Little House on the Prairie

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Melissa Gilbert looks the worst!

I thought the lady on the right was Melissa Gilbert until I saw R1’s picture. I guess the lady on the right is the one who played Carrie. Note her body language, she’s turned out from the group. Melissa Sue Anderson is using her crossed legs to lock her out, while Melissa Gilbert on the other side of the picture has her leg crossed inwards which shows she feels a sense of belonging.

Melissa Gilbert looks fantastic. Melissa Sue Anderson looks weird for some reason. Maybe the eyes. Albert looks hot! And who is that other guy, Willie? Almanzo has aged well too. I miss Landon :(

I believe the unknown guy is Michael Landon, Jr.

I liked this show when growing up but thought it really jumped the shark when they did the Albert's girlfriend getting raped episode. However, I recently learned the real Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote in her first draft of her autobiography about a neighbor trying to rape her when she was living there helping him take care of his daughter and assisting his wife, who was prone to seizures

I want to take Albert down to the creek and cornhole him.

Nah, r6, paw always preferred the ice house near the mill. We often let Nels Olsen watch.

Mime rape was one of several jump the shark, way too depressing episodes centered around Albert. His morphine addiction was another.

wait for it @ 2:02.

part 2

yuuuum

Hmm, Matt never married. Does mostly voice-over work now.

Matt was a cute twink, time is one sick bastard

They all look dreadful

Melissa Sue & Karen look like aliens and the meth hooker on the right is too much

Dean looks like a hardcore alcoholic and Matt loved him some KFC...

They all look great. I’d love to bang Matt.

Matt went to my high school. he was 5ft tall.

They look fine. Melissa Sue Anderson is probably a bit too thin but she still looks youthful.

Matt is sexy, whether he is thin or meaty. He's 51. He looks great for his age and he looks happy.

Melissa Gilbert was messing with her face a few years ago but she seems to have cooled it with the fillers and Botox in recent years.

I want to feel Dean Butler inside me quite deeply. Again, and again, and again...after I worship his body.

I don't recognize anyone

Matt was caught by the paps buying a gay magazine (Blueboy or something like that) maybe 10 or so years ago. And never married. Do the math.

Where’s Carrie’s twin?

I wonder who got sexually assaulted.

Karen Grassle used to be great looking. Now her face is every kind of wrong.

Melissa Gilbert looks horrible in R1 — unfortunate hair and clothes, and a sour puss on top of it!

Did Half-pint show her shitbra?

Twins played Carrie. Why not have both actresses?

Where’s Michael Landon?

Tidbit from Wikipedia about Linday Greenbush, one of he actresses who played Carrie.

"Lindsay has been married to Daniel Sanchez since 2014. They originally met on the Little House set at Big Sky Ranch in Simi Valley (where exterior scenes were filmed) when she was a small child and he was a teenager who lived nearby. She has said Michael Landon allowed him to watch them film at "Big Sky Ranch." Decades later, they met again, and married in the same spot where they first met."

Nellie got some big ole tiddies. Isn’t she a lesbian?

How come no one could dig up Michael Landon for this reunion? Is he too good for it?

The guy who played Willie looks like the guy who plays Leonard.

Thank you to the person that added the clips of adult Matthew Laborteaux.

Any links to the adult Jonathan Gilbert others have found?

PS - someone posted in two threads now about going to high school and the five feet tall remark. No one gives a fuck.

[quote]Karen Grassle used to be great looking. Now her face is every kind of wrong

Maybe because we’re not part of their everyday lives, and the fact she is 75 years old now. She looks healthy and happy and that’s what matters. ie: leave her the fuck alone. She’s a pensioner.

Fun fact: Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter Rose (who actually wrote all the books) was a radical right-wing libertarian who hated the New Deal and was best friends with Ayn Rand. The books are really allegories about bootstrapping and going through hard times without damn government handouts.

Melissa sue looks like Belinda Carlisle.

I think they all look pretty good. I'm dying to see Jonathan Gilbert (Willie) but he's essentially vanished. Is Harriet still alive?

