2 Hour TV Special Based on the writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie is one of the most beloved television series of all time. Follow the trials and tribulations of the Ingalls family as they face the hardship of living on the American frontier in the late 1800s. In this episode, the Ingalls, Olsons, and Garveys decide to leave big city life and return to Walnut Grove, taking the orphan Albert Quinn with them.