Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker and Michael Landon as Ben, Adam, Hoss, and Joe Cartwright, riding horses and looking at the sky in Bonanza. Image via NBC When it comes to classic television ...

The 1960s was a decade of transition for American television, bridging the black-and-white era of the 1950s with the colorful, more socially aware programming that would emerge in the 1970s. Viewers ...

For fourteen seasons between 1959 and 1973, Bonanza graced television screens as the second most popular Western of its day, coming in only behind Gunsmoke. The series followed the Cartwright family — ...