Bonanza Ponderosa Tour: Main Floor and Upstairs [CG Tour] 

I love Bonanza so much since I was chilhood. Now since 40 years ago by now, I can watch Bonanza on youtube with so completed episodes. Thank you for making this house touring of Bonanza. I missed Ben, Adam, Hoss and Little Joe.

I had the good fortune to tour this house in 1973. It was wonderful. The original horses were still stabled there. Being a horse lover and ridden all my life I was in love with Little Joe’s paint horse named Cochise. Thanks for the ride down memory lane once more.

As a little girl, Bonanza was one of my favourite tv shows. My favourite horse was "Little Joe's" because I loved Pinto Horses especially black and white. Thank-you for showing me the Ponderosa Homestead. 💖💖💖

Another great house for you to examine is the house from Big Valley. The staircase is the most interesting aspect of the house in relation to the fact that it is a TV house. The staircase appears frequently (almost weekly) in "Perry Mason". It is also the identical staircase used in "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" for Gull Cottage. The staircase and landing is immediately identifiable because actors had to mount the stairs, turn left and descend two or three stairs from the landing to get to the bedrooms. This can be seen most readily in "Ghost...", but can also be seen in "Big Valley" and "Perry Mason". Still another great place for you to visit is Collinwood from "Dark Shadows".

To me, the Ponderosa perfectly balances the rustic and the refined. Who wouldn't want to live in such a place?

I never realized how massive the fireplace was. Loved the tour. Thank you.

Having not watched the show since I was a child, this brings back wonderful memories. Once again you have done a superb job! Thank you!

Excellent choice of music! As always, your videos are a delight to watch. Thank you.

Absolutely awesome, I just love Bonanza, I have seasons 1-6 due to my love for Adam but I still watch the remaining seasons as well on Metv. Thank you so very very much. I've thoroughly enjoyed watching and feeling like a huge part of my most very favorite Western. Just wish that I could have met the Cartwright actors in person before their passing but I am and will forever be a huge dedicated devoted Bonanza tv show fan throughout all eternity.❤️🥰💯👍

Wow, this was awesome!! How about Big Valley mansion in the future?

I love the detail you put onto these episodes. The Ponderosa was my favorite western home. This is the first time I have ever viewed the kitchen.

Bonanza is one of my fav, western shows. You did a great job with the layout. I was super excited when you mentioned Little House On The Prairie, can't wait for that.

I have never watched this series, but I do love the old western style. With the warm wood and plaster look, with lots of great wooden furniture, and quaint curtain and rugs that look homemade. Very cozy! Unlike todays modern, sleek minimalist trend, not that I think its bad, but I prefer cozy :)

Spectacular! I love the software that allows you to create all of these scenes, then travel through them. I was disappointed, though, that you didn't go up the stairs in the real house. I know there were no rooms up there, but it would have been nice to see. It breaks my heart that The Ponderosa at Incline Village, Nevada, has been demolished.

This was a great way to re-live the ‘60s, in my childhood living room. It’s 9pm on Sunday night on WNBC TV, Bonanza! I was an early teen and remember it was sponsored by Chevrolet. It was a great time for television and one of the first shows “brought to you in living color” complete with the peacock! Thanks for doing the video.

THANK YOU THANK YOU. This was awesome. I love it. 😂 watch Bonanza every day. Now I will be looking for these different things in terms of the ranch ❤❤❤

I’d love to see you do the Longbranch Saloon. Including Miss Kitty’s room. It’s probably too simplistic, but I think it would be a lot of fun.

Oh my Gosh Marina. I am so excited about this video. Love Bonanza . Thank you so much. I love all your videos. I’m a fan♥️

It would be great to seethe home from the 1960s show Hazel. You always do a wonderful job!Thank you❤️

Marina, thank you for your channel. I thoroughly enjoyed your Bonanza Ponderosa tour! Your recreations were wonderful to put the entire house in perspective. I’m glad that I discovered your work and look forward to viewing more to further enhance the nostalgia and fond memories that these shows provided me over the years. I still rewatch many of these either from my own library, streaming services, or as reruns and you have just added new layers to my viewing pleasure. I just tested on an episode of Bonanza where the house was more featured as the setting in that episode and I enjoyed it even more this time!

Fantastic job! You have such an amazing God-given eye for detail and artistry! I love watching these! Thanks again!

