Egg McMuffin

I watched Seinfeld in first run and enjoyed it. It’s a great, clever sitcom. However, I have little desire to rewatch it. When it comes to classic TV, I want to visit with characters that I enjoy and like. That’s not the Seinfeld gang.

Landon was a plot-driven producer, so we didn’t get to see character development like that. Too bad. So we didn’t get to see the Nellie/Perciville courtship play out over a number of episodes - it was rushed so we could get to the wedding. And there was a big missed opportunity for Laura and Nellie to gradually get closer during Nellie’s last season of the show, after she was married, culminating in her emotional reunion with Laura in season 9. Instead, those two characters hardly share the screen after their respective marriages. So the season 9 reunion comes out of nowhere.

They could have easily lived together again. It turns out that the bill for the school van was never paid in full after all. Blair tries to bribe the judge to forget the whole thing, and he’s so furious that he sentences the girls to working in the Eastland kitchen again to pay off balance on the original bill plus a fine. See, it practically writes itself!

Re: Pernell Roberts. Even if he had Landon had been on better terms in the 1970s, I don’t think he would have guest starred in LHOTP. He just didn’t want to be associated with Bonanza after he left that show. He wouldn’t even allow his clips to be used in retrospectives. I remember Entertainment Tonight did a story on Bonanza in the 80s, and they actually stated at the end that they didn’t show any clips of Adam because Pernell Roberts wouldn’t allow his clips to be used.

I don’t even like wearing hats so I can’t imagine wearing a wig for those long days. Lucille Ball in her later series used to tape her face back to hide her wrinkles, and then plop a curly wig on top to hide the face tape. Sounds very uncomfortable.

The whole Nancy arc is bizarre to say the least. Let’s slap a wig on a child who looks nothing like Nellie, and pretend she’s a dead ringer for her. And worse, this is a psychologically damaged child who knows that the only reason she’s been adopted is to replace the child the mother really loved.

In fairness, Gil Gerard was just another actor on the show. Michael Landon was the boss, and people have different relationships with their managers than they do with colleagues.

Yes, but that wasn’t vacation. That was family medical leave to deal with Albert’s addiction to morPHINE.

To enjoy anything about season 10 (the post-series TV movies), you first have to accept that nothing in the season 10 universe makes a lick of sense. Charles and Caroline are wealthy, summer starts in December, and the Wilders are allowed to award custody of stray orphans to emotionally disturbed kidnappers.

A punch to the ribs would have been an appropriate response from Caroline.

People, please. Charles was a huge success in the men’s clothing biz because of his charm and sparkling personality. He even came up with the idea of idea of putting a little horse logo on men’s shirts, inspired by Laura’s late horse Bunny. As for Albert’s medical school tuition: college is tuition free in heaven.

The bad word was probably something like “stinker.” I don’t like the intro (third season I think) where June and Ward wake the boys up. It’s kind of a weirdly intimate moment that’s an odd choice for a sitcom intro.

Merlin’s acting was wooden in everything I saw him in: Little House, Father Murphy, and Aaron’s Way.

The blind school was in Winoka, a fictional town in the Dakota territory. If we use South Dakota as a proxy for Dakota (North Dakota would be further from Walnut Grove), then Winoka could be as little as 100 miles away if it’s in the eastern part of Dakota, or at least 400 miles away if it’s in the western part.

And Nancy. She likes to murder people, you know.