“The most beautiful thing he has done”: this loss that Michael Landon pointed out the meadow in a small house

Sometimes reality catches fiction. It was a case of a small meadow team. The scene refers to the founder of Lars Hanson, the founder of Walnut Grove village and the founder of Mulin-Skieri, where Charles Ingals works and we have regularly seen in the first four seasons of the series.

Miraculous and tragic episode

In this double episode of the 5th season, called “The Return” (S05E05 and 06), we find Lars Hanson (performed by Carl Swinson) bedridden and very sick. He is watched by Jonatan Ghvi (Marilyn Olsen), one of the neighbors of Charles Ingal’s farm. The garage prays that Swinson will go better, and the next day, on a mass day, Hanson feels better, the deprivation of the cane goes to church.

Once there, I thank the Lord, who has led him to the better, and he expresses a short but sad word to a small village resident before welcoming everyone at the entrance to the building. The moving moment of the series, but even in more real life.

While filming, Lars Hanson informed Michael Lendon that he wanted to stop retirement. The series was also a team actress with whom she worked for four years. Except!

“I just thought he wanted to resign”

In addition to the fact that on October 8, 1978, a few months after his ending for his character, Lars Hanson died of a heart attack, 8 days before his last episode. Michael Landon is very affected and claims Newspaper ::

“One day, Carl took me to tell me that he had enough. I was just thinking he wanted to retire. He was 70 years old. He didn’t think of his reasons.

“This is probably the best thing I have seen by Carl, and for this reason it was not excluded that we will leave this episode.”

The episode is a broadcaster, as planned on October 16, 1978, and at the end, after the church scene, the camera moved to the panel indicating Walnut Grove Foundation by Lars Hanson by removing the sound from Laura Hanson:

“Mr. Hanson died peacefully four months later. He died happy. The doctor said because he knew that the village he loved would not disappear.

Inadvertently filming, the wonderful farewell of the character and his translator.