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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 26, 2005 - 07:48pm PT
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Hey...remember when that evil judge was runnin' an illegal mining operation up in the Carson Range??..with prison labor? Man...that ruled. The Cartwrights got somehow caught up in it...well Lorne Greene and I think Little Joe anyhow. They had to escape without gettin' killed...which is what that judge would've done to 'em. I guess he'd already been killin' prisoners for a while for workin' slow, tryin' to escape, mouthin' off, etc. So then they get this plan together where Little Joe has to pretty much put his shackles over an ore cart rail....then when the ore cart rolls by all filled, it snaps his chain. I think he escapes alone but has to go get Hoss so they can come and rescue their pop. I can't remember if the evil judge dies or not, but I'm sure he got his in the end. What the hell was Purnell Roberts doin' the whole time??...I don't know. Maybe he was laborin' in the prison too....or maybe he was gone...or hell, maybe hangin' with Gonzo out in front of the Titanic in the parking lot. I'd sure hate to get stuck doin' hard prison labor in a 19th century gold mine, let me tell you.
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Gene
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Jan 26, 2005 - 07:56pm PT
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Yeah, I remember. Where the hell was Hop Sing on that episode?
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nature
climber
Flagstaff, AZ
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Jan 26, 2005 - 09:48pm PT
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Guys... Hoss was WAY to big to get on that horse. What were they thinking trying to pull the wool over our eyes with that one?!?!?
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akclimber
Trad climber
Eagle River, AK
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Jan 26, 2005 - 10:50pm PT
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As I welcome myself to this forum, I see a thread about Bonanza. What better way to make my first post than to say that Bonanza was the last great TV show. The episode that started this thread is on VHS in my library right now.
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nature
climber
Flagstaff, AZ
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Jan 26, 2005 - 10:52pm PT
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As the official SOB of supertacos I'd like to welcome you.
Now, leave one sixer of greenies by the door on your way in.
WELCOME TO THE MADHOUSE!!!
cheers,
Doug
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Southern Man
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Jan 27, 2005 - 08:45am PT
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So I was going to tell this joke about Hoss to a group of climbing friends. When this one youngster about 12 years old starts whispering to his dad. I stop in mid sentence and say, "you don't know who Hoss Cartwright was, do you son. Or what bonanza really means." I said, "let me tell you something, Bonanza is the greatest television show that was ever on television. On Sunday night every family in America sat down and to start things off we saw a Chevy truck drive through a river. And then the screen was filled with a huge map of the Ponderosa. "Let me ask you something son, when you were driving down the highway, did you ever ask you dad, "why do they call that big house over there the Ponderosa?" Any way, this huge map starts burning from the center outward and in the background you see four men riding horses toward you. The old jewish guy on the right with gray hair is the daddy. And the son next to him looks like he's from the middle east and then the next son is really big and rides a small horse that looks like its really tired. That man, son, was Hoss.
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 27, 2005 - 12:47pm PT
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Good ole' prison labor. I think that sheriff down Feeniks way had the right idea...mockin' them bastards while workin' 'em hard. Maybe not killin' 'em...ok maybe some of 'em. Good ole' towne pillory...wish we had a few more o' them...maybe an iron pig mask or two.
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10b4me
Trad climber
Walking into the MRB
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Jan 27, 2005 - 01:05pm PT
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Bonanza was a great show as was Gunsmoke. Too bad Hop Sing wasn't in more episodes. My personal favorite was the one where Hoss hooked up with that old miner dude that had the psychic dog.
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steelmnkey
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Phoenix, AZ
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Jan 27, 2005 - 01:23pm PT
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What about High Chapparal? John Cannon, Blue Boy, Buck, Manolito? 'member when Blue got stung by a scorpion and nearly died? What a laugh. My wife got nailed twice in bed one night... by a scorpion, that is... for those of you with dirty minds. You don't die, you just get really pissed off and stomp the little f*ckers into microscopic pieces.
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nature
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Flagstaff, AZ
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Jan 27, 2005 - 01:45pm PT
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steel - was it the same scorpion or were there two?
If I'm not mistaken there's one scorpion in the west that's really bad. otherwise, yeah, I hear you just get pissed you got stung.
