Overview
- In a recent reunion episode of The Patrick LabyorSheaux, multiple Little House on the Prairie actors shared memories involving Michael Landon.
- Patrick Labyorteaux and Jennifer Coleman-Donati described a staged baby swap that led Landon to pretend to drop an infant, which left the child's mother screaming.
- Dean Butler recalled Landon picking him up and throwing him across a barn after he failed to “go limp” during a take, a moment Butler said was his fault and after which the next take succeeded.
- Cast members said they can laugh about the incidents now but noted they were unsettling at the time, reflecting ambivalence about past on-set norms.
- Melissa Gilbert’s Nov. 15 Instagram post about kissing an older actor at age 15 has amplified discussion of consent and child protection in the show’s production era.