A Harvest of Friends

This is the very first episode, and already we've me so many wonderful people!

Nels and Harriet Olsen are the store owners. Harriet is the mean, selfish one who tends to boss her husband around. Nels is a sweet but quite weak man in character at times and he allows his wife to push him around. They own the store and right off, Harried makes sure Charles understands her. He does.

Then we meet Dr. Baker and Mr. Hansen. You can't help but to not love them. Of course, along with Michael Landon, these two men played in various western television shows in the fifties and sixties. I think we've seen them on almost every show. Oh, and we cannot forget the good ol' reverend, another great character actor from the old west! I think I remember him best on Gunsmoke.

Honestly though, I watched Little House on the Prairie long before I even know westerns existed, so for me the blessing is in seeing them younger...

In this episode, Charles builds his house. But in order to complete the task, he must ask for a few supplies from the Olsens. Needless to say, he learned his lesson right off about who Harriet Olsen is. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, we don't meet the two Olsen children. That was reserved for the next episode!!!

Of course, even if I'd never seen this episode before, one knows that when the two men shook hands, it was a dead deal for them. Something's going to happen!

In truth, the writers and producers did an excellent job in setting us up to what we'll see in the next nine years is up to the same standards.

I watch Little House on the Prairie everyday. Sometimes all day long. I have all of the DVD's and I also watch on UPTV. Every time I watch one of the episodes I might find a glitch in a scene.

The one I noticed from Harvest of Friends one of my most favorite was the song Michael was humming as he washed up for dinner. I'm not sure exactly what year the song was from, but I'm 100 percent sure it was NOT from the 18th century. Sounds like a song from the 1970's. It's so funny because I don't understand how this was not caught. I still love this episode! We miss Michael so much. What an angel he was.

This is the first episode of a very good TV series.This episode kicks of a show that Will(who would have known)still be poplar more than 30 years later this show is not out of style in fact many of the life lessons and subjects are still very much relevant today. This episode is great and a good way to kick of a awesome family series.this is where the little house gets build and the in galls family moves in this is just the fist episode of many adventures for the in galls in the small town of WAlnut Grove!!!!!!! In the next episode the inalls will make more friends and enemies when its time for the girls to go to school.