R.I.P., Pernell Roberts

[trysail]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f1/Bonanza_title_screen.jpg

I always liked Adam and Hoss. Little Joe's problem was that he was too "cute" and a damn drama queen, to boot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pernell_Roberts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonanza

 

[DeeZire]

A little OT, but when Michael Landon left Bonanza to do his "Highway to Heaven" series, the pilot episode was filmed in Tucson, at the C&W bar where our band had a house gig. We ended up in the episode, playing 3 original songs during a fight scene. I still get a royalty check from BMI every year - the last one was for something like $3.

Highway to Heaven returned a few months later to shoot another episode. This time they had our band lip-syncing to someone else's track. The prop department brought a gutted grand piano with a keyboard but no strings. The keys had all come loose during transit, no one on the crew could fix it, and the blonde actress who was supposed to be pretending to play it was having a meltdown because it was "broken". Five minutes later, I had all the keys back in place. (No, I didn't get a BJ from the star, although I really think I should have.)

I think someone should remake the Bonanza series, but throw in enough gratuitous T&A to make it viable in today's cable market.

 

[trysail]

...I think someone should remake the Bonanza series, but throw in enough gratuitous T&A to make it viable in today's cable market.

Um..., er..., uh..., have you— by any chance— seen Deadwood?

 

[glynndah]

The term "Bonanza wife" is used around our house to mean a project that is fleeting in nature or doomed from the onset, no matter how good it sounds on paper.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

A little OT, but when Michael Landon left Bonanza to do his "Highway to Heaven" series, the pilot episode was filmed in Tucson, at the C&W bar where our band had a house gig. We ended up in the episode, playing 3 original songs during a fight scene. I still get a royalty check from BMI every year - the last one was for something like $3.

He left Little House on the Prairie to film Highway to Heaven.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

He was the gay brother wasn't he? On Bonanza I mean?

 

[DeeZire]

He left Little House on the Prairie to film Highway to Heaven.

I missed a whole decade of TV living up in the woods in Idaho.

I suppose I should check out Deadwood. I have heard there is sufficient gratuitous T&A to keep a guy like me interested. It's just that after playing C&W music for a substantial portion of my living all these years, I have developed a strong aversion to assholes wearing cowboy hats.

 

[YoursSINSerely]

What a hotty! I was just watching an old Bonaza a couple of days ago. Sad.

 

[trysail]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/Bonanza.jpg

 

[DeeZire]

Seriously - are there any similarities between Bonanza and Deadwood? I consider Bonanza the cowboy version of Father Knows Best, while Deadwood's reputation is more along the lines of Quentin Tarentino on a horse.

 

[Jagged]

Good actor and his activism should be noted. He'll be missed as he heads to that great cattle ranch in the sky.