Bonanza - Day of Reckoning | Episode 39 | Best Western Series | Full Episode

Bonanza - Episode 39 - Day of Reckoning - As a reward for saving Ben Cartwright's life, an Indian named Matsou (Ricardo Montalban) is given a small parcel of Ponderosa land.
Day of Reckoning
Director: Richard Bartlett
Writers: Laurence Heath (teleplay) (as Leonard Heideman), R. Hamer Norris (teleplay) (as R. Harner Norris)
Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 22 October 1960 USA
Filming Locations: Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Storyline:
As a reward for saving Ben Cartwright's life, an Indian named Matsou (Ricardo Montalban) is given a small parcel of Ponderosa land. Ben's Indian-hating neighbor Ike Daggett (Karl Swenson) violently objects to Matsou's presence. When his wife is killed in a raid, Daggett, holding Matsou responsible, and kills the Indian's wife (Madlyn Rhue) in retaliation.
Reviews:
"This is a well-intentioned attempt from early in the second series of "Bonanza" to sell the idea of Amerindian equality to the mass TV audience, decades after pioneering Hollywood movies did it a lot better. The Cartrights tend to get their liberalism somewhat half-assed here. Matsou, a younger Bannock chief (Ricardo Montalban), and his wife Atoya (Madlyn Rhue), a Shoshone, are outcast from both tribes and live on their own in the rocky high country of the Ponderosa. When they save Ben from Matsou's older brother Lagos (Anthony Caruso) and nurse him back to strength, he offers them his best farm land so they can raise crops and stock and live as white people. Matsou is skeptical and reluctant but, urged on by his wife's Christian pleadings that it's the best hope for their people, he tries. A rabid Indian-hating settler, Ike Daggett (Karl Swenson), another homesteader adjacent who has been gifted land by the Cartrights, does all he can to destroy this initiative. In a confrontation at Daggett's wife's funeral, he grabs a rifle while Ben restrains Matsou and shoots pregnant Atoya dead: "An eye for an eye!" he cries in good Christian spirit. Matsou takes revenge on Daggett but cannot go through with it on Ben. He returns to his people, promising to return in friendship. (As if he hasn't learnt by now!) Montalban was a fine figure of a man at 40, before back problems set in. And Madlyn Rhue too was a dish." Written by defrost-1 on IMDb.com
"This is one of those episodes that makes a person go...wow! We watch as an Indian tries to do the right thing. After saving Ben's life, he talks them into taking some land and becoming farmers. He's not too happy with the idea, but, but his beloved wife whom he loves very much and believes in God talks him into it.
This is one of those episodes that really tells the facts of life. We may think they are getting along, but are they really? When a person is raised to believe one thing, can they really change their beliefs enough to live a different way?
The events near the end are shocking and sad. But that's reality, folks. That's one think I like about Bonanza, Gunsmoke, and Rawhide - the truth is that sometimes the good guys don't win in the end.
Dead: 3" Written by mitchrmp on IMDb.com
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[@ronleddy5131]

Damn!! Ricardo Montalban!! Never seen him look so young. Grew up watching him on Fantasy Island, The Wrath of Khan. Once you know of his work, you never forget the sound of his voice.

[@multirichardb]

Interesting to watch the struggles so many people had in the settlements of the midwest and further north. It's always good lesson's to learn about understanding, and forgiveness immediately after torturing someone that was so generous days before. The Bonanza and the Ponderosa have so much wisdom understanding and family love, and friendly acceptance, and forgiveness, and praying on national TV.

[@jcgenny8778]

"Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven " the Lords prayer has miraculous consequences. All glory to God. Hallelujah!

[@thomas2much601]

The Lord’s prayer is just words and does nothing but gives you a false feeling. We are all reborn as other creatures to suffer death in vivisection, factory farming and slaughterhouses

[@mechellehuber5352]

It's funny because that prayer is being recited in the real world by a Jew in that moment. 🤣

[@thomas2much601]

Many during the WWII were saying the Lord’s Prayer while being burnt to death by the enemy. Words mean nothing. Action is everything. All the various religions think they are right while thinking the rest is wrong. Can’t you just be a good person and leave the emptiness of such things behind? Bet you don’t care about the suffering of other creatures?

