Little House on the Prairie (TV series)
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| Also known as | 'Little House: A New Beginning (season 9) |
| Genre |
Western Drama |
| Based on | Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| Developed by | Blanche Hanalis |
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| Theme music composer | David Rose |
| Composer(s) | David Rose |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 9 |
| No. of episodes | 204 (+ 4 specials) (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Michael Landon Ed Friendly |
| Producer(s) | John Hawkins William F. Claxton |
| Running time | 48-49 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Ed Friendly Productions NBC |
| Distributor |
Worldvision Enterprises CBS Television Distribution (USA) NBCUniversal International Television Distribution (non-USA and Cozi airings) |
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| Original network | NBC |
| Picture format | NTSC |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | September 11, 1974 – March 21, 1983 |
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| Preceded by | Little House on the Prairie (film) |
| Followed by | Little House on the Prairie: A Look Back to Yesterday |
| Related shows | Father Murphy |
Little House on the Prairie is an American western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s. The show is an adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder's best-selling series of Little House books. Television producer and NBC executive Ed Friendly became aware of the story in the early 1970s. He asked Michael Landon to direct the pilot movie. Landon agreed on the condition that he could also play Charles Ingalls.
The regular series was preceded by the two-hour pilot movie, which first aired on March 30, 1974. The series premiered on the NBC network on September 11, 1974, and last aired on May 10, 1982. During the 1982–83 television season, with the departure of Landon and Grassle, the series was broadcast with the new title Little House: A New Beginning.
In 1997, TV Guide ranked the two-part episode "I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away" at 97 on its 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time list.
Based on the autobiographical "Little House" stories, episodes of Little House on the Prairie usually concern members of the Ingalls family, who live on a small farm near the village of Walnut Grove, Minnesota. Many episodes concern the maturation of the family's second daughter, Laura. However, episodes also focus on other family and community members, providing a depiction of life in a small agrarian community in late nineteenth-century America. The show's central characters are Charles Ingalls (farmer and mill worker), his wife Caroline, and their four daughters, Mary, Laura, Carrie, and Grace, though the family expands with the addition of adopted son Albert in season five and adopted siblings Cassandra and James at the end of season seven.
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