On Little Home on the Prairie‘s well-known closing episode, the folks of Walnut Grove determine to destroy their city relatively than hand it over to a money-hungry businessman. The townsfolk blow up practically each constructing — besides the church and the Little Home itself, which nonetheless stands on the sting of city lengthy after the companies and the Wilders’ boarding home have been blown to smithereens. Famously, sequence star and creator Michael Landon destroyed the units in order that they couldn’t be used to shoot future reveals or movies that didn’t meet Little Home‘s requirements. However based on a latest interview in Leisure Weekly with star Melissa Gilbert, the Little Home wasn’t simply spared symbolically — it’s truly nonetheless round, within the residence of one of many present’s former stars.
Gilbert described Little Home‘s units as “sacred,” and known as the expertise of filming the ultimate episode “gutting,” recalling, “For me personally, that entire expertise from studying the script [of the final episode] till the final day was the longest funeral I’d ever attended.”