Little House on the Prairie
Founder's Day
Season 1, Episode 23 · Aired 1975-05-07
Synopsis
With a Founder's Day event approaching for Walnut Grove, everyone prepares for the celebration, complete with games and heated competition. Everyone in the Ingalls family ends up participating, most notably Charles, who meets an unlikely nemesis in the log-splitting competition. Fun Fact! This episode opens with Jack at the creek getting himself a drink of water and then running back towards the house. This video clip is the same opening scene, music and everything, as the opening of the episode "Country Girls". Did you know? This episode celebrates the anniversary of the founding of Walnut Grove. The historic town of Walnut Grove was surveyed in 1874 and officially incorporated in 1879.
In the series
This episode is part of Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983) on NBC.
Walnut Grove tears and triumphs — frontier family myth as weekly comfort.
Key cast
- Michael Landon as Charles Ingalls
- Karen Grassle as Caroline Ingalls
- Melissa Gilbert as Laura Ingalls
- Melissa Sue Anderson as Mary Ingalls
- Lindsay Greenbush as Carrie Ingalls
- Sidney Greenbush as Carrie Ingalls