[@user-iy5he5me2r]

I😊w❤d🎉🎉🎉​@@thomas2much601

[@keithdavidson4723]

Great to see an episode with the always wonderful Ricardo Montalban. Many thanks for sharing 🙏🏻

[@carolcarter3712]

Another good episode Lorne Greene acted a great role and his son's were there to help i love the episodes with Pernell in please don't stop it's so good to watch something worth watching Bonanza will carry on forever to try reach respect and love thank you so much my heart us full of joy waiting for the next episode

[@anastasiagraham880]

Pp

[@Osmien118]

i love bonanza and this was one of the best episodes! so intense, great acting/writing, unexpected twists my jaw was dropped!

[@pbmbasaiawmoit9660]

Traditional custom and occupation vs modernity. Both have to co-exist. An eye opener; wonderful. Thank you.

[@linsqopiring6816]

What you said is a nice sounding sentiment but I don't know that radiational occupation is practical anymore. There's enough of a market for native artwork that some people could make a living doing that. And hunting can cut down on your grocery bill, but apart from a very few examples traditional occupations don't pay the bills anymore.

[@Chr.U.Cas1622]

Thanks for uploading and sharing this old series. Best regards luck and health.

[@AbrasiousProductions]

Gotta love how Adam told Ike right off, what a legend😄❤

[@AbrasiousProductions]

I can't believe it! A star trek actor is on bonanza!😄

[@robertbowman7382]

So we're Leonard Nimoy and Deforest Kelley!

[@AbrasiousProductions]

I actually saw deforrest kelley in an episode a few days ago on MeTV

[@adrianaivanoff9899]

This episode is so sad, the reality is what actually happened to the Native Americans was ten times worse than what this episode covered. They lost land, their children were taken and forced into colonization and sometimes they were never seen again, they were often attacked without provocation as well. As much as I hated hearing the language used against them in this episode it teaches people what they had to live through in this time period. Its important to learn history to understand the side of the people who were oppressed to learn the truth. I think Bonanza was diverse for its time period and really tried to project other cultures' realities even if it was heartbreaking. I hate that the origins of colonization were so ungodly and a failure of mankind. It's so sad that true equality still doesn't exist like it should today. I wish the world was a better place.

[@internationaldirector2917]

the world will getting worse remember that.

[@GathKingLeppbertI]

The Shoshone and Paiute had both taken lands that probably had belonged to others. Indeed, the pre-Columbian continent had been soaked with human bloodshed since about the time Asians crossed the Land bridge. And few inhabitants were even familiar with the wheel. Legally we are considered equal under the law. Skin color doesn't enter into it. Anyone that says differently is trying to sell you something.

[@linsqopiring6816]

@@GathKingLeppbertI Exactly. You can't even say that the natives living today are worse off than they would have been without colonization. Every time I see native people complaining about it I also see them wearing non traditional type clothes, using smart phones, using western medicine , modern means of transportation etc etc etc. And in Canada we have a lot of remote communities where the government is flying in all the things they need for their daily lives at tremendous expense. Those airplanes flying supplies in would not be doing that if it were not for colonization. Of course I do admit that a lot of really terrible crimes and abuses were committed against native people too.

[@luckymax6016]

It's so happened that the white people civilization eliminated most of native Americans those years and nobody could anything about it.

[@erlindatheoharis8073]

Never had changed nothing has changed we still ......???

[@mlbullbooks]

Poor Hatoya and Martha :(

[@Squirrel36]

And Largosa, too.

[@ericthagreen5866]

You have heard the names before, Ricardo, Ricardo Montabalm. Fine Corinthian Leather

[@GathKingLeppbertI]

Smiles everyone! Smiles!

[@AndrewVelonis]

Khaaaaaan! The plane, boss, the plane! Happy now?

[@ronleddy5131]

Smiles everyone, smiles! Welcome to Fantasy Island!

[@eddysameducators]

This is what the Ibos in Nigeria are still facing in Nigeria, they are treated like 2nd class citizens in their country. The British gave Nigeria a pseudo independence and are the beneficiary of what is happening in Nigeria today. Genocide goes on against the Ibos and others tribees and yet the world keeps quite.

[@Squirrel36]

No joke!

