"I'll Be Wawing As You Drive Away" sure was one of the most unforgettable episodes of Little House! Melissa Sue played it so well :) And Linwood Boomer was amazing as Adam also! I love Mary and Adam and their beautiful scenes
Cherie Laub Oh my God I will never forget that either, watching her rock back-and-forth humming rock-a-bye baby, it’s a episode I can’t get out of my memory.
I didn't care for her performance in that episode. I was mad that she nor her husband remembered to take the baby with them and it was their fault he burned. Then she wouldn't cry she would just hum so it was a pretty cringy scene.
Melissa Sue played the best blind person I have ever seen, she was very believable. I really liked her as Mary and I cried when she became blind in the show
My BFF has been blind since birth. Mary's blindness inspired her, and so many of her blind friends that they could be more than "the blind kid" in life. We're in our mid 40s now. And she still is absolutely obsessed with the show. There's an annual blind trip to Walnut Grove every year, and everything. 💜
I completely agree with almamatters. Ammen to that. Because you barely see anything so authentic, pure and heartwarming these days... I discovered "Little house..." just lust year (to my great shame). I'm watching the episodes over and over ever since. I absolutely fell in love with the movie and the main characters. And I'll love them as long as I live ...so, ammen to the thought, that future generations will enjoy this piece of art as much we do
I love "Sylvia" episode too!! It is definitely one of my favorites as well! Albert is my favorite character! Olivia Barash was really lovely as Sylvia!! :)
The Miss Peale character,should've moved to and become a regular at Walnut Grove. She was hilarious hollering bout hells damnation! I can just imagine the yelling matches her and Mrs Oleson would've had LOL
Whats weird is Mike landon said that her going blind would be a good thing for her but after she went blind she was in less episodes and had nonstop bad things happening to her. Like she had a miscarriage and when she finally had a baby iy died in the fire, her husband got his sight back and their relationship wasn't the same anymore.
May be he wanted to cut her character, she didn´t have a good relationship with other actors. By the way, Michael Landon liked too much drama, that is why I never liked this show very much. I don´t want to be constantly crying for fictionary characters.
I love what she says about Linwood Boomer, "he was good looking but not spectacularly good looking" (!?) LOL he was hot! Love that she thought he was perfect for Adam because he was. They had good screen chemistry together. Was sad they weren't given more to do in the last several seasons of the show. They were both wonderful actors whose depths weren't plumbed seriously enough! Wonder just how goofy he was on set?
Yeah he was cute, lol. I guess when your working with another actor, your not seeing him the same way us viewers do, lol. You see them everyday warts and all, lol.
organicskating yeah , he’s much better looking than her real life husband . Her kids are not as good looking as her as unfortunately look like their dad
They were a terrific couple, but as someone said it change when he got his sight back. You sensed he was not as into Mary because he did not need her as much as he had when he was blind. I know I felt that when I watched them on screen. It just was not the same.
I don't know why they keep saying that the writers made Mary blind. The REAL Mary DID go blind ...this is not something that the show's writers just made up.
My mom and I used to watch LHP together when I was in elementary school. I think my dad watched a few episodes when later in middle school I rented some DVDs. The only show my entire family (my parents and my brother) watched together was The Wonder Years when I was in middle school. :)
I really disliked it, when they made her blind. I was waiting for her to be able to see again. I missed her character and lost interest in the end. It just wasn't the same without her. Melissa is such a beautiful woman today :O
She really has a lot of interesting thigns to say! I forgot how many episodes early-on featured her and how good the writing was. Some of the later seasons were so ridiculous. I absolutely HATE the "Blanche" episode with the orangutan - especially because they made Harriet so horrible in that episode, bringing in the law to shoot Blanche. She wasn't supposed to be THAT bad!!!
@rydemi Truth to be told, I think the end of Albert's story is an example of extremely bad writing. It was understandable (though not pleasant) that the family left, but after it everything went downhill. I have no idea what to believe. In one ep, the boy is brought back from harm's way and it is indicated he got a happy ending, but in an epilogue he suddenly gets ill and we don't even see the outcome. I don't know who to blame. LHOTP was never a masterpiece of writing but that was unforgivable
I think I saw somewhere that Linwood Boomer, who was the first blind character besides Mary, was cast because he had a quality to his eyes/stare, so it just becomes natural to see him as a blind person. The storyline when he regained his sight was so stupid.
