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Well, the holiday season is upon us, and if you live in the United States, then that means Thanksgiving is coming up at the end of November. Around this time of year, TV networks across the nation are known for running marathons of some of your favorite classic television shows, and sometimes that includes Little House on the Prairie. But although there are quite a few Christmas episodes of Little House, you won't find a traditional Thanksgiving episode anywhere you look.
✕ Remove Ads In her book, My Prairie Cookbook: Memories and Frontier Food from My Little House to Yours, series star Melissa Gilbert noted that, although Thanksgiving was her favorite holiday, there was a reason the show never did a direct"Turkey Day"-centric hour."We never did a Thanksgiving episode of Little House because it had been declared a national holiday only a few years before the show takes place," Gilbert explained. This checks out.
✕ Remove Ads 'The Little House Years' Was a Heartfelt Thanksgiving-Themed Tribute to the Show Close But that doesn't mean that the series didn't just ignore our nation's national day of thanks. Thanksgiving was still around for the majority of Little House, even if the series never did an episode about the holiday . Instead, Little House went a step further in celebrating Thanksgiving with their three-hour special titled The Little House Years.
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