It's money! And that speaks, pardner.Ĭontinue for a visit to Lorne Greene as he prospects for gold in a Sparks, Nevada night club.(FIRST EDITION, FIRST PUBLISHED, 1964.
And, hush! That crackle in the undergrowth. Right must triumph in the end, and if there has to be any long hair around, it had better be on the hosses -or else. There is more than a smell of confidence in the Ponderosa ranch house. What other show can boast a father figure who has almost toppled Ringo Starr from the Top 10 with a sentimental ballad called, ironically, "Ringo"? The "Cartwrights" have managed to insulate themselves against the encroachment of better judgment, sex and the Beatles. What has Bonanza got that the others haven't got? The answer is Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, and Michael Landon, who still retain a sense of belief in the show. Only Dan "Hoss" Blocker, deep in consultation with his Business Interests over there in the shadows, belies what would seem to be nothing more than a golden crust of cliché spread stickily over Stage 16, at Paramount Studios. However, gravediggers are certainly not apparent in the atmosphere, which is about as sensitive as that of a baseball locker room. Here after six years, something should be limping in the State of the Ponderosa. The wide open spaces of Nevada reach only as far as the cyclorama and the hitching post between the studio visitor and the steed that rears to a halt under Ole Pa Cartwright (after a long gallop from one arc light to another)seems too frail. To spend a day in the studio with the Cartwright family is about as perilous as being shoved into a bullring-with only a fountain pen for protection. In sheer acreage of human flesh alone, Bonanza must be one of the biggest things to hit the TV screens of the Western world since showgirls. Has been said ad nauseam about this sweaty fairy tale and its never-ending success with the ratings.
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