Michael Landon, known for his short temper and playing the patriarch of the Ingalls family on Little House on the Prairie, was not afraid to rebel against NBC and flatly rejected one of their ideas for the series.
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After his success in the western “Bonanza”, Michael Landon’s career took a new turn when the American network NBC decided to broadcast “Little House on the Prairie”, a series that the actor created, produced and wrote. In this family fiction, available at 6PlayThe late actor played Charles Ingalls, a family man who left Wisconsin to head west with his wife, dog and three daughters, Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson), Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and Carrie (twins Lindsay and Sydney Greenbush). to emigrate). Broadcast since 1974, “Little House on the Prairie” quickly captivated audiences in the United States and internationally. A worldwide success that the series owes to its lovable characters and its fascinating scenarios… and not to the action scenes that NBC had suggested to its creator.
Michael Landon: What the actor in “Little House on the Prairie” always refused to do
If “Little House on the Prairie” is known for its sweet and family side, NBC executives had suggested Add action scenes to give the American series a little more pizzazz. An idea that Michael Landon, the creator and executive producer, simply rejected because, in his opinion, it would lose the family aspect that viewers loved so much. “It was clear that I wasn’t going to do this kind of series. “Our characters are warm, sensitive and non-violent toward each other,” he told the Associated Press in the early 1980s.
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Little House on the Prairie: Final clap for the cult series at the end of its ninth season
The family and warm side of Little House on the Prairie attracted viewers until its cancellation in 1983, at the end of the ninth season. News that deeply disturbed Michael Landon, as Melissa Gilbert recounted in her biography “Prairie Tale.” “He was angry that he had not received an official call from NBC president Brandon Tartikoff or anyone at the network to inform him of the show’s fate. He had worked for the station since 1959. Seer It felt like a lack of respect, “His anger took over. “He wanted to destroy all the stage sets,” we read in his memoirs. “TV and film sets are often reused over time and none of us wanted the Olesons store to be used for another production.”
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