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.
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.
Monday, May 13
The Love of Johnny Johnson
Season 1 • Episode 5
Laura falls for a new student (Mitch Vogel), who shows a greater interest in Mary.
Monday, May 13
Crossed Connections
Season 6 • Episode 15
Mrs. Oleson listens in on everyone's calls when telephone lines are installed in Walnut Grove.
Monday, May 13
If I Should Wake Before I Die
Season 1 • Episode 6
Charles helps a woman stage her own wake to ensure her distant children's attendance.
Monday, May 13
The Angry Heart
Season 6 • Episode 16
The Ingalls' elderly neighbors are dismayed that their teenage grandson is a bully.
Monday, May 13
Town Party, Country Party
Season 1 • Episode 7
Laura befriends a lonely, crippled girl (Kim Richards) sheltered by her father.
Monday, May 13
The Werewolf of Walnut Grove
Season 6 • Episode 17
Albert and Laura plan to frighten a bully whose disruptions caused the teacher to resign.
Tuesday, May 14
There's No Place Like Home
Season 5 • Episode 5
Charles and Jonathan become increasingly unhappy with Winoka; guest Ray Bolger.
Tuesday, May 14
Fagin
Season 5 • Episode 7
Albert decides to run away because Laura believes he is stealing Charles' attention.
Tuesday, May 14
Harriet's Happenings
Season 5 • Episode 8
Mrs. Oleson's gossip column praises her family and infuriates her neighbors.
Tuesday, May 14
Whatever Happened to the Class of '56?
Season 6 • Episode 18
Charles and Caroline feel inferior to former classmates at a 25-year high-school reunion.
Tuesday, May 14
Darkness Is My Friend
Season 6 • Episode 19
Three escaped convicts, one wounded, take hostages at the School for the Blind.
Tuesday, May 14
School Mom
Season 1 • Episode 9
Substitute-teacher Caroline deals with a boy (Dirk Blocker) ridiculed for his limited literacy.
Tuesday, May 14
Silent Promises
Season 6 • Episode 20
Laura's sign-language pupil (Alban Branton) falls in love with her.
Tuesday, May 14
The Raccoon
Season 1 • Episode 10
After Laura's pet raccoon bites her and the dog, Charles and Caroline discover it is rabid.
Tuesday, May 14
May We Make Them Proud
Season 6 • Episode 21
Mary suffers an emotional breakdown when she learns her infant son has perished in a fire.
Wednesday, May 15
The Wedding
Season 5 • Episode 9
Mary accepts Adam's proposal, but doubts they can raise children.
Wednesday, May 15
Men Will Be Boys
Season 5 • Episode 10
Albert and Andy outwit their fathers' attempt to prove them children.
Wednesday, May 15
The Cheaters
Season 5 • Episode 11
Nellie tutors Andy, then wants him to steal test answers.
Wednesday, May 15
May We Make Them Proud
Season 6 • Episode 22
The loss of her baby shatters Mary; the residents attempt to recover from the shock.
Wednesday, May 15
The Voice of Tinker Jones
Season 1 • Episode 11
A mute coppersmith (Chuck McCann) plans to end a controversy over a proposed church bell.
Wednesday, May 15
Wilder and Wilder
Season 6 • Episode 23
Charles hopes Laura's affections will shift to Almanzo's flamboyant younger brother.
Wednesday, May 15
The Lord Is My Shepherd
Season 1 • Episode 13
Feeling rejected, Laura does not pray for the recovery of her sickly newborn brother.
Wednesday, May 15
Second Spring
Season 6 • Episode 24
His wife's nagging sends Nels on the road, where he meets a charming woman (Suzanne Rogers).
Wednesday, May 15
The Lord Is My Shepherd
Season 1 • Episode 14
A mountain man (Ernest Borgnine) helps Laura deal with guilt over the baby's death.
Wednesday, May 15
Sweet Sixteen
Season 6 • Episode 25
Almanzo realizes Laura's maturity when she passes the teaching exam and receives her license.
Thursday, May 16
Blind Journey
Season 5 • Episode 12
Mrs. Oleson, Charles and Joe (Moses Gunn) move the blind children to Walnut Grove.
Thursday, May 16
Blind Journey
Season 5 • Episode 13
Adam panics at a river crossing; the students and a socialite surprise Mrs. Oleson.
