As a kid I thought these shows were boring but as I got older I realized what shows like Bonanza and Little House on the Prairie were all about: timeless, wholesome, family values. That was the formula for practically every show. There wasn't a lot of controversial politics involved, they just tried to do what was right, and fair, and honest, and just. I think that's why modern versions like Blue Bloods are so successful. 😊
I had the good fortune to tour this house in 1973. It was wonderful. The original horses were still stabled there. Being a horse lover and ridden all my life I was in love with Little Joe’s paint horse named Cochise. Thanks for the ride down memory lane once more.
I love Bonanza so much since I was chilhood. Now since 40 years ago by now, I can watch Bonanza on youtube with so completed episodes. Thank you for making this house touring of Bonanza. I missed Ben, Adam, Hoss and Little Joe.
@captainboromir6958 Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it. I have made many other homes, too. You can see all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ruclips.net/user/MarinaCoavideos?view_as=subscriber
As a little girl, Bonanza was one of my favourite tv shows. My favourite horse was "Little Joe's" because I loved Pinto Horses especially black and white. Thank-you for showing me the Ponderosa Homestead. 💖💖💖
In June 1991, I traveled from WV to NV to see the Ponderosa, my life long dream. Arriving on June 30th before the tours of the house actually began, the tour guides learning that I came all the way from WV, allowed me to go in and look around. The lights were off, but it was the greatest time of my life. The next afternoon, July 1st, I returned, and after the tour, I was standing in the house talking with other tourists, when a female tour guide walked in and announced that Michael Landon had just died in CA. After watching the series from a boy in 1959, I would never believed that I would be standing in the Cartwright house when Little Joe passed away. Life is strange. Thanks Marina, I really enjoyed your video.
Another great house for you to examine is the house from Big Valley. The staircase is the most interesting aspect of the house in relation to the fact that it is a TV house. The staircase appears frequently (almost weekly) in "Perry Mason". It is also the identical staircase used in "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" for Gull Cottage. The staircase and landing is immediately identifiable because actors had to mount the stairs, turn left and descend two or three stairs from the landing to get to the bedrooms. This can be seen most readily in "Ghost...", but can also be seen in "Big Valley" and "Perry Mason". Still another great place for you to visit is Collinwood from "Dark Shadows".
TikTok? I sure hope so 😊 I am going to look for you there now. If you're not already on TikTok with these videos, I sure hope you will be soon 👍 TikTok would eat these videos up ❤️😊
Thank you. One of my favorite parts of making these tours is doing the research to get the details right. No matter how well I think I know a home, there are always surprises.
Bonanza is one of my fav, western shows. You did a great job with the layout. I was super excited when you mentioned Little House On The Prairie, can't wait for that.
Adriene Denise, I too look forward to the Ingalls cabin, for I love either small cozy homes, spacious single level vast ranch homes, like one that my late-aunt and uncle(my late-stepmom's side of the family) owned. I loved going to their house for visits, especially in the summer ☀️ time because they had a swimming pool w/an angled slide. Ohh, and not to mention, if I desired steps, a compact, split-level or an A-frame.
I LOVE your channel. Nobody does this! Except perhaps Trekkies doing the bridge of the Enterprise ; ) Would LOVE a video on the Sanford and Son home. All the junk would present a great challenge for you. : )
I definitely plan on doing that home. And that is my thought too - all of the junk will be a challenge for my computer. I picture smoke coming out of it by the end. 😉
@@MarinaCoatesMockingbirdLane Looking forward to it. : ) One of my hobbies is upgrading videos. Co-incidentally, here is a sample: ruclips.net/video/eFM6V0_EFN4/видео.html&ab_channel=SpockBoy
THANK YOU THANK YOU. This was awesome. I love it. 😂 watch Bonanza every day. Now I will be looking for these different things in terms of the ranch ❤❤❤
Really fun. Thanks. A fond memory was visiting the Bonanza exterior set complex by Incline, Lake Tahoe. I remember walking in the “fancy” entrance and it was tiny behind it(just enough room for actors and cameras).
Absolutely awesome, I just love Bonanza, I have seasons 1-6 due to my love for Adam but I still watch the remaining seasons as well on Metv. Thank you so very very much. I've thoroughly enjoyed watching and feeling like a huge part of my most very favorite Western. Just wish that I could have met the Cartwright actors in person before their passing but I am and will forever be a huge dedicated devoted Bonanza tv show fan throughout all eternity.❤️🥰💯👍
I have made many other homes too. You can see all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ruclips.net/user/MarinaCoavideos?view_as=subscriber
I love and watch Bonanza all the time when it was 1st on TV....I still watch reruns of it now. Our family went to the Ponderosa Ranch @ Lake Tahoe in the early 90s. Your tour is really similar to the way the house looked in real life. Thanks for making and sharing this video with all of us! I would like to see a tour of The High Chaparral house done on your episodes.
I've looked forward to touring this home for months and once again, Marina, you did not disappoint. I hope one day you'll get around to doing South Fork Ranch from Dallas.
I really enjoyed that .I really Love Western movies too. And I still watch Bonanza too And I Love to look at the rooms of movie houses too. The Western and Victorian homes and 20 and 30,40,and50 and 60's homes and the way they dress. I would like to see Little House on the Prairie home too.I can't wait to to see your video. Thank for such a nice site you put together I really enjoyed being taken back to my childhood. ☺☺☺
Wow!! Thanks for this tour of the Bonanza house. I had just finished watching a couple of episodes of Bonanza on RUclips when your post appeared. Great job. I will be looking at the sets more closely now. Keep them coming.
I have never watched this series, but I do love the old western style. With the warm wood and plaster look, with lots of great wooden furniture, and quaint curtain and rugs that look homemade. Very cozy! Unlike todays modern, sleek minimalist trend, not that I think its bad, but I prefer cozy :)
Spectacular! I love the software that allows you to create all of these scenes, then travel through them. I was disappointed, though, that you didn't go up the stairs in the real house. I know there were no rooms up there, but it would have been nice to see. It breaks my heart that The Ponderosa at Incline Village, Nevada, has been demolished.
