Bonanza

Season 6 Episode 18

The Ballerina

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The Ballerina
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A dancer and her father are taken in as guests of the Cartwright household. Hoss has decided the young woman with dreams of being a ballerina needs rescuing from dancing in saloons to the music her father fiddles.

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  • A father and daughter violinist and dancer team run into trouble in a bar when Father get's injured from a barroom scum, Hoss helps them and invites them to ponderosa. The daughter realizes a potential to be a ballet dancer instead of a saloon dancermoreless

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    By cbat33, Jun 01, 2008
    Great episode, I dont understand why people on the internet hate it, they must detest ballet or something, the beginning description is not accurate, Hoss does not injure the man playing the fiddle a roughhouser in a bar does, Hoss helps them, Man playing the fiddle breaks his forearm bone from scum in bar and hoss invites them to recover at the ponderosa, the women with the fiddle player is his daughter who they play for bars to make money, but a man (gunsmith and former ballet dancer who suffers a permanent leg injury) critiques the womens dancing ability offers to instruct her in ballet, girl becomes a ballet dancer with a real talent, and a professional ballet opportunity becomes available, at first the father does not like it because after he recovers he wants to play the bar scene again to make money, but he realizes that his daughter has a talent for ballet and let's her go with her instructor, which turns into a romance. The episode is about the potential in a person, and to think about fulfilling one's potential and pursuing a dream.moreless
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Dan Blocker

Dan Blocker

Eric "Hoss" Cartwright (1959-1972)
Lorne Greene

Lorne Greene

Ben Cartwright
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Warren Stevens

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Paul Mandel

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Barrie Chase

Barrie Chase

Kellie Conrad

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Read Morgan

Read Morgan

Tad Blake

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Cosmo Sardo

Cosmo Sardo

Bartender (uncredited)

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Bob Miles

Bob Miles

Cowboy (uncredited)

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