Like you touched on, there is a running joke among very long time fans of Bonanza that the upstairs, front 'bedroom' window, above the porch - that we often saw various people looking out of - was attached to a 'room' that couldn't even exist, due to the HIGH vaulted ceiling of the great room / dining room area below it ! Something was pointed out to me, YEARS later, that the fireplace - out of necessity, and to cut down on escaping smoke into the main room, and the danger of the whole set burning down - was actually a natural gas fire place they could just turn on and off depending on the time of season, and / or the mood they wanted to portray ! The 'consistency of the flames' proves it. Bonanza was such a great, long lived / long loved series - with that great cast - that we can 'ignore' the little details like these ! ;) For those interested here's a great tour of the Ponderosa ranch house replica that Lorne Greene had built at Mesa, Arizona. It has been deemed a historic site, so IS protected. BONANZA 'PONDEROSA II' TV House Replica Built By LORNE GREENE ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-meZCeKB5-YU.html

Wonderful! I think Ben Cartwright and his sons would’ve been proud!

Such great attention to detail! Great job bringing the Ponderosa to life.

Wow!! Thanks for this tour of the Bonanza house. I had just finished watching a couple of episodes of Bonanza on RU-vid when your post appeared. Great job. I will be looking at the sets more closely now. Keep them coming.

Just finished watching this video and as usual, I was NOT disappointed! I've enjoyed watching all the homes you've done, and like I've commented before. All these homes are nice and would be fun to live in for a while, but the thing that really makes your home and any of these homes special is the people that live in them.

I loved this one. You bring me a lot of joy with these videos.

I love and watch Bonanza all the time when it was 1st on TV....I still watch reruns of it now. Our family went to the Ponderosa Ranch @ Lake Tahoe in the early 90s. Your tour is really similar to the way the house looked in real life. Thanks for making and sharing this video with all of us! I would like to see a tour of The High Chaparral house done on your episodes.

I am 81 years old and so lived back when Western or Cow Boy TV shows were all the rage. To name a few. Hop along Cassidy, Tex Ritter, and others that I can't remember. Then the best one of all came along BONANZA. I still like view the episodes on YT. The furniture was absolutely beautiful. The carving designs of the chairs, side boards (an English term) antique chest of draws, sometimes with a center piece on top. How well the furniture looked with the rustic design of the well built home. The set of dishes used wasn't Bone China, but is a popular piece that is often used as a decor item in English homes. It's made by an English Company called Spode. On the show they used both the blue and white and the pink and white set. Spode is expensive and was a good classy choice for a wealthy family of men and well suited for the rest of the homes design and furnishings.

Wonderful work, as usual. Thank you. I especially loved seeing horses out the dining room window!

I have truly enjoyed your channel since I found it a few months ago. Thank you Marina for bringing these fictional homes to life. Such wonderful memories. Great work.

YESSS!! Thank you for doing the Ponderosa!! Such a beautiful place!! 😃❤🐴🏡👍

Really fun. Thanks. A fond memory was visiting the Bonanza exterior set complex by Incline, Lake Tahoe. I remember walking in the “fancy” entrance and it was tiny behind it(just enough room for actors and cameras).

This is the home I wanted to see ! Wow ! Awesome!

This was wonderful, Marina. Thank you for another great tour.

This was another good one! So many memories. Thank you so much for sharing your incredible gift. ❤️

Thank you so much for doing the Ponderosa. Im a huge Bonanza fan to this day and loved "walking" through their home!

I've looked forward to touring this home for months and once again, Marina, you did not disappoint. I hope one day you'll get around to doing South Fork Ranch from Dallas.

most excellent review of the Ponderosa.. thank you

Your channel is incredible! Thank you so much!!

Just happen to be hooked on Bonanza Extravaganza tonight on GRIT TV! Thanks for another great tour, Marina!

In June 1991, I traveled from WV to NV to see the Ponderosa, my life long dream. Arriving on June 30th before the tours of the house actually began, the tour guides learning that I came all the way from WV, allowed me to go in and look around. The lights were off, but it was the greatest time of my life. The next afternoon, July 1st, I returned, and after the tour, I was standing in the house talking with other tourists, when a female tour guide walked in and announced that Michael Landon had just died in CA. After watching the series from a boy in 1959, I would never believed that I would be standing in the Cartwright house when Little Joe passed away. Life is strange. Thanks Marina, I really enjoyed your video.

In 1970, a replica of the Cartwright home was on display at the Ohio State Fair. It felt just like a real home.. until I climbed the stairs.. which led nowhere. Being in it was a lot of fun. I was 8 at the time.

Like you, I just love looking at the homes of some of my favorite shows. I am so glad you are doing this. I know for you it's a work of love. The place I live in now and for the last thirty years has been heavily influenced by shows like Bonanza, Gunsmoke, The Rifle Man.... In my place I have a real wood burning fire place, a log bed complete with night stand and chester drawers, deer antler light on the ceiling, my walk in closet is completely paneled with cedar all walls and the ceiling, wood floors, I plastered all my walls to resemble the walls of the Ponderosa, made my own window frames, a big round and heavy wood dinning table, kerosene lamps around the place, big heavy end tables on either side of the couch..... I just love coming home to my home.

