Unless you get the MST3K version…
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I love to watch Bonanza on Sunday Night on ion TV just to see the guest stars who later became better known. Last night’s crazy soldier killing Apache women and children was DeForest Kelly
Heh. Me, too. One of Ben’s wives (in one of the flashback “Where are their mothers?” episodes) was Inga Swenson, Mrs. Kraus from Benson.
carnivorousplant, you live in Arkansas, don’t you? Do we know each other? :eek:
Who would have guessed Bonanza would be such a catalyst for Doper togetherness? 
My mother always hated Pernell Roberts for some reason. She’d sneer that he thought he was such hot stuff that he had to get off Bonanza and get down to the business of being a Great Star. Ha, she’d say.
She also hated Omar Shariff and called him conceited.
Are you sure about that? My memory is that one day he just wasn’t there, with no explanation given. Then a few years later it was revealed that he had joined the Merchant Marine.
I thought he’d moved back East to be a lawyer…
They missed a good opportunity to have him live up to his surname and have him head to Detroit and start a wagon factory right before the automobile revolution.
Dammit, Annie! He’s a doctor, not a warmonger!
In one episode DeKelly paid an alcoholic surgeon. When he was ordered to operate to save the life of a dying Cartwright, he replied “I’m a drunkard, not a surgeon.”
The Slavic Charles Bronson was in a bunch of episodes, playing either an hombre or an injun.
I think it was one of the (very ill-advised) late-80s/early-90s reunion movies that revealed Adam had moved to Australia.
For my money, the show wasn’t the same without him. It became Landon’s soapbox, which always surprised me, as Roberts really wanted the show to be his soapbox. If only he and Landon had gotten on better together, they could have made it even more of a “modern issue anachronistically shoved into the 1860s” spectacle.
Sir Rhosis
The episode “Gift of Water” had guest stars Majel Barrett *and * James Doohan!
^^^FWIW, Lorne Greene was Doohan’s first acting teacher. Greene ran an actor’s workshop, or somesuch, in Canada, and Doohan was accepted into it after WWII.
Sir Rhosis