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Edwin "Ed" Samson Friendly Jr. (April 8, 1922 – June 17, 2007) was an American television producer. He was responsible for creating the television programs Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Little House on the Prairie, and Backstairs at the White House.
Jun 22, 2007 · June 22, 2007. Ed Friendly, co-producer of hit television shows including the rambunctious “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” and the frontier saga “Little House on the Prairie,” died Sunday at his...
Mar 30, 2018 · Ed Friendly was a TV producer who created and executive-produced the classic show Little House on the Prairie, based on Laura Ingalls Wilder's books. Learn about his career, his family, and his passion for the Little House stories.
Jun 20, 2007 · Ed Friendly, a producer who brokered the deal that brought “Laugh-In” to television and who created the series “Little House on the Prairie” after noticing his daughter reading the books, has...
Ed Friendly. Producer: Little House on the Prairie. Ed Friendly was born in New York on 8 April 1922 and spent the summers of his youth in Idaho where he participated in rodeos. After Pearl Harbor he joined the United States Army as a private and emerged as an infantry captain.
- Producer, Additional Crew, Actor
- April 8, 1922
- Ed Friendly
- June 17, 2007
Ed Friendly (born April 8, 1922-died June 17, 2007) served as co-executive producer of NBC-TV's Little House on the Prairie series with creator Blanche Hanalis and series co-star Michael Landon.
Ed Friendly. Producer. 7 April 1922 to 16 June 2007. Two television shows stand out on the CV of Friendly, who could justifiably lay claim to have produced a pair of iconic American programmes.
