Remember Bononza?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/25/pernell.roberts.obit/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn

Roberts was the last surviving member of the Cartwright family.

At least, David Canary, who played Candy on the show, is alive and well, still playing hard-hearted millionaire Adam Chandler on All My Children.

Ann

Dear Ann,
I remember Pernell (Adam). David and I had an argument about if Ben had a new wife, and I remember he did. A lovely Mexican woman. Who was she?
PS: Glad to see you here.

Love,
Betty

I think it was a flashback show, Betty. She was Little Joe's mother. If I remember - Do you know it's been 38 years since that show ended? - Ben had three wives; each one was the mother of one of the "boys." It allowed Lorne Greene to play three different romantic flashbacks (and dye his hair darker)

Ann

So what's Hop Sing doing these days?I seem to recall Pernel Roberts showing up as Trapper John, TV version of the film role played by Elliot Gould

1/26/2010

Just read Pernell Roberts just passed away
today at 81 . Hop Sing I read passed away a
few years ago....

Cheers...Joe

I remember Lorne Green and used to chuckle at his name.
The Ranch never seemed to have so much as on blade of grass but they did have a Green Lawn!!!

I like that one, David!

Yes, Lin, Roberts did play Trapper John for several years.

Ann

BTW, I have no idea what a bononza is, but this site and all you guys are a real bonanza.

Ann

My husband gave me The American Patriot's Almanac for my birthday last March, to read a page each day commemorating some event that occurred in our history. Today's historic even was that this was the day in 1945 when Audie Murphy was wounded holding off a German attack.

And they included a pretty neat quote from Audie:

"The true meaning of America you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper. . . In all these things, you'll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world."

The Opening credits should have been used as a public warning about the dangers of reading maps by candle light.

Carol Troestler wrote:

My husband gave me The American Patriot's Almanac for my birthday last March, to read a page each day commemorating some event that occurred in our history. Today's historic even was that this was the day in 1945 when Audie Murphy was wounded holding off a German attack.

And, won the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions that day. He was in charge of a company that had been decimated to about 17 men. When he saw several German tanks approaching, accompanied by around 250 German soldiers, he ordered his men back to safety, jumped on a burning tank destroyer, manned its 50 caliber machine gun while he called in artillery, for close to an hour. He was calling the artillery in closer and closer to his own position, and the radio operator on the other end of the line was worried about that, and asked him just how close the enemy was to his position. He shouted back, "Just hold the phone and I'll let you talk to one of the ba****ds!" He was so effective that the tanks and soldiers all turned around and left. Murphy jumped off the destroyer just before it exploded. At the time, he was still 19 years old.

dmondeo wrote:

The Opening credits should have been used as a public warning about the dangers of reading maps by candle light.

Ann