![]() ![]() While I do not remember the first time I saw Michael Landon, I know the exact date he first moved me: January 28, 1962. Although I have been a fan since the tender age of nine, or thereabouts, this desire occurred not in the youthful days of exaggerated hero worship, but several years later, when I noticed that a Bonanza episode written and/or directed by him was something special." To quote from a memoir I wrote the day after his untimely passing in 1991, "Michael Landon was the only celebrity I ever wanted to meet. I prefer to believe that did not apply to Michael Landon. There is a famous saying: Don’t meet your heroes - you’ll only be disappointed. All of us enjoyed the antics and heroics of Dan Blocker’s Hoss, as most viewers did, but what we young buckaroos wanted most was to see Michael Landon’s Little Joe spring into action. At one point there were more than three dozen on the air, but I faithfully watched only three: Gunsmoke, The Rifleman, and, most of all, Bonanza, in part because, like the Cartwright boys, I was one of three brothers. I was fortunate to experience much of television’s golden age firsthand, when the majority of programming consisted of Westerns. ![]()
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