Dead Fictional Girlfriends Report: Bonanza!
For 6 years now, I've been investigating the question, "Which fictional character has the most dead girlfriends?" I'd like to thank everyone who has already read my reports on James Bond and Captain Kirk and/or provided suggestions for additional subjects in this study. I cannot go any farther, however, until I report on a true American classic: the first TV show ever to stay in the Nielsen Top 5 for 9 seasons straight ; the namesake of the Cartwright Curse ; the triple-Emmy-winning series which popularized color TV, Bonanza. For best results: press play now. The Series Bonanza was a Western TV series that aired on NBC, in "glorious technicolor." It centered on a family in which the women are all dead. I'm not joking: the premise of this series is that Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene) has been married 3 times (to Elizabeth, Inger, and Marie) , and each of his wives died, leaving him with 1 son apiece (Adam, Hoss, and Little Joe, resp