The Internet Movie Database is right on the money in their Plot Summary: "Lotta Crabtree is hired by mining tycoon Alpheus Troy to lure one of the Cartwrights into town and hold him for ransom in exchange for Ponderosa timber rights."
Judging from this first episode, it's a mystery that this show went on for nearly 14 years. The level of the dramaturgy, as well as of the humor, is very primitive, and there are some aspects of the plot which are downright absurd, especially the fact that the character 'Lotta', despite being a woman of no morals or principles, and pretending to be something else with unflinching cynicism ("It was not about the money", she says), is rewarded by her main victim with a pleasurable dance, and by his brother with a romantic kiss. Particularly hilarious is the contrivance of a different mother for each of the sons (their father is a real bluebeard, I'll say) in order to justify their complete physical dissimilarity, to one another and also with regards to their father.
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