How ‘Little House On The Prairie’ Showrunner Crafted “Compelling” Fever Dream Flashbacks To Fill In “Stakes” Of Ingalls Family Backstory

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for the fourth episode of Netflix‘s ‘Little House on the Prairie.’

Little House on the Prairie showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine has previous experience when it comes to the genre elements of dreams and flashbacks.

In the fourth episode of Netflix’s adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s book, fever descends upon the residents of Independence, Kansas, which readers learned was malaria transferred by mosquitoes in the “Fever ‘N’ Ague” chapter in Wilders’ novel of the same name.

Jocko Sims as Dr. George Tann in 'Little House on the Prairie'

“When you’re reading that as a kid, you think,

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