Dan Blocker is best remembered as the gentle giant Hoss Cartwright on Bonanza, but his life could have taken a very different ...

Even though it ran for a whopping 430 episodes, the iconic Western series Bonanza was nearly cancelled after six episodes due to a number of factors.

“No hon, I have been superstitious about the first year, and the second, the third, and the fourth, and so on,” Blocker joked. “I didn’t dream that the thing would go beyond the first year, and I had ...