BONANZA
Bonanza is an NBC television
western series that ran from 1959 to 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 431 episodes,
Bonanza is NBC's longest-running western, and ranks overall as the
second-longest-running western series on U.S. network television (behind CBS's
Gunsmoke), and within the top 10 longest-running, live-action American series.
The show continues to air in syndication. The show is set around the 1860s and
it centers on the wealthy Cartwright family, who live in the area of Virginia
City, Nevada, bordering Lake Tahoe. The series stars Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker,
Michael Landon, Pernell Roberts (who left after six seasons), and later David
Canary and Mitch Vogel. The show is known for presenting moral dilemmas.
LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE
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.
MICHAEL LANDON
Michael Landon (born Eugene
Maurice Orowitz; October 31, 1936 – July 1, 1991) was an American actor,
writer, director, and producer. He is known for his roles as Little Joe
Cartwright in Bonanza (1959–73), Charles Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie
(1974–83), and Jonathan Smith in Highway to Heaven (1984–89). Landon appeared
on the cover of TV Guide 22 times, second only to Lucille Ball.
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