Vintage 1978 Little House On The Prairie Metal Lunch Box No Thermos 1970s
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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 La...ndon, Melissa Gilbert, Karen Grassle, and Melissa Sue Anderson, 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.[1] 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 a 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.[2]As of 2016, a film adaptation of the pilot movie was underway at Paramount Pictures, [3] with Sean Durkin as the director, Scott Rudin as the producer, and Abi Morgan as the screenwriter.[4]