Barcode | 031398227939 |
Release Date | 10/6/2015 |
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Melissa Sue Anderson | Mary Ingalls | |
Scottie MacGregor | Harriet Oleson | |
Melissa Gilbert | Laura Ingalls | |
Michael Landon | Charles Ingalls | |
Karen Grassle | Caroline Ingalls | |
Lindsay Greenbush | Carrie Ingalls | |
Sidney Greenbush | Carrie Ingalls | |
Richard Bull | Nels Oleson | |
Karl Swenson | Lars Hanson | |
Ruth Foster | Aunt Ruby | |
Kevin Hagen | Dr. Hiram Baker | |
Alison Arngrim | Nellie Oleson | |
Dabbs Greer | Reverend Robert Alden | |
Charlotte Stewart | Eva Beadle | |
Jonathan Gilbert | Willie Oleson | |
Cindy Moore | Tall Jump Roping Girl | |
Victor French | Isaiah Edwards | |
Tracie Savage | Christy Kennedy | |
Barney the Dog | Jack | |
Bonnie Bartlett | Grace Snider |
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Producer |
Michael Landon
Kent McCray John Hawkins Winston Miller |
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Writer |
Blanche Hanalis
Laura Ingalls Wilder Ward Hawkins John Hawkins |
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Cinematography |
Ted Voigtlander
Haskell B. Boggs |
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Musician |
David Rose
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The pilot, the premiere movie. Discover the television movie that started it all! Based on the best-selling books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, this clasic producdeed and directed by Michael Landon, launched the Emmy Award-winning series. This movie takes us from the woods of Wisconsin to the plains of Kansas where the Ingalls struggle to build a new life. With indomitable courage that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit, the Ingalls face endless challenges and experience countless adventures as they pursue their dream of a new home. This premiere movie is a "must-have" for all Little House fans. |
96 mins 3/30/1974 1. Little House on the Prairie | |
The story of the Ingalls family who left their house in Wisconsin and moved to the west, wanting to find a new place for home.
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60 mins 9/11/1974 2. A Harvest of Friends | |
Charles and his family settle on farmland by Plum Creek just outside the town of Walnut Grove. To support his family until he can bring in a harvest, Charles works several jobs, establishing himself as a valued community member and a man of his word.
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49 mins 9/18/1974 3. Country Girls | |
Mary and Laura begin school at Walnut Grove. While Caroline must deal with the snippy Harriet Oleson, the rich part-owner of Oleson's Mercantile, Laura must deal with her spoiled daughter, Nellie.
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50 mins 9/25/1974 4. 100 Mile Walk | |
A hailstorm leaves the Ingalls family's crops in ruin. To recoup the money, Charles and some friendly neighbors, including a light-hearted Englishman, work in a dangerous railroad blasting job.
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60 mins 10/2/1974 5. Mr. Edward's Homecoming | |
While in Mankato, Charles is surprised to find Isaiah Edwards, the mountain man befriended by the Ingalls family on their journey to Minnesota. The two men return to Walnut Grove together to find young Laura sick in bed and a worried Mr. Edwards promises to stay until she recovers. But Mr. Edwards' deep concern for Laura stems from a devastating personal loss and he cannot forgive the one he holds responsible. Will the Ingalls' friendship and a budding romance with postmistress Grace Snider help Mr. Edwards come to terms with his past or will he leave Walnut Grove for good?
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50 mins 10/9/1974 6. The Love of Johnny Johnson | |
Friction results between the Ingalls sisters when young Laura falls hard for handsome Johnny Johnson who, in spite of all her efforts to get him to see her as more than just a little girl, seems to only have eyes for older Mary.
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60 mins 10/23/1974 7. If I Should Wake Before I Die | |
After the death of her dear friend, Miss Amy feels lonely for her family. While talking to the Ingalls girls at her funeral, Laura declares it is not fair for loved ones to ignore a birthday and always show up for a funeral.
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50 mins 10/30/1974 8. Town Party-Country Party | |
While at a party at Nellie Oleson's, Laura hurts her ankle and becomes friends with Olga, a friendly girl with a birth defect causing one leg to be shorter than the other.
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60 mins 11/6/1974 9. Ma's Holiday | |
The girls and Charles decide to surprise Caroline with a romantic holiday. When Grace Snider cannot make it, Mr. Edwards volunteers for the job. Later on, he finds the Ingalls girls, especially Carrie, to be more than he can handle.