@silviedi9366 Glad you enjoyed the tour. I have made many other homes, too. You can see all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ruclips.net/user/MarinaCoavideos?view_as=subscriber
Just finished watching this video and as usual, I was NOT disappointed! I've enjoyed watching all the homes you've done, and like I've commented before. All these homes are nice and would be fun to live in for a while, but the thing that really makes your home and any of these homes special is the people that live in them.
Marina, thank you for your channel. I thoroughly enjoyed your Bonanza Ponderosa tour! Your recreations were wonderful to put the entire house in perspective. I’m glad that I discovered your work and look forward to viewing more to further enhance the nostalgia and fond memories that these shows provided me over the years. I still rewatch many of these either from my own library, streaming services, or as reruns and you have just added new layers to my viewing pleasure. I just tested on an episode of Bonanza where the house was more featured as the setting in that episode and I enjoyed it even more this time!
I just recently found your channel and have been watching several episodes a day. Thank you for taking the time to recreate these iconic sets. I'd love to see the apartment from Three's Company as well as the Happy Days house. Can't wait for the Little House on the Prairie house!
I have truly enjoyed your channel since I found it a few months ago. Thank you Marina for bringing these fictional homes to life. Such wonderful memories. Great work.
Yay! Glad you found it. I have made many other homes too. You can see all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ruclips.net/user/MarinaCoavideos?view_as=subscriber
I've had others ask for that too. I may do it someday. You can see all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ruclips.net/user/MarinaCoavideos?view_as=subscriber
I just found your channel!!! This is so fun!!! Thank you for all the time you spend bringing the TV sets to life for us. I would love to see tours of houses from Doris Day films. ♥️ On Moonlight Bay is one of my favorite movie houses of all time!
Besides loving the Ponderosa home, my other favorite western tv show home was The High Chapperal..mainly because of the SouthWestern/Mediterranean look, beautiful.
Love this video!!! Had the pleasure of touring the Ponderosa when stationed at Travis AFB in the 70's!! Loved Lake Tahoe too!!! It is a shame it has been demolished!!!!
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Wow, great memories, I love the "fireplace". The first TV series I watched from Germany. "Pa", Lorne Greene, was my fav actor. Thank you for this exclusive vlog.
@@MarinaCoatesMockingbirdLane Yes, all great TV series came to Germany, from "The Waltons" to "The Fugitive" and so many more. Most Germans like American movies 🎥.
Like you, I just love looking at the homes of some of my favorite shows. I am so glad you are doing this. I know for you it's a work of love. The place I live in now and for the last thirty years has been heavily influenced by shows like Bonanza, Gunsmoke, The Rifle Man.... In my place I have a real wood burning fire place, a log bed complete with night stand and chester drawers, deer antler light on the ceiling, my walk in closet is completely paneled with cedar all walls and the ceiling, wood floors, I plastered all my walls to resemble the walls of the Ponderosa, made my own window frames, a big round and heavy wood dinning table, kerosene lamps around the place, big heavy end tables on either side of the couch..... I just love coming home to my home.
I just noticed that you have the same last name as the set designer for Bonanza. 😊 By the way,, you can see all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ruclips.net/user/MarinaCoavideos?view_as=subscriber
@@MarinaCoatesMockingbirdLane Thanks for replying. Bonanza was shown in Hong Kong, and I used to watch it every week. I am glad it is now on RUclips so I can watch it again. I also noticed that the set designer for Bonanza and I have the same last name, but I doubt if we are related! I will be sure to check out all of your other TV and movie home tours. We used to get many of those TV shows, so it will be wonderful to see the various set designs. Keep up the good work!
Gotta love those great staircases we are all so familiar with, always liked the one on The Beverly Hillbillies and the almost magical music when Ellie Mae would descend all gussied up. Plus the one on the Carol Burnett show in the Gone with the Wind parody, but then she tumbled down quite a few.
I love a hall that meanders! What an amazing home! I’d love to live there! I don’t recall the show much from my childhood. It was beyond my interest (no kids in it), but it sure is nice to see handsome Michael Landon again. Loved the music! It really brings it all together!
As always, thank you so much for the trip down memory lane! Another great tour that brings back great memories. BTW, I still love a good Western and you included some of my favorites: The Searchers and Giant. Thank you Marina!!
Thank you Marina for the wonderful memories of the Ponderosa and the family! In the 80's my husband and I drove several hundred miles to Tahoe to tour the actual Ponderosa and it was closed. I was so heartbroken. Unlike you, who you say looks at all the detail of the homes, and I never pay attention to any of those things ever. I just watch the actors. LOL
I loved this show so much when I was little! That house is gorgeous. I was just thinking, while watching, how much I would love to have the money to build a replica of this house when you said Lorn Greene did exactly that. I wonder how we can see that house today! Thank you for this fabulous video!!
I had the chance of being at the Ponderosa Ranch up around Lake Tahoe, Nevada. After the tour was over inside the house, the tour lady let us or should I say let me take pictures of me standing up on the giant fireplace, I'm 6'1" and it was higher than me, huge. The coffee table was huge as well, the blue chair I sat in felt like I could still feel the actors with me. Ben Cartwrights desk was awesome, I stood next to that and the stairway to the second floor, at the very top, was the end, had a door there which opens up to outside without a stairway down, lol. I enjoy your tour just the same, and when I went was in 2003, two different times. Thank you for sharing your tour with us, God bless.
Welcome back. Glad to see a new TV show home. I loved Bonanza ever since watching it on cable. I was born in 1967 and it was off the air before I started watching it. This was great to see. Thank you. If possible, can you one day do the Big Valley mansion if possible?
