Charming and stirring Western series with a good main and support cast including emotion , thrills , intrigue, go riding , shootouts and family problems thrown in , as well . Cartwrights' one-thousand-square-mile Ponderosa Ranch is located near Virginia City , Nevada , site of the Comstock Silver Lode. The Wild West adventures of reputed Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene) and his intimated sons (Pernell Roberts , Dan Blocker , Michael Landon) as they run and defend their Nevada ranch while helping the surrounding community . As followers of the show know Lorne Greene's three wives hailed from different parts of the country . Pernell Roberts's mother was from New England, Dan Blocker's from the Missouri border state area, and Michael Landon's from New Orleans , but none of the mothers are still alive .
This classic TV western contains family life and their peculiar relationships , noisy action , go riding , intrigue and a lot of crossfire . Adding the unforgettable and catching melody from Ray Evans and Jay Livingston . Western adventure is set during and after the Civil War , as the North and South are having aggravating problems against each other . And living near Virginia City , a region full of its share of murderers , rustlers , gamblers , gunslingers , thieves , among others . In the show's early episodes , the Cartwrights were hostile to visitors , successive episodes their relations with strangers were more amiable than the past . As the sympathetic protagonists become involved in several threats , such as Indian attacks , stranger visitors with dark purports , robbers and range wars was always bubbling just beneath the surface . The enjoyable family is formed by the highly regarded Ben , a kind as well as upright old man who will stop at nothing to defend his sons and his wealthy ranch , La Ponderosa . All of them are assisted by the likeable Chinese servant. And three different descendants , each of the three well respected sons was born to a different wife of Ben's . As the happy-trigger , handsome and tough Adam well played by Pernell Roberts ; the hunk and good-natured Hoss splendidly portrayed by Dan Blocker and the stubborn and valiant 'Little Joe' stunningly performed by Michael Landon . A close-knit family who along the way have several problems all around . Adventures are typical Western ones, with lots of gun-play , Indians , romances and shootèm up.
It was a nice TV Western , a genre that on the cinema spectacle's tarnished but in television got splendor during the Sixties thanks to successful series as ¨The Virginian , Cimarron Strip , Wagon Train , Maverick , The High Chaparral¨ . The agreeable quartet starring : Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker , Pernell Roberts , Michael Landon are supported by an important secondary cast as guest stars , such as : James Coburn , John Saxon , Charles Bronson , Ray Teal , Morgan Woodward , William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, James Gregory , Morgan Woodward , John Hoyt , Victor French ,Mariette Hartley, Arthur Hunnicutt , Claude Akins, Warren Stevens , Albert Salmi , Slim Pickens and many others . The usual sixty minute western series , formed by 430 episodes were professionally directed by expert TV and big screen fimmakers , such as : Joseph Pevney , William F Claxton , Don McDougall , William Witney , Christian Nyby , R. G. Springsteen , Virgil W. Vogel , James Neilson , John Rich , Joseph Kane , Paul Landres , Jacques Tourneur , Charles F. Haas , John Peyser , Joseph H. Lewis , and Michael Landon himself.
This classic TV western contains family life and their peculiar relationships , noisy action , go riding , intrigue and a lot of crossfire . Adding the unforgettable and catching melody from Ray Evans and Jay Livingston . Western adventure is set during and after the Civil War , as the North and South are having aggravating problems against each other . And living near Virginia City , a region full of its share of murderers , rustlers , gamblers , gunslingers , thieves , among others . In the show's early episodes , the Cartwrights were hostile to visitors , successive episodes their relations with strangers were more amiable than the past . As the sympathetic protagonists become involved in several threats , such as Indian attacks , stranger visitors with dark purports , robbers and range wars was always bubbling just beneath the surface . The enjoyable family is formed by the highly regarded Ben , a kind as well as upright old man who will stop at nothing to defend his sons and his wealthy ranch , La Ponderosa . All of them are assisted by the likeable Chinese servant. And three different descendants , each of the three well respected sons was born to a different wife of Ben's . As the happy-trigger , handsome and tough Adam well played by Pernell Roberts ; the hunk and good-natured Hoss splendidly portrayed by Dan Blocker and the stubborn and valiant 'Little Joe' stunningly performed by Michael Landon . A close-knit family who along the way have several problems all around . Adventures are typical Western ones, with lots of gun-play , Indians , romances and shootèm up.
It was a nice TV Western , a genre that on the cinema spectacle's tarnished but in television got splendor during the Sixties thanks to successful series as ¨The Virginian , Cimarron Strip , Wagon Train , Maverick , The High Chaparral¨ . The agreeable quartet starring : Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker , Pernell Roberts , Michael Landon are supported by an important secondary cast as guest stars , such as : James Coburn , John Saxon , Charles Bronson , Ray Teal , Morgan Woodward , William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, James Gregory , Morgan Woodward , John Hoyt , Victor French ,Mariette Hartley, Arthur Hunnicutt , Claude Akins, Warren Stevens , Albert Salmi , Slim Pickens and many others . The usual sixty minute western series , formed by 430 episodes were professionally directed by expert TV and big screen fimmakers , such as : Joseph Pevney , William F Claxton , Don McDougall , William Witney , Christian Nyby , R. G. Springsteen , Virgil W. Vogel , James Neilson , John Rich , Joseph Kane , Paul Landres , Jacques Tourneur , Charles F. Haas , John Peyser , Joseph H. Lewis , and Michael Landon himself.