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* FriendshipOnTheSet: Despite the ongoing animosity between Laura and Nellie throughout most of the series, Melissa Gilbert and Alison Angrim have always been close friends themselves.
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* AuthorTract: There's a great deal of speculation about how much of a contribution was made by Laura's daughter Rose--if she simply guided her mother through editing her books or if she actually ghostwrote them. What ''is'' known is that Rose Wilder Lane was a staunch Libertarian who believed her mother's life represented an inspiring account of how independence and determination led to prosperity...and that portions of the Ingallses' lives that ''didn't'' live up to those ideals[[note]]such as the period after ''Little House on the Prairie'' where the family was forced to return to Wisconsin and live with relatives after they were removed from Indian Territory[[/note]] didn't make it into the books. There's also quite a few sections around the Fourth of July when our young protagonists have some unusually lengthy and sophisticated musings on the meaning of Freedom.

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* AuthorTract: There's a great deal of speculation about how much of a contribution was made by Laura's daughter Rose--if she simply guided her mother through editing her books or if she actually ghostwrote them. What ''is'' known is that Rose Wilder Lane was a staunch Libertarian who believed her mother's life represented an inspiring account of how independence and determination led to prosperity...and that portions of the Ingallses' lives that ''didn't'' live up to those ideals[[note]]such as the period after ''Little House on the Prairie'' where incident in which Pa packed up the family was forced to return to Wisconsin and live with relatives after they were removed from Indian Territory[[/note]] left town in the middle of the night to avoid paying his creditors[[/note]] didn't make it into the books. There's also quite a few sections around the Fourth of July when our young protagonists have some unusually lengthy and sophisticated musings on the meaning of Freedom.
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* TorchTheFranchiseAndRun: According to Melissa Gilbert, the decision to have Walnut Grove destroyed in the final episode was motivated by Michael Landon not wanting the network reusing the set in other works.

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* TorchTheFranchiseAndRun: According The production team had to destroy the Walnut Grove set as part of a deal with the landowners to return the site to its original state. However, according to Melissa Gilbert, the decision to have Walnut Grove destroyed in incorporate the final episode set's destruction into the finale's story was motivated by due to Michael Landon not wanting to end the show in a way that kept the network reusing from doing anything else with the set in other works. series.
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* TorchTheFranchiseAndRun: According to Melissa Gilbert, the decision to have Walnut Grove destroyed in the final episode was motivated by Michael Landon not wanting the network reusing the set in other works.

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* Charles' father Lansford Ingalls was played by Arthur Hill in "Journey Into the Spring". When he reappears in flashbacks of "I Remember, I Remember", he was played by Nicolas Coster.

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* ** Charles' father Lansford Ingalls was played by Arthur Hill in "Journey Into the Spring". When he reappears in flashbacks of "I Remember, I Remember", he was played by Nicolas Coster.Coster.
** Mary's friend Patrick, first appears at the end of "Times of Change", played by Mike Lookinland. When he reappears in "Meet Me At the Fair", he was played by Michael Morgan, as Lookinland was busy working on the short-lived Brady Bunch Variety Hour at the time.


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** Ike Eisenmann played Viktor Pyatakov in Season 2's "Centennial" and Erich Schiller in "Harriet's Happenings".
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The show was huge in Spain, Mexico, and Japan. For the latter, ''Little House'' was credited with a quilting craze among the Japanese, not to mention it was the inspiration for an anime series - ''Sōgen no Shōjo Rōra'' - in 1975.
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** Creator/ShannenDoherty would be typecast in her next roles, such as [[Film/{{Heathers}} Heather Duke ]] and Prue Hallimel in ''Series/{{Charmed}}''. Here, she plays the quintessential NiceGirl Jenny Wilder.

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** Creator/ShannenDoherty would be typecast as [[AlphaBitch Alpha Bitches]] or [[LovableAlphaBitch Lovable Alpha Bitches]] in her next roles, such as [[Film/{{Heathers}} Heather Duke ]] and Prue Hallimel in ''Series/{{Charmed}}''.''Series/Charmed1998''. Here, she plays the quintessential NiceGirl Jenny Wilder.



** Michael Landon's daughter, Leslie Landon, plays schoolteacher Etta Plum.
* A young Creator/SeanPenn plays one of the schoolboys in Season 1, and his mother, Eileen Ryan, plays Mrs. Kennedy.

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** Michael Landon's daughter, Leslie Landon, plays schoolteacher Etta Plum.
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Plum. Landon's son, Michael Jr, also plays a schoolboy in "The Election".
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A young Creator/SeanPenn plays one of the schoolboys in Season 1, and his mother, Eileen Ryan, plays Mrs. Kennedy.

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