“No hon, I have been superstitious about the first year, and the second, the third, and the fourth, and so on,” Blocker joked. “I didn’t dream that the thing would go beyond the first year, and I had ...

Dan Blocker is best remembered as the gentle giant Hoss Cartwright on Bonanza, but his life could have taken a very different turn — long before the show, Blocker was preparing for a career that had ...