Great American Faith and Living

As the past resurfaces, James questions his calling; Janet fights to protect her family; Willis gambles the ranch on one last choice.

James must choose between the ranch and the church he built; tensions rise with Janet and Layla; Willis faces the cost of holding on.

On Easter Sunday, James opens the Cowboy Church as faith calls for sacrifice, forgiveness, and hope amid a quiet threat to the ranch's future.

Trampas recalls how he came to the Shiloh Ranch as a angry young ranchhand bent on avenging the death of his father (Sonny Tufts), a shiftless gambler killed by Garth in self-defense.

An aging dance-hall performer (Joan Blondell) asks Garth to hold a trial to clear her son of a murder charge, although the boy has already been killed by vigilantes; guest John Dehner.

The Virginian must stall the execution of an old flame (Gena Rowlands) convicted of murder, so Garth has time to prove his theory of conspiracy; guests Everett Sloane, Vaughn Taylor, Joanna Moore.

A bounty hunter (Broderick Crawford) fingers Trampas as a homicide suspect, forcing the ranchhand to confess to Garth that he once fell in with a group wanted for murder and robbery.

Betsy discovers love when she meets an ex-convict at Shiloh, but his short temper could send him back to prison.

A rancher (Lloyd Nolan) forces a rebellious son (Chris Robinson) to Shiloh and another (Ryan O'Neal) into a gunfight.

Andy hires a rock-throwing rustic as a school crossing guard.

Aunt Bee and her new boyfriend discover that they aren't as young as they think.

Andy's deputy jails Aunt Bee and her friends for gambling at the charity bazaar.

Andy's deputy upsets his weekend when he insists that a picnic will prove disastrous.

The Taylor family goes to Hollywood when a company decides to make a movie about Andy.

The Taylor family starts an exciting vacation in Hollywood, including a visit to a movie studio.

Andy poses for a picture with a Hollywood starlet and his romance with Helen is jolted.

Aunt Bee wins a kitchen of appliances on a TV show but loses all her friends.

Warren captures a pair of thieves through ignorance about how a cannon works.

Goober has dreams of entering show business when he thinks he owns a genuine talking dog.

Aunt Bee gets a job at the town print shop, where the new proprietors are actually counterfeiters.

Andy struggles with the financial challenge of helping an impoverished congregation buy an organ.

A potential mayoral candidate attempts to stir up trouble between majority and minority groups in town.

A former dance hall girl poses as a Spanish heiress to claim a land grant that includes part of the Ponderosa; guest Sebastian Cabot.

Jeb Drummond is a murderous sheep herder who has Adam taken hostage to try and force Ben to sign over a large section of Ponderosa land to him.

A Ponderosa ranch hand faces charges of killing the wife of the U.S. marshal who came to arrest him.

As Ben prepares to run for governor, Joe must come to his rescue when a disabled police officer from New Orleans comes to arrest Ben on a 20-year-old murder charge.

Adam is taken hostage by a band of U.S. Army prisoners who have escaped and sought refuge on the Ponderosa.

A wanderer seeking his parents' lynchers, arrives in Virginia City as Ben and Adam are convicted of murder.

Two British socialites find that they still have a lot to learn when they visit their friends, the Cartwrights.

Shortly after the Ponderosa cattle herd arrives in San Francisco at the hands of Hoss, Joe and Ben, two of their traildrivers are shanghaied and destined for Hong Kong.

When a neighbor agrees to sell his property, the Cartwrights fear the loss of water rights for their cattle.

The Cartwrights befriend a boy whose father has been sent to jail and whose mother has recently died.

Little Joe falls for a girl who has been disowned by her people because they think she is a witch and, therefore, an outcast.

A member of a powerful gang murders a shopkeeper; the deputized Cartwrights sentence a murderer to hang at dawn when the leader of the gang kidnaps Ben and holds him hostage.

A young bank robber gets a job on the Ponderosa to prevent the sheriff from finding the other members of his gang.

Hoss befriends Charlie Trent, a man who went from top Army scout to town drunk after he led his troops into a massacre.

Girl-shy Warren turns into a sleepwalking Casanova after watching his suave hero on TV.

Deputy Warren starts the town drunk on a therapeutic art career.

Barney returns to Mayberry to attend his high-school reunion.

Barney is shamed into displaying his "legendary" courage by going after an escaped convict.

Aunt Bee collects insurance for the loss of an antique pin, but finds it after she has spent the money.

An impostor takes the town of Mayberry when he introduces himself as Clarence Earp, descendant of the famous Wyatt.

Andy faces some new problems when Aunt Bee buys a secondhand car.

Opie is reluctant to attend the school party after he learns that it is a dance.

Andy has a problem when a band of gypsies comes to Mayberry and puts a curse on the town.

Goober falls in love with the new waitress in town, but she has eyes for Andy.

Aunt Bee agrees to a week of baby-sitting for her niece and finds the infant adores everyone but her.

Andy and Helen run into trouble when they promote a romance between the county clerk and the county nurse.

Charlie receives a call from a man offering a barn full of disassembled barn wood; Charlie assists his friend, Sarah, whose cabin has acquired a bad case of rot; Charlie and his wife, Beth, build a mantle piece for his eighth grade teacher.

In Church Hill, Tenn., Vaux has a 100-year-old barn that is rotting from the ground up; unwilling to tear it down, he brings in the log cabin crew; Charlie, who must raise the barn and install a fresh foundation to keep it sealed from the elements.

In Jonesborough, Tenn., Susan calls on Charlie and his team to dismantle an old barn on her property where she wants to build her dream house; Charlie consults with town officials about a historic cabin in need of repair.

Charlie heads to Lake Norman, N.C., to renovate an antique log cabin turned vacation home; it's a gorgeous old lakeside cabin, but it has quite a few problems; the foundations, floors, ceiling, paneling, and logs are all in need of a little TLC.

In Johnson City, Tenn., Bobby and Laurena hire Charlie to move one of their historic structures; set into a hillside and surrounded by gardens, the team must resort to old-fashioned handiwork in order to haul the heavy hand-hewn beams out.

Charlie and the crew convert two century-old tobacco barns into a craftsman's quarters; the task requires tearing down one sagging structure and using its pieces to patch and renovate the other; they face rotting floorboards and heaps of scrap metal.

Mike and his sister, Anita, want an antique log cabin built far from civilization, but the crew discovers that getting this job done means bringing in power where there is none and fighting massive lightning and hail storms.

The crew builds a rustic new home for a young married couple at the top of a mountain, but they discover that getting their equipment up the treacherous roads is as difficult as building the cabin itself.

The crew takes on its biggest job ever when they attempt to tear down a massive barn owned by an Army veteran and his family, who love the old barn but realize that its glory days have long since passed.

Charlie discovers a mother lode of historic beams inside a dilapidated barn in Pennsylvania while tearing it down.

Charlie and the crew travel deep into the backwoods of Tennessee mountain country to tear down an American Revolution-era log cabin.

Charlie revisits a massive log cabin vacation home to replace rotting timber; Charlie and his wife, Beth, visit a wedding reception cabin retreat; the crew creates a cabin-like television screening room for Charlie's old college buddy and his wife.

Charlie Norman comes from three generations of professional masons, so when a client wants an antique wine cellar constructed, the Normans go digging for Revolutionary War-era bricks and explore their lineage along the way.