History Trivia / LittleHouseOnThePrairie

** 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.

** Michael Pataki first appears in Season 4's "To Run and Hide" as Stanley Novack, and later in Seaosn 6's "The Family Tree" as Albert's biological father, Jeremy Quinn.

* Jon Lormer first appears in Season 6's "The Preacher Takes a Wife" as Jeremy Tyler, and later in Season 9's "Marvin's Garden" as Jedediah Thoms.

* PlayingAgainstType: The man who played the antagonist in the final TV movie, Creator/JamesKaren, ''had'' played a similar role in ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}''. But to generations of people in the New York metro region, he was known as "Mr. Pathmark", as for many years he worked for the now-defunct Pathmark supermarket chain in their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkRR6PljqF8 TV commercials]]. So Pathmark got flooded with letters from people, asking how they could employ the heartless man who tore down Walnut Grove to sell them groceries, [[ButIPlayOneOnTV apparently not grasping that he was just an actor]]. Fortunately, the backlash was short-lived, and Karen kept his Pathmark gig through the mid-1990s.

** E.J. Andre played a whopping five different characters. He played Amos Thoms in "His Father's Son", Mathew Simms in "Going Home", Zachariah in "Gold Country", "St. Peter" in "The Godsister", and Jed Cooper in "The Lost Ones" and "Uncle Jed".

* CompositeCharacter: In the books and subsequently for the series, Nellie Olsen was a composite of three unpleasant young women Laura encountered at different points of her life. This explains why Nellie goes from a spoiled snob in ''On the Banks of Plum Creek'' to a catty teacher's pet in ''Little Town on the Prairie'' to a simpering, giggling airhead in ''These Happy Golden Years.''

** The Brazilian dub makes a complicated case: The series was dubbed by ''Herbert Richers'' studio when it first aired on [[https://mihsignvision.fandom.com/wiki/Record_TV Record TV]], but apparently, only the first four seasons and part of Season 5 were dubbed during that phase. Then Season 5 was dubbed many years later by ''Centauro'' studio, with a completely different cast due to being set in UsefulNotes/SaoPaulo whereas Herbert Richers was set in UsefulNotes/RioDeJaneiro, along with the Pilot movie. Then Season 6 to 9 were dubbed in another studio from Rio, ''Audio News'', about two decades after the HR dub, with another completely different cast (none of the cast members of the HR dub reprised their roles, though some were recast as different characters, most notably Laura's first VA, Carmen Sheila, who joined the Audio News dub as ''Mrs. Oleson'').

** Bonnie Bartlett played Grace Snider Edwards in seasons 2 and 3. When the character appeared for one episode in season eight, she was played by Corinne Camacho.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Brazil, the TV show is known as ''Os Pioneiros'' (The Pioneers), most likely because the literal translation "Casinha na Paradaria" wouldn't particularly stand out as a name for a TV show.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Brazil, the TV show is known as ''Os Pioneiros'' (The Pioneers).

** Leslie Landon played several one-shot characters, including a girl named Leslie in Season 1's "Plague",

** Creator/JohnMcLiam first appears in Seaosn 4's "Whisper Country" as the darkly domineering patriarch of the Fisher family, Caleb Fisher, and then in Season 9's "Sins of the Fathers" as Sarah Carter's father, Elliot Reed.

* Michael Pataki first appears in Season 4's "ToRun and Hide" as Stanley Novack, and later in Seaosn 6's "The Family Tree" as Albert's biological father, Jeremy Quinn.
* Adam Gunn first appears in Season 4's "I Remember I Remember" as Harold Watson and later in Season 5's Winoka arc as Jeb Standish.

* AdoredByTheNetwork: {{UPtv}} and Hallmark Drama play daily marathons of the TV show.

* HostilityOnTheSet: According to Creator/KarenGrassle's recent [[https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/karen-grassle-grateful-she-mended-131402160.html autobiography]], she and Landon clashed when she asked for a raise and he refused, resulting in him saying incredibly inappropriate things to her. However, the two were able to mend fences before his death.

** Leslie Landon played the recurring role of Etta Plum (the town teacher after Laura) toward the end of the series, but also appeared in earlier seasons as Laura's fellow dishwasher Pam in "A Wiser Heart" and the pregnant woman riding in the ill-fated carriage with Mary in "The Third Miracle."

