Little House on the Prairie
Cast & Crew
Michael Landon Charles Ingalls
Karen Grassle Caroline Ingalls
Melissa Gilbert Laura Ingalls Wilder
Melissa Sue Anderson Mary Ingalls Kendall
Alison Arngrim Nellie Oleson Dalton
Charlotte Stewart Eva Beadle Simms
Victor French Mr. Isaiah Edwards
Merlin Olsen Jonathan Garvey
Patrick Laborteaux Andy Garvey
Hersha Parady Alice Garvey
Matthew Labyorteaux Albert Ingalls
Dean Butler Almanzo Wilder
Jason Bateman James Cooper
Shannen Doherty Jenny Wilder
⨁Full Cast & CrewUpcoming TV Airings
The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.
Friday, April 26
Blizzard
Season 3 • Episode 11
A snowstorm traps the children on their way home from school.
Friday, April 26
Little Girl Lost
Season 3 • Episode 4
A drunken former miner (John Ireland) must rescue Carrie from a deep hole.
Friday, April 26
Quarantine
Season 3 • Episode 13
Laura tries to help Mr. Edwards and his daughter, stricken with fever.
Friday, April 26
I'll Ride the Wind
Season 3 • Episode 12
Mr. Edwards' adopted son, John, refuses a college scholarship when Mary agrees to be his wife.
Friday, April 26
Stone Soup
Season 8 • Episode 13
Laura risks her life and her unborn child to keep a new orchard alive through drought.
Friday, April 26
Bunny
Season 3 • Episode 2
Nellie feigns injury after an argument with Laura, then tries to manipulate others.
Friday, April 26
The Legacy
Season 8 • Episode 14
A modern couple buys a piece of antique furniture, unaware of Charles' pains to create it.
Friday, April 26
The Race
Season 3 • Episode 3
Only Laura's tired steed challenges Nellie's Thoroughbred in an annual race.
Friday, April 26
Uncle Jed
Season 8 • Episode 15
James and Cassandra's elderly relative comes to Walnut Grove to get custody.
Friday, April 26
The Monster of Walnut Grove
Season 3 • Episode 5
Laura thinks she saw Mr. Oleson kill his wife, but no one believes her.
Friday, April 26
Journey in the Spring
Season 3 • Episode 6
Charles rushes to Wisconsin to be with his suicidal, widowed father.
Friday, April 26
Journey in the Spring
Season 3 • Episode 7
Charles' father stays with the Ingalls, but an incident with Laura deepens his depression.
Friday, April 26
Fred
Season 3 • Episode 8
Laura cannot understand why the rest of the family doesn't like her cranky billy goat.
Friday, April 26
Bully Boys
Season 3 • Episode 9
Charles tries to tolerate three bullies, until they assault his family.
Friday, April 26
Blizzard
Season 3 • Episode 11
A snowstorm traps the children on their way home from school.
Saturday, April 27
Little Girl Lost
Season 3 • Episode 4
A drunken former miner (John Ireland) must rescue Carrie from a deep hole.
Saturday, April 27
Quarantine
Season 3 • Episode 13
Laura tries to help Mr. Edwards and his daughter, stricken with fever.
Saturday, April 27
To Live With Fear
Season 3 • Episode 16
Only dangerous work pays enough for Charles to afford an operation to save Mary.
Sunday, April 28
Second Chance
Season 8 • Episode 16
Charles and Caroline decide to help Hester Sue's reformed husband win her back.
Monday, April 29
A Promise to Keep
Season 8 • Episode 19
Isaiah Edwards seeks refuge with the Ingallses after his wife throws him out for drinking.
Monday, April 29
A Faraway Cry
Season 8 • Episode 20
Caroline and Dr. Baker go to an unhealthy mining camp to care for her ailing, pregnant friend.
Monday, April 29
Injun Kid
Season 3 • Episode 15
The Ingalls try to help a half-Indian boy, rejected by the town and his white grandfather.
Monday, April 29
To Live With Fear
Season 3 • Episode 16
Only dangerous work pays enough for Charles to afford an operation to save Mary.
Monday, April 29
To Live With Fear
Season 3 • Episode 17
Mr. Edwards fumes when Charles endangers a Chinese railroad crew to rush a blasting job.
Monday, April 29
He Was Only Twelve
Season 8 • Episode 21
Charles, Albert and Mr. Edwards follow the bank robbers who shot innocent bystander James.
Monday, April 29
The Wisdom of Solomon
Season 3 • Episode 18
A black boy (Todd Bridges) offers to be the Ingalls' slave in exchange for attending school.
