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Blanche Hanalis (writer)
Jack Hanrahan (writer)
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Release Date:
30 March 1974 (USA) more
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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. full summary | add synopsis
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One of the best shows ever more (15 total)
Cast
(Credited 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 |
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96 min
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Big Sky Ranch - 4927 Bennett Road, Simi Valley, California, USA more
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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... more
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Spoofed in "Family Guy: Airport '07 (#5.12)" (2007) more
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It's funny how time dates certain TV shows. "Little House on the Prairie" is certainly not one of them. This program ranks as one of the best ever.
"Little House" was one of those series which taught moral, religious lessons without preaching; stories that could happen in real life, usually leading up to the show's moral. However, some episodes were "just-for-fun" and didn't really have a lesson tied to them. It's great to see the balance between drama (the meat of the show) and comedy (an occasional but always welcome break from the drama).
The show's topics showed that today's problems certainly aren't new -- infidelity, drugs/alcohol abuse, corruption (usually fueled by money) and racism, to name a few. Unlike many family shows where the parents were always right and the children were the ones with faults, "Little House" presented adult regulars with real failings, somewhat akin to "All in the Family" and its presentation of adult regulars with shortcomings (in particular, Archie Bunker).
It was always heartwarming to see how the townspeople banded together to support the Ingalls. The pilot movie definitely set the tone for the nine-year series which followed.