Can't wait to settle down to watch

I LOVE your channel. Nobody does this! Except perhaps Trekkies doing the bridge of the Enterprise ; ) Would LOVE a video on the Sanford and Son home. All the junk would present a great challenge for you. : )

Great video, thank you for the view of this home

It's really beautiful ❤️ thank you Marina Coates.

As always, thank you so much for the trip down memory lane! Another great tour that brings back great memories. BTW, I still love a good Western and you included some of my favorites: The Searchers and Giant. Thank you Marina!!

Loved it!

I had the chance of being at the Ponderosa Ranch up around Lake Tahoe, Nevada. After the tour was over inside the house, the tour lady let us or should I say let me take pictures of me standing up on the giant fireplace, I'm 6'1" and it was higher than me, huge. The coffee table was huge as well, the blue chair I sat in felt like I could still feel the actors with me. Ben Cartwrights desk was awesome, I stood next to that and the stairway to the second floor, at the very top, was the end, had a door there which opens up to outside without a stairway down, lol. I enjoy your tour just the same, and when I went was in 2003, two different times. Thank you for sharing your tour with us, God bless.

What a lovely way to start my weekend. Thank you! It felt like I was visiting old friends. Your work is wonderful... you're so talented!

Really enjoyed watching this ❤

I did not grow up in the old west, but my grandmother did. No electricity, running water, etc. She spent a lot of time on her horse, herding the cattle. Through my grandmother, and living in the west myself, i have a great connection the the themes in a house like the Ponderosa ranch house.

Love it!!!!

Like you, I also like westerns! Since early childhood, I've daydreamed while hearing the TV shows' theme music, and I especially love the theme song for the movie, "The Big Country". Music like that, played by large orchestra, brings to mind the magnificent wide open spaces of "The Old West". Mom and I loved Bonanza. Mom told me a couple of times she always wanted to live in a house like the Ponderosa. She especially loved the big stone fireplace. Thanks for giving the tour and explaining how sometimes set design isn't accurate with the house layout.

My son is in his twenties & during Covid got into Bonanza. I’d watch once in a while. Was fun for we to see the guest stars. Never realized how much the living room changed. Will have to check it out. The thing I did notice was all the LV luggage you’d see coming in on the stage coach 😊

I just found your channel!!! This is so fun!!! Thank you for all the time you spend bringing the TV sets to life for us. I would love to see tours of houses from Doris Day films. ♥️ On Moonlight Bay is one of my favorite movie houses of all time!

Thank you Marina for the wonderful memories of the Ponderosa and the family! In the 80's my husband and I drove several hundred miles to Tahoe to tour the actual Ponderosa and it was closed. I was so heartbroken. Unlike you, who you say looks at all the detail of the homes, and I never pay attention to any of those things ever. I just watch the actors. LOL

Gotta love those great staircases we are all so familiar with, always liked the one on The Beverly Hillbillies and the almost magical music when Ellie Mae would descend all gussied up. Plus the one on the Carol Burnett show in the Gone with the Wind parody, but then she tumbled down quite a few.

I love a hall that meanders! What an amazing home! I’d love to live there! I don’t recall the show much from my childhood. It was beyond my interest (no kids in it), but it sure is nice to see handsome Michael Landon again. Loved the music! It really brings it all together!

I am getting ready to watch this right now and am so EXCITED. Looking forward to it! I remember that the room off the dinning area was a bedroom in some episodes, and in others it was Hop Sing's kitchen.

Welcome back. Glad to see a new TV show home. I loved Bonanza ever since watching it on cable. I was born in 1967 and it was off the air before I started watching it. This was great to see. Thank you. If possible, can you one day do the Big Valley mansion if possible?

I just recently found your channel and have been watching several episodes a day. Thank you for taking the time to recreate these iconic sets. I'd love to see the apartment from Three's Company as well as the Happy Days house. Can't wait for the Little House on the Prairie house!

Love your videos Marina! You are amazing.

I Love, Love your show. Please keep doing more tv shows houses and apartments

Thank you so much for sharing ❤💕

Besides loving the Ponderosa home, my other favorite western tv show home was The High Chapperal..mainly because of the SouthWestern/Mediterranean look, beautiful.

Thank you for this wonderful virtual tour. I love Bonanza. Greetings from Hong Kong.

Hello and thank you for making us revisit the iconic Ponderosa ranch home from Bonanza! I was waiting for this video and I'm so happy that I'm seeing it. I'm also a sucker for good old western shows. Laramie, The Rifleman, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train & so on. I would love to see the homes of Dylan McKay, Jess Harper & Slim Sherman revisited as well. Bravo!! 👏👍🏻🙏🏼

Hello! So excited over this one

Fantastic job as always! I loved watching Westerns with my dad when I was young. Bonanza and Big Valley were 2 of my favorite series later on. (In reruns of course). Looking forward to the Little House tour too!

