Were you a loyal Bonanza fan? (animation, separate, friends, years)

[gentlearts]

Have you tried watching it lately? We just watched one in which an indian women was encountered on the trail by Hoss and Little Joe. She was about to give birth, but had a flat stomach. She had a full set of false eyelashes, mascara and eye shadow. Despite soundlessly giving birth to a totally clean baby, she remained unrumpled, without a hair out of place, and fresh as a daisy.
I could go on, but you get the idea.
I don't remember ever questioning things like this when I watched it in the old days. Were we really that gullible? I know children don't look at things the same way as adults, but it seems to me the adults in the family were fans of the show too..

[texdav]

It was just the standard of the time, Watch some of the movi9es made at that time to see the background was filmed separately especailly those of driving scenes. Alot of the pictures now are all animation and easily seen.

[TTTenor]

A lot of the old shows that I enjoyed back in the day seem naive when I happen to watch them now.

[PNW-type-gal]

I bought a remastered high-def copy of Errol Flynn's Robin Hood (Captain Blood was in the set as well), and it's sort of painful. It was never meant to be seen in quite that clarity. You can see that Robin's tights have a seam and it's crooked and that the "jewels" on Maid Marian's dress are sequins.

[Gandalara]

I kinda enjoyed seeing the zippers in the backs of the Martian headgear, in the original 1953 "Invaders from Mars"

That movie SCARED me in 1959

[LexusNexus]

Bonanza was one of my favorite shows, on when TV was just flat out better. All these programs told stories and taught lessons in a manner that transcended all these details that you speak of here.

[sportzfn]

We were more of a Gunsmoke family back then but Bonanza was a great show too. Actually I watch Bonzanza frequently now to catch up on what I missed back then.

[HappyTexan]

Oh I am trying hard to remember..was it on Sunday nights after Walt Disney World ?

[Egobop]

I am younger than most here being born in 1971 but I was able to see Bonanza on reruns as a child and loved the show. Hoss was always my favorite character and anytime I played any cowboy games with my friends I always pretended to be him. I liked him because he was a tough guy but at the same time had a big heart. He also was not afraid to admit any mistakes he had made and tried to learn from them.

[Tesaje]

I didn't much like Bonanza when I was a child, finding it very fake, terrible acting, and hokey stories. 1960's makeup was truley awful with the very fake caked on look that was so popular and completely inappropriate for a pioneer woman. I suppose the censors went overboard with silly rules that made them think they couldn't show a swelled abdomen on a pregnant woman (at a time when nearly every woman had multiple children so it isn't as if kids never saw their mother pregnant!). I think they did a better job in the 1940's. Shows like this are illustrative of why there was such a kick back reaction in the 1970's with all the "natural" emphasis. It really did go overboard with the fake woman look in the 1960's.

I much preferred Gunsmoke too. I've been listening to old radio shows including Gunsmoke and they still are pretty good. The acting is good, the stories are good, and not ridiculous. There was about 10 years of them before the radio version stopped and about 5 years of overlap with the TV show. You can get them here for free (all in the public domain now) along with tons of other shows: Internet Archive: Free Downloads: Old Time Radio

I rather like the radio dramas. I can be doing something useful while listening to them instead of being tied to a screen. Plus, becuase they had to get you to imagine the scenes, there is often a better narrative than the visual media. Other old westerns I remember liking were Rawhide (loved the theme song for that!), Paladin - Have Gun Will Travel, Bat Masterson, and Death Valley Days.