But a few actors from the series are still alive. We'll tell you some exciting facts about the western classic featuring ...

The 10th season opens as Joe helps a widowed mountain woman, a recluse who is suffering from an infection that has become serious, in a battle to save her land from an unscrupulous timber baron.

John Saxon makes the first of his three appearances in the series, in this episode as Steven Friday. Young Billy Wilcox wanders onto the Ponderosa, sick, hungry, and alone. Ben finds him ...