Si cult series there are, Little House on the Prairie is definitely one of them. Freely adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s eight autobiographical novels published in the 1930s, it opened on March 23, 1974 on the American channel NBC and over the years welcomed an increasing number of viewers all over the world. However, she briefly slammed it nine years later in the face of her fans, before closing it in 1984, without hope of return this time, with a literally explosive episode.
Everything started very well with a two-hour TV movie, written and directed by Michael Landon, the star of the western Bonanza which had just ended. The public immediately acclaimed this story, telling the daily life of a modest family of pioneers who left with their little wagon to settle in the west of the United States, after the Civil War… Enough to convince the network to launch the production of the series.
Little House on the Prairie, nine years of good feelings
On September 11, 1974, Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon, whose dark side was recently revealed) and his wife Caroline (Karen Grassle) moved for good to Walnut Grove, a small town in Minnesota, with their three little girls. Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson), Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and Carrie (Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush) can now run, braids blowing in the wind, in the meadow. Or fall into it, it depends, like the youngest in a […] Read more
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