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The first season of the American Western television series Bonanza premiered on NBC on September 12, 1959, with the final episode airing April 30, 1960. [1] The series was developed and produced by David Dortort , and season one starred Lorne Greene , Pernell Roberts , Dan Blocker , and Michael Landon .
Cast of Bonanza in 1959. Bonanza is an American western television series developed and produced by David Dortort and broadcast in the United States for 14 seasons on the NBC network. The entire run of the series' 431 hour-long episodes was produced in color. [1] The premiere was on September 12, 1959, and the final episode broadcast on January ...
Ben's nephew Will Cartwright, was introduced and was the lead character in five episodes, In 1964, the year that Bonanza hit #1 in the ratings, Guy Williams was slated to replace Pernell Roberts upon Roberts's departure, enabling the series to preserve the four-Cartwright format for the run of the series. He received star billing after the four ...
Greene starred in every single episode of Bonanza as Ben Cartwright, a former sailor who goes out west on his own. In a 1967 interview with reporter Bobbie Wygant, Greene admitted that he was ...
Bonanza is an American Western television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 432 episodes, Bonanza is NBC's longest-running Western, the second-longest-running Western series on U.S. network television (behind CBS's Gunsmoke), and one of the longest-running, live-action American series.
Blocker's big break came in 1959, when he was cast as Eric "Hoss" Cartwright [3] on the NBC television series Bonanza, playing that role in 415 episodes [2] until his death. He came up with the character's name Hoss through a childhood friend from O'Donnell, Texas, by the name George "Hoss" Burleson, who defended him as a child.
The Ponderosa Ranch was a theme park based on the television western Bonanza, which housed the land, timber and livestock-rich Cartwright family.The amusement park operated in Incline Village, Nevada, near Lake Tahoe, from 1968 until 2004.
David Hoyt Canary (August 25, 1938 – November 16, 2015) was an American actor. Canary is best known for his roles as ranch foreman Candy Canaday in the NBC Western drama Bonanza, and as Adam Chandler in the television soap opera All My Children, for which he received 16 Daytime Emmy Award nominations and won five times.