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opportunity for a return if needed. This character's paternity is open to debate. In the 1963 flashback episode "Marie, My Love", his father was Jean De'Marigny. Then in 1964, Lorne Greene released the song "Saga of the Ponderosa", wherein Marie's previous husband was "Big Joe" Collins, who dies saving Ben's life. After Ben consoles Marie, the two bond and marry. They choose to honor "Big Joe" by calling their son "Little Joe". So, whether to Stafford, De'Marigny or Collins, Marie Cartwright was previously married. In the last of the three Bonanza TV movies, it is revealed that "Little Joe" had died in the Spanish-American War – a member of the "
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Sheriff Coffee was occasionally the focus of a plot as in the episode "No Less a Man". A gang of thieves has been terrorizing towns around Virginia City and the town council wants to replace Coffee, whom they consider over-the-hill, with a younger sheriff before the gang hits town, not realizing that
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Ben Cartwright is the widowed patriarch of the family. Early in the show's history, he recalls each of his late wives in flashback episodes. A standard practice with most westerns was to introduce some romance but avoid matrimony. Few media cowboys had on-screen wives. Any time one of the Cartwrights
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was slated to replace Pernell Roberts upon Roberts's departure, enabling the series to preserve the four-Cartwright format for the run of the series. He received star billing after the four original rotating Cartwrights during his second appearance going forward, but ultimately, Roberts changed his
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flashback, his mother names him Eric after her father. To satisfy young Adam, however, Inger and Ben agree to try the nickname Hoss and "see which one sticks." Inger says of the name Hoss: "In the mountain country, that is the name for a big, friendly man." According to a biography, the show's crew
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introduced a storyline that would keep the character of Adam in the mix, but with a lighter schedule. During season five Adam falls for a widow with a young daughter, while making Will Cartwright a central figure. Roberts decided to stay an additional season, so the scripts were quickly revised by
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Roy Engel, Grandon Rhodes, and Harry Holcombe all appeared as a number of different doctors during the series. Most often, it was Dr. Paul Martin or Dr. J.P. Martin. Other derivative names included Doctor Martin and Doc Martin. Other credited names by the same actors included, Dr. Paul Kay, Doc
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Dortort was impressed by Canary's talent, but the character vanished in September 1970, after Canary had a contract dispute. He returned two seasons later after co-star Dan Blocker's death, reportedly having been approached by Landon. Canary played the character on a total of 93 episodes. Canary
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Beginning in 1962, a foundation was being laid to include another "son" as Pernell Roberts was displeased with his character. In the episode "First Born" (1962), viewers learn of Little Joe's older, maternal half-brother Clay Stafford. The character departed in that same episode, but left an
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Though not familiar stars in 1959, the cast quickly became favorites of the first television generation. The order of billing at the beginning of the broadcast appeared to be shuffled randomly each week, with no relation whatsoever to the current episode featured that week.
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portrayed Sheriff Roy Coffee in 98 episodes from 1960 to 1972. He appeared in more than 200 movies and some 90 television programs during his 37-year career. His longest-running role was as Sheriff Roy Coffee. He had played a sheriff many times in films and television.
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they'd been spared earlier because the gang's leader was wary of Coffee's longevity and only acquiesced to rob the Virginia City bank after extreme pressure from other gang members. Coffee ends up showing the town that youth and a fast gun don't replace experience.
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The youngest Cartwright son, whose mother (Felicia in the pilot, and later changed to Marie), a widow, and mother whose child had died of fever (episode "Marie, My Love"), was of French Creole descent. Little Joe appears in all but fourteen
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Dusty Rhodes is a drifter. After meeting Hoss and Little Joe in Virginia City, he starts a livery business in partnership with the Cartwrights. Eventually, he and Jamie Hunter move to Ponderosa and Dusty becomes the ranch foreman.
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character had little to do beyond chores. He once used martial arts to assail a towering family foe. Hop Sing appeared in a total of 108 episodes of the series. He was central in two episodes: "Mark of Guilt" and "The Lonely Man".
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The gentle middle son Eric is almost always referred to as Hoss. The nickname was used as a nod to the character's ample girth, an endearing term for "big and friendly", used by his Swedish mother Inger (and Uncle Gunnar). In the
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mind and decided to stay for one more season, and Williams found himself pushed out. It was rumored that Michael Landon and Lorne Greene felt threatened by the studio initiating a precedent of successfully replacing one heroic
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as being one of television's best specials (November 1993). Landon's development was a bit stormy according to David Dortort, who felt that the actor grew more difficult during the last five seasons the show ran.
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having Adam's fiancée and her daughter depart the series prematurely with Guy Williams' Will, with whom she'd fallen in love. It was Landon, not Roberts, who objected to the infusion of any new Cartwrights.
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Despite the show's success, Roberts departed the series after the 1964–65 season (202 episodes) and returned to stage productions, allegedly because of clashes over the show's direction.
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found Blocker to be the "least actor-ish as well as the most likeable" cast member. Producer David Dortort said, "Over the years he gave me the least amount of trouble."
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episodes, starting with "The Gamble". Most of the episodes Landon wrote and directed were dramas, including the two-hour, "Forever" (1972), which was recognized by
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Hop Sing, the happy-go-lucky Chinese cook for the Cartwrights, whose blood pressure rose when the family came late for dinner. As the faithful domestic, the
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After Canary's departure in mid-1970, and aware of the show's aging demographic, the writers sought a fresh outlet for Ben's fatherly advice. 14 year-old
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Cartwright with a new one, particularly in view of Williams' popularity with viewers. Williams had previously portrayed the titular character in
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seriously courted a woman, she died from a malady, was abruptly slain, or left with someone else. Ben appears in all but fourteen
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was introduced in "A Matter of Faith" (season 12, episode 2). The red-haired orphan of a roving rainmaker, Ben takes him in and
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Clem Foster was the good-looking deputy of Virginia City. Clem took over as sheriff when Roy Coffee gave up the office.
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chose to kill off a young major male character (though it had been done twice before with young female leads—in 1956 on
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The eldest son, Adam, is an architectural engineer with a university education. Adam built the impressive ranch house.
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This section includes characters who will appear or have appeared in at least one season of the series.
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Ben's nephew Will Cartwright, was introduced and was the lead character in five episodes,
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from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 431 episodes,
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was initially offered the role of Adam Cartwright, but turned it down to star in
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is NBC's longest-running Western, the second-longest-running Western series on
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was it explained that Hoss had drowned attempting to save a woman's life.
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Griff King is a parolee who tries to reform his life as a worker at the
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Attempts to replace Adam with Little Joe's maternal half-brother Clay (
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survey listed Ben Cartwright as television's #2 favorite dad.
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portrayed Griff King during the final season, in 1972–73.
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Ben Cartwright (character)
Bonanza
Western television series
NBC
U.S.
Gunsmoke
syndication
Virginia City, Nevada
Lake Tahoe
Lorne Greene
Pernell Roberts
Dan Blocker
Michael Landon
Guy Williams
David Canary
Mitch Vogel
Tim Matheson
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