User Reviews

Definitely a " Ben" Episode, the other three have little or no screen time.

Begins as a standard plot, man returns from Prison, is scorned by entire town, asked to move on.

Except by Ben, of course. The great liberal, and humanitarian!

Story moves along well.

Yes, many women have "married' men, because they felt sorry for them, so that's understandable.

Riveting and dramatic ending, which you won't want to miss.

One of THE best endings, in TV history, believe me.

Even as the infamous Code was breaking down television was late in following. Issues like impotence could not be discussed nor of women's needs. That makes this Bonanza episode highly unrealistic.

Tony Young has come back to Virginia City after serving a term in prison for attempted bank robbery when he was teen. In that robbery banker John Conte was left a cripple and he's hated every minute in the wheelchair as it's left him unable to perform many bodily functions.

Even with that Joan Blackman who liked Young back in the day marries Conte because she feels sorry for him. GIMME a break.

Even with Lorne Greene's support Young is getting a rough time from the townspeople a lot of whom are into Conte big time. All Young wants to do is take up the farm that his parents had.

The episode has elements of Maytime in it, but even at that they compromised that ending.

Not the best story ever told on Bonanza.

When the returnee starts working for Ben he is to haul hay to a barn in town. We next see our hero hauling neat bound square bales, clearly machine made. Thing is the first hay baler was not produced until circa 1903, while this episode takes place in early 1860's.