Three Coolest-Ever Scenes From "Bonanza"! 

Sunday night, 9PM!

I can relate..Sunday's at 10pm after Bonanza was the only night my sister and I could stay up. We went to bed pretending to ride a horse and be our favouite Cartwrights. I was Adam, my sister was Hoss ( she was a chunky kid), my mom was Little Joe and of course my dad was Ben

When I was growing up, back in the late '80s, one of the local stations ran reruns of old shows after the 10:00 news. It was usually one episode of the original Star Trek, followed by back-to-back episodes of Bonanza. I would wait until my mom was asleep and sneak down to watch them all. Fell in love with this kind of storytelling. So many good memories. Pretty sure she caught on to what I was doing pretty early on, but if you're a single mom, isn't having your teenage son staying up to watch that kind of TV better than a lot of other things he could be up to? BTW -- Don't worry; I turned out OK!

Now all action films and corona

Or twice. Rifleman was just as good.

Before that dummy trump

@@bekabeka71 what?

You said it . They were actually getting rough . Lol , it was great 👍

I hear you, Oliver! It was a different show after Adam left.

Mine also, and I wasn't a big Bonanza fan. My grandfather was.

I got a flair for women everywhere Bonanza

He'll forget the "comfort" in 5 minutes, so don't waste your time. Just change his diaper.

@@chrisegnatz3668 You mean a flair for prostitutes.

That wasn't nice! 😡

Everything I've ever heard is that the Blockers were great folk. I'm glad to hear another bit of truth to that effect.

Greetings, er, uh, I mean Howdy! from Texas 🤠. Same here.

cowboys and red indians ? racism is a thing in austria, what a ..er... shock

@@VINvIN344 Grow TF up, will ya ??? I am part NA (Native American) and I don't see a problem with it, as there was nothing racist about it. All famous civilizations conquered someone else, and we celebrate them, even though tragedies were always involved. Why should America be any different ??? NAs migrated to this country too ... a little father back but it happened. It's easy to judge history from afar ... when you didn't live it. I played those games too. It was fun, and a fun time to be alive. Let's stop calling everything racist, shall we ???

@@VINvIN344 You iust had to say it didn't you? You poor, perpetually offended, delicate little twit.

@@wutntarnation I like that !!! That kind of says it all ??? Yeah, and I've thought about that stupid comment for a while, but then forgot about it. Now, I remember, WHY he said "red Indians" ... was to differentiate between us NAs and people from India. There certainly is no shortage of ignorance in this country, hmm ??? "God Bless 'em (the best cut) !!!"

Literally. I always considered the sterile "cleanliness" (not a speck of dirt in sight unless they want it for effect) of the scenes to be one of the drawbacks of this show. Otherwise, I really like the writing and acting.

@@bobpourri9647 Whine about this, whine about that.

@@johnnylightning203 Just analysis: The Bonanza sets are - for the most part- unrealistically clean, which for me impacts the illusion of reality I enjoy in TV and film.

@@bobpourri9647 The cleanliness probably wasn't too noticeable on TV sets in 1959 given that very few TV sets could show color at the time. Bonanza itself was one of the first shows to be filmed and broadcast in color because RCA which owned NBC at the time wanted to push sales of color televisions to the public.

Absolutely, never the same without Adam he was so part of the family. More effort should have been made by the producers to keep him even if he appeared less.

No doubt! the first season is the "real" Cartwrights, after that they emasculated them and Ben became Confucius, they all had to act like Eunuchs

I liked the pilot and season 1 best too. They were at war with the townspeople, timber companies, railroad and miners. Then they got retooled as wise, dependable town fathers. My favorite Hoss episode snc scene though was the girl he pined for that married a flashy city man instead. He ruined her, abandoned her. Hoss came to find her, and she died giving birth. The man showed up that night to extort money from Hoss if Hoss was going to take the baby home to the dead woman's father. He pulled a gun. Hoss just walked over and nailed him with a downward fist like squashing a roach. Great scene.

@@STho205 They had a few historical people who visited Virginia City in season 1 also I think the pilot episode is the best

No, Adam was the gunfighter. One shot, one kill.

@@formwiz7096 Yes, and Hoss was the one punch, one k.o.

I have been very impressed by the 4 Seasons of SEAL Team that I have watched all the episodes of. Between 2004 and 2011, I spent a bit more than 5 years total, in theater (Middle East/Afghanistan), as part of a 28 year career. From scenes in combat, training, physical therapy, parachuting (including HALO and HAHO), even scenes at the VA, and in CONUS it is Extremely well done, and remarkably accurate. They portray some controversial elements, including combat against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Quods forces, Russian mercenaries, and other situations. Several things they depicted, similar incidents occurred After they had filmed an episode. I strongly suspect I know at least one of the advisors for the series.

EXCELENTE, LOS AMO Y EXTRAÑO. Q GUAPOS ERAN.

