The BEST episodes written by Suzanne Clauser
#1 - Woman of Fire
Bonanza - Season 6 - Episode 17
Ben's friend, Don Miguel, visits the Ponderosa with his two daughters, Margarita and Elena, and Elena's two very anxious suitors. Their mission? They're on their way to California to meet Margarita's suitor, Don Luis. Trouble is, Margarita is a "woman of fire" who manages to scare away all suitors with her hot temper. Since Margarita is the older daughter, she must be married before Elena. Elena's two suitors are quickly losing their patience, and Don Miguel fears his name will be disgraced if Margarita rejects Don Luis.
#2 - The Unwanted
Bonanza - Season 10 - Episode 27
Feeling unloved, a Marshal's daughter runs off with a Ponderosa hand her father thinks may be related to the man that shot him.
#3 - A Single Pilgrim
Bonanza - Season 12 - Episode 15
Settlers from Virginia argue over Hoss' fate after one of them accidentally shoots him.
#4 - Summer 1865 - Autumn 1865
North and South - Season 3 - Episode 1
Elkanah Bent, having survived the explosion of his hidden ammunition depot near Richmond, becomes obsessed with getting "final revenge" on Orry and George, whom he blames for his failures in life...
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#5 - A Natural Wizard
Bonanza - Season 7 - Episode 13
Hoss finds a kindred spirit in Skeeter Dexter, a lonesome young man who feels closer to animals than most people.
#6 - Different Pines, Same Wind
Bonanza - Season 10 - Episode 1
The 10th season opens as Joe helps a widowed mountain woman, a recluse who is suffering from an infection that has become serious, in a battle to save her land from an unscrupulous timber baron.
#7 - The Stillness Within
Bonanza - Season 12 - Episode 24
Blinded by an explosion, Joe wallows in self-pity, and at first resists the efforts of a woman trying to teach him to live without sight, not knowing she is also blind.
#8 - Spring 1866 - Summer 1866
North and South - Season 3 - Episode 3
Carrying out the final part of his revenge, Bent kidnaps Gus, the child of Charles and Augusta Berkley...
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#9 - Second Sight
Bonanza - Season 13 - Episode 16
Hoss enlists the aid of Judith Coleman, a clairvoyant woman who has the gift of "second sight" to find Jamie. He has been missing in the high country and cannot be found by anyone. Judith's gifted psychic abilities have had a long history of men casting her off as a witch, so at first she is reluctant to help the Cartwrights search for Jamie, then changes her mind since she owes them a great deal. Her fiancee, Jess Avery, who is a minister, doesn't look with favor as to her abilities and she may face the consequences of losing him unless she finds Jamie. Hoss refers to Jamie as his "little brother" for the first time.
#10 - Devil on Her Shoulder
Bonanza - Season 7 - Episode 6
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.
#11 - Autumn 1865 - Spring 1866
North and South - Season 3 - Episode 2
Devastated by news of his wife's murder, George begins searching for Bent to exact justice. Cooper Main, Orry's older brother, becomes a member of the Ku Klux Klan and begins working to undermine his sister-in-law Madeline's efforts to help local blacks....
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