Fans of the series LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE continue to
have a chance to add season five to their collection with this release. If
somehow you still aren’t familiar with the series it’s based on the series of
young people’s novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and based on her family’s
life as settlers in early America. Starting in the seventies the books were
turned into a popular TV series featuring the talents of Michael Landon as
patriarch of the family Charles Ingalls. Alongside Charles were his wife
Caroline (Karen Grassle), his oldest daughter Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson),
Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and youngest daughter Carrie (Lindsey Greenbush). Their
struggles to tame the land and to create a way of life offered mixed events and
a full cast of characters, showing what life was like at the time.
When it comes to season five we something new happens to the
family, they move away from their beloved Walnut Grove, the home they’ve had
every season to this point. With things being tough there they move with
daughter Mary (who became blind in an earlier season) to Winoka where she will
be teaching in a school for the blind. Also in this season they will become
acquainted with a young orphan named Albert who will eventually become a part
of their family as well.
The season features more moves than this first one.
Eventually the family decides that they aren’t happy with their lives in Winoka
so they leave Mary behind at the school and return to a damaged Walnut Grove
where they begin to rebuild along with their fellow citizens and cast members
from the past. Later on the school for the blind is about to be closed and Mary
writes her father resulting in a new school being opened right in Walnut Grove.
It seems as though the makers of this program wanted to give
each cast member a chance to shine as the season progressed so various topics
and storylines involve different characters as they interact with one another,
everyone from Albert and Laura to nasty Nellie Olsen. Some are played for
sentiment and others for laughs. The main thing though was that every episode
was entertaining and family oriented, something sorely missing from TV series
these days.
That makes series like these coming out on DVD a wonderful
opportunity for all. If you’re unhappy with the garbage on TV today when it
comes to your children watching then you can take a series like this home and
watch each episode as you would a weekly series already on the air. Present
your children with an option other than what’s out there now. I have no doubt
that younger adults will laugh at these shows and ridicule them for their
wholesomeness but don’t let their cynical nature steer you from these.
One other major plus for this series on DVD is the fact that
they are being release in season sets that include a digital copy of the series
as well. So when you purchase this set you can also add it to the service of
your choice such as Vudu. Then on trips or during the evening on vacation you
can pull up an episode or two on your laptop or pad to watch or entertain the
kids.
For those of you who grew up with this series it is a
treasure to have at home once again. If you never watched the show, now is your
chance to see why it was so successful, running for nine years. And if you have
a family that you want to offer something that everyone can enjoy then this is
a series you need to pick up.
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