Ya'll are making me feel either young or braindead - probably the latter. I recall watching the show a lot - I don't recall hardly any of these details.
carry on...
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
Boald'r Effin See Oh
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 27, 2005 - 02:36pm PT
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You'd never have fit in out there Nature....they'd have whupped up on you the second your unshaven grill weeble-wobbled into town I tell you. Those guys were men...MEN DAMMIT! ...an' ain't many of us left.
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nature
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Flagstaff, AZ
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Jan 27, 2005 - 02:40pm PT
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I'd fit in anywhere. I am nature, after all.
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
Boald'r Effin See Oh
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 27, 2005 - 03:18pm PT
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I dun hear Mathias Jabs has a pretty mean sting. I'd stay clear. Them Euro-types is poisonous.
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
Boald'r Effin See Oh
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 27, 2005 - 04:17pm PT
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What the??.....ain't that an STD?
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Oakville, Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Jan 27, 2005 - 05:57pm PT
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I am not sufficiently familiar with the series to know when Bonanza jumped the shark. But I'm thinking maybe we should have a jumping the shark thread. Thoughts?
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
Boald'r Effin See Oh
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 27, 2005 - 08:10pm PT
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Stupid stinkin' Cylons...they were mean.
I love Erin Gray.
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nature
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Flagstaff, AZ
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Jan 27, 2005 - 08:12pm PT
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Spock-like emotions. though determined to annihilate the human race they were not mean by nature.
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dufas
Trad climber
san francisco
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Jan 27, 2005 - 08:21pm PT
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lee van cleef. a low budget western shot in Spain starts a long fine career that enraptured the European continent for three decades. Sad that most of us only know him as "the bad".
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nature
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Flagstaff, AZ
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Jan 27, 2005 - 09:45pm PT
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Tuco met a terrible demise. poor clint, put between a rock and a hard place. had to chose the rock, i suppose...
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
Boald'r Effin See Oh
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 28, 2005 - 02:53pm PT
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Y'know Dan Blocker was the father of slacklining? Diverse fellow indeed.
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
Boald'r Effin See Oh
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2005 - 02:38am PT
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Mutha....no one appreciates a good focal mechanism nowadaze.
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nature
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Flagstaff, AZ
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Jan 30, 2005 - 03:02pm PT
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You know, I never did understand what Bud Cort saw in Ruth Gordon. Haughtie? I think not!
I think Snoop Dogg was on to something with his tune Lodi Dodi... how's it go..." and wid yer...." oh never mind
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
Boald'r Effin See Oh
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2005 - 08:46pm PT
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Bud Cort...not much of a slackliner from what I've heard.
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steelmnkey
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Phoenix, AZ
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Jan 30, 2005 - 10:43pm PT
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>>I always like the BIG VALLEY too.
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>>The matriarch of the family, can't remember her name... >>something Barkley, always wanted to bone that woman.
Nick, Heath, Jared the barn's on fire!!
Jared the eldest, Nick the strongest, Heath, the outsider who fought for recognition. Audra, too impetuous to play it safe. Victoria Barkley...a woman of backbone and bite.
After school re-runs in the early 70's... classic.
Don't take away our reruns Dick! It's the only education we got! (a little warped, but name that movie).
DMT: You were probably drooling a little when Barbara Stanwyk was in The Thornbirds at like age 134? :-)
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
Boald'r Effin See Oh
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 31, 2005 - 11:44am PT
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Hey....don't forget the best part of Big Valley....yup, that's right. Colt an' Howie.
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Lg
Trad climber
NorCaL
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What abouit Uncle Fest? What the hell was he doing through all of this?! I hear he helped design the ten gallon hat though.
Lg
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steelmnkey
climber
Phoenix, AZ
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Huh, huh, huh... Rifleman... coooool. I could never handle that pasty kid he had though.
Also like Steve McQueen in Wanted Dead or Alive.
His gun was as cool as the Rifleman's rifle.
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
Boald'r Effin See Oh
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 1, 2005 - 12:16pm PT
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Howie would've kicked all there asses...hands down. Well...with the possible exception of Highway-to-Heaven-guy.
