With the start to the new season still a few weeks away, I’m waxing nostalgic about “the good old days” of the television classics. I’m definitely a TV Baby, raised on the premier invention of the 1950s.
So here’s a trivia question for you:
What television show, the first regularly-scheduled show to be broadcast in color, began its run on September 12, 1959, and aired for 14 seasons? (Back then, believe it or not, 14 seasons equated to a whopping 430 episodes!) The core cast consisted of four men, although a case could be made that there were actually seven regulars (but all were male).
If you haven’t figured it out already, and you’re over 40, I could hum a few bars of the theme song and I have no doubt you’d immediately recognize it. It’s as familiar to us, uh, “mature” viewers, as the wordless and mind-penetrating final Jeopardy question ditty. But did you know there were lyrics to the theme song of the show I’m talking about?
Yep, here’s the link to the Bonanza theme song, sung by Papa Cartwright himself, Lorne Green: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA-PdP4k4Xw
Enjoy it while you wait impatiently for NCIS and Castle to return to Prime Time!
