When my brother and I were little we would see the show. After it finished we go to bed. We kept seeing it until it went off the air. I still watch all the reruns of the show. They do not make shows like this anymore.
Thank you for this commemoration of our beloved Bonanza actors. The music is fitting too. I only wished a more flattering photo of Pernell as an older man was posted. All the Best!
Bonanza. Gunsmoke. The Trinity series. Clint eastwood and john wayne westerns. Its been 55 years since i started watching bonanza as a kid. Still enjoy watching today. Reminds me of sitting next to the heat vent when our furnace was a coal burner.
I truly loved this show! Lorene Greene was my favorite. Pat Pernelle really lost out with his bad attitude. This was a great family show teaching the world right from wrong. I loved Hoss too! Just loved them all Ben was my favorite without a doubt... Thanks for sharing! Blessings....❤️💕
I loved Bonanza! Also Wagon Train, Laramie, Gunsmoke, Branded and of course the Lone Ranger! I grew up wanting to be a cowboy, which was rather difficult here in the UK. Living on pig farms but I had some great locations to act out my imaginary gunfights and 'stunts'. When my dad moved over from pig farming to cattle when I was eight years old, I got the chance to actually 'Head 'em up and move 'em out!' (all the way to the dairy for milking!). I never burnt a map in the name of my Bonanza moments, But show me a big puddle or a stream and I had to gallop through it! (no horse of course!) and in Gloucetershire from the age of three, I discovered my 'Hi Ho Hills' for when I was the Lone Ranger!
Ich kann mich noch gut an diese Sendung erinnern. Leider hatten wir erst ab 1967 einen Fernseher, damals noch in schwarz-weiß. Ich meine die Serie lief immer Samstag abends im Ersten und genau da kam im ZDF die Sportschau und es gab immer Streit wenn Vater zu hause war. Kann aber auch sein das es umgekehrt war. Bonanza im ZDF und Sport im Ersten.
Facts verse here's one for you...could you do one on all those beautiful ladies whom guest stared on the show, so many beautiful ladies through out the series.
Michael Landon was 54 but looked like he was 60-70, drinking vodka daily and smoking 4 packs daily damaged his body Dan Blocker was 43 but looked like he was 50-55, eating alot of fatty food daily and smoking daily damaged his body.
Once again as a blind person who listens to these videos. I truly just like the ones that only have music and show clips with absolutely no dialogue to put anything in reference for those of us who are visually impaired or blind. It says cast members then and now. Does not make any sense just playing a bunch of clips. Especially since every cast member I am pretty sure has Long since passed away.
It killed a lot out of me to watch this... They were all eternal to me. This has to be Fake and they are all living happily ever after in Ponderosas or Big Bear Lake or Halcomb Valley.
Hi Hanna! Quite a few comments have posted that there are errors in the information posted here. That's a shame...to go to this effort to present this and then some of it may be inaccurate. What are we fans suppose to think?
you have it wrong in the guy williams posting it should be 1963 not 1959 that was zorro's final season 5 years before he did bonanza then he traded his six gun for a laser gun when playing professor john robinson on lost in space on cbs from 1965 to 1968.
Some of the cast members made an obscene amount of money just for writing theme songs for other TV shows. This just added to the uneven distribution of wealth in the business and our country itself. So called actor "Michael Landon" must've been ashamed of his real father, as he changed his birth name?! All in all, some of the cast appeared to have been 'Prima Donnas' on AND off set . Bonanza was a waste of TV airtime, at least how I saw it. The series was a 'haven' for greed and just a way to make money instead of honing acting skills.
Michael Landon was very good looking, always,, but I was not a fan of him, his character. He was a selfish individual & could be cruel, confirmed by Melissa Sue Anderson (aka Mary Ingalls). His stories on Johnny Carson I heard from someone else, so who was the real story teller? Especially the rabbit being dug up by a dog. Loved L.H.O.T.P. But nah he was not my cuppa tea.
Mike Landons most laughable comment came from an appearance on the Tonight Show with Carson. Jonny made a comment about as there was only males at the ponderosa ranch. That maybe something else was going on. ( referred to them possibly being gay). Landon replied. No. No. We’re not gay. But thank god hopsing is!
I refuse to watch this show anymore. They have a viewer discretion warning before each episode. Pray tell me, what exactly dies this show have that needs this type of warning? Sucking up to something perhaps? They can just take it off completely.
