Michael LandonFilmography

Born:: October 31, 1936 in Forest Hills, NY
Occupation:: Actor, Director
Birth name:: Eugene Maurice Orowitz
Biography:: The son of a Jewish movie-publicist father and an Irish Catholic musical-comedy actress, Michael Landon grew up in a predominantly Protestant New Jersey neighborhood. The social pressures brought to bear on young Michael, both at home and in the schoolyard, led to an acute bedwetting problem...Read More

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Us

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon

Synopsis: It was impossible back in September of 1991 to objectively critique the TV movie Us. The film had been intended as the pilot for a new series, to be produced, directed and written by its star Michael Landon. Landon had died of a lingering illness only six months earlier, thus the film was heralded Read More

1991
American Red Cross Emergency Test

Synopsis: This medical instructional video is produced by the American Red Cross. Taking the viewer first through a twenty-question test on proper procedures for life-threatening medical emergencies, with an included test score card, the video then shows the recommended medical procedures for each depicted Read More

1990
Where Pigeons Go to Die

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Hy Gorman, Michael Landon

Synopsis: Michael Landon produced, directed and wrote the 1990 TV movie Where Pigeons Go to Die. Landon also narrated the story as the adult counterpart of young protagonist Robert Hy Gorman. When Landon returns to his grandfather's house with the intention of selling it, he flashes back 40 years and Read More

1990
Blue Angels

Synopsis: "The Blue Angels" are the United States Navy's precision flying team, who have been dazzling audiences with their airborne feats of expertise and daring-do since 1946. Blue Angels: Around The World At The Speed Of Sound is a documentary which offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Blue Angels Read More

1989
Highway to Heaven: Season 05

Actors: Michael Landon, Victor French

Synopsis: For its fifth and final season on NBC, Highway to Heaven was moved from its familiar Wednesday-night timeslot, first to Tuesdays at 9 PM (EST), then to Fridays at 10 PM. No matter where could be found on the dial, probationary angel Jonathan Smith (Michael Landon) persisted in his earthly mission Read More

1988
Monsters and Maniacs

1988
Highway to Heaven: Season 04

Actors: Michael Landon, Victor French

Synopsis: Remaining in its familiar Wednesday-night slot on NBC, Highway to Heaven entered its fourth season with probationary angel Jonathan Smith (Michael Landon) still hoping to earn his wings by performing good and noble deeds on earth -- with his mortal sidekick Mark Gordon (Victor French) still Read More

1987
Highway to Heaven: Season 03

Actors: Michael Landon, Victor French

Synopsis: Probationary angel Jonathan Smith (Michael Landon) still hasn't earned his wings by the time Highway to Heaven enters its third season, but that does not stay him from his earthly mission to perform good deeds and straighten out the problems of troubled mortals. And, as in seasons past, Jonathan Read More

1986
Highway to Heaven: The Right Thing

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: This episode of Highway to Heaven reunites star-writer Michael Landon with his former Little House on the Prairie co-star Matthew Laborteaux. Be that as it may, the episode's emphasis is on guest performer Lew Ayres, cast as elderly widower Harry Haynes. Placed in a retirement home by his Read More

1985
Highway to Heaven: An Investment in Caring

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A strong cast of veteran stage and screen actors distinguish this episode, in which a neighborhood largely comprised of senior citizens is in danger of obliteration. A soulless band of businessman intends to seize the neighborhood in a hostile corporate takeover for their own selfish purposes. If Read More

1985
Highway to Heaven: Thoroughbreds, Part 1

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Highway to Heaven closes out its first season with episode one of a two-part story. Angel-in-training Jonathan Smith (Michael Landon) is assigned to a horse-breeding farm, owned by fabulously wealthy Mr. Armstrong (Stephen Elliott). The good news is that Armstrong's playboy son Garth (John Read More

1985
Highway to Heaven: A Match Made in Heaven

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Guest star James Troesch and his wife, Theresa Troesch, co-wrote the script for this episode in which he recreates his characterization of Scotty, an ebullient young quadriplegic who was introduced in the previous two-part episode "One Fresh Batch of Lemonade." This time around, Scotty has become Read More

1985
Highway to Heaven: The Banker and the Bum

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ned Beatty plays a dual role in this episode as insensitive banker and mayoral candidate J. Melvin Rich and happy-go-lucky hobo Willy the Waver. Hoping to cure Mr. Rich of his hostile attitude towards the homeless (he wants to transform a city park, the local hoboes' haven, into a car park), angel Read More

1985
Highway to Heaven: Season 02

Actors: Michael Landon, Victor French

Synopsis: Probational angel Jonathan Smith (Michael Landon) and his mortal sidekick Mark Gordon (Victor French) continue helping unfortunate souls and perform earthly good deeds as Highway to Heaven flutters into its second season on NBC. This years kicks off with the two-part episode "A Song for Jason," Read More

1985
Highway to Heaven: Thoroughbreds, Part 2

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, wealthy horse breeder Mr. Armstrong (Stephen Elliott) is still dead set against the romance between his playboy son Garth (John Hammond) and the daughter of Armstrong's head trainer MacGill (Noble Willingham). It is up to angel-in-training Jonathan Smith (Michael Landon Read More

1985
Highway to Heaven: Going Home, Going Home

Crew: Director

Synopsis: An unconscious Mark (Victor French) is hurtled "forward into the past" as the result of a traffic accident. Ending up in the West of his childhood, Mark comes faces to face with his own younger self (Sean de Vertich), who lives on his grandfather's ranch. Not long afterward, our misplaced Read More

1985
Highway to Heaven: As Difficult as ABC

Crew: Director

Synopsis: High-school basketball star Brian Baldwin (Glenn Michael Jones) has been assured a hefty scholarship to the college of his choice. Unfortunately, Brian is disqualified because of a heart condition -- and his chances for acceptance in any other college (or any adult job, for that matter) are slim Read More

1985
Highway to Heaven: A Child of God

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: William Windom guest stars as Reverend Stearns, an otherwise above-board minister who has let his personal feelings nearly ruin his life. Because his daughter Marsha (Colleen Maloney) has engaged in an extramarital affair that resulted in an out-of-wedlock baby, Stearns refuses to extend either Read More

1985
Highway to Heaven: One Winged Angels

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The "real" world clashes head-on with the Heavenly afterworld when probationary angel Jonathan (Michael Landon) is assigned to straighten out the trouble-prone son (Wil Wheaton) of an attractive divorcee named Libby (Robin Dearden). What Jonathan hadn't counted on was that he would fall in love Read More

1985
Highway to Heaven: Plane Death

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The angelic Mark (Victor French) is reunited (after a fashion) with his old Air Force buddy, who is now a border drug-enforcement agent. Unfortunately, Mark's friend has been murdered, but not before uncovering a dope-smuggling ring that is using model airplanes as a means of transportation. In Read More

1985
Highway to Heaven: To Touch the Moon

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Probationary angel Jonathan Smith (Michael Landon) and his ghostly sidekick Mark Gordon (Victor French) tackle two difficult assignments in this episode. It is Jonathan's task to provide comfort and solace to Evelyn Nealy (Carrie Snodgress), a young widow whose son, Arthur (Barret Oliver), is Read More

1984
Highway to Heaven: Highway to Heaven, Part 2

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Originally broadcast as a two-hour TV movie, this opening episode of Highway to Heaven has since been divided into two one-hour installments for syndication. In part two, probationary angel Jonathan Smith (Michael Landon), adopting the guise of an earthly handyman, continues in his efforts to Read More

1984
Highway to Heaven: Highway to Heaven, Part 1

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Having gone to his Heavenly reward in 1948, lawyer Arthur Morton is "reborn" in 1987 as Jonathan Smith (Michael Landon), a probationary angel who in order to earn his wings must return to Earth and offer help and support to unfortunate mortals. In this debut episode of Highway to Heaven, Jonathan Read More

1984
Little House on the Prairie: The Last Farewell

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Karen Grassle, Michael Landon

Synopsis: Little House: The Last Farewell was the third and last TV movie based on the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder (which also inspired the long-running TV series), though it was telecast out of sequence, shown before the second film, Little House: Look Back to Yesterday. This valedictory adventure of the Read More

1984
Little House on the Prairie: Bless All the Dear Children

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: A baby kidnapping strikes the Ingalls family in this made-for-television movie which was based on the popular series Little House on the Prairie. In this story, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and her husband Almanzo's (Dean Butler) baby, Rose, is kidnapped during the Christmas holiday season. The family Read More

1984
Highway to Heaven: Hello and Farewell

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The 2-hour pilot for Michael Landon's celestial TV weekly Highway to Heaven was first shown on September 19, 1984. Landon stars as Jonathan Smith, a novice Guardian Angel sent to earth to do good deeds. Jonathan is far from perfect, as he proves on his first assignment, wherein he tries to save a Read More

1984
Highway to Heaven: Season 01

Actors: Michael Landon, Victor French

Synopsis: Probationary angel Jonathan Smith (Michael Landon) launches his campaign to earn his wings by performing good deeds on earth as Highway to Heaven begins its first network season. Jonathan is accompanied on his journeys by rough-edged former cop Mark Gordon (Victor French), who, though still alive Read More

1984
Highway to Heaven [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Michael Landon, Victor French

Synopsis: Premiering as a two-hour TV movie on September 19, 1984, the weekly, 60-minute Highway to Heaven was star Michael Landon's third NBC series -- and like Bonanza and Little House on the Prairie before it, the program was a huge success for both star and network. Landon, who also functioned as Read More

1984
Highway to Heaven: Catch a Falling Star

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Busy movie star Lance Gaylord (Daniel Davis) had convinced himself that he is a good family man simply because he has lavished money and creature comforts upon his children. But Gaylord's kids would rather have had their father be available to them once in a while -- but instead, he keeps himself Read More

1984
Sam's Son

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Timothy Patrick Murphy, Hallie Todd, Alan Hayes

Synopsis: This largely autobiographical story written and directed by Michael Landon stars Timothy Patrick Murphy as Gene Orowitz (Landon's real name was Eugene Orowitz), a frail teenager with a talent for throwing the javelin and a close relationship to his father Sam (Eli Wallach), the manager of a movie Read More

