The Ponderosa was a spin-off of which TV series?
"entrepreneur David Duffield in 2004. In September 2004 he closed the Ponderosa ""indefinitely"". 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"
"a quarterly magazine, featured detailed information about the show, including interviews with guest actors and other production personnel, articles about historical events and people depicted in the series, fan club information, and fan fiction. Seasons 1-8 (as of 06/2015) are available on DVD, as well as several non-successive public-domain episodes (sans original theme music). The prequel series, ""The Ponderosa"", as well as the three sequel movies (see below), are all available on DVD. In the fall of 1972, NBC moved ""Bonanza"" to Tuesday nights – where reruns from the 1967–1970 period had aired the previous summer under the title ""Ponderosa"""
"portrayed Candy Canaday on the original series, was not involved with either TV-movie. The setting is The Ponderosa in the year 1905. Augustus Brandenburg (Dean Stockwell), a land baron, attempts to take the Ponderosa first by legal, and then by illegal means, in order to strip the land of its natural resources. The story includes several flashbacks to the original series. Bonanza: The Return Bonanza: The Return is a 1993 made-for-television film sequel to both the 1959–1973 television series ""Bonanza"" and the 1988 made-for-television film """". The movie was directed by Jerry Jameson and featured noted character actors Ben Johnson,"
"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"
"the Ponderosa was Virginia City, where the Cartwrights would go to converse with Sheriff Roy Coffee (played by veteran actor Ray Teal), or his deputy Clem Foster (Bing Russell). ""Bonanza"" was considered an atypical western for its time, as the core of the storylines dealt less about the range but more with Ben and his three dissimilar sons, how they cared for one another, their neighbors, and just causes. ""You always saw stories about family on comedies or on an anthology, but ""Bonanza"" was the first series that was week-to-week about a family and the troubles it went through. ""Bonanza"""
"as ""Bonanza"". In the fall of 1972, off-network episodes were released in broadcast syndication to local stations by NBC under the ""Ponderosa"" name. After the series was canceled, the syndicated reruns reverted to the ""Bonanza"" name. From the fourth season on, the Cartwrights and nearly every other recurring character on the show wore the same clothing in almost every episode. The reason for this is twofold: it made duplication of wardrobe easier for stunt doubles (Hal Burton, Bob Miles, Bill Clark, Lyle Heisler, Ray Mazy) and it cut the cost of refilming action shots (such as riding clips in-between scenes),"
"the music charts with his spoken-word ballad, ""Ringo"" (which referred to the real-life Old West outlaw Johnny Ringo, not to Ringo Starr of the Beatles), and got a lot of play time from ""Saga of the Ponderosa"", which detailed the Cartwright founding of the famous ranch. In 1973, after the cancellation of ""Bonanza"" following a 14-year run, Greene joined Ben Murphy in the ABC crime drama, ""Griff"", about a Los Angeles, California, police officer, Wade ""Griff"" Griffin, who retires to become a private detective. When it failed to gain sufficient ratings and was cancelled after 13 episodes, Greene thereafter hosted"
"The initial story was first introduced in 1973, when depiction of fornication courted protests, so CBS insisted their hero Matt have the encounter when he had amnesia.) In 2001, there was an attempt to revive the ""Bonanza"" concept with a prequel, ""Ponderosa"" – not to be confused with the 1972 summer reruns under the same title – with a pilot directed by Simon Wincer and filmed in Australia. Covering the time when the Cartwrights first arrived at the Ponderosa, when Adam was a teenager and Joe a little boy, the series lasted 20 episodes and featured less gunfire and brawling"
"winner in the final episode on December 19, 2010, defeating Chase Rice and Matthew ""Sash"" Lenahan in a 5–4–0 vote. Birza became the youngest person to ever win the game, at age 21 years and 6 months. Jane Bright won $100,000 as the ""Sprint Player of the Season."" The season was released by CBS DVD on November 18, 2014, in a DVD set including all episodes and numerous special features, including unaired scenes and the Life at Ponderosa webseries. It will only be made available through online purchase, manufactured by Amazon.com's CreateSpace. The cast is composed of 20 new players,"
"""Bonanza"" episodes were shot at the theme park's Virginia City site, although the town was prominently featured in three ""Bonanza"" television movies. Because the movies showcased the next generation of Cartwrights, they began circa 1905. The Ponderosa park expanded beyond the buggy era to include an exhibit featuring antique cars. It was a fledgling endeavor as tourists wanted to see horses flanked by Cartwright saddles. The idea for the theme park came about in 1965. Bill and Joyce Anderson owned a small horse ranch, which is located in about the same area as the fictional Ponderosa on the burning map."
