The Silver Dollar Saloon

Continuing on from thread #3 which as been locked.

Not sure exactly where to post this, but I wanted to let everybody know that Bonanza is playing on Pluto and they aren't playing just seasons 1 and 2 like you see streaming all over the place. I came home last looking for something to watch and happened on the western section of Pluto and lo and behold there it was. Season four in all it's glory. The picture quality is excellent. I'd love to know where Pluto picked up this package. Maybe from TVLAND. I haven't seen any evidence that the show is running there lately and thank goodness for that because they cut the episodes for more commercial time to the extent that it really isn't worth watching. Pluto does not do that. A…

I've had a (not terribly serious!) theory for a while that Bonanza actually features two separate and distinct casts of main characters. There are our regular Cartwrights, who are intelligent, thoughtful, highly capable people who work hard on the ranch, help their neighbors, fall into serious and often tragic love affairs, and get into a good number of deadly situations. And then there are the ComedyCartwrights, who resemble the regular ones but are very different in significant ways. ComedyJoe is more prone to wild plans and, unfortunately for everyone around, less capable of carrying them out than regular Joe. He tends to be more selfish and inconsiderat…

I watched Ponderosa Explosion last night, which was delightful fun but also got me (over)thinking about the Cartwrights and their money situations. Near the end of the episode, Ben tells Hoss and Joe that they can use their wages for the next three months to pay him back $100 for a horse. I don't actually think the writers gave those numbers much thought, but...overthinking brief details is sort of what I do, so here we go! If Hoss and Joe together will need three months to pay off $100, that means they're earning about $16 a month, or slightly less than $4 a week. We talked about wages recently in a discussion about Ride the Wind, and thank you to @CareBea…

Now that I’ve completed my project to watch all the episodes written by ML, I thought I’d share some thoughts about the episodes and ML himself. First of all, until about 4 months ago I didn’t know that Michael Landon was anything other than a pretty boy actor so he has been a complete and wonderous revelation to me. (You may wonder which rock I’d been living under but there we are.) It was that revelation that made me want to watch his episodes in order to see 1) how he developed as a writer and 2) on the basis that there’s always something of the creator in the creation, what they might tell me about the man himself. So here goes! …

What are your guys' favorite comfort episodes? Doesn't have to necessarily be your favorite. For me, I really love S5E12 "Hoss and the Leprechauns". Gets me going every time. I also find any of the "_____ My Love" episodes very comfy to watch.

No eps for me today. Boo hoo.

I finished out my rewatch of Season 7 last night - I figure I'll post more detailed statistics at the end of Season 8, before getting into the Candy years, but I wanted to just drop a few comments on this season now. First, it was clearly all hands on deck when Roberts left, because the remaining three Cartwrights appear on every episode, barring a single time Joe is absent. That's statistically unprecedented - even setting aside Adam's higher levels of absence, the other three have not shown up THAT much in any season before. It also felt like very few of those appearances were just cameos (only a single scene or hanging in the background), and there were mo…

As I’ve mentioned a few places around here, I’m currently doing a (re)watch through the series in order, and tracking some details along the way. The watch continues, but I recently completed Season 6 – clearly the end of an era, with Adam’s departure! It feels like a good time to share some statistics up to this point. Instead of dumping a ton of information all at once, I’ll try to drop a few different stats over the next few days. Here's a couple to start off... Episode Leads: Obviously there are “Joe episodes” and “Adam episodes” and so on, so I’ve tracked how many of each. This gets more subjective when two or more Cartwrights all have meaningful role…

We know that at ML and DB tried to tease each other when out of sight of the camera, trying to make each other crack. What scenes have y’all seen where it seems pretty obvious someone accidentally dropped their character for a moment? I’ll go first with my new favorite episode, The Found Child. Little Lisa is in shock and just stares with no smiling. Hoss tries to get her to eat by making a funny noise but she does crack a little and I wondered if something didn’t happen between takes or if ML was making faces at her off screen 😂

Even though I'm a Joe gal through and through, I relate to Adam the most! We have so many things in common it's almost kinda weird ! We're both the oldest of three (to make it even weirder, my younger siblings and I almost have the same exact age gaps as the Cartwrights), we both love to read, and we both don't get super emotional (or I should say it takes a lot to actually make us lose our cool). Adam sometimes tends to me moody when something's bothering him and I do the same thing, but then of course there's big differences, like his intelligence. I am in no wise anywhere near as smart as he is! Which Cartwright do you relate to the most?