1984
Highway to Heaven: Help Wanted: Angel

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Elderly screenwriter Martin Lamm (Jon Lormer) hopes that his latest script, all about the old and disenfranchised people living in his tacky beachfront neighborhood, will be made into a movie. When Martin's calls to the major studios go unanswered, he advertises for the assistance of "angel" Read More

1984
Highway to Heaven: Another Song for Christmas

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In Highway to Heaven's first holiday episode, angels Jonathan (Michael Landon) and Mark (Victor French) try to bring redemption to a miserly, flint-hearted used-car dealer named "Honest" Eddie (Geoffrey Lewis). Staging an elaborate Yuletide charade, the two angels show Eddie how his miserable Read More

1984
Highway to Heaven: Hotel of Dreams

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In their latest earthly guises, angels Jonathan (Michael Landon) and Mark (Victor French) are employed as bellhops in a luxurious hotel. Their current "client" is Barry Rudd (Brian Kerwin), the listless, unmotivated son of millionaire Clinton Rudd (Jacques Aubuchon) . Employing methods both subtle Read More

1984
Highway to Heaven: The Return of the Masked Rider

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Angels Jonathan (Michael Landon) and Mark (Victor French) are assigned to a seedy Hollywood neighborhood populated by former movie action stars that is being held in thrall by a vicious street gang. Taking jobs at a local boxing ring, our heroes befriend the owner's grandson Joey (Chip Allister) Read More

1984
Highway to Heaven: One Fresh Batch of Lemonade, Part 1

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this first episode of a two-part story, Jonathan (Michael Landon) is assigned to provide moral support for Deke Larson Jr. (Ken Olandt), a promising young athlete who has been crippled in a motorcycle accident. Taking a job as a physical therapist at the hospital where Deke is convalescing Read More

1984
Highway to Heaven: One Fresh Batch of Lemonade, Part 2

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Jonathan (Michael Landon) assumes the earthly form of a physical therapist to help a promising young baseball player named Deke (Ken Olandt), who has been injured in a traffic accident, come to grips with the fact that he will never play pro ball -- and also Read More

1984
Highway to Heaven: A Divine Madness

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Probationary angel Jonathan (Michael Landon) and his sidekick Mark (Victor French) to reconcile young construction-firm heir Arthur Krock Jr. (Jonathan Frakes) with his eccentric widowed father Arthur Sr. (Ron Moody). It seems that the elder Krock likes to fantasize that he is King Arthur -- and Read More

1984
Love Is Forever

Actors: Michael Landon, Moira Chen, Jürgen Prochnow, Edward Woodward, Priscilla Presley

Synopsis: When producer/star Michael Landon took on this project, it was geared for theatrical release under the title Comeback. Innumerable production difficulties later (due in great part to Landon's tiltings with the writer and director), the film was retooled as a TV movie titled Love is Forever. Read More

1983
Little House on the Prairie: Look Back to Yesterday

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Although the NBC television series Little House on the Prairie ran its course in March of 1983, producer/star Michael Landon managed to extend the property's life for an additional year with the aid of three expensively mounted TV-movie sequels. The first of these was Little House: Look Back to Read More

1983
Little House on the Prairie: He Was Only Twelve, Part 1

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, James (Jason Bateman) heads to the Sleepy Eye bank to make a deposit. The bank is robbed and James is shot, leaving him comatose. Seething with grief and rage, James' adoptive father, Charles (Michael Landon), persuades his friend Mr. Edwards (Victor French Read More

1982
Little House on the Prairie: No Beast So Fierce

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: James (Jason Bateman) befriends Gideon (played by Peter Billingsley of A Christmas Story fame), the new kid in school. Alas, when the other students make fun of Gideon's stammer, James bows to peer pressure and joins in on the ridicule. Heartbroken, Gideon runs away, and it is up to James' Read More

1982
Little House on the Prairie: He Was Only Twelve, Part 2

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, James (Jason Bateman) remains in a coma after being shot in a bank robbery. Everyone has given up hope for the boy's recovery except his adoptive father, Charles (Michael Landon), whose obsessive belief that a "miracle" will occur alienates him from his Read More

1982
Little House on the Prairie: A Faraway Cry

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: With Dr. Baker (Kevin Hagen) in tow, Caroline (Karen Grassle) responds to a call for help from a prospector's camp. Here she finds her old friend Louisa (Ruth Silveira) now pregnant and suffering from the influenza that has spread throughout the camp. Though Louisa dies, her baby survives Read More

1982
Little House on the Prairie: Uncle Jed

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: It has been several months since Charles (Michael Landon) adopted the orphaned James (Jason Bateman) and Cassandra (Missy Francis), and the children are now fully and happily settled in the Ingalls household. This may soon change, however: The youngsters' grand-uncle Jed (E.J. Andre) suddenly Read More

1982
Little House on the Prairie: The Legacy

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: This story begins in 1982, with a set of old blueprints discovered in a Minnesota auction barn. Flashing back a century or so, the audience discovers that the blueprints were drawn up by Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon), who has taken up cabinet-making as a means of establishing a legacy for his Read More

1982
Little House on the Prairie: Stone Soup

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: A pregnant Laura (Melissa Gilbert) insists that she can take care of the Wilders' farm in the absence of her husband, Almanzo (Dean Butler). Unfortunately, the land is hit with a drought, and Laura is felled by a heat stroke. It's up to the local schoolchildren to save the crops -- not to mention Read More

1982
Little House on the Prairie: Second Chance

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Hester-Sue (Ketty Lester) is astonished when her ex-husband, Sam Terhune (J.A. Preston), who left her years ago for another woman, suddenly shows up in Walnut Grove. Insisting that he has giving up drinking, gambling, and womanizing, Sam tries to charm his way back into Hester-Sue's heart. Read More

1982
Little House on the Prairie: A Promise to Keep

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Still grieving over the death of his son John, Mr. Edwards (Victor French) has begun drinking again. Ordered out of his own home by his long-suffering wife, Grace (played by Corinne Camacho, replacing former series regular Bonnie Bartlett), Edwards returns to Walnut Grove and his friends the Read More

1982
Little House on the Prairie: Days of Sunshine, Days of Shadow, Part 2

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, the troubles that have recently beset the Wilders continue unabated. Their crops have already been wiped out by hail, and Almanzo (Dean Butler) has been partially paralyzed in an accident. Now, a tornado destroys the couple's home, injuring Laura (Melissa Gilbert Read More

1982
Little House on the Prairie: Days of Sunshine, Days of Shadow, Part 1

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In this special 90-minute episode, the first in a two-part story, the Wilders are beset by one calamity after another: A hailstorm destroys their crops, and Almanzo (Dean Butler) suffers a stroke that leaves him semi-paralyzed. Amidst all this strife, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) gives birth to her Read More

1982
Little House on the Prairie: The Lost Ones, Part 2

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Rev. Alden (Dabbs Greer) finds a foster home for the orphaned Cooper children. Charles (Michael Landon) has a bad feeling about this setup -- a feeling that is borne out when it is revealed that the children's new guardians merely want to use them as cheap Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: The Lost Ones, Part 1

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Charles (Michael Landon) and Albert (Matthew Laborteaux) accompany the Cooper family while making a delivery. En route, Mr. and Mrs. Cooper are killed in an accident, leaving their children, James (Jason Bateman) and Cassandra (Missy Francis), orphans. Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Make a Joyful Noise

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Black farmer Joe Kagan (Moses Gunn) sells his Walnut Grove property and moves to Sleepy Eye, where he gets a job at the blind school. Joe's primary motivation is his love for schoolteacher Hester-Sue (Ketty Lester), but she would prefer a wealthier and more worldly husband. Only when she realizes Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: The Reincarnation of Nellie, Part 1

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Season eight of Little House on the Prairie is marked with the conspicuous absence of several familiar characters, among them Mary and Adam Kendall and Nellie and Percival Dalton, all of whom have moved from Walnut Grove to New York. Mooning over the departure of daughter Nellie, the insufferable Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: I Do, Again

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Believing that she is pregnant again, an exultant Caroline (Karen Grassle) pays a visit to the doctor. There she learns the awful truth: She can never again have any children. Charles (Michael Landon) tries to console Caroline by taking her on a trip to her hometown, where the couple tearfully Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Sylvia, Part 2

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Albert's classmate Sylvia (Olivia Barash) has been impregnated by a masked rapist, whereupon her "disgraced" father forcibly removes her from town. Already suspected of being the father of Sylvia's unborn baby, Albert (Matthew Laborteaux) courts further Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Dark Sage

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: The normally open-minded Doc Baker (Kevin Hagen) is a bit put off when his new assistant, Dr. Caleb Ledoux (Don Marshall), arrives in town -- not because Ledoux is unqualified (certainly not the case), but because he is black. Reluctant to entrust his patients to a man of color, Baker assigns Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Goodbye, Mrs. Wilder

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Fed up with Harriet Oleson's (Katherine MacGregor) constant criticisms about her work, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) quits her schoolteaching job -- and invites Harriet to take over. Basking in the opportunity to bring culture to Walnut Grove, Harriet immediately sets up classes in French and art Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Sylvia, Part 1

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Albert (Matthew Laborteaux) develops a crush on his classmate Sylvia (Olivia Barash), a 14-year-old girl who has developed early. Sylvia's stern father disapproves of Albert's affections and orders his daughter to ignore the boy. Later on, Sylvia is raped Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: A Wiser Heart

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: While attending a literature seminar in Arizona, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) is reunited with her sister-in-law Eliza Jane (Lucy Lee Flippin). This happy reunion is compromised when, failing to land a local tutoring job, Laura is forced to take menial work at a local restaurant. Before long, Laura and Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Gambini the Great

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Jack Kruschen guest stars as Gambini, an aging circus artist in whose footsteps his sons are reluctant to follow. When Gambini's show comes to town, Albert (Matthew Laborteaux) is fascinated with the old man's "escape" act -- so much so that he tries to be Gambini's protégé. This proves to be a Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Growin' Pains

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: The Ingalls' newly adopted son, James (Jason Bateman), is desperate to "belong," and even more desperate to emulate his older adoptive brother, Albert (Matthew Laborteaux). After breaking Albert's razor, James tries to make amends by getting Albert another one. Unfortunately, he doesn't bother to Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: The Nephews

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: The Wilders are in for quite a time when Almanzo's brother Royal (Woody Eney) decides to take a vacation -- and deposits his troublesome sons, Myron (Ham Larsen) and Rupert (Rossie Harris), in the home of Almanzo (Dean Butler) and Laura (Melissa Gilbert). Before long, the nasty nephews have turned Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: The Legend of Black Jake