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50 mins 11/13/1974 10. School Mom | |
Caroline's special efforts to teach a shy, older boy to read while she is substitute-teaching for an injured Miss Beadle are ruined when mean-spirited Mrs. Oleson humiliates him in front of the class and he vows never to return to school.
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49 mins 11/20/1974 11. The Racoon | |
When Mary accidentally breaks Laura's glass doll, she brings home a raccoon to cheer Laura up. Laura keeps him and prides herself on teaching him tricks and his docile behavior.
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60 mins 12/4/1974 12. The Voice of Tinker Jones | |
A deaf-mute traveling tinker may have the only solution after Rev. Alden's request for a new church bell starts the Kennedys and Olesons feuding over who will donate the bell and who will take the credit.
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50 mins 12/11/1974 13. The Award | |
Mary is entranced by the award for an extra-credit exam, a beautiful dictionary. Her studying and carelessness causes a fire to start in the barn. Worried and furious, Caroline forbids her to take the exam.
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60 mins 12/18/1974 14. The Lord Is My Shepherd: Part 1 | |
Jealous of the attention Charles showers on his newborn son, Laura longs for the place she believes she's lost in her pa's affections and angrily refuses to pray for her little brother to get well when the baby becomes seriously ill.
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60 mins 12/18/1974 15. The Lord Is My Shepherd: Part 2 | |
Believing that her jealousy was responsible for her infant brother's death and that her parents would rather have a son than a spare daughter, Laura climbs the highest hill she can find, hoping to get as close to God as possible to ask Him to take her instead and return the baby boy to the family. While Charles and Mr. Edwards desperately search for her, Laura meets Jonathan, a mystical mountain man who seems to have been sent purposely to guide her through this life-changing experience.
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60 mins 12/25/1974 16. Christmas at Plum Creek | |
When Christmas comes around, all the Ingallses are caught up in the secrecy and excitement. Charles and Mary take secret jobs to obtain a gift for their loved ones.
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60 mins 1/15/1975 17. Family Quarrel | |
Nels Oleson has had it up to here with Harriet's snobbish, meddlesome behavior, particularly toward the Ingalls family. Mrs. Oleson does not take kindly to her husband's old-school beliefs, either.
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50 mins 1/22/1975 18. Doctor's Lady | |
When Harriet Oleson's niece, Kate (Anne Archer), comes to visit, Doc Baker falls for her and proceeds to court her. Unfortunately, doubt lingering in his mind about his age causes his hopes for a happy relationship to fade.
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60 mins 1/29/1975 19. Plague | |
A typhus outbreak sweeps Walnut Grove, and several people become critically ill. The Ingalls family is spared, but Charles is not so lucky when he is exposed.
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50 mins 2/5/1975 20. Circus Man | |
A medicine man adorned with bravado and sleight of hand stays with the Ingalls family and advertises his miracle powder. After residents start to prefer his powders over Doc Baker's medical treatment, the Ingallses send him packing.
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60 mins 2/12/1975 21. Child of Pain | |
When Miss Beadle discovers that a kindly boy in her class has taken another beating from his alcoholic father, the town council decides to take action. The Ingallses take in the boy and decide to help rehabilitate his father.
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50 mins 2/19/1975 22. Money Crop | |
Fearing a swindle, angry Walnut Grove farmers vent their frustration on the anxious, pregnant wife of the man who promised them a good deal on hybrid corn and then doesn't show up with the grain as agreed, unaware that an accident has overturned his fully-loaded wagon and left him lying seriously injured down a steep slope, just out of sight of the road.
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49 mins 2/26/1975 23. Survival | |
While on their way home to Walnut Grove after a trip to Mankato, the Ingalls family are unexpectedly snowbound, with little food, at a remote mountain cabin by a late-spring blizzard. But a desperate situation soon turns deadly when a renegade U.S. Marshall, blinded by hate, shows up half-frozen at their door, only moments ahead of the man he has vowed to bring back dead: a Sioux Indian chief who has just saved Charles' life.
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60 mins 3/5/1975 24. To See the World | |
Taking full responsibility for filling Johnny Johnson's head with exaggerated tales of travel and adventure, Mr. Edwards goes with him when Johnny takes off to see the world, hoping to protect the credulous farm-boy from dangerous situations and unscrupulous characters while trying to convince him to go back home.
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49 mins 5/7/1975 25. Founder's Day | |
Walnut Groves' Founder's Day festivities promise fun and friendly competition for all except aging logger and "Bull of the Woods" Jim Tyler, who secretly fears losing the log chopping contest, and with it his self respect, to a younger, stronger Charles Ingalls.
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