“Facing fate with faith”

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Profile on the life and death of an LDS man who died of ALS.  He has some pretty impressive credits, including Mr Krueger’s Christmas and Little House on the Prairie:

Wallengren, a Heber City native, hadn’t stopped moving since he began his television career as a writing apprentice on “Little House on the Prairie” straight out of college. As a recently returned LDS missionary, he wrote the 1980 teleplay “Mr. Krueger’s Christmas,” a light tale featuring Jimmy Stewart as a housebound janitor who fantasizes about conducting the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Later, he wrote and produced dozens of episodes of television series such as “Doc,” “Touched by an Angel,” “The New Adventures of Flipper,” “Life Goes On” and “Falcon Crest.” He produced the first episode of “Baywatch,” but backed away from the show after seeing the bawdy direction it was taking.