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