Monday, April 29
He Was Only Twelve
Season 8 • Episode 22
James' impending death prompts a religious revelation for Charles.
Monday, April 29
The Music Box
Season 3 • Episode 19
Laura suffers guilt after stealing Nellie's music box, then becomes Nellie's blackmail victim.
Monday, April 29
Welcome to Olesonville
Season 9 • Episode 3
An elderly farmer (Lew Ayres) urges Almanzo to run for mayor to oppose Mrs. Oleson.
Monday, April 29
The Election
Season 3 • Episode 20
The boys want to prove a slow-witted male classmate can beat Mary and Nellie for class president.
Tuesday, April 30
To Live With Fear
Season 3 • Episode 17
Mr. Edwards fumes when Charles endangers a Chinese railroad crew to rush a blasting job.
Tuesday, April 30
The Wisdom of Solomon
Season 3 • Episode 18
A black boy (Todd Bridges) offers to be the Ingalls' slave in exchange for attending school.
Tuesday, April 30
The Music Box
Season 3 • Episode 19
Laura suffers guilt after stealing Nellie's music box, then becomes Nellie's blackmail victim.
Tuesday, April 30
Gold Country
Season 3 • Episode 21
The Ingalls and Edwards try their luck in the gold fields.
Tuesday, April 30
Times Are Changing
Season 9 • Episode 1
The Carters buy the Ingalls' farm; Laura welcomes teacher Etta Plum and Almanzo's relatives.
Tuesday, April 30
Gold Country
Season 3 • Episode 22
Charles faces reality when a recluse pays a deadly price for telling Laura a secret.
Tuesday, April 30
Times Are Changing
Season 9 • Episode 2
Jenny blames herself for Royal's death; Jeb Carter overcomes fear to save Jenny from drowning.
Tuesday, April 30
Castoffs
Season 4 • Episode 1
Only Walnut Grove's children welcome an old wanderer (Hermione Baddeley).
Tuesday, April 30
Rage
Season 9 • Episode 4
A deranged man attacks his wife and child, then takes Laura and her daughter hostage.
Tuesday, April 30
Times of Change
Season 4 • Episode 2
A Grange convention in Chicago disillusions Charles; Mary drifts away from John.
Wednesday, May 1
The Election
Season 3 • Episode 20
The boys want to prove a slow-witted male classmate can beat Mary and Nellie for class president.
Wednesday, May 1
Gold Country
Season 3 • Episode 21
The Ingalls and Edwards try their luck in the gold fields.
Wednesday, May 1
Gold Country
Season 3 • Episode 22
Charles faces reality when a recluse pays a deadly price for telling Laura a secret.
Wednesday, May 1
My Ellen
Season 4 • Episode 3
A grieving mother who blames Laura for her child's drowning holds the girl hostage.
Wednesday, May 1
Little Lou
Season 9 • Episode 5
Mrs. Oleson's prejudice troubles a former circus dwarf who is trying to raise his daughter alone.
Wednesday, May 1
The Handyman
Season 4 • Episode 4
Caroline faces temptation when handyman finds her attractive.
Wednesday, May 1
The Wild Boy
Season 9 • Episode 6
Townspeople rescue a mute boy whom a carnival owner has been using as an attraction.
Wednesday, May 1
The Wolves
Season 4 • Episode 5
A pack of starving dogs arrives at the Ingalls farm, where Mary is alone with the children.
Wednesday, May 1
The Wild Boy
Season 9 • Episode 7
Mr. Edwards is determined the carnival owner will not regain custody of the mute boy.
Wednesday, May 1
The Creeper of Walnut Grove
Season 4 • Episode 6
Sleuths Laura and Andy try to track down a thief in Walnut Grove.
Thursday, May 2
Castoffs
Season 4 • Episode 1
Only Walnut Grove's children welcome an old wanderer (Hermione Baddeley).
Thursday, May 2
Times of Change
Season 4 • Episode 2
A Grange convention in Chicago disillusions Charles; Mary drifts away from John.
Thursday, May 2
My Ellen
Season 4 • Episode 3
A grieving mother who blames Laura for her child's drowning holds the girl hostage.
Thursday, May 2
To Run and Hide
Season 4 • Episode 7
Despondent Doc Baker retires after the death of a farmer who refused medical attention.
Thursday, May 2
The Return of Nellie
Season 9 • Episode 8
Nancy gets angry when her competition, Mrs. Nellie Oleson Dalton, visits Walnut Grove.
Thursday, May 2
The Aftermath
Season 4 • Episode 8
Frank and Jesse James, posing as businessmen, hire Mary to run errands and then take her hostage.
Thursday, May 2
The Empire Builders
Season 9 • Episode 9
Walnut Grove farmers will be forced off their land when the construction of a railroad begins.
