Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker and Michael Landon as Ben, Adam, Hoss, and Joe Cartwright, riding horses and looking at the sky in Bonanza. Image via NBC When it comes to classic television ...

Westerns have been riding tall on television since the medium's very beginning. Long before superheroes, police procedurals or reality shows took over primetime, Americans were glued to their sets ...

The 1960s was a decade of transition for American television, bridging the black-and-white era of the 1950s with the colorful, more socially aware programming that would emerge in the 1970s. Viewers ...

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 ...

Few Western television shows had the lasting power as NBC's Bonanza. An impressive series about a rancher and his three sons, the horse opera was a breath of fresh air for many who were used to ...

One of TV's earliest hits, this 13-season children's show mixed Western flair with puppetry and live action. Hosted by Buffalo Bob Smith and starring freckle-faced marionette Howdy Doody, it became a ...