The opening credits would alternate the order among the four stars. Greene, Roberts, Blocker, and Landon were billed equally. Starring: Lorne Greene ( Ben Cartwright) (credit only), Dan Blocker ( Hoss Cartwright ), Michael Landon ( Little Joe Cartwright ) Special Guest Stars: Joan Van Ark (Annie Laurie Adams. The family's cook was the Chinese immigrant Hop Sing (Victor Sen Yung). Sweet Annie Laurie is the fifteenth episode of the tenth season of Bonanza, and the three hundred eighteenth episode overall. Via exposition (Bonanza, 'Rose For Lotta', premiere September 12, 1959) and flashback episodes, each wife was accorded a different ethnicity: English (Bonanza, 'Elizabeth My Love' episode #65) Swedish (Bonanza, 'Inger My Love', episode #95) and French Creole (Bonanza, 'Marie My Love', episode #120) respectively. He had three sons, each by a different wife: the eldest was the urbane architect 'Adam Cartwright' (Pernell Roberts) who built the ranch house the second was the warm and lovable giant Eric 'Hoss' Cartwright (Dan Blocker) and the youngest was the hotheaded and impetuous Joseph or 'Little Joe' (Michael Landon). 0:00 / 1:01:07 Bonanza - S10E15 - Sweet Annie Laurie Video Archives 1.46K subscribers Subscribe 0 Share 91 views 2 years ago An outlaw allows his wife (Joan Van Ark) to think she has killed.
The show chronicles the weekly adventures of the Cartwright family, headed by the thrice-widowed patriarch 'Ben Cartwright' (Lorne Greene).