My son is in his twenties & during Covid got into Bonanza. I’d watch once in a while. Was fun for we to see the guest stars. Never realized how much the living room changed. Will have to check it out. The thing I did notice was all the LV luggage you’d see coming in on the stage coach 😊
Marina these just keep getting better, i always loved this show and our family watched it together when i was a little kid, my dad was born back in the '30s and loved the country life, he would have been right at home in a place like this, dad always liked this house , keep up the wonderful work Marina , Thanks! (:->)
@@BlakeKennedy-v6j I've made a tour of the Bewitched home. You can see that and all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ruclips.net/user/MarinaCoavideos?view_as=subscriber
I am getting ready to watch this right now and am so EXCITED. Looking forward to it! I remember that the room off the dinning area was a bedroom in some episodes, and in others it was Hop Sing's kitchen.
Fantastic job as always! I loved watching Westerns with my dad when I was young. Bonanza and Big Valley were 2 of my favorite series later on. (In reruns of course). Looking forward to the Little House tour too!
Marina another great video. Your details that bring out are the best of how they built the sets and decorated each room with great details. The research that you do bring honor to each an every show and movie you bring to your channel. Thank you for answering my email. I have another TV show that would be great to see. The TV show Reba. Thank you for your time in doing what you do here on RUclips. And thank you for reading my comment.
Like you, I also like westerns! Since early childhood, I've daydreamed while hearing the TV shows' theme music, and I especially love the theme song for the movie, "The Big Country". Music like that, played by large orchestra, brings to mind the magnificent wide open spaces of "The Old West". Mom and I loved Bonanza. Mom told me a couple of times she always wanted to live in a house like the Ponderosa. She especially loved the big stone fireplace. Thanks for giving the tour and explaining how sometimes set design isn't accurate with the house layout.
I haven't read all the comments on this so forgive me if this has been mentioned already. RUclipsr Daze with Jordan the Lion visited Lorne Greene's home The Ponderosa II and took a tour. It is worth a watch. Love your videos, Marina! Fantastic.
I did not grow up in the old west, but my grandmother did. No electricity, running water, etc. She spent a lot of time on her horse, herding the cattle. Through my grandmother, and living in the west myself, i have a great connection the the themes in a house like the Ponderosa ranch house.
It would be so awesome to see you recreate the interior of the house from the movie Clue! It has been a long-time favorite movie in my family and the house has such character! Love this channel!
Glad you liked it. I have made many other homes too. You can see all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ruclips.net/user/MarinaCoavideos?view_as=subscriber
Marina: I thought you did a super job with this video. I loved Bonanza! I never really thought about the bathrooms. I don’t remember ever seeing them. Funny! Carol from California
I could have put an outhouse in the back and shown them through the window. 🚽"😄" I checked to see when bathrooms existed in homes and it was a possibility. But, then I noticed that each bedroom had an old fashioned wash stand in it, so I knew they didn't have any indoor bathrooms.
Knocked it out of the ballpark as usual! Love your videos. Have you ever considered doing Lucy & Ricky’s country home in Connecticut? Loved that home so much! Thank you Marina.
Wonderful tour as always. Keeping on the western theme, may I suggest the train "Wanderer" from "The Wild Wild West" It was home to Jim and Artie when they were on assignments
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Hello and thank you for making us revisit the iconic Ponderosa ranch home from Bonanza! I was waiting for this video and I'm so happy that I'm seeing it. I'm also a sucker for good old western shows. Laramie, The Rifleman, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train & so on. I would love to see the homes of Dylan McKay, Jess Harper & Slim Sherman revisited as well. Bravo!! 👏👍🏻🙏🏼
Fantastic tour! I thoroughly enjoyed this one. I can still hear that theme song. I am going to Google this but I always remember the episode where Hoss finds the Leprechauns. I want to say that it was a Saint Patricks Day episode. Of all the old TV shows I never see this in reruns anywhere. Thank you for sharing all your hard work. ❤
Yes! I read about that episode while making this. They were thinking outside of the norm with that one. I can see why you remember it. I believe I was able to find that episode on RUclips. I know I watched clips after I read about it.
You can watch all 431 episodes on You Tube. During the first Covid Lock down I watched every episode. I had not seen this show since the 1960s so it was very nostalgic for me as I loved the show. So much a part of my childhood, although as I grew older I started to dislike westerns. I had so many favourites. Hoss and the Leprechauns; The Hayburner, Joe Cartwright Detective, Ponderosa Matador, plus so many more. I didn’t like it after Dan Blocker died as I feel he made the show. I never had a brother but I sure would have loved someone like Hoss, unfortunately Dan Blocker did have a filthy mouth especially about women Which would not be allowed in todays climate! I would love to go back in time and be on the set and watch them make the show, that would be so great!
We really love all your videos you do an amazing job! We would love to see the Partridge family, Family Ties, Golden girls, the Addams family, and Murder She Wrote houses. I think all these houses have such interesting floorplans and you could do an amazing job with them thank you.
I loved this though I don't think I ever saw more than a couple episodes. This came on Sunday nights I think at 9:00 and it was past my bedtime but I remember hearing that theme as I was in bed and I loved it. My dad was from the south and loved all the westerns. He was a big fan of "Bonanza." I hope to someday see all the episodes as I love Michael Landon's other shows and he was so young and cute on "Bonanza." If I could make a suggestion as to another show's house, the entire 12 seasons of "My Three Sons" is now on you tube and I am enjoying watching it again. I haven't seen it since I was a kid. The family lived in a town called Bryant Park (I don't remember which state) and moved to California at the beginning of season 8. I notice that the upstairs looks pretty much the same in the California home as in the Bryant Park home though the downstairs is entirely different. As you like to "pick a season and stick with it" I'd suggest you do the California home. It was much roomier in the downstairs. Oh yeah, the kitchen and Uncle Charlie's room (previously Bub's room) is identical in both the Bryant Park and California homes. It was fun to watch all the changes in the rooms. As the boys got older and Robbie and Katie were married they had to add onto Robbie's room for the triplets. A year later Rob and Katie moved out and Steve moved in and married Barbara and Steve's former room was given to Barbara's daughter Dodie. They had to repaint everything. Again, I love watching these home tours. Thanks for all your hard work.
