Ponderosa Ranch However, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, and David Canary often made appearances at the ranch in costume to mingle with fans and sign autographs. Blocker died in 1972, and NBC canceled the series the following year. Canary, dressed in character as Candy, made his last visit there in 2002 for a PAX-TV special. Mitch Vogel (Jamie Cartwright) appeared at the ranch for the Travel Channel's "TV Road Trip" in 2002, in which he pitched a behind-the-scenes look at the Ponderosa Ranch and Incline Village. Copies of the "Ponderosa Map", autographed by three of the Cartwrights, became souvenirs at the
Movie ranch is a movie ranch in Sonora, California, which served as a location for "Bonanza", "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.", "Little House on the Prairie" and other productions. The outdoor sets built for "Back to the Future Part III" (1990) and used in "Bad Girls" (1994) were destroyed by a lightning strike wildfire in 1996. LINKS: The former Republic Pictures Movie Ranch off Soledad Canyon became the Walt Disney Golden Oak Ranch in 1959. The ranch is located in central Placerita Canyon near Newhall, California in the northern San Gabriel Mountains foothills. It was named for the Gold discovery by