Thursday, May 2
The High Cost of Being Right
Season 4 • Episode 9
Jonathan's objections to his wife's needed new job leads to a separation.
Thursday, May 2
Love
Season 9 • Episode 10
Mr. Edwards' friends disapprove when he falls for a 19-year-old blind girl.
Thursday, May 2
The Fighter
Season 4 • Episode 10
A friend convinces Charles to enter a prizefight against an aging boxer.
Friday, May 3
The Handyman
Season 4 • Episode 4
Caroline faces temptation when handyman finds her attractive.
Friday, May 3
The Wolves
Season 4 • Episode 5
A pack of starving dogs arrives at the Ingalls farm, where Mary is alone with the children.
Friday, May 3
The Creeper of Walnut Grove
Season 4 • Episode 6
Sleuths Laura and Andy try to track down a thief in Walnut Grove.
Friday, May 3
Meet Me at the Fair
Season 4 • Episode 11
The Ingalls family travels to a nearby town for the annual fair.
Friday, May 3
Alden's Dilemma
Season 9 • Episode 11
Mr. Edwards believes a new minister dates married women and wants the Rev. Alden's job.
Friday, May 3
Here Come the Bride
Season 4 • Episode 12
Mrs. Oleson asks Miss Beadle to talk with the father of a boy who wants to date Nellie.
Friday, May 3
Marvin's Garden
Season 9 • Episode 12
An elderly, ailing doctor (Ralph Bellamy) takes partially paralyzed Jenny as his last patient.
Friday, May 3
Freedom Flight
Season 4 • Episode 13
Charles hides an ailing Indian chief and his family when townspeople threaten to fight the tribe.
Friday, May 3
Sins of the Fathers
Season 9 • Episode 14
Sarah's publisher father demands she return to her life of luxury in New York.
Friday, May 3
Whisper Country
Season 4 • Episode 15
Teacher Mary clashes with a hostile, domineering woman (Anita Dangler) in a remote community.
Friday, May 3
I Remember, I Remember
Season 4 • Episode 16
Waiting for Charles on their anniversary, Caroline recalls their meeting and courtship.
Friday, May 3
Be My Friend
Season 4 • Episode 17
Laura finds a bottle with an invitation to "be my friend.".
Friday, May 3
The Inheritance
Season 4 • Episode 18
Friends try to advise Charles on how to spend an inheritance.
Friday, May 3
The Stranger
Season 4 • Episode 19
Charles helps Mr. Oleson's unloved nephew learn values by hiring him for odd jobs.
Friday, May 3
A Most Precious Gift
Season 4 • Episode 20
Pregnant Caroline worries Charles will be disappointed if her baby is a girl.
Saturday, May 4
I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away
Season 4 • Episode 21
Caroline and Charles do not tell Mary she will soon be totally blind.
Saturday, May 4
I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away
Season 4 • Episode 22
An understanding instructor helps Mary cope with her blindness; Walnut Grove faces financial ruin.
Saturday, May 4
As Long as We're Together
Season 5 • Episode 1
The Ingalls move from financially troubled Walnut Grove to the busy town of Winoka.
Saturday, May 4
As Long as We're Together
Season 5 • Episode 2
The Ingalls, Garveys and Olesons have trouble with city life; Charles tries to reform Albert.
Saturday, May 4
The Winoka Warriors
Season 5 • Episode 3
An unusual football game convinces a father (John Ireland) his blind son deserves an education.
Sunday, May 5
The Older Brothers
Season 9 • Episode 13
Mr. Edwards stumbles into a robbery by the Younger gang and is mistaken for one of them.
Monday, May 6
Home Again
Season 9 • Episode 16
Charles decides to bring Albert back to Walnut Grove after police arrest him for theft in Chicago.
Monday, May 6
Home Again
Season 9 • Episode 17
Charles discovers a morphine addiction is causing Albert's anger.
Monday, May 6
To Run and Hide
Season 4 • Episode 7
Despondent Doc Baker retires after the death of a farmer who refused medical attention.
Monday, May 6
The Aftermath
Season 4 • Episode 8
Frank and Jesse James, posing as businessmen, hire Mary to run errands and then take her hostage.
Monday, May 6
The High Cost of Being Right
Season 4 • Episode 9
Jonathan's objections to his wife's needed new job leads to a separation.
Monday, May 6
The Man Inside
Season 5 • Episode 4
Laura makes a joke about an overweight man, unaware he is her best friend's father.
Monday, May 6
Once Upon a Time
Season 9 • Episode 15
After Laura wins a writing contest, a Minneapolis publisher asks her to alter her stories.