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nature
climber
Flagstaff, AZ
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Howie..... not much of a slackliner from what I've heard
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
Boald'r Effin See Oh
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 1, 2005 - 12:37pm PT
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No....Jodi was the slackliner in that crowd. Howie is however undoubtedly responsible for Sharma's distinctly Howiesque (nearly plagiaristic?) bouldering style.
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
Boald'r Effin See Oh
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 1, 2005 - 01:07pm PT
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Hey...what the hell? That's the intro from Knight Rider!
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
Boald'r Effin See Oh
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 1, 2005 - 01:37pm PT
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Hey...that picture...ain't that Play's love interest from Kid 'n Play's "House Party 3?"
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steelmnkey
climber
Phoenix, AZ
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As I recall, when I was a kid, the song actually went:
Stranded, stranded at the bathroom bowl,
What do you do when you're stranded,
and you can't reach the roll.
Wherever you go for the rest of your life,
they will know,
You've been stranded.
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Blowboarder
Boulder climber
Sandpoint, Idaho
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Chuck Conners, hell of an athlete before becoming a small screen star. One of two people to ever play in the NBA and play Major League Baseball at the same time.
Name the other one for a ST SOB approved beer.
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Gene
climber
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Danny Ainge (??)
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Blowboarder
Boulder climber
Sandpoint, Idaho
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Sewelymon is the mon.
Danny Ainge played briefly for the Blue Jays but not while he was playing for the Celtics.
Gonna have to go research Chuck Conners now, different take than I remember.
File your BAF (Beverage Aquisition Form) with the ST SOB.
Kodos, you sure have been quiet considering it's your last week here for a year.
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Born Eugene Orowitz on Halloween, October 31, 1936 in Forest Hills, New York. His parents were show biz people, his father Eli had once been a publicity agent for Gene Autry and worked for RKO in the publicity department. Eli could almost be called a workaholic, young Eugene hardly ever remembered his father being home in the day light hours. When the press agent business slowed down Eli moved the family which, consisted of young Eugene and an older sister named Evelyn, to Collingswood, New Jersey where he took a job managing several movie theatres. Eugene’s mother was a pretty but untalented blonde named Peggy O’Neil. She claimed to have been an ex-Ziegfield Follies girl, but no proof of her ever appearing on the boards exists. Her big problem was she suffered from horrid depression and made life for the entire family miserable. She was Irish Catholic, Eli was Jewish. Their religious differences were electric and they fought constantly about them. Peggy spent a good deal of her time attempting suicide in an effort to drive her family crazy. Mr. Landon jokingly said in an interview once “I was ten before I knew you put anything but a head in a gas oven. She always had a pad under her knees so they wouldn’t hurt and the window was usually open.” He continued by describing his mother as “off her rocker.” On his sixth birthday she told him “Well, now you’re six and I don’t like you anymore because I don’t like little boys.” Peggy lavished all her attention on her older daughter who was truly a beauty. She entered her in endless beauty pageants that eventually won young Evelyn the title of Miss New Jersey. Young Eugene, however was largely ignored becoming a shy and introvert boy who spent most of his time relating to animals and building forts in the woods.
The anti-Semitism in the community was also a strain on the young boys childhood. He was not allowed to play with certain children and once on a date had the door slammed in his face when the father answered and saw it was the “Jew ***” from down the street. To make matters worse he had inherited a condition that exhibits itself in young boys as a bed-wetting syndrome. His mother in her twisted way decided she would cure him of the problem by hanging the wet stained bed sheets out the window each day for the whole neighborhood to see as young Eugene came home from school. Many years latter Mr. Landon would address this issue in his television writing and work with charities. His high school years began to improve however, he began with good grades but his antics as class clown and odd jobs after school to earn money to buy a car cost him dear in grades and he had to repeat his second year. He graduated third to the last! But he did show one true talent and that was at throwing the javelin. He won regional championship as a sophomore, second in the state in his junior year and over all champion in his senior year. His athletic talent appeared to be the ticket out of his miserable family when he was awarded a scholarship to the University of Southern California. He enrolled in February of 1955 as a speech and drama major. He chose that major mostly because it seemed easy academically and he had had a little experience in community theatre and had enjoyed it. Believing there was something to the myth of Samson and his long hair young Eugene grew his thick, curly hair long and practiced endlessly at the javelin.
