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From: waltt@tekecs.UUCP (Walt Tucker)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: BONANZA TV SHOW (Adam's hair & Mitch Vogel)
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Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 18:25:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 12 18:25:59 1985
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> Parnell Roberts played the oldest son, Adam Cartwright.  And boy, was he
> good-looking before his hair shifted to the lower part of his face!
> 
> 	Sandy T.

About 15 years ago, I remember seeing an article about the success of BONANZA.
The article chronicled the cast changes, etc.  It has been too long ago to
remember all the particulars, but I seem to recall that Parnell Roberts went
bald at a rather young age and actually wore a toupee during his stint on
the show.  I think that this was his choice.  He wanted to be presented to
the television viewing audience with hair rather than without it (seems he
thought it helped his image a bit more as this was somewhat early in his
acting career and being bald somewhat limited his career paths).  It seems 
he also left the show because of some sort of dispute.  I don't remember if 
it was money, contract, hair, scandal, personality conflict or what the 
dispute was.

Of course, all this is dredging pretty far back into my memory.  Can anybody 
verify the above?

                               -- Walt Tucker
                                  Tektronix, Inc.


> The actor who played Candy was David Canary.

Didn't Mitch Vogel play for half a season on Bonanza?  Maybe it was only
a guest shot, as this has been a long time ago.  BTW, what ever happened
to him?  He seemed to be a pretty hot young actor on the rise in the early
70's, then kind of disappeared (sort of like Billy Mumy).

                           -- Walt Tucker