Today -- May 13, 2002, -- marks the 30th year since the passing of Dan Blocker (Hoss Cartwright) of "Bonanza." Blocker was literally the biggest star of the Cartwright clan, at 6-foot-four and 275 ...

Those who love westerns are certainly familiar with Bonanza. The TV show ran for 14 seasons from 1959 to 1973, and it starred beloved actors like Michael Landon, Lorne Green, Pernell Roberts, and Dan ...

Dan Blocker of O'Donnell, Texas, was Hoss Cartwright. The gentle-giant character of the television show Bonanza lives on through reruns and in a museum and small park in his hometown in the Panhandle, ...

Pernell Roberts, who has died aged 81, will be remembered best for playing Adam, the oldest of the three Cartwright sons on the long-running television Western, Bonanza. The last surviving member of ...

Set in Nevada, Bonanza – which premiered in 1959 and ran for 14 seasons – looked like a Western, but at its core, it was a family drama that focused on three sons and their father, Ben Cartwright, who ...

The TV show Bonanza helped make Westerns famous. Airing for 14 seasons, it’s NBC’s longest-running Western series. It’s also the show that helped make Michael Landon famous. Being on the air for so ...

Pernell Roberts, the ruggedly handsome actor who shocked Hollywood by leaving TV's "Bonanza" at the height of its popularity then found fame again years later on "Trapper John, M.D.," has died. He was ...

LAS VEGAS -- It was a weekly portrait of Americana about the adventures of the fictional Cartwright family, and it became a fixture for tube-addicted baby boomers, and the second-longest-running TV ...

Ben Cartwright and his younger sons, Adam, Eric and Little Joe are back, roaming "The Ponderosa" (9 p.m. Sunday, 9 p.m. Wednesday and 8 p.m. Saturday, Pax's WPXJ Channel 51). Eric? That's Hoss ...

LOS ANGELES — Pernell Roberts, a versatile actor best remembered for his portrayal of the handsome eldest Cartwright son on the classic television western “Bonanza” and later as the lead character in ...