A group of fellow athletes thought he was a freak not to sport the ever-popular “crew cut” of the fifties and ganged up on him one day, forcibly holding him down as they shaved his head! He went into a slump with his throwing due to the loss of the psychological edge his belief in his hair gave him. The harder he practiced, the worse he threw and then he tore a ligament in his shoulder. The scholarship was withdrawn. Out of school, with no place to go and nothing to do, he rented a small apartment and got a job unloading freight cars. His parents had followed him to “sunny” California and he had them to deal with again. He tried to help his father find work in the fickle movie business, but all the people who had known Eli before had nothing for him now. Eventually, the tired and broken down old man took a job in a run down movie house in downtown L.A. Eugene was 19, down on his luck, unable to shed himself of his abusive family, not able to continue with his education, all he could do was unload trucks for various freight companies. A co-worker had set up an audition at Warner Brothers Studio to try his luck in the movie world. He needed a scene partner and asked his friend Eugene to come along and help out. Young Eugene quite enjoyed the reading, he got more attention than his friend (who did not get the job) and he decided to enroll in the Warner acting school, change his name to something with a better ring to it. He wanted to be Mike Lane, but that name was already taken in the Screen Actors Union so after looking thru the phone directory “Michael Landon” was born.
Part II… The Bonanza Years
Now he was Michael Landon, a handsome curly headed young man making the rounds in Hollywood trying to get work. He was dating a 26-year-old widowed secretary who had a small boy. Their age difference didn’t seem to matter then, but his family was horrified! In 1956 he married Dodie and adopted her young son Mark.
Mark in an interview once said Michael “and I were having a lot of fun…he was like a big brother. We would drive around and make faces at people in other cars and we’d be like monsters and stuff…we were really silly together.” Being like monsters was not a bad thing for young Michael. He read for and was cast in what has become one of Hollywood’s greatest cult films. “I Was a Teenage Werewolf.” His goofy expressions and mannerisms gave the film just the right punch. Even though it was only a B film it had style and it put the young Landon on the road to stardom.
He made several small films, lots of TV roles as walk ons and small bit parts and appeared in an odd film called “God’s Little Acre” He bleached his hair and appeared as an albino able to divine gold! He made many appearances on TV Westerns that were becoming all the rage and was given the top billing in “The Legend of Tom Dooley” based on the Kingston Trio’s song of the same name. It was the second and oddly the last time he would ever make or have star billing in a movie. His career was about to head in a completely different direction. His father Eli had finally had the good sense to separate from Peggy and was living with Michael and Dodie. Michael had just signed a contract for what looked like a steady job…a new western in color when he got word that his father had died. He was devastated.
His new job proved more than steady, it defined his future. He was cast as Little Joe Cartwright, youngest of the three sons of Ben Cartwright, patriarch of the might Ponderosa, a mythical ranch set on the shores of Lake Tahoe in the Comstock Lode days of Nevada, using Virginia City as their “home town.” It took a few seasons for the show to really warm to the public, but it only took one episode for the fans to warm to Little Joe. Playing the part of the high energy, quick-witted younger brother came easy to Landon. He bounced around the set with endless energy, let his quick wit take over at a minutes notice and charmed the most hardened soul with his signature giggle. He was good looking too, which snappy hazel eyes, wild brown curly hair and sporty way of walking down the street and jumping on his horse without ever using the stirrups!
