WE LOVE GUNSMOKE!

James Arness as Marshall Matt Dillon and Burt Reynolds as Quint Asper from Gunsmoke.  Taken July 31st 1964 during the filming of a season 10 episode.

Bonanza - Season 6 (The Search)

Season 6 (1964-65) of Bonanza on NBC was the first season for this legendary western was the #1 prime time show in the US.   With a 36.3 rating they outdistanced the #2 show "Bewitched" by 5 rating points.

This would be the first of 3 consecutive season as the #1 show in US television.

"The Search"

Season 6 episode 21

aired Sunday February 14th 1965

9-10pm NBC TV

Bonanza - Season 6

The 1964-65 television season was the 6th season of Bonanza and its first (of 3 consecutive seasons) as the #1 show on network primetime programming.

"Jonah"

Season 6 episode 32

aired May 9th 1965

NBC

Bonanza - Season 6 (1964-65)

Bonanza, the classic family western aired on NBC from 1959 to 1973 and spent its 6th, 7th and 8th seasons as the #1 show on network prime time television.

Starring Lorne Greene and patriarch Ben Cartwright with 3 grown sons - Adam, Hoss (Eric) and Little Joe. 

They ran the largest ranch in the Nevada territory, The Ponderosa.

Season 6

Hound Dog

episode 25

aired March 21st 1965

Bonanza Season 6

The 6th season of Bonanza was the show's first season of 3 consecutive as the #1 show on prime time network television.  Airing on Sunday nights at 9pm on NBC this show featured Lorne Greene as Ben Cartwright the patriarch/widower of the Ponderosa in Virginia City, Nevada in the 1870s.  He ran the giant ranch with the help of his 3 grown sons, Adam, Hoss(Eric) and Little Joe.

Flannel Mouth Gun

Season 6 Episode 19

aired January 31st 1965

NBC

Bonanza - Season 6 (1964-1965)

Season 6 was the first of three consecutive seasons that Bonanza was the #1 show in Prime Time Network television.

Episode 19
The Flannel Mouth Gun

(Adam is the only Cartwright in this episode)
A series of cattle rustling has the Cattle Association sending in a hired detective with an itchy trigger finger

aired - January 31st 1965
NBC

Bonanza - Season 6 - The Ballerina

The 1964-65 season of Bonanza was the first of 3 consecutive season it was the #1 show on network prime time television.

The Ballerina

Season 6

Episode 18

Originally aired January 24th 1965

NBC Television

(Adam and Little Joe do not appear in this episode)

A crippled former ballet dancer falls in love while teaching classical dance to the daughter of a traveling violinist, wants to help her audition for the San Francisco ballet but meets resistance from her father who wants her to keep performing with him.

Bonanza - Season 6 (Women of Fire)

We continue our look at the 6th season (1964-65) of the legendary western Bonanza.  This was the first of 3 consecutive seasons as the #1 show in prime time television.

Season 6

Episode 17

Women of Fire

originally aired 01/17/1965

NBC

Shakespeare inspired Adam tries to tame a shrewish senorita while she waits at the Ponderosa for her never-met husband to be.