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EntertainmentLittleHouseonthePrairie Biography

American Western historical drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, Karen Grassle, and Melissa Sue Anderson, about a family living on a farm in Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. The show is an adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilders best-selling series of Little House books. In 1972, with the encouragement of his wife and daughter, television producer and former NBC executive Ed Friendly acquired the film and television rights to Wilder’s novels from Roger Lea MacBride and engaged Blanche Hanalis to write the teleplay for a two-hour motion picture pilot. Friendly then asked Michael Landon to direct the pilot; Landon agreed on the condition that he could also play Charles Ingalls. The regular series was preceded by a two-hour pilot movie, which first aired at 9 PM on 30 March 1974. The pilot was based on Laura Ingalls Wilders third Little House book in the series, Little House on the Prairie. The series premiered on the NBC network on 11 September 1974, and last aired on 10 May 1982. During the 1982–1983 television season, with the departure of Landon and Grassle, a sequel series was broadcast with the new title Little House: A New Beginning, generally considered Season Nine for syndicated packages. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less