Soon he became a teenage heartthrob sending hoards of teenagers into swooning screams when he appeared at parades, Rodeos and public appearances. But he became suspicious of the press and all the sudden “friends” that appeared out of the blue. His success as Little Joe and the fat contract and money he was making didn’t seem to bring him the lasting relationships he needed. True friends were rare but he found several on his own show. His “big” brother Hoss was played by Dan Blocker who quickly became a dear and close friend of Landon’s until Blocker’s death in 1972. He and Blocker were infamous for their practical jokes on the set usually aimed at an unsuspecting new director who thought he was a little more important than he was. They often would harass each other to the point of total distraction to everyone on the set. He looked to Lorne Greene for fatherly advice both on and off the set and so close the three became that they formed business companies together, a restaurant and real estate deals. It did not take long for Landon and his new found business partners to become wealthy beyond compare. He was an avid reader and astute businessman, always honest and always savvy to someone trying to take advantage of him. He loved to needle the black sheep of the family, Pernell Roberts, who was always so serious about his work and often difficult for directors. According to the show’s producer David Dortort Michael was often called upon to the mediate for his “older” brother when Roberts was giving a new director fits. Michael Landon went to bat for Pernell Roberts however, when in frustration at having no rehearsal time on the show Roberts threatened to walk on his contract.
Landon went to the top brass and negotiated rehearsal time. It was short lived however, and much to Roberts as well as Landon’s sorrow the filming of the show went back to its hectic pace with no real time for development or rehearsal. Itching to director and write Landon begged and pleaded with the top brass for a chance to do so. It seemed as though it would never happen, but he was persistent and he got his chance when shooting shut down in 1962 due to a lack of scripts. Landon went home and wrote all weekend. He appeared with a story he was able to sell to the producers of the show. Both Blocker and Roberts said it would never happen and he delighted in showing them the check he was given for his first script. He was paid scale just like all the other writers. It would open a new chapter for Landon. His desire to write and then direct was on its way.
The success of the show, the busy weekends devoted to appearances that paid well took their toll. There was no time to reflect, enjoy the family or just sit down and put your feet up. Michael began to try and cope with alcohol and drugs. He smoked up to four packs of cigarettes a day and his marriage to Dodie was failing. They had adopted another child, Josh, but did not finish the adoption on a third, as the marriage was over and to bring a new child to it would not have been fair. Single again, but always close to his children, Michael continued to work as hard as ever on “Bonanza”. While on the set one day he met a young model named Lynn Noe. They had a whirl wind romance, she was just finalizing a divorce and had a young daughter named Cheryl. They eloped to Mexico in 1961, but had a small ceremony the following year in Reno. Dan Blocker was best man.
Michael always the family man, tried to adopt Cheryl, but the father was uncooperative. He and Lynn had four children of their own. His mother Peggy finally decided Michael wasn’t so bad after all and she and her daughter Evelyn who stage name was now Victoria King, lived together in a small apartment in LA with the help of the successful young Landon. Michael continued to hound the brass behind “Bonanza” to do more writing and directing. Later in the shows run he got to do plenty and began to learn the real ins and outs of the television business. He directed over a dozen episodes on “Bonanza” and wrote over 20 episodes. When after 14 years of airtime “Bonanza” finally ran its course Michael Landon was ready to move on to bigger and more inviting projects. He was now 36 years old. No longer the starving teenage actor or little brother on the family western he was now mature and well skilled in his craft of creating television.
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
Boald'r Effin See Oh
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 2, 2005 - 01:33pm PT
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Man...this thread rules. I love me.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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yow, Largo. That was more than I ever knew in that area, but ready for more; Can you get me a tape of Blue boy?
My own contribution was to be that I thought Brick's lyrics "Branded ..." were the ones from The Big Lebawsky.
I feel insignificant before the power of the force.
PS my fave Bonanza was Hoss with the easter eggs.
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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My fav was the one with the Leprechauns and the pot of gold.
What was so grat about Bonanza ws hat they had actual writers with classical story licks who would go after big themes. I saw an episode recently where Little Joe had to kill a high school Indian friend who "went bad." Imagine that now! Few shows have the sack to have the stars do anything beyond posing and spuing tude and smug bosh, and if things heat up--like on the Sopranos--it overdone or exploitive.
Bonanza went for the big themes, big emotions, people being off center--remember that Ben Cartright (son of Russian Jewish immigrants) was often drawn as both a level headed patriarch and a short tempered control freak who would kill a man who done him wrong of wressled his beeves.
Great stuff.
JL
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
Boald'r Effin See Oh
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 4, 2005 - 04:55pm PT
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...and lets not forget Hoss's contributions to slacklining. To not mention that is to insult his memory.
