I think one of Michael Landon's other characters, the "hot headed" Little Joe Cartwright may have shed a tear or two on "Bonanza". I think Michael Landon could just be an emotional guy, and rightly so after the crap childhood he endured.
yes and his alcoholism did not help any. : ( I love Michael Landon...regardless, he tried his best to give us great TV and IMHO he succeeded!
Yes, you would have found American men in the 19th century "weird". The rules for proper male behavior in front of others were incredibly restrictive. The novels by Charles Dickens and Mark Twain do a great job of showing how men behaved back then.
The best is one of the last TV movies which takes place at Christmas time. They were clearly tired of the show and not up to faking winter. So the movie began with a long montage of sunny skies and melting snow, with Charles Ingalls narrating how spring came early that year! In December. And everyone is walking around outside without coats when it’s clearly summer.
I still laugh when I think of a comment on a Colin & Justin home decorating show (before I was burned out on almost all such types of shows by repetition and screams of 'oh my god')... they were in Canada and referred to some couple's existing abode as a "Little House On The Scary". I'll still watch those guys actually, not sure about LHOTP, though I sincerely loved that show way back.
The first season episode "Christmas at Plum Creek" featured patches of snow on the ground that were steaming in the scorching the Simi Valley sun. For a scene at the end of the episode however they really did a great job of getting a thick blanket of snow everywhere and making it look something like Minnesota in the winter. I would bet crews spent all night pouring layers of snow and they shot the scene first thing in the morning before it started to boil.
Season five is kind of odd. Everyone abandoned Walnut Grove because of "the railroad" (???) and then they had those city episodes that dragged the ratings down. After six episodes they all moved back to Walnut Grove and in two episodes, good old Walnut Grove and everyone in it is just like it was before. Hell, Harriett's cousin even moves there to open up a newspaper! What happened to that railroad?
And what did the railroad do? We know from the first season that Walnut Grove is some distance from a railroad because they had to take a stagecoach to get Mary to a train station. So did they move the train tracks even farther away from Walnut Grove? Did they abandon those tracks and stations and lay down new ones farther away? I guess I'll have to pull out season four and rewatch the last episode which apparently explains what was about to happen.
I thought some people here might like to read this article: Melissa Gilbert and stars from 'Little House on the Prairie' reunite. See them now.
Thanks for sharing that. I enjoyed seeing some of the cast members that I hadn’t seen photos of for a long time.
You're welcome. It's cool that the show has maintained such a following over the years. I don't know if it airs anywhere around here or not, I'm thinking not. One of the local TV stations used to air it for their E/I (Educational & Informative) programming. We have a local historical park that had "Little House" days yearly for quite awhile-I don't know if they have resumed them or not since the pandemic restrictions aren't in place any longer. I remember they had Charlotte Stewart and Alison Arngrim as guests (though not at the same time). Those are the two I remember seeing on the news as being guests, although I know there were others.
I wish the show would get another remastering. The current one is okay, but they left in all the black leader between reels in some episodes, added new credits to the start of others, and there is some film damage on earlier shows that is not visible on the older cut versions.
Ya gotta wonder though, if people honk at them do they get mad thinking "Why are you honking at me?" or do they always remember that they have that message...
