Melissa Gilbert

And I did a couple movies that summer.

One was One Starry Night with Melissa Gilbert.

Do you remember Melissa Gilbert? She was doing something down at UW.

And there were a couple movies they were shooting here.

Seattle was becoming the place where L.A. wanted to come and shoot.

So I read it down from Wikipedia.

We had Chevy Chase, Irene Cara, John Candy, Melissa Gilbert, Jeffrey Tambor, George Wendt, Al Franken, Danny DeVito, Carly Simon, Peter Falk.

And Terry Garr.

What a pull.

Well, first we went, we saw that display.

They had the dress that Melissa Gilbert wore her Sunday best, you know, from the country girls.

Yes.

And so we looked at that and then we talked with the script supervisor, which was really

An emergency.

Everybody was in emergency, even Melissa Gilbert.

Oh, was

she?

And that's another thing.

So Laura and Mary appear to be older than...

the Melissa Gilbert and Melissa Sue Anderson.

So what I think that is, it kind of reminds me back in my days of marketing where it's very difficult to market to tweens.

Question number 23.

Who played Elliot's little sister Gertie in the film E.T.? Was it Melissa Gilbert, Heather O'Rourke, or Drew Barrymore? The correct answer is Drew Barrymore.

Question number 24.

Which U.S. state does not border Mexico? Is it Nevada, New Mexico, or Arizona? The correct answer is Nevada.

Right.

So the main cast, the Ingalls family, is Michael Landon as Charles Ingalls, Karen Grassley as Carolyn Ingalls, Melissa Gilbert as Laura Ingalls, Melissa Sue Anderson as Mary Ingalls, and Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush as Carrie Ingalls.

Well, Dirk, tell us the synopsis of episode one.

So the season starts out with Charles and his family moving into their new property.

I'm sorry.

Yeah.

The other thing we hear Melissa Gilbert narrating the episodes, it wasn't throughout the series, but at the very beginning, she says, if I had a remembrance book.

So it's funny because in my remembrance book, I marked down.

And again, I don't think that there are enough regulations out there.

Melissa Gilbert, one of my favorite child actors, big fan of original Little House on the Prairie, also knew Little House on the Prairie.

Big

fan all around.

Loosely based on the book series Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Starred Melissa Sue Anderson, Richard Bull, Dean Butler, Victor French, Melissa Gilbert, Karen Grassley, Michael Landon, of course, and Catherine McGregor.

You know, Melissa Gilbert lived here in Louisville for a time period.

Did I know that? She was trying to get back her acting career, and she acted down at Actors Theater.

Wow.

you? Maybe I saw her picture, maybe.

Yeah.

The show aired a total of 200 episodes over nine seasons on NBC, and Melissa Gilbert won two Young Artist Awards for Best Young Actress in a Drama Series.