Little House on the Prairie watchlist
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Little House on the Prairie watchlist

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Little House on the Prairie watchlist

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Michael Landon would've turned 90 this week — Melissa Gilbert's tribute to her TV Pa did the rounds and sent me down the rabbit hole. Here's the original run plus the shiny new Netflix reboot that's just wrapped its second season shoot, ranked the way I rank everything: like a match report. Some episodes are a 9-man-to-14 backs-against-the-wall classic, some are a dead rubber. No addresses here, this is strictly a watch list, not a pub crawl.

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Little House on the Prairie watchlist — 4 items
NameTickSeason/EpisodeOriginal Air DateMy take
1A Harvest of Friends (Pilot Series Opener)Season 1, Episode 1Kick-off proper. Michael Landon in the director's chair on his own opener — that's like a captain scoring the first try. Sets the whole shape of the game.
2Country Girls———
3Mr. Edwards' HomecomingSeason 1, Episode 4Landon directs again. Edwards is your mad flanker who'd run through a wall for the team — every great ensemble needs one.
4I'll Be Waving as You Drive AwaySeason 4, Episodes 21-22—Mary goes blind. Brutal, two-part gut punch — ranked in TV Guide's top 100 of all time. This is the extra-time winner everyone still talks about at the bar.