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The country was in the midst of a tiresome and controversial war in Vietnam, and a rustic cabin in the wilderness filled with a wholesome family was exactly what we needed. She went blind at 15, but somehow handled it all gracefully while looking impossibly pretty the whole time. After the show, she continued to act in film and TV shows such as The Equalizer, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Murder, She Wrote. She also wrote an autobiography entitled The Way I See It - A Look Back at My Life on Little House.
Katherine MacGregor retired from acting and focused on her religion
The network authorized a full season that began in September of the same year, and for years, millions of people around the world tuned in to watch the adventures of the Ingalls family. While no longer airing new episodes, the show is still on TV to this day (per the "Little House on the Prairie" website). More than 18,000 people gathered for the Little House on the Prairie cast reunion and festival celebrating the show's 50th anniversary at a park in Simi Valley, California, not far from Big Sky Ranch where much of the series was filmed.
Richard Bull (Nels Oleson)
While the cast celebrated the 50th reunion in Simi Valley in March, there are several more events planned around the country including in Connecticut, Kansas, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. Jonathan Gilbert, Melissa Gilbert's younger brother, has lived a private life the past 40 years since leaving "Little House." Here is my Facebook page that shares photos and videos about the Little House cast. He passed away in 2014 from pneumonia just months before his 90th birthday.
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After the show ended in 1983, nearly everyone in the cast moved on to new projects. However, the Ingalls family was never far from their hearts, and cast members have given numerous interviews over the years about their time on the show. Here's a look into what the core cast ended up doing after the show ended, and what impact "Little House" continued to have on them.
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Richard Bull crossed paths with Michael Landon on the set of Bonanza when he played a rancher caught in a vicious range war. We can’t confirm if this meeting had anything to do with Bull getting cast, but considering how much control Landon had on the creation, it’s certainly plausible. Melissa Sue Anderson was cast as Mary Ingalls after just a few successful commercial roles. In the beginning, while her acting skills weren’t really discovered by the writers of the show, she had quite a trying time in putting herself on the map.
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Adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved books, this series captivated viewers with over 200 episodes over nine seasons, plus three TV movies. Jason Bateman was cast as James Cooper Ingalls, the second son that Caroline and Charles Ingalls adopted, in 1981. While he only filmed just over 20 episodes before the show's conclusion, Bateman has said that working with Michael Landon was an incredible experience. He told Variety (via VisionTV), "Michael Landon was somebody who had a huge influence on me in the way he led that set as a director, as an exec producer, as a writer and actor and as somewhat of a father figure for me." Little House on the Prairie was loosely based on Laura Ingall Wilder's iconic Little House book series about her childhood growing up in the Midwest in the late 1800s. The show aired over 200 episodes and a handful of specials during its nine-season run and was lauded for both its performances and compelling depiction of adolescence and family issues at the time.
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She told Entertainment Weekly, that, “It’s trite to say, but he had me at hello. Martha Morse was born on January 2, 1782, in Scotland, where her father was a wealthy landowners in the Scottish Highlands. Her mostly fictionalised story was told in the four-book series The Martha Years, by Melissa Wiley. Martha was Charlotte Tucker's mother and great-grandmother to Laura Ingalls Wilder. Charlotte Wallis Tucker was born on May 25, 1809, in Roxbury, Massachusetts (a suburb of Boston). Her mostly fictionalised story was described in the four-book series The Charlotte Years by Melissa Wiley.
Alison Arngrim moved on to comedy and writing
The newer Lionsgate remastered sets all contain English, French, and Spanish audio as well as English subtitles. They do not include the special features present on the earlier non-remastered releases, but rather seasons 1 through 6 each contain a roughly 15 minute segment of a special called "The Little House Phenomenon". Seasons 8 & 9 contain the three post-series movie specials as extras, with "Look Back to Yesterday" and "The Last Farewell" appearing on Season 8, and "Bless All The Dear Children" appearing on Season 9. None of the available releases of the series contain "The Little House Years", which was a three-hour Thanksgiving special aired during Season 6 that largely consisted of flashback clips. A new family, the Carters (Stan Ivar as John, Pamela Roylance as Sarah, Lindsay Kennedy as older son Jeb, and David Friedman as younger son Jason), move into the Ingalls house.
They first met in the 1980s when Cannon auditioned for Landon's series Father Murphy. She is best known for playing Felice, Donna Martin's mother, on Beverly Hills, 90210. Richard Bull played Nels Oleson, husband of Harriet and father of Nellie and Willie, from 1974 to 1984.
Although the show followed the life and adventures of a family living on a farm in the late 1800s, the issues they dealt with are still relatable to viewers even today. The show became a big hit right off the bat and will certainly be remembered as one of the greatest shows of all time. The series was based on the best-selling Little House Books, which were actually semi-autobiographical, based on author Laura Ingalls Wilder’s real-life family. Laura lived from 1867 to 1957 and is responsible for authoring the book series that would pave the way for several on-screen adaptations. The son of actor Ted French, he gained recognition as an actor and stuntman in TV and film westerns like Gunsmoke and Bonanza.
After their final episode in 1982, Rachel Lindsay appeared in Matt Houston, while Sidney starred in the dramedy Hambone and Hillie. They also collaborated on commercials for Doublemint gum, Mattel and Kentucky Fried Chicken before leaving acting to focus on school. Melissa Sue Anderson played Mary Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie from seasons 1 through 7. In April of 1991, Landon announced that he’d been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
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