SummaryWhite-haired Ben was the proud patriarch of the Cartwrights, the family at the center of one of TV's most beloved and long-running series. Their ranch, the Ponderosa, was 1,000 square-miles (600,000 acres) in size and sprawled from mountainous shores of Lake Tahoe to the desert terrain near Virginia City in the Nevada Territory. Ben oversaw his... Read More
Created By:David Dortort, Fred Hamilton
Bonanza
14 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere:
Sep 12, 1959
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Sep 5, 2025
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These Cartwrights would have a lot less trouble if they'd stay on the danged ranch and fix fences or whatever. But nooooo! They go into town and stick their collective noses into everybody else's business. No wonder they're always winding up in jail or knocked out on somebody's ranch 15 miles or so out in the boonies.
