"Little House On The Prairie" fans.. Can you help?

[CaliforniaDreamin]

ALBERT DIED? after all these years, I just learned this reading the post! Guess I better catch up on life in walnut grove!

Wow, I'm glad I'm not the only one on here who found out years later! I don't know how this slid under our radar for so long!!

 

[Family Fun Mom]

Nooooooo! Albert did die? Oh geez, that just breaks my heart! Why are all the male offspring (even adopted offspring) of Charles Ingalls cursed? Charles and Caroline's baby son died, so did Mary's baby son, Laura's son, Albert... so sad. That show can make me cry buckets. I cry at almost every darn episode. Sometimes it's happy tears, but I'm still crying.

 

[daisyduck123]

Nooooooo! Albert did die? Oh geez, that just breaks my heart! Why are all the male offspring (even adopted offspring) of Charles Ingalls cursed? Charles and Caroline's baby son died, so did Mary's baby son, Laura's son, Albert... so sad. That show can make me cry buckets. I cry at almost every darn episode. Sometimes it's happy tears, but I'm still crying.

They based it off of "real life". In real life, Charles & Caroline's only son, Freddie, did die. As did Laura's only son, & then her daughter, Rose, only had one child, a son, who died as an infant. So sad.

 

[ShesAPirate]

Actually, if you all want to get very technical, we never see Albert die. Couple that with the fact that the narration at the end of the 'Albert addicted to morphine' episode has Laura saying that he returned to Walnut Grove years later as Doctor Albert Ingalls -- it really leaves it open. The character of Albert was entirely fictional, so really there's no way to know what actually happened since the writers didn't definitively kill him off.
(Yes, I too am a Little House addict!)

 

[LOVETHATMOUSE]

I'm a huge LHOTP fan too! I'm always catching a show during the week. I just finished Melissa Gilberts "Prairie Tale"..Oh boy.. what a party girl! Pa would have whopped her hide !!!

 

[WDWorBUST]

It has been years since I have watched Little House....but I LOVED it. Guess I now know what I'll be watching on maternity leave during all those newborn nursing sessions

 

[phorsenuf]

Actually, if you all want to get very technical, we never see Albert die. Couple that with the fact that the narration at the end of the 'Albert addicted to morphine' episode has Laura saying that he returned to Walnut Grove years later as Doctor Albert Ingalls -- it really leaves it open. The character of Albert was entirely fictional, so really there's no way to know what actually happened since the writers didn't definitively kill him off.
(Yes, I too am a Little House addict!)

I've always thought that was such a plot hole. In the episode with Albert returning though, that came years later (and was originally aired as a movie). They don't show him dying but it's implied. So I suppose he could have lived but I don't think so.

 

[barkley]

Actually, if you all want to get very technical, we never see Albert die. Couple that with the fact that the narration at the end of the 'Albert addicted to morphine' episode has Laura saying that he returned to Walnut Grove years later as Doctor Albert Ingalls -- it really leaves it open. The character of Albert was entirely fictional, so really there's no way to know what actually happened since the writers didn't definitively kill him off.
(Yes, I too am a Little House addict!)

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this drove me crazy (i hate it when tv shows dont keep up on their own history/storylines).


i never did care for the series that much because i loved the books and the series just did not follow them. i did however LOVE the miniseries of a few years back, it was SPOT ON accurate.

 

[RitaE]

They based it off of "real life". In real life, Charles & Caroline's only son, Freddie, did die. As did Laura's only son, & then her daughter, Rose, only had one child, a son, who died as an infant. So sad.

Yeah, but they also did an episode earlier in the series where Laura's infant brother dies. That ones too emotional for me to watch also.

 

[Erin1700]

My DD9 is just really getting into Little House! I only have the first 2 seasons so I hope Santa will bring us some more! She gets a kick out of Nancy when she sees them on tv!

 

[ColoradoMom!!]

Hallmark channel runs 3 episodes a day, from 3-6. usually the run in season/episode order.

Thanks phorsenuf -thank God it is on at exactly 1:00pm our time as a replacement for her soap that also aired at that time. It is a real blessing to us (as silly as it sounds) that she found something she likes at the same time. She has a host of health/brain issues, so a little bit of sunshine in her day (well - guess we better skip the sad ones) is a good thing!

