| Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Stephen Harrigan |
| Directed by | Marcus Cole |
| Starring | Richard Thomas Lindsay Crouse Meredith Monroe Barbara Jane Reams Haley McCormick Walton Goggins Skye McCole Bartusiak Tess Harper |
| Theme music composer | Ernest Troost |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Producers | Robert M. Rolsky Stephen Harrigan (part 2) |
| Running time | 200 minutes (approx.) |
| Original release | |
| Network | CBS |
| Release | January 2, 2000 – March 17, 2002 |
Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder and its sequel Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, are television films shown in two parts, the first in 2000 and the second in 2002, which presented episodes from the later books in the Little House on the Prairie series (from The Long Winter to The First Four Years).
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Little House on the Prairie is a 1974 American television film which served as the backdoor pilot to the homonymous NBC television series it started. It is closely based on the novel of the same title; the second of the Little House book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The pilot film was produced by Ed Friendly with the script written by Blanche Hanalis and directed by Michael Landon.
Laura, the Prairie Girl is a Japanese anime television series based on the novels Little House in the Big Woods and Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Twenty-six half-hour episodes were released between 1975 and 1976.
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Caroline Fraser is an American writer. She won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, and the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, for Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, a biography of American author Laura Ingalls Wilder.