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Nels Oleson (Richard Bull) is kidnapped by two dimwitted amateur crooks, who demand a 100-dollar ransom. When Nels' wife, Harriet (Katherine MacGregor), refuses to pay, the outraged Nels decides to become the leader of the crooks' "gang." Under Nels' less than expert leadership, the two bumblers Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Blind Justice

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Adam (Linwood Boomer) and Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) return to Walnut Grove, where Adam wants to set up his law practice. His first client turns out to be the most hated man in town: Edgar Mills (Jeff Corey), who is accused of swindling the townsfolk in a wide-ranging scam. At first believing in Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: The Reincarnation of Nellie, Part 2

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Little House on the Prairie's two-part season eight opener, the Olesons' newly adopted daughter, Nancy (Allison Balson), not only looks like a younger version of biological daughter, Nellie, but is just as bratty and troublesome. The kids at the Walnut Grove school have their Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Chicago

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Victor French returns to the series in the role of Isaiah Edwards. When his adopted son John a copy boy with a big Chicago newspaper, dies under mysterious circumstances, Edwards is comforted through his grief by his old friend Charles (Michael Landon). By and by, several clues indicate that John Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: For the Love of Nancy

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: J. Brennan Smith is cast as Elmer, a chubby new student at the Walnut Grove school. Mercilessly ridiculed because of his weight, Elmer gravitates to the only person willing to be nice to him -- bratty Nancy Oleson (Allison Balson). In truth, however, Nancy doesn't care a fig about Elmer; she just Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Wave of the Future

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Harriet Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) thinks she has it made when she sells her restaurant to a national franchise. Before long, however, Harriet is being run to a frazzle in her efforts to live up to the franchise's lofty and exacting standards. Meanwhile, Harriet's husband, Nels (Richard Bull) Read More

1981
Father Murphy

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The two-hour pilot for the Father Murphy TV series first saw the light of a TV screen on November 3, 1981. Merlin Olsen plays John Michael Murphy, a muscle-bound frontiersman who gets in dutch with crooked town boss Burt DeBenning, who has eyes for Murphy's gold mine. When the town is destroyed Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Come, Let Us Reason Together

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: It's in-law vs. in-law when the Olesons meet the parents of their son-in-law, Percival (Steve Tracy), for the first time. Inevitably, the hidebound Harriet Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) clashes with Percival's Jewish father, Benjamin (E.M. Margolese), over whether or not Nellie (Alison Arngrim) Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Season 08

Synopsis: Season eight of Little House on the Prairie finds Mary Ingalls Kendall (Melissa Sue Anderson, formerly a series regular and now a "special guest star") moving to New York, where her husband, Adam (Linwood Boomer), has joined his father's law firm. Back in Walnut Grove, Mary's father, Charles (Michael Landon Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: The Christmas They Never Forgot

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Snowed in by a Christmas blizzard, the Ingalls family, including married daughters Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) and their respective husbands, Almanzo (Dean Butler) and Adam (Linwood Boomer), pass the time by telling stories about their lives. Also on hand is family Read More

1981
Father Murphy [TV Series]

Crew: Show Creator

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Oleson versus Oleson

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: A clash between Mr. and Mrs. Oleson (Richard Bull, Katherine MacGregor) leads to a town referendum to decide if the women of Walnut Grove should have property rights equal to the men. Not surprisingly, the referendum splits the town right down the middle, male vs. female. Ultimately, a Lysistrata Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: A New Beginning

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Widowed farmer Jonathan Garvey (Merlin Oleson) and his son Andy (Patrick Laborteaux) move to the town of Sleepy Eye so that Jonathan can start a freight business. Unfortunately, he is repeatedly robbed of his meager belongings by a gang of local toughs. Deciding to end this crime wave on his own Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Part 2

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Little House on the Prairie's two-part season-seven opener, the wedding of Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert) and Almanzo Wilder (Dean Butler) is still on hold due to financial problems. When Almanzo's schoolteacher sister, Eliza Jane (Lucy Lee Flippin), has her heart broken by Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, Part 2

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) tries to get over the departure of her fiancé, Almanzo (Dean Butler), by helping her sister Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) and brother-in-law Adam (Linwood Boomer) set up a new school for the blind in the town of Sleepy Eye. As fate would Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: The Silent City

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux, Merlin Olsen, Linwood Boomer

Synopsis: Veteran character actor Dub Taylor appears as old man Houston, who takes in a pair of blind youngsters who have run away from a local orphanage so that they won't be separated. Houston takes it upon himself to find a couple willing to adopt both orphans. But this proves well nigh impossible for Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: Sweet Sixteen

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Newly certified as a schoolteacher, 16-year-old Laura (Melissa Gilbert) accepts a temporary teaching job in a nearby town. Almanzo (Dean Butler) offers to drive Laura to her new assignment -- a gesture made strictly out of friendship for the girl. But in the course of the journey, Almanzo suddenly Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, Part 1

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Almanzo (Dean Butler) asks Charles' permission to marry Laura (Melissa Gilbert), but Charles insists that she cannot wed until she is 18 -- two years from now. Upset that Laura concedes to her father's wishes, Almanzo leaves town. Meanwhile, Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: Dearest Albert, I'll Miss You

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Matthew Laborteaux, Jonathan Gilbert, Suzy Gilstrap

Synopsis: Albert (Matthew Laborteaux) inaugurates a pen-pal relationship with a girl named Leslie Barton. Hoping to impress one another, the two correspondents tell fibs about themselves. This apparently harmless deception leads to a dramatic denouement in which Leslie refuses to meet Albert face to face Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: Portrait of Love

Crew: Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Future film star Madeleine Stowe (here billed as "Madeline") is cast as Annie Crane, a blind woman who miraculously achieves fame as a painter. An emotional crisis develops when Annie's long-lost biological mother shows up in hopes of a reconciliation. The embittered Annie refuses to have anything Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: Divorce, Walnut Grove Style

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: New bride Laura (Melissa Gilbert) suspects that her husband, Almanzo (Dean Butler), is cheating on her. Worse still, she is convinced that the other woman is her dear friend Brenda Sue Longworth (Tisch Raye). The disconsolate Laura moves back with her parents, and before long she has made her Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: The In-Laws

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Charles (Michael Landon) enters into a rivalry with his son-in-law Almanzo (Dean Butler). The bone of contention is an argument over the quickest method to deliver goods from Walnut Grove to Sleepy Eye. To settle the matter, Charles and Almanzo agree to a race; whichever man loses will have to Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: To See the Light, Part 2

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Adam Kendall (Dean Butler) decides to try for a scholarship now that his eyesight has been restored. En route to apply for the scholarship in Minneapolis, Adam is beaten, robbed, and contracts a fever. Meanwhile, back at home, his still-blind wife, Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: Fight Team Fight!

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Pete Ellerbee (William Traylor), Walnut Grove's legendary football hero, returns to town to coach the high school team. To Pete, winning isn't everything, it's the only thing -- and this attitude proves to be hard thing for the team members to live up to, especially his own son. Pete's Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: To See the Light, Part 1

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, an accident unexpectedly restores Adam Kendall's (Linwood Boomer) eyesight. Although Adam is exultant, his still-blind wife, Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson), is worried that he will fall out of love with her. Meanwhile, Percival Dalton (Steve Tracy) proves to Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: Season 07

Synopsis: After many setbacks, Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert) finally marries Almanzo Wilder (Dean Butler) in the two-part opener of Little House on the Prairie's seventh season. Wedding bells also ring for Laura's childhood nemesis (but now good friend), Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim), who weds Percival Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: What Ever Happened to the Class of '56?

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Liam Sullivan, Lynn Benesch

Synopsis: Charles (Michael Landon) and Caroline (Karen Grassle) journey to faraway Milwaukee to attend two important events: a farmers' convention and their 25th high school reunion. At the convention, Charles exhorts his fellow small farmers to stand up to the "big boys," while at the reunion, Caroline is Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Part 1

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: The first episode of Little House on the Prairie's two-part season-seven opener takes place some six months after the end of season six. Although Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim) has wed Percival Dalton (Steve Tracy), her childhood rival, Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert), must still wait until she is Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: The Werewolf of Walnut Grove

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: The schoolchildren of Walnut Grove face a new nemesis in the form of an overgrown bully named Bart (Sandy Ward). To teach his tormentor a lesson, Albert (Matthew Laborteaux) contrives to throw a good scare into the boy. But when his "wolf-man" disguise comes a cropper, Albert decides to leave Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: Darkness Is My Friend

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: On a stormy night, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) are held captive at the blind school by three escaped convicts. Since one of the men is wounded, Laura is permitted to go to town to get a doctor -- with the warning that Mary will suffer should she alert the authorities. Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: Wilder and Wilder

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Charles Bloom guest stars as Perley, the younger brother of Almanzo Wilder (Dean Butler). Hoping that his daughter Laura (Melissa Gilbert) will get over her infatuation with the older Almanzo, Charles (Michael Landon) encourages a romance between Laura and Perley -- but things changes dramatically Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: Second Spring

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Tired of his wife's nagging and his children's prankishness, long-suffering Nels Oleson (Richard Bull) decides to sell his wares in another town. There he meets the much-younger Molly Reardon (Suzanne Rodgers), with whom he falls in love. Certain that everyone will "understand" his decision to Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: Silent Promises

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Alban Branton, a deaf child, makes his acting debut in the role of hearing-impaired Daniel Page. Taking it upon herself to teach Daniel sign language, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) never dreams that the boy will fall in love with her -- but that is precisely what happens. This dramatic situation is Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: May We Make Them Proud

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In this special two-hour episode, a fire at the blind school claims the lives of both Mary's baby and the wife of farmer Jonathan Garvey (Merlin Olsen). In the aftermath of the tragedy, Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) goes into a state of shock and Jonathan angrily rails against God. The only person Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: The Return of Mr. Edwards

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Victor French returns to Little House on the Prairie in the role of Isaiah Edwards, now a successful logger. When he is crippled by a falling tree, Edwards loses his will to live. Though he appears to shake himself out of his doldrums when he renews his friendship with the Ingalls family, Edwards Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: Annabelle

