Little House: Look Back to Yesterday

This one holds up still. Given some of the odd timeline issues that the final season had, this one completed Alberts story.

Though it's sort of a "revisit" to an earlier episode, it's still really good. If I remember correctly, Charles Ingalls Jr. basically died from the same thing. I believe they both died from leukemia. It's interesting that Charles didn't mention this when the doctor told me. I half-expected him to say "Not again" or something like that - but he didn't.

So, Albert is just about to start medical school. Charles has gotten a new job and is being sent back to Minnesota for a month. After visiting the University, Albert and Charles head to Walnut Grove to relive old memories.

Walnut Grove is having some sort of baseball tournament. We see all the old cast there - except Harriet Oleson, whom we will not be seeing again because the actress had moved on. Things haven't really changed that much since the ending of Season Nine, but I guess they wouldn't have since (I understand) these three movies were done very soon after the closing of the season. I'm assuming they sort of had to do them since they didn't finish season nine and probably had contract obligations to finish...The baseball game is a side-story. Other side stories: Jason wanting to kiss a girl (the one he tried to impress with the glasses in Season Nine), and trouble with the farmers selling their crops to the grange.

The story is a sad one. I've only seen it a few times because it's just too awful to watch. I'm thankful they ended the movie before "the event."

If my son was dying, I know I would moved Heaven and Earth to be there. I think Caroline would have found somebody to watch the children so she could come be with her dying son. I'm sorry, but I just couldn't buy that. But since Karen Graslie didn't have a contract, she probably wasn't able to play in this episode. I'll be happy to see her return for the final movie.

I'm glad somebody else noticed the inconsistent story line too. I asked my wife, "How could he be dead if he came back to Walnut Grove as a doctor later?" Other than that one error, I love this look back at a time before the American people were spoiled and soft, and knew the importance of God and country, hard work, and REAL hard times. Patriotism and unity were the American stronghold. It's sad to think that there may be no more Michael Landons or Victor Frenchs' in Hollywood, to remind us of who we are and how we got here.

I never get tired of Little House, or many of the old re=runs from the golden days of TV.

I was sure that Mathew Labeatereaux would go on to become a renown adult actor, but I called that one wrong. What happened to him?

In this movie Melora Hardin plays, Michele Pierson (Albert's love interest), who has supposedly lived in Walnut Grove for years but we had never seen her before, however in the season eight, two-part episode The Reincarnation of Nellie, Melora played Belinda Stevens...I don't understand why they didn't just bring her back as Belinda Stevens.

Every time I see this episode sometimes I wish they had included a memory of all the scenes that were the best of Albert.

They could have had like the ones the little house years where it's a three-part episode when Laura talks about the memories.

The scenes that I'm talking about they should have put a scene the first time they met Albert, the time when Mr Ingalls ask Albert to live with him , Fagan the time when the Ingalls adopted Albert the lake kezia monster the cheaters, boys will be boys. And the world of Walnut Grove. And of course they could have ended the part where Albert lectures the class not to use drugs. This was such a great show.