Thursday, May 16
The Craftsman
Season 5 • Episode 15
Albert endures the scorn of residents when he becomes apprentice to a Jewish woodcarver.
Thursday, May 16
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
Season 6 • Episode 26
Charles forbids young Laura to marry Almanzo; Nellie meets her parents' accountant.
Thursday, May 16
The Award
Season 1 • Episode 12
Mary accidentally sets the barn on fire while cramming for an important school competition.
Thursday, May 16
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
Season 6 • Episode 26
Charles forbids young Laura to marry Almanzo; Nellie meets her parents' accountant.
Thursday, May 16
Christmas at Plum Creek
Season 1 • Episode 15
The Ingalls struggle with limited funds as they decide on Christmas gifts.
Thursday, May 16
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Season 7 • Episode 1
Almanzo loses his money in a bad real-estate deal; Laura takes a teaching job.
Thursday, May 16
Family Quarrel
Season 1 • Episode 16
The Olesons separate after arguing about the quality of the Ingalls' eggs.
Thursday, May 16
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Season 7 • Episode 2
Almanzo's pride dissolves the engagement, but Eliza Jane plans to reunite him with Laura.
Friday, May 17
Blind Man's Bluff
Season 5 • Episode 16
A boy feigns blindness to stop his parents' (Maureen Lee, Wesley Grant) divorce.
Friday, May 17
The Sound of Children
Season 5 • Episode 18
Pregnant Mary wants to reconcile Adam and his wealthy Bostonian father.
Friday, May 17
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 17
A New Beginning
Season 7 • Episode 3
Toughs thwart Jonathan and Andy's attempts to start a freight line in Sleepy Eye.
Friday, May 17
Doctor's Lady
Season 1 • Episode 17
Doc Baker falls in love treating Mrs. Oleson's niece for an injured arm.
Friday, May 17
Fight, Team, Fight
Season 7 • Episode 4
A former gridiron star coaches Walnut Grove's football team, but his tyranny endangers his players.
Friday, May 17
Plague
Season 1 • Episode 18
Doc Baker drafts Charles to help townspeople quarantined during a typhus outbreak.
Friday, May 17
The Silent Cry
Season 7 • Episode 5
A boy runs away with his mute, younger brother when he hears that no one will adopt both of them.
Friday, May 17
The Circus Man
Season 1 • Episode 19
A traveling showman (Red Buttons) hawks a supposedly medicinal powder from India.
Friday, May 17
Divorce, Walnut Grove Style
Season 7 • Episode 7
Laura brawls with a woman she considers her rival, then leaves Almanzo.
Friday, May 17
Dearest Albert, I'll Miss You
Season 7 • Episode 8
Albert tells a pen pal he is tall and athletic; she fabricates to hide her paralysis.
Friday, May 17
The In-Laws
Season 7 • Episode 9
Charles and Almanzo run a race to determine which is the shortest route for a freight line.
Friday, May 17
To See the Light
Season 7 • Episode 11
Mary feels like a burden when Adam resumes his education to be a lawyer.
Friday, May 17
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 18
Come, Let Us Reason Together
Season 7 • Episode 13
Nellie and Percival argue over whether their unborn child will be raised as a Jew or a Christian.
Saturday, May 18
The Nephews
Season 7 • Episode 14
Almanzo's two visiting nephews almost break up the Wilders' marriage and home.
Saturday, May 18
Make a Joyful Noise
Season 7 • Episode 15
A black farmer tries to win the hand of the blind school's teacher from a fancy-dressing undertaker.
Saturday, May 18
Goodbye Mrs. Wilder
Season 7 • Episode 16
Mrs. Oleson's constant interference prompts Laura to quit as Walnut Grove's teacher.
Saturday, May 18
Sylvia
Season 7 • Episode 17
Albert falls in love with a 14-year-old, unaware she is the victim of rape.
Sunday, May 19
Child of Pain
Season 1 • Episode 20
Caroline volunteers Charles to keep a round-the-clock watch on a drunken, abusive father.
Monday, May 20
Money Crop
Season 1 • Episode 21
A school-trained farmer (Alan Fudge) convinces Charles to switch from wheat to a new corn variety.
Monday, May 20
Survival
Season 1 • Episode 22
A Dakota pursued by a determined sheriff (Jack Ging) rescues Charles in a fierce blizzard.