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Although the people of Walnut Grove are delighted when a carnival comes to town, Nels Oleson (Richard Bull) is in despair. It seems that the carnival's fat lady, Annabelle (Harriet Gibson), is Mr. Oleson's long-estranged sister. Elsewhere, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) has a new rival for the affections Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: The Halloween Dream

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Suffering from an extremely overactive imagination -- fueled by the Halloween season and his addiction to dime novels -- Albert (Matthew Laborteaux) dreams that he and Laura (Melissa Gilbert) are kidnapped by Indians. The plot thickens when Albert is mistaken for the chief's son and, as such, is Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: The Third Miracle

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) accompanies her husband, Adam (Linwood Boomer), on a stagecoach trip to an awards ceremony where Adam will be honored. En route, the coach is involved in an accident in a remote area. As the only passenger who is unhurt, Mary must save the lives of Adam, a pregnant Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: The Preacher Takes a Wife

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Love comes into the life of Walnut Grove's Rev. Alden (Dabbs Greer) in the form of the widowed Anna Craig (Iris Korn). This turn of events outrages the insufferable Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor), who is of the staunch opinion that a minister should be "married to his work." In her efforts to Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: The Lake Kezia Monster

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: When lovable eccentric Aunt Kezia (Hermione Baddeley) fails to pay her taxes, the old woman's property is bought up by the insufferable Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor). In a gesture of uncharacteristic generosity, Mrs. Oleson offers to let Kezia remain on the premises -- albeit as the Olesons' Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: Barn Burner

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: With wheat prices plummeting, the farmers of Walnut Grove hold a meeting to decide whether or not to fix prices. The only farmer who doesn't go along with the plan is town bigot Larrabee (Don "Red" Barry), who refuses to charge the same price as a black neighbor. Outraged by this behavior Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: Enchanted Cottage

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: When she begins to differentiate light from dark, Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) is thrilled -- perhaps, at long last, she is regaining her sight. Meanwhile, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and Albert (Matthew Laborteaux) try to fix up Mary and Adam's "dream" cottage -- with only two mismatched paint colors Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: Blind Man's Bluff

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: When his sight is temporarily impaired in an accident, young Jordan (Ronnie Scribner) pretends to have been permanently blinded in order to keep his quarrelling parents from splitting up. At first disapproving of Jordan's charade, Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert) decides to let him keep his secret Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: Dance With Me

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Ray Bolger guest stars in this special 90-minute episode as Toby Noe, a hard-drinking drifter whom the Ingalls befriended while living in Winoka. Shambling into Walnut Grove just before a much-anticipated community dance, Toby immediately sets his cap for prudish spinster Amanda Jane Cooper (Eileen Heckart Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: The Sound of Children

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: News that Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) is pregnant reaches New York, the home of Giles Kendall (Philip Abbott), the estranged father of Mary's husband, Adam (Linwood Boomer). Apparently hoping to mend the rift between himself and his son, Giles invites the couple to move in with him, and even Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: Back to School, Part 1

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Season six of Little House on the Prairie begins with introduction of Dean Butler as Almanzo Wilder, future husband of series narrator Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert). The brother of Walnut Grove's new schoolmarm, Eliza Jane Wilder (Lucy Lee Flippin), Almanzo immediately upon arrival becomes the Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: Back to School, Part 2

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the concluding episode of Little House on the Prairie's two-part season six opener, the rivalry between Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and Nellie (Alison Arngrim) over the affections of their teacher's handsome brother, Almanzo (Dean Butler), reaches a fever pitch when the two girls come to blows. Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: The Family Tree

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Albert (Matthew Laborteaux), the Ingalls' foster son, is frustrated by his efforts to trace his family tree as part of a school project. Equally frustrated is Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon), who, in attempting to legally adopt Albert, is stymied by the sudden arrival of the boy's natural father (Michael Pataki Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: Someone Please Love Me

Crew: Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Charles Cioffi, Jenny Sullivan, Bobby Rolofson, Kyle Richards

Synopsis: While staying with the family of Brett Harper (Charles Cioffi), from whom he hopes to purchase a horse, Charles (Michael Landon) is approached by Brett's two children. The younger Harpers beg Charles to help them prevent their parents from splitting up. But since Brett has become a drunken recluse Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: Mortal Mission

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In desperate need of quick cash, two men knowingly sell mutton infested with anthrax to the citizens of Walnut Grove. When most of the community falls ill, Charles (Michael Landon) and Jonathan (Merlin Olsen) head to Springfield for medical supplies. En route, they are held up by a man whose Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: The Odyssey

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the final episode of Little House on the Prairie's fifth season, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and Albert (Matthew Laborteaux) promise to honor the last wish of their friend Dylan (Steve Shaw), who is suffering from terminal leukemia. This promise, however, turns out to be a tall order, since Dylan Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: The King Is Dead

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: A slick sports promoter (Ray Walston) convinces Jonathan Garvey (Merlin Olsen) that he has genuine talent as a wrestler. It is all part of a scheme to bilk the citizens of Walnut Grove by staging a rigged wrestling match. Things get really sticky when, consumed by gambling fever, Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: Season 06

Synopsis: Season six of Little House on the Prairie bids goodbye to Mary Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) and her new husband, Adam Kendall (Linwood Boomer) -- at least on a regular weekly basis. With Mary and Adam having moved to the Dakotas, Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert) is now the oldest daughter in her Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: The Angry Heart

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: The victim of lifelong abuse at the hands of his drunken father, surly 17-year-old Tod Dortmunder (Timothy Wead) comes to live with his grandparents in Walnut Grove. Wasting no time getting into trouble, Tod soon faces a jail term for stealing Charles' watch. Rather than heap more punishment on Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: The Craftsman

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Hoping to contribute to the Ingalls' family coffers, young Albert (Matthew Laborteaux) becomes an apprentice to old Isaac Singerman (John Bleifer), Walnut Grove's coffin maker. Before long, Albert is subjected to the taunts of his classmates, who maliciously label him a "Jew lover." As it turns Read More

1979
Bing Crosby: White Christmas

Actors: Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Kathryn Crosby

Synopsis: As co-hosted by Gene Kelly and Kathryn Crosby (the wife of Bing Crosby), this exclusive video compilation presents priceless back-to-back clips from many of Bing's Christmas specials that aired from the early 1960s through the late 1970s. Featured guests include: Jackie Gleason, Twiggy, David Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: Author, Author

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: After the death of Caroline's mother, her heartbroken father, Frederick Holbrook (Barry Sullivan), moves into the Ingalls' sod house. Little Albert (Matthew Laborteaux) quickly gravitates to Frederick, who has a gift for weaving fascinating stories out of his lifetime experiences. As a means of Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: The Faith Healer

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: James Olson guest stars as "Reverend" Edward Danforth, a bombastic faith healer who descends upon Walnut Grove. So persuasive is Danforth's rhetoric and his laying-on-of-hands technique that soon both Rev. Alden (Dabbs Greer) and Doc Baker (Kevin Hagen) are shunned by the community as being Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: The Little House Years

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Telecast on Sunday evening rather than the series' customary Monday-night slot, "The Little House Years" is a three-hour compilation of highlights from the series' five previous seasons. Gathered together for Thanksgiving, the Ingalls family recalls the most memorable events of their lives, with Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: Crossed Connections

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: No sooner has Walnut Grove's first telephone been installed in the town's hotel than self-appointed operator Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) begins eavesdropping on her neighbors. Overhearing a conversation between Alice Garvey (Hersha Parady) and her mother, Mrs. Oleson is shocked to discover Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: The Winoka Warriors

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Among the students at the school for the blind where Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) works is Tom Carlin (Brad Wilkin), whose taciturn (and sighted) farmer father, Frank (John Ireland), has given Tom up as a total loss. Hoping to build Tom's self-confidence, Mary arranges for Tom to play with the Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: As Long As We Are Together, Part 1

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Season five of Little House on the Prairie opens as the financially strapped Ingalls family moves from Walnut Grove, MN, to Winoka in Dakota Territory. In addition to the possibility of better times ahead, the Ingalls will now be closer to their blind daughter, Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson), who is Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away, Part 2

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the concluding episode of Little House on the Prairie's two-part season four finale, Mary Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) cannot quite come to terms with her blindness. Reluctantly, she agrees to go to Iowa, there to attend a school for the blind. Ultimately she does so well in her studies, and Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: Fagin

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Charles (Michael Landon) spends so much time with his foster son, Albert (Matthew Laborteaux), that his biological daughter Laura (Melissa Gilbert) feels neglected. Sensing Laura's resentment, Albert sadly concludes that it would be best for all concerned if he ran away. Only after Laura has won Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: Harriet's Happenings

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Perennial busybody Harriet Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) inaugurates a gossip column in the local Walnut Grove newspaper. With her usual sensitivity toward other people's feelings, she uses her column to malign a local farming family -- for no other reason than they are recent immigrants from Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: The Man Inside

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Cliff Emmich guest stars as John Bevins, a warm-hearted but grotesquely heavy man who is treated as an object of ridicule by most of his neighbors. John accepts a job at the one place in town where no one can see him: the school for the blind where Mary Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) works. Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: There's No Place Like Home, Part 2

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, the Ingalls, Olesons, and Garveys, disillusioned with life in the "big city" of Winoka, have packed up and returned to Walnut Grove. Alas, the community has fallen into an appalling state of disrepair in their absence. With nowhere else to go, the returning Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: The Inheritance

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: When Charles (Michael Landon) comes into an unexpected inheritance, everyone tries to tell him how best to spend the money -- including the troublesome Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor). Only after getting deeply into debt with the Olesons does Charles discover that his windfall consists of Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: Be My Friend

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In search of the person who stuffed a note reading "Be My Friend" in a bottle, Charles (Michael Landon) and Laura (Melissa Gilbert) come upon an abandoned baby. It soon develops that the child's unwed, teenaged parents were forced to part by the girl's resentful father. While Charles tries to Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: I Remember, I Remember

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: On the day of Charles and Caroline Ingalls' wedding anniversary, Charles (Michael Landon) is unable to come home on schedule due to a broken wagon wheel. While everyone waits for the festivities to commence, Caroline (Karen Grassle) regales her children with a story about her youthful romance with Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: Whisper Country

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) lands a teaching job in an isolated rural community ruled by religious zealot Miss Peel (Anita Dangler). Declaring that education is the tool of Satan, Miss Peel rallies the townsfolk in opposing the school, going so far as to spread malicious lies about Mary. As it Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: A Most Precious Gift

