"State Trooper (TV series) State Trooper is an American crime drama set in the American West of the 1950s, starring Rod Cameron as Rod Blake, an officer of the Nevada Department of Public Safety. The series aired 104 episodes in syndication from 1957 to 1959. ""State Trooper"" is based in Las Vegas, Reno, and Carson City, Nevada, but was filmed by Revue Studios at Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth in Los Angeles County in California. Its fictional stories focus upon miners, ranchers, dude ranches, released convicts, and murder mysteries, often with surprise endings. The series pilot entitled ""Killer on a"
"Bonanza Bonanza is an NBC television western series that ran from 1959 to 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 431 episodes, ""Bonanza"" is NBC's longest-running western, and ranks overall as the second-longest-running western series on U.S. network television (behind CBS's ""Gunsmoke""), and within the top 10 longest-running, live-action American series. The show continues to air in syndication. The show is set in the 1860s and it centers on the wealthy Cartwright family that live in the vicinity of Virginia City, Nevada, bordering Lake Tahoe. The series initially starred Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, and Michael Landon and later featured (at"
"1857), ""Bonanza"" is also set in what in real life would have been Utah Territory. Several early episodes have fallen into the public domain. These episodes have been released by several companies in different configurations, with substandard picture and sound quality, edited, and by legal necessity with the copyright-protected Evans-Livingston theme song replaced with generic western music. In 1973, NBC licensed the distribution rights to the series, along with the rest of its pre-1973 library, to National Telefilm Associates, which changed its name to Republic Pictures in 1986. Republic would become part of the Spelling Entertainment organization in 1994 through"
"than the original. ""Bonanza"" creator David Dortort approved PAX TV (now Ion TV)'s decision to hire Beth Sullivan, formerly of ""Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman"", which some believe gave the series more depth as well as a softer edge. The Hop Sing character is depicted not only as a cook but also a family counselor and herbal healer. The series takes place in Nevada Territory in 1849, which is actually an anachronism. The Nevada Territory did not split from the Utah Territory until 1861, meaning that until at least the 5th season (the episode ""Enter Thomas Bowers"" establishes that year as"
"Bonus Bonanza Bonus Bonanza was the official state lottery game show of Massachusetts, running from 1995 to 1998. It was hosted by Brian Tracey and Dawn Hayes. The show was produced at WCVB-TV by Mark Goodson Production later Jonathan Goodson Productions, and all of its games and its theme were virtually identical to the Illinois state lottery game show ""Illinois Instant Riches"" (later ""Illinois Luckiest""). All audience members wore name tags (a la ""The Price Is Right"") but only those that earned their way on to the show by means of a Massachusetts lottery ticket were chosen to be in"
"Bonanza, Arkansas Bonanza is a city in Sebastian County, Arkansas, United States. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2010 Census, the population of Bonanza was 575. According to the 2005 US Census Bureau estimates, the population of Bonanza was 544. Bonanza began as a coal mining town of the ""Central Coal and Coke company"". On October 10, 1851, ""Sebastian County"" was created from parts of Crawford, Polk, and Scott County Arkansas placing Bonanza within the boundaries. Coal was discovered near the Arkansas-Oklahoma line about 12 miles southeast of Fort Smith. The ""Central Coal"
"still standing at the end of 30 seconds, they won the cash prize hidden under their number where their marker was standing, which ranged from $7,500 to $200,000. The $200,000 was won at least once. Bonus Bonanza Bonus Bonanza was the official state lottery game show of Massachusetts, running from 1995 to 1998. It was hosted by Brian Tracey and Dawn Hayes. The show was produced at WCVB-TV by Mark Goodson Production later Jonathan Goodson Productions, and all of its games and its theme were virtually identical to the Illinois state lottery game show ""Illinois Instant Riches"" (later ""Illinois Luckiest"")."