Monday, May 6
There's No Place Like Home
Season 5 • Episode 5
Charles and Jonathan become increasingly unhappy with Winoka; guest Ray Bolger.
Monday, May 6
A Child With No Name
Season 9 • Episode 18
Laura holds Dr. Baker responsible for her newborn son's sudden, mysterious death.
Monday, May 6
There's No Place Like Home
Season 5 • Episode 6
The Ingallses, Garveys and Olesons return to find Walnut Grove in a shocking state.
Monday, May 6
The Last Summer
Season 9 • Episode 19
Jason spends his time with a wealthy, childless neighbor.
Monday, May 6
Fagin
Season 5 • Episode 7
Albert decides to run away because Laura believes he is stealing Charles' attention.
Tuesday, May 7
Meet Me at the Fair
Season 4 • Episode 11
The Ingalls family travels to a nearby town for the annual fair.
Tuesday, May 7
Here Come the Bride
Season 4 • Episode 12
Mrs. Oleson asks Miss Beadle to talk with the father of a boy who wants to date Nellie.
Tuesday, May 7
Freedom Flight
Season 4 • Episode 13
Charles hides an ailing Indian chief and his family when townspeople threaten to fight the tribe.
Tuesday, May 7
Harriet's Happenings
Season 5 • Episode 8
Mrs. Oleson's gossip column praises her family and infuriates her neighbors.
Tuesday, May 7
For the Love of Blanche
Season 9 • Episode 20
Isaiah promises to care for a dying man's "child" -- a baby orangutan.
Tuesday, May 7
The Wedding
Season 5 • Episode 9
Mary accepts Adam's proposal, but doubts they can raise children.
Tuesday, May 7
May I Have This Dance?
Season 9 • Episode 21
Willie's mother reacts angrily to news of the 16-year-old's engagement.
Tuesday, May 7
Men Will Be Boys
Season 5 • Episode 10
Albert and Andy outwit their fathers' attempt to prove them children.
Tuesday, May 7
Hello and Goodbye
Season 9 • Episode 22
Matthew meets the father who abandoned him; a famous author stays at the Wilder boarding house.
Tuesday, May 7
The Cheaters
Season 5 • Episode 11
Nellie tutors Andy, then wants him to steal test answers.
Wednesday, May 8
Whisper Country
Season 4 • Episode 15
Teacher Mary clashes with a hostile, domineering woman (Anita Dangler) in a remote community.
Wednesday, May 8
I Remember, I Remember
Season 4 • Episode 16
Waiting for Charles on their anniversary, Caroline recalls their meeting and courtship.
Wednesday, May 8
Blind Journey
Season 5 • Episode 12
Mrs. Oleson, Charles and Joe move the blind children to Walnut Grove.
Wednesday, May 8
Look Back to Yesterday
Charles Ingalls stops in Walnut Grove to see the Wilders with his dying son, Albert.
Wednesday, May 8
Blind Journey
Season 5 • Episode 12
Mrs. Oleson, Charles and Joe move the blind children to Walnut Grove.
Wednesday, May 8
The Godsister
Season 5 • Episode 14
Carrie creates an imaginary playmate and a heavenly adventure to learn when Charles will return.
Wednesday, May 8
A Harvest of Friends
Season 1 • Episode 1
After promising to fix a store's roof and stack sacks of grain, Charles falls out of a tree.
Wednesday, May 8
The Craftsman
Season 5 • Episode 15
Albert endures the scorn of residents when he becomes apprentice to a Jewish woodcarver.
Thursday, May 9
The Inheritance
Season 4 • Episode 18
Friends try to advise Charles on how to spend an inheritance.
Thursday, May 9
The Stranger
Season 4 • Episode 19
Charles helps Mr. Oleson's unloved nephew learn values by hiring him for odd jobs.
Thursday, May 9
A Most Precious Gift
Season 4 • Episode 20
Pregnant Caroline worries Charles will be disappointed if her baby is a girl.
Thursday, May 9
Blind Man's Bluff
Season 5 • Episode 16
A boy feigns blindness to stop his parents' (Maureen Lee, Wesley Grant) divorce.
Thursday, May 9
Bless All the Dear Children
A grieving frontier woman kidnaps Almanzo and Laura's baby girl.
Thursday, May 9
Dance With Me
Season 5 • Episode 17
Laura and Albert play matchmaker for a hard-drinker (Ray Bolger) and a prim woman (Eileen Heckart).
Thursday, May 9
The Sound of Children
Season 5 • Episode 18
Pregnant Mary wants to reconcile Adam and his wealthy Bostonian father.
