We begin our recaps with the Little House on the Prairie pilot, a made-for-TV movie that originally aired in March 1974. This was America’s introduction to the TV Ingalls family. We were soon to learn that the series that was to become Little House on the Prairie bore little resemblance to the historical fiction books written by Laura Ingalls Wilder,. They bore even less resemblance to the true-life adventures of the Ingalls and Wilder families. Little House on the Prairie Pilot: Opening Scene The Little House on the Prairie Pilot opens in the snow-covered Big Woods of Wisconsin, where the Continue Reading