Did it Happen on The Ponderosa or the Barkley Ranch?
Mysterious visitors. Romance gone awry. A false accusation, bitter betrayal, justice served…all edge-of-your-seat Western action, but are the heroes of these stories the Cartwrights or the Barkleys? Play this fun quiz and see if you can guess if the plot goes to Bonanza or The Big Valley.
1. A wealthy British couple visits the ranch. The wife soon finds herself attracted to the rugged sons of the family, and she begins to think her husband is a coward. She sets her sights on one particular brother.
2. Three deserters escape from an Army stockade and hide at the ranch. When a captain comes looking for them, our hero realizes the prisoners are being treated inhumanely, and now must confront a friend who’s in charge.
3. A beautiful, aloof woman moves to the area and our hero falls in love with her. He courts the young woman, unaware that she has a bounty hunter husband. His affection soon puts him in the sights of a gun.
4. Our hero finds a man burning ranch land and shoots him in self-defense. Now, our hero discovers the dead man’s daughter, and brings her home to care for her, unaware that her outlaw kin is searching for her.
5. Our hero is smitten with Maria who is home from school in the East. She is the daughter of Don Alfredo, a Spanish landowner and nobleman, who is in a property dispute with a neighbor. Don Alfredo believes that our hero’s lineage is impure and the dispute soon endangers the budding romance.
6. Our hero has eyes for an alluring old girlfriend who is now married. When her husband is mysteriously killed in a gun "accident," our hero is accused of murder. It won’t be easy clearing his name. The district attorney has it in for our hero’s family!
7. Our hero, and an alcoholic, cynical hunter, search desperately for a measles-infected Indian brave who intends to seek help only from the traditional medicine man from his tribe. Our hero must stop the brave before he infects his whole tribe.
8. While celebrating the return of his daughter, Connie, a former lawman is asked to help capture an outlaw gang. While our hero is courting Connie, no one realizes the ex-lawman is actually one of the outlaws.
This is the plot of the Bonanza episode: Denver McKee
9. Irish immigrants claim a section of land on the family ranch, insisting they bought and paid for it in San Francisco. One brother of our hero family immediately clashes with the group’s leader. Another brother is sympathetic, and thinks the immigrants are honest, just mistaken, and not squatters.
10. The brothers spend an evening at the carnival when our hero’s date goes missing. The carnival owner has an eye for pretty girls and intrigues the young woman. Will she learn that the attraction could prove fatal?
11. When a local rancher and friend sends for a mail order bride from back East, he may get more than he bargained for. Our hero notices very suspicious behavior by the bride-to-be and suspects that something is not quite right about her
12. Our hero hires Sam Jackson to help on a cattle drive. But Jackson has a secret. He’s really an outlaw who signed up for the drive because it passes by a certain town, where he plans to kill his father—the sheriff.
