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Little House on the Prairie

Little House on the Prairie

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Review

From classic children's literature of the 19th century to a quintessential television rite-of-passage for plugged-in kids of the 1970s, Little House on the Prairie has now spanned three centuries as a beloved, archetypal coming-of-age saga. The TV series detailed the day-to-day adventures of the intrepid Family Ingalls in the frontier town of Walnut Grove, Minnesota, a scenario previously chronicled in the best-selling true-life memoirs of pioneering author Laura Ingalls-Wilder. Playing the writer in her girlhood, the pig-tailed, adorably buck-toothed Melissa Gilbert created one of television's most popular child characters, affectionately nick-named "Half-Pint" by the clan's heroic patriarch, Charles (Michael Landon). With sisters Mary (Melissa Sue Gilbert) and Carrie (Lindsey and Sydney Greebush) and mother Caroline (Karen Grassle), Half-Pint's world of farms, chores, crushes, lessons learned in (and out of) a one-room schoolhouse and an always amusing rivalry with spoiled brat Nelly Oleson (Alison Arngrim) was vividly brought to life each week, the success of which led to the show enduring for nearly a decade. Over the course of ten seasons, characters came and went, new plots were always developing and, toward the end, Little House launched the career of another child actress who would go on to TV superstardom: Shannen Doherty. The new DVD edition of Little House on the Prairie means that fans and newcomers alike will be checking into the modest abode that has enchanted millions for countless generations to come.