<Tr> <Th> Followed by </Th> <Td> Little House on the Prairie: A Look Back to Yesterday </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Related shows </Th> <Td> Father Murphy </Td> </Tr> <P> Little House on the Prairie (known as Little House: A New Beginning in its final season) 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 . </P> <P> 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 . </P>

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