{"id":814,"date":"2026-09-01T07:13:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/?p=814"},"modified":"2026-09-01T07:13:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:13:55","slug":"michael-landon-has-been-gone-35-years-but-his-little-house-family-is-still-doing-something-he-taught-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/michael-landon-has-been-gone-35-years-but-his-little-house-family-is-still-doing-something-he-taught-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Landon Has Been Gone 35 Years \u2014 But His Little House Family Is Still Doing Something He Taught Them"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael Landon has been gone for 35 years, but something he created on the set of\u00a0Little House on the Prairie<\/em>\u00a0never disappeared.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t simply the television show.<\/p>\n

It was the family around it.<\/p>\n

Dean Butler, who played Almanzo Wilder, recently opened up about how members of the original\u00a0Little House<\/em>\u00a0cast are still trying to carry forward something Landon believed deeply in:\u00a0staying connected to each other and to the people who loved the show.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Butler and Alison Arngrim, who played the unforgettable Nellie Oleson, Landon understood something about television audiences that wasn\u2019t always obvious in Hollywood.<\/p>\n

He respected them.<\/p>\n

Arngrim remembered that even at the height of\u00a0Little House<\/em>, fans would sometimes recognize Landon from his earlier days as Little Joe on\u00a0Bonanza<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Instead of brushing them aside because he had moved on to another show, Landon would engage with them, joke with them and acknowledge the affection they still had for him.<\/p>\n

That attitude stayed with his cast.<\/p>\n

Today, Butler credits Arngrim with helping keep members of the\u00a0Little House<\/em>\u00a0family connected.<\/p>\n

Together, they have also worked on events that allow the original stars to meet the generations of viewers who still remember Walnut Grove.<\/p>\n

And they\u2019re doing it again.<\/p>\n

In September, numerous original cast members are scheduled to gather in Nashville for a three-day\u00a0Little House on the Prairie<\/em>\u00a0reunion.<\/p>\n

Arngrim and Butler will be joined by familiar faces including Rachel and Sidney Greenbush, Charlotte Stewart, Patrick Labyorteaux and others.<\/p>\n

For Butler, these gatherings aren\u2019t simply opportunities to sign autographs and take photographs.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re part of continuing what Landon started.<\/p>\n

Landon wasn\u2019t merely Charles \u201cPa\u201d Ingalls.<\/p>\n

He was one of the driving forces behind\u00a0Little House<\/em>, serving as star, producer, writer and director and shaping much of the emotional character of the series.<\/p>\n

He died in 1991 at only 54.<\/p>\n

But decades earlier, Landon apparently understood something remarkable about the program he was making.<\/p>\n

People were going to keep watching it.<\/p>\n

He was right.<\/p>\n

More than 50 years after\u00a0Little House on the Prairie<\/em>\u00a0first arrived on television, people who weren\u2019t even born when the original episodes aired are discovering the Ingalls family.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the actors who were there are still gathering together.<\/p>\n

Still telling the stories.<\/p>\n

Still meeting the fans.<\/p>\n

And still trying to honor the man who helped turn a television cast into something that, all these years later, still feels remarkably like a family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Landon has been gone for 35 years, but something he created on the set of\u00a0Little House on the Prairie\u00a0never disappeared. It wasn\u2019t simply the television show. It was the family around it. Dean Butler, who played Almanzo Wilder, recently opened up about how members of the original\u00a0Little House\u00a0cast are still trying to carry forward […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chua-phan-loai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}