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426
Sport climber
The Pet Sematary, TN
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Nov 22, 2005 - 07:10pm PT
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-You need to take a pad out to Tahoe next summer and take the tour of the Ranch (Incline Village), mang.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
one pass away from the big ditch
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Nov 22, 2005 - 07:39pm PT
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how about this, thread? nope, haven't posted here yet
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
Boald'r Effin See Oh
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 23, 2005 - 06:24pm PT
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Take a pad...now that's a true tribute to Blocker.
I'd advocate that for all you dumpasses.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jul 28, 2006 - 03:47am PT
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Hoss befriending another big lunk, who'd done some sort of wrong.
Dan Blocker's Emmy-worthy performance.
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Festus
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Aug 23, 2007 - 04:19pm PT
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Okay, okay, I was startin' to have second thoughts about him when that eraserhead thing appeared about 8,000 times (though 8,001--"Jaybro Kicks Ass"--buckled me) but THIS has to be one of the best OT threads ever. It's Donny's "Slaughterhouse Five".
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TwistedCrank
climber
Luxury rehabilitation treatment facility in Boise
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Aug 23, 2007 - 05:04pm PT
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When did Ponderosa become Bonanza? There's something in my memory banks that says that there was something like that.
When did Ben Cartwright quit riding a horse and piloting a starship?
I'm confused.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Aug 23, 2007 - 05:16pm PT
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and how did adam cartwright become Trapper John MD?
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Aug 23, 2007 - 05:47pm PT
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Davy Crockett could outdraw them all.
The following stanza begins the twenty-stanza ballad:
Born on a mountain top in Tennessee,
Greenest state in the land of the free.
Raised in the woods so's he knew every tree,
Killed him a b'ar when he was only three.
Davy, Davy Crockett
King of the Wild Frontier
Edit: Now that I've provided you all with ear candy for the day, the other nineteen stanzas seem unnecessary.
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Gene
climber
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Aug 23, 2007 - 05:52pm PT
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Dan Blocker, in addition to being the Father of Slacklining, moved to Europe out of disgust for US policy in Viet Nam. A true Renaissance man.
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
that Heaven's Gate comet. CRAP it's cold...
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 23, 2012 - 03:52pm PT
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I'm pretty sure I speak for everyone when I state that a Dan Blocker tribute thread is FAR overdue.
Let's get one going here quick.
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
C:porn
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Topic Author's Reply - May 13, 2013 - 12:30pm PT
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He was indeed.....you should've seen him on the slack line.
Un.
Be.
Leeveable.
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
C:porn
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 28, 2017 - 10:51am PT
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The sad, sad state of humanity....
The Ponderosa Ranch is no longer.
Thanks a lot millennials...that's what happens when have no interest in things that don't suck.
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mooch
Trad climber
Tribal Base Camp (Kernville Annex)
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Sep 28, 2017 - 11:07am PT
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Donny -
When did they close the place?
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Slabby D
Trad climber
B'ham WA
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Sep 28, 2017 - 11:20am PT
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Oh man I thought this thread was gonna be about this guy.....
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 28, 2017 - 12:21pm PT
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Just a couple of weeks ago I peeked through the fence at the Ponderosa. Is it true Hoss's girlfriends always died?
trivia answer is Dave DeBusschere (RIP)
pitched for the white sox in '63 (and was also rookie of the year in the NBA
Cotton Nash also played for the White Sox and Kentucky Colonels in 1967. He was a three time basketball All-American at Kentucky, and SEC scoring champion.
In 1970 on a hot and humid night, while playing for AAA Evansville, I saw him launch a ball into orbit. It was an incredible blast and I believe the longest homerun I've ever seen. He led the American Association in homeruns that year, which was a pitcher's league.
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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Sep 28, 2017 - 02:09pm PT
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And here I thought this might be a climbing thread
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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All their girl friends died- wives would have ruined the story line.
Speaking of wives, my wife was blown away when I told her Adam from Days of our Lives was the bastard "Candy" who was a bit of a bad ass. Why didn't they ever change clothes? Little Joe's olive, short cut, suede jacket with the popped collar way too cool!
