We watched Bonanza on Sunday nights when I was a girl. I always wanted to warn any woman who appeared on an episode, though, that she would be dead by the end of it, as no female was ever allowed to break in to that all-male ranch permamently. Didn't you ever wonder how it came to be that all three of Ben's wives died young and in tragic circumstances?
Pernell Roberts didn't like his character. “Doesn’t it seem a bit silly for three adult males to get Father’s permission for everything they do?” he once asked a reporter.
Christmas on the Ponderosa
One time I was in Target in Tennessee, and I saw a CD called Christmas on the Ponderosa that I just had to have. I bought multiple copies and sent to my friend Brenda and my brother Kevin. This album, made in the mid-60s, is such a treasure of kitsch and fun.
Here's one of the songs. It's not Christmas in my house without playing this CD many times.
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I had the crush on little Joe. Thank you for the memories
There are still re-runs of Bonanza on some small private Italian TVs.
As a kid, I remember I always confused Bonanza with the Big Valley: a very modern western with a divorced mum and dad, 2 ranches and several kids.
RIP Adam, you sexy thang you! Remember how he'd woo beautiful buxom women with his madrigals, like a 16th-century courtier? And always wore black, like Johnny Cash.
Poor HOSS---nobody every had a crush on him! Hop Sing wasn't really a chick magnet, either, bless his little Chinaman heart.
My pick? BEN! I love older men, and ooooohweee his deep voice and commanding ways.
Ben Cartwright -- Lonely rancher or SERIAL KILLER? I believe mention has already been made of the untimely deaths of any young ladies hapless enough to stray onto the Ponderosa.
Bonanza always seemed different from the other westerns somehow.
I remember the others (Rawhide, Wells Fargo, Gunsmoke etc.) as a lot of riding around on horses and shooting. Bonanza was more about the relationships between the characters.
That's how it seemed when I was seven, anyway.
That is so sad! I used to watch the re-runs after school with my mum. She liked Hoss and I liked Adam.
Well, I never realised Bonanza was such a hotbed of sexual aspiration!
My takeaway from it was running around the garden making clip-clop noises and shooting an imaginary gun at my sister ... :)
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