There aren't many shows that can get away successfully with a name change during its initial airing, but the classic Western series Bonanza was certainly one of them. Following the adventures of Ben ...

Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker and Michael Landon as Ben, Adam, Hoss, and Joe Cartwright, riding horses and looking at the sky in Bonanza. Image via NBC When it comes to classic television ...

For decades, the Western has lived a cyclical existence in American entertainment. It rises, it fades, and then-just when it feels like it's been left behind-it rides again. From the dominance of ...

Star Trek and Bonanza actually have a fair bit on common. The NBC series shared multiple different cast members both before ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Running on NBC from 1959 to 1973, Bonanza centered on the Cartwright family—patriarch Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene) and his three ...

Bonanza was not only the longest-running TV western on NBC, but it was also the second longest-running western on U.S ...

Stacker compiled data from IMDb on all Western TV series and ranked them according to IMDb user scores, ties broken by votes.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "It's a welcome surprise," Word says. "What has happened in my lifetime—I grew up in the heyday of TV Westerns—is that it's been ...