bonanza

     

Bonanza is an American television series that ran on NBC from 1959 to 1973. Lasting 14 seasons, it is among one of the longest running Western television series (behin Gunsmoke) and continues to air sporadically on stations across the country.

Trivia about bonanza

  • This word that has come to mean "sudden prosperity" means "good weather" in Spanish
  • Kurt Russell's father, Bing Russell, played a deputy sheriff on this series set on the Ponderosa
  • Hossburgers are served at the Ponderosa Ranch in Incline Village, Nevada, where some of this TV series was filmed
  • "Escape to Ponderosa"
  • Hop Sing,Hoss
  • Lorne Greene & his amigos could find this source of great & sudden wealth near the Ponderosa
  • On this popular TV show that premiered in 1959, Ben's 3 sons were born of 3 different mothers
  • Ben Cartwright
  • 1964:"Ponderosa Matador"
  • Buck, ridden by James Arness on "Gunsmoke", was later used by Lorne Greene on this series
  • The movie "Tin Men" said this classic TV Western was about "a 50-year-old father with three 47-year-old sons"
  • In 1965 Pernell Roberts left this series & his part as eldest son Adam, saying he'd grown tired of the role
  • Ben Cartwright
  • "Three Brides for Hoss"