I got to go there for a tour ...great memories I heard it's closed. Had. Nice chuckwagon lunch nice job

Marina these just keep getting better, i always loved this show and our family watched it together when i was a little kid, my dad was born back in the '30s and loved the country life, he would have been right at home in a place like this, dad always liked this house , keep up the wonderful work Marina , Thanks! (:->)

Love this video!!! Had the pleasure of touring the Ponderosa when stationed at Travis AFB in the 70's!! Loved Lake Tahoe too!!! It is a shame it has been demolished!!!!

I really enjoyed that .I really Love Western movies too. And I still watch Bonanza too And I Love to look at the rooms of movie houses too. The Western and Victorian homes and 20 and 30,40,and50 and 60's homes and the way they dress. I would like to see Little House on the Prairie home too.I can't wait to to see your video. Thank for such a nice site you put together I really enjoyed being taken back to my childhood. ☺☺☺

Wow, great memories, I love the "fireplace". The first TV series I watched from Germany. "Pa", Lorne Greene, was my fav actor. Thank you for this exclusive vlog.

Love it. Thank you. I always wanted to live in that house.

Wonderfully done!!!

I rly like the two horses 🐴 touch outside the dining room window 👌🏼

Marina another great video. Your details that bring out are the best of how they built the sets and decorated each room with great details. The research that you do bring honor to each an every show and movie you bring to your channel. Thank you for answering my email. I have another TV show that would be great to see. The TV show Reba. Thank you for your time in doing what you do here on RU-vid. And thank you for reading my comment.

Love it :)

This is soooo fun!

far more impressive in your tour!! that is one heck of a fireplace!!! makes me think of an English Manor. terrific! thank you!

I hit like before watching because I know I will like it...

Love the music 🎶.

That's a really nice Hoss-ienda!

The door to the kitchen from the outside did eventually end up where you put it. The one thing that still confuses everybody is the upstairs layout - it changed so many times especially the number of bedrooms. To support at least four bedrooms upstairs (and the size of them), the main floor have had to been much larger. It has been speculated that there was at least one other room behind the wall (on the other side of the fireplace). In some later years episodes, there is a narrow hallway near the stairs leading to the outside. Also, some later episodes there was a back entrance to the house that wasn't shown but referenced.

Wonderful tour!

Found you on TikTok and followed 😊

As usual a great and through tour of the house on Bonanza. We once took a tour of the studio house from the series before it closed, it was much smaller than it looked on TV. The upstairs landing ended with a wall with just enough room to stand before the actors came downstairs in the show. The set also had a small graveyard with tombstones for all the family members.

Bonanza was the first western I ever really watched and it ignited a love for all things western! This was fascinating. Thank you! As a side note, I would LOVE for you to do the Collins' and the "old house" from Dark Shadows!

My favorite program I'm loved

Fantastic tour! I thoroughly enjoyed this one. I can still hear that theme song. I am going to Google this but I always remember the episode where Hoss finds the Leprechauns. I want to say that it was a Saint Patricks Day episode. Of all the old TV shows I never see this in reruns anywhere. Thank you for sharing all your hard work. ❤

Thanks for doing this one! Not knowing the layout was confusing!

I loved this show so much when I was little! That house is gorgeous. I was just thinking, while watching, how much I would love to have the money to build a replica of this house when you said Lorn Greene did exactly that. I wonder how we can see that house today! Thank you for this fabulous video!!

Could we see the home from Murder she wrote? I love the feel of that kitchen. Anyway, thank you for your channel. I love it

The house from the 1991 movie Father of the Bride would be wonderful to see. I love your videos! You are very talented.

The firebox where you park the Buick. LOL!! That thing IS big. **** My dad always watched this, although I didn't, and sometimes he would say, time to watch Banana! LOL I liked Hop Sing.

Hi Marina, you never cease to amaze me.. I always wondered about a full tour of this home.. it is one of my favorite TV homes.. thank you again . to answer your question about whether we can survive living life during the late 1800s.. I look at this way if I was born it would be the only life we knew then not knowing what modern life was like... but to travel back into time to the late 1880s I often wonder how we would live without the modern conveniences like television, radios and as well modern cooking appliances like stoves and ovens and without a refrigerator? no cold milk on your breakfast cereals.. or even worse the thought of living without air conditioning.. would we be able to deal with extreme of a 105 degrees? or surviving the winters with the heat of only the fire places or pot belly wood stove? and last imagine eating what you grew as there were no markets to shop at.. even bread had to be made you had butter but no mayo or other sandwich condiments not even mustard if there is any? think of meals ... be like the same meat and potatoes and vegetables. yet life back then does indeed draws an attraction to it. It was a simple time to live in. I can't wait to see the Little House on the Prairie house I hope you do all 4.. Pepin, Kansas, Minnesota and De Smet, SD homes.. ... okay wishful thinking .. whatever you choose would be fine by me.