"According to the Andersons, tourists would regularly show up at their gates asking where the Ponderosa was. Smelling opportunity, the Andersons contacted NBC and ""Bonanza"" creator-producer David Dortort. They proposed turning their small ranch into a theme park. NBC, Dortort, and the cast saw the tie-in as a ""bonanza"" for everyone. All parties being of one accord, the cast agreed to promos being shot at the ranch site and the Virginia City set - including the nearby Silver Dollar Saloon - for financial consideration. The ads stimulated revenue for the park. The park opened to the public in 1968, complete"
"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,"
"Alan Herschell-Spillman Company of North Tonawanda, New York, created a 38-animal carousel adorned with dogs, frogs, zebras, and roosters as well as horses. In 1959, Bob Anderson of California erected the Herschell-Spillman carousel at Incline Village amusement park near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, better known as Ponderosa Ranch where the 1960s television western ""Bonanza"" was filmed. By 1959 the carousel had undergone significant wear, and many of the original animals were switched for less elaborate ones. The carousel continued to operate in Nevada until 1983, when it was dismantled and the animals were sold at auction. The frame was sold to"
"and runs away from boarding school to the Bartley Hotel. April meets Katy O'Connor who convinces her to tell her parents of her plans. The second proposed spin-off episode was ""Pandora"", which aired on March 3, 1961. The episode featured Pat Carroll as Pandora, a young, slightly eccentric country girl who traveled to Los Angeles on the advice of her mother. Katy O'Connor hires her as a secretary for handsome Hollywood actor Anthony Bardot (Guy Mitchell). Neither series were picked up by a network. The series was produced by Sothern's Anso Productions and Desilu Productions and shot at Desilu Studios."
"1997, Ponderosa and Bonanza united under the Metromedia Family Steakhouses organization to form a single restaurant concept marketed under either the Ponderosa or Bonanza brand. MFS was a forerunner company of the former Metromedia entertainment conglomerate founded by John Kluge. The chain's parent company, Metromedia Steakhouses Company, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2008, although it planned to reorganize around franchise operations and a profitable core of company-operated restaurants. Ponderosa Steakhouse and Bonanza Steakhouse Ponderosa Steakhouse and Bonanza Steakhouse are a chain of buffet/steakhouse restaurants that are a part of Homestyle Dining LLC based in Plano, Texas. Its menu includes"
"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"
"the only original cast member who was wig-free throughout the series, as even Sen Yung wore an attached queue. ""Bonanza"" features a memorable theme song by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans that was orchestrated by David Rose and arranged by Billy May for the television series. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. The ""Bonanza"" theme song famously opens with a blazing Ponderosa map and saddlebound Cartwrights. The melodic intro, emulating galloping horses, is one of the most recognized television scores. Variations of the theme were used"
"Chinese immigrant Hop Sing (Victor Sen Yung). Greene, Roberts, Blocker, and Landon were billed equally. The opening credits would alternate the order among the four stars. The family lived on a thousand square-mile (2,600 km) ranch called the Ponderosa on the eastern shore of Lake Tahoe in Nevada opposite California on the edge of the Sierra Nevada range]. The vast size of the Cartwrights' land was quietly revised to ""half a million acres"" (2,000 km) on Lorne Greene's 1964 song, ""Saga of the Ponderosa."" The ranch name refers to the Ponderosa Pine, common in the West. The nearest town to"
"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"
"would marry director Sam Raimi, and later name a son, Lorne Raimi, after her dad. The ""Ponderosa II House"" was built by Greene in 1960 in Mesa, Arizona. It is located at 602 S. Edgewater Drive. It is a replica of the Bonanza set house from the former Ponderosa Ranch in Incline Village, Nevada. It is listed in the Mesa Historic Property Register. Greene died on September 11, 1987, aged 72, from complications from pneumonia, following ulcer surgery, in Santa Monica, California. He was interred at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City. Greene was made an Officer of the"
"several students attending Laguna Beach High School as they completed secondary education. The series proved among the network's most successful programming, though the entire original cast left after the second season and were replaced by another group of teenagers for the following season. Television producer Adam DiVello developed the spin-off program ""The Hills"" to follow one of its predecessor's original cast members, Lauren Conrad, as she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the fashion industry. ""The Hills"" chronicles the lives of several young women living in Los Angeles, California. Every installment commences with a voice-over narrative from"
"Providence (U.S. TV series) Providence is an American television drama series that aired on NBC starring Melina Kanakaredes. The show ran for five seasons from January 8, 1999 until December 20, 2002. The show revolves around Dr. Sydney Hansen (played by Kanakaredes), who left her glamorous job in Beverly Hills as a plastic surgeon for the rich, so she could return to her hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, and be with her family. Sydney lives with her father Jim, brother Robbie, sister Joanie, and Joanie's baby Hannah in a large home in suburban Providence that also houses her father's veterinary"
