Western Writing

Bonanza is one of NBC’s Western television shows, airing its 14 seasons on their network from 1959 to 1973. Season one’s thirtieth episode, Feet of Clay, written by John Furia Jr., premiered on April 16, 1960. David Ladd, the son of film icon Alan Ladd (and a future film executive in his own right), appears as […]

Millions of Americans watch Bonanza, one of NBC’s Western television programs, during its peak era from 1959 until 1973. Harold Jack Bloom wrote Bitter Water, which debuted on television on April 9, 1960. In this episode, the miner Len Keith wants to buy some land from the rancher Andy McCarren close to the Ponderosa. Tod, […]