Little house on the prairie

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It's back on TV (Sky). Is it really sad to admit loving it?

I loved LHOTP, I cried at every one. so i started to watch it this evening and gave up after 15 minutes it wasn't great

DD asked if they were on drugs

many happy/bored childhood memoris of watching this on TV as a child!

I loved watching little house on p as a child. Have just read books to my ten yr old dd and she enjoyed them, bought box set DVD for us to watch and she humoured me by watching them( I loved them ) but was keen to rush off after an episode and not keen on watching more production is so different and slow from anything she watches today. I could sit and spend a day watching them , happy days at my grandmas! Can anyone remember 'The flying Kiwi ' ?

Melissa Gilbert who played Laura ingalls is on the current series of dancing with the stars. Thank you for this thread as I am loving watching the series again

I was never allowed to see on tv (strict teacher parents) but I ahd 9and have all the books, and I LOOOOOVE the books!

Whenever I have an emotional crisis, i read a bit of "Little House", it is so evocative, I can see it all clearly in my mind's eye

Love little women too

Ditto Chandon

The books are wonderful!

Sorry but tv series woeful in comparison

... the father is permanently in tears ...

trees, when and where is DWTS on? I'd love to see what Melissa Gilbert looks like now.

I loved LHOTP (and the Waltons, come to that - I always thought it funny that the family who had the sextuplets were also called the Waltons - seemed very apt ). Sadly however, we don't have Sky, so I guess I@ll not be rewatching anytime soon.

Oooh, thanks for this. Have set the Sky+ so I can relive my 1970's childhood. The really scary thing though is that when this first came out I was only a year older than my daughter is now. Feel really old.

It started in the US on my 12th birthday so by the time we were watching in the UK I probably was the same age as my DD 14.

Just discovered that the boy who played Willie Olson was Laura's (Melissa Gilberts) brother in real life.

BackFOrGood - Little House... is alos being repeated on True Movies. We have it as one of our Freesat channels.

Dancing with the stars starts on Monday in America. Usually uk are not far behind on 'watch.' Katherine Jenkins is also on it this season. There are pics on google of Melissa Gilbert, some promo shots for the show. She looks good- teeth fixed

Thanks invicta I've not heard of it, but will go and see if it's in our basic cable package.

If you search on you tube 'Melissa Gilbert dwts' her first dance is on there for those who want to see what she looks like now.

If you search on You Tube 'Little House on the Prairie reunion' there's a great video of many of the cast having a reunion interview last year, on the site of Walnut Grove! There's Ma Ingalls, Mr and Mrs Olsen (she looks just the same!), Nellie, the teacher and others - it's great, although hard to see them so much older! There are also interviews on YouTube with Melissa Gilbert, and Melissa Sue Anderson, and the woman who played Nellie.

Did anyone record the episode on tuesday at 12 ,where the old lady faked her funeral. Did it miss out a chunk at the end? For some reason my recording stopped at the last adverts then jumped to the credits. I saw the end later but I am trying to work out if it was a problem with my virgin box or not?

I have a friend who sky+ it so I she can watch it when she comes in from work. I am she is obviously very sad dreading the episodes where mary goes blind

No! I'd forgotten this episode with their baby boy.

Just watched the reunion clip-ace! I am loving watching everyday!

images of Nellie here

Loved this as a child - so escapist! Even my house of a 40 odd mum is a bit Log cabinish - so inspired by their country living

lovely to see there is a thread on this. lhotp has always been a very special personal thing to me. embarassed to say that over the christmas period/december i bought the whole lot on dvd on ebay and to my joy my dd (9) bloody loves it too!! i don't like it any less and am embarassed to admit that i still cry at some of them. timeless stuff that holds special memories to me in my heart and am so pleased i can share it with dd, she is as soppy as it would transpire as me. i haven't bought the last series though (9), was never sure about it, i hated the ingalls having moved to the city and some other family having moved into their home. nice to know it is back on tv. it is so tame thought compared to the stuff on tv for kids now. i loved the old school kids programmes, they weren't trying to be 'cool', they were clean shows aimed at children. call me old fashioned but i loved my childhood and wouldn't want to be the same age now that i was then.

I have had to stop DD watching them with me as she has been having bad dreams about some of the episodes. i did try and shield her from the ones i knew weren't suitable (like Sylvia etc) but a couple freaked her out without me knowing:one being when Laura and Almanzo's house blows down and the one where a dad shoots his wife and child (series 8/9) i can't read the episide blurb as it's in Dutch so unfortunately she saw them. Most nights she asks if the house is safe and can robbers break in or burn it down and last night at a sleepover she woke her grandma 4x up in the night worrying about her house

Some of the stories are so far fetched it's untrue but hard to explain to a 7 yr old. She did love the Nellie and Nancy episodes so glad she has some good memories of LHOTP.

Loved LHOTP n TV when I was little but the books are something else and so much better. Sucker for them and The Little Women series, Anne Of Green Gables and What Katy Did. Wanted my boys to love LHOTHP and The Waltons but they just laugh and scoff.

I read all the books too - so enjoyable. My librarian used to giggle as she saved them for me and we have the same name - me and Laura that is.