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Little House on the Prairie (TV series)

Little House on the Prairie (TV series)
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Television
NameLittle House on the Prairie
GenreFamily Drama
Western
Developed byBlanche Hanalis
Directed byWilliam F. Claxton
Maury Dexter
Victor French
Michael Landon
Leo Penn
StarringMichael Landon
Melissa Gilbert
Karen Grassle
Melissa Sue Anderson
Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush
Matthew Laborteaux
Richard Bull
Katherine MacGregor
Alison Arngrim
Jonathan Gilbert
Kevin Hagen
Dabbs Greer
Victor French
Merlin Olsen
Dean Butler
Linwood Boomer
Shannen Doherty
Allison Balson
Missy Francis
Jason Bateman
Theme music composerDavid Rose
ComposerDavid Rose
Country of originUnited States
LanguageEnglish
No. of seasons9
No. of episodes203 (plus 5 specials)
List of episodesList of Little House on the Prairie episodes
Production
Executive producerMichael Landon
Ed Friendly
ProducerJohn Hawkins
William F. Claxton
Running time45 � 48 minutes
Production companyEd Friendly Productions
NBC Productions
DistributorWorldvision Enterprises
CBS Television Distribution (USA)
NBCUniversal International Television Distribution (non-USA)
Broadcast
Original channelNBC
Picture formatNTSC
Audio formatMonaural
First airedSeptember 11, 1974
Last airedMarch 21, 1983
Preceded byLittle House on the Prairie (film)
Followed byLittle House: Look Back to Yesterday
Related showsFather Murphy

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'Little House on the Prairie' is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon and Melissa Gilbert, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s. The show was an adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder's best-selling series of Little House books. Television producer and NBC executive Ed Friendly became aware of this enduring story in the early 1970s. He asked Michael Landon to direct the pilot movie, who agreed on the condition that he could also play Charles Ingalls.

The regular series was preceded by a two-hour pilot movie that first aired on March 30, 1974. The series began on the NBC network on September 11, 1974, and ended on May 10, 1982. During the 1982-83 television season, with the departure of Michael Landon and Karen Grassle, the series was broadcast with the new title Little House: A New Beginning.


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