The rest of them were crashing bores.

You were either in the Little Joe camp or the Adam camp. I preferred the older, more sophisticated man. I think Adam was the only Cartwright to go to college. He was an architect.

And today we passed by what used to be the old Ponderosa ranch. I remember going there as a kid. My hubby and I went there when our son was little. We were so saddened they tore it down to build mega mansions for the rich. There is one old building left that we recognized as the old ponderosa ranch. People stopped going because the show had been off for so long the only visitors they got were from foreign countries who watched the old reruns but the owners got a better offer and sold out. We were going to Virginia City which was mentioned in the show. The shops carried a lot of ponderosa memorabilia and my husband bought a t shirt that had a map of the area showing the old ponderosa ranch.

before it was torn down. I did a little research on it, to find it was a fictional ranch, and was used for filming later on. Lucky she got to go see it.

Little Joe. Hoss was just so.... kind.

Because he was very active first with the McCarthy campaign, and then Hubert Humphrey against Richard Nixon.

He was a big, burly, guy, but very genteel. I think he had a pretty bad war in Korea, but we didn't talk about that kind of stuff, back then. Anyway, he was greatly opposed to the Vietnam War, even though he was pretty conservative, otherwise. If I was guessing, I think he'd seen enough and didn't want others to have to do what he did.

Hoss was pretty much Dan Blocker. He didn't so much act as just show up and be himself.

and as a result could easily convey his own inner compassion and sensitivity. He certainly died far too soon.

Thanks for sharing your memories.

I went when I was 14 and don't remember much. It was hot, dusty and I think I rode a sad looking horse. I think I brought home a Bonanza tin cup I used to put coins in.

for being the deputy for 11 years and never solving a crime.



Hell, he was the Portland Mavericks baseball team owner, too. The whole experiment was very interesting chapter in baseball history.

@sistertoldjah I saw Johnny Carson ask Michael Landon if the Cartwright boys were gay (they never married) "No, but thank God Hop Sing was!"

their girlfriends kept dying to make room for new love interests. Every time Hoss, Adam or Joe got a girlfriend, I thought, well, she's toast. And I was right.

Seems like I remember one episode where Little Joe built a cabin in the woods for him and his new woman, but she'd died before they got wed. I cried like it was my own kinfolk. Of course, I was 10 or 11, so I won't apologize for my tears over a tv character. I recall feeling like someone punched me in the gut.

One summer there was an All Electric House in our town that held an open house. Our baby sitter took us and we stood in the hot Mississippi sun for hours for a chance to see Little Joe and that year's Miss America. I was so awestruck at meeting him, I couldn't even look at him. I did shake his hand and giggled as I walked by.

If it was more dangerous to court a Cartwright or to wear a red shirt and beam down on an away mission in Star Trek.

Link please

I'd yell "She's gonna die"!

some rough and tumble boxer came into town and beat up some of the Cartwrights, (common occurrence). Hoss was getting whooped too, and had to finally take him out with a crushing bear hug in the saloon.

Poor Hop Sing died tragically.

I remember the actor getting shot during an airplane hijacking, but I thought he survived that.

-Fun fact, if your Dave Starsky, my Mom actually dated Hutch!
This was before he was famous.

I think he later turned out to be a wife beater.

And this didn't raise any eyebrows.

Flat lighting, no horizon and no air movement

Plenty of outdoor riding scenes and there were shots filmed at the Ponderosa Ranch itself near Virgina City.

Filmography 1938 to 1980, Army during WW2, degree in animal husbandry from University of Calif @ Berkley, published a wok cookbook and ran a mail order pottery business. An accomplished man.

Man could Barbara Stanwick take a punch and a kick and a 2by4 to the head.

She got in some knock down drag-outs. And won!!

These old western tv shows were really some of the most violent.

Back in the day, CBN - Christian broadcast network - used to have the reruns on all its daytime programming.

I forget who but someone did an analysis and found CBN to be the most violent network on tv. It probably had a lot to do with The Rifleman's wholesale mowing down of bad guys with his speed cocking rifle technique. Lol.

I saw The Big Valley listed on Youtube, so I can include those as well!

I remember seeing it was run ONCE.

holy cow that was awful! Just terrible.