Throughout the Nineteen Sixties and Seventies, it’s onerous to consider a pair of actors extra prolific than Michael Landon and Lorne Greene. These two — who many individuals, myself included, first got here to know these fellers by way of Bonanza, which ran for 14 seasons on NBC — routinely appeared on U.S. tv screens on each exhibits and commercials.
On Bonanza, Lorne Greene performed Ben Cartwright, the patriarch of the Cartwright clan, and Michael Landon performed his youngest son, Little Joe. The Cartwrights launched into wonderful adventures and tackled weighty social points on their ranch, the Ponderosa, which spanned over a thousand sq. miles on the japanese shore of Lake Tahoe, Nevada.