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I'm 26 years old I grew up watching reruns of Little House on the Prairie & the Dukes of Hazzard I still do watch these shows I will never get bored watching these shows
I met her Saturday at the 50th LHOP reunion, and i have to say it was an absolutely delightful experience! After standing in line for 3 hours to meet the various cast members, she was most definitely worth the wait!❤❤❤
I hear you Suzi, I have met Charlotte in person as well and she could not be more genuine. That must have been an incredible experience being at the 50th Little House reunion, so cool😀
I am 29 years old and grew up watching little house on the prairie and the waltons. I enjoy this interviews so much. I put myself in the life of what the show portrays. It's like "my happy place" "my stress free zone". These actors r FANTASTIC. And getting an inside look of the up and downs behide the scene can be sad and disappointing to hear how some actors didn't get alone or how they were not seen differently beside the character they played. A big thank u to them cause these show and characters got me though some hard times. THANK YOU
Happy to hear the actors in the interviews bring you joy and hope through some tough moments. The Waltons and Little House still bring so much joy to so many people. Wishing you the best.
These interviews with the Little House cast members are priceless! i really liked hearing about and seeing her beadle bags...those look so beautiful and how can you beat a handmade piece from her...she seems to be the real deal as do all of the cast. It always makes my day seeing them...i just wish I had been able to attend this past weekends festivities. The scene in 'Blizzard' where Jonathan goes up to her and tells her it wasn't her fault is one of my favorite scenes of his. Showing the class clown has a heart of gold is priceless🙂
Thanks so much Don! I also regret I was unable to attend the 50th reunion, it looked exceptional😀Having met Charlotte believe me she is the real deal and she puts a lot of love into her Beadle bags. I think that scene with Jonathan in Blizzard is definitely a great one. He seemed like he was having a ball at the reunion too.
I thought Melissa Gilbert was so good on the show. Melissa Sue Anderson got a lot of praise and an Emmy nomination, but Melissa Gilbert was so real, subtle, and natural. Her acting when the grandfather runs away to the train station in Journey in the Spring was especially good.
I like Charlotte ❤ my favorite episodes with her are: Blizzard, and when she married Adam Sims❤ The Award, and the one where Mary won the mathematics contest.❤
Love her stories, she can tell that one about going in for the reading for the teacher. I loved it! It doesn't matter that I heard it before. Just hearing her talk about everything is fun. She is a pure gem for sure. Great job as always John :)
Thank you so much! Charlotte is just so much fun and has had such an interesting life! If you haven't seen my other interview with her, it is pretty fun and interesting as well.
Charlotte is a hoot! I loved this episode. I don't know when I've enjoyed an hour so much! Time just flew by! She has great stories & is such an interesting person. Nice to meet her husband & her landlady too! 😂😂. Thanks for sharing!
As I’m watching this interview, I have Little House on the Prairie on tv. It’s the Founders Day episode right now. I really wanted to go to the 50th anniversary get together that ended today in CA.
It is very true about the teachers and being married. My grandmother was a teacher and she was married and she lied about it so she could teach. I don’t know if they ever found out. I don’t know how it ended, but I should’ve asked her that before she passed away I just didn’t think to ask grandma these questions. She was born in 1910 so you figure maybe 1929 or 30 because my mom was born in 34 and my grandfather had been in the war as a seebee and mom remembers when she was 10 him coming home from the war. She had gone to the store to grab some thing for her mom and she saw my grandfather walking towards her and she dropped everything she had and there was a glass thing of milk in it, and it broke. I’m so blessed to have my mom that I can ask questions to.
Really enjoyed this interview. I must say I do remember the Little House set had rooms to rent out, its in the episode "Family Quarrel" and Nells leaves and rents a room.
Although Ms. Stewart's mental powers otherwise appear to be flawless, she confuses on two occasions Catherine Colson--the Log Lady from "Twin Peaks"--with Katherine "Scottie" Macgregor who played Mrs. Olson. Ms. Macgregor was not into Zen Buddhism but the Vedanta Society that teaches the Advaita philosophy of Swami Vivekananda and Sri Ramakrishna. Other than this, thanks for an enjoyable second interview with this amazing woman!
Great interview - thank you. Charlotte as Miss Beadle was the best of the Walnut Grove schoolteachers, though I do have a soft spot for Eliza Jane, played by Lucy Lee Flippin, an excellent actor. The rest ranged from boring (Miss Plum) to cranky (Laura) to downright nasty (Alice Garvey).
It was really great to hear and see from Charlotte. The show was on such a long time ago and you just never know what became of the actors. It's rare that you might see and actor from back in the 70s doing something new or current. Glad to see Charlotte so active and vibrant. Thanks again for bringing us this interview. Now try for Melissa Sue Anderson. I know it might be a stretch.
