Editing Bonanza (section)

=== Television movies ===
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''Bonanza'' was revived for a series of three made-for-television movies featuring the Cartwrights' children: ''[[Bonanza: The Next Generation]]'' (1988), ''Bonanza: The Return'' (1993) and ''Bonanza: Under Attack'' (1995). [[Michael Landon Jr.]] played Little Joe's son Benji while Gillian Greene, Lorne Greene's daughter, played a love interest. In the second movie, airing on NBC, a one-hour retrospective was done to introduce the drama. It was hosted by both Michael Landon Jr. and [[Dirk Blocker]], who looks and sounds almost exactly like his father, Dan Blocker, albeit without his father's towering height. According to the magazine ''[[TV Guide]]'', producer David Dortort told Blocker he was too old to play the Hoss scion, but gave him the role of an unrelated newspaper reporter. Clips of the younger Blocker's appearance and voice were heavily used in advertisements promoting the "second generation" theme, perhaps misleading audiences to believe that Blocker was playing Hoss' heir. Hoss' son Josh was born out of wedlock, as it is explained that Hoss drowned without knowing his fiancėe was pregnant. Such a storyline might have been problematic in the original series. (''[[The Big Valley]]'', however, had a major character in Heath, who was presented as illegitimate.) The ''[[Gunsmoke]]'' movies of the early 1990s employed a similar theme when [[Marshal Matt Dillon]] learned he had sired [[Michael Learned]]'s character's daughter in a short-lived romance. The initial story was first introduced in 1973, when depiction of fornication courted protests, so CBS insisted their hero Matt have the encounter when he had amnesia. As was the style of television Westerns, gunfights played a major role in the movies which featured notoriously inaccurate shooting as well as unlimited ammunition.