

1969
Bonanza: The Stalker

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Charlotte Stewart

Synopsis: Candy is forced to kill the rancher husband of Lisa Campbell (Charlotte Stewart) in self-defense. Hoping to overcome Lisa's bitterness, Candy goes to work for her as a ranchhand. Ultimately, love blossoms between the two-but Lisa has already hired gunslinger Jake (Lloyd Battista) to kill Candy Read More

1969
Bonanza: The Medal

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: Dean Stockwell guest-stars as Mathew, a former Northern war hero and Congressional Medal of Honor Winner, now living a pauper's existence in Nevada. Ben Cartwright comes to Mathew's aid when the man is victimized by Seth Nagel (Harry Townes), a Southerner determined to avenge the loss of his home Read More

1969
Bonanza: A Darker Shadow

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Gregory Walcott

Synopsis: Joe Cartwright is dumbfounded when his friend, bank employee Wade Turner (Gregory Walcott), abruptly leaves town before his marriage to his sweetheart Sarah (Sandra Smith). Wade's abrupt exit coincides with a shortage in the bank's accounts, prompting Joe to seek out his friend and demand an Read More

1969
Bonanza: Meena

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Ann Prentiss

Synopsis: Originally telecast on November 16, 1969, "Meena" was the first of three Bonanza episodes featuring the troublesome Calhouns. When Joe Cartwright is kidnapped by bumbling crooks Jesse (Victor French), Owen (Robert Donner), and Virge (George Morgan), he is rescued by pretty Meena Calhoun (Ann Read More

1969
Bonanza: Emily

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Elliot Gilbert, David Canary

Synopsis: Joe Cartwright's coquettish former fiancee Emily Anderson (Beth Brickell) returns to town, quickly wrapping the moonstruck Joe around her little finger once more. Unfortunately, Emily has neglected to inform Joe that she is now married to Deputy Marshal Wade McPhail (Ron Hayes). Furthermore, the Read More

1969
Bonanza: Erin

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Mary Fickett

Synopsis: Mary Fickett is cast as Erin O'Donnell, an Irish girl raised by the Sioux in Paiutes. Falling in love with Erin, Hoss Cartwright does his best to shield her from the bigotry of the townspeople. But Erin regards Hoss' efforts as futile, citing the tribal prophecy that she is "the wolf child, born Read More

1969
Bonanza: Mrs. Wharton and the Lesser Breeds

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Mildred Natwick

Synopsis: Mildred Natwick guest-stars as the formidable Mrs. Wharton, a snobbish Englishwoman living by her wits and will in the Wild, Wild West. When the stage on which she is travelling is held up by outlaws, the snooty Mrs. Wharton must rely upon that "uncouth creature" Candy to retrieve her valuables. Read More

1969
Bonanza: My Friend, My Enemy

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, John Saxon

Synopsis: On trial for the murder of John Leggett, Candy comes before "hanging judge" Butler (Chick Chandler). The only eyewitness to the murder is Jacova (John Saxon), an Indian horse thief presently on the lam from the law. As the Cartwrights scour the countryside in search of Jacova, Candy is forced to Read More

1969
Bonanza: The Deserter

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Ben Johnson

Synopsis: Ben Johnson guest-stars as Sgt. Samuel Bellis, accused of desertion, murder, and selling guns to the Indians. Bellis insists that he's innocent, and Candy believes him-but before he can clear Bellis' name, he must elude the Army patrol that is hot on the fugitive sergeant's heels. In a further Read More

1969
Bonanza: Five Candles

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Ray Teal

Synopsis: During a murder trial, Ben Cartwright is trapped in the basement of the courthouse by a mine cave-in. Also entombed with Ben are the accused murderer, the main prosecution witness, the witness' fiancee, and the court clerk. As Joe, Hoss, and Candy race against time to rescue the prisoners before Read More

1969
Bonanza: Company of Forgotten Men

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, James Gregory

Synopsis: The Cartwrights give food and shelter to a bedraggled, impoverish company of army veterans, who have been denied their pensions for various and sundry reasons. What the Cartwrights don't know is that the ex-soldiers intend to get even with the government by robbing the Carson City mint. Read More

1969
Bonanza: Commitment at Angelus

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Marj Dusay

Synopsis: Joe Cartwright is grief-stricken when his friend Steve Regan, leader of a miners' strike, is accidentally killed. Because the Cartwrights are major stockholders in the mining company, Joe feels partially responsible for Steve's death, and does what he can to help the man's widow Stephanie (Marj Read More