The door to the kitchen from the outside did eventually end up where you put it. The one thing that still confuses everybody is the upstairs layout - it changed so many times especially the number of bedrooms. To support at least four bedrooms upstairs (and the size of them), the main floor have had to been much larger. It has been speculated that there was at least one other room behind the wall (on the other side of the fireplace). In some later years episodes, there is a narrow hallway near the stairs leading to the outside. Also, some later episodes there was a back entrance to the house that wasn't shown but referenced.
Bonanza was the first western I ever really watched and it ignited a love for all things western! This was fascinating. Thank you! As a side note, I would LOVE for you to do the Collins' and the "old house" from Dark Shadows!
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Like you touched on, there is a running joke among very long time fans of Bonanza that the upstairs, front 'bedroom' window, above the porch - that we often saw various people looking out of - was attached to a 'room' that couldn't even exist, due to the HIGH vaulted ceiling of the great room / dining room area below it ! Something was pointed out to me, YEARS later, that the fireplace - out of necessity, and to cut down on escaping smoke into the main room, and the danger of the whole set burning down - was actually a natural gas fire place they could just turn on and off depending on the time of season, and / or the mood they wanted to portray ! The 'consistency of the flames' proves it. Bonanza was such a great, long lived / long loved series - with that great cast - that we can 'ignore' the little details like these ! ;) For those interested here's a great tour of the Ponderosa ranch house replica that Lorne Greene had built at Mesa, Arizona. It has been deemed a historic site, so IS protected. BONANZA 'PONDEROSA II' TV House Replica Built By LORNE GREENE ruclips.net/video/meZCeKB5-YU/видео.html
nice! it's not a show or tv home i'm very familiar with but i have seen enough bits and pieces of episodes to know what you're working with - thanks for all the details on the upstairs which i did not know even existed :)
I do plan on doing Southfork someday. And I loved the home in Rebecca. Gloomy, but cool. The old black and white version with Joan Fontaine and Lawrence Olivier!
As a kid I thought these shows were boring but as I got older I realized what shows like Bonanza and Little House on the Prairie were all about: timeless, wholesome, family values. That was the formula for practically every show. There wasn't a lot of controversial politics involved, they just tried to do what was right, and fair, and honest, and just. I think that's why modern versions like Blue Bloods are so successful. 😊
I had the good fortune to tour this house in 1973. It was wonderful. The original horses were still stabled there. Being a horse lover and ridden all my life I was in love with Little Joe’s paint horse named Cochise. Thanks for the ride down memory lane once more.
Glad you enjoyed the tour. 😊
Hello how are you doing today and how is your day going today?
I loved cochise joes pinto 🐴 horse and adams horse called short
I love Bonanza so much since I was chilhood.
Now since 40 years ago by now, I can watch Bonanza on youtube with so completed episodes.
Thank you for making this house touring of Bonanza.
I missed Ben, Adam, Hoss and Little Joe.
Glad you liked the tour. You can see all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ruclips.net/user/MarinaCoavideos?view_as=subscriber
For years I have wanted a Bonanza video game. I think it would be cool. Glad you made this! Love the detail you put into this!
@captainboromir6958 Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.
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As a little girl, Bonanza was one of my favourite tv shows. My favourite horse was "Little Joe's" because I loved Pinto Horses especially black and white. Thank-you for showing me the Ponderosa Homestead. 💖💖💖
I'm glad you enjoyed this tour. 😊
To me, the Ponderosa perfectly balances the rustic and the refined. Who wouldn't want to live in such a place?
I'd gladly move in. Just need a bathroom [nix the outhouse] and possibly modern appliances. But, what a great home!
In June 1991, I traveled from WV to NV to see the Ponderosa, my life long dream. Arriving on June 30th before the tours of the house actually began, the tour guides learning that I came all the way from WV, allowed me to go in and look around. The lights were off, but it was the greatest time of my life. The next afternoon, July 1st, I returned, and after the tour, I was standing in the house talking with other tourists, when a female tour guide walked in and announced that Michael Landon had just died in CA. After watching the series from a boy in 1959, I would never believed that I would be standing in the Cartwright house when Little Joe passed away. Life is strange. Thanks Marina, I really enjoyed your video.
Wow. What a story. I'm glad you made it there.
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Having not watched the show since I was a child, this brings back wonderful memories. Once again you have done a superb job! Thank you!
Glad you liked it!
Excellent choice of music! As always, your videos are a delight to watch. Thank you.
For once it was fairly easy to find music that went with the home. Glad you liked it.
I never realized how massive the fireplace was. Loved the tour. Thank you.
It looks like they could walk inside and not have to duck. Great fireplace.
@@MarinaCoatesMockingbirdLane As short as I am, I would not have to duck.
Another great house for you to examine is the house from Big Valley. The staircase is the most interesting aspect of the house in relation to the fact that it is a TV house. The staircase appears frequently (almost weekly) in "Perry Mason". It is also the identical staircase used in "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" for Gull Cottage. The staircase and landing is immediately identifiable because actors had to mount the stairs, turn left and descend two or three stairs from the landing to get to the bedrooms. This can be seen most readily in "Ghost...", but can also be seen in "Big Valley" and "Perry Mason". Still another great place for you to visit is Collinwood from "Dark Shadows".
Thanks for the details about that staircase. I plan on doing Big Valley someday. Also, I will definitely be doing Dark Shadows. 🦇
@@MarinaCoatesMockingbirdLane Thanks. I think both will be a lot of fun!
