Brian D. Did you happen to catch TVland today? They showed that episode...

[Ireneparalegal]

MAY WE MAKE THEM PROUD part one. I know sometime back you mentioned that you had wanted to see this episode and I have never forgotten. I didn't know it was showing tonight or I would have informed you sooner. I happened to catch it just as the fire started.

[Brian Damage]

MAY WE MAKE THEM PROUD part one. I know sometime back you mentioned that you had wanted to see this episode and I have never forgotten. I didn't know it was showing tonight or I would have informed you sooner. I happened to catch it just as the fire started.


I actually caught the two part episode a few months back when there was a Michael Landon marathon. It was a great episode.

[Ireneparalegal]

Oh ok. cool. Just wanted to let you know. I never forgot that post of yours.

[Brian Damage]

Oh ok. cool. Just wanted to let you know. I never forgot that post of yours.


Thanks so much for thinking of me! :)

[catlover79]

When I went to the Tombstone Film Festival in 2005 that featured many of the LHOP cast, there was a cast Q&A and Hersha Parady (Alice) ended up answering quite a few questions regarding this episode.

It was not her choice to leave; the reason she was let go was to free up Merlin Olsen, who played her husband. TPTB were in the midst of creating Father Murphy for him and wanted the audience to get used to him as a single man.

Here are a couple of online interviews:

http://www.zunshine.com/littlehouse/parady.html

http://www.pioneerontheprairie.com/interviews/hersha_parady.htm

Here's also a link of photos from the 2005 reunion!!

http://www.zunshine.com/littlehouse/tombstonepics.html

Enjoy!

[Madame X]

When I went to the Tombstone Film Festival in 2005 that featured many of the LHOP cast, there was a cast Q&A and Hersha Parady (Alice) ended up answering quite a few questions regarding this episode.

It was not her choice to leave; the reason she was let go was to free up Merlin Olsen, who played her husband. TPTB were in the midst of creating Father Murphy for him and wanted the audience to get used to him as a single man.

Here are a couple of online interviews:

http://www.zunshine.com/littlehouse/parady.html

http://www.pioneerontheprairie.com/interviews/hersha_parady.htm

Here's also a link of photos from the 2005 reunion!!

http://www.zunshine.com/littlehouse/tombstonepics.html

Enjoy!

Thank you, Cat, for the great links! I enjoyed the photos; I would have loved to have been there. Hersha Parady has always been one of my favorites on the show. She seemed like a real pioneer woman, she was the perfect mother for Andy and she had a great friendship with Caroline. It's too bad when the "powers that be" change a show (or get rid of a character) to promote a future one. The future show is rarely as good and the fans lose out.

[Ireneparalegal]

Thank you, Cat, for the great links! I enjoyed the photos; I would have loved to have been there. Hersha Parady has always been one of my favorites on the show. She seemed like a real pioneer woman, she was the perfect mother for Andy and she had a great friendship with Caroline. It's too bad when the "powers that be" change a show (or get rid of a character) to promote a future one. The future show is rarely as good and the fans lose out.
You are welcome Brian D. ;)

I so agree with you Madame X. I feel the same way abt the character and was horrified when they decided to kill her off.

Notice, on LHOTP, male characters were either killed, dying or getting sick/injured A LOT!!!

Thank you Catlover for the links!!!!!!!:D

I always wondered why Mary just didn't grab her baby when Adam came running in and saying there was a fire and to get out! My first instinct as a parent is to grab my children. That was CRAZY!!!!:crazy:

[catlover79]

I'm glad everyone enjoyed the links. I've loved the show ever since I was a little girl in the 1980s watching the syndicated reruns on Grandma's lap. I felt in a way that by going to the festival I was paying homage to my grandma. It was such a fun, memorable weekend, and the cast was so kind. The two men, Dean Butler and Stan Ivar...what can I say? Both such sweet gentlemen. Not "Hollywood" at all!!

Here is a newspaper article of the event I found online:

http://www.svherald.com/articles/2005/07/04/local_news/news2.prt