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Melissa Gilbert Recalls 'Heartbreaking' Ending of ‘Little House on the Prairie'

Melissa Gilbert, who starred as Laura Ingalls in the original ‘Little House on the Prairie’ series from 1974 to 1984, reflected on the literally explosive ending

In the TV movie, the people of Walnut Grove fought against a tycoon and ultimately detonated explosives in the buildings as the Ingalls family watched. “I knew that [Landon] wanted to demolish everything because he was so angry that NBC never called him to tell him the show was officially canceled,” Gilbert, 60, told Entertainment Weekly in an interview published on Thursday, February 6. Gilbert wrote in 2010’s Prairie Tale: A Memoir that Landon wanted to blow up the town as a “f— you to the network” — and recalled his intentions in her interview on Thursday.

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