Collinwood yes great idea!
TikTok? I sure hope so 😊 I am going to look for you there now. If you're not already on TikTok with these videos, I sure hope you will be soon 👍 TikTok would eat these videos up ❤️😊
Don't forget curved wide staircase in Wild, Wild West TV show, thinking at least 2 episodes the staircase appears.
I love the detail you put onto these episodes. The Ponderosa was my favorite western home. This is the first time I have ever viewed the kitchen.
Thank you. One of my favorite parts of making these tours is doing the research to get the details right. No matter how well I think I know a home, there are always surprises.
Bonanza is one of my fav, western shows. You did a great job with the layout. I was super excited when you mentioned Little House On The Prairie, can't wait for that.
I can't wait to get to get to Little House.
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Adriene Denise, I too look forward to the Ingalls cabin, for I love either small cozy homes, spacious single level vast ranch homes, like one that my late-aunt and uncle(my late-stepmom's side of the family) owned. I loved going to their house for visits, especially in the summer ☀️ time because they had a swimming pool w/an angled slide.
Ohh, and not to mention, if I desired steps, a compact, split-level or an A-frame.
Wonderful work, as usual. Thank you. I especially loved seeing horses out the dining room window!
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Fantastic job! You have such an amazing God-given eye for detail and artistry! I love watching these! Thanks again!
Thank you!
I LOVE your channel. Nobody does this! Except perhaps Trekkies doing the bridge of the Enterprise ; )
Would LOVE a video on the Sanford and Son home.
All the junk would present a great challenge for you. : )
I definitely plan on doing that home. And that is my thought too - all of the junk will be a challenge for my computer. I picture smoke coming out of it by the end. 😉
@@MarinaCoatesMockingbirdLane Looking forward to it. : ) One of my hobbies is upgrading videos. Co-incidentally, here is a sample: ruclips.net/video/eFM6V0_EFN4/видео.html&ab_channel=SpockBoy
Oh my Gosh Marina. I am so excited about this video. Love Bonanza . Thank you so much. I love all your videos. I’m a fan♥️
Thank you. Hope you enjoy touring the ranch. 😊
most excellent review of the Ponderosa.. thank you
Glad you liked it. 😊
THANK YOU THANK YOU. This was awesome. I love it. 😂 watch Bonanza every day. Now I will be looking for these different things in terms of the ranch ❤❤❤
Really fun. Thanks. A fond memory was visiting the Bonanza exterior set complex by Incline, Lake Tahoe. I remember walking in the “fancy” entrance and it was tiny behind it(just enough room for actors and cameras).
Wow! What an experience. I would have loved to have done the same.
Absolutely awesome, I just love Bonanza, I have seasons 1-6 due to my love for Adam but I still watch the remaining seasons as well on Metv. Thank you so very very much. I've thoroughly enjoyed watching and feeling like a huge part of my most very favorite Western. Just wish that I could have met the Cartwright actors in person before their passing but I am and will forever be a huge dedicated devoted Bonanza tv show fan throughout all eternity.❤️🥰💯👍
I'm glad you liked it!
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I love and watch Bonanza all the time when it was 1st on TV....I still watch reruns of it now. Our family went to the Ponderosa Ranch @ Lake Tahoe in the early 90s. Your tour is really similar to the way the house looked in real life. Thanks for making and sharing this video with all of us! I would like to see a tour of The High Chaparral house done on your episodes.
I wish I could have seen the Lake Tahoe ranch. 😍 High Chaparral is a great idea.
Could we see the home from Murder she wrote? I love the feel of that kitchen. Anyway, thank you for your channel. I love it
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I've looked forward to touring this home for months and once again, Marina, you did not disappoint. I hope one day you'll get around to doing South Fork Ranch from Dallas.
Glad you liked the tour!
Just happen to be hooked on Bonanza Extravaganza tonight on GRIT TV! Thanks for another great tour, Marina!
Thank you.. Glad you liked it. 😊
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I really enjoyed that .I really Love Western movies too. And I still watch Bonanza too
And I Love to look at the rooms of movie houses too. The Western and Victorian homes and 20 and 30,40,and50 and 60's homes and the way they dress. I would like to see Little House on the Prairie home too.I can't wait to to see your video.
Thank for such a nice site you put together I really enjoyed being taken back to my childhood. ☺☺☺
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I hit like before watching because I know I will like it...
Well, I won't complain about that!😄
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It would be great to seethe home from the 1960s show Hazel. You always do a wonderful job!Thank you❤️
Thank you. I plan on doing Hazel. I've had a lot of requests.
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Wonderful! I think Ben Cartwright and his sons would’ve been proud!
This was another good one! So many memories. Thank you so much for sharing your incredible gift. ❤️
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Wow, this was awesome!! How about Big Valley mansion in the future?
I hope to get to it. I've had others ask for it too.
Wow!! Thanks for this tour of the Bonanza house. I had just finished watching a couple of episodes of Bonanza on RUclips when your post appeared. Great job. I will be looking at the sets more closely now. Keep them coming.
Glad you liked it. I've been watching Bonanza differently now too, since I finished the model.
I have never watched this series, but I do love the old western style. With the warm wood and plaster look, with lots of great wooden furniture, and quaint curtain and rugs that look homemade. Very cozy! Unlike todays modern, sleek minimalist trend, not that I think its bad, but I prefer cozy :)
There is something so homey about these styles of houses. 🥰
I loved this one. You bring me a lot of joy with these videos.
Ah, thanks. 😊
Spectacular! I love the software that allows you to create all of these scenes, then travel through them.
I was disappointed, though, that you didn't go up the stairs in the real house. I know there were no rooms up there, but it would have been nice to see.
It breaks my heart that The Ponderosa at Incline Village, Nevada, has been demolished.
This was wonderful, Marina. Thank you for another great tour.
