'Little House on the Prairie' cast talk 50th anniversary, remember Michael Landon
Table Of Content Screenwriter Jason Bateman as James Cooper Ingalls Storyline Episodes204 Movies & TV One-shot characters Michael Landon starred on Highway to Heaven before dying in 1991 Landon kept right on acting following his time on "Little House." He signed on to produce and star in yet another long-running and beloved series, "Highway to Heaven," which was on the air from 1984 to 1989 (per IMDb). Unfortunately, Landon didn't act in many other projects following that series. He shared his diagnosis of pancreatic cancer in April 1991, and died on July 1 of the same year (via People). When Gilbert released her memoir "Prairie Tale" in 2009, many were stunned to hear about a life that wasn't as rosy as it seemed. In the book, she describes her time on the set of the show as "a fantasy where I was a happy-go-lucky kid with a larger-than-life surrogate father in Michael Landon" (per Today). The performers on the Emmy-winning serie...