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Charles (Michael Landon) and Caroline (Karen Grassle) are thrilled to learn that she is expecting another child. But will Charles be disappointed if the baby turns out to be another girl? To find out what is in store, Caroline goes against her better judgment and consults a gypsy fortune teller Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: The Rivals

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Actually, there are two sets of rivals in this episode. While farmers Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) and Jonathan Garvey (Merlin Olsen) must square off against some tough professional competitors in a freight-hauling contest, Charles' daughter Laura (Melissa Gilbert) finds herself battling with Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: The Stranger

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: The Oleson family is saddled with Mr. Oleson's obnoxious nephew Peter (Michael Sharrett), who has been sent to Walnut Grove in hopes that he will learn the proper values in life. Somehow or other, Peter ends up on the Ingalls farm, where he rapidly proceeds to rub everyone the wrong way. Even so Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: The Wedding

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In this classic episode, Adam Kendall (Linwood Boomer) asks Laura Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) to marry her. Though Laura loves Adam, she declines his proposal, worried that a blind couple could never properly care for a family. But a crisis during a devastating dust storm reveals that Laura and Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away, Part 1

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In this first episode of Little House on the Prairie's two-part season four finale, Mary Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) is diverted from her blossoming romance with Seth (Robert Kenneally) by her rapidly failing eyesight. What Mary doesn't yet know, but her father Charles does, is that she will Read More

1978
Killing Stone

Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Michael Landon wrote and directed this pilot film about a writer who is framed for murdering a politician's son; after serving his sentence, he goes in search of the real killer. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: Season 05

Synopsis: Devastating financial reverses, prompted by the closing of the town mill, force several Walnut Grove citizens to pack up and move out as Little House on the Prairie enters it fifth season. Among those leaving are Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon), his wife, Caroline (Karen Grassle), and their Read More

1978
Del Mero Corazon

Synopsis: Les Blank directed this documentary on Chicano culture in America as it is expressed through music. Focusing primarily on the Nortena sounds of the Tex-Mex border towns, Del Mero Corazon looks at how Hispanic-American culture finds a way to thrive, regardless of its environment, through the music Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: There's No Place Like Home, Part 1

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) refuses to withstand one more humiliation from his new employer Standish (Leon Charles) after the hateful man cheats a heavy-drinking oldster (Ray Bolger) out of a lottery prize. With his family in tow, Charles leaves Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: Men Will Be Boys

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: As a rite of passage, youngsters Albert Ingalls (Matthew Laborteaux) and Andy Garvey (Patrick Laborteaux) embark upon a camping trip to Sleepy Eye all by themselves. Though they don't wish to embarrass their sons, Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) and Jonathan Garvey (Merlin Olsen) secretly tag Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: Blind Journey, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: When the blind school at Winoka is sold by the bank, the people of Walnut Grove decide to establish a new school at the former home of Rev. Alden. Meanwhile, pompous Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) is doing her best to keep Joe Kagan (Moses Gunn), a black man, from joining the town's church. As Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: The Cheaters

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: With Mrs. Simms having retired, Alice Garvey (Hersha Parady) has taken over as Walnut Grove's schoolteacher -- a task made difficult by the fact that Alice's son, Andy (Patrick Laborteaux), is a classic underachiever. Hoping to improve Andy's grades, Alice hires her best pupil, Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: Blind Journey, Part 2

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, the imperious Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) is shocked to discover that Hester-Sue Terhune (Ketty Lester), the prestigious new teacher at Walnut Grove's school for the blind, is a black woman. Ultimately, Mrs. Oleson learns a valuable -- and, it is hoped Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: The Godsister

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: With Charles (Michael Landon) out of town on a job and her siblings elsewhere occupied, little Carrie Ingalls feels lonely and neglected. Her solution: to create an imaginary lookalike friend named Alyssa, and to embark on a series of thrilling adventures. In this special 90-minute episode, the Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: The Music Box

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Laura (Melissa Gilbert) befriends a new schoolmate named Anna (Katy Kurtzman), who has a pronounced stutter. Hoping to humiliate Anna, bratty Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim) agrees not to snitch on Laura when the latter "borrows" and breaks one of the Olesons' precious music boxes -- but in return Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: The Election

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: The classroom rivalry between Mary Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) and Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim) reaches its peak when both girls run for school president. Also in the electoral race is nerdy, unpopular student Elmer Dobkins (Eric Olson), who was nominated as a cruel practical joke. Things Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: Gold Country

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the two-hour finale of Little House on the Prairie's third season, the Ingalls family faces yet another crisis when their crops are destroyed. In desperation, Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) packs up his brood and heads to the nearby gold mines, hoping for better luck. Surprisingly, the family Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: My Ellen

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: While skinny-dipping with Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson), little Ellen Taylor (Mia Bendixsen) accidentally drowns. Arriving at the Taylor home after the funeral to offer her condolences, Laura is kidnapped by Ellen's grieving mother, Eloise (Corinne Michaels), who is Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: Times of Change

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Called to attend the Grange convention in Chicago as a representative of Walnut Grove, Charles (Michael Landon) offers to take his daughter Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson). At first, the two visitors are in awe of the beauty and glamour of the "big city" -- especially Mary, who is reunited with her Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: Castoffs

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the opening episode of Little House on the Prairie's fourth season, Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert), grieving over the death of her beloved dog Jack, rejects the efforts by her father, Charles (Michael Landon), to replace her pet with a scruffy cast-off pooch named Bandit. Ultimately, however Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: The Wisdom of Solomon

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Tired of his family's grinding poverty and of being treated as a freak by the local white bigots, 11-year-old black youngster Solomon Henry (played by future Diff'rent Strokes co-star Todd Bridges) runs away from home. Showing up at the Ingalls home, Solomon offers to sell himself as their slave Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: Quarantine

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: After helping Doc Baker (Kevin Hagen) tend to a mountain fever epidemic in another town, Mr. Edwards (Victor French) returns to Walnut Grove, which has already been quarantined. Unwittingly, Edwards has brought the fever virus into town, and as a result, his adopted daughter falls seriously ill. Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: I'll Ride the Wind

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: John Jr. (Radames Pera), the adopted son of Mr. Edwards (Victor French), astonishes 13-year-old Mary Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) by proposing marriage. Naturally, John expects Mary to wait for him until she comes of age -- but then he is offered a colleague scholarship that will keep him away Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: Blizzard

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Just before the Christmas vacation, Walnut Grove is threatened by a driving snowstorm. Schoolteacher Miss Beadle (Charlotte Stewart) decides to let her students go home earlier than usual so that they can avoid the impending blizzard; only the Oleson children remain behind to help their teacher Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: To Live With Fear, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Mary Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) is in dire need of a life-saving operation. Lacking the necessary funds, Mary's father, Charles (Michael Landon), signs up for a high-paying -- and highly-dangerous -- new job. Working shoulder to shoulder with his neighbor Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: Injun Kid

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Young Joseph Stokes (Caesar Ramirez), the son of a Sioux Indian father and a white mother, arrives in Walnut Grove to live with his maternal grandfather, Jeremy (George Murdock). Unfortunately, Jeremy is still bitter over the fact that his daughter married an Indian, and treats his grandson with Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: Little Women

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: The Walnut Grove schoolchildren put together a stage production in which snooty Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim) lands the leading role. Meanwhile, another student, Ginny Clark (Rachel Lonaker), hopes to use the play to help her widow mother, Della (Kay Peters), a faded debutante, get back into the Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: Here Come the Brides

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: A newcomer to Walnut Grove, hog farmer Adam Simms (Joshua Bryant) falls head over heels in love with local schoolmarm Miss Beadle (Charlotte Stewart). At the same time, Adam's hulking son, Luke (Bob Marsic), is smitten by (of all people!) spoiled brat Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim). Sneaking off Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: Meet Me at the Fair

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: The Ingalls and the Olesons attend the fair at Mankato, MN (though the episode was actually filmed near Tucson, AZ). Losing her money in a crooked shell game, Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert) accepts a temporary sideshow job that requires her to be periodically dunked in a tub of water -- much to Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: Freedom Flight

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: The townsfolk of Walnut Grove are in an uproar when a local Indian chief, Spotted Wolf (Guillermo San Juan), jumps his reservation to lead his people out of town. When Spotted Wolf suffers a stroke, his son Little Crow (Nick Ramus) seeks out help from the white townspeople -- but to no avail. It Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: Season 04

Synopsis: Season four of Little House on the Prairie finds the Ingalls' household increased from five to six after Caroline Ingalls (Karen Grassle), wife of series protagonist Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon), gives birth to another daughter, named Grace. At the same time, the Ingalls' farmer friend Isaiah Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: Aftermath

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: In this episode from the long-running television series Little House on the Prairie, Mary Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) gets a job assisting two businessmen who have recently settled in Walnut Grove. What Mary doesn't know is that her new employers aren't who they claim to be -- they're actually Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: The Fighter

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In this special 90-minute episode, Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) replaces the injured Jonathan Garvey (Merlin Olsen) in a high-stakes boxing match. Charles wins with astonishing ease -- only to discover that his opponent, a black man named Joe Kagan (Moses Gunn), is in no condition to be in the Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: The Wolves

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) takes charge of the Ingalls household while her parents are away. Unfortunately, Mary's well-meaning sister Laura (Melissa Gilbert) has joined forces with the equally idealistic Andy Garvey (Patrick Laborteaux) in providing shelter for an injured wolf and her pups Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: The Handyman

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: With Charles (Michael Landon) in Mankato on business for two weeks, Caroline (Karen Grassle) must find someone to complete the new kitchen in the Ingalls house. She hires a handsome handyman named Chris Nelson (Gil Gerard) to do the job. Outraged at the apparent too-friendly relationship between Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: To Run and Hide

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Sue Anderson, Kevin Hagen

Synopsis: Doc Baker (Kevin Hagen) wonders if he is truly cut out for his job after losing one of his patients, the husband of a pregnant woman (Collin Wilcox). Dolefully, Baker decides to relinquish his practice to the younger and seemingly more efficient Dr. Logan (Burr deBenning). But Doc's defection Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: The High Cost of Being Right

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: When Jonathan Garvey's crops burn, leaving his family destitute, his wife, Alice (Hersha Parady), decides to take a job at the local post office. But the stubbornly proud Jonathan (Merlin Olsen) is outraged that his wife must support his family, and threatens to divorce her if she doesn't quit her Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: The Aftermath

