Dan Blocker is best remembered as the gentle giant Hoss Cartwright on Bonanza, but his life could have taken a very different turn — long before the show, Blocker was preparing for a career that had ...

The year after Dan Blocker’s death, 'Bonanza' ended. The show never saw season 15, making the actor's comments about the series seem prophetic. by Robert Yaniz Jr. Interestingly, Blocker could sense ...

Bonanza shared the story of the wealthy Cartwrights, and it starred Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Pernell Roberts, and Lorne Greene as members of the fictional family. The Los Angeles Times reports the ...

Is there a television series that better symbolizes the golden age of TV Westerns than Bonanza? Set against the sweeping backdrop of the Nevada Territory during the 1860s, Bonanza followed the lives ...

Long before contemporary television audiences were roped into the drama of such modern-day Westerns as Longmire and Yellowstone, Ben Cartwright and his sons were riding into homes every week via the ...

John Canon (Leif Erickson), Baby Boy (Mark Slade), Victoria Canon (Linda Cristal), and Manolito Montoya (Cameron Mitchell) in 'The High Chaparral.' Image via NBC Everybody who knows anything about the ...

This 1962 picture provided by NBC shows actors from the "Bonanza" television show from left, Pernell Roberts, Lorne Greene, Michael Landon and Dan Blocker. Roberts, the ruggedly handsome actor who ...