"1970, ""Bonanza"" was the first series to appear in the Top Five list for nine consecutive seasons (a record that would stand for many years) and thus established itself as the most consistent strong-performing hit television series of the 1960s. ""Bonanza"" remained high on the Nielsen ratings until 1971, when it finally fell out of the Top Ten. During the summer of 1972, NBC broadcast reruns of episodes of the show from the 1967–1970 era on Tuesday evenings at 7:30 p.m. under the title ""Ponderosa"" while also rerunning more recent episodes on Sunday evenings in the shows normal time slot"
"Dayton, Ohio, in 1971. Ponderosa began operations to Canada by at least 1971 and remained in Canada until 1986, when the post-recession US appeared to present a more viable market for expansion. After closing most Canadian Ponderosa restaurant locations, the company returned to generating US restaurant franchises in 1986, reversing a previous freeze on new US franchises in the move to Canada. At that time, 36 Canadian Ponderosa locations were acquired by General Mills Restaurant Group which converted them to Red Lobster restaurants. In the meantime, Bonanza maintained a presence in Canada. In 1988, Ponderosa was sold to Metromedia. In"
"second spin-off from ""The Real Housewives of Atlanta"" in 2012. It followed Burruss and her record producers as they attempted to launch the music careers of undiscovered artists, although it was confirmed in 2013 that the series was canceled after airing one season. Bravo announced Burruss and Tucker's wedding spin-off, ""Kandi's Wedding"", on April 8, 2014. The series premiered on June 1, 2014, and concluded on July 6, 2014. ""Kandi's Wedding"" brought in very high ratings for Bravo, and topped NeNe Leakes and Kim Zolciak's previous spin-offs. The network later announced another series titled ""Kandi's Ski Trip"", the third offshoot"
"most states. In the end, Natalie White defeated Russell Hantz and Mick Trimming with a vote of 7–2–0. Hantz ended up winning the ""Sprint Player of the Season"" Award, earning the fans' vote over the next highest vote getters, Shannon ""Shambo"" Waters and Brett Clouser. This was the first season when the tribes merged at 12 players with nine people on the jury. On November 18, 2014, the season was released in a DVD set including all episodes and numerous special features, including unaired scenes and the Life at Ponderosa webseries. It is only made available through online purchase, manufactured"
"the series' second season. However, after failing to find the school ""challenging"", she dropped out and received employment from Bolthouse Productions as an assistant. Within two years, she was promoted as an event planner. After moving to Los Angeles in 2006, the ""Laguna Beach"" spin-off series ""The Hills"" was developed to chronicle the lives of now-housemates Conrad and Montag and friends Audrina Patridge and Whitney Port. That year, she began a short-lived relationship with Jordan Eubanks; she described its end as ""the best decision of [her] life"". By the second season, Montag and Conrad's friendship had deteriorated after the former"
"Ponderosa Steakhouse and Bonanza Steakhouse Ponderosa Steakhouse and Bonanza Steakhouse are a chain of buffet/steakhouse restaurants that are a part of Homestyle Dining LLC based in Plano, Texas. Its menu includes steaks, seafood, and chicken entrées, all of which come with their buffet for a nominal charge. A lunch menu is also served. Unlike other chains with two names, such as Checkers and Rally's, which uses only one of the names in a given region, restaurants in a given region could be named either Bonanza or Ponderosa. This is because Bonanza and Ponderosa were separate companies, which were later merged"
"characters called ""Ponderosa"" (2001), which was produced with Beth Sullivan. In 1979–1980, he created the 13-week CBS miniseries, ""The Chisholms"". Michael Landon appeared in a supporting role in the pilot for ""The Restless Gun"", starring John Payne, aired on March 19, 1957, as an episode of ""The Schlitz Playhouse of Stars"" and Dan Blocker played multiple roles in five episodes of ""The Restless Gun"". Alan W. Livingston of NBC hired Dortort to write the screenplay for the pilot episode of ""Bonanza"". He did it at night, while producing ""The Restless Gun"" by day. In 2001, the alumni association of City"
"""Springtime in the Rockies"" (1937), ""Brothers in the Saddle"" (1949), ""Riders of the Range"" (1949), and ""Storm over Wyoming"" (1950). The Garner Ranch also stood in for the Ponderosa in episodes of the TV show ""Bonanza"". In 1961 and 1962, the Elvis Presley musical ""Kid Galahad"" was filmed in Idyllwild and vicinity. The 1980s television series ""Air Wolf"" and various car commercials have also been filmed in the area. The biker funeral procession from the 1966 film ""The Wild Angels"" was filmed in Idyllwild and included the Silver Pines Lodge, which was named Hillbilly Lodge at the time of the"
"Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright) had long since departed the series. Consequently, he was not featured in Ponderosa's promotional campaign until after the show's initial run. At that time most of the shows broadcast in syndication featured the Adam Cartwright character. His picture was in the group painting on the sign promoting the park at the entrance. When the park folded in Autumn 2004 Pernell Roberts was still alive, so no Adam grave marker was added. Pernell Roberts died on January 24, 2010. Near the main house were sculptures of the horses ridden by Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker and Michael Landon"
"Bromance (TV series) Bromance is an American reality television series that originally aired on MTV from December 29, 2008 until February 2, 2009. It was developed as a spin-off of ""The Hills"", and aired one six-episode season. The series focused on Brody Jenner, who appeared in its predecessor, and enlisted nine men to compete for the opportunity to win a close male friendship (""bromance"") with him. On February 2, 2009, it was revealed on air that Jenner had chosen Luke Verge as his new best friend. Along with Jenner's friendship and a spot in his entourage, Verge won a one"
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