Yes. Could you tell us where Elizabeth is buried? We’ll to exhume the body for a post-mortem.
Missy2U: I’m impressed by your knowledge of Bonanza. I’d propose, but this seems the wrong thread to do so in. 
Trivia:
Inger was played by Inga Swenson (later Benson’s Krause). She appeared in two episodes, “Inger, My Love” and “Journey Remembered.”
Marie was played by Felicia Farr, who married Jack Lemmon.
The theme song was written by Livingston and Evans, who also wrote “Que Sera, Sera” and the Mister Ed theme.
I think this could be the start of a beautiful marriage… 
More trivia - the Livingston and Evans lyrics were not the ONLY set of lyrics for the theme song. There are two versions of the famous Bonanza theme song. The execs nuked this version though before the pilot episode (A Rose for Lotta) aired. Of course everyone knows that Lotta was played by Yvonne DeCarlo who later ended up a Munster among other things.
The Ill-Fated Bonanza Lyrics For The Pilot
(Little Joe solo) I’ve got a flair for women everywhere—Bonanza!
(Hoss solo) Bonanza! (Barks and howls)
(All three) I’m not afraid of any pretty maid–Bonanza! Bonanza!
But when I give a kiss to any little miss, She’ll learn a lot from me
(Ben solo) I’m not afraid of any pretty maid–Bonanza!
(All three) Bonanza!
When I give a kiss to any little miss
She’ll learn a lot from me
Hair of brown, hair of gold
I’ll take what I see
We’re not a one to saddle up and run–Bonanza! Bonanza!
Anyone of us who starts a little fuss
Knows he can count on me
One for four, four for all
This we guarantee
We got a right to pick a little fight–Bonanza! Bonanza!
If anyone fights any one of us
He’s gotta fight with me!
Although she is not a suspect she is a person of interest that we need to question.
Slight hijack, but if you’re surprised at Dawn Wells as an Indian girl, have you ever seen the episode where Marlo Thomas plays a Chinese girl?! And worse yet, her dialogue is in terrible pigeon English. Still gotta love Bonanza; just don’t get involved with any of those Cartwright men!
Surprised? No, just bemused.
And yeah, I remember ‘That Girl’ suddenly being from China. :rolleyes: I especially liked her agreeing to walk a pace or three behind her husband at the end of the episode.
Why, conveniently enough, on the Ponderosa–where Ben Cartwright’s word is law. :dubious:
I think that Wendell Wagner has the right idea about the gay cabal, but it needs some fine tuning for a conviction.
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It wasn’t Hop Sing faking an Indian raid. It was a group of their ‘special friends’.
And they weren’t attacking, per se. They were creating a diversion while Ben, or one of his boytoys, did the actual deed–with a hellish glee and hideous cackles that sounded like Indian war-whoops. -
It is foolish in this day and age, even in theirs, to believe in a Cartwright Curse. Big Ben, as he likes to be called, had no need to bump off the affianced of his boys.
They did it themselves. Ben trained them from birth to hate women, foully twisting their young minds until they were carbon copies of himself, unable to care, unable to marry…unable to love. Big Ben fashioned his killer brood to wear bizarre clothing (his first born was raised only in black; his middle to wear a huge white hat, the youngest, the ‘baby’ always wore studs in his hatband; and none of them were ever comfortable without at least one gun.) They were the 19th century prototype for Shante Kimes and her unnatural son-small wonder that the ringleader wasn’t around when ‘his boys’ had a woman to ‘take care of.’ It is the depraved whelps of the beast who should be called to the bar of human justice as well. The blood of their mothers demands it.
We have enough to go to trial. The only question that remains is to find out who actually fathered the boys, since Ben was either incapable or unwilling.
I don’t care what you say or your so-called “evidence,” I love Ben Cartwright and he loves me, and I’m going to be Mrs. Ben Cartwright number four!
He’s just misunderstood. It takes a special kind of woman to tame a man like Ben, and I’m just that woman, yessirree.
So are you saying you don’t want me to take the Delorean back to get him, or you want me to bring him back so you can marry him, or you want to hitch a ride, or what?
You, sir, rock.
In this post from years ago I speculated that Hoss was the gay one.
THE REAL BONANZA would be a sucky reality show. “One rich widower rancher… a bevy of beautiful women… which one will ultimately win him and get a chance to die giving birth to his next son?” Hosted by Kato Kaelin.
Well, y’know, once them febers get into the peyote, they’re crazier than outhouse rats.
Michael Landon addressed the gay rumors on The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson years ago. He very forcefully asserted that “the Cartwrights were not gay!” . Landon went on to say, “Thank God, Hop-Sing was!” .
And then. passing the curse on to the next generation, his son’s wife dies, literally minutes after marrying him.
Jezbus! What a freaky freak you are! Thats’ like knowing… damn… I can’t think of anything that even comes close. What other freaky stuff do you know? :eek:
I assumed she simply had easy access to a Bonanza episode guide.
Lorne Greene was known in Canada as “The Voice of Doom” before he played Cartwright, so of course Cartwirght did in his wives – they were doomed from the start.
Missy2u, do I recall correctly that Joe’s half-brother once located him, showed him a picture or some other artifact, and informed Joe that “she was my mother too” before disapearing?
(IIRC, his name was Clay Stafford, and their mother was of Mexican descent).
TIA.
And to make things even stranger, his daughter by the 4th wife not only didn’t get killed off, but long outlived her younger brother, who was killed when his father didn’t launch fighters to protect him from the Cylons!
Later on, her boyfriend (who also was having an on-again-off-again relationship with some blonde bimbo) suffered a systems failure in his own fighter and was left behind by the Fleet after crash landing on a desert planet, never to be seen again.