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Jul 30, 2023 · Bonanza made history across 14 seasons of great Western television. However, the series also made TV history in an unfortunate way when actor Dan Blocker died in 1972. He'd starred as "Hoss Cartwright" from the beginning, and his death came just after Bonanza's season 13 finale. Here's how the series handled it.
Bobby Dan Davis Blocker (December 10, 1928 [1] – May 13, 1972) was an American television actor and Korean War veteran, who played Hoss Cartwright in the NBC Western television series Bonanza.
Jul 22, 2017 · From 1968 to 1970, Dan deviated from his Bonanza role by appearing in TV movies such as Something for a Lonely Man (1968) and Swing Out, Sweet Man (1970). In 1969, he made a guest appearance on a Jack Benny television special in which he spoofed Western films.
Apr 14, 2020 · It’s impossible to mention the classic television western Bonanza without name-dropping Hoss Cartwright. The middle son of ranch owner Ben Cartwright was seen as a gentle giant, and though his size was imposing (he weighed over 300 pounds), both Hoss and the actor who played him, Dan Blocker, had hearts of gold.
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Jul 20, 2021 · During what became known as the Rural Purge in the early ’70s, networks started booting shows with rural settings one by one and replaced them with shows set in the city. Bonanza survived the first wave, then got dethroned in ‘73 by Bea Arthur’s Maude. Some fans also say Bonanza died with Dan Blocker. The episodes addressing his death ...
Dan Blocker is one of the true television immortals, having played Hoss Cartwright -- the heart and soul of Bonanza (1959) -- for 13 seasons, before his untimely death in 1972 at the age of 43.
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Bonanza is an American Western television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 432 episodes, Bonanza is NBC's longest-running Western, the second-longest-running Western series on U.S. network television (behind CBS's Gunsmoke), and one of the longest-running, live-action American series.