The show was always depressing and/or scary. I've been watching reruns lately and even before Albert arrived, they had:

- Ma Ingalls almost cutting off her leg

- their baby son dying

- Mary nearly dying

- a little girl who drowned; later her mother kidnaps Laura

- a drugged addicted returning soldier, suffering from ptsd, who eventually commits suicide

-Carrie falling down a well

- the hunting of an Indian man

- A deadly blizzard with kids caught out in it

- rat infested grain being sold and consumed resulting in the plague

- A single mother dying, orphaning her 3 kids, one of which is later killed off

- A rabid raccoon who attacks Laura and the dog

- A pack of dogs that attack live stock and then traps the kids in the barn, only for a wolf to save them and then killed

- killing a young husband leaving his pregnant wife alone. Of course this was after previous miscarriage

- An abusive grandson who beats his grandfather

- all the assorted hardships on the farm like when the tornado destroyed the crops

This is just a small portion of the scary/depressing things that happened the first few seasons. This is all before they turned Mary into the show's punching bag. The show was 90% dark. It was never really a family show.

Jonathan Gilbert (Willie) hasn't been seen for years, not even his fake sister (yes, adopted siblings aren't your brothers and sisters, deal with it).

Sara Gilbert is the worst, capitalizing off a family name that she has no right to.

[Bold] " For the love of god would lil half-pint please shit in my mouth! "

Who is the woman in the blue dress? And who is the alien seated next to her? I watched a few reruns as a kid and remember being bored as hell with this show.

That's because you missed the episode where they lock someone in the ice house.

R26, she is not lesbian. Have you read Confessions of a Prairie Bitch? It's wonderful and dishy.

R36, the woman who played the widowed mother of three who died was the fantastic Oscar winning actress, Patricia Neal, who won for Hud, and was Pepard's sugar mama in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Michael Landon wrote the part just for her.

ps, Neal also won the first best Actress Tony Award. It was an engraved compact.

Huh. I thought Arngrim was a lesbian. Not that it matters. Love her.

The comments here are giving me LIFE.

Arngrim was a very earlier supporter of AIDS charities, going back to the early or mid 80s. She was a fag hag going way back, and one of her co-stars on the show (the character ‘Percival’) who she was close friends with, died early in the epidemic.

I haven’t seen her on Twitter in a while but I used to follow her and she was a hoot with a wicked sense of humor. Obviously influenced by her years of hanging around with gay men.

Half Pint is now Ten Gallons

Alison is awesome. [italic]Confessions of a Prairie Bitch[/italic] is one of the great celebrity autobiographies.

Matthew is still handsome (meaty, but handsome), and his living room is gayer than a treeful of parrots: as a friend of mine once noted, "All gay men with money in West Hollywood try to make their interiors look like contemporary high-end hotel rooms."

I had no idea that Steve Tracy died of AIDS. Percival was the J man who took Nellie Olsen in hand and made her behave as her husband. My partner has an enduring crush on that character, and I am sure he doesn't know of his death.

Melissa Sue Anderson's brow lift is way too tight. I'm sure all the gals have had work done (maybe the guys too) but MSA looks the most plastic.

R34 my girlfriend is a lifelong fan of the show (she herself is an organic leftie) and will say that is exactly the show's message. She still likes it for a bunch of other reasons. Her favourite episodes are the ones featuring the Olesons prominently, particularly Mrs Oleson. She does community theatre so I guess there's much admiration for the comedic genius of Katherine MacGregor.

I'd give my left nt to meet Alison Arngrim. After reading her book I realized she'd be awesome to hang out with.

Thank you, R45.

Katherine (Scottie) MacGregor would make an excellent mother to Frances McDormand!

Scottie’s 92. Think she’s up for it?

Arngrim likes to lick labia but she's not a lez

The actress(es) that played Carrie Ingalls looks as if she's no stranger to the puss.

My favorite episode was when the despotic fundamentalist Miss Rachel Peel, who ruled over an isolated backwoods town, called out visiting student teacher Mary as a "Jezebel!" Watching it as a little kid, I found Miss Peel very scary.

