WALNUT GROOVY

An Annotated Tour of Little House on the Prairie

Recaps with commentary, conversation and pictures, focusing on the sublime and ridiculous Little House television series

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“He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not” (Part Two)

Alamanzy! Alamanzy!; or It’s a Christmas Miracle, Susan Goodspeed (a recap by Will Kaiser) Title: He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not Airdate: May 12, 1980 Written and directed by Michael Landon SUMMARY IN A NUTSHELL: Journeys end in lovers meeting, and so does Season Six as it draws to a joyous close. Editor’s warning:…

“He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not” (Part One)

New York CITY?!; or It Took a Gay Guy To Teach Nels To Be a Man (a recap by Will Kaiser) Title: “He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not” [sic] Airdate: May 5, 1980 Written and directed by Michael Landon SUMMARY IN A NUTSHELL:  Almanzo shows his true colors when Pa insists Laura can’t marry…

Sweet Sixteen

That’s Professor Pint To You; or Two Girls, One Churn?  (a recap by Will Kaiser) Title: Sweet Sixteen Airdate: February 25, 1980 Written by John T. Dugan Directed by Michael Landon SUMMARY IN A NUTSHELL: Suddenly and magically, Laura becomes a grown-up woman teacher, which inexplicably makes Almanzo fall in love with her. Guest-starring the…

Second Spring

Crazy Wife, Crazy Life; or Why Don’t You Just Move to Fucking Chicago, Nels (a recap by Will Kaiser) Title: Second Spring Airdate: February 18, 1980 Written by John T. Dugan Directed by William F. Claxton SUMMARY IN A NUTSHELL: Nels has an honest-to-God affair with the fake-Irish lass to end all fake-Irish lasses. (He…

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