Bonanza - Season 3 Episode 28
Adam is left to die in the desert after two thieves take $5,000 and his horse from him. Near death, he stumbles into an old prospector named Kane who offers to lend him a mule and supplies in exchange for three day's work at his mine. Kane, however, turns out to be a demented madman. He holds Adam prisoner and tortures him to prove his theory that anyone could be driven to kill, even a man as rational as Adam. This is Pernell Robert's favorite episode along with "The Wooing Of Abigail Jones".
- genus: Western, Action & Adventure, Drama, Family
- Studio: NBC
- keyword: nevada, ranch, family, single father, cowboy, wild west, 19th century, early america
- cast: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Tim Matheson, Mitch Vogel