Little House on the Prairie Season One

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 since it first aired, and even then, I only watched the first few seasons. As a fan of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s historic fiction series, and a bigger fan of all the books and biographies Continue Reading

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 Little House on the Prairie pilot was a TV movie and not counted as an “episode.” I know that’s how the streaming services currently list Little House, but we’re going pre-streamers here at Recapping the Oldies. Now then… When we last saw the Ingalls family in the Little House on the Prairie Pilot episode, the family had to leave the Continue Reading

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 Ingalls family Continue Reading