Little house on the prairie

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This was my favourite tv as a child. I have decided to rewatch it (it's on prime). I'm half way though series one

I still love it, although time seems a little fluid there, and lots of people simple disappear!

I loved it but a friend called it “Little House on the Dreary”

I loved this program.

I visited a well preserved ghost town in the USA a few years ago. It wasn't Walnut Grove but it was just like it - the wooden houses with outhouses, church, school room, grocery store etc and obviously used to be inhabited by real people. It was fascinating.

My kids are obsessed with LHOTP, didn't realise it was on prime, I know what we'll be doing this weekend now!

I'm now trying to figure out how old the characters are supposed to be in series one.

The first few seasons were best but then they ran out of original material and started inventing characters like Albert.

Series 3 and Charles hasn't raised a crop yet. He's a terrible farmer

I absolutely loved Little House on the Prairie and watched it every week as a kid. Then I saw a later episode where a really young girl is raped and has a baby and it scarred me. So out of place for that series, anyway just keep an eye out for anyone who is re-watching with their kids

I remember that episode. Everyone thought Albert was the father

I think Albert offered to marry her

I love Melissa Gilbert who plays Laura. She was a pretty kid who grew into a beautiful woman.

Albert also burned the blind school down with his discarded cigarettes and killed Mary's baby

We all loved Nelly in my house. Thanks OP I'll be putting this on as my background tv next week.

I loved it but it was quite sad at times. I loved Nellie and Mrs Olsen. She was a horror. The episode when Nellie met her future husband was the best ever.

You have to wonder if Nells would have made any kind of living doing business his way and how difficult life would be if they all had to get supplies from a big town instead.

I've seen the first few seasons so many times but have never watched them grow up and get married, etc. I seem to stop when Albert comes along.
My mum used to watch it every Sunday. Some moments really stick in my mind, like Laura thinking she found gold in a stream or when baby Charles died and Laura ran away. Oh and I think Laura thought she caught rabies from a raccoon.

Harsh but fair!

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated

www.amazon.co.uk/Confessions-Prairie-Bitch-Survived-Learned/dp/0061962155

Baby Charles. Caroline's get pregnant, gives birth and the baby lives a few months. Carrie doesn't age a day

I loved the books and the series from about age 8-12! Similarly never watched beyond the first few to see them married etc. Loved Nellie Oleson, her terrible mum and long suffering/enabling dad. I can remember hauling a bucket around my garden pretending to be Laura. There’s some very sad episodes like baby Carrie stuck down the well, Laura thinks she’s responsible for her brother’s death so runs away, a dead girl’s mother kidnaps Laura and Caroline nearly dies of blood poisoning from a nail.

Baby Carrie down the well is the episode I remember the clearest (in fact I think it was two episodes?). It was so dramatic!

I loved watching it! Also 'The Waltons'.

OMG! Was she cowering in a barn at one stage?
I loved LHOTP as well, it was my favourite show as a child but one thing that I remember was an episode where a girl was raped. Well, I know now that it was rape but I don't think I truly understood that at the time. I just knew a man had done something bad . It's not so much that I remember the episode frame by frame but I remember how awful it made me FEEL. I still do.