What Happened on the Last Episode of ‘Little House on the Prairie’?

Little House on the Prairie aired regular episodes from 1974 to 1983, but the story of the Ingalls family and Walnut Grove didn’t end there. While the final episode of the series, season nine’s “Hello and Goodbye,” aired on March 21, 1983, a set of three made-for-TV movies followed in late 1983 and early 1984 — Little House: Look Back to Yesterday and Little House: Bless All the Dear Children, both of which aired in December 1983, and Little House: The Last Farewell, which aired 41 years ago this week, on February 6, 1984. You may recall that The Last Farewell, famously one of the most shocking finales of all time, ended the show with a literal bang — but what else do you remember about the final episode?

Why Walnut Grove got blown to smithereens