Melissa Gilbert is protective of Little House on the Prairie, and rightly so. She played the central character of Laura ...

Melissa Gilbert played Laura Ingalls Wilder, the second-eldest daughter in the 200-episode span of the original series in the 1970s.

Little House on the Prairie aired regular episodes from 1974 to 1983, but the story of the Ingalls family and Walnut Grove didn’t end there. While the final episode of the series, season nine’s “Hello ...