Little House on the Prairie is an
American one-hour dramatic
television program that aired on the
NBC network from September 11, 1974, to March 21, 1983, bumping the long-running
Adam-12 series to Tuesday nights. During the 1982-83 television season, with the departure of
Michael Landon, the series was broadcast with the new title
Little House: A New Beginning. A three-hour compilation special called
The Little House Years was aired in 1979. (The series itself was preceded by a two-hour
pilot movie that first aired on March 30, 1974).
The show was a loose adaptation of
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s best-selling series of
Little House on the Prairie books. Readers of the books will notice huge discrepancies between the book series and the shows.