This is the favorite show of an elderly relative I take care of, so we watch a couple episodes every day. There is a big block of these shows daily on one of the Christian channels. I loved it as a kid when it was a weekly show and I am surprised at how well it still stands up, the storytelling, acting and music are all very good.
Right? And Mary, Caroline and Laura with the loss of newborns, the fire, blindness, etc. What about Spoiler Albert’s diagnosis or leukemia and presumed Death ? Definitely not ending all nice and fluffy. I have to wonder if some of the people criticizing the show for these reasons even watched it...
yes it was Prairie Drama at it's best! : ) It's just cool to put down the show or those who do watch it are afraid to admit it as they will get immediately tossed off the bandwagon...ahaha!
The early series sometimes copied the books directly, using the exact same dialog and everything, but as Landon said, you have to invent stories for the number of episodes.
I would like to see more shows for the elderly. I am embarrassed for our society when I go in a nursing home and see some of the crap being shown on the community room daytime tv. Elderly people shouldn't have to sit and watch shows with DNA tests to determine who the baby daddy is.
That's another quality show that families can watch together. I always watch it if I happen to catch it on TV.
Here's a web article about the fire and Mary's baby dying episode: TV Legends Revealed | 'Little House on the Prairie' and the Baby Battering Ram Apparently, Alice Garvey didn't actually try to smash the glass with the baby. It just looked like it because the glass was hard to break for a woman.
Charles Ingalls was a REAL DAD, would take on ANY JOB to provide for his family. We need more like him today.
I like the original books better, but loved the show when it was new and I was younger. I like it much more than the Waltons as my great grandmother on my Mom's side who I knew and talked to had similar prairie stories and started out in the same part of the U.S. before she moved north as a young adult. It got into a bit of a formula rut eventually like any tv series, and had those comic relief characters Nellie Olsen and her mother sometimes too much for me. I tried to watch a later version based on the books but it was a bit lackluster.
I absolutely loved it!! I still watch it whenever there's an episode on TV. I had FOR YEARS the fear of going blind overnight, especially when I started wearing glasses at age 12. The one in which she falls into a hole?
Yesterday they had that dream episode where Laura and Albert got kidnapped by Indians. I remember this being a big deal when it was first shown, it had a special section in the TV Guide with a couple paragraphs dedicated to it.
I remember a strange episode with Carrie and an imaginary world of some kind... would like to see that particular one again. It was artistic and different from the usual drama episodes. Mary going blind was really quite gripping and scary in the show for awhile. There were some really high quality single episodes that were also informative or made you think/feel empathy.