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Two worldly "land speculators" calling themselves Dankworth (Dennis Rucker) and Hobbs (John Bennett Perry) arrive in Walnut Grove. There is something decidedly strange about these two newcomers, especially since Hobbs is apparently suffering from a recent wound. By the time "Dankworth" and "Hobbs" Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: The Long Road Home

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: It's The Wages of Fear, prairie style, in this tension-laden episode. When the price of grain plummets precipitously, Charles (Michael Landon), Edwards (Victor French), and two other men must seek out employment in a hurry. The four men accept a high-paying but highly dangerous job, transporting Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: Troublemaker

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Thanks to the interference of Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor), Walnut Grove's schoolteacher Miss Beadle (Charlotte Stewart) is replaced by Mr. Applewood (Richard Basehart), a harsh disciplinarian. Wrongfully convinced that Laura (Melissa Gilbert) is a troublemaker, Applewood (or "Crabapple," as Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: For My Lady

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Mariette Hartley guest stars as the Widow Thurman, for whom Charles (Michael Landon) does some carpentry work. As previously agreed upon, the widow pays Charles with a set of expensive china, intended as a surprise gift for Charles' wife, Caroline (Karen Grassle). In order to keep the surprise Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: Soldier's Return

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Seriously wounded at the battle of Shiloh 12 years earlier, former army bugler Granville Whipple (Richard Mulligan) returns to his home town of Walnut Grove and to the house of his mother, Mrs. Whipple (Queenie Smith). Frustrated in his efforts to forget his past and become a music teacher Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: Centennial

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Walnut Grove's upcoming centennial celebration is threatened by a sudden upsurge in taxes and road assessments. Angry over having to dig deeper into their pockets, the citizens seriously consider cancelling the celebration altogether. It takes the humble words of a recent Russian immigrant (Theodore Bikel Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: The Runaway Caboose

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: While visiting a train station with their families, Ingalls sisters Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) and Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and the Edwards' adopted son, Carl (Brian Part), sneak into an empty caboose. Carl accidentally discouples the car from the rest of the train, thereby propelling himself and Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: His Father's Son

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Mr. Edwards (Victor French) is disappointed that his eldest adopted son, John Jr. (Radames Pera), would rather read books than go hunting. When Edwards gives John a gun as a birthday gift, the boy writes a letter explaining his reluctance to kill any living creature. Despite the letter, Edwards is Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: Journey in the Spring, Part 1

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Arthur Hill guest stars as Lansford Ingalls, the father of farmer Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon). Sensing that his dad has lost the will to live since the death of his wife, Charles invites Lansford to move in with his family at Walnut Grove. At first Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: The Talking Machine

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim) vie for the attentions of Jason (Eric Shea), a would-be scientist. Using the Olesons' new-fangled phonograph machine, Nellie and her brother, Willie (Jonathan Gilbert), conspire to record a conversation guaranteed to humiliate Laura in Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: A Matter of Faith

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: With the rest of the family elsewhere, Caroline (Karen Grassle) is left alone on the farm for a day. Scratching her leg on a rusty nail, Caroline at first thinks nothing of this minor injury. But as infection sets in, Caroline grows weaker and weaker -- and it looks as though neither Charles (Michael Landon Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: The Pride of Walnut Grove

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: The Walnut Grove town council agrees to bankroll Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) when she has a chance to participate in statewide mathematics competition. Armed with confidence of her friends and neighbors, Mary, accompanied by her parents, heads to Minneapolis with the certainty that she will win Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: The Bully Boys

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Walnut Grove is held in the grip of terror when the three Galender brothers move into town. Before long, the bullying brothers have run up enormous bills that they refuse to pay, spread malicious and injurious lies, and beaten up anyone who gets in their way. The limit comes when the brothers try Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: Fred

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Laura (Melissa Gilbert) is hoodwinked into bringing a billy goat named Fred into the Ingalls household. Alas, Fred is not only cantankerous but voracious as well, eating everything in sight -- including the family's crops. Sadly, Laura agrees with her father, Charles (Michael Landon), that the Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: The Hunters

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: While on a hunting trip, Laura (Melissa Sue Anderson) accidentally shoots and wounds her father, Charles (Michael Landon). The only other person within miles of the accident is Sam (Burl Ives), a blind recluse who is reluctant to offer assistance, feeling that he is totally worthless. It is up Read More

1976
The Loneliest Runner

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Actor/writer/director Michael Landon revived an unpleasant chapter in his own past in his teleplay for The Loneliest Runner. Landon's alter ego, 13-year-old John Curtis, is played by Lance Kerwin. Young John is a chronic bedwetter, a fact that his overbearing mother (DeAnne Mears) attributes to Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: Season 03

Synopsis: Victor French and Bonnie Bartlett, heretofore guest stars in the roles of Isaiah and Grace Edwards, graduate to regular status as Little House on the Prairie enters its third season. The opening episode, "The Collection," features country legend Johnny Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, in the Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: Journey in the Spring, Part 2

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, an embittered Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert) holds her widowed grandfather, Lansford (Arthur Hill), responsible for injuries sustained by her beloved horse Bunny. Sadly concluding that moving in with his son Charles (Michael Landon) was a mistake, Lansford Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: Going Home

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Having endured any number of setbacks, Charles (Michael Landon) can stand no more when a tornado wipes out his crops. Thoroughly discouraged, Charles decides to sell the farm and return to Wisconsin -- but he doesn't tell his family about this decision. On a happier note, Charles' daughter Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: Bunny

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In this first episode of a two-part story, Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert) is given a wonderful horse named Bunny -- which of course is great source of envy for spoiled-brat Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim). While being permitted to ride Bunny, Nellie falls off the horse, whereupon she pretends to Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: The Race

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert) wants to enter her horse Bunny in an upcoming race, but is short the money to have the horse properly shod. Meanwhile, Laura's nemesis, Nellie (Alison Arngrim), cajoles her snobbish mother, Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: The Monsters of Walnut Grove

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: While passing the Oleson home on Halloween night, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) thinks she witnesses a murder -- specifically, Mr. Oleson (Richard Bull) decapitating Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) with a long sword. Fully aware that their mother is merely out of town, the Oleson kids -- Nellie (Alison Arngrim Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: Little Girl Lost

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) are outraged when their little sister, Carrie (played by twin actresses Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush), lets loose a collection of bugs that the girls have been gathering for a classroom project. But their anger gives way to terror when, while Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: Circus Man

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Red Buttons guest stars as charismatic traveling circus man Mr. O'Hara. While performing magic tricks for the Walnut Grove citizenry, O'Hara leads his audience to believe that his "special" powders have marvelous healing powers. Falling for the circus man's blarney hook, line, and sinker, Mrs. Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Child of Pain

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Harris Yulin

Synopsis: The Ingalls family takes a special interest in young Graham Stewart (Johnny Lee), the son of alcoholic farmer John Stewart (Harris Yulin). Embittered over the death of his wife, John takes it out on Graham in the form of regular, brutal beatings. While Caroline (Karen Grassle) offers a safe harbor Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Money Crop

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: The farmers of Walnut Grove place their faith -- and their future -- in the hands of Joseph Coulter (Alan Fudge), a college-educated agronomist. Coulter has told the farmers of a new hybrid that would yield rich crops, and he has been sent to Minneapolis, with a large sum of cash, to purchase Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: To See the World

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Victor French

Synopsis: Having lived most of his life on a farm, Johnny Johnson (Mitch Vogel) sets out to experience what the world has to offer. Mr. Edwards (Victor French) tags along to make sure that Johnny doesn't get in over his head. Even so, Johnny succumbs to the charms of a young barmaid named Mimi (Jane Alice Brandon Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Survival

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Jack Ging

Synopsis: In this episode from the television series Little House on the Prairie, Charles and Caroline Ingalls (Michael Landon and Karen Grassle) are traveling with their daughters, Laura (Melissa Gilbert), Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson), and Carrie (Lindsay Greenbush), when they're caught in the middle of a Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: The Creeper of Walnut Grove

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Who is the mysterious marauder that is going around stealing food -- but nothing else -- throughout Walnut Grove? Their minds filled with dime-novel mysteries, Laura Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) and Andy Garvey (Patrick Laborteaux) decide to play detective, hoping to capture the elusive Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Season 02

Synopsis: Season two of Little House on the Prairie opens with Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) losing his "outside" job when Lars Hanson (Karl Swenson) is forced to close Walnut Grove's mill. Back at home, Charles' daughter Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) begins to notice signs that her eyesight is fading (she Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Family Quarrel

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Things have come to an impasse in the home of the eternally bickering Nels and Harriet Oleson (Richard Bull, Katherine MacGregor). The couple decides to split up, and nothing will convince either one of them to try mending their differences. The entire community bands together to bring Nels and Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Plague

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: A new supply of expensive cornmeal, infested with rats, sparks a typhus outbreak in the town of Walnut Grove. Unaware of the source of the scourge, the townsfolk converge at the church, which has been converted into an emergency hospital. By the time Mr. Edwards (Victor French) reveals that his Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Doctor's Lady

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: The focus in this episode is on Dr. Baker (Kevin Hagen), Walnut Grove's unmarried, middle-aged general practitioner. Despite the considerable difference in their ages, Dr. Baker falls in love with Kate Thorvald (Anne Archer), the visiting niece of Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor). It takes a Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Founder's Day

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Walnut Grove's annual Founder's Day celebration brings a host of visitors to compete in a wide variety of contests. As the Ingalls' and the Olesons' jealously squares off elsewhere (Mrs. Olesen [Katherine MacGregor] is quite a sight at the three-legged race), elderly but proud logger Jim Tyler (Forrest Tucker Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Remember Me, Part 2

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Charles (Michael Landon) continues seeking out good homes for the orphaned Sanderson children. Mr. Edwards (Victor French) would like to adopt all three kids, but there's one hitch: He's a bachelor. Undaunted, Edwards solves the problem by proposing to the Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Remember Me, Part 1

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Patricia Neal guest stars as Julie Sanderson, a terminally ill widow. On the threshold of death, Julia asks Charles (Michael Landon) to find good homes for her three children. In his efforts to honor Julia's wishes, Charles is faced with the depressing Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: The Campout

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) is determined that the Ingalls children will not get the better of her own kids during a school leaf-gathering competition. To that end, Mrs. Oleson packs up her family and her precious tea set and joins the Ingalls for a weekend camping trip. The presence of the Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: At the End of the Rainbow

