Dean Butler Gives his Thoughts on New "Little House on the Prairie" Series

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Original "Little House on the Prairie" Actor has Thoughts on Netflix Reboot
by Raechal Shewfelt
July 17, 2026


Dean Butler is cheering on — and maybe singing along — to the new Netflix adaptation of "Little House on the Prairie".

The actor portrayed main character Laura Ingalls’ eventual husband, Almanzo Wilder, on the NBC series over its last four seasons, from 1979 to 1983.



“Something that I love about the program that I think would have been really fun in the original, which we did not do, other than in church. But something that I think is really wonderful about this is the family singing that is going on,” Butler said this week in an Instagram video.

“Writers have rolled in songs that Pa played on his fiddle and the family is singing along, and they really are doing it beautifully.”

He noted that the music was in “the spirit of Laura’s books. She wrote it that way. There was a lot of that in the books.”

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