Being the well-oiled machine it’s, When Calls the Coronary heart remains to be going sturdy on Hallmark with its 12th season on the 2025 TV schedule. It is nonetheless holding followers on the sting of their seats with romance, drama, and new faces in Hope Valley. Amongst these new faces is Little Home on the Prairie star Melissa Gilbert, whose two-episode arc might flip into one thing extra. No matter how lengthy she’s on the present, although, she has a candy cause about why engaged on it’s like going house.
Gilbert has been visitor starring on the long-running Hallmark Western romance drama as Georgie McGill, who has a earlier historical past with Jack Wagner’s Invoice Avery. Evidently, although, that’s not the one historical past at play.
Gilbert spoke to Folks about reuniting with When Calls the Coronary heart’s co-creator, Michael Landon Jr., whose father, Michael Landon, really co-starred with the actress on Little Home on the Prairie as her father and Ingalls household patriarch Charles. Due to that connection, she admitted being on When Calls the Coronary heart was like she was going house:
It is like going house. Working with Mike Jr. is like going house. I do know that no matter he has me doing and saying, I can belief goes to be great and thrilling and fascinating. We have been associates for 50-some-odd years, and I am keen on him, I am keen on his household. I feel his spouse is simply the best. It is simply so good to be again in an atmosphere the place I really feel utterly protected, appreciated, and liked.
Gilbert and Landon labored collectively for Little Home on the Prairie’s nine-season run, and now that the Batgirl actress is working with Landon Jr., it appears nearly like a full-circle second. And so they’ve been associates for fairly a very long time, possible going again to the beloved sequence. The truth that they’re nonetheless shut in any case these years is good to listen to, so being again in that atmosphere was most likely an ideal feeling for the actress.
Whereas Landon Jr. has performed some appearing, that was earlier than the 21st century, and he’s been spending most of his time as of late directing, writing, or producing, which is what he does on When Calls the Coronary heart. It seems like Gilbert enjoys having the ability to work with him, and having that additional sense of data that the atmosphere on set is secure with him on it.
As of now, it’s unknown if Melissa Gilbert, who as soon as ran for political workplace, might be showing in additional than two episodes of When Calls the Coronary heart. Nonetheless, she is actually taken with showing in additional episodes and exploring the potential relationship between Georgie and Invoice. It additionally wouldn’t harm to work alongside Michael Landon Jr. once more, both. Plus, with WCTH additionally being a Western, very similar to Little Home on the Prairie, working with an previous buddy can’t be the one cause why this present appears like house.
Hopefully, Gilbert will return to When Calls the Coronary heart after her arc ends. On the very least, she and Landon Jr. have a reasonably sturdy friendship, and it wouldn’t be shocking if this isn’t the final time they work collectively.
New episodes of When Calls the Coronary heart air on Sundays on Hallmark Channel.