B0002K67QY

625882921016

1959

1959-09-12

Won 3 Primetime Emmys, 9 wins & 16 nominations total

Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker

David Dortort, Jim Lane, Richard Collins, John Hawkins, Thomas Thompson, Robert Blees, Robert Stillman

David Rose, Harry Sukman, Walter Scharf, Fred Steiner, Jack Lloyd

Haskell B. Boggs, William P. Whitley, Ted Voigtlander, Lester Shorr, Walter Castle, William E. Snyder, Harkness Smith, Bert Glennon

Marvin Coil, Ellsworth Hoagland, Everett Douglas, Jack Harnish, Danny B. Landres, Richard L. Van Enger, George Watters, George A. Gittens, Edward Haire, Archie Marshek, Harry Coswick, Otho Lovering, Daniel A. Nathan, Arthur P. Schmidt, Maurice Harnish, Edward Warschilka, Robert Gutknecht

Joe Scully, William Maybery

A. Earl Hedrick, Hal Pereira, E. Preston Ames, Carl Anderson, George Renne

Grace Gregory, Sam Comer, Robert R. Benton, Bob Signorelli, Ray Moyer, F. Keogh Gleason, Don Greenwood Jr., Armor Marlowe

Nellie Manley, Wally Westmore, Jeanette Marvin, Marvin C. Thompson, Abe Haberman, Beau Wilson

Kent McCray, Donald R. Daves, Andrew J. Durkus, John Banse, Dick Mang-Shiu Look, Jim Lane, Don Robb, Jack Ballard, Donald C. Klune

Ralph E. Black, Donald R. Daves, Wilbur D Arcy, Charles R. Scott Jr., John Burch, Miles Middough, Clancy Herne, Bud Brill, Walter Daniels, Daniel McCauley, Jack Voglin, Nathan Barragar, John Barnwell, Ned Dobson, Donald Roberts, Dale Hutchinson, George Walls, Sherry Shourds, Henry Wills

Dwight Thompson, Donald P. Desmond, Robert Ayres

Joel Moss, Lyle Figland, Harley Ramsey, Richard Weaver, Winston H. Leverett, John Wilkinson, Jack F. Lilly, Harold Lewis, Harry Lindgren, Hugo Grenzbach, Bill Wistrom

Johnny Borgese

Farciot Edouart, Irmin Roberts

Bob Miles, Bill Clark, Henry Wills, Jesse Wayne, Diamond Farnsworth, Bob Herron, Hal Burton, Alex Sharp, Troy Melton, Bob Hoy, Bobby Somers, Fred Carson, Jack N. Young, Buddy Van Horn, Carol Daniels, Jerry Summers, Robert Renegade Renneke, Jack Perkins, Jerry Brutsche, Whitey Hughes, Eddie Juaregui, Jack Williams, Roy Jenson, Gene LeBell, David Sharpe, Ray Mazy

Richard Debolt, Wilbur Kinnett, Elmer Faubion, Vic Jones, Allan Lum Li, Dick Colean, James V. King

William Maybery, Milt Hamerman, Frank Kennedy

Dario Piazza, Floydine Alexander, Andy Matyasi

Edward P. Ancona Jr., Bill Wistrom, Marvin Coil, Alex Quiroga, Allan Lum Li

Paul McLarind, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston, Carl Fortina, Edna Bullock, William Lava, David Rose, George C. Villaseñor, Raoul Kraushaar, Sidney Fine, Joe Lubin, Harry Sukman, Robert Bain, Milt Holland, Tommy Tedesco, Buddy Baker, Marni Nixon

May Wale Brown, Erika Wernher

Frank Khoury

Frank Cleaver, Robert Stillman, John Hawkins, Thomas Thompson, John S. Peters, Denne Bart Petitclerc, Jim Lane, Ward Hawkins, Richard P. McDonagh, Allan Lum Li, Patricia Falken Smith, Laurence Heath, Edward W. Walsh, Jo Pagano, Brian McKay, Sidney Marshall, Ralph McCutcheon, Jack B. Sowards, William D. Gordon, Anthony Wilson, William Douglas Lansford, Clyde Ware, Miriam Nelson, Harry E. Cook, Dave Kashner, Patricia Denise, Robert Davenport, Martha Manor, Ralph Helfer, Tom Panko, Adrian Crossett, Ron Oxley

Western

National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

TV-PG

7.3

9578

Bonanza is an American Western television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 431 episodes, Bonanza is NBC s longest-running western, the second-longest-running western series on U.S. network television (behind CBS s Gunsmoke), and within the top 10 longest-running, live-action American series. The show continues to air in syndication. The show is set in the 1860s and centers on the wealthy Cartwright family, who live in the vicinity of Virginia City, Nevada, bordering Lake Tahoe. The series initially starred Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker and Michael Landon and later featured (at various times) Guy Williams, David Canary, Mitch Vogel and Tim Matheson. The show is known for presenting pressing moral dilemmas.

The title Bonanza is a term used by miners in regard to a large vein or deposit of silver ore, from Spanish bonanza (prosperity) and commonly refers to the 1859 revelation of the Comstock Lode of rich silver ore mines under the town of Virginia City, not far from the fictional Ponderosa Ranch that the Cartwright family operated. The show s theme song, also titled Bonanza , became a hit song. Only instrumental renditions, absent Ray Evans lyrics, were used during the series s long run.

In 2002, Bonanza was ranked No. 43 on TV Guide s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, and in 2013 TV Guide included it in its list of The 60 Greatest Dramas of All Time. The time period for the television series is roughly between 1861 (Season 1) and 1867 (Season 13) during and shortly after the American Civil War, coinciding with the period Nevada Territory became a U.S. state.

During the summer of 1972, NBC aired reruns of episodes from the 1967–1970 period in prime time on Tuesday evening under the title Ponderosa.

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