** Richard Jaeckel first appears in "The LongRoad Home" as Murphy, and later in Season 7 "Sylvia" as the blacksmith Irv Hartwig.

* Richard Jaeckel first appears in "The LongRoad Home" as Murphy, and later in Season 7 "Sylvia" as the blacksmith Irv Hartwig.
* Don Barry first appears in "Fred" as Rufe Parsons, the title goat's owner, and would later reappear in Seasons 4 and 5 as Jud Larrabee. Ironically Parson's wife was played Joan Tompkins, would also play Larrabee's wife.

** Dabbs Greer, whose real frist name was Robert William Greer, plays Reverend Robert Alden.

* PlayingAgainstType: The man who played the antagonist in the final TV movie, Creator/JamesKaren, ''had'' played a similar role in ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}''. But to generations of people in the New York metro region, he was known as "Mr. Pathmark", as for many years he worked for the now-defunct Pathmark supermarket chain in their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkRR6PljqF8 TV commercials]]. So Pathmark got flooded with letters from people, asking how they could employ the heartless man who tore down Walnut Grove to sell them groceries, apparently not grasping that he was just an actor. Fortunately, the backlash was short-lived, and Karen kept his Pathmark gig through the mid-1990s.

* TheDanza: Actress Ruth Foster had a recurring role as an all-purpose [[TheGenericGuy everywoman]] who would appear anytime the show needed a customer in the Mercantile, a lady volunteering at a picnic, or any other villager with a line or two who shouldn't be one of the principals but didn't merit hiring a guest star. They simply called this character Mrs. Foster.

** The Brazilian dub makes a complicated case: The series was dubbed by ''Herbert Richers'' studio when it first aired on [[https://mihsignvision.fandom.com/wiki/Record_TV Record TV]], but apparently, only the first four seasons and part of Season 5 were dubbed during that phase. Then Season 5 was dubbed many years later by ''Centauro'' studio, with a completely different cast due to being set in UsefulNotes/SaoPaulo whereas Herbert Richers was set in UsefulNotes/RiodeJaneiro, along with the Pilot movie. Then Season 6 to 9 were dubbed in another studio from Rio, ''Audio News'', about two decades after the HR dub, with another completely different cast (none of the cast members of the HR dub reprised their roles, though some were recast as different characters, most notably Laura's first VA, Carmen Sheila, who joined the Audio News dub as ''Mrs. Oleson'').

* RelationshipVoiceActor: In the 2019 Japanese dub, Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa (Charles Ingalls) and Creator/WataruTakagi (Isaiah Edwards) previously worked together as Shagia Frost and the hero Garrod Ran respectively in ''Anime/AfterWarGundamX''.

* DuelingDubs: In Japan, the series has two dubs: One done in 1975 and another newest one done in 2019, both broadcasted by NHK and each one with their own set of voice actors.

* CompositeCharacter: In the books and subsequently for the series, Nellie Olsen was a composite of three unpleasant young women Laura encountered at different points of her life. This explains why Nellie goes from a spoiled snob in ''On the Banks of Plum Creek'' to a catty teacher's pet in ''Little Town on the Prairie'' to a simpering, giggling airhead in ''These Happy Golden Years.''

* PlayingAgainstType: The man who played the antagonist in the final TV movie, James Karen, ''had'' played a similar role in ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}''. But to generations of people in the New York metro region, he was known as "Mr. Pathmark", as for many years he worked for the now-defunct Pathmark supermarket chain in their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkRR6PljqF8 TV commercials]]. So Pathmark got flooded with letters from people, asking how they could employ the heartless man who tore down Walnut Grove to sell them groceries, apparently not grasping that he was just an actor. Fortunately, the backlash was short-lived, and Karen kept his Pathmark gig through the mid-1990s.

* AdoredByTheNetwork: UPtv and Hallmark Drama play daily marathons of the TV show.

* HostilityOnTheSet: According to Creator/KarenGrassle's recent [[https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/karen-grassle-grateful-she-mended-131402160.html autobiography]], she and Langdon clashed when she asked for a raise and he refused, resulting in him saying incredibly inappropriate things to her. However, the two were able to mend fences before his death.

* HostilityOnTheSet: According to Karen Grassle's recent [[https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/karen-grassle-grateful-she-mended-131402160.html autobiography]], she and Langdon clashed when she asked for a raise and he refused, resulting in him saying incredibly inappropriate things to her. However, the two were able to mend fences before his death.