"NPOI. In an episode of the television series ""Bonanza"" (""Look to the Stars"", broadcast March 18, 1962), Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene) helps the 16-year-old Michelson (portrayed by 25-year-old Douglas Lambert (1936–1986)) obtain an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, despite the opposition of the bigoted town schoolteacher (played by William Schallert). ""Bonanza"" was set in and around Virginia City, Nevada, where Michelson lived with his parents prior to leaving for the Naval Academy. In a voice-over at the end of the episode, Greene mentions Michelson's 1907 Nobel Prize. The home in which Michelson lived as a child in Murphys Camp,"
"child, Shawn Michael Bentler, 22, was arrested in Illinois on unrelated drug charges. The following Sunday afternoon, he was charged with five counts of first-degree murder, in what has been characterized by the media as one of the worst mass murders in Iowa history. Shawn was found guilty on May 24, 2007. Bonaparte, Iowa Bonaparte is a city in Van Buren County, Iowa, United States. The population was 433 at the 2010 census. The town is located on the Des Moines River and contains a number of historical buildings, including a large pottery. The area was established in 1837 by"
"Bonanza, Colorado The Town of Bonanza is a Statutory Town located in Saguache County, Colorado, United States. Formerly known as Bonanza City, Bonanza is a largely abandoned former silver mining town. ""Bonanza"" is a Spanish language word meaning prosperity. The town population was 16 at the 2010 United States Census, ranking Bonanza as the second least populous municipality in the State of Colorado. The Villa Grove Post Office (ZIP Code 81155) now serves Bonanza. In 1880, Tom Cooke of Salida, Colorado stumbled upon ore deposits while searching for horses. Prospectors flocked to this location and the town of Bonanza was"
"Bonanza, Oregon Bonanza is a city in Klamath County, Oregon, United States near Klamath Falls. The population was 415 at the 2010 census. Bonanza is at an elevation of in southern Klamath County near the Oregon–California border. The city is at the east end of Oregon Route 70, a spur off Oregon Route 140. By highway, Bonanza is about from Klamath Falls and from Portland. The Lost River flows through Bonanza. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. This region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers,"
"those under age 18 and 11.9% of those age 65 or over. Bonanza, Oregon Bonanza is a city in Klamath County, Oregon, United States near Klamath Falls. The population was 415 at the 2010 census. Bonanza is at an elevation of in southern Klamath County near the Oregon–California border. The city is at the east end of Oregon Route 70, a spur off Oregon Route 140. By highway, Bonanza is about from Klamath Falls and from Portland. The Lost River flows through Bonanza. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of"
"Placer County El Dorado County Douglas County Washoe County The Ponderosa Ranch of the TV series ""Bonanza"" was formerly located on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe. The opening sequence of the TV series was filmed at the McFaul Creek Meadow, with Mount Tallac in the background. In September 2004 the Ponderosa Ranch closed its doors, after being sold to developer David Duffield for an undisclosed price. The 1974 film ""The Godfather Part II"" used the lakeside estate Fleur de Lac as the location of several scenes, including the elaborate First Communion celebration, the Senator's shakedown attempt of Michael, the"
"City and is located on State Route 45. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Bonanza has a semi-arid climate, abbreviated ""BSk"" on climate maps. Bonanza, Utah Bonanza is a census-designated place in eastern Uintah County, Utah, United States. The name refers to a rich mineral strike. Near the community is a coal-fired power plant owned by Deseret Power Electric Cooperative. Bonanza is also in the area of the Colorado Plateau where oil drilling and extraction takes place from oil shale and other fossil fuel deposits. According to the 2010 Census, there is one person residing at this location. Bonanza"
"series's long run. In 2002, ""Bonanza"" was ranked No. 43 on ""TV Guide""s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, and in 2013 ""TV Guide"" included it in its list of The 60 Greatest Dramas of All Time. The time period for the television series is roughly between 1861 (Season 1) and 1867 (Season 13) during and shortly after the American Civil War. During the summer of 1972, NBC aired reruns of episodes from the 1967–1970 period in prime time on Tuesday evening under the title Ponderosa. The show chronicles the weekly adventures of the Cartwright family, headed by the"
"O'Donnell Heritage Museum The O'Donnell Heritage Museum is a local history repository in O'Donnell in Lynn County in West Texas. A part of the museum includes a room of exhibits on the actor Dan Blocker, who portrayed the Hoss Cartwright character for thirteen years on NBC's ""Bonanza"". Blocker was reared in O'Donnell though born in DeKalb in East Texas. Because of the Blocker room and memorabilia, the facility is sometimes called ""The Dan Blocker Museum."" O'Donnell, south of Lubbock, began in 1910 as a stop on the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railroad, a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa"