@@ThatsClassicTV When they wake up the J of the Peace to get married, he asks what their names are: Adam and Eva. LOL He must have had a migraine after that. haha
Just adding some clarification to two questions asked in this interview @ 32:48 and 33:43 . The "Wisdom of Solomon" starred Todd Bridges as the poor, runaway black child who wanted a better life and education who was spotted by Laura looking in the school window. Spotted Eagle was an Indian boy born to a white woman and her Indian husband- who was killed in the episode "Injun Kid" Also, Miss Beadle didn't give birth to "Luke" Luke was Adam's son from a previous marriage. In a previous episode, "Luke and "Nellie eloped to get married much to the dismay of the "Olesons" who then had their marriage annulled. Matthew was the name of Mrs. Simms (formally Miss Beadle) and Adam (her husbands) baby. Little House is my favorite show of the "70's and I love all the interviews with the cast. I've watched them all and follow a Little House Facebook page that Alison helps moderate. I look forward to more interviews with different actors of LHOTHP if you are able to get them. :)
Ty very much for this interview! I wish there was beadle bag of Kevin Hagen, I could buy. I used to have a crush on him... (me blushing now). We never hear anything about Dr. Baker and the sort of man that Kevin was. I once heard, but might be wrong that he was as kind as his character and also, had a good sense of humor. If you ever do another interview with one of the LHOTP's cast , would you ask them about him?? Thank you in advance. BTW: I really do like Charlotte Stewart. This was great. Tks again.
Will try to remember to ask as I will have other Little House interviews coming up. By the way, email Charlotte and she might be able to make you a Dr. Baker Beadle bag. Tell her I sent you!
Speaking of authentic as I’m watching the series on prime, they have a trivia and you can look up booths and stuff like that and there are so many. I have caught even more just watching it that they didn’t even mention. Like the barn fire when Mary went in to the barn with the lantern to study. One minute the mom has no shoes on then she has shoes the no shoes back-and-forth.. It’s so fascinating to see all the goofs. Like in the founders day episode. The band plays a song by Sousa that hasn’t even been written yet. And then the belt loops on the pants that weren’t even created for several decades after the 1870s. Also, in the founders day, they said Nels team won, but he was the first one to be dragged into the mud puddle.
25:00 she said stuntwoman Patty Elder did the denake stunts on lhotp and other TV shows and movies. If you look her up, she died at only around 40..what happened? Injured, drug OD, accident. Cancer?
I saw mys beatte house twice once caroline teaches mre beatte sprains her ankle and when charles tells mrs beattle as e bern fired there rooms for rent above dr baker s office
Another goof if I might say, is the typhus episode typhus wasn’t spread human to human but in the show it was. Charles had to leave the house because he was exposed and then several times through the episode. It’s all about separating the people so other people don’t get sick, but it was actually spread from the fleas in the grain.
@@ThatsClassicTV ya I didn’t know. Always learning. Love old movies etc. movies. I grew up watching old movies with him in the 70s. I’m always fascinated with old furniture pictures and all that other stuff.
Ah, this was not super current per her mentioning the 50th anniversary event being a year from the time…Still, it was an excellent interview and she did look amazing. 82 these days sure doesn’t look like your “gramma’s gramma”-the old ladies from back in the day-whether from the 1880’s or the 1980’s! That said, she’s aged a bit since this interview as I’ve seen some current video clips of her.
Very interesting about them getting rid of Charlotte (Miss Beadle) after 4 years because they wanted to stick to the timeline of the book. I say that because the real life Mary they said never married and never had any kids. On the show Mary got married and had a baby. Completely off script from the book. Then they have the baby die in a fire. None of that happened in the book becase Mary never had a baby. Just odd how they changed story lines like that.
Yeah it really is interesting that they made that choice probably for a more compelling storyline and yet they stayed with a 4 year contract to follow a closer book timeline.
@@ThatsClassicTV Oh ok gotcha. That was a quick response. Thank you. It's funny as I am still watching the last 15 min of it now. LOL I might have another question coming. Hahaha. Thanks again
Yeah, it’s weird that they were so interested in sticking to the original story for Miss Beadle when they deviated so frequently pretty much everywhere else (Albert, Mary’s baby, raping mimes, Walnut Grove blowing up, etc).
Melissa was 9/10 when the series started, but she looks 7/8. Melissa was a brilliant actress... shame she got into sex, drugs, booze and didn't get better roles in her 30s,40s, 50s
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As a little girl in the 70s I wanted Miss Beadle as a teacher. I later became one 😊
That is so cool that you became a teacher after that😀
I'm 26 years old I grew up watching reruns of Little House on the Prairie & the Dukes of Hazzard
I still do watch these shows I will never get bored watching these shows
I agree both are just timeless.
The way Laura saw Miss Beadle says it all. We were all in love with her the moment we saw her.
