Bonanza

68Worth an evening.

Number one for years of this decade. The ranch is a household, and that is why it lasted.

The review

For several seasons of this decade it was the number one show in the country, and the reason is plainer than the horses. A widower and three sons live on a ranch, and the episode is a problem that arrives at the door: a stranger, a claim, a son who is wrong, a neighbor who is scared. The father is not a joke and not a tyrant. The sons are different from each other without the difference being the whole character.

It is a western, so a gun is sometimes the answer, and a house should say so. The gun is not the premise. The premise is that these men come back to the same table. I would put an early episode on before a later one that has started to repeat the ride. Ask which son did the hard thing that was not the shooting. The country's Sunday night for years. The number is the table, not the rating.

Journal

Keep Bonanza in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 68. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

The eight

8
Industry
Cattle, fences, and the week's trouble are work, and the father assigns it.
8
Household
Three grown sons and a father are the premise, and the premise holds.
5
Piety
Grace at a table shows up often enough that the house is not only a set for a gun.
7
Courage
They ride out for a neighbor or a son, and the ride has a name and a reason.
6
Republic
The Ponderosa is land and a payroll. They owe the territory more than a feud.
6
Temperance
The week ends. The appetite for a fight is not the thing the house applauds.
6
Truth
A problem is usually what it looks like. The show does not need a twist to feel large.
8
Stewardship
A family can inherit a father who stays and sons who are not rivals for a woman.

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Series · NBC · 1974

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The Rockford Files

68Worth an evening.

He would rather talk, he lives in a trailer, and he still takes the hit. I believe that.

The review

Rockford did time for something he did not do, and he came out a private detective who lives in a trailer and keeps the cases small. He gets beaten. He would rather talk than fight. His father is around often enough that the beach does not turn into a loner's poster. I do not call many of these good. This one is.

The risk is the ordinary kind, a body he can still bruise, not a legend he is protecting. The false imprisonment already sent its bill, and he did not answer by becoming the man who enjoys the hit. I would leave it on for a teenager who thinks nerve means liking the punch. He does the modest work and goes back to a trailer that is actually his.

Journal

Keep The Rockford Files in the record.