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Benjamin "Ben" Cartwright is one of the main protagonists of Bonanza. When he was young, he was a sailor with a dream to go West and earn his living in the wild. The God-fearing, Bible-quoting, and logically-minded gentleman built up his dreams on his ranch, the Ponderosa, with three wives...
Lorne Greene as Ben Cartwright. Initially, Bonanza aired on Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. Eastern, opposite Dick Clark's Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show and John Gunther's High Road on ABC, and Perry Mason on CBS. Bonanza ' s initial ratings were respectable, often coming in behind Mason but ahead of the ABC lineup. Ironically, executives considered ...
- 14
- 431 (list of episodes)
- September 12, 1959 –, January 16, 1973
- NBC
Bonanza: Created by David Dortort, Fred Hamilton. With Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Pernell Roberts. The Wild West adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their Nevada ranch while helping the surrounding community.
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Bonanza, American television series that ran on NBC from 1959 to 1973. Bonanza’s 14 seasons and 440 episodes made it the second-longest-running western in broadcast history. Set in the mid-1800s on the Ponderosa ranch in Nevada, the show told the story of Ben Cartwright and his sons, Adam, Hoss, and Little Joe.
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An episode of the western TV series Bonanza where Ben Cartwright fakes his death after being shot by an assassin. Find out the plot, cast, reviews, trivia and more on IMDb.
Synopsis. Bonanza is set around the Ponderosa Ranch near Virginia City, Nevada and chronicles the weekly adventures of the Cartwright family, consisting of Ben Cartwright and his three sons (each by a different wife), Adam, Eric ("Hoss"), and Joseph ("Little Joe"). A regular character is their ranch cook, Hop Sing.