"for the town was $66,857. None of the population and none of the families were below the poverty line. Bonanza, Colorado The Town of Bonanza is a Statutory Town located in Saguache County, Colorado, United States. Formerly known as Bonanza City, Bonanza is a largely abandoned former silver mining town. ""Bonanza"" is a Spanish language word meaning prosperity. The town population was 16 at the 2010 United States Census, ranking Bonanza as the second least populous municipality in the State of Colorado. The Villa Grove Post Office (ZIP Code 81155) now serves Bonanza. In 1880, Tom Cooke of Salida, Colorado"
"by stagecoach. The chief products of the region were cattle, horses, grain, hay, fruits, and vegetables. Bonanza is an agricultural community with large areas of alfalfa, cattle, and dairy farm use. The Lost River runs near downtown where the Bonanza Big Springs are located. Low water levels have caused groundwater contamination through the springs and added to the regional controversies over water use, endangered suckers (fish) and struggling salmon species, and farming. The community is home to Bonanza Schools, which include all grades from kindergarten through 12. As of 2003, the four largest employers in Bonanza were the Klamath County"
"Bonanza, Utah Bonanza is a census-designated place in eastern Uintah County, Utah, United States. The name refers to a rich mineral strike. Near the community is a coal-fired power plant owned by Deseret Power Electric Cooperative. Bonanza is also in the area of the Colorado Plateau where oil drilling and extraction takes place from oil shale and other fossil fuel deposits. According to the 2010 Census, there is one person residing at this location. Bonanza was established in 1888. The basis for establishing the community was a discovery of Gilsonite, a natural asphalt substance. Bonanza is southeast of Salt Lake"
"and Brian Holton. Buena Vista, Pennsylvania Buena Vista () is an unincorporated community in Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, located just outside Pittsburgh on the Youghiogheny River. The Great Allegheny Passage rail trail runs through the community. Buena Vista was laid out in 1849 by James B. McGrew for the heirs of Daniel Greenawalt. For a time, it served as a mining town. Like many places in the US with this name, Buena Vista was named for the 1847 Battle of Buena Vista during the Mexican-American War. Notable people to have come from Buena Vista are former baseball"
"that about forty negroes employed by Central Coal and Coke Company leave town.”. On April 30, 1904, there was a gun battle between black and white miners. It was reported that around 500 rounds were fired and the Arkansas Gazette reported on May 7, ""nearly all black residents had left the city."". Bonanza is located at (35.237676, -94.428892). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.2 km² (1.2 mi²), all land. As of the census of 2000, there were 514 people, 199 households, and 151 families residing in the town. The population density"
"the opposing southern Confederacy, John's son ""Blue Boy"" and new beautiful dark-haired sophisticated Latino/Mexican wife Victoria, thirty years his junior, daughter from a neighboring Mexican cattle baron across the border that he has forged an alliance against his opposition. It was produced by David Dortort, who also created the earlier hit American TV series also on NBC. """"Bonanza"""" (1959-1973) about the Cartwright family - a father and three sons by successive wives on a huge ranch named ""The Ponderosa"" near Lake Tahoe on the California-Nevada border at the edge of the Sierra Nevada mountains chain by the rich silver strike"
"high in the Sierra Nevada, with a large ranch house in the center of it. Ben Cartwright was said to have built the original, smaller homestead after moving from New Orleans with his pregnant third wife Marie and his two sons, Adam and Hoss. The grown Adam, an architect/engineer, designed the later sprawling ranch house as depicted on TV (""Bonanza, The Philip Diedesheimer Story"", Oct. 31, 1959, NBC-TV; ""Bonanza: The Return"", April 1993, NBC-TV). The fictional ranch was roughly a two-hour horse ride from Virginia City, Nevada. (Note: There are slight variations as to the origin of the Ponderosa Ranch,"
"Knights Ferry, California Knights Ferry is an unincorporated historic community in Stanislaus County, California, United States. Nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, it is about east of Modesto on the Stanislaus River. The Willms Ranch, a California Landmark near the town, was one of many filming locations for the television series ""Bonanza"" and ""Little House on the Prairie"". When gold was discovered in California in 1849, Dr. William Knight rediscovered a place which he and John C. Fremont had previously found to be a favorable river crossing, and established a ferry boat there. Soon, the ferry boat prospered"