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and her friend Jonah (Shane Sinutko) find some shiny metal particles during a fishing expedition. Convinced that they've struck gold, the youngsters begin to imagine what it would be like to be rich beyond their wildest dreams. Before long, several others in town have Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: The Gift

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: The children of Walnut Grove pool their Sunday school funds to purchase an expensive Bible for Reverend Alden's (Dabbs Greer) birthday present. Entrusted with the money, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) attempt to double the amount by purchasing, then selling, a supply of Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: The Spring Dance

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Laura (Melissa Gilbert) hopes that Henry Henderson (Clay O'Brien) will take her to the spring dance. Similarly, Grace Snider (Bonnie Bartlett) is waiting for Mr. Edwards (Victor French) to ask her to the big event. But when neither man extends an invitation, Laura and Grace conspire to make their Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Ebenezer Sprague

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Ted Gehring makes his first series appearance as Ebenezer Sprague, Walnut Grove's hard-hearted, tight-fisted banker. Although Charles (Michael Landon) was instrumental in setting up the town's bank, he finds that Sprague is hardly amenable to extending a loan to the Ingalls family. When Charles' Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Four Eyes

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: The Ingalls family cannot understand why the hard-working Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) is falling behind in school. In turns out that Mary's eyesight is failing and she needs glasses. When she is teased as "four-eyes" by the other students, Mary contrives to lose her new spectacles, but then learns Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: The Richest Man in Walnut Grove

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: In the first episode of Little House on the Prairie's second season, the main customer of Charles Ingalls' (Michael Landon) employer goes bankrupt. Denied two months' back wages, Charles and his wife, Mary (Karen Grassle), are forced to take several jobs to pay their mounting bills. Meanwhile, the Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Haunted House

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim) dares Laura (Melissa Gilbert) to venture into a "haunted" house, reputed to be occupied by a maniac. As it turns out, the house's owner, old Mr. Pike (John Anderson) is more befuddled than insane; he has stubbornly remained locked up in his home awaiting the return Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: In the Big Inning

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: At last year's annual baseball game with the Sleepy Eye Greenstockings, the Walnut Grove team lost 36 to nothing. Determined to avenge this humiliation, the men of Walnut Grove have placed their hopes in the hands of ace pitcher Jebediah Mumfort (Karl Lukas). The town goes so far as to plunk down Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Pilot Episode

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Producer

Synopsis: Travel back to the prairie and follow one family on as they strive to start life anew in Kansas in this television classic based on the writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder. As the Ingalls leave the familiar woods of Wisconsin to make way for the wide-open plains of Kansas, they must maintain their Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: Country Girls

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: On their first day at school, Laura and Mary Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson) run smack dab into the snooty snobbery of Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim), who haughtily refers to the sisters as "country girls." Assigned to write an essay, Laura is unable to finish the assignment. But Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: The Premiere

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Melissa Gilbert, Karen Grassle, Michael Landon

Synopsis: This pilot for the long-running (1972-1982) family series stars all the regulars-to-be and spends half its length setting up character, setting, and mood. As with the series, the story is told from the viewpoint of Laura Ingalls Wilder (played by Melissa Gilbert), upon whose novels the film was Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: One of the most successful and beloved of all TV family drama series, the weekly, 60-minute Little House on the Prairie was based on the autobiographical books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Michael Landon, the series' executive producer and occasional writer/director, headed the cast as Charles Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: A Harvest of Friends

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Introduced as a made-for-TV movie on March 30, 1974, the popular family series Little House on the Prairie, inspired by the autobiographical works of Laura Ingalls Wilder, began its regular weekly run on September 11 of that same year. In the opening episode, the Ingalls family has moved to the Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: The Lord is My Shepherd

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Ernest Borgnine

Synopsis: Ernest Borgnine guests stars as a mountain hermit named Jonathan in this two-hour episode. Though she is a bit jealous of her new baby brother, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) is horror-stricken when the infant dies. Feeling somehow responsible for this tragedy, Laura runs away from home and climbs a Read More

1974
It's Good to Be Alive

Crew: Director

Synopsis: For his TV-movie directorial debut, Michael Landon selected the autobiography of baseball-great Roy Campanella. It's Good to Be Alive begins when Campanella (Paul Winfield) is nearly killed in a car accident on January 26, 1958. He survives, but his fifth cervical vertebra has been fractured Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: Season 01

Synopsis: Its premise established by a two-hour TV movie in March of 1974, Little House on the Prairie begins its first season with Wisconsin farmer Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon), his wife, Caroline (Karen Grassle), and daughters Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson), Laura (Melissa Gilbert), and Carrie (Lindsay Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: The Voice of Tinker Jones

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Chuck McCann guest stars as Tinker Jones, a mute, itinerant coppersmith. When he wanders into Walnut Grove, Tinker also finds himself in the middle of a community tiff over purchasing a bell for the church. Haughty Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) offers to purchase the bell, but only if it is Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: The Raccoon

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: When Laura (Melissa Gilbert) adopts a baby raccoon whom she names Jasper, Charles (Michael Landon) gently warns her that the animal may not ever be domesticated. Things take a perilous turn when Jacob bites both Laura and another child and escapes into the woods. With the animal nowhere to be Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: The Award

Crew: Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Preparing for a special scholarship exam, Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) squirrels herself away in the family barn overnight. When she accidentally sets a fire in the barn, Mary is punished by Caroline (Karen Grassle), who tells her that she can't take the exam. But how will Mary break this news to Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: Ma's Holiday

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Victor French

Synopsis: The Ingalls children are left in the care of Mr. Edwards (Victor French) when Charles (Michael Landon) takes Caroline (Karen Grassle) on a second honeymoon in the city. Alas, Caroline has no fun at all, worrying as she does about leaving her daughters in the hands of an inexperienced adult. And Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: Christmas at Plum Creek

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: In the series' first holiday episode, the Ingalls family tries to purchase Christmas gifts with what little money they have on hand. Working in secret, the individual family members rely upon their own ingenuity to put together a proper Yuletide. In the end, it is Laura (Melissa Gilbert) who best Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: School Mom

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: With Mrs. Beadle sidelined by a sprained ankle, Caroline (Karen Grassle) volunteers as substitute teacher. She immediately focuses on the tribulations of 15-year-old Abel Makay (played by Dirk Blocker, the son of Michael Landon's former Bonanza co-star Dan Blocker), who is too embarrassed to Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: Mr. Edwards' Homecoming

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Victor French

Synopsis: Victor French makes his first series appearance as Mr. Edwards, the Ingalls' former neighbor from Kansas. When Charles (Michael Landon) invites Edwards to visit Walnut Grove, Caroline (Karen Grassle) becomes concerned over her ex-neighbor's bachelor status. Caroline tries to match up Edwards with Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: 100 Mile Walk

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: The Ingalls' first wheat crop is wiped out by a hailstorm, which also devastates the neighboring farms. This catastrophe forces Charles (Michael Landon) and his fellow farmers to leave town and seek out other work. While the menfolk of Walnut Grove are all laboring at a faraway quarry, it is up to Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: The Love of Johnny Johnson

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Mitch Vogel, who previously co-starred with Michael Landon in Bonanza, joins the cast as Johnny Johnson, the shy new schoolmate of Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert). Developing a crush on the much-older Johnny, Laura does everything she can to capture his attention. Imagine her dismay when Johnny Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: Town Party, Country Party

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Little Olga Nordstrom (Kim Richards) is left out of her classmates' gangs because one of her legs is shorter than the other. After twisting her own ankle, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) awakens to Olga's plight and befriends the lonely girl. Convinced that Olga would have a happier time of it if she Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: If I Should Die Before I Wake

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: With her 80th birthday approaching, Miss Amy Hearn (Josephine Hutchinson) begins to brood over her mortality, especially after the death of a close friend. She also frets over the possibility that her family has forgotten all about her. With the help of the Ingalls family, Miss Amy fakes her own Read More

1974
Bonanza: The Witness

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Tim Matheson, Sally Kemp

Synopsis: Once again, Bonanza ranch hand Candy has been thrown in jail on a trumped-up murder charge. As his trial approaches, Candy must put his life in the hands of attorney Oscar Hammer (Stephen Nathan), a 20-year-old fresh out of law school. The outcome of the trial hinges on the testimony of an Read More

1973
Match Game: Episode 1

Actors: Gene Rayburn, Michael Landon, Vicki Lawrence, Jack Klugman, Jo Ann Pflug, Richard Dawson, Anita Gillette

1973
Bonanza: The Hunter

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Landon, Tom Skerritt, Phillip Avenetti, Peter O'Crotty, Grizzly Green

Synopsis: After fourteen seasons and 430 episodes, the saga of Bonanza came to an end on January 16, 1973 with a powerful episode titled "The Hunter." Written and directed by series star Michael Landon, the episode is essentially a two-man show for Landon (as Joe Cartwright) and guest star Tom Skerritt Read More

1973
Bonanza: The Marriage of Theodora Duffy

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Mitch Vogel, Tim Matheson

Synopsis: Ponderosa ranchhaned Griff King agrees to pose as the husband of one Theodora Duffy (Karen Carlson). There is nothing personal in this arrangement: Theodora wants to solve a crime, and pretending to be Mrs. King is merely a means to an end. Also in the cast are Ramon Bieri as Jonas Holt, Robert Read More

1973
Bonanza: A Visit to Upright

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Alan Oppenheimer

Synopsis: Three of the Cartwright men-Joe, Hoss and Jamie-head to the town of Upright to sell a rundown saloon. They decide to hold onto the property when it develops that a fortune in gold might be hidden on the premises. The boys' insistence upon retaining the saloon messes up Ben's business deal with Read More

1972
Bonanza: A Place to Hide

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Suzanne Pleshette

Synopsis: Fugitive Confederate officer Cody Ransom (Jon Cypher) is finally willing to surrender to the Union forces-but only if the Cartwright men act as intermediaries. Unfortunately, by-the-book Northern officer Major Donahue (Hurd Hatfield) insists upon handling the capture all by himself-and he is Read More

1972
Bonanza: The Younger Brothers' Younger Brother

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Strother Martin

Synopsis: Written and directed by Bonanza star Michael Landon, "The Younger Brothers' Younger Brother" is one of the series' zaniest episodes. It all begins when Hoss Cartwright is mistaken for one of the notorious Younger Brothers, who have recently resumed their criminal activities after a 12-year prison Read More