Thank you. Glad you liked it
HELLO. I GREW UP WATCHING BONANZA. I'VE ALWAYS BEEN LOVED THE PONDEROSA HOUSE. THANK YOU FOR THE TOUR IN MY MEMORIES ❤
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Just finished watching this video and as usual, I was NOT disappointed!
I've enjoyed watching all the homes you've done, and like I've commented before.
All these homes are nice and would be fun to live in for a while, but the thing that really makes your home and any of these homes special is the people that live in them.
So true!
Marina, thank you for your channel. I thoroughly enjoyed your Bonanza Ponderosa tour! Your recreations were wonderful to put the entire house in perspective. I’m glad that I discovered your work and look forward to viewing more to further enhance the nostalgia and fond memories that these shows provided me over the years. I still rewatch many of these either from my own library, streaming services, or as reruns and you have just added new layers to my viewing pleasure. I just tested on an episode of Bonanza where the house was more featured as the setting in that episode and I enjoyed it even more this time!
That's great to hear. Thank you.
Such great attention to detail! Great job bringing the Ponderosa to life.
I just recently found your channel and have been watching several episodes a day. Thank you for taking the time to recreate these iconic sets. I'd love to see the apartment from Three's Company as well as the Happy Days house. Can't wait for the Little House on the Prairie house!
You're in luck. I'm working on Happy Days right now. 😊
I have truly enjoyed your channel since I found it a few months ago. Thank you Marina for bringing these fictional homes to life. Such wonderful memories. Great work.
Thank you!
Hello! So excited over this one
It's my first log home that I've done. I've been wanting to make it for awhile.
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This is the home I wanted to see ! Wow ! Awesome!
Yay! Glad you found it.
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Thank you so much for doing the Ponderosa. Im a huge Bonanza fan to this day and loved "walking" through their home!
That's great to hear.
Por favor quiero me conteste quien sepa si hoy en la actualidad se puede llegar allí por donde por favor queremos ir con mi familia
I’d love to see you do the Longbranch Saloon. Including Miss Kitty’s room. It’s probably too simplistic, but I think it would be a lot of fun.
I've had others ask for that too. I may do it someday.
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I just found your channel!!! This is so fun!!! Thank you for all the time you spend bringing the TV sets to life for us. I would love to see tours of houses from Doris Day films. ♥️ On Moonlight Bay is one of my favorite movie houses of all time!
Glad you found the channel! I love the homes in almost every Doris Day movie. She definitely had a type.
Besides loving the Ponderosa home, my other favorite western tv show home was The High Chapperal..mainly because of the SouthWestern/Mediterranean look, beautiful.
Yes! I love that home and hope to get to it someday.
Love this video!!! Had the pleasure of touring the Ponderosa when stationed at Travis AFB in the 70's!! Loved Lake Tahoe too!!! It is a shame it has been demolished!!!!
I agree. I wish I could have seen it.
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What a lovely way to start my weekend. Thank you! It felt like I was visiting old friends. Your work is wonderful... you're so talented!
Thank you!
It's really beautiful ❤️ thank you Marina Coates.
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Wow, great memories, I love the "fireplace". The first TV series I watched from Germany. "Pa", Lorne Greene, was my fav actor. Thank you for this exclusive vlog.
Glad you enjoyed the tour. How interesting that they were showing it in Germany
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Yes, all great TV series came to Germany, from "The Waltons" to "The Fugitive" and so many more. Most Germans like American movies 🎥.
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YESSS!! Thank you for doing the Ponderosa!! Such a beautiful place!! 😃❤🐴🏡👍
I love this home!
Like you, I just love looking at the homes of some of my favorite shows.
I am so glad you are doing this. I know for you it's a work of love.
The place I live in now and for the last thirty years has been heavily influenced by shows like Bonanza, Gunsmoke, The Rifle Man....
In my place I have a real wood burning fire place, a log bed complete with night stand and chester drawers, deer antler light on the ceiling, my walk in closet is completely paneled with cedar all walls and the ceiling, wood floors, I plastered all my walls to resemble the walls of the Ponderosa, made my own window frames, a big round and heavy wood dinning table, kerosene lamps around the place, big heavy end tables on either side of the couch.....
I just love coming home to my home.
I love this! I especially love that you've made a place that you can't wait to come home to.
Your channel is incredible! Thank you so much!!
Thank you!
Thank you for this wonderful virtual tour. I love Bonanza. Greetings from Hong Kong.
I'm glad you liked the tour. And how fun to know you watched this all the way over in Hong Kong!
I just noticed that you have the same last name as the set designer for Bonanza. 😊
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@@MarinaCoatesMockingbirdLane Thanks for replying. Bonanza was shown in Hong Kong, and I used to watch it every week. I am glad it is now on RUclips so I can watch it again. I also noticed that the set designer for Bonanza and I have the same last name, but I doubt if we are related! I will be sure to check out all of your other TV and movie home tours. We used to get many of those TV shows, so it will be wonderful to see the various set designs. Keep up the good work!
Gotta love those great staircases we are all so familiar with, always liked the one on The Beverly Hillbillies and the almost magical music when Ellie Mae would descend all gussied up. Plus the one on the Carol Burnett show in the Gone with the Wind parody, but then she tumbled down quite a few.
I love a hall that meanders! What an amazing home! I’d love to live there! I don’t recall the show much from my childhood. It was beyond my interest (no kids in it), but it sure is nice to see handsome Michael Landon again. Loved the music! It really brings it all together!
I love homes that meander too. I'm glad you liked the tour.
As always, thank you so much for the trip down memory lane! Another great tour that brings back great memories. BTW, I still love a good Western and you included some of my favorites: The Searchers and Giant. Thank you Marina!!
Thank you!
