maybe not to every ones liking but not low grade. I think you will find many show ideas and names were used by most shows back then it could be they were easy to remember, spell, or may have been like Smith and Jones is here sort of generic names.And I must say for a show to stay on for 5 years, I would not say it was a low grade show. It gave some of us a chance to find we could like a guy from a differant country so to say yup Manolito made Friday night worth waiting for and he would still he has aged well.also it was he who had me taking Spanish in high school. no it was not a marriage of love but of honor and connivance. Montana, so on and so on.Įasier to have wind storms, more attacks by Indians, more contact with those from Mexico, It also brought up the way some ranches were run by family ties John marring the young Victoria making both ranches stronger. Well since the west was settled by alot of men and the west dose take in AZ then it makes sense to have a show about a family there, since they would not be facing the same problems as those in Wyoming, Cal. It must have been against some big popular show to have faded into away from memory so quickly. I don't know much about High Chaparral and haven't looked up anything about it, but it seems to me to be a lower grade show than BV and even Bonanza.

Perhaps he borrowed from the other shows. Wasn't Don Alfredo's daughter Maria in the BV episode 'Winner Lose All' her last name was Montoya? It seems whomever produced or wrote for High Chaparral also did so for Bonanza. Interesting that the character's name in High Chaparral is Victoria Montoya. The actress that plays Victoria in High Chaparral is from Argentina. The actress that places the main character's young Mexican wife looks very similar to the actress that played in the BV episode 'The Emperor of Rice'. No, no, no!!! I can't get into it! I want Big Valley back. Then the main character gets married off to a much younger, wealthy Mexican's daughter. Those qualities alone would keep anybody mad. Maybe because his wife died in Episode 1? Why in the hey would he pick Arizona anyhow? Dry, hot, dusty and smack in the middle of Apache and Mexican disputed territories. The main character always seems mad, angry at something. Aww! Just what I feared INSP took off two Big Valley episodes a day and replaced it with that odd show 'High Chaparral'.

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