Tv Western Theme Songs

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Technical Details The Cartwright’s thousand-square-mile Ponderosa Ranch is located near Virginia City, Nevada, site of the Comstock Silver Lode, during and after the Civil War. Each of the sons was born to a different wife of Ben’s; with none of the mothers still alive. Join Ben (Lorne Greene), Adam (Pernell Roberts), Hoss (Dan Blocker) and Little Joe (Michael Landon) as they rewrite the book on the western

BONANZA, one of the earliest series filmed in color, was a Sunday night tradition for fourteen seasons on the NBC-TV network. Even when being bounced around the weekly schedule (the show aired on Saturdays, Sundays and Tuesdays over the years), this family-style oater always got good ratings. The stars were Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon and Dan Blocker (although Roberts chose to leave less than halfway through the show’s 14 season run).

The BEST OF BONANZA DVD box set is a terrific package of classic TV westerns. You get 25� hours of programming for one great low price. This MILL CREEK collection consists of four single-sided dual layer DVDs. There’s 31 BONANZA episodes here and three WAGON TRAIN shows. The list of prominent actors who appeared in these (primarily) 1960 programs is quite extensive (see below).

The BEST OF BONANZA is most definitely for all fans of early television and especially TV westerns.

The following list includes 1 to 10 poll ratings found a film website, also season/episode/airdate and guest stars for each show,

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The other reviews here are spot-on. The faux theme music sounds like something from a bad spaghetti western. The picture is a bit choppy at times, but that’s what you get when you cram eight or nine episodes of an hour-long show onto a SINGLE-SIDED DVD! Yes, these are single-sided, so you can image the compression that was required.

And yet, for the price I would glady endure all that, if the silly discs would actually play. I’ve tried three separate copies, Discs 1 and 3 won’t play properly in any of them. (The ones stored above another disc in the overlapping clamshell box. Coincidence? Maybe, since no scratches are visible.) Shame on Mill Creek for putting out such a poor product.

You can get these same 31 episode for a little more coin in a more reliable set, try: Bonanza 8-DVD Pack

The correct title should have been “Uncopy-righted Episodes of Bonanza”. Obviously, Mill Creek didn’t want to pay any royalties so even the theme song was substituted with a cheesy recording of the company owner’s brother strumming a guitar (just my guess). My poor review is not a slight against the Bonanza series. These are actually excellent. I just feel duped because I can pull these epsidoes down off the Internet for free.

50 Years of the Television Western

Television theme recordings, an illustrated discography, 1951-1994

Music in Television

Westerns Women, Interviews with 50 Leading Ladies of Movie and Television Westerns from the 1930s to the 1960s

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