I’m really excited today, recappers. We’re diving into Season 1, Episode 2 of Little House on the Prairie, “Country Girls.” Ladies and gentlemen, Nellie Oleson is in the house! I was only ten when this episode aired in 1974, and while I may have seen it once or twice as a kid since then, it’s been decades. If it’s not apparent, I haven’t watched Little House in decades. When choosing an older series to recap, I landed on this one because it would be like watching it anew since I didn’t catch it in reruns over the years. That said, Continue Reading
Little House On the Prarie Recaps
The Ingalls family is leaving the Big Woods of Wisconsin for Kansas and Minnesota. Join us as we recap the Little House on the Prairie Pilot and the original “Little House on the Prairie” series and chronicle their adventures.
Little House on the Prairie: Season 1, Episode 1 – A Harvest of Friends
Before you come at me because I listed “Harvest of Friends” as Season 1, Episode 1, the first episode of “Little House on the Prairie.” Please note that I obtained my information from IMDb, Wikipedia, Little House on the Prairie Wiki, and the boxed set. Originally, the pilot was a TV movie and not counted as an “episode.” I know that’s how the streaming services currently list it, but this series was created before the streamers, and we go with the original here at Recapping the Oldies. Now then… When we last saw the Ingalls family in the Little House on Continue Reading
Little House on the Prairie Pilot: Season 1 Episode 0
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