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Bonanza

Bonanza

—Ben Cartwright is the patriarch of an all-male Nevada ranching family. Set during and after the Civil War, "Bonanza" is the story of life on the family's thousand-acre spread, known as the Ponderosa, near Virginia City. Ben has his three sons, each with a different (and deceased) mother. Serious eldest son Adam hopes to follow in his father's footsteps; middle son Hoss is a gentle giant -- physically strong, but sometimes naive; and youngest son Little Joe is the most impetuous and romantic of the offspring.
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    Denver McKee
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  • Two British socialites find that they still have a lot to learn when they visit their friends, the Cartwrights.

  • Shortly after the Ponderosa cattle herd arrives in San Francisco at the hands of Hoss, Joe and Ben, two of their trail drivers are shanghaied and destined for Hong Kong.

  • The Cartwrights help a traveling blacksmith regain land his father once owned near the Ponderosa; guest Claude Akins.

  • A folk singer claims to be the brother of a man Hoss shot accidentally; guest Herschel Bernardi.

  • When a neighbor agrees to sell his property, the Cartwrights fear the loss of water rights for their cattle.

  • The Cartwrights befriend a boy whose father has been sent to jail and whose mother has recently died.

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Ben Cartwright is the patriarch of an all-male Nevada ranching family. Set during and after the Civil War, "Bonanza" is the story of life on the family's thousand-acre spread, known as the Ponderosa, near Virginia City. Ben has his three sons, each with a different (and deceased) mother. Serious eldest son Adam hopes to follow in his father's footsteps; middle son Hoss is a gentle giant -- physically strong, but sometimes naive; and youngest son Little Joe is the most impetuous and romantic of the offspring.

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Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Pernell Roberts, Victor Sen Yung, Ray Teal, Bing Russell, David Canary, Lou Frizzell, Mitch Vogel

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