1968
Bonanza: Trouble Town

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Robert J. Wilke

Synopsis: Candy makes good his long-standing promise to quit the Ponderosa to join his longtime sweetheart Lila Holden (Elizabeth MacRae) in the town of River Bend. His dreams of starting life anew are shattered when he is arrested on a trumped-up charge and held without bail. Hoping to help Candy out, the Read More

1968
Bonanza: Star Crossed

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Tisha Sterling

Synopsis: Candy comes to the aid of down-and-out Laura Jean Pollard (Tisha Sterling), offering the bedraggled young woman the shelter and hospitality of the Ponderosa. Before long, however, an ex-marshal named Passmore (William Windom) has arrived on the scene to blackmail poor Laura. What is her secret-and Read More

1968
Bonanza: The Arrival of Eddie

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Jan-Michael Vincent

Synopsis: Forced to kill the father of young Eddie McKay (Jan-Michael Vincent), Hoss Cartwright tries to make amends by hiring Eddie as a Ponderosa hand. Eddie accepts the job-but only because he has entered into an unholy alliance with rancher Sam Butler (Jim Davis), who also has a grudge against the Read More

1968
Bonanza: The Bottle Fighter

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Albert Dekker

Synopsis: On trial for murder, Hoss Cartwright may well be sent to the gallows on circumstantial evidence. Worse still, Hoss is suffering from amnesia, and doesn't know if he is guilty or innocent. The only person willing to take Hoss' case is legendary Sacramento defense attorney Barney Sturgess (Albert Read More

1968
Bonanza: To Die in Darkness

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, James Whitmore

Synopsis: Michael Landon made his directorial debut with this Bonanza episode from May 5, 1968, which Landon also wrote. Ben Cartwright and his ranchhand Candy are trapped in a mine by John Postley (James Whitmore), who'd been wrongly sent to prison for 18 months on his captives' testimony. The embittered Read More

1968
Bonanza: The Late Ben Cartwright

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Sidney Blackmer

Synopsis: Ben Cartwright is determined to block the gubernatorial bid of John Faraday (Simon Scott), the corrupt stooge of crooked tycoon Sam Endicott (Sidney Blackmer). When Ben is shot by one of Endicott's henchmen, he decides to "play dead" until the convention, then expose both Endicott and Faraday as Read More

1968
Bonanza: A Girl Named George

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Jack Albertson

Synopsis: Though the title of this episode refers to the young lady played by Sheila Wells, the emphasis is on George's father, photographer Enos Blessing (Jack Albertson). Hired to provide an alibi for crooked lawyer Cato Troxell (Gerald Mohr), who plans to murder the judge (Fred Clark) responsible for Read More

1968
Bonanza: The Trackers

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Warren Stevens

Synopsis: Ben and Hoss Cartwright, together with ranchhand Candy, join a posse to capture Cully Maco (Bruce Dern), an ex-convict wanted for robbery and murder. Trouble is, the other members of the posse are determined to kill their prisoner without a trial. And as if that wasn't enough intrigue, Cully is Read More

1968
Bonanza: Season 10

Actors: Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, David Canary

Synopsis: Though no longer the number one program in America by the time it entered its tenth season, Bonanza still weighed in at a respectable third place, just after Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. Of the major characters, Lorne Greene as Ben Cartwright, Dan Blocker as Hoss Cartwright Read More

1968
Bonanza: The Crime of Johnny Mule

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Noah Beery, Jr.

Synopsis: Noah Beery Jr. guest-stars as Johnny Mule, on trial for the murder of David Lowdon. Typically, Hoss Cartwright casts the vote which deadlocks the jury, convinced that there is reasonable doubt regarding Johnny's guilt. But when Johnny breaks out of jail rather than face a retrial, Hoss must come Read More

1968
Bonanza: The Price of Salt

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Kim Hunter

Synopsis: Kim Hunter guest-stars as greedy Ada Halle, who holds a monopoly on all salt deposits in Spanish Wells. Charging exorbitant prices for her precious salt, Ada sparks a war between the haves (the wealthy cattlemen of the territory) and the have-nots (the small ranchers). Making things dicier is the Read More

1968
Bonanza: The Burning Sky

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Dawn Wells

Synopsis: Ben Cartwright hires a new horse trainer named Will Holt (Michael Murphy), who brings with him an Indian bride named Moon (Dawn Wells, fresh from her stint on Gilligan's Island). When the neighbors express vicious bigotry towards the interracial couple, the Cartwrights try to smooth over the Read More

