dhainline1 Review of Little House on the Prairie

Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)

Drifted too far from Laura Ingalls Wilder's series

[7/10 · 7 October 2015]

I did like this show in the beginning because it did follow LIW's series somewhat but when Michael Landon let his ego get in the way, the show introduced story lines and characters that never existed (i.e., Albert Ingalls, clowns that rape virginal girls, and the mountain man played by Ernest Borgnine who tried to help Laura recover from her little brother's death). I have no idea why the Ingalls family on TV adopted all these kids when in real life they had 4 daughters and 1 son who died in infancy. Times were hard back then and the real Ingalls family couldn't afford extra children! There was no Albert Ingalls who struggled with morphine addiction and became a doctor. Although, this fake character did die on the mountain with his adopted sister Laura and her students right next to him. I do think the show should have stuck with the original material and not have all these story lines that never happened!