Little House on the Prairie
Little House on the Prairie Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | E14 | E15 | E16 | E17 | E18 | E19 | E20 | E21 | E22 | E23 | E24 | ||
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| S1 | 8.2 | 8.6 | 8.7 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 7.1 | 7.7 | 8.6 | 8.1 | 8.4 | 8.2 | 8.3 | 8.1 | 8.4 | 8.5 | 8.5 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 8.5 | 7.3 | 8.2 | 7.9 | 8.4 | 6.9 | 8.1 | |
| S2 | 8.1 | 8.8 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 7.3 | 8.1 | 7.5 | 8.5 | 8.7 | 8.2 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 7.6 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 8.2 | |||
| S3 | 8.1 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 8.1 | 8.4 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 7.4 | 8.4 | 8.2 | 8.7 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.3 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 8.0 | ||||
| S4 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 7.1 | 8.4 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 7.4 | 8.7 | 8.9 | |||
| S5 | 7.7 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 7.2 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.5 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 5.1 | 7.9 | 7.0 | 7.2 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 8.0 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 7.6 | |
| S6 | 7.8 | 8.4 | 8.5 | 8.3 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.5 | 5.2 | 7.9 | 7.4 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 8.1 | 7.6 | 7.4 | 7.2 | 7.6 | 7.5 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.6 | 8.0 | 8.7 | 8.6 | 8.7 | |
| S7 | 7.6 | 8.1 | 8.4 | 7.7 | 6.6 | 7.9 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.3 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 6.8 | 7.3 | 5.8 | 7.4 | 7.6 | 8.4 | 8.3 | 7.4 | 7.6 | 7.9 | 8.1 | |||
| S8 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.3 | 8.1 | 7.7 | 6.8 | 6.7 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 7.7 | 7.4 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 7.7 | 7.3 | 7.8 | 7.1 | |||
| S9 | 7.6 | 7.4 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 7.2 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.2 | 6.2 | 7.7 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 7.1 | 8.3 | 7.9 |
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About
"Frontier hardship turned into gentle moral lessons"
Based on Laura Ingalls Wilder's memoirs, this follows the Ingalls family as they farm, struggle, and build community on the 1870s Minnesota prairie. Episodes are largely self-contained, mixing gentle homestead life with sudden hardship: illness, blindness, fire, loss. The tone swings from warm and wholesome to surprisingly heavy for a family show, often teaching a moral lesson by the end. Michael Landon's Pa anchors it with steady warmth. It's slow, earnest, and unabashedly sentimental, built for long comfort-watching rather than tight plotting, and it rewards patience with real emotional payoffs.
the warm, old-fashioned family storytelling that still lands genuine emotional gut-punches.
you find episodic, moral-of-the-week storytelling and unhurried pacing tedious.
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