Hoss Cartwright Accidentally orders a Mail Order Bride. She Turns out to be a Liberal

[Seymour Flops]

Haven't watched it all, but the gist of it is that Limousine Lefty Marlo Thomas, in Asianface, is sold as a mail order bride after her socialist schoolmarm in China is executed for plotting against the Empress.

She comes to the Ponderosa, and insists that she is entitled to be in charge. She organizes the workers, starting with Hop Sing and then the ranch hands.

I won't spoil the ending for you, but it is one of the cleverest episodes of that show I've seen. I only wish they had cast at least a half-Asian in the role.

 

[Dr.Destructo]

I miss Hoss.

 

[wamose]

Loved that show. You know, that house and the Virginia City replica is still out there in Incline Village on the northeast side of Tahoe. It used to be open to the public but they say it turned into a zoo with all the cultists spreading their ashes there, trying to hide away in one of the buildings and honeymoon there, pitching tents there. It was an important part of so many peoples lives, mine included. One trivia fact. The stairway upstairs in the main house was a dead end. No bedrooms, just a landing and a wall.

 

[Twisted Gypsy Child]

I miss Hoss.

I miss Billy the Kid. Why is that a problem for You

because it sounds like you knew him....you cant figure that out?..

 

[Seymour Flops]

Loved that show. You know, that house and the Virginia City replica is still out there in Incline Village on the northeast side of Tahoe. It used to be open to the public but they say it turned into a zoo with all the cultists spreading their ashes there, trying to hide away in one of the buildings and honeymoon there, pitching tents there. It was an important part of so many peoples lives, mine included. One trivia fact.

I only used to watch it when visiting my grandma. I don't know why we never watched it at him. My grandma would talk as if the people were very real.

I learned to enjoy fiction that way, imagining that the people had real lives as their characters.

It was a dramatic western series but with such a sense of humor that the cast became a great comedy ensemble. Great comedy, minus the punchlines, I guess it was.

The stairway upstairs in the main house was a dead end. No bedrooms, just a landing and a wall.

Interesting.

 

[EMH]

Pretty funny, because the "Cheyenne" thread below, the episode linked, the first guy you meet is Dan Blocker years before getting cast as Hoss...

Cheyenne - S3 • E19 - Noose at Noon

When Cheyenne visits Jim O'Neil in Texas, he learns he is to hang the next day. Jim refuses to give Cheyenne any details nor did he defend himself at his trial. Against Jim's wishes, Cheyenne investigates the situation to save his friend.

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Thread '1958 TV great moment, "Cheyenne" show fully embraces "content of character"'

Aug 14, 2025

We all know the first interracial kiss on TV was Star Trek in the late 1960s, Kirk and Uhura.

A decade earlier in 1958, there was another stand for racial equality, courtesy of the "Cheyenne" show starring the late Clint Walker. "Cheyenne," a very well produced action western TV show about cowboy Cheyenne Bodie roaming from Texas to California to Montana and everywhere in between in the 1870s, started in 1955. For the first two seasons as far as I can tell, the show had Mexicans and Native Americans, but no blacks. Truth be told, at that time in those parts of the US, there were very...

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[wamose]

She's lucky she ended up with the Chinaman because the alternative, ending up with Hoss, would have ended in her death. On that show, agreeing to marry Hoss or Little Joe was a death sentence.

 

[Harry Dresden]

hoss aint real....billy was....you made it like you knew the guy....