Melissa Gilbert – Little House on the Prairie

Nothing brought the American pioneer period of the late 19th century home quite like “Little House on the Prairie.” That’s most likely because every part of the set was built to its era, on a piece of rented land at the Big Sky Ranch in Simi Valley, California. This arrangement affected the show finale.

The destruction of the structures in Walnut Grove was so that showrunners could return the land to the owners as they received it. Everything except the little house was destroyed. In 2021, cast member Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author of “Little House on the Prairie,” appeared in “Stars in the House.”