BONANZA

5 DVD GIFT TIN

Factory Sealed

NTSC REGION FREE

(This DVD will only work in the USA if you have a Multi Region DVD player)

Bonanza is an NBC television western series that ran

from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973. Lasting

14 seasons and 430 episodes, it ranks as the second

longest running western series (behind Gunsmoke),

and within the top 10 longest running, live-action

American series.

The show chronicles the weekly adventures of the

Cartwright family, headed by the thrice-widowed

patriarch “Ben Cartwright” (Lorne Greene). He had three

sons, each by a different wife: the eldest was the urbane

architect “Adam Cartwright” (Pernell Roberts) who built

the ranch house; the second was the warm and lovable

giant Eric “Hoss” Cartwright (Dan Blocker); and the

youngest was the hotheaded and impetuous Joseph or

“Little Joe” (Michael Landon).

The family lived on a 600,000+ acre (937+ square-mile)

ranch called the Ponderosa on the eastern shore of Lake

Tahoe in Nevada. The vast size of the Cartwrights’ land was quietly revised to “half a million acres” on Lorne

Greene’s 1964 song, “Saga of the Ponderosa.” The ranch

name refers to the Ponderosa Pine, common in the West.

The nearest town to the Ponderosa was Virginia City,

where the Cartwrights would go to converse with Sheriff

Roy Coffee (played by veteran actor Ray Teal), or his

deputy Clem Foster (Bing Russell).

Bonanza was considered an a typical western for its time,

as the core of the storylines dealt less about the ranch

but more with Ben and his three dissimilar sons, how they

cared for one another, their neighbors, and just causes.

CONTAINS 15 FANTASTIC EPISODES:

The Gunmen, The Fear Merchants, Bridge without

Honour, The Spanish Grant, The Blood Line, San

Francisco, Bitter Water, Dark Star, Showdown, Death at

Dawn, The Mission, The Trail Gang, The Abduction, The

Savage, Denver McKee.

TOTAL RUNNING TIME 673 MINUETS