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

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.