[@natvan29]

Hoss is sure one stong man to carry his dad in the house like a little boy

[@fiayazgilani5298]

Great story line.

[@natvan29]

Loved it when Adam told Ike to shut up and keep his mouth shut. But he should have told him get out of our house

[@pandahorse]

This is darker than the episode "Dark Star"

[@coltgun876]

Dark Star was the worst Bonanza episode imo.

[@ejapor3497]

Ricard Montalban and Madlyn Rhue played Husband and Wife again in the Star Trk Episode “The Space Seed”!

[@natvan29]

I loved it when Adam at 13:13 threw the guy out like pushed him out of his house

[@Sforce68]

Was the teepee made of "Fine Corinthian Leather"?

[@christopherdibble5872]

No it's Buffalo, when almost SIXTY MILLION, ROAMED THE WEST! OR IT SHOULD BE!

[@SunRabbit]

Can you imagine if there was a real-life modern-day family like the Cartwrights? A kick-ass family that stood for real family values, and for truth, justice, freedom, prosperity, and self-sufficiency? A family that was also stupendously wealthy? Well, that would be the TRUMP family.

[@braverabbibill4387]

What an episode Kaaaaaahn as an indian!

[@ronleddy5131]

LMAO

[@johncasciello4123]

ANTHONY CARUSO also in this episode with the GREAT GREAT RICARDO MONTALBAN*** And hey thats MADLYN RHUE as the young lady who was seen on EVERY TV SERIES from the late 1950s tru the 1970s!!! Always a SOCIAL MESSAGE truout these 1960s TV SERIES!! Thank you for puting this on YOU TUBE!!!!! And veteran actor KARL SWENSON as the slightly misunderstood biggotted (yes 2 g's and 2 t's) guy!!!

[@riverboysalvage4760]

I don't think that's the proper way to take down a tepee

[@shutuplige6524]

frustrating to see how the Cartwright's handled Ike with kid gloves. especially after he killed the wife i would have physically thrown him off the land at the least

[@AndrewVelonis]

But it shows that Ben would treat anyone with kindness when they need it, regardless of whether they deserve it.

[@linsqopiring6816]

I think you misunderstood. I'm pretty sure they would have turned him over to the sheriff for murdering the wife. And he knew it too that's why he pulled a gun on everyone and fled. The Cartwrights got him some medical help when he was about to die, but they've often done that in this series to people they would turn over to the sheriff once they were well enough.

[@dannyanavian1515]

These people dont know the meaning behind An eye for an eye. I wish they would stop misinterpreting.

[@user-pd7il3xz5j]

That concept in the Torah is misinterpreted because the Oral Law goes WITH the Written Law. The Oral Law explains the details of all we learn in the Torah (Writen Law). The concept of an eye for an eye, etc means that the value of what was wrongly taken is given back. So, for example, if you take out someone's eye and that person is an artist the retribution to that individual would be more than say a social worker who doesn't need their eye to continue working.

[@damionbujan6218]

@@user-pd7il3xz5j what if nobody took anybody's eye? When you choose to take my eye, who are you to tell me what I should choose to do in return. Your explanation is even worse. Now you put a caste system on eyes smdh

[@user-pd7il3xz5j]

@@damionbujan6218 I explained it clearly. I'm sorry you don't understand. The concept comes from The Torah and is explained in the Oral Law. We don't take an eye if an eye is lost. That doesn't even make sense. The law is about paying back what you took from another person. It's about being responsible for the wrong you've done to another person and it encompasses monetary value of the person's loss. The courts determine the monetary loss. We don't run around poking out eyes if someone lost an eye.

[@linsqopiring6816]

@@user-pd7il3xz5j That sounds like a modern made up interpretation to make these old texts more in line with the way we do things now. I doubt it's how they were intended to be interpreted when they were written.

[@linsqopiring6816]

Ok, what's your meaning of it?

[@CHixon]

Lots of "fine Corinthian leather" in this episode.

[@lewisdunklin6955]

Ike, a white man, has the nerve to call the indians savages. Ok, theres something wrong here

[@AndrewVelonis]

That's the point.

[@rosalindayoung1088]

Everytime, one of the Cartwrights says..don't worry about so n so, he can take care of himself, one of them are always in danger laying up somewhere shot or hurt and what is an Injun, I can't stand that term! Indian or Native American, Indigenous People, more dignified and who they are!

