Little House on the Prairie 50th Anniversary Podcast
Jul 16, 2026 · 1 hr 23 min · 18 segments
For nearly a year, Alison Arngrim managed to do the impossible: keep a secret. And not just any secret—she appears in a surprise cameo in Episode 2 of Netflix's brand-new Little House on the…
Alison ArngrimHost
Dean ButlerHost
Pamela BobHost
You know, I, I think it's worthwhile to talk a little bit about the journey that this took to get to-

the f- the point where we could actually, uh, log into Netflix and look at this this morning.

... for the Friendly family, this started back in 1972 when, when Ed, Trip's father Ed, uh, read his daughter Brooke's copy of Little House on the Prairie-

I'm not sure which one it was, and absolutely fell in love with it and said, "This would make a great television series." And it happens on NBC and goes for nine years.

And then, so it ends in 1983, and from that point on, the Friendly family have been trying to find a way to do it again.

And obviously, uh, Ed, late in his career, was able to get the wonderful world of Disney.

And, and then from that point forward, it went into multiple opportunities for it-

... to come back as a feature film, as another television se- I mean, Horton Foote wrote a draft of-

You know, I, I think it's worthwhile to talk a little bit about the journey that this took to get to-

the f- the point where we could actually, uh, log into Netflix and look at this this morning.

... for the Friendly family, this started back in 1972 when, when Ed, Trip's father Ed, uh, read his daughter Brooke's copy of Little House on the Prairie-

I'm not sure which one it was, and absolutely fell in love with it and said, "This would make a great television series." And it happens on NBC and goes for nine years.

And then, so it ends in 1983, and from that point on, the Friendly family have been trying to find a way to do it again.

And obviously, uh, Ed, late in his career, was able to get the wonderful world of Disney.

And, and then from that point forward, it went into multiple opportunities for it-

... to come back as a feature film, as another television se- I mean, Horton Foote wrote a draft of-
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