Bonanza (TV Series) Breed of Violence (1960) User Reviews

Don't take the girl

[mitchrmp · 6/10 · 26 June 2014]

A woman and Joe. What does that spell? TROUBLE! Yep, anytime an episode starts with Joe rescuing a woman in distress, we know there's gonna be big trouble! But this time Joe is not as heavily involved. He rescues Dolly from a drunk Vince, who is a bad boy. But he can't rescue her from her father, the town sheriff who is over-bearing and over- protective. So she finally runs away...with Vince!

See the problem yet? Oh, did I mention that Joe and Hoss are going up into the hills to catch wolves that have been after their cattle? Or did I mention that Vince is actually one of of four men who...Well, I'll leave that for entertainment!

Not much romance in this one. We have a woman who's trying to decide which side of the law she belongs on while involved with the gang and Little Joe and Hoss.

The ending is a bit confusing. I think I got the number of dead correct, but I can't be sure (one was someone killed off-camera).

Dead: 5

Stealing in a bigger way

[bkoganbing · 5/10 · 5 December 2014]

This Bonanza episode concerns Little Joe and quite frankly he should have minded his own business when he saw John Ericson getting a bit rough with sheriff's daughter Myrna Fahey. Fahey and her father tell Michael Landon to butt out, although sheriff Val Avery is not real happy about Myrna keeping company with Ericson. As for Landon, the Cartwrights fired Ericson some months back when they caught him stealing.

Now Ericson's stealing in a bigger way. He and a gang rob a bank and kill a teller, but Ericson persuades Fahey to run away with him figuring that she'll be a good hostage if necessary.

In the meantime both Dan Blocker and Michael Landon meet up with Ericson and Fahey up in a remote mountain cabin where the resident trapper is killed and the gang is hiding from a posse. It takes a bit of doing before Fahey realizes what a bottom feeder she's run away with.

Although quite frankly Landon is thinking with his male member, it all works out in the end. Myrna Fahey was one of the most beautiful women ever on the big or small screen so who could blame him.

Cartwright fans should like this one.