Thanksgiving is upon us, and that makes us think of family, friends, and all of our blessings. Little House on the Prairie didn't feature traditional Thanksgiving Day episodes. A recent article by Michael John Petty, appearing on Collider, discusses why. You can check out his article here.
During Season 6 (1979), a two-part clips movie titled, "The Little House Years" featured the Ingalls and Kendall families sitting around the table on Thanksgiving. Laura goes through her remembrance book and shares stories covering the joys, sorrows, trials, and triumphs of their life on the prairie, like coming to Walnut Grove, the birth and loss of Baby Freddie, when Grandpa Ingalls came to live with them in Walnut Grove after the death of Grandma Laura Colby Ingalls, and some of Nellie Oleson's shenanigans.
Though this two-parter starts out with a blooper--Laura says she wrote, "We go today," in her remembrance book when they left the Big Woods, while in the pilot Laura's narration says if she had a remembrance book she would have written down about leaving the Big Woods--this is a great episode that featured some of the best and most dramatic episodes from the first five seasons.
Due to a rights issue, "The Little House Years" does not appear on the DVD sets. Not sure if that will change in the future.
Have you seen these episodes? Which stories were your favorites?