Monday, May 20
Barn Burner
Season 5 • Episode 20
The town bigot finds himself on trial for burning the Garveys' barn and assaulting their young son.
Monday, May 20
Enchanted Cottage
Season 5 • Episode 21
Adam becomes depressed when Mary announces she can distinguish between light and dark.
Monday, May 20
Someone Please Love Me
Season 5 • Episode 22
The family of an alcoholic rancher turns to houseguest Charles for attention.
Monday, May 20
Sylvia
Season 7 • Episode 18
Albert secretly plans to marry Sylvia to prevent her father from taking her to another state.
Monday, May 20
To See the World
Season 1 • Episode 23
A farm boy (Mitch Vogel) takes Mr. Edward's tales to heart and heads to the big city.
Monday, May 20
Blind Justice
Season 7 • Episode 19
The residents object when new lawyer Adam defends a man accused of land fraud.
Monday, May 20
Founder's Day
Season 1 • Episode 24
A tough logger's (Forrest Tucker) disdain goads Charles into the Founder's Day chopping contest.
Monday, May 20
The Richest Man in Walnut Grove
Season 2 • Episode 1
A company owing money to Charles goes bankrupt, leaving him deeply in debt.
Monday, May 20
The Lost Ones
Season 7 • Episode 21
Charles sees two children (Jason Bateman, Missy Francis) lose their parents in an accident.
Tuesday, May 21
Mortal Mission
Season 5 • Episode 23
Charles and Jonathan search for medicine for the anthrax epidemic in Walnut Grove.
Tuesday, May 21
The Odyssey
Season 5 • Episode 24
William Randolph Hearst helps Charles, Laura and Albert bring a dying boy to visit the ocean.
Tuesday, May 21
Back to School
Season 6 • Episode 1
Laura tries to convince Almanzo she is mature and her love for him is not just infatuation.
Tuesday, May 21
The Lost Ones
Season 7 • Episode 22
Charles looks for the orphans who fled from the cruelty of their adopted home.
Tuesday, May 21
Four Eyes
Season 2 • Episode 2
Mary's failing eyes cause problems with her schoolwork, forcing Charles to seek help.
Tuesday, May 21
The Reincarnation of Nellie
Season 8 • Episode 1
The Olesons go to an orphanage to find a daughter after Nellie moves to New York.
Tuesday, May 21
Haunted House
Season 2 • Episode 5
Laura decides to find out for herself if a hermit (John Anderson) is really a maniac.
Tuesday, May 21
The Reincarnation of Nellie
Season 8 • Episode 2
Nancy Oleson causes havoc as she schemes to win the lead in the school festival.
Tuesday, May 21
The Big Inning
Season 2 • Episode 4
The Green-Stockings of Sleepy Eye challenge the men of Walnut Grove to a baseball game.
Tuesday, May 21
Growin' Pains
Season 8 • Episode 3
Newly adopted James runs away when he believes the Ingalls do not have room for him.
Wednesday, May 22
Back to School
Season 6 • Episode 2
Laura and Nellie continue their battle for the romantic attentions of Almanzo.
Wednesday, May 22
The Family Tree
Season 6 • Episode 3
The Ingalls go to court to adopt Albert, but his father reappears and demands custody.
Wednesday, May 22
The Third Miracle
Season 6 • Episode 4
Mary must get help when a stagecoach accident traps Adam and endangers a pregnant woman.
Wednesday, May 22
Dark Sage
Season 8 • Episode 4
Overworked Dr. Baker is shocked to discover his new medical partner (Don Marshall) is black.
Wednesday, May 22
The Camp-Out
Season 2 • Episode 9
Mrs. Oleson invites her family along on the Ingalls' camping vacation.
Wednesday, May 22
A Wiser Heart
Season 8 • Episode 5
Laura's teacher suggests her grade will depend on her reaction to his romantic overtures.
Wednesday, May 22
Remember Me
Season 2 • Episode 7
A dying widow (Patricia Neal) asks the Ingalls to help find homes for her children.
Wednesday, May 22
Gambini the Great
Season 8 • Episode 6
The children of town idolize an aging daredevil.
Wednesday, May 22
Remember Me
Season 2 • Episode 8
When it appears the widow's children must be separated, Mr. Edwards makes an announcement.