Little House on the Prairie

Little House on the Prairie - NBC

NBC

Series

1974

TVG

Drama

Based on the book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Ingalls family struggles to survive in 1870s after settling on a farm near a small rural town in Minnesota.

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1974–1983 Series 9 Seasons276 Episodes

Upcoming 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

The Hunters

Season 3 • Episode 10

Laura asks help when Charles has a accident.

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

Little Women

Season 3 • Episode 14

Mrs. Oleson casts Nellie as lead in kids' play.

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

Little Women

Season 3 • Episode 14

Mrs. Oleson casts Nellie as lead in kids' play.

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

The Rivals

Season 4 • Episode 14

Laura wants to impress a discovered buddy.

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

The Rivals

Season 4 • Episode 14

Laura wants to impress a discovered buddy.

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

Author, Author

Season 6 • Episode 14

Death of Caroline's mother dims baby's birth.

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.

Saturday, May 11

I Do, Again

Season 7 • Episode 20

Caroline and Laura announce their pregnancies.

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.

Monday, May 13

The Ingalls family struggles to survive in 1870s Minnesota.

Monday, May 13

The Ingalls family struggles to survive in 1870s Minnesota.

Monday, May 13

The Ingalls family struggles to survive in 1870s Minnesota.

Monday, May 13

The Ingalls family struggles to survive in 1870s Minnesota.

Monday, May 13

The Ingalls family struggles to survive in 1870s Minnesota.

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