On this day, September 12, 1959, "Bonanza" went on the air.

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Bonanza



Original release September 12, 1959 – January 16, 1973

Bonanza was an American Western television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 431 episodes, Bonanza is NBC's longest-running western, and ranks overall as the second-longest-running western series on U.S. network television (behind CBS's Gunsmoke), and within the top 10 longest-running, live-action American series. The show continues to air in syndication. The show is set in the 1860s and it centers on the wealthy Cartwright family who live in the vicinity of Virginia City, Nevada, bordering Lake Tahoe. The series initially starred Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker and Michael Landon and later featured (at various times) Guy Williams, David Canary, Mitch Vogel and Tim Matheson. The show is known for presenting pressing moral dilemmas.

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1959 (430 Episoden in 14 Staffeln)

Lorne Greene - Benjamin „Ben" Cartwright

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1. Was never a big fan of Bonanza. A father and three sons

every time one of them would get a girl she would end up dead in one hour. Every week a visitor came to the ranch. They made the big one Hoss out as the duffus. That taught the kids to make fun of the fat kid in class.
It sold a lot of color TVs.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. I don't think I've ever sat through an entire episode. I know the theme song; that's about it. NT

[Sneederbunk]

3. A Sunday night ritual. Watched it after Ed Sullivan.

[dameatball]

4. We watched it every week even though it was flawed by today's standards. Terrible stereotyping but

we were little kids. There is a medical imaging place I have been to a few times that still plays all those cheesy programs all day long.