I've seen people posting around the forum about what episodes they're watching, and it's made me curious - how do you decide what episode to watch? In order a season at a time? Research for story ideas? Whatever episode strikes your mood that day (and in that case, are you looking at a list somewhere)? Related question part two, how much Bonanza are you watching? For me, as I've shared other places, I'm watching the entire series in order - I'm most of the way through Season 7 right now. I usually watch three episodes a week, which means the entire rewatch will take almost three years. I figure that means I'll be able to start over at the beginning again…

@AC1830 asked for my thoughts on this episode and it became A Whole Thing. So now it's A Whole Thread. Before I even got to the theme song (which isn't the right one ) Several things caught my attention Frame Within A Frame shots: Not typical cinematography for Bonanza. I think it's used here to center the two families, and the doctor in particular, at the heart of the story. The childbirth scenes: There was a limit of what could be shown on television for these types of scenes. It wasn't all that far in the past you couldn't use the word pregnant on TV. The filming of these scenes is i…

I've been looking for this special for years. Back to Bonanza was broadcast right before the reunion movie in 1993. Here is the link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjvIQ1o3oos

Alright friends, let's try to sort fact from fiction here. I just finished Sense of Duty (Season 9, Episode 2) and Ben is called back on active duty as Major Cartwright of the 116th militia out of Virginia City. Fact and tidbit finders amongst us, let's put our heads together and make sense of what we know, and what we don't about Major Ben Cartwright! I'll start us off: Half a uniform and a hat that's incredibly Union looking in Sense of Duty. Pa pants, militia top and an adorable "Major Pa," with salute from Hoss.

I've recently discovered Bonanza and am happily working my way through all the seasons. I've learned that Mike Landon wrote something like 20 episodes and am particularly interested to see those ones. So far, I've only been able to find 10 of them and I was wondering if anyone here would have a list of them. Can anybody help?

Okay. I just got curious about this and did some checking. How many bedrooms were actually in the ranch house? The only answer I could find was that there were 5 bedrooms. One for each of the Cartwrights upstairs and the guest room downstairs. If that's the case, then where did Hop Sing sleep and how did they accommodate more than one guest? Also, when they had only 1 guest, where did he or she sleep upstairs instead of in the guest room downstairs, if that was, indeed, the only guest room?

Everyone - I am trying to find any books on Bonanza - fiction or not - to create a library of Bonanza writings. If anyone has any titles that I can research and see if I can locate a book to add to my new library, please let me know. Thanks!

Can anyone please tell me if Candy every refered to his horse by name?

Like the title says, but another coinciding thing- I've noticed some of y'all got some pretty high definition screenshots- how? I figured it was just lower pixel count wise across the board. [ I get mine from youtube fyi ]

Just curious... does anyone know anything about the "Bonanza Boomers" site? I have been trying to register for months and keep getting error messages; no "contact us" efforts have yielded fruit. I wonder if it's a situation where the owner is no longer running it, though it indicates that it's sanctioned by Bonanza Ventures and Andy Klyde. I'm just curious, as there are some articles on there I'd be interested in reading. :-) Many thanks for any insights anyone can provide.

Hello! I'm just recently getting into Bonanza, I found it through listening to Lorne Greene and just wanting more. I've already finished season one, on season two now, and what I'm wondering is how far should I watch to? There's four hundred and thirty episodes, it just seems so daunting! given that each episode is roughly forty seven minutes- it comes out to about three hundred and thirty six hours, that's a whole lot to get through. Now I'm aware that Pernell Roberts leaves after season six, and I'm really not sure how I'll feel about his absence. Being so, I wanted to ask others how they thought it continued on without him? Is there a community agreed upon …

Hi there! I'm trying to find a story I read a while back and am hoping someone might recognize it. I don't remember what site it was on, who wrote it or any other useful information, LOL! It starts out with the boys riding home for Ben's birthday. Joe had found "the perfect gift" for Ben - a nice saddle - but couldn't afford it himself. So the 3 of them decided to go in together on it. Joe had worked really hard saving and had all of his part of the money; in fact Hoss and Adam saw him with it that day. But when they went to pay, his money was gone. Lost or pickpocketed apparently. Well, Adam had made it clear that they ALL had to have ALL of their share right t…

Howdy, all. This round's on me. :-) I'm curious. Several of you mention video captures. Is there a particular software you like most? I'm finding myself sketching again, and I'm not talented enough to do it without an image as a guide (snort!) I'd appreciate any suggestions you all might have, though I'll admit being retired on a fairly fixed income (and in the middle of buying a new house), I'm looking for freeware if at all possible. Many thanks!

I'll readily admit my ADD brain could well have missed it, but I've been scouring for a bit in the tech areas trying to figure out how to add my location to my profile, and cannot for the life of me figure it out. Can anyone assist? And if I've put this in the wrong place, admins, please absolutely move this sucker. :-)