Leading up to the Civil War - Adam was a Yankee, Joseph's mother was southern. But they worked it out - decided family was more important than politics. Wish the rest of the nation had figured that out!

Ah yes. Polio and diphtheria were great

@@zapkvr , unlike today we never even locked our doors at night. No need to as people respected and knew all their neighbors.

@@zapkvr I bet hardening of the arteries and type 2 diabetes, fatty liver (non-alcoholic variety...really on the rise last 20 years) were unheard of, as well as the myriad of problems arising from obesity. X-ray machines and a full understanding of germs would be nice, I admit.

@@zapkvr No AIDS/HIV back then.

How fun!!

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JESUS CHRIST will come very soon!

Little Joe was supposed to be about 19-21 years old.

... and then that wicked smile appeared! 👍👍

Three channels. Pure extravagance, I tells ya!

@@BuriedFlame It was then! lol

we had 5 channels with our rabbit ears....the normal 3 and channel 17 and 11 wpxi NY...i grew up in Levittown outside Philly, what a town to grow up in in the 60's, 70's and 80's. people looked out for each other. some of my friends parents treated me like one of their own kids. i wish we could go back to that time because right now, people have lost their damn minds and morals

@@BuriedFlame we had color come in during "The Ted Mack show" in 65 i think. i was a child and i loved the peacock

@@joeclayton2121 You are so right and it doesn't look like they'll ever experience even a little bit of what it was like to live then. Even sadder, I'm not sure if they even care to.

Sunday nights at 9pm on NBC.

I wasn't allowed to stay up past 9 p.m., 'cause school the next day, so never got to watch it when a kid.

So very very true, and here I thought I was the only one that dreaded the closing music cause it meant bedtime and the next morning SCHOOL!!

@@veramae4098 i used to sit at the top of the stairs and watch when i was supposed to be in bed. that just brought back a flood of memories.

@@thomasbealy533 I did the exact same thing Thomas but mine was laying in the hall outside the living room. Great to know I am not alone.

Except they are never working.

I never knew that. I loved that show when I was a kid in the 1960s.

@@wattyler9806 he had a master's degree. he really had the best acting range of all of them. but Adam had a great singing voice. (utube)

I don't see him being portrayed that way in the show. Yes, Adam was portrayed as an engineer and charismatic. Little Joe was straight up the lady's man, but outside of that, he was the most shallow of the brothers, Dan Blockers character definitely was more than kissing the pretty girls then finding a way to not make it work so the next episode he could kiss the pretty girl...

Sul Ross.

@@JDMatthias Yeah really. Eric "Hoss" Cartwright wasn't portrayed as a hugely intelligent man, but neither was he a simpleton good for nothing other than heavy lifting. What an idiotic OP. -smh

We saw it in black and white in the UK untill we had colour tvs in the late 1960s Earley 1970s.. We were always a few years behind you Americans. But a great show I grew up watching westerns.

Indeed, a long long time ago....

Enjoy now, and find joy from the past. Aroha from New Zealand.

Yep. Saturday nights it was Gunsmoke (until late 1967 when they moved it to Mondays) and Sunday nights it was Bonanza. A lot of memories.

Cartwright.

Boy, Howdy, don't you know it !?!?!?

I like Cheyenne.

Mine too..couldn't agree more. They are legends of the TV screen and will never be forgotten. Linda Evans portrayal of Audra Barkley was the epitome of the perfect woman to me. Beauty..brains...loyalty...family virtues and tomboyish not afraid to get dirty and mix it up. Nobody could hold a candle to her.

The Rifleman, and Have Gun - Will Travel

yup

Yup twice. McIntyre

That gunslinger actor looked too geeky to be a gunslinger.

That's how he lulled his victims into complacency!

With that many notches would he even have a gun left?

Surprised they all didn't shoot him. He said one was as good as the other. Wish he had the dialog with the fellow after that. The one that said the gun slinger would do all of his talking. Ok, he's dead. Now what.

little joe had 163 confirmed kills by the time the show ended

Loren Greene said he would not be on the show if it didn't show a strong father figure who was moral.

@@ironwolfgaming9632 Probably couldn't get a job today. Only male bashing allowed these days.

"The BEST" only till Adam moved out....

The Rifleman was also a good family show. It taught good values but I wish the Rifleman didn't have to solve so many problems by killing someone.

Wrong. Gunsmoke is.

Show writers do tend to do that. Water their characters down somewhat. Like on Big Valley, Audra was a younger version of her mother Victoria Barkley but over time she was watered down to be weak and needing to be saved always.

I hear that, first season they almost kill trespassers after that you come on property the give you some.

@@freakindawgen I remember that.

@@LBF522 Linda Evans stunk.

It'd have been better for me if they'd left it like the first season. being born in '62, I hadn't seen season 1 until about 15 years ago and was amazed. Some of ben was over the top, esp in first two episodes but, in hindsight, I think it made more sense for them to be more that way than goody two shoes. They even got the firearms right the first season!