Thank you Marina for the wonderful memories of the Ponderosa and the family! In the 80's my husband and I drove several hundred miles to Tahoe to tour the actual Ponderosa and it was closed. I was so heartbroken. Unlike you, who you say looks at all the detail of the homes, and I never pay attention to any of those things ever. I just watch the actors. LOL
Hi Marina, what about the "Dynasty home", original series of course. Thank-you.❤❤❤
I probably will at some point.
I loved this show so much when I was little! That house is gorgeous. I was just thinking, while watching, how much I would love to have the money to build a replica of this house when you said Lorn Greene did exactly that. I wonder how we can see that house today! Thank you for this fabulous video!!
Glad you liked the tour. His home in Mesa is currently privately owned. But there is a tour of it on RUclips.
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I Love, Love your show. Please keep doing more tv shows houses and apartments
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I had the chance of being at the Ponderosa Ranch up around Lake Tahoe, Nevada. After the tour was over inside the house, the tour lady let us or should I say let me take pictures of me standing up on the giant fireplace, I'm 6'1" and it was higher than me, huge. The coffee table was huge as well, the blue chair I sat in felt like I could still feel the actors with me. Ben Cartwrights desk was awesome, I stood next to that and the stairway to the second floor, at the very top, was the end, had a door there which opens up to outside without a stairway down, lol. I enjoy your tour just the same, and when I went was in 2003, two different times. Thank you for sharing your tour with us, God bless.
Thanks for sharing those details!
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Welcome back. Glad to see a new TV show home. I loved Bonanza ever since watching it on cable. I was born in 1967 and it was off the air before I started watching it. This was great to see. Thank you. If possible, can you one day do the Big Valley mansion if possible?
I hope to do that home someday. 😊
Thanks for doing this one! Not knowing the layout was confusing!
I'm glad it helped. 😊
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far more impressive in your tour!! that is one heck of a fireplace!!! makes me think of an English Manor. terrific! thank you!
Glad you liked the tour! I sure had fun making it.
My son is in his twenties & during Covid got into Bonanza. I’d watch once in a while. Was fun for we to see the guest stars. Never realized how much the living room changed. Will have to check it out. The thing I did notice was all the LV luggage you’d see coming in on the stage coach 😊
I never noticed the luggage. I'll have to look for it.
Marina these just keep getting better, i always loved this show and our family watched it together when i was a little kid, my dad was born back in the '30s and loved the country life, he would have been right at home in a place like this, dad always liked this house , keep up the wonderful work Marina , Thanks! (:->)
Thank you!
I loved the tv show, “Bewitched”.❤
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I am getting ready to watch this right now and am so EXCITED.
Looking forward to it!
I remember that the room off the dinning area was a bedroom in some episodes, and in others it was Hop Sing's kitchen.
Hope it lives up to your expectations. 🤞
Fantastic job as always! I loved watching Westerns with my dad when I was young. Bonanza and Big Valley were 2 of my favorite series later on. (In reruns of course). Looking forward to the Little House tour too!
Glad you liked this one.
Marina another great video. Your details that bring out are the best of how they built the sets and decorated each room with great details. The research that you do bring honor to each an every show and movie you bring to your channel. Thank you for answering my email. I have another TV show that would be great to see. The TV show Reba. Thank you for your time in doing what you do here on RUclips. And thank you for reading my comment.
I'm glad you're enjoying these tours. 😊
Great video, thank you for the view of this home
Glad you liked it. 😊
Like you, I also like westerns! Since early childhood, I've daydreamed while hearing the TV shows' theme music, and I especially love the theme song for the movie, "The Big Country". Music like that, played by large orchestra, brings to mind the magnificent wide open spaces of "The Old West".
Mom and I loved Bonanza. Mom told me a couple of times she always wanted to live in a house like the Ponderosa. She especially loved the big stone fireplace. Thanks for giving the tour and explaining how sometimes set design isn't accurate with the house layout.
That's true. I hadn't thought of it like that - the music representing the wide open spaces. 😊
I haven't read all the comments on this so forgive me if this has been mentioned already. RUclipsr Daze with Jordan the Lion visited Lorne Greene's home The Ponderosa II and took a tour. It is worth a watch. Love your videos, Marina! Fantastic.
Thank you. I'm glad you like the tours. I watched that video. It made me want to go visit it. I know it's privately owned, but it sure would be fun.
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I did not grow up in the old west, but my grandmother did. No electricity, running water, etc. She spent a lot of time on her horse, herding the cattle. Through my grandmother, and living in the west myself, i have a great connection the the themes in a house like the Ponderosa ranch house.
Love your videos.
Jim Brazzell from Ohio.
I would like to see the Big valley home. or The Barclays.
I’ve always dreamed of building a house like that.
It would be so awesome to see you recreate the interior of the house from the movie Clue! It has been a long-time favorite movie in my family and the house has such character! Love this channel!
Great idea. Thank you.
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Really enjoyed watching this ❤
Glad you liked it.
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Marina: I thought you did a super job with this video. I loved Bonanza! I never really thought about the bathrooms. I don’t remember ever seeing them. Funny! Carol from California
I could have put an outhouse in the back and shown them through the window. 🚽"😄" I checked to see when bathrooms existed in homes and it was a possibility. But, then I noticed that each bedroom had an old fashioned wash stand in it, so I knew they didn't have any indoor bathrooms.
Love it. Thank you. I always wanted to live in that house.
It's amazing. What I wouldn't give to have a home like that up in the mountains as a vacation home.
Knocked it out of the ballpark as usual! Love your videos. Have you ever considered doing Lucy & Ricky’s country home in Connecticut? Loved that home so much! Thank you Marina.
Yes. I will definitely be doing that home. I loved it.
Wonderfully done!!!
Glad you liked the tour!
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Wonderful tour as always. Keeping on the western theme, may I suggest the train "Wanderer" from "The Wild Wild West" It was home to Jim and Artie when they were on assignments
I remember it well! That would be a fun one to do.
