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BONANZA, explores the adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons Adam, Joe and Hoss and their experiences on and around the Ponderosa ranch in Nevada. Featured in the collection are 8 classic episodes from the first and second seasons, including ‘The Gunmen’, ‘The Fear Merchants’, ‘The Spanish Grant’, ‘Badge Without Honour, The Blood Line, The Hopefuls, Day Of Reckoning and Breed Of Violence. PRODUCT FEATURES: Enjoy some of your favourite classic episodes of Bonanza 8 episodes, 392 minute run-time 3-disc DVD boxed set Genre – Popular Western BLURB FROM REAR OF CASE & WEBSITE: Bonanza is an NBC television western series that ran from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 431 episodes, it ranks as the second-longest-running western series (behind Gunsmoke), and within the top 10 longest-running, live-action American series. The show continues to air in syndication. The show is set around the 1860s and it centers on the wealthy Cartwright family, who live in the area of Virginia City, Nevada, bordering Lake Tahoe. The series stars Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Pernell Roberts (who left after six seasons), and later David Canary and Mitch Vogel. In 2002, Bonanza was ranked No. 43 on TV Guide’s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, and in 2013 TV Guide included it in its list of The 60 Greatest Dramas of All Time. The time period for the television series is roughly between 1861 (Season 1) to 1867 (Season 13) during and shortly after the American Civil War. During the summer of 1972, NBC aired reruns of episodes from the 19671970 period in prime time on Tuesday evening under the title Ponderosa. The show chronicles the weekly adventures of the Cartwright family, headed by the thrice-widowed patriarch Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene). He had three sons, each by a different wife: the eldest was the urbane architect Adam Cartwright (Pernell Roberts) who built the ranch house; the second was the warm and lovable giant Eric “Hoss” Cartwright (Dan Blocker); and the youngest was the hotheaded and impetuous Joseph or “Little Joe” (Michael Landon). EPISODES: The Gunmen (1960) On a cattle buying trip to Texas, Hoss and Little Joe are mistaken for a pair of hired killers recruited by a feuding family in their bid to wipe out a rival clan. Their efforts to convince the town otherwise are hindered by the fact that the Cartwrights are dead ringer for the gunfighters in question – Big Jack and Shorty Jim Slade. The Fear Merchants (1960) The Cartwrights come to the aid of a Chinese-American stable hand accused of murder. Opposing them is a manipulative mayoral candidate who wants all “foreigners” to leave Virginia City. The Spanish Grant (1960) The Cartwrights try to disprove the validity of a Spanish land grant to stop the De La Cuesta family from seizing part of the Ponderosa and all of the Carson Valley settlers’ homestead lands. Badge Without Honour (1960) After a U.S. deputy marshal apparently saves Adam’s life by gunning down two men who shot at him, he eventually reveals that he in town to bring a close friend of the Cartwrights to San Francisco to testify in a statewide racketeering trial, but the Deputy Marshal’s motives soon become suspect as to what he really want to do with the reluctant witness. The Blood Line (1960) When 16-year-old Todd Grayson arrives from Boston to Virginia City, he is told that his father has been killed by Ben Cartwright. Ben shot Luke Grayson in self-defense, but Todd won’t listen to this. The boy has only one thing in his head: to avenge his father by killing Ben Cartwright. The Hopefuls (1960) A wagon train of Quakers from Ohio are passing through town heading to Slaytersville. Adam tags along as he is smitten with the leader’s daughter. Little does he know that the man he just befriended in town has eyes on the gold they’re carrying to their promised land. Day Of Reckoning (1960) When an Indian saves Ben Cartwright’s life from a near fatal knife attack by another Indian, Ben later gives the Indian and his pregnant wife a strip of fertile farming land. Unfortunately the land is next to and very racist farmer and things turn deadly. Breed Of Violence (1960) Dolly Kincaid so feed up with her extremely dominant, controlling, sheriff father, that she runs away with her boyfriend. She later finds out he is the leader of some murderous bank robbers and when they kidnap Hoss and Joe, she still sticks with him.