When it comes to television Westerns, Bonanza truly defined an era. The series ran on NBC from 1959 to 1973, making it the second longest-running Western on American network television (after Gunsmoke ...

While Bonanza nearly didn’t last after its first season, it became one of the most successful Westerns on television. And fans grew to know and love the cast. Michael Landon played Little Joe ...

Bonanza was the first Western ever broadcast in color, and fans of the series will never forget the Cartwright family. The Cartwrights were a fictional family of ranchers in the mid-1800s, and the ...

Long before contemporary television audiences were roped into the drama of such modern-day Westerns as Longmire and Yellowstone, Ben Cartwright and his sons were riding into homes every week via the ...

My wife has a deep emotional attachment to the “Bonanza” TV show. When she was a little girl, she had a big crush on Pernell Roberts, who played Adam Cartwright. To her, he was the epitome of the ...

Opening with one of the most recognizable themes in television history, Bonanza followed the lives and exploits of thrice-widowed patriarch Ben Cartwright and his sons Adam, Eric “Hoss” and Little Joe ...