[@user-pd7il3xz5j]

The show is about the wild west, so being politically correct in the language that was used would make the show less believable.

[@rosalindayoung1088]

@@user-pd7il3xz5j we dont care, disrespected in so many areas on so many levels, always the one against all others......

[@user-pd7il3xz5j]

@@rosalindayoung1088 So we change that. When we bring love and unity in the world, we bring a positive impact on all. 😚

[@jotunblod]

@@rosalindayoung1088 Is it your hobby to find things to get upset over in 60 yr old TV shows? The people who say "Injun" are depicted as halfwits, which is lost on you. Oh the irony.

[@rhymereason3449]

No good deed goes unpunished...

[@proto718]

The Wrath of Matsou.

[@AndrewVelonis]

For a minute there I thought he was going to see the skull in the fireplace and accuse the Cartwrights of desecrating a grave.

[@linsqopiring6816]

I didn't know that bones burned like wood?

[@jujuandwamwams165]

I’ve always loved me some Ricardo😍

[@adelarsen9776]

Will this be the episode where one of them gets married ?

[@nnamdianyanwu6915]

The Star Trek episode "Space Seed" brought me here

[@GrjngoWesternSeries]

🤠👌🎬🍿

[@baddmanaz]

Madlyn Rhue was in that too. As Lt Marla McGivers, Khan's love interest

[@bob_btw6751]

Karl Swenson, Ike, was Lars Hanson on Little House on the Prairie for many years. I'd guess Michael Landon selected him for the role after the Bonanza work.

[@user-mq5cy8cy6p]

He is not the only one. Dr baker and the revend act in bonanza too. And there were more

[@linsqopiring6816]

The writers of this show have some kind of Jesus complex for Ben. Let's not forget what was said much earlier in the episode about all the Cartwright's land having belonged to the native people before Ben took it over.

[@natvan29]

And Matt was also stupid wanting to kill Ben. When Ben had nothing to do with his wife killing

[@Fatherofheroesandheroines]

Khannnnnnnnnnn!

[@user-pd7il3xz5j]

LOL.

[@shashaduke8700]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@natvan29]

Actually he did he threw him out I was like good for you Adam

[@evancredeur7498]

Indians and Asians in the same series. What next?

[@dorandacolbert5973]

They are just too many but not too wise.

[@user-uh2hg2gm3l]

Wow! What an incredible episode!! Demonstrating the forgiveness of God to us through JESUS CHRIST free to all who will receive it! John 3:16! Romans 5:8 ✝️

[@christopherdibble5872]

How did they get that rope to the top of that teepee?

[@CookInTech84]

So sad.

[@danbujor5991]

Big dilema: To live in the stone age or not !?!?

[@ithepreacher8309]

The Biblical Christian Qualities are truly a potent Spiritual Influence, knowing that the Unbeliever that is closely watching the Christian's Behavior may become sanctified one day too. This was a Dilettante Presumption Theorem: All statements of fact, opinion, or analysis expressed do not necessarily reflect official positions or views or any other entity, past or present. Nothing in the contents should be construed as asserting or implying endorsement of interpretations and factual statements.

[@joshuabennett3122]

What?

[@thomas2much601]

The Cartwrights still show friendship to the man that killed a innocent Christian Indian woman, doesn’t bode well with me at all. I don’t think they would ever do that? They would disown that man as a friend and make it known that he is not allowed around their place ever again

[@rhymereason3449]

Spending a night in a tent with her would be heaven!

[@pattimccraw6168]

didnt know ricardo montalban was so mean

[@misslucky5474]

what do you mean? Mean when?

[@pattimccraw6168]

@@misslucky5474 playing this part of a bandit

[@linsqopiring6816]

This is fiction. He is an actor.

[@3Ddude101]

It was a great story until that racist nut case shot and killed his wife and child. That was too over the top and ruined the whole story. I didn't even care about it after that happened.

[@jotunblod]

Ah but it's all perfectly ok and enjoyable for his wife to be murdered or the character being depicted as a clownish cartoonish racist in the first place, while everybody else is so dignified, yet the murder his wife anyway.