Daniel Hugh Kelly as Ben Cartwright

Guest Star :
Joseph Clements as Iron Hands Malloy 



Sunday 
Sept. 30, 2001
9:00PM 
PROMISE episode 1.5

When Adam shoots and kills a robber, he questions the meaning of giving his word, as he balances his dream of an education against his promise to the dying man to look after his children and beautiful young widow. An elegant, educated black man, Sam Washington, rides into town, creating great excitement when he reveals that he's the great grandson of George Washington's personal slave, only to be accidentally unmasked by Little Joe as a con man and runaway slave. 


Sunday
Oct. 14, 2001
9:00PM
"HOMELAND" episode 1.6 
(original airdate was scheduled for Sept. 30, 2001 but wasn't shown)

Carlos is overjoyed and Ben and his sons are amazed when Carlos beautiful and spirited eighteen-year-old sister, Isabella, appears at what until recently had been the Rivera family's ranch. Carlos had presumed she'd died in a fire in Mexico. Isabella is overjoyed at being reunited with the brother she'd feared had died in the Mexican-American war, but she's also heartbroken to learn that her former home has been sold to Margaret Davis as a war reparation. Since she's now homeless, Ben takes Isabella into the already-crowded Ponderosa, but events take a dismaying turn when a sheriff from Texas arrives in town on the trail of a "killer" and discovers that Isabella rode in on the murdered victim's horse. The sheriff threatens to arrest Isabella, but Ben takes responsibility for her custody, offering to stand trial for whatever crime, if any, the sheriff decides to try her for if she flees. Fearful for Isabella's life, Isabella and Carlos do flee, but when they learn what Ben has done, they return to town. When they arrive, Carlos steps forward and confesses to the murder before Isabella can protest. Now the sheriff intends to extradite both Carlos and Ben, but in the end, Isabella stands up at their trial and explains that she killed the man in self-defense after he raped her. Carlos and Ben go free, and Margaret, now contrite and sympathetic to Isabella's ordeal, takes Isabella into her home, as "living at the Ponderosa with six men is no place for a lady."

Sunday 
Oct. 28, 2001
9:00 PM
QUARANTINE episode 1.7

When a mystery illness strikes a weekend celebration at the Ponderosa, fear of the plague brings an armed quarantine by vigilantes. Upon the threat of death, no one is allowed to leave, and ultimately they try to burn down the Ponderosa. It is Hop Sing who comes to the rescue when he introduces the medicine and cures his father taught him when he was in China. 

Sunday 
Nov. 4, 2001
9:00PM 
SECRETS AND LIES  episode 1.8

When a man and his adopted son come to town, Ben is inexplicably disturbed. They've come to town to have Adam write a story about the Donner party, of which the boy is a survivor. His real parents died in that horrible winter, and his adoptive father wants the ugly rumors denied so they can get on with the future. But only Ben holds the key to unlocking the boy's guilt and fear, since it was Ben who was part of the rescue party. At the same time, Ben must confront his own guilt at having stranded his own family in Eagle Springs that winter, during which Marie lost the child she was carrying. Shelby's world is turned upside down by the discovery that she is carrying Jack's child. It's revealed that they were formerly married. She turns to Ben for guidance, and decides to sell the saloon and move on to a "respectable" life. A miscarriage puts an end to the plan, but a beginning to a new appreciation of herself as a woman. 
 

Sunday 
Nov. 18, 2001
9:00 PM
THE LEGEND OF JOHN RILEY  episode 1.9

A man hunted for being a U.S. deserter who fought for Mexico comes to stay at the Ponderosa, causing a rift between Hoss (Drew Powell) and Tess (Sara Gleeson), whose father died in the war against Mexico.

Sunday 
Dec. 2, 2001
9:00 PM
BROTHER VS BROTHER  episode 1.10

Romantic woes are caused by a "Ladies Choice" dance: Margaret and Shelby learn that they both want to be escorted by Ben, and Tess settles for Hoss when Isabella asks Adam.

Sunday
Dec. 16, 2001
9:00 PM
WHERE THE HEART IS  episode 1.11

Marie's sister comes to the Ponderosa, but she doesn't get along well with the townspeople and she wants to take Little Joe back to New Orleans.

Sunday 
Jan. 6, 2002
9:00 PM
TREASURE  episode 1.12

Adam, Hoss and Carlos discover a treasure map clutched in a dead man's hand and set out to claim the gold they think it leads to, unaware they are being followed.

Sunday 
Jan. 13, 2002
9:00 PM
SPOILS OF WAR  episode 1.13

Manuel, a man who once saved Carlos's life, unexpectedly arrives in town. Manuel is disturbed to see Carlos working for the people he believes stole the de Rivera ranch, so he devises a plan to get the land back, starting with Margaret and her spread.

Sunday
 Jan. 20, 2002
A TIME TO WIN  episode 1.14

Ben is distrustful of a stranger who comes to Eagle Station, builds a hotel and talks about his vision to expand the young town and put it on the stagecoach route.

Sunday 
Feb. 10, 2002
Blind Faith  episode 1.15

Hoss falls for a the daughter of a reverend who claims that he can perform miracles.

Sunday 
Feb. 17, 20002
Lesser Of Evils  episode 1.16

Isabella receives a letter from her childhood love whom she thought had died in the war. She's torn between her old love and Adam, who is determined not to lose her.

Sunday
Mar. 24, 2002
Comes A Horse  episode 1.17

Eagle Station is at odds when an epidemic seems to strike the town's cattle, and Margaret (Josephine Byrnes) is the hardest hit. While half of the townspeople want to help Margaret and the rest of the ranchers through the baffling illness, the rest vote to destroy the herds and start selling the ranches - to Jack (Jim Knobeloch). Over Tess's (Sara Gleeson) strong objections and Ben's (Daniel Hugh Kelly) obvious disappointment, Margaret seems ready to accept Jack's offer and leave Eagle Station, when a crisis involving an injured horse brings the whole town together.

Sunday
Apr. 28, 2002
Grown Ups  episode 1. 18

Sunday 
May 5, 2002
Samson And Hercules  episode 1.19

Sunday
May 12, 2002
Fugitive  episode 1.20

Ben is determined to save a friend from being returned as a slave to his owner.

Starring :  Daniel Hugh Kelly, Matthew Carmody, Andrew Powell, Jared Daperis, Lisa Baumwol, Nicki Wendt, Petru Georghiu, Abbe Holmes, Fernando Carrillo, Josephine Byrnes, Sara Gleeson, Gareth Yuen, Brad Dourif, Don Halbert, David Patterson, Peter Curtin, Jim Knobeloch. 

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Drew Powell as Hoss Cartwright