Bonanza: The Spanish Grant

Image Not Available Starring: Lorne Greene Dvd Release: 3rd December, 2002 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Colour, Special Edition, PAL, Region 0 Encoding

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Bonanza was an American western / cowboy television program starring Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Pernell Roberts & Victor Sen Yung. It was the first regularly broadcast television program to be filmed in color. It aired on NBC from September 12, 1959 through January 16, 1973 ; from 1961 to 1972 it aired on Sunday nights. from 1964 until 1967, the show was #1 in the yearly Nielsen ratings. In terms of longevity, the show was the second-most popular western in the history of television, behind Gunsmoke. Ponderosa was an alternative title of the series, often used for the broadcast of syndicated reruns in the 1970s & 1980s. The show chronicled the weekly adventures of the Cartwright family, headed by patriarch Ben Cartwright. Joseph or Little Joe ; Adam ; & Eric, better known to viewers by his nickname of Hoss. The familys cook was the Chinese immigrant Hop Sing. The family lived on a ranch called The Ponderosa, on the shore of Lake Tahoe in Nevada ; the name refers to the Ponderosa Pine, common in the West. Posters Of Bonanza

Lorne Greene was a Canadian actor best known for two iconic roles on American television. Greene was born in Ottawa, Ontario & began acting while attending Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. He gave up on a career in chemical engineering & upon graduation found a job as a radio broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He was assigned as the principal newscaster on the CBCs flagship news program, The National. The CBC gave him the nickname The Voice of Canada. However, constantly distressing war news following Canadas entry into World War II in 1939 caused many listeners to call him The Voice of Doom instead. Many Canadians who remember the World War II years can recall listening to Lorne Greene read the latest war news on the radio. The first of his American television roles was as family patriarch on the long-running series Bonanza. His portrayal of Ben Cartwright made Greene a household name. He received the role after having turned in a highly-regarded performance as Big Brother in a production of Nineteen Eighty-Four for the Columbia Broadcasting System. Posters Of Battlestar Galactica

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