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Ben appears in all but fourteen Bonanza episodes. In 2007, a TV Guide survey listed Ben Cartwright as television's #2 favorite dad. [1] Ben is portrayed by Lorne Greene, who was 44 years old at the beginning of the series while Pernell Roberts and Dan Blocker, who portrayed two of his sons, were both 31, only thirteen years younger.
Bonanza is set around the Ponderosa Ranch near Virginia City, Nevada and chronicles the weekly adventures of the Cartwright family, consisting of Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene) and his three sons (each by a different wife), Adam (Pernell Roberts), Eric "Hoss" (Dan Blocker), and Joseph (Michael Landon).
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.
After Bonanza's 14 seasons came to an end, Greene released a few country albums and then in 1978, jumped TV genres and joined the cast of the original Battlestar Galactica as Commander Adama.
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.
Pernell Elven Roberts Jr. (May 18, 1928 – January 24, 2010) was an American stage, film, and television actor, activist, and singer. In addition to guest-starring in over 60 television series, he was best known for his roles as Ben Cartwright's eldest son Adam Cartwright on the Western television series Bonanza (1959–1965), and as chief surgeon John McIntyre, the title character on Trapper ...
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 fifth season of the American Western television series Bonanza premiered on NBC on September 22, 1963, with the final episode airing May 24, 1964. [1] The series was developed and produced by David Dortort , and season five starred Lorne Greene , Pernell Roberts , Dan Blocker , and Michael Landon .