Thursday, May 9
Country Girls
Season 1 • Episode 2
Before their first day of school, Laura and Mary worry other students won't accept them.
Thursday, May 9
The Lake Kezia Monster
Season 5 • Episode 19
The children plot to scare Mrs. Oleson into returning an old woman's (Hermione Baddeley) home.
Friday, May 10
I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away
Season 4 • Episode 21
Caroline and Charles do not tell Mary she will soon be totally blind.
Friday, May 10
I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away
Season 4 • Episode 22
An understanding instructor helps Mary cope with her blindness; Walnut Grove faces financial ruin.
Friday, May 10
As Long as We're Together
Season 5 • Episode 1
The Ingalls move from financially troubled Walnut Grove to the busy town of Winoka.
Friday, May 10
Barn Burner
Season 5 • Episode 20
The town bigot finds himself on trial for burning the Garveys' barn and assaulting their young son.
Friday, May 10
The Last Farewell
Walnut Grove citizens vow to destroy homes after learning that Eastern financiers own their town.
Friday, May 10
Enchanted Cottage
Season 5 • Episode 21
Adam becomes depressed when Mary announces she can distinguish between light and dark.
Friday, May 10
Someone Please Love Me
Season 5 • Episode 22
The family of an alcoholic rancher turns to houseguest Charles for attention.
Friday, May 10
The 100-Mile Walk
Season 1 • Episode 3
After wheat is destroyed, farmers must take risky quarry jobs.
Friday, May 10
Mortal Mission
Season 5 • Episode 23
Charles and Jonathan search for medicine for the anthrax epidemic in Walnut Grove.
Friday, May 10
The Odyssey
Season 5 • Episode 24
William Randolph Hearst helps Charles, Laura and Albert bring a dying boy to visit the ocean.
Friday, May 10
Back to School
Season 6 • Episode 1
Laura tries to convince Almanzo she is mature and her love for him is not just infatuation.
Friday, May 10
Back to School
Season 6 • Episode 2
Laura and Nellie continue their battle for the romantic attentions of Almanzo.
Friday, May 10
The Family Tree
Season 6 • Episode 3
The Ingalls go to court to adopt Albert, but his father reappears and demands custody.
Friday, May 10
The Third Miracle
Season 6 • Episode 4
Mary must get help when a stagecoach accident traps Adam and endangers a pregnant woman.
Friday, May 10
Annabelle
Season 6 • Episode 5
Almanzo upsets Laura by asking another girl to the circus; Nels denies a circus-performer relative.
Saturday, May 11
The Preacher Takes a Wife
Season 6 • Episode 6
Mrs. Oleson sets out to have the Rev. Alden removed from his church.
Saturday, May 11
The Halloween Dream
Season 6 • Episode 7
Before a Halloween party, Albert naps and dreams Indians have captured him and Laura.
Saturday, May 11
The Return of Mr. Edwards
Season 6 • Episode 8
Charles and Laura rush to help Mr. Edwards after an accident and find him filled with rage.
Saturday, May 11
The King Is Dead
Season 6 • Episode 9
A con artist and an aging wrestler set out to cheat Walnut Grove residents.
Saturday, May 11
The Faith Healer
Season 6 • Episode 13
A charismatic preacher (James Olson) entices residents from the Rev. Alden's teachings.
Saturday, May 11
Pilot
Season 1 •
The Ingalls family leaves the little house in the Big Woods and heads West.
Saturday, May 11
School Mom
Season 1 • Episode 9
Substitute-teacher Caroline deals with a boy (Dirk Blocker) ridiculed for his limited literacy.
Saturday, May 11
The Award
Season 1 • Episode 12
Mary accidentally sets the barn on fire while cramming for an important school competition.
Saturday, May 11
A Matter of Faith
Season 2 • Episode 15
A deadly infection fells Caroline before she can join her family on a camping trip.
Saturday, May 11
Oleson Versus Oleson
Season 7 • Episode 12
The women of Walnut Grove revolt when the men won't alter a law giving property to husbands only.
Monday, May 13
Mr. Edwards' Homecoming
Season 1 • Episode 4
Caroline plays matchmaker for Charles' old friend, Mr. Edwards, and an attractive local widow.
Monday, May 13
As Long as We're Together
Season 5 • Episode 2
The Ingalls, Garveys and Olesons have trouble with city life; Charles tries to reform Albert.
Monday, May 13
The Winoka Warriors
Season 5 • Episode 3
An unusual football game convinces a father (John Ireland) his blind son deserves an education.
Monday, May 13
The Man Inside
Season 5 • Episode 4
Laura makes a joke about an overweight man, unaware he is her best friend's father.