Kronika dobrodružství Bena Cartwrighta a jeho synů.
V době vysílání velmi populární seriál o klanu Cartwrightů, kteří v Nevadě okolo roku 1860 v blízkosti města Virginie, obhospodařovali svůj ranč - Ponderosa o rozloze o něco málo menší než Texas a pomáhali okolním rančerům.
Režie: William Witney, George Blair, John Brahm, Bernard McEveety, Jean Yarbrough, Tay Garnett, Joseph Sargent, Robert Butler, Vincent McEveety, E. W. Swackhamer, Richard C. Sarafian, John Rich, William F. Claxton, Joseph Pevney, R.G. Springsteen, Lewis All
Scénář: S. H. Barnett, Douglas Day Stewart, Palmer Thompson, Leo Gordon, Stanley Adams, Dean Riesner, Herman Hoffman, Daniel B. Ullman, Clair Huffaker, Denne Bart Petitclerc, W.R. Burnett, John Twist, Thomas Thompson, Ken Pettus, George W. George, George F. Slavin, Harold Jack Bloom, Gene L. Coon, Halsted Welles, Eric Norden, Suzanne Clauser, William H. Wright, Laurence Heath, Borden Chase, Melvin Levy, Robert Buckner, Gordon T. Dawson, D.C. Fontana, Robert Sabaroff, Robert Pirosh, A.I. Bezzerides, Richard Bartlett, Charles Lang, Harold Shumate, Don Tait, John T. Dugan, Jackson Gillis, N.B. Stone Jr., William F. Leicester, Shirl Hendryx, Reuben Bercovitch, Anthony Wilson, Robert L. Welch, Michael Fessier, William Blinn, John Hawkins, Ward Hawkins, Don Ingalls, Clifford Irving, Richard Alan Shapiro, Michael Fisher, John Tucker Battle, Howard Dimsdale, Meyer Dolinsky, Richard H. Landau, Richard Carr, E. Jack Neuman, Esther Shapiro, David Lang, William Raynor, Robert M. Fresco, Nat Tanchuck, Cy Chermak, William Douglas Lansford, Stephen Lord, Laurence E. Mascott, Jack Turley, Donald S. Sanford, David Dortort, Anthony Lawrence, Seeleg Lester, William D. Gordon, Frank Telford, Frank Chase, Fred Freiberger, Joseph Hoffman, Jack B. Sowards, Dick Nelson, Herman Groves, Sidney Ellis, Harold Swanton, Joel Murcott, Juanita Bartlett, John Furia, Al C. Ward, Larry Markes, Walter Black, Myles Wilder, Alvin Sapinsley, Peter Packer, Judith Barrows, Robert Guy Barrows, Jean Holloway, Lois Hire, E.M. Parsons, Bill S. Ballinger, Joseph Bonaduce
Produkce: Robert Blees, Richard Collins, David Dortort
Kamera: Bert Glennon, William E. Snyder
Hudba: Walter Scharf, Harry Sukman
Hraje: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Pernell Roberts, David Canary, Tim Matheson, Lou Frizzell, Johnny Whitaker, Richard Thomas, George Macready, Stella Stevens, Elisha Cook Jr., Richard Farnsworth, Dick Miller, Frank Overton, Mary Wickes, Louise Sorel, Joe Turkel, Victoria Vetri, Gale Garnett, Buddy Ebsen, Ned Romero, Louis Gossett Jr., Michael Rennie, Charles Dierkop, John Anderson, Brooke Bundy, BarBara Luna, Slim Pickens, Jean Willes, Morton Lewis, Linda Cristal, Buck Taylor, Hampton F, Ray Teal, Roy Engel, Victor Sen Yung, Bruno VeSota, Mitch Vogel, Bing Russell, Martha Manor, Troy Melton, Hal Burton, Bob Miles, Harry Holcombe, Grandon Rhodes, Bill Clark