1972
Bonanza: One Ace Too Many

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel

Synopsis: Once more, Lorne Greene essays the dual role of Ben Cartwright and Ben's lookalike, confidence trickster Bradley Meredith. This time out, Meredith takes advantage of Ben's trip to Carson City to auction off the Ponderosa, piece by piece. Kate Jackson makes an early TV appearance as Ellen, while Read More

1972
Bonanza: The Initiation

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Mitch Vogel, Ronald Howard, Victor Sen Yung

Synopsis: Jamie is a member of a boy's club which delights in forcing new members to undergo a grueling initiation process. Unfortunately, one of these hazings results in the death of a hapless teenager. Though the townsfolk blame Ted Hoag (Ronny Howard), a homeless youth, for the boy's death, Jamie and the Read More

1972
Bonanza: Heritage of Anger

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Mitch Vogel, Robert Lansing, Fionnula Flanagan

Synopsis: Robert Lansing guest-stars as Dundee, an ex-convict determined to prove that he spent five years in prison as the result of a frame-up. Ben Cartwright's efforts to help Dundee adjust to his new-found freedom are thwarted by the coldness of Dundee's wife Elizabeth (Fionnula Flanagan), and the Read More

1972
Bonanza: Forever

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Mitch Vogel, Bonnie Bedelia

Synopsis: The fourteenth and final season of Bonanza began on September 12, 1972 with a special two-hour episode. As originally written by series star Michael Landon (who also directed), "Forever" was supposed to have focused on the ill-starred marriage between Hoss Cartwright (Dan Blocker) and Alice Harper Read More

1972
Bonanza: Frenzy

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Kathleen Widdoes, Michael Pataki

Synopsis: Anna Kosovo (Kathleen Widdoes), a friend of Ben Cartwright, has good reason to be terrified of her antagonistic immigrant husband Nick (Michael Pataki). Trapped in her own house by her husband, Anna-and her young son-must rely upon Ben to rescue them. Written by Preston Wood and Karl Tunberg, this Read More

1972
Bonanza: The Saddle Stiff

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Buddy Ebsen, Don Collier

Synopsis: Fresh from his nine-year stint on The Beverly Hillbillies, Buddy Ebsen is cast as Ponderosa hired hand Cactus Murphy, fired for incompetence by Ben Cartwright. His dander up, the old hand challenges Ben to do all the work Cactus does in a week-and without using the Cartwright money or power to his Read More

1972
Bonanza: Second Sight

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Joan Hackett

Synopsis: Joan Hackett guest-stars as Judith, the fiancee of a young pastor named Jess (James Booth). Blessed-or, perhaps, cursed-with the gift of clairvoyance, Judith is called in to locate a missing Jamie. But her intensely religious sweetheart does not want Judith to use her "special powers." Written by Read More

1972
Bonanza: Customs of the Country

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Alfonso Arau, Alan Oppenheimer

Synopsis: Hoss and Joe Cartwright are arrested in a Mexican border town and thrown in jail. Hoss is all for expediting the trial, but Joe is in no hurry: He's being treated like a king, with beautiful Ines (Pilar Seurat) and various other senoritas waiting on him hand and foot. Only when it is almost too Read More

1972
Bonanza: He Was Only Seven

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Roscoe Lee Browne

Synopsis: Roscoe Lee Browne guest-stars as Joshua, the crippled grandfather of a black youngster killed in a bank robbery. Struggling to overcome his bitterness against the white race in general, Joshua accepts the assistance of Joe Cartwright and Jamie in tracking down his grandson's killers. Featured in Read More

1972
Bonanza: Search in Limbo

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Albert Salmi, Pamela Payton-Wright

Synopsis: Having suffered a blow to the head, Ben Cartwright awakens to discover that he has lost track of a whole day. During that period, Ben's longtime enemy Sid Langley (Lawrence Montaigne) was murdered. The local sheriff (Albert Salmi) arrests Ben-who doesn't know if he is guilty or not! Others in the Read More

1972
Bonanza: Shanklin

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Charles Cioffi

Synopsis: Charles Chioffi plays the title character in the thrill-packed Bonanza installment Shanklin. Hoss Cartwright is shot by a band of ex-rebel soldiers who want Ben Cartwright to finance the formation of a Second Confederacy. Only Shanklin, the man who pulled the trigger, can save Hoss' life-and he Read More

1972
Bonanza: The Sound of Loneliness

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Tim Matheson, Jack Albertson, Bing Russell

Synopsis: Last seen on Bonanza in the 1968 episode "A Girl Named George," Jack Albertson paid a return visit to the series in the December 5, 1972 episode "The Sound of Loneliness." Albertson is here cast as elderly widower Jonathan May, who goes to great lengths to make sure that two orphan boys will not Read More

1972
Bonanza: The Hidden Enemy

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Mike Farrell, Melissa Murphy

Synopsis: Circuitously commenting upon the drug culture of the 1970s, this Bonanza episode probes the dangers of the onetime "wonder drug" morphine. Future MASH regular Mike Farrell is cast as Dr. Will Agar, who is revealed to be a morphine addict after he inadvertently causes the death of a young patient Read More

1972
Bonanza: Season 14

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Mitch Vogel

Synopsis: Had Bonanza been moved from its familiar Sunday night time slot to a less preferable Tuesday evening berth any earlier than its 14th season on the air, the show might have managed to survive the change and continue to prosper. This, however, proved not to be the case, and the reason was both Read More

1972
Bonanza: First Love

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Mitch Vogel, Tim Matheson, Pamela Franklin

Synopsis: Young Jamie is once more riding for a fall when he falls in love with the much-older Kelly (Pamela Franklin). Making things worse is the fact that Kelly is the wife of Jamie's schoolteacher Dan Edwards (Jordan Rhodes), whose jealousy borders on insanity. Featured in the cast are Lisa Eilbacher as Read More

1972
Bonanza: The Bucket Dog

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Mitch Vogel, Tim Matheson

Synopsis: Jamie's new bird dog April, an Irish setter, is denigrated as a "bucket dog" by Tim Riley (Don Knight), an employee of the man responsible for bringing this particular breed of dogs to the United States. As such, April may well be destroyed if unable to prove its mettle. To save the dog's life Read More

1972
Bonanza: Stallion

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Clu Gulager, Mitzi Hoag

Synopsis: The beautiful black stallion given by Ben Cartwright as a birthday present to his son, Joe, is stolen. Searching for the horse, Joe comes across a family of drifters, and is soon embroiled in a potentially deadly rivalry between Bill Brenner (Clu Gulager) and his son, Tommy (Vincent Van Patten). Mitzi Hoag Read More

1972
Bonanza: New Man

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Mitch Vogel, Tim Matheson

Synopsis: Having saved Ben Cartwright's life during a prison riot, convict Griff King (played by new Bonanza regular Tim Matheson) is released into Ben's custody. In hiring Griff as a Ponderosa ranchhand, Ben faces the challenge of convincing the former prisoner to forsake his deep and abiding grudge Read More

1972
Bonanza: Riot!

Actors: Michael Landon, David Canary, Aldo Ray, Marco St. John, Gregory Walcott

Synopsis: The shadow of the recent Attica uprising looms large over the October 3, 1972 Bonanza episode "Riot!" While on a tour of the Nevada State Prison, Ben Cartwright and several other prominent men are taken hostage by rioting prisoners. Though some of the inmates hope to escape, most of the others Read More

1972
Bonanza: Ambush at Rio Lobo

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Mitch Vogel, Sian Barbara Allen, James Olson

Synopsis: Sian Barbara Allen guest-stars as the tenacious-and very pregnant-Teresa Burnside. Despite the imminent birth of her child, Teresa defiantly stands up to a gang of outlaws, who plan to use her as a pawn in a holdup scheme. As the crooks hold Teresa's husband Vance (James Olson) hostage, Ben Read More

1972
Bonanza: The 26th Grave

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Mitch Vogel, Ken Howard

Synopsis: Humorist Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, makes his third Bonanza appearance, this time in the person of actor Ken Howard (fresh from his Broadway and Hollywood triumph in the musical 1776). As editor of the Virginia City Enterprise, Clemens is determined to prove that a government assayer is Read More

1972
Bonanza: Terror at 2:00

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Steve Ihnat

Synopsis: Steve Ihnat guest-stars as a self-proclaimed journalist named Gans, who shows up with his entourage in Virginia City to cover the signing of a treaty between the Paiute Indians and the Army. In truth, however, the rabidly racist Gans plans to kill everyone at the ceremony with his Gatling Gun. It Read More

1971
Bonanza: Winter Kill

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Glenn Corbett

Synopsis: The Virginia City Bank refuses to lend money to a group of Sierra Nevade ranchers who lost most of their stock during a particularly brutal winter. Ben Cartwright tries to come to the aid of the imperiled ranchers by bringing in a new breed of cattle from Montana, a breed capable of surviving the Read More

1971
Bonanza: The Stillness Within

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Jo Van Fleet

Synopsis: Blinded in an explosion, Joe Cartwright, uncertain as to whether his sight will ever be restored, bitterly cuts himself off from the rest of his family. Enter Miss Ellen Dobbs (Jo Van Fleet) from San Francisco, who specializes in teaching the blind how to cope with the "sighted" world. Electing Read More

1971
Bonanza: A Time to Die

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Vera Miles

Synopsis: Vera Miles guest-stars as Ben Cartwright's longtime friend April Christopher. While visiting the Ponderosa, April is bitten by a rabid wolf. As the story progresses, both April and Ben must come to grips with the agony April is in for-and even more importantly, the woman's daughter Lori (Melissa Read More

1971
Bonanza: The Grand Swing

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Charlotte Stewart

Synopsis: Season Thirteen of Bonanza began on September 19, 1971 with the series' 390th episode, "The Grand Swing." Young Jamie's carelessness results in the loss of a valuable horse. Hurt and humiliated, Jamie offers to leave the Ponderosa for good. Rather than display anger, the boy's adoptive father Ben Read More

1971
Bonanza: Fallen Woman

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Susan Tyrrell, Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis: Hoss Cartwright's testimony results in a prison term for the husband of alcoholic dance-hall girl Jill Conway (Susan Tyrell). Motivated by a combination of resentment and desperation, Jill leaves her son Petey (Johnny Lee) in Hoss' care. At first prepared to adopt the abandoned boy, Hoss opts Read More

1971