Little House on the Prairie

I don’t recall much of the original TV series from my childhood days, other than I didn’t really like it much, and I haven’t read the books so the level of peril and heartache came as something of a surprise! (I’m sure the 1970’s show was really anodyne…) Lost dogs, lost horses, scary native americans, out of control wild fires, family schisms and truama, a scheming fat controller and a local…