Do You Remember James and Cassandra Ingalls, ‘Little House on the Prairie’s Forgotten Children?

Ask a casual viewer to name the Ingalls kids from Little House on the Prairie and they’ll probably say Mary, Laura, Carrie and maybe baby Grace and adopted son Albert. But it takes a superfan to remember James Ingalls and Cassandra Ingalls, too.

Played by Jason Bateman in his first acting role and Melissa “Missy” Francis, a popular child star at the time, the two orphans became part of the Ingalls family at the tail end of Season 7 in a heartbreaker two-part episode called “The Lost Ones.”