It was 1959 when the Cartwrights first rode across a meadow in "Bonanza" on Lake Tahoe, and into the hearts of television audiences. The show's producers had decided that this alpine lake would be ...

Bonanza was the first Western ever broadcast in color, and fans of the series will never forget the Cartwright family. The Cartwrights were a fictional family of ranchers in the mid-1800s, and the ...

Set in the Nevada frontier, ‘Bonanza’ quickly became a television staple running for an impressive 14 seasons, with stars like Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon and more.

Bonanza first aired in 1959 and had a long run of 14 ... Like a few other major TV shows, Bonanza had a tough beginning. ... The reason is that it was one of the first shows to release in color.

Walt Disney's "Wonderful World of Color" began in 1961. The first color cartoons, the "Flintstones" and the "Jetsons," began in the fall of 1962. However, to baby boomers and their parents, one show ...

So when the scripts on Bonanza began to feel repetitive and the character of Adam stopped challenging him, he started to ...

“Bonanza” was the first prime-time western to be broadcast in color when it made its debut on NBC in 1959. ... Dortort took pride in the show’s impact on the rise of color TV sets in the 1960s.

Blocker’s role was so strongly attached to “Bonanza,” and with only two Cartwrights remaining on the Ponderosa, the show was doomed. Bonanza aired its last episode, No. 430, on Jan. 16, 1973.

Because the show was to be partly shot on location, and because color television sets were on the verge of being readily available to consumers, Mr. Dortort urged the network to film “Bonanza ...