Based on the popular "Little House" book series by Laura Ingalls-Wilder,
this hour long dramatic series followed the frontier lives of Charles and
Caroline Ingalls, and their three young daughters: Mary, Laura and Carrie.
A long-running drama based upon the "Little House" series of books by Laura
Ingalls Wilder, "Little House on the Prairie" follows the lives of the
simple, farming Ingalls family: Charles, Caroline, Mary, Laura, Carrie and
then Grace and the later adopted Albert, James and Cassandra, who settle
into a quaint little house on the banks of Plum Creek near the small town
of Walnut Grove during the late 1800s. Often narrated by Laura, the series
follows her simple farm upbringing from her childhood until her adulthood
with Almanzo Wilder with whom she starts a family of her own. While the
series is based upon the Little House books (and thus the real life of
author Laura Ingalls Wilder), it is a very loose adaptation, with mostly
only key events and elements of fact surviving the transition from book to
TV series, the most important being Mary's eventual blindness, and Laura's
future. Several other fictitious (some factual) characters make up the
friendly community of Walnut Grove, including teacher Miss Beadle
(succeeded by two other teachers, then Laura, then Etta Plum), Dr. Hiram
Baker, Rev. Robert Alden, Mr. Hanson (of the Hanson lumber mill), and the
well-to-do Olesons, owners of the local mercantile, and also the primary
rivals of the Ingalls family (except the Oleson patriarch). Family friends
include the Edwards family, the Garvey family and the Carters, who, in the
final season, move into the Ingalls' little house.
