“No hon, I have been superstitious about the first year, and the second, the third, and the fourth, and so on,” Blocker joked. “I didn’t dream that the thing would go beyond the first year, and I had ...

Dan Blocker as Hoss Cartwright, Lorne Greene as Ben Cartwright, and Michael Landon as Little Joe Cartwright on 'Bonanza' Image via NBC For fourteen seasons between 1959 and 1973, Bonanza graced ...