I’ll admit I never watched Little House on the Prairie as a kid, but I do remember my two sisters did. Instead, I watched old SF clunkers like Space 1999, Logan’s Run, and of course The Man From Atlantis. All of which I find teeth-grindingly dull or silly these days. But that was TV in the 1970s. You took what you could get. Before Star Wars, science fiction and horror TV executives were few and far between: Gerry Anderson, Gene Roddenberry, Irwin Allen, and Dan Curtis. We sought out these names knowing they at least “got it.”
So it should be no surprise that I missed the few forays into the weird that Little House did, like “The Lake Kezia Monster” (Episode 110, February 12, 1979), which showed that even the Ingalls couldn’t get away from the ’70s fascination with the Loch Ness Monster. They never encountered a UFO, but one episode did get me to sit down and watch. It was Episode 129, “The Werewolf of Walnut Grove” (January 7, 1980), written by John T Dugan (who also wrote Episode 110) and directed by William F Claxton.
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