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Post by sambda on Oct 21, 2018 22:53:10 GMT -5
Did he miss more than some of the other kids? Of the kids (and not counting John-Boy): Mary Ellen missed 2 eps Jason missed 1 ep Erin missed 2 eps Ben missed none Jim-Bob missed 5 eps Elizabeth missed none
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Post by sambda on Oct 21, 2018 23:03:11 GMT -5
I seem to recall an episode of Little House on the Prairie that Melissa Gilbert wasn't in. It was the one where one of the Ingalls neighbors died after he fell off the roof of his house. I guess he had internal bleeding and by the time Doc Baker got to him it was too late. Or I think maybe it was he wouldn't let the Dr. examine him when it could have helped because he was there to see the wife who had already lost more than one baby. Doc Baker gives up his practice. But anyway, I seem to recall that Melissa Anderson and the twins playing Carrie were in it, but not Melissa Gilbert in just that one episode. Yes, Melissa Gilbert misses a few LHOP eps, and does a voice-over only on a couple more. Then there are another couple where she's seen in long-shot only (i.e. could be anybody). I do you a list if you want.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2018 7:42:15 GMT -5
Could you please tell me what the colors are meant to represent. Hi - they are arbitrary, and just to tell the seasons apart. Okay, I'm still having difficulty in understanding some of the matrix.
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Post by sambda on Oct 22, 2018 15:47:28 GMT -5
Hi - they are arbitrary, and just to tell the seasons apart. Okay, I'm still having difficulty in understanding some of the matrix. On the horizontal episode-titles row/s, the three-digit numbers are the number of the episode within the total run of eps. You read them vertically. They go from 001 thru 217. "The Homecoming" I've called 000 because it wasn't a proper part of the show. (I know the vertical text is diff. to read, but I couldn't rotate it in the software I was using). The two-digit numbers are the episode's number within that season. So they restart at 01 when each season changes (which is when the colour changes). So, for example, "The Outsider" has 20 and 162. It's episode 162 in the total run, and episode 20 within its season (7). The numbers in the vertical columns with the character names are just arbitrary. The character-names column, and the episode-title row, repeat themselves every so often so you've always got them in view when you are scrolling around (otherwise you'd have to keep scrolling to the top or side when you wanted to see them - you can make such things "sticky" in Excel, but you can't in an image). The alternate shading in the horizontal rows is just to guide the eye - it doesn't mean anything else. Tables often have that to make them easier to read. Feel free to ask any more questions!
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Post by JeriJet on Oct 23, 2018 9:34:14 GMT -5
I'm feeling like I'm at my ophthalmologist's office !!!
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Post by goldfinch1 on Oct 23, 2018 11:14:00 GMT -5
I'm feeling like I'm at my ophthalmologist's office !!! 😂😂🌸
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2018 14:30:54 GMT -5
Thanks sambda I've just about got it. I hope you'll forgive me when I tell that in the matrix you've omitted an actor from The Threshold. His name is Jonathan Woodward who was billed as the young boy in the credits. He's the one in the red checked shirt. I think he was credited because he had a very minor speaking role. IMDB
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Post by goodnight on Oct 23, 2018 18:56:49 GMT -5
I seem to recall an episode of Little House on the Prairie that Melissa Gilbert wasn't in. It was the one where one of the Ingalls neighbors died after he fell off the roof of his house. I guess he had internal bleeding and by the time Doc Baker got to him it was too late. Or I think maybe it was he wouldn't let the Dr. examine him when it could have helped because he was there to see the wife who had already lost more than one baby. Doc Baker gives up his practice. But anyway, I seem to recall that Melissa Anderson and the twins playing Carrie were in it, but not Melissa Gilbert in just that one episode. Yes, Melissa Gilbert misses a few LHOP eps, and does a voice-over only on a couple more. Then there are another couple where she's seen in long-shot only (i.e. could be anybody). I do you a list if you want. That would be great. I was only aware of the one episode.
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Post by sambda on Oct 23, 2018 19:51:33 GMT -5
Thanks sambda I've just about got it. I hope you'll forgive me when I tell that in the matrix you've omitted an actor from The Threshold. His name is Jonathan Woodward who was billed as the young boy in the credits. He's the one in the red checked shirt. I think he was credited because he had a very minor speaking role. IMDBIt's only recurring (credited) roles (in the grid), not everybody who was ever in the show - that would go on for miles! Nor have I put in uncredited roles (I'm sure some of the schoolkids were in it multiple times as extras in the school scenes).