And the one where Mary thinks Ma is having an affair while Pa is out of town, and slut shames her which causes Ma to SHAKE and SLAP Mary.

This show always had some pretty weird female sexual energy.

Brassy broad alert

The look great? Compared to what...Michael Landon's corpse?

Also a big fan of Charlotte Stewart, AKA the first schoolteacher, Miss Beadle.

Besides her work on Little House, she's most known for playing Betty Briggs on Twin Peaks. She got a great scene in "Twin Peaks: the Return."

2014 is four years ago. A lot can happen in four years, well not to me but you get my point

Where's Mrs Oleoson?

Didn't blind Mary use her baby as a battering ram whilst trapped in a fiery building?

[quote] Melissa Gilbert looks fantastic. Melissa Sue Anderson looks weird for some reason. Maybe the eyes. Albert looks hot! And who is that other guy, Willie? Almanzo has aged well too. I miss Landon :(

Dean Butler has not aged well at all.

I'm assuming Michael Landon Jr. was there to talk about his dad. Because I can't imagine anyone remembers that he appeared on the show.

R59, as a fan of both shows, I have to say: I cannot believe I forgot that Miss Beadle is Bobby Briggs's mama!

Is that Nathan Lane in the photo at r56?

Jonathan Gilbert, NYC Stockbroker.

that doesn't like him, r67.

Melissa brother Jonathan Gilbert (played Willie) walked out the family house one day and never came back. That was over 20 years ago and has cut ties with the entire Gilbert family. No one has heard from him since

I love that Hersha Parady is in on the baby-as-battering-ram joke.

Kyle Richards was on this show. She was terrible, which underscored how talented Melissa, Melissa Sue and Allison were.

wow!

This is Jonathan Gilbert. Same nose.

That little cunt Nelly #2.

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What r67? One of them has blue eyes and one has brown! It's not even close.

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Little Shithouse...

R73 That doesn't look like him either.

Melissa Gilbert looks like a duck.

Why couldn't Matt get his hottie brother to come with?

Believe it or not there's actually a Little House podcast. Even more believe it or not, the very gay sounding hosts are evidently straight - one is actually a woman even though she sounds just like Beverly Leslie. Anyway, they did a long interview with Alison Arngrim and she talks about Jonathan Gilbert a bit. They confirm that none of the alleged pictures floating around are him.

Go to about 27:20 for the Jonathan Gilbert topic, followed by some Matthew Laborteaux talk.

Was the pic in the OP before or after Laura and Nelly talked shit about Mary?

After, r88

[quote] I love that Hersha Parady is in on the baby-as-battering-ram joke.

I once read an interview with her and she said she knew it would look like that even before they filmed it when she read the script. "If I try to smash the window with one arm while holding the baby with the other, there's no way it's not going to look like I'm not using the baby as a battering ram." They insisted she do it anyway, as a legend was born.

Didn't Mary carry the baby around for awhile after????

MSA looks like Belinda Carlisle’s sister there. She should keep her jacket on.

It should be Little Outhouse on the Prarie.

Little Whorehouse on the Praire

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Link to the Matthew L. story in which he was outed buying a gay porn magazine, please!!!

Link to Matthew L’s living room photos, while you’re at it. TIA!

How about a link to the Google machine! PDQ!

I think Karen Grassle looks great for a septuagenarian.

You can see Matthew's living room at the interview at r10.

Jonathan Garvey (played by Merlin Olson) was the original "bear."

The weird thing about Matt Laborteaux is that his parents thought he was autistic for the first five years of his life.

R74 that's Nancy, not Nellie. She was of the "new generation" the "Scrappy-Doos", along with Miss Shannen Dohrtey.

r103, it's says "nellie #2." that's basically what she was. even mrs. oleson dressed her as nellie. c'mon, does that really need to be explained?

I was adding her actual name in case you didn't know. Plus, I love being able to add a photo of Shannen as a little gurl.

okay

I can't get over how small Allison's head is compared to everyone else's.

Melissa Gilbert isn't in that photo. And that is not Landon, it's the guy who played Albert.