1968
Bonanza: The Stronghold

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Mike Witney

Synopsis: Originally telecast on May 26, 1968 as Bonanza's 300th episode, "The Stronghold" finds Joe Cartwright and Ponderosa hand Candy chasing Josh and Mike Farrell (Michael Witney and Paul Mantee), the two men who swindled them out of a herd of cattle. Joe and Candy catch up with the duplicitous brothers Read More

1968
Bonanza: Queen High

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Celeste Yarnall

Synopsis: Joe Cartwright, Candy and Kate Kelly (Celeste Yarnell) form a partnership to establish an ore-stamping mill. Though Joe and Candy know next to nothing about running the mill, they have no trouble courting Kate, with both partners showing up at the lady's doorstep on alternate evenings. But it Read More

1968
Bonanza: The Sound of Drums

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Jack Kruschen

Synopsis: Jack Kruschen makes his third and final Bonanza appearance as Giorgio Rossi, the bombastic patriarch of an Italian wine-growing family. Having been awarded a parcel of Ponderosa land to create a vineyard, Rossi causes consternation for Ben Cartwright when he invites a group of hungry Indians to Read More

1968
Bonanza: The Survivors

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Mariette Hartley

Synopsis: Mariette Hartley makes a return visit to Bonanza in the November 10, 1968 episode "The Survivors." This time, Hartley is cast as Alicia, a former captive of the Paiutes. During her captivity, Alicia had been forced to bear a son to one of the braves, and as a result is shunned by the townsfolk-and Read More

1968
Bonanza: A World Full of Cannibals

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, James Patterson

Synopsis: Grand Jury witness Charles Ball (James Patterson) is prepared to charge seven men with fraud-not out of any sense of civic duty, but because he has been paid off by Vandeman (Mark Richman a co-conspirator of the seven defendants, and the worst of the lot. With his life in jeopardy, Ball hides out Read More

1968
Bonanza: Mark of Guilt

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Victor Sen Yung

Synopsis: This episode of Bonanza is a showcase for Victor Sen Yung as Hop Sing, the Cartwrights' loyal Chinese manservant. When Hop Sing's pigtail is cut off by town bully Emo Younger (Sam Greene), Joe Cartwright vows to avenge this act of public humiliation-and is subsequently arrested for murder when Read More

1968
Bonanza: Yonder Man

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, John Vernon

Synopsis: Beaudry (John Vernon), an old army buddy of Ben Cartwright, is just a man who wants to have fun. Unfortunately, his idea of fun is to steal Hoss' horse, pick fights with the townsfolk, and seriously injure Candy. But there may be even worse in store: Tired of a life as vagabond, Beaudry plans to Read More

1968
Bonanza: Little Girl Lost

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Linda Sue Risk

Synopsis: A distant relative of Ben Cartwright, preteen tomboy Samantha Dorcas (Linda Sue Risk is delivered to the Ponderosa in the hope that Ben will be able to "tame" the troublesome girl. Meanwhile, Sam's mother Martha (Antoinette Bower) struggles desperately to escape her existence as a saloon girl. Read More

1968
Bonanza: Child

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Unbeknownst to Hoss Cartwright, the horse he has just purchased previously belonged to a murdered millionaire. As a result, Hoss is railroaded into jail on a murder-theft charge. Threatened with lynching by a band of townsfolk eager to get their hands on the dead man's missing money, Hoss breaks Read More

1968
Bonanza: Different Pines, Same Wind

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Irene Tedrow

Synopsis: Bonanza inaugurated its tenth season on September 15, 1968, with the episode titled "Same Pines, Different Winds." Irene Tedrow is cast as tenacious widow Carrie Picket, who owns a parcel of land which she calls "her piney woods." Because her late husband never filed a legal claim for the Read More

1968
Bonanza: Pride of a Man

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Kevin Coughlin

Synopsis: When schoolteacher Abby Pettigrew (Anne Helm is incapacitated, Joe Cartwright takes over Abby's classroom. He is able to connect with all of the students except for the troublemaking McNab boys, Willy (Kevin McCoughlin) and Billy (Steve Cory). It turns out that the source of the brothers' Read More

1968
Bonanza: Catch as Catch Can

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Paul Richards

Synopsis: The Cartwrights and Candy find themselves stranded in the backwater town of Tinbucket. Having picked up false rumors that the Ponderosa is on its last legs, the townsfolk refuse to extend Ben Cartwright any credit. Meanwhile, a series of bizarre coincidences leads to several embarrassing arrests Read More

1968
Bonanza: The Passing of a King

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Jeremy Slate

Synopsis: Taking advantage of the illness of his powerful rancher father Claude Roman (Denver Pyle), mean-spirited Jermey Roman (Jeremy Slate) runs roughshod over everyone. In addition to browbeating his sister Mary (Diane Muldaur) and reneging on a legitimate business deal with the Cartwrights, Jeremy also Read More