Well said Che, it is so true😀
I met her Saturday at the 50th LHOP reunion, and i have to say it was an absolutely delightful experience! After standing in line for 3 hours to meet the various cast members, she was most definitely worth the wait!❤❤❤
I hear you Suzi, I have met Charlotte in person as well and she could not be more genuine. That must have been an incredible experience being at the 50th Little House reunion, so cool😀
I just watched the episode of the Waltons that Charlotte Stewart guest starred in., "The Foundling." I didn't know it was her for years.
I know that is kinda cool that she also appeared on the Waltons and especially that episode😀
So funny to hear "Miss Beadle" say "bullshit." 😂
I guess we are all human😀
I am 29 years old and grew up watching little house on the prairie and the waltons. I enjoy this interviews so much. I put myself in the life of what the show portrays. It's like "my happy place" "my stress free zone". These actors r FANTASTIC. And getting an inside look of the up and downs behide the scene can be sad and disappointing to hear how some actors didn't get alone or how they were not seen differently beside the character they played. A big thank u to them cause these show and characters got me though some hard times. THANK YOU
Happy to hear the actors in the interviews bring you joy and hope through some tough moments. The Waltons and Little House still bring so much joy to so many people. Wishing you the best.
Miss Beadle was one of my fave adult characters when she was there. I loved how fair she was.
Miss Beadle was pretty special and Charlotte played her so well.
What a gem of a lady! Love this show and forever it will be a favorite.
Charlotte really is Nicole! She is so terrific in this interview and cares so much for the fans as well. Enjoy!😀
i was shocked to hear MS. BEADLE saying BULLSH... during the interview 😮😮😮😮❤❤❤❤
Everyone is human😀
These interviews with the Little House cast members are priceless! i really liked hearing about and seeing her beadle bags...those look so beautiful and how can you beat a handmade piece from her...she seems to be the real deal as do all of the cast.
It always makes my day seeing them...i just wish I had been able to attend this past weekends festivities. The scene in 'Blizzard' where Jonathan goes up to her and tells her it wasn't her fault is one of my favorite scenes of his. Showing the class clown has a heart of gold is priceless🙂
Thanks so much Don! I also regret I was unable to attend the 50th reunion, it looked exceptional😀Having met Charlotte believe me she is the real deal and she puts a lot of love into her Beadle bags. I think that scene with Jonathan in Blizzard is definitely a great one. He seemed like he was having a ball at the reunion too.
@@ThatsClassicTV i am so glad that he was there and it seems that things with him and Melissa are better. Thanks for all you do🙂
@@donw3912 My pleasure, I love doing it. I agree they do look like they are getting along. I mean Melissa was beaming around him.
Laura loved lemon verbena she wore. Love this interview
Thanks Carolyn! Also, cool fun fact.
Someone has said that Charlotte currently wears it!
@@catherineclinton911 If that’s true that is pretty cool.
I thought Melissa Gilbert was so good on the show. Melissa Sue Anderson got a lot of praise and an Emmy nomination, but Melissa Gilbert was so real, subtle, and natural. Her acting when the grandfather runs away to the train station in Journey in the Spring was especially good.
Melissa Gilbert just personifies Little House on the Prairie, still does😀
Awww Michael!! He was such a pleasure to speak to and he sprayed Lemon Verbeana on me! The reunion was such a great experience!!! So fun!!
Sounds incredible😀
I like Charlotte ❤ my favorite episodes with her are: Blizzard, and when she married Adam Sims❤ The Award, and the one where Mary won the mathematics contest.❤
I bet a lot of Little House fans would with you on your choice of favorite episodes with Charlotte.
Thank you for another delightful interview! You are right, Charlotte is so energetic!
My pleasure Jill! Yeah I just love Charlotte’s positivity😀
I recently rewatched Ms. Beadle falling in love with Adam (& Eva. )
Always fun to see again!
I love the Civil War episode, it great that Charlotte wrote the lessons on the blackboard.
I thought the same thing Chris about Charlotte writing her own lessons on the blackboard,😀
Love her stories, she can tell that one about going in for the reading for the teacher. I loved it! It doesn't matter that I heard it before. Just hearing her talk about everything is fun. She is a pure gem for sure. Great job as always John :)
Thanks Jamie, I know Charlotte is such a great storyteller and you feel her reliving it.
Great interview. Thank you. So nice to hear from her.
My pleasure Jacqueline😀I love Charlotte, she is amazing.
What a great interview and lovely lady!!
Thank you so much! Charlotte is just so much fun and has had such an interesting life! If you haven't seen my other interview with her, it is pretty fun and interesting as well.
I loved Miss Beadle! I so wished she was my teacher!!!
I hear you Grant, you and so many others😃
@@ThatsClassicTV 👍👍 😁
Charlotte is a hoot! I loved this episode. I don't know when I've enjoyed an hour so much! Time just flew by! She has great stories & is such an interesting person. Nice to meet her husband & her landlady too! 😂😂. Thanks for sharing!
Thrilled you enjoyed the interview so much. Her husband is a great guy and I agree her stories really are unbelievