Little House on the Prairie

I love little house on the prairie. I watch it every day. Looking at the show, it is impossible to date it in TV decade time. I find this show so much better than the awful shows full of violence and vulgarity on TV today. Sappy? Yes, but it is sure nice to have some cotton candy every now and then. Each time I watch this show, I go back to better days and happy thoughts. There really was a time of innocence and moral values. Hard to believe today. I have given up on todays TV, and I do not allow my children to watch todays TV shows full of demeaning bad behavior and put downs. It seems todays TV is full of bickering, one up-man-ship, and getting over someone else, especially ones own family and friends. Were there a time machine, I would go back to the happy and safe days of my childhood that this TV show was so much a part of. Great TV show!

I was a Junior in High School when this show premiered on NBC. A number of us were discussing the new shows on TV and everyone was in agreement that this one would probably not last long even though it seemed to be very well written and done. Well how wrong we all were. Even now years after it has gone off the air the episodes are still great to watch. Some shows just never go out of style. Little House on the Prairie is one of those shows.

I confess that the first time I sat down and watched this show, I thought it would be lame. However, after watching a few episodes, I found myself to be drawn to it. Many people today wouldn't like the show because it has values. Instead they like smut like "Temptation Island" and crap like that. Shows like this with class and emotion are rare to say the least. I love this show and I think everyone who would take an hour out to watch it, would feel the same.

This was the pilot to the wonderful TV series. The series did kind of get a little sappy and saccharine as it went along, but it was NOWHERE near as bad as Full House in that department! One of the things I really like about the show is the closeness of the Ingalls family. Melissa Gilbert, Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Sue Anderson, and Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush all looked so comfortable and at ease with each other. If you didn't know better, you'd swear they really were a family. This TV movie kicked off a great series that lasted almost a decade and introduced us to many actors who became very familiar and very beloved to viewers. Long live Little House!

I grew up watching Little House, and I still watch it today as often as I can. I do nothing between 10-12 and then from 4-6 everyday! My children watch it with me and they are small, 4 and 2. I have never had the opportunity to read the books, but someday I hope I get the chance. My family makes fun of me for still watching it, they say that I'm crazy for liking that "sap", but I would rather watch something wholesome with my children rather than the unwatchable stuff that is on today! They don't make programs for families to sit down and watch together anymore and that is sad. I will always watch Little House on the Prairie and will encourage my children to do the same with their children.