I was drawn to the Big Valley and it's Cali roots. Plus Linda Evans and the Million Dollar Man!
Later on, The Courtship of Eddie's Father took on the complexities of being a widower with children. No one got shot... boring as shet.
I think my afternoon line up when I was a kid included; Bonanza, Lost in Space, Mayberry RFD, Hogan's heroes and if the foil on the rabbit ears failed, I was stuck with the Electic Company- PAH..ET- PET, BA..ET- Bet. Oh that sucked!
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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My high school English teacher shared that Dan Blocker taught english at our high school and was fired for telling the class " Love" was a 4 letter word...
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Who remembers High Chapparal?
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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I have fond childhood memories of the 1/2 hour-long, profound western series Paladin, as noted above.
Richard Boone as Paladin on Have Gun/ Will Travel.
Next up on NBC was Bonanza, or on ABC was Maverick, which was much more fun than Bonanza.
When my father was around, we always had to watch Bonanza, & otherwise the choice was Maverick.
Sigh.
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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I know this is a bit of a genre bust, but the best Western entertainment for TV was Kwai Chang Caine dispassionately kicking the sh#t out of rednecks.
Western/Martial Arts all in one.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there, say, all... yeah, i just thought there was some
route called BONANZA, and thought i'd see what it was, :))
say, i watched other old westerns (larmie and wagontrain)(oh, yeah, and the rifleman), but:
a good friend of mine,
she used to watch the big valley, and so i saw it a few times, to try to see what she liked about it...
and since i had seen only old tv westerns, well:
when i saw this 'older gal' in charge of the ol' ranch, and all
'duded up' fancy perfect-set-hair, etc, it didn't quite make sense...
i wondered where they 'got her from' ...
(but, in a polite way, of course, not meaning to be nasty about it)
TOOK A LONG time, for the answer to come:
well, just recently, with the ol' computer here, i have seen
some other OLD westerns, NOT just old TV SHOWS...
and TWO, IN PARTICULAR, had, YEP-- barbara stanwyck, as the
'take-over gal'...
the one with the HUGE ambition to control ranches...
and one to let NO ONE stand her way... :O
well, how about that? mystery was solved...
and, she was GOOD at it too... :O
strong gutsy head-strong, in control, and in one, she was down-right nasty :O
(not good for the big valley, for sure--would have been a
bad mom-image, oh my!)...
so--here are the two movies, that i saw that SOLVED the mystery:
http://www.movies.com/thefuries/details/m66390
http://www.movies.com/theviolentmen/details/m49590
okayyyyyyyyyyyy, well, back to BONANZA...
as a kid, always did think it was a CATCHY tune... i remember having to go to bed, and hearing that song play, :)
still like the tune, :)
(mainly did not like the show, though, as it somehow looked
too 'staged' ... not sure why...
lorne green had a great speaking voice, i learned later,
he was a radio announcer from cananda...
quote from wikipedia:
Greene began acting while attending Queen's University in Kingston, where he acquired a knack for broadcasting with the Radio Workshop of the university's Drama Guild on the campus radio station CFRC. He gave up on a career in chemical engineering and, upon graduation, found a job as a radio broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). During World War II Green served as a Flying officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was assigned as the principal newsreader on the CBC National News. The CBC gave him the nickname "The Voice of Canada"; however, his role in delivering distressing war news in sonorous tones with his deep, resonant voice following Canada's entry into World War II in 1939 caused many listeners to call him "The Voice of Doom", particularly since he was delegated the assignment of reading the dreaded list of soldiers killed in the war. During his radio days, Greene invented a stopwatch that ran backwards;[4] this helped radio announcers gauge how much time was left, while speaking.
He narrated documentary films, such as the National Film Board of Canada's Fighting Norway (1943).
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The Wolf
Trad climber
Martinez, CA
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Just watched one of the "lost episodes" from 1972. An old friend of mine (Aldo Ray) guest starred and played a prison guard that along with PA was taken hostage. By 1972 Dan Blocker had died and Pernell Roberts had left the show. He guest starred in a 1964 episode also. That one had all the regular characters
The old joke about Bonanza: a 50 year old man raising three 47 year old sons.
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