Agree. That was jump the shark to me! It’s like the writers realized they should have made him sighted in the beginning so they could give him more things to do so they corrected it even though it was too late.
"Family show". Funny because as a kid, my friends parents wouldn't let her watch so she would sneak to my house to "play" and would plop in front of my TV and would watch Little House. It was her way of being bad.
@Melisbeth86 My alltime fave Little House episode was "Sylvia" it starred "Olivia Barrish" who was a well known rocker from Nashville. I'm not sure what she is up to now. I think she made a few guest appearances in several shows over the years
I hated the show when they made her blind. They should have made her get her sight back. Like shes walking home and gets caught in a storm, then she gets struck by lightning and gets her sight back.
On the 3rd Interview she did she mentioned about her fourteen year old daughter watching "little house on the prairie" every night. That's just exactly like meexpect from I watch them sometimes r
me too Melllisa , like your best friend were really mad at you at that time saw the part when youre be blind, hate those scene really, but those part scene was great success making audiences got into it and really upseted , it's do real
@rydemi Well, that makes sense in a way since God was very prominent in LHOTP, but I'm still confused :) I would have loved to see the actual happy ending, but the movie in which Albert falls ill is very touching and good as it is. In a way, it's very artistic. Yeah, I loved Mary but I don't think the Christmas episode was satisfying. I haven't seen it for a while but if I recall she was in only one scene and had a minimum of lines. I was very disappointed; maybe the writers ran out of ideas.
Wasn't the same after Mary/Melissa Sue left. Her stories were the best! For fun,cos I write as a hobbie,I myself drafted a spinoff for Mary called "Mary" where her and Adam move to New York and she becomes a blind concert pianist and of course her trials continue...
LookingIand I would have wrote that she had regained the sight thanks to more advanced surgery and that she had other children that she loved very much and that ma and pa moved to New York to be closer to her and her family .
@Melisbeth86 I always thought Olivia Barish was adorable. I was rather heartbroken when her character "Sylvia" died. I never forgot how adorable she was over the years
Humm, copyright grounds! BS! I am reading a set of these books, just read Little house in the Big Woods and now into the Prairie,...so whatever happened to the "fair use doctrine"...permitting Library's to loan books? Greed and corruption! d
@meenksellaan1 You know, most people do lose their looks as they age. Someday when you grow up (if you ever do mentally) You will realize that your body ages long before the mindset occurs. In your case I think that will be a tossup
Ken Hernandez I agree , or went blind for a wholly and then regained her sight back ( like it happened to Adam ) . It was just too sad thinking of her blind for the rest of her life .
The real Mary went blind. Plus the real Melissa Sue Anderson was so nasty and mean on the set, that she was hostile toward one of her TV boyfriends, that Landon felt he had no choice, but to include the blind story.
Little House on The Prairie was based on Laura Ingalls Wilder's biograph/Books (which I've never read) but Mary losing her eyesight was not based on facts/reality??? Does anybody know?
tomcat13claws I agree , I wish they would have made her get her sight back . That would have been so much more uplifting. After she lost her sight her character becomes so depressing . Even the music that was on when there was a scene with her was a sad music .
Purple Capricorn Allison Angrim probably was Jealous . And anyway being reserved is not a flaw . She likes to be very bubbly , and to be some sort of clown/comedian , while Melissa sue anderson is much more calm . I prefer people like Melissa sue anderson . Also it’s funny how both Melissa Gilbert and Alison Angrim trashed her out but she never replied , never said anything against them even if it would have been normal to defend herself .... it shows the level ... that is totally different ,
They Should've Made it that Mary,becomes A blind Classical Pianist After She and Adam Moved To New York... Adam Has An Affair,and The Adultress Tells Mary,just Before A Major Concert... Mary Breaks Down On Stage whilst playing at the piano,And Runs Off Into The Night And Ends Up In A Nunnary...
