Should you watch Little House on the Prairie?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.

Little House on the Prairie
Series · 1974
When the big woods of Wisconsin becomes a difficult spot for hunting, Charles Ingalls reluctantly decides to move his family, pioneering west. Their life on the farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s is full of adventure, tragedy, and triumph. Based on the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
The sides of Little House on the Prairie
- The Ingalls family on a Minnesota farm
- Laura growing up in Walnut Grove
- Nellie Oleson, the spoiled rival
Little House on the Prairie is good for you if…
- you like Charles Ingalls and a family that sticks together.
- you want gentle stories with a lesson at the end.
- you like being moved by the hard times of a pioneer town.
Little House on the Prairie is bad for you if…
- nine seasons is too much for you.
- you find 1970s television dated.
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