I rly like the two horses 🐴 touch outside the dining room window 👌🏼
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Another great video. Love westerns. I would love to see Joe Mannix’s office and upstairs apartment ( from seasons 2-8). Thanks
I've had quite a few requests for that.
Hello and thank you for making us revisit the iconic Ponderosa ranch home from Bonanza! I was waiting for this video and I'm so happy that I'm seeing it. I'm also a sucker for good old western shows. Laramie, The Rifleman, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train & so on. I would love to see the homes of Dylan McKay, Jess Harper & Slim Sherman revisited as well. Bravo!! 👏👍🏻🙏🏼
Thanks for the suggestions.
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Can't wait to settle down to watch
Hope you like it.
Love your videos Marina! You are amazing.
Thank you!
Fantastic tour! I thoroughly enjoyed this one. I can still hear that theme song. I am going to Google this but I always remember the episode where Hoss finds the Leprechauns. I want to say that it was a Saint Patricks Day episode. Of all the old TV shows I never see this in reruns anywhere. Thank you for sharing all your hard work. ❤
Yes! I read about that episode while making this. They were thinking outside of the norm with that one. I can see why you remember it. I believe I was able to find that episode on RUclips. I know I watched clips after I read about it.
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You can watch all 431 episodes on You Tube. During the first Covid Lock down I watched every episode. I had not seen this show since the 1960s so it was very nostalgic for me as I loved the show. So much a part of my childhood, although as I grew older I started to dislike westerns. I had so many favourites. Hoss and the Leprechauns; The Hayburner, Joe Cartwright Detective, Ponderosa Matador, plus so many more. I didn’t like it after Dan Blocker died as I feel he made the show. I never had a brother but I sure would have loved someone like Hoss, unfortunately Dan Blocker did have a filthy mouth especially about women Which would not be allowed in todays climate! I would love to go back in time and be on the set and watch them make the show, that would be so great!
We really love all your videos you do an amazing job! We would love to see the Partridge family, Family Ties, Golden girls, the Addams family, and Murder She Wrote houses. I think all these houses have such interesting floorplans and you could do an amazing job with them thank you.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Thoroughly enjoyed even though I wasn’t familiar with this home. Looking forward to the little house episode. Thanks Marina!
I loved this though I don't think I ever saw more than a couple episodes. This came on Sunday nights I think at 9:00 and it was past my bedtime but I remember hearing that theme as I was in bed and I loved it. My dad was from the south and loved all the westerns. He was a big fan of "Bonanza." I hope to someday see all the episodes as I love Michael Landon's other shows and he was so young and cute on "Bonanza."
If I could make a suggestion as to another show's house, the entire 12 seasons of "My Three Sons" is now on you tube and I am enjoying watching it again. I haven't seen it since I was a kid. The family lived in a town called Bryant Park (I don't remember which state) and moved to California at the beginning of season 8. I notice that the upstairs looks pretty much the same in the California home as in the Bryant Park home though the downstairs is entirely different. As you like to "pick a season and stick with it" I'd suggest you do the California home. It was much roomier in the downstairs. Oh yeah, the kitchen and Uncle Charlie's room (previously Bub's room) is identical in both the Bryant Park and California homes. It was fun to watch all the changes in the rooms. As the boys got older and Robbie and Katie were married they had to add onto Robbie's room for the triplets. A year later Rob and Katie moved out and Steve moved in and married Barbara and Steve's former room was given to Barbara's daughter Dodie. They had to repaint everything.
Again, I love watching these home tours. Thanks for all your hard work.
I will definitely be doing My Three Sons. I may show both homes to show the differences. Depends how much time it looks like it would take.
The door to the kitchen from the outside did eventually end up where you put it. The one thing that still confuses everybody is the upstairs layout - it changed so many times especially the number of bedrooms. To support at least four bedrooms upstairs (and the size of them), the main floor have had to been much larger. It has been speculated that there was at least one other room behind the wall (on the other side of the fireplace). In some later years episodes, there is a narrow hallway near the stairs leading to the outside. Also, some later episodes there was a back entrance to the house that wasn't shown but referenced.
Bonanza was the first western I ever really watched and it ignited a love for all things western! This was fascinating. Thank you! As a side note, I would LOVE for you to do the Collins' and the "old house" from Dark Shadows!
I will definitely be doing Dark Shadows!
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Like you touched on, there is a running joke among very long time fans of Bonanza that the upstairs, front 'bedroom' window, above the porch - that we often saw various people looking out of - was attached to a 'room' that couldn't even exist, due to the HIGH vaulted ceiling of the great room / dining room area below it !
Something was pointed out to me, YEARS later, that the fireplace - out of necessity, and to cut down on escaping smoke into the main room, and the danger of the whole set burning down - was actually a natural gas fire place they could just turn on and off depending on the time of season, and / or the mood they wanted to portray ! The 'consistency of the flames' proves it.
Bonanza was such a great, long lived / long loved series - with that great cast - that we can 'ignore' the little details like these ! ;)
For those interested here's a great tour of the Ponderosa ranch house replica that Lorne Greene had built at Mesa, Arizona. It has been deemed a historic site, so IS protected.
BONANZA 'PONDEROSA II' TV House Replica Built By LORNE GREENE
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Yep. I agree. Love the show so much and the set design, I'll let the inconsistencies be. 😊
Thank you for picking Bonanza I love this home ...so cozy, Another show I would love to see is Family..
I have had a lot of requests for that home and will get to it someday. I loved that house too.
nice! it's not a show or tv home i'm very familiar with but i have seen enough bits and pieces of episodes to know what you're working with - thanks for all the details on the upstairs which i did not know even existed :)
Another amazing video! I love your channels. How about doing Southfork from Dallas and Manderley from Rebecca.
I do plan on doing Southfork someday. And I loved the home in Rebecca. Gloomy, but cool. The old black and white version with Joan Fontaine and Lawrence Olivier!