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Post by sambda on Oct 23, 2018 20:26:59 GMT -5
Yes, Melissa Gilbert misses a few LHOP eps, and does a voice-over only on a couple more. Then there are another couple where she's seen in long-shot only (i.e. could be anybody). I do you a list if you want. That would be great. I was only aware of the one episode. Let me know if any mistakes, but I make it: Season 1 - in all. Season 2 - in all. Season 3 - missing from "To Live With Fear" part 2. Season 4 - missing from "To Run And Hide" and only in long-shot in "Whisper Country". Season 5 - missing from "Someone Please Love Me". Season 6 - missing from "The King Is Dead". Season 7 - missing from "A New Beginning", "The Silent Cry", "Come Let Us Reason Together", "Make A Joyful Noise" and "The Lost Ones" part 1. Voice-over only in "To See The Light" part 1. Season 8 - missing from "Wave Of The Future", "A Faraway Cry" and "He Was Only Twelve" part 1. Only in long-shot (if at all) in "The Legacy". Voice-over only in "He Was Only Twelve" part 2. Season 9 - missing from "The Older Brothers". So she's completely missing from 13 episodes, and only marginally "in" another 4. Nobody at all was in every LHOP (Melissa Gilbert, above, was the closest), and only Kami Cotler and Eric Scott did every Waltons. Now there are two really fascinating facts to drag out over the Christmas dinner table!
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Post by nedandres on Oct 23, 2018 20:51:53 GMT -5
Hurray for Kami and Eric!!! That's quite a feat for nine seasons plus 6 movies!
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Post by goodnight on Oct 23, 2018 21:19:01 GMT -5
That would be great. I was only aware of the one episode. Let me know if any mistakes, but I make it: Season 1 - in all. Season 2 - in all. Season 3 - missing from "To Live With Fear" part 2. Season 4 - missing from "To Run And Hide" and only in long-shot in "Whisper Country". Season 5 - missing from "Someone Please Love Me". Season 6 - missing from "The King Is Dead". Season 7 - missing from "A New Beginning", "The Silent Cry", "Come Let Us Reason Together", "Make A Joyful Noise" and "The Lost Ones" part 1. Voice-over only in "To See The Light" part 1. Season 8 - missing from "Wave Of The Future", "A Faraway Cry" and "He Was Only Twelve" part 1. Only in long-shot (if at all) in "The Legacy". Voice-over only in "He Was Only Twelve" part 2. Season 9 - missing from "The Older Brothers". So she's completely missing from 13 episodes, and only marginally "in" another 4. Nobody at all was in every LHOP (Melissa Gilbert, above, was the closest), and only Kami Cotler and Eric Scott did every Waltons. Now there are two really fascinating facts to drag out over the Christmas dinner table! Wasn't the episode Someone Please Love Me where Laura found an abandoned baby where the unwed teenage mother was afraid to tell her father? So Melissa Gilbert would have had to have been in that.
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Post by sambda on Oct 24, 2018 0:57:00 GMT -5
Wasn't the episode Someone Please Love Me where Laura found an abandoned baby where the unwed teenage mother was afraid to tell her father? So Melissa Gilbert would have had to have been in that. No - that one was called "Be My Friend". "Someone Please Love Me" was the one where Charles sorts out the marriage problems of the couple on the ranch. It's a pretty tedious episode, and is a reworking of a "Bonanza" story (i.e. "We've run out of ideas and need a plot quick"). It's well away from Walnut Grove, and the husband is drinking, and Charles flirts with the wife a bit: lhop.steve-p.org/seas5.php#22someoThey can't even be too bothered with the casting - the daughter in "Someone" is the Alicia Edwards (nee Sanderson) actress, Kyle Richards, which must have confused the viewers as Richards played Alicia both before and after this episode!
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Post by sambda on Oct 24, 2018 1:15:27 GMT -5
I'm at a loss to understand why some think that regular characters must appear in each and every episode !! It's a grind to work on a weekly series.... sometimes folks need time off to accomplish personal tasks, or simply want to take a break/vacation.... Yes - I think that's the reason for the occasional absence of some of the kids. Or maybe exams at school or illness. The absences are too spotty to be for saving money, as was suggested, I think, and the kids wouldn't have been where much money was going. (Got the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, on the phone wanting a copy of my chart. Go eat dirt, Banksy!)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2018 4:05:52 GMT -5
It's only recurring (credited) roles (in the grid), not everybody who was ever in the show - that would go on for miles! Nor have I put in uncredited roles (I'm sure some of the schoolkids were in it multiple times as extras in the school scenes). I can see that now, I was going to mention the character Bob Hill (Bruce Davison) from The Shivaree, although Davison was credited this was the only episode he appears in. The same with Seth (Ron Howard) The Gift. I agree it would have been impracticable to mention every character.
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