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- This is a list of episodes very similar to one another. Michael Landon directed many of these.
- A six episode miniseries was made in 2004 by Disney, and two television films titled Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the first in 2000 and the second in 2002 were made that starred Richard Thomas of The Waltons fame. Even more recently however, a musical; Little House on the Prairie: A New Musical was made that stars actor Steve Blanchard as Charles and Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura in the original series, as Caroline.
- These books chronicle life on the U.S. "frontier" in mid-nineteenth century. In Little House on the Prairie, Laura's family move from their home in the Wisconsin woods to "Indian Territory"; homesteading at a location in what is now Kansas. The timeframe for this book is 1868-1870. The story covers the trip there in a covered wagon, building a home, digging a well, starting a farm.
- The show was a loose adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s best-selling book series. The show has been parodied in the beginning of "Fore Father". its end credits were parodied in the end credits of Airport '07, celebrating Glenn Quagmire's re-employment. In the song, "All I Really Want For Christmas" from "Road to the North Pole", Peter mentions that he wants to have lunch with the ghost of Michael Landon, who was the male lead of the show. The opening sequence of "Livin' on a Prayer" is a parody of the Little House on the Prairie opening.
- Landon's portrayal of Charles Ingalls is listed as #79 in Bravo's list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters.
- Little House on the Prairie was an American one-hour dramatic television program that aired on the NBC network from September 11, 1974, to March 21, 1983, bumping the long-running Adam-12 series to Tuesday nights.
- Not counting Farmer Boy, the first three and a half books chronicle the Ingallses' family life as they move from place to place on the American West frontier, partially to carve out a better life and partially to satisfy Pa's "itching foot." Farmer Boy, meanwhile, chronicles a year in the life of nine-year-old Almanzo (the same year his future wife was born), growing up and working hard on his family's prosperous farm near Malone, New York. A television adaptation began airing in 1974.
- Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s. The show is based on an adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder's best-selling series of the "Little House" books. The regular series was preceded by the two-hour pilot movie, which first aired on March 30, 1974. The series premiered on NBC on September 11, 1974 and last aired on May 10, 1982.
- Amy mentions to Howard in "The Scavenger Vortex" that that she loves "Little House on the Prairie" when Howard asks about her life. In "The Raiders Minimization", Sheldon makes an unscheduled Skype call to Amy to make a spontaneous date to watch "Little House on the Prairie" as a ruse. On the date, Amy explains how much she enjoys it that she wanted to like on a farm. She once tried to milk her cat who gave her a tangy bowl of Cheerios. The family in the opening scene was squatting in a cabin on native land. Sheldon says what the Americans did to the Native Indians was wrong.
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