Any Little House on the Prairie Fans?

[fantasymagic]

I've been home taking care of my dad, and I found reruns 4 times a day of Little House on the Prairie. I had forgotten just how much I loved that show. So now, my dad and I watch 2 hours of it regularly. I think my dad likes it because the plots are simple and he can follow them, the humor is straightforward and the characters are predictable. I had sort of forgotten about the last season, which was with Laura grown up, Charles and Caroline have moved away, and a new family bought the Ingalls farm. I like the earlier shows better. Charles Ingalls just needs to be in the show.

Does anyone else remember/like/love this show? Does anyone have a favorite character or episode? I remember the Christmas show where Isaiah Edwards travelled through a blizzard to bring Christmas gifts to the Ingalls. I like Nels for always trying to bring Harriet in line.

Oh, for any As the World Turns fans, Gwenn Norbeck is Michael Landon's daughter.

 

[floridafam]

LOVE IT!

I watch it with my kids when they get home from school. We just love laughing at the way Mrs. Oleson acts.

My kids like to see how simple life was back then and the way everyone is so hepful and kind.

 

[grinningghost]

I've been watching it since it's debut and I never tire of the reruns. My two favorite episodes are the one where the Ingalls and the Olesons go on a camping trip together and the one where Mrs. Oleson becomes the school teacher and makes the kids wear uniforms and learn French.

Needless to say - Mrs. Oleson made the show.

 

[MickeysMommy]

I love that show. I think it's on at 8 on TV Land or something like that. I like it better when Laura and Albert are a little older and Nellie is with Percival. Too funny.

 

[liamsaunt]

When my sister and I were kids, Little House on the Prairie was one of the very very few shows on TV that we were allowed to watch. Loved the show! My Mom even made us dress up outfits, complete with sunbonnets. Laura was Laura Ingalls (of course!), and I had to be Carrie. We had one of those life-sized dolls that we used to dress up in "prairie clothes" also, and she was Mary Ingalls.

 

[floridafam]

Did the actress that played Mrs. Oleson ever win an Emmy?

She was just brilliant.

One of our favorite episodes is where the whole family buys Christmas gifts for eachother. I think Laura sold her pony to buy Ma a stove. Mary worked for a seamstress and made Pa a shirt.

There was another episode where they didn't have much money and they all worked real hard and they went to the Mercantile at the end and purchased the stuff they needed using cash after paying off their account. Mrs. Oleson was quite shocked.

 

[rhanditresmom]

I love it! I've managed to get my kids hooked as well! What a great show.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Me See my tag

 

[disneymouse]

i'm reading the series of little house books to my ds6 now. he loves it!

 

[floridafam]

My son's 3rd grade teacher is a big Little House fan and reads the books to them in class sometimes.

The local children's theatre put on a Little House Christams play over the holidays.

 

[Maleficent13]

I also admit I am a closet Little House on the Prairie watcher.

 

[DisneyBug1995]

I was just telling my DH last night that with them remaking all the old TV shows and movies that I would like to see them remake Little House on the Prairie. The Disney Channel remade and ran a few episodes last spring. Even though they weren't as good as the original I still enjoyed watching them.

Last Friday my DD's class had Pioneer Days. They dressed up like pioneers and in the morning they did things the pioneer way, made corn bread, learned to crochet, quilting, candle making etc. They had to bring a pioneer type lunch and then in the afternoon they watched Little House on the Prairie. My DD loved it!!

 

[Morganpics]

Me, too! I enjoy the earlier years when they first came to Walnut Grove. I like being able to watch a show that keeps people dressed, they aren't trying to find each other's tonsils, and they talk without turning the air blue.

 

[AuntieM03]

I love Little House. I especially enjoyed when Nellie and Laura were competing for Almanzo. I have that season on DVD.

I also love the books. They have a series of my first Little House books that I bought for my cousins 2 year old. She loves them.

 

[DisneyMomx7]

Always loved Little House on the Prarie tv show. When I was young I read all the little house books. I just started reading Little House in the Big Woods to my dds (7 and 8).

 

[cardaway]

I'm a huge fan. It was one of the few "family" shows ever made that didn't go too far and turn into preachy junk.

Sadly, the DVD production has been terrible. Hopefully they will get it right someday or they will never stop running them on TV.

 

[foxfire]

Yes, I'm a fan! I faithfully watched the show when it first aired and still love to watch the reruns.

My DS was given the LH set of books when he was small. About every other year or so, I reread the entire set during the winter months. I don't know how many times I've read them but it's a lot. We have been to DeSmet, South Dakota to the Ingall's homestead out on the prairie and to the different places in town where they had a store and lived (during the Long Winter), also Ma and Pa's house where they lived their final years. We have also been to Rocky Ridge Farm in Missouri where Laura, Almonzo, and Rose moved after all the hardships they endured in South Dakota. Getting to see the places Laura described in the books was very special since I'm such a big fan.

 

[Maleficent13]

I'm a huge fan. It was one of the few "family" shows ever made that didn't go too far and turn into preachy junk.

Sadly, the DVD production has been terrible. Hopefully they will get it right someday or they will never stop running them on TV.

How is it terrible? I had been considering picking up a few, but if they're that bad, forget it.

 

[Beth76]

My two favorite episodes are the one where the Ingalls and the Olesons go on a camping trip together and the one where Mrs. Oleson becomes the school teacher and makes the kids wear uniforms and learn French.

Those are both great. The Oleson's got poison ivy after using it for toilet paper! I just watched an episode the other day and it was the one where Rev. Alden was courting a woman. Mrs Oleson caught them kissing in his room (after she barged in w/o knocking) and demanded that he be fired because they were *gasp* making love!!!!! Then she finally admits she was wrong and has to apologize to him. I think that may have been the only time she ever apologized to someone.

 

[Trish Bessette]

Count me in! I've a hugh fan! That was my favorite show growing up to watch.

I have two sisters and one year for halloween my mom made the best Little House on the Prairie costumes complete with the bonnets. My older sister was Mary, I was Laura and my younger sister was Carrie. We all carried a wired basket with hay on the bottom and eggs in it. It was my favorite Halloween memory.

My youngest DD loves it too! I started buying the different Season DVD's of Little House on the Prairie for her. Their around $45 and have I think 7 DVD's in a box. Money well spent I say

Yes, I knew that Gwenn was Michael Landon's daughter. She does a great job on the soap!