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Only Classic Television Experts Can Ace This 1950s TV Character Quiz

Sara Portnoy

He played the patriarch on this Western series.

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Retry Correct Incorrect Lorne Greene played the thrice-widowed patriarch on the hit Western series Bonanza. The show ran from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973 and became NBC’s longest-running Western in history.

He played the patriarch on this Western series.

  • Bonanza
  • Tales of Wells Fargo
  • The Rebel
  • The Deputy
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