Shannen always had the best bangs.

This show was dark AF. In the late 90s me and all my wannabe goth teen friends used to get drunk and watch it together.

[quote] Shannen always had the best bangs.

No longer!

You missed the memo, R111. Alyssa wouldn't be saying that now. You should have signed it Holly Marie Combs.

R108 are you slow?

agree, r113. some of these replies are scary.

R114 I assume R108 's nephew inherited his stupidity from his uncle.

Maybe they had it coming

Merlin Olsen used to make my legs buckle. That’s when I realised I was attracted to hairy men and I was gay.

And a bottom.

r77, I got it from here, ask them

They should have done a nude episode, especially if the womenfolk had gone to visit a distant relative.

R117 I read your post quickly and thought it said:

[quote]Mr Olsen used to make my legs buckle.

And thought... wow.. to each their own!

God, those "May We Make Them Proud" shows (it was a two parter, wasn't it?) were ghastly. There was Alice and Mary's baby being trapped in the house and burned alive and the infamous scene where Alice appears to be using the baby as battering ram. There's Mary holding the charred corpse of her baby and crooning a lullaby to the dead body. There's Albert bringing Mary a gift and she starts screaming over and over "My baby! My baby! My baby!" And this was a FAMILY show? I'm surprised it didn't give kids nightmares. I was an adult when I saw it and that battering ram scene gave ME nightmares.

I’d still blow Dean Butler.

I hated this little girl (Missy Francis)

r123, reason number 2 to hate her: she's on Fox News

And now... another Family-Friendly Moment.... from "Little House."

Remember when they needed some antibiotics to cure the town anthrax so they called up the pharmacy in Minneapolis and had them flown in?

We only allow the children to watch wholesome, family entertainment... The Little House on the Prairie. Now that's a fine, wholesome show. It's about blind children out west, and every week they have a fire, or someone gets an incurable disease. We enjoy it very much.

That podcast shows how delusional some of those involved with the show are. Nelly saying that if they made Little House in to a movie today studios would be raking in money hand over fist with a huge blockbuster?

Did any of the Prairie bitches show their cooter?

Another charming two part episode was "Sylvia." "Sylvia" was a well developed young girl, so well developed that the local boys peek in her window to get a load of her. Of course this enrages her strait-laced father and he seems to think she encourages it (she doesn't). She and Albert fall in love; walking home in bliss after a tryst with Albert she's attacked and raped by a man in a clown mask. Dragging herself home her father tells her to keep quiet about what happened to her, so as not to bring shame on them. Later she's determined to be pregnant by her rapist, Albert wants to marry her anyway. She runs away after her father calls her a whore. Albert unknowingly lets her rapist know where she's hiding. The rapist comes for her, presumably to rape and kill her, but Pa Ingalls and her father come just in time and the father shoots him dead. Meanwhile poor Sylvia has fallen from a ladder while trying to escape the rapist and breaks her neck. On her deathbed Albert comes to her and tells her everything will be alright, they have permission to marry now, and she talks about their wedding and how she'll wear yellow flowers in her hair. She dies. The end. What a special episode for all the family to enjoy.

Remember that other episode where Laura finds a baby in a basket and Harriet thinks her son stuck his little Willie in to Laura and got her preggers?

Nope, no nightmares here

Sean Penn made his debut on Little House???

How did we miss this important fact about Matty???

[quote]Matthew became the U.S. Pac-Man champion in 1982 with a score of 1,200,000.

My Dad used to call it "Little Fairy on the Prairie". I loved Zaldamo.

So no one noticed Jan Brady at r78? Wow!

I noticed it but ignored it, r136, as the picture was off topic. Eve does not have a "Little House" credit in her IMDB and at that time, she was already an established name in TV and wouldn't have been uncredited or an extra on the show.

[quote] How did we miss this important fact about Matty???

Why are you referring to Matthew Laborteaux as "Matty"?

r137

Eve had a lesbian kiss with Melissa Sue Anderson who played the girl who gave Bobby rabies.

Sarcasm, hon.

