Dean and Melissa had great chemistry on screen despite the age gap. I love the LHOTP a lot. I love many tv shows,but This show is very special.It is so iconic, very American of the pioneering/homesteading era. It is unique in its own genre. the family values, the community bonding,the simplicity of family life despite the challenges,the innocence of young love, these are all the values of this show.
I grew up watching Little House on the Prairie . Years later, one of my brothers, married a woman whom was from South Dakota and once she mentioned a city that I had heard of from the show (I think it was Mankato) after she said the name, " I said to her, "I didn't know that, that town still existed? And she said, it still did. I will say though, after they aired the episode, "Sylvia" the one where a girl gets raped (by the town's blacksmith) and became pregnant, I thought the show would have been cancelled after that. Obviously, those mothers who was appalled that they hired an older man to play Almanzo against Melissa Gilbert's "Laura Ingalls" didn't read the Little House Books, or did their "homework" they would have known that the real Almanzo, really was like 10 to 12 years older than the real Laura Ingalls
