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The show is an adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder's best-selling series of Little House books. Charles, Laura, Caroline, Mary, and Carrie Ingalls are respectively portrayed by Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, Karen Grassle, Melissa Sue Anderson, and twins Lindsay and Sydney Greenbush. Little House on the Prairie ( Little House: A New Beginning in its ninth and final season) is an American Western historical drama television series about the Ingalls family, who live on a farm on Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s–90s.

Little House on the Prairie: A Look Back to Yesterday.

Have a look below at what the Big Sky Ranch looks like today compared to scenes from the show filmed in the same spots. What remained of the set was lost in fires in 2003 and in 2019. Still, if you loved the show then it does seem a little sad that none of the buildings stand today. The nature of Hollywood filming means that many of the sets and costumes from all kinds of iconic productions were destroyed or reused, so this is not unusual for the industry. Parts of the set for the show were destroyed in a staged explosion for the series finale, most notably the town of Walnut Grove, in the third and final Little House film, The Last Farewell.

Little House on the Prairierelied on relatively authentic buildings and outdoor vignettes for the show and so a sound stage wouldn’t do for many of the scenes in the show. Over the years scenes for Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Flicka, The Thorn Birds, Dallas, Quantum Leap, and Rawhide among many other shows and movies were filmed there.

The show was filmed at the Big Sky Movie Ranch near Newhall, California, a well known spot among Hollywood producers. Over the years viewers grew to love the cast of characters and the charming, albeit sometimes graphic, depictions of what life must have been like for the settlers. The popularity of the film cemented the show’s future and the program ran from 1974 until 1982 with high ratings. When the TV show Little House on the Prairie first debuted as a pilot film in early 1974, it remained to be seen whether audiences would warm to the story line of a pioneer family eking out a living from the land.