Mary's beau John Jr. used to make my little gay wiener feel ... something special.

He was like the Jordan Catalano of the '70s.

Dean Butler was hot. I never realized how hairy he was until seeing him on Battle of the Network Stars.

R142 There was mention in Alison Arngrim's book that she had lustful feelings for him as well as Michael Landon.

Lot's of raging hormones of the set of "Little House."

*Lots

Katherine MacGregor has lived in the Motion Picture & Television retirement home for several years now. Probably a good thing since it's not a good idea for someone to live alone at her age with someone to check in her often.

None of those pictures are of Jonathan Gilbert. He's not totally disappeared, he's in occasional contact with some of his family and Alison Arngrim (she also confirmed none of the pictures purported to be him are actually him.

This is the most recent picture of him to exist. An acting headshot from the 1990s. He apparently did some theatre work in the LA area for a time.

Mrs. Oleson was always one of my favorite television characters and McGregor was perfection in the role.

Katherine Macgregor in a short film she made for the Motion Picture & Television Fund.

It's too bad she retired from acting after LHOTP. I bet she would've been in demand for older women character parts, especially bitchy and kooky ones.

She has to be 90 in that clip, R148!

Alison Arngrim went the sexpot route in her transition from child to adult actress. I'm sure she's glad she didn't go the full on nude route that some went.

[quote] Katherine MacGregor has lived in the Motion Picture & Television retirement home for several years now. Probably a good thing since it's not a good idea for someone to live alone at her age with someone to check in her often.

Do they ever let the public visit celebrities living there? I would love to meet Katherine MacGregor.

R151 I doubt they would unless invited by the celeb themselves. They do allow people to write letters to them there though. A few years back, she still responded back usually. If you didn't send a picture to her sign (with a self addressed envelope too of course) she'd draw a picture of her as Harriet along with some captions along with her letter. Here's an example of one.

R152 OMG! That is fantastic. I would love to have one of her drawings.

R153 You can give it try and write her. She might respond. I'm sure she'd love to know you enjoyed her work too. This site has a mailing address for her.

R154 I'll do that. Thanks for the information.

Baby Battering Ram and Sylvia are definitely WTH is this doing on a family show, but there were so many dark moments. When the cousin Olivers -- Jason Bateman and his sister are orphaned - they see their parents die in a wagon accident, completely with a shot of one of the parents dead hands sticking out in the air in the wreckage.

Caroline is all excited to see her father after many years and is expecting him to be in the wagon with Charles. Charles lets her run very excited to the back of the wagon only to see a coffin. He thought it would be the best way to tell her, rather than, you know gently tell her when he got to the door.

I think another grandfather or elderly relative was responsible for the death of Laura's horse Bunny.

The morphine addicted soldier (I think he was played by Richard Mulligan) was esp. sad because he was the son of the kindly older widow that Mary worked for - so you saw her golden years basically destroyed.

Gay John -- the fiance that Mary had at age 14 or 15, the son of dead Patricia Neal, later adopted by Mr. Edwards, was murdered in Chicago. Later Mr. Edwards becomes an alcoholic and loses his wife and remaining two children.

Almanzo has a stroke trying to save his crops from a hail storm (he fails), there house is destroyed at some point, and they lose a child (for which Laura blames Dr. Baker).

Laura and blind Mary and Mary's baby are trapped in the blind school with a criminal who terrorizes them. It is implied he would like to get to know Mary better. At the end she is cornered in the kitchen and hears footsteps and thinks she is going to be raped, but it is Pa to save the day.

After MSA did a pretty good job pulling of the going blind episodes, they would usually give her some melodramatic episode once a year. Miscarriage, baby burned alive thinking she is getting her sight back only to find out it was an illusion, in a stage coach accident where she has to walk across the wilderness blind to try and find help for her husband pinned under the carriage.... Once the girls got to be teens, both her and Alison were probably better actresses than Gilbert. Gilbert was great and a natural the first few years of the show, but fell into the child actor curse where she became more stilted once she reached adolescence. By the time she married Almanzo, she was pretty bad (and her character became a shrew).