Funny story - Little House was the only "fan letter" I have ever written, and I must have been about 10 when I wrote it. They sent me back a nice form letter, but it included a 8 x 10 glossy of the cast! I treasured that picture and hung it up in my pink shag carpeted room!

 

[jenlynn0808]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this drove me crazy (i hate it when tv shows dont keep up on their own history/storylines).


i never did care for the series that much because i loved the books and the series just did not follow them. i did however LOVE the miniseries of a few years back, it was SPOT ON accurate.

The one with Cameron Bancroft & Erin Cottrell? That is a good one, I watch it when ever I catch it on the Hallmark Channel.

This one http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0406032/

hmm...I had no idea it was a Disney presents movie.

 

[simba20]

I'm a huge LHOTP fan too! I'm always catching a show during the week. I just finished Melissa Gilberts "Prairie Tale"..Oh boy.. what a party girl! Pa would have whopped her hide !!!

I just read Allison's book "Confessions of a Prarie B****" WOW! Good stuff.

 

[suzanna1066@comcast.]

It has been years since I have watched Little House....but I LOVED it. Guess I now know what I'll be watching on maternity leave during all those newborn nursing sessions

That is so funny because that is what I did on maternity leave! My mother-in-law came to stay for a month (she lives in Germany) with me and the baby and we watched LHOP together every single day.

 

[luvmyfam444]

I'm just a casual fan - nothing like you guys! I watched it as a kid - but not mnay of the later years. I just saw the one a few months back of Albert on morphine - that was new to me & then the nose bleeds one.

I still cry all the time as do my girls.lol

 

[Nette]

I'm a huge LHOTP fan too! I'm always catching a show during the week. I just finished Melissa Gilberts "Prairie Tale"..Oh boy.. what a party girl! Pa would have whopped her hide !!!

I just read Allison's book "Confessions of a Prarie B****" WOW! Good stuff.

I was going to suggest Allison's book. I liked it even more than Melissa Gilbert's book. (Though, Allison's life was MUCH sadder) I want to know, though, what the heck is up with Melissa Sue Anderson?

It has been years since I have watched Little House....but I LOVED it. Guess I now know what I'll be watching on maternity leave during all those newborn nursing sessions

That is so funny because that is what I did on maternity leave! My mother-in-law came to stay for a month (she lives in Germany) with me and the baby and we watched LHOP together every single day.

That's what I did!!! That and read... read... read... (Including the two autobiographies above).

 

[Dr.Girlfriend]

ALBERT DIED? after all these years, I just learned this reading the post! Guess I better catch up on life in walnut grove!

He died??? I SWEAR there was an episode with a voice over from Laura at the end saying that Albert became a doctor as an adult....

 

[Dr.Girlfriend]

Actually, if you all want to get very technical, we never see Albert die. Couple that with the fact that the narration at the end of the 'Albert addicted to morphine' episode has Laura saying that he returned to Walnut Grove years later as Doctor Albert Ingalls -- it really leaves it open. The character of Albert was entirely fictional, so really there's no way to know what actually happened since the writers didn't definitively kill him off.
(Yes, I too am a Little House addict!)

AHHH I *knew* I remembered an episode with Laura saying that!!

 

[Dr.Girlfriend]

I think the hardest episode for me to watch is the one where Mary's baby dies in the fire. Ohmigosh, so heartbreaking.

 

[Family Fun Mom]

Actually, if you all want to get very technical, we never see Albert die. Couple that with the fact that the narration at the end of the 'Albert addicted to morphine' episode has Laura saying that he returned to Walnut Grove years later as Doctor Albert Ingalls -- it really leaves it open. The character of Albert was entirely fictional, so really there's no way to know what actually happened since the writers didn't definitively kill him off.
(Yes, I too am a Little House addict!)

YES! I remember seing that, too. For a minute there I thought I was going a little looney.

I wonder what the writers intended, did Albert survive his illness or did the writers throw out that little footnote about his returning as a doctor and decided to have him die in that special? We may never know.

So, Laura Ingalls Wilder never had a brother named Albert? They just made up that storyline for the show?