Season 14

From the desk

How this season is filed

Filed by Rex Fontaine · Golden Age Dispatch

Fourteen seasons of Cartwrights as household gods — NBC's glossy family western as Sunday ritual, sold in color while the rest of the prairie was still arguing with black-and-white.

TV Flash files Season 14 of Bonanza (1959–1973) on NBC as the last listed season of 14 — 16 listed hours, 1972-09-12–1973-01-16 from “Forever (1)” (S14E01) to “The Hunter” (S14E16). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

Desk essentials in this season

1. S14E01 Forever (1)

   Grief the genre usually outsources to a grave marker. Landon carrying the final year's door.