A few questions about 'Bonanza', please...

You are listening to some Bonanza music tonight

 

The earlier shows are considered the better shows.

 

Hi guys, I grew up with Bonanza and High Chapparal on Swedish TV in the sixties. First came Bonaza and later HC. Both were huge successes in Sweden and Mike Landon and Henry Darrow were treated like superstars as they visited Sweden for tours. It was like if Elvis would have come.... They were touring in the country and met a lot of Swedish stars and performed together. Brings back nice memories.

 

I bought this disc on Brad's recommendation a couple of years back - it's great fun and I'd recommend it.

Best Wishes
David

 

I love that show and I am hoping we get Season two Volume Two soon. I wonder why these are dribbling out so slowly.

You want a tearjerker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaXJy2HIEi4

 

The quote above refers to the Monkees: someone asked if they were on against Bonanza, and someone posted that the Monkees were on the same network.

There's a website I saw which had the schedules of the Monkees' two NBC seasons, and in 1966-67, their CBS competition was 'Gilligan's Island', Monday nights at 7:30 Eastern, iirc

Here is a nice fact about the 'Bonanza' theme song. Forgive me if you know this already but the lead guitar was played by Tommy Tedesco, who later was a member of the Wrecking Crew.

And a fact about the way NBC cancelled Bonanza itself: their November 5, 1972 episode was the lowest-rated in the show's history, so it was cancelled the next day. What was the thanks the show's cast and crew received after all those years? They read about the cancellation in the November 6Hollywood Reporter, I believe, because no one at NBC thought it necessary to at least call them and let them know that the show would be axed, before it hit the trade papers.

 

I'll partly answer question #3: my personal favorite episode of Bonanza was "Hoss and the Leprechauns." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV3Aff9oYB4&feature=related It was shown during season 5, in 1964. I remember watching the first time the show was aired, and our whole family loved it. Bonanza was a Sunday night staple for our family, though we didn't get our first color TV until December 1968 (a beautiful 23" Magnavox set). In fact, I think we watched the show from its debut in 1959, though I don't remember those first couple of seasons, but I really loved westerns.

 

did Bonanza season two volume 2 box set come out on DVD yet? Vol 1 was released last DEC.!

 

God those shows were good. I've not seen that one in forever.

Who had control at that time on directing and editing?

 

sales may have something to do with it? They put the 2 parts of season one out together In a bundle and separately...most likely the split seasons may have stalled sales...I'm not a fan of the split season greed....

 

IMO, nothing else than greed...

now take shout factory for example...no greed there...complete Dennis the Menace for $21.99 at Amazon list $29.99 for 32 episodes...plus bonus features...they do a nice job as well most of the time.

 

Here in NE Ohio the All American Soap Box Derby in Akron used to be a big deal and they used to have celebrities come in and appear each year and I remember one year when I was a kid it was the stars of Bonanza. Wish I could find some photos. Those innocent days are gone for good.

 

My dad won a color TV in a church raffle in 1964. The TV repair guy we used, had to come to our house and set it up...about an hour of tuning. I lived in a very small town, and we may have been the only family with a color TV at the time. For the next couple of Sundays, all the neighbors came over to watch Bonanza. The burning brand, at the beginning of the show was amazing in color!

I remember two episodes kinda well. In one, a young beautiful woman, was bit by...something rabid. One of the brothers, maybe Hoss, had a crush on her, but she would meet a deathly fate. In the other, Hoss had been shot in the back. The doctor removed the bullet, and Hoss got right up off the table!

In a weird turn of events, my dad and Dan Blocker went to college together and had done some summer stock theater together. And, the first famous person I ever met, was Michael Landon. I was six, and he could not have been nicer.

I was a bigger fan of "The Rifleman" but I did like Bonanza.

 

great story! thanks for sharing...

 

"Hoss and the Leprechauns" was my favorite of all time. I remember watching reruns for years as a kid, trying to see it again.

Any woman that fell in love with one of the Cartwright clan was doomed. I remember one lady was engaged to one of them, and there was a fight in the barn. She succumed to an errant pitch fork. There was usually a bad ending for a Cartiwright love affair.