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Little House: Bless All the Dear Children (1984)
ATROCIOUS! WORST 2 hours of television that ever aired.
Not only is this by far the worst of the 209 Little House on the Prairie episodes, but this is one of the worst things I have ever seen on television EVER (and I am 45 years old). I saw this when it originally aired in 1984 and then last year on cable. This episode is totally bizarre because this was the LAST "Little House" to air on TV (and this was after the town and Laura's house were blown up!). Spoilers: Laura and Almanzo go to another town to go Christmas shopping in their wagon with Mr. Edwards and just leave toddler Rose in the hands of extremely drunk Mr. Edwards on the sidewalk while they shop. While Edwards is drunk and fighting yet again, a childless woman snatches Rose and disappears off into the desolate prairie. There is no way Laura and Almanzo would EVER be able to find Rose on the desolate prairie of 1888 South Dakota (obviously no "Amber Alert", cars, helicopters, cell phones, police, television, to help with the search). Somehow, Laura and Almanzo find Rose and the kidnapper anyways, and instead of having the kidnapper arrested and hung, they are like "whatever! Hey, no big deal that you kidnapped our toddler. Oh, and by the way, we found this random orphaned boy so we will just hand him over to you!" The orphan boy then turns to the psycho kidnapper husband and says, "Hi dad!" Who wrote this complete piece of garbage?
Little House: The Last Farewell (1984)
A boring and horrible way to end what was once a great series the first 5 years
According to Melissa Gilbert (Laura Ingalls) in her autobiography, Michael Landon (Pa Ingalls) was FURIOUS that NBC canceled "his" series without formally telling him after 25 years of acting on NBC's Bonanza and Little House. Michael Landon had a crazy sense of humor and said, "I am going to blow the set up because I am "mad."" This episode is ridiculous. Basically a few men white claim they own the land, the town, and the people, and violence ensues. Either the people have to get out immediately or become the "property" of the white corporation. Laura gets mad, smashes dishes and breaks windows. Then John Carter (who moved into Laura's old childhood cabin)tells the town he has a wagon full of dynamite and they will blow up the entire town! Gee- what a terrific idea! 75% of this episode is just the camera going from set to set, the towns people crying, and the sets being blown to smithereens. NOT COOL!