"Ponderosa Ranch The Ponderosa Ranch was a theme park based on the popular 1960s television western ""Bonanza"", which housed the affluent land, timber and livestock-rich Cartwright family. The amusement park operated in Incline Village, Nevada, near Lake Tahoe, from 1967 until 2004. Portions of the last five seasons of the TV series and three TV movies were also filmed at that location. The Ponderosa was the fictional setting for ""Bonanza"". According to the 9th episode (""Mr. Henry Comstock"") in the first season, it was a thousand-square mile (640,000 acre or 2,600 km) ranch on the shores of Lake Tahoe, nestled"
"under the Metromedia Restaurant Group. The names of the restaurants were derived from the classic TV series ""Bonanza"", which was set at a place called Ponderosa Ranch. In 1963, Dan Blocker, who played Eric ""Hoss"" Cartwright on ""Bonanza"", started the Bonanza Steakhouse chain. The first Bonanza opened in Westport, Connecticut. Sam Wyly and his brother Charles Wyly bought the small Bonanza restaurant chain three years later. The company grew to approximately 600 restaurants by 1989, when the Wylys sold it to Metromedia. In 1965, Dan Lasater, Norm Wiese and Charles Kleptz founded Ponderosa in Kokomo, Indiana, moving the headquarters to"
"Buena Vista, Pennsylvania Buena Vista () is an unincorporated community in Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, located just outside Pittsburgh on the Youghiogheny River. The Great Allegheny Passage rail trail runs through the community. Buena Vista was laid out in 1849 by James B. McGrew for the heirs of Daniel Greenawalt. For a time, it served as a mining town. Like many places in the US with this name, Buena Vista was named for the 1847 Battle of Buena Vista during the Mexican-American War. Notable people to have come from Buena Vista are former baseball players Bill Ford"
"was also shown in E! network's reality TV show ""The Girls Next Door"". The hit television program ""Sons of Anarchy"" is set in a fictional town a short distance from Lodi. In the show, Lodi is the home of two other gangs: the Grim Bastards and Calaveras MC. Lodi was featured in the 2015 movie Concussion, starring Will Smith as Bennet Omalu, a Lodi doctor who linked football concussions to a brain disease. Lodi, California Lodi ( ) is a city located in San Joaquin County, California, in the northern portion of California's Central Valley. The population was 62,134 at"
"equipment, blacksmith shop, schoolroom, post office, legal and doctor offices, formal parlor, and restored church congregation at worship. Museum website O'Donnell Heritage Museum The O'Donnell Heritage Museum is a local history repository in O'Donnell in Lynn County in West Texas. A part of the museum includes a room of exhibits on the actor Dan Blocker, who portrayed the Hoss Cartwright character for thirteen years on NBC's ""Bonanza"". Blocker was reared in O'Donnell though born in DeKalb in East Texas. Because of the Blocker room and memorabilia, the facility is sometimes called ""The Dan Blocker Museum."" O'Donnell, south of Lubbock, began"
"with a scale replica of the Cartwright ranch house and barn similar to the ones seen on television. A replica of Virginia City was later added. The original plan was to open the set to tourists once filming had wrapped. However, shuttling cast and crew up to Incline Village on a weekly basis became cost-prohibitive. Thus, only 15 episodes of ""Bonanza"" were shot there. A majority of ranch-specific scenes were shot on a sound stage at Paramount Studios in Hollywood. Outdoor scenes were filmed on location at nearby Big Bear Lake, Red Rock Canyon, Mojave, or eastern Kern County, California."
"became the Cartwright's foreman. Initially, ""Bonanza"" aired on Saturday evenings opposite ""Dick Clark's Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show"" and ""John Gunther's High Road"" on ABC, and ""Perry Mason"" on CBS. ""Bonanza""s initial ratings were respectable, often coming in behind Mason but ahead of the ABC line-up. Ironically, executives considered canceling the show before its premiere because of its high cost. NBC kept it because ""Bonanza"" was one of the first series to be filmed and broadcast in color, including scenes of picturesque Lake Tahoe, Nevada, although most of the episodes were obviously filmed on soundstages until the seasons near the end"
"Bonanza, Georgia Bonanza is a census-designated place (CDP) in Clayton County, Georgia, United States. The population was 3,135 at the 2010 census. Bonanza is located in southern Clayton County at (33.464663, -84.337589). It is bordered by Irondale to the north and Lovejoy to the south. U.S. Routes 19 and 41 form the eastern border of the CDP, leading north to Jonesboro, the county seat, and to downtown Atlanta. The city of Griffin is to the south. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Bonanza CDP has a total area of , all land. As of the census of 2000,"
"and the lives of four people are forever changed after each one is connected to the crime. The second season takes place in Indianapolis, Indiana, where the co-captains of a private school's basketball team are accused of sexually assaulting a male classmate and posting photographs of the incident online. The third season takes place in Alamance County, North Carolina, where five people struggle to survive in a place where the American Dream comes with a price. In October 2013, ABC announced it was developing a drama pilot created by John Ridley. In January 2014, ABC greenlighted the pilot, and signed"