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Ed Friendly | TV producer, 85

Television producer Ed Friendly, 85, who helped create the hits Little House on the Prairie and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In , has died.

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Television producer Ed Friendly, 85, who helped create the hits

Little House on the Prairie

and

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

, has died.

Mr. Friendly, who battled cancer for a year, died Sunday at his home in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., Warren Cowan, a spokesman for the family, said Tuesday.

Ed Friendly Productions was founded in 1967 after he moved from New York to California. Laugh-In, the sketch comedy show that Mr. Friendly created with George Schlatter, became a sensation after it debuted in 1968, making stars of Dick Martin, Dan Rowan, Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin.

Mr. Friendly also helped produce Little House, which ran from 1974-83 and was based on the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. In addition, he produced TV movies, specials and miniseries. The 1979 miniseries Backstairs at the White House was nominated for 11 Emmys. - AP

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