Bonanza (TV Series) A Single Pilgrim (1971) User Reviews

Married a good woman

[bkoganbing · 7/10 · 18 December 2017]

A good guest casts tops this Bonanza episode in which Hoss is accidentally shot during a hunting accident.

It truly was an accident when John Schuck shot Dan Blocker thinking he was a deer that had escaped into the thick brush. He brings him home and his wife Beth Brickell who back in their home in the Virginia piney woods had a reputation as a healer.

But they live with Schuck's father Jeff Corey who resents most of the world for having a few more dollars than him. He's not sure whether they should just strip and rob Blocker and therein lies the conflict.

I won't say more but as it turns out Schuck married a very good woman indeed.

This Bonanza episode contrasts the Cartwright values with those of a different and much less fortunate family.

Goodness,decency and love wins

[jilljohnson-80359 · 10/10 · 25 April 2024]

I saw this episode as a girl. Bonanza was my favorite from the time it first came on in 59. The music and watching hoss cartwright, he was my favorite person drew me in. I believe it helped shape me. My attitudes, seeing decent people helping others.

I could see kind and ever loving hoss being accidently injured and brought back to be doctored by a lovely, intelligent equally kind and decent woman who was treated so miserably by her father in law frank. Dilcey and Tom are the couple who lo e each other. Sadly the son so beaten down by his father he and think at all. Now fil is a sorry pos and "a chunk of mean man" the world owes him and feels entitled to take what he wants. (Sadly I have encountered many on my life's journey exactly like this charachter. Real life!!!) Dilcy despite all the verbal and physical cruelty by fil tom don't help. Hoss can't believe he does nothing. Fil strikes hoss already head injured and threatens life. Dilcey enjoys talking to a man for a change. Her and Tom had a baby on their way out to gold country a.h. Fils idea no gold the sickly baby died also. She kept her beauty despite the ruins esp. That shack they squatted in. Hoss made her want to clean up the place and try to pretty it. Tom tries but her sass got host's horse free he'd find his way home. Fil raised cain, stole hoss wallet and his guns. Felt entitled the endless excuse "I did it for you!) What really did it for Tom was when frank was going to shoot hoss due to his idea he'd go to the authorities and claim murder. No hoss wasn't doing that. It's just fil's twisted thinking and life. The ways of a tyrannical patriarch. Tom wrestles with him the end I thought it was Tom gone , no I was glad he lived he declared his love for dilcey and life would be different. Filling her life with beauty and his love. They were free birds and wildwoodflowers.