Of course, Gilbert's acting might have been stilted because they had her act like a ten year old tomboy until she was about 16. It was kind of creepy how they had her stalking Almanzo still acting like she was a child when the actor was close to 30. Then in about two episodes she starts wearing her hair up and all of a sudden it is ok for her to be in adult relationship. Landon did the same thing with Mary. She was about 16 when she married Adam played by someone close to 30. I know some of that was due to women marrying younger, but Landon really did seem to want to rush to get those actresses married. Esp. with Mary since it was not in the books, and they could have focused more on her adjusting to being blind rather than have her fall in love with her future episode in the same episode where she lost her sight.

Obviously, I saw the syndicated repeats a bit growing up - although not so much the later years.

I had heard that Melissa Sue Anderson was extremely unhappy about having to play a blind character and felt that she was being given less screen time to make Gilbert the star.

I've had several Facebook messenger chats with Alison Arngrim. She loves Datalounge LHOTP threads and others, although she thinks posters are a bit vicious toward Melissa Gilbert. When I mentioned the Alice Garvey death in the fire/ baby battering ram episode, Alison laughed and said that Herscha Parady who played Alice agrees that the scene is overwrought and very unintentionally campy. Alison also told me that Herscha is very gay-friendly, is on Facebook, and would love to hear from DL fans who appreciate her death scene. Per Alison, Herscha still does stage work in California.

Allison reads Datalounge?! I wonder if she's ever posted here?

Alison seems like the kind of woman that would come on here. She doesn't strike me as a lipstick alley cunt.

I think people here would be MUCH nicer about Melissa Gilbert if Gilbert herself didn't still publicly carry that bizarre burning grudge against Melissa Sue Anderson. She's still furious about Missy being could way back when they were ten and twelve--it's completely ridiculous, and makes her sound incredibly nasty.

Arngrim herself (who is one of the coolest people to ever live) has said she didn't get along with Anderson when she was younger but she was sure that if they had a few hours together with a pitcher of daiquiris they could bury the hatchet forever, and that's what Gilbert should say.

I hope Allison and some of the other cast members are still in touch with Katherine MacGregor, who must be the 2nd coolest person to have ever lived. She seems like a fab old doll.

So the entertainment biz has a retirement home?

Yes, for those who worked more than 20 years in the industry, R163.

Karen Grassle looks wonderful; she aged gracefully. She could have gone the plastic surgery route, which is a disaster for many celebrities of her age.

At first I thought "They dug up Michael Landon for this picture?" But then I realize it was Melissa Gilbert.

I believe Mabel King and Blossom Rock both resided in that same retirement home.

r166, Melissa Gilbert is not in OP's photo.

I love Alison Arngrim, but she needs to change her hairstyle. The short hair makes her look matronly. She could definitely use Melissa Gilbert's hairstylist.

She looks so much younger and prettier with longer hair.

Alison does keep in touch with Katherine. Not sure if any other cast members are or not though.

Here is Alison with Melissa Gilbert's hair

Promo for the LHOTP reunion on the Home & Family show a few years ago. Hersha Parady had Battering Ram Ingalls with her!

R56 Miss Peel sure does have a 70's feathered hairstyle for being, you know, on the prairie and all. Along those lines, I wonder where the rapist got his V for Vendetta mask on the...prairie?

Melissa Gilbert may not be as pretty as Melissa Sue Anderson, but she is definitely prettier than Lindsay Sidney Greenbush.

Why do they have to keep in touch? You do realize this is a job for them and they are working. I'm assuming you guys keep in touch with your co workers from 10, 20, 30 years ago?

Melissa Gilbert with Alison Arngrim's hair

R176 There is no requirement to stay in touch with co-works, but many of the LHOTP cast have stayed in touch with various co-workers. It was a rather close set. They cast even ate and interacted with the crew.

R177 Yikes! Draws even more attention to her bad plastic surgery.

Is Michael Landon's son, Christopher, gay?

R177 She should definitely stay away from blonde. It makes her look like Joan Rivers.

