Comments on: Little House on the Prairie

By: Amber

Amber — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:09:45 +0000

@ bzzyb

Interesting list. but I just watched the Blizzard episode and only one person dies.

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:57:35 +0000

I grew up there. I visited the set several times. Have a picture of me with Michael Landon. :0)

By: Jozie77

Jozie77 — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 02:05:49 +0000

does anyone know the reason Michael Landon stepped down from being the center of the show, in 1982? Was there something going on in his personal life? Was he sick of the show or the character he played in the show or was something going on outside of the show? I am talking 1982-1984.

By: Trudi

Trudi — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 02:56:57 +0000

The link again,

https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/The-Secrets-of-the-Santa-Susana-Field-Laboratory/337364244819

If you want to know more about the “Simi Valley Thing” or “Nuclear Meltdown 30 miles NW of downtown Los Angeles” Check out my FB page. I’ve been bringing awareness to this situation since 2007, it is still amazing to me that people today are still in the dark about it. I lived right next door to it, 1967 to 1971, out of 6 family members only 2 of us are living today. Cancers? yes, Thyroid? yes, cardiovascular? yes!

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:53:42 +0000

Laura’s friend with the shorter leg was named Olga, not Inga. :p
The actress was, indeed Kim Richards, real life sister of Kyle Richards, who played the role of Mr. Edwards’ adopted daughter.
My favorite episode of all time was the halloween episode where Nels cuts the head off a manniquin while Laura’s soaping the windows, and she thinks it was Mrs. Olsen.
Also loved the part where Laura set the bucket of green paint to catch The Creeper, only Pa trips it….then goes to church with green hair and gets laughed at by all when Rev Alden reads the passage about lying in green pastures.

By: Jill

Jill — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:03:36 +0000

@AB Maybe Patrick Swayze didn’t grow up in Simi Valley from birth, but he moved there in 1979 and lived in the area most of the rest of his life.

By: AB

AB — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:29:39 +0000

Hmm. I don’t remember reading that Melissa Gilbert had to bind her chest. I DO remember reading that she was self-conscious because she was a “late bloomer.” I think she basically played her age. Also, fake hair? I think those braids were her own hair. Maybe later, when she put her hair up? I know the actress who played Mary had to wear an awful wig at one point because she cut her real hair short. Miss Beadle also wore a wig.

Also, Patrick Swayze didn’t grow up in Simi Valley. He grew up in Texas. I always wonder if this site just makes things up.

By: Derick

Derick — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 03:54:51 +0000

I did a double take one evening when I saw the “blind school” fire. Did anyone notice that school seen in flames – isn’t the building they used in the show? The window for Alice Garvey and baby was a recreation for the close up. There wasn’t a gable above the front steps nor a wrap around style porch across the entire front of the school. I think the old blind school was moved and redressed/built out to make the once side of the blind school into the front Laura and Almanzo’s B&B. It is sad that I notice these kinds of things…

By: Carole

Carole — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:06:26 +0000

I came across this website this morning and have spent a good deal of time chuckling at some of the comments.

I grew up with (and liked) the show. I liked the books more (better detail), but the show was only ‘loosely’ based on the books, and was never meant to be word for word. Michael Landon even commented at one point that had he followed the books there would only have been two seasons of show. Instead, known characters were added upon, new characters were brought in, the Ingalls family remained in Walnut Grove (where in real life they only spent a couple of years), and storylines were added in the line of issues for that time period (blizzards, droughts, death).

Live wasn’t easy in those days.

People died from diseases we don’t hear about anymore. They were killed in wagon accidents, fires, natural disasters. Children often died as infants. Others didn’t live to adulthood. Mothers died in childbirth. And some of the other issues touched upon in the show (rape, drug and physical abuse) no doubt happened, but were also a way for the show to make people aware of issues facing our current society. TV shows still do that.

Looking back on it, the show may seem dated in many ways, but it’s still better than 99% of the crap on the tv in this day and age, and it offers a glimpse at another time (a simpler time in many ways), and at how families could (and should) be, if only we weren’t so self involved.

By: Annilita

Annilita — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:57:42 +0000

I’m rewatching the whole series now that I have kids old enough to appreciate it. The comments on this post are cracking me up, because it’s fun to see how people’s memories have played with what really happened. For instance, in the fools gold episode, the banker sympathizes with them, he does laugh. And Charles’ friend didn’t mess around with dynamite. He prided himself on how good he was with it, but that didn’t stop him from accidentally blowing himself up. I’m not making fun of people for getting it wrong. You guys are remembering the show better than I did. I just think it’s funny how things can stick with us from childhood and get twisted a bit either because of the passage of time or because we didn’t fully understand what was going on when we were little. :)
For the record, Edwards’ wife and daughter die, but we never meet them. He just talks about it.
I remember seeing the clown rape one when I was home sick from school. Maybe that is why clowns skeeve me out, too!