Little house on the prairie books5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The series was picked up for NBC’s 1974 fall lineup - in part because the similarly down-home family series The Waltons had become a surprise hit on CBS. “the one who falls down in the opening credits”). “the one who goes blind”), and Baby Carrie (a.k.a. “Half-Pint,” played by Melissa Gilbert), Mary (a.k.a. ![]() “Pa”), husband to Caroline “Ma” Ingalls and father to Laura (a.k.a. Landon starred as Charles Ingalls (a.k.a. It was a faithful adaptation of the novel of the same name, about young Laura Ingalls and her close-knit pioneer family, who travel by covered wagon to Kansas where they build a log cabin. In March 1974, the pilot of Little House on the Prairie aired as a two-hour movie on NBC. ![]() This week, we consider the seventies classic old-timey TV show Little House on the Prairie.īackground: Following his longtime role as Little Joe Cartwright on Bonanza, Michael Landon teamed up with producer Ed Friendly to adapt Laura Ingalls Wilder’s best-selling children’s novels for television. Now, years later, we will take a look at these classics in a more objective, unforgiving adult light: Are they really the best ever? How do they hold up now? We’ve already reconsidered a number of once-beloved entertainments. The Nostalgia Fact-Check is a recurring Vulture feature in which we revisit a seminal movie, TV show, or album that reflexively evinces an “Oh my God, that was the best ever!” response by a certain demographic, owing to it having been imprinted on them early. ![]()
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