R179 According to other here on DL, he is yes. Several years ago, a few nude selfies of his leaked.

Oh, well then, R181.

A DL thread about Christopher. It has a link about him and his partner welcoming a child. It also has a few of his nude pics.

Link to article.

I would love to do one of Allison’s Hollywood tours or see her stand up act. I get a kick out of her sense of humor. She’s the best!

R169 At least she doesn’t still wear her Nellie curls and bow like Donna Douglas did for the rest of her life. Could you imagine? I would like to see her in the big bouffant wig that Nellie wore when she was older and acted like her and Laura were long lost besties.

Thanks R183. That's the closest we'll come to seeing Michael Landon's cock. Nice.

Not sure why they decided to turn Nellie nice unless they already knew she would not be on the next season and thought it would be a good final arc. Sure she married a nice guy, but Harriet was married to Nels and she never softened.

Not that Nellie II was necessarily a bad child actress, but she paled in comparison to the original. It probably did not help that the show was on fumes by then. And really - would fifty-something Harriet want to start over again with the child-rearing.

Umm yes please almonzo I mean MANLY!

What was it about this show that made it so damn watchable? Once you started an episode you couldn't stop, like TV crack.

If you haven't read Alison Arngrim's biography confessions of a prairie bitch you should. She had a ROUGH childhood when not on the set. I would LOVE to take her LA tour, have any of you done it?

I felt bad for the actors that came in as replacements for other characters in last few seasons. Nancy (Nellie replacement), Etta Plum (Ms Beadle and Eliza Jane replacement), and the couple that moved in to Ingalls home for the last season (Charles and Caroline replacement). They were ok as actors, but the writing was not that good and the characters were not given much depth as the shows earlier characters.

[quote] [R169] At least she doesn’t still wear her Nellie curls and bow like Donna Douglas did for the rest of her life. Could you imagine?

Could you imagine if Michael Landon wore Nellie curls and a Prairie bonnet?

R190 I think it had something about it that appealed a large amount of people. It's popular in many countries and some younger people have gotten into it as well. I love the unintentional camp and twisted storylines, it would've been just a standard, boring family show otherwise.

The original cast had a nice chemistry and were decent actors. Melissa, MSA, and Alison captured their characters who already had a following due to the books (the first few seasons were kind of like the books - although I think Nellie was a blending of a couple of characters from the books). Charles and Caroline were like dream parents and played off of each other well. They had a pretty decent cast of supporting and recurring characters that made the small town one you might want to live in.

R184 Judging by those photos his dad must've been pretty well hung too.

[quote] It's popular in many countries and some younger people have gotten into it as well.

I remember watching TV in Italy in 1980 and on came "Quella Casa Nella Prateria."

Melissa Sue Anderson is Chucky.

Didn't Michael Landon basically throw away a starter family? Marginalize his first kids?

I know someone who worked in a recording studio in NY and said Matthew is friendly, funny, sweet, gay, and on the spectrum.

I found Dick Bull strangely alluring

Allegedly, according to Arngrim's book, Little House was Saddam's favorite show

Another picture of an adult Jonathan Gilbert. Based on the headshot style, I'd guess from the 1990s or early 2000s.

R203 He looks barely older than when the show ended. Late 80s at best

Jonathan GIlbert was hot as hell as a late teen/early adult. But Matthew Laborteaux and his little pouty mouth did it for me when I was a young gayling.

R204 what a great LHOTP moment.

Jonathan Gilbert thinned his nose.

By all accounts, he didn't just drop out of the industry but isn't in touch with his family.

Jonathan Gilbert did pursue an acting career for years after LHOTP. Hence the adult headshots. He was cute, but very limited as an actor (wooden really). If he landed any TV or Film work, it must've been small, uncredited parts. He did some theater work in the LA area. In an old interview with Alison Arngrim (probably a decade or more ago) she said that she had (then) recently heard from him and he was about to do a play. She said he spent much of his time traveling also.

Katherine MacGregor died yesterday morning at age 93. :(

She was a great actress and played Harriet to perfection. I don't think anyone who seen in her that role can ever forget her.