![]() ![]() Little House on the Prairierelied on relatively authentic buildings and outdoor vignettes for the show and so a sound stage wouldn’t do for many of the scenes in the show. ![]() ![]() Over the years scenes for Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Flicka, The Thorn Birds, Dallas, Quantum Leap, and Rawhide among many other shows and movies were filmed there. The show was filmed at the Big Sky Movie Ranch near Newhall, California, a well known spot among Hollywood producers. Over the years viewers grew to love the cast of characters and the charming, albeit sometimes graphic, depictions of what life must have been like for the settlers. The popularity of the film cemented the show’s future and the program ran from 1974 until 1982 with high ratings. When the TV show Little House on the Prairie first debuted as a pilot film in early 1974, it remained to be seen whether audiences would warm to the story line of a pioneer family eking out a living from the land. ![]()
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