Little House on the Prairie (1974) (TV)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Director:

Michael Landon

Writers:

Blanche Hanalis (writer)
Jack Hanrahan (writer)

Release Date:

30 March 1974 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Western

Plot:

Pilot to the longrunning tv-series. Story of Ingalls family who left house in Wisconsin and moved to the west, wanting to find a new place for home.

Plot Keywords:

Wisconsin | Prairie | Kansas | River | Farmer

Cast

Michael Landon	...	Charles Ingalls
Karen Grassle	...	Caroline Ingalls
Melissa Gilbert	...	Laura Ingalls
Melissa Sue Anderson	...	Mary Ingalls
Lindsay Greenbush	...	Carrie Ingalls (as Lindsay Sidney Green Bush)
Sidney Greenbush	...	Carrie Ingalls (as Lindsay Sidney Green Bush)
Victor French	...	Isaiah Edwards
Cal Bellini	...	Brave
Sam Vlahos	...	1st Indian
Richard Alarian	...	2nd Indian
Marian Beeler	...	Charlotte Holbrook
John Steadman	...	Frederick Holbrook
Victor Mohica	...	Soldat Du Chene

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Big Sky Ranch - 4927 Bennett Road, Simi Valley, California, USA

Company:

National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

Quotes:

Laura Ingalls: [opening narration while the Ingalls family are leaving the big woods of Minnesota] If I had a remembrance book, I would mark down how it was when we left our little house in the big woods to go west to Indian Territory. We had to go, Pa said, because so many people had come to live in the big woods, there wasn't enough game anymore for him to hunt and he feared we might go hungry...

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in "Family Guy: Airport '07 (#5.12)" (2007)

Comment

I love little house on the prairie. I watch it every day. Looking at the show, it is impossible to date it in TV decade time. I find this show so much better than the awful shows full of violence and vulgarity on TV today. Sappy? Yes, but it is sure nice to have some cotton candy every now and then. Each time I watch this show, I go back to better days and happy thoughts. There really was a time of innocence and moral values. Hard to believe today. I have given up on todays TV, and I do not allow my children to watch todays TV shows full of demeaning bad behavior and put downs. It seems todays TV is full of bickering, one up-man-ship, and getting over someone else, especially ones own family and friends. Were there a time machine, I would go back to the happy and safe days of my childhood that this TV show was so much a part of. Great TV show!