All my favorites too! 👍👍

No person on Earth cares who your favorite is. We are not your mother and you have zero importance to us.

@@mikemondano3624 easy there "Francis"

Holy shit. that is really cool

Here in Norway, Bonanza has been running on tv2 every saturday to sunday at 11:00 ever since I was a very young boy To me, bonanza feels so old time, cause it really was. Even back in the 80's I find it hard to belive those creators are still around, and yet here you are :-)

I like the episode where Hop Sing was so busy in the kitchen without a break that he had an accident in his pants.

The setup was borrowed from the novel "East of Eden". The Chinese manservant always had money. He was the only thing that kept Trask out of the poorhouse after financial blunders.

Nowadays, Hop Sing would forward the information on the foreclosure of the Ranch to Chinese Nationals and take it over...

@@MartyInLa it never happened.

@@Invictus13666 Lol, got it, thanks.

Your money will be well spent. Every penny of it is worth it. Watching this show is like an adventure for me.

Make that two of us !

@@scarygay2318 that makes three of us !

That's funny. I didn't live in a house with a bathroom until I was 9 years old. I'm 76 now.

when death finally comes , you will look with fondness into the eyes of eternity

Uh....reruns of Bonanza, on RU-vid?

Gunsmoke. Matt Dillon was awesome!

The test pattern?

@@julianmarsh1378 testing 1 2 3

@@jpresnick2008 I was merely pointing out you'd have to go back to old TV shows to find what you are looking for....

You bet Roy boy.....them big ‘ol backwoods types will poke ya, then poke ya again if ya get my meaning!

@@bobpress1235 I’m talking about guy’s that we’re some of my best friends in the service, I don’t know what your talk’n about.

I totally agree with you. The show just became so much weaker without him.

Absolutely right. He was my favorite character - cool, serious, dignified and a bit aloof. I wanted to be like him.

The High Chapparel.... The Virginian...Bonanza...not necessarily in that order....take me back to those times when things were simpler

@@russellking9762 Yessir, And Don't forget The Rifleman!

@@russellking9762 So true! And Hollywood was less woke, so the values were more traditional.

I liked Hoss, Ben and Lil Joe. Adam came across as a freaking racist. Not just in this ep but another involving a Black man who was actually free.

@@woodie62 racism can be found even in old reels of 1959 Bonanza re-runs these days! Hee hee. Pernell Roberts was from Waycross, Georgia, but he somewhat perturbed both Greene and Landon when he decided to march in a civil rights protest somewhere in the south back then. (Though more conservative than the then liberal Roberts, Greene and Landon didn't disagree with his participation in substance so much as just the controversial nature of it all when it first started...might hurt ratings?)

@@woodie62 " a freaking racist"? (Not just a plain ol' "racist"?) What show were you watchin,' LMALG? Or what were you smokin' when you were watchin"?

No, he didn't. After all, his lineage is caucasian, negroid, and native American (Creek tribe). Why shouldn't he match? Many caucasians did!

March!!

Bonanza and gunsmoke were the best westerns on television. From Ms. Harper Stacey.

I have seen polls over the years that "Hoss and the Leprechauns" was always voted peoples' favorite episode. I would add that I love "The Flapjack Contest" as another favorite.

Favorite episode.. Yoohoo...😆🤣

Hayburner and the ones with the dog are my favorite. Laughed my A off.

Nope! The most hilarious episode was "A Knight to Remember"!

COLORED TV was just new!!

Gunsmoke and Bonanza used that same horse for Ben and Matt Dillon

@@robinqm nope. Arness was 6 inches taller than Greene. No way could they share mounts.

I know! I was thinking the same thing. Lucky for him Adam was a good shot! 😂

I never knew that Adam was such a gun slinger…i figured lil’ Joe was the one with the fast hands! I stand corrected.

@@kingslaphappy1533 As a side note here, "Adam" was pretty much bald and wore a toupee.

That guy must have had supreme confidence in Adam's marksmanship.

@@im1who84u 20 years later, yes. But in '59, pretty just thinning hair on top.

Loved the artwork.

Greek is all Bonanza to me.

It was that lousy good craftsmanship

Ya - I would fight with my brother too - when stuff would get broken she would say, "this is why we can't have nice things!"

I know what you mean. My Dad was Ben, I was Adam the oldest son , my younger brother was the biggest and strongest. We called him Chief not Hoss. Baby brother was the lady killer, like Little Joe.

How sweet! If you can relate to these three, you got a great family…

Premiering September 12, 1959, on NBC, Bonanza was television's first full hour western series filmed in color.

@@kenwittlief255 Television's first full-hour series with continuing characters. Don't even have to quality it as the first hour Western!

I miss normal America.

HOLLYWEIRD HAS NEVER BEEN NORMAL or SOMEWHAT NORMAL! It has been loony bin nuts!

Bonanza by today's tv standards is normal. Which was the point.