Alison Arngrim’s First Day on ‘Little House on the Prairie’ Was ‘Complete Chaos & Confusion’

Little House on the Prairie Alison Arngrim, 1974-1983
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It was a full-on Walnut Grove reunion on The Patrick LabyorSheaux with Patrick Labyorteaux, where host and former Little House on the Prairie star Patrick Labyorteaux welcomed several of his old Prairie dwellers — and their families — for a heartfelt catch-up about life on, before, and long after their days on Little House. The gathering included Alison Arngrim (Nellie Oleson), Dean Butler (Almanzo Wilder), Pamela Roylance (Sarah Carter), Jennifer Donati (Baby Rose Wilder), and Tracy and Victor French, the children of the late Victor French.

At the top of the show titled “Little House Castravaganza,” Labyorteaux asked Arngrim’s, “Alison, what was your first day on the set? What was that like?”