Comments on: Little House on the Prairie: Melissa Gilbert Returns

By: Jimmy66

Jimmy66 — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:29:22 +0000

Wow that show takes me back to my childhood – Shame Mr Swayze has departed after this article was written.

By: Lori

Lori — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:04:16 +0000

I loved Little House on the Prairie. I have also heard that Michael Landon did not want to do any reunion shows. He couldn’t blow up the Ingalls house so he had to leave it standing with something and that is where the rabbits come into play. This was a very special and emotional show to all those involved. I would love to see a reunion show with all of the remaining characters in it. It would be interesting to see. I have also followed and visited several of the homesteads that the real Ingalls family lived in they are amazing and we must always keep the spirit of this family alive. Most of us came from a family similiar to the Ingalls. I highly recommend visiting Laura and Almanzo’s last home in Missouri. The foundation that takes care of it has kept it up amazingly and you can still feel Laura and Almanzo are there even though they have been gone for over fifty years now. She did not live to see her life made into a television show. I believe she would have been proud of what Michael Landon and the cast of Little House on the Prairie did to represent her time. The final house of Laura and Almanzo is in Mansifield Missouri.

By: Bo Jack

Bo Jack — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:46:07 +0000

Just watched the last show again on the HMC. Always breaks me up!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:03:34 +0000

I love the show it is one of my favorites! Laura Ingalls Wilder is one of my heroes. It is very amazing and outstanding to cross a river in a covered wagon and to fly to California in an airplane. The has many wonderful messages and wouldn’t be as popular without the Olesons’.
Thanks.

By: jean Rudolph

jean Rudolph — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:29:33 +0000

we just finished watching the final video of this show and it was very well done. Except the last view of all those rabbits running around was kind of hard to belivev as they would have taken them for food while traveling. But we did like how it ended – which is not really like the book.

By: LYnn

LYnn — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:55:23 +0000

There is also a rumor out there that Michael Landon didn’t want to have to do any reunion shows. So he blew up the town to avoid the possibility!

By: ShadlovesMen

ShadlovesMen — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:06:51 +0000

Besides having to leave it as they found it, Landon didn’t want the houses redressed and used for other series too, so that’s why they blew it up.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:25:00 +0000

True. The townspeople were swindled out of their land and the buyer figured he’d get the houses for free. The townspeople blew up the houses so he couldn’t have them. It was a pretty dramatic way to end the series.

In reality, the production company had to leave the land as they’d found it so they had to destroy the houses for real anyway. Pretty clever how they incorporated that into the series ending.

Thanks for posting guys!

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:31:10 +0000

I found the answer to Barbara’s question on IMDB:

“In the “The Last Farewell”, they really did blow up the town. Producer/star Michael Landon didn’t want the bulldozers to crush the buildings. So he wrote a story which gave the inhabitants the chance to destroy their town themselves. They did not however destroy the home that the Ingalls had lived in. That was destroyed by the fires in California in late 2003.”

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071007/trivia

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:05:22 +0000

I would like to know why they blew up the town in the last show of Little House on the Prairie. I seem to remember that someone had purchased the land the town was on, but am unsure, and my daughter and I were discussing it and would like to know. Thanks.