1968
Bonanza: Salute to Yesterday

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Patrick Conway

Synopsis: The focus in this Bonanza episode of September 29, 1968 is on ranch hand Candy, played by David Canary. Candy and the Cartwrights offer their assistance to a US Army unit, presently under attack from a gang of gold bandits. Crisis mounts upon crisis when it develops that Captain Harris (Pat Read More

1968
Bonanza: Sense of Duty

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Gene Rutherford

Synopsis: Written by John Hawkins and Gil Lasky, "Sense of Duty" served to introduce new Bonanza regular David Canary as Candy. Donning a military uniform for the first time in years, Ben Cartwright is placed in command of the 116th Virginia City Militia, a unit including his own sons Joe and Hoss. Ben's Read More

1967
Bonanza: Season 09

Actors: Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, David Canary

Synopsis: Season nine of Bonanza marks the introduction of a new recurring character; one of several developed by the series' producers as a potential replacement for former series star Pernell Roberts. David Canary makes his first appearance as enigmatic stranger Candy in "A Sense of Duty"; having passed Read More

1967
Hombre

Actors: Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone, Diane Cilento, Cameron Mitchell

Synopsis: Yes, Paul Newman is a blue-eyed Indian in Hombre, but this apparent ethnic error is carefully justified in the body of the story. Newman plays a white man who was raised by the Apaches, and ever since has straddled two worlds, feeling truly comfortable in neither. While riding a stagecoach, Newman Read More

1967
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., George Segal, Ralph Meeker, Jean Hale, Clint Ritchie

Synopsis: Schlockmeister Roger Corman produced this graphically violent chronicle of the Chicago gangster wars of the 1920s and the events that lead to the bloody title showdown between rival mobsters Al Capone (Jason Robards) and Bugs Moran (Ralph Meeker) that marked a brutal end to a terrifying era. Fred Steiner Read More

1967
Bonanza: Judgement at Olympus

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Barry Sullivan

Synopsis: While visiting the remote community of Olympus, Candy is accused of murdering the son of town boss A.Z. Wheelock (Arch Johnson). Things don't look very rosy for the Ponderosa ranchhand: Determined to see Candy hang, Wheelock has paid off both the district attorney and a drunken eyewitness. Read More

1967
Bonanza: Desperate Passage

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Steve Forrest

Synopsis: The Cartwrights must carefully wend their way through Paiute territory, guarding two survivors of a recent massacre. One of the survivors, Josh Tanner (Steve Forrest), is an accused murderer. The other, Mary Burns (Tina Louise), knows that Josh is innocent, but can't-or won't-reveal this fact. Read More

1967
Bonanza: Showdown at Tahoe

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Richard Anderson

Synopsis: Jamison Fillmore (Richard Anderson), the crooked owner of a paddle-wheel steamboat, plans an aquatic escape after robbing the Ponderosa timber supplies and stealing a shipment of currency. Fillmore proves he's not kidding when he murders steamboat skipper Captain Larson (Karl Swenson), a friend of Read More

1967
Bonanza: Check Rein

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, James MacArthur

Synopsis: Future Hawaii 5-0 regular James MacArthur guest-stars as Jase Fredericks, who tries to protect his inheritance, and his life, from his selfish uncle Bingham (Ford Rainey). The Cartwrights become involved when the conflict between Jase and Bingham boils down to Jase's prize stallion. Patricia Read More

1967
Bonanza: Night of Reckoning

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: A gang of outlaws, led by the sadistic Dibs (Richard Jaeckel), descends upon the Ponderosa. The crooks are determined to retrieve $60,000 in stolen money from their duplicitous partner Don Buckler (Ron Hayes), now wounded and under the care of the Cartwright boys. Eve McVeigh appears as Read More

1967
Bonanza: False Witness

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Davey Davison

Synopsis: After delivering a herd of cattle to the town of Sand Dust, Joe and Hoss Cartwright, together with ranchhand Candy and local girl Valerie Townsend (Davey Davidson), are eyewitness to a fatal shooting. When the brothers of accused killer Billy Slader (Michael Blodgett) threaten to permanently Read More

1967
Bonanza [TV Series]

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, David Canary

Synopsis: The first hour-long network Western series telecast in color, Bonanza was also the granddaddy of all "property" Westerns, future examples of which included The Virginian, The Big Valley, and The High Chaparral. The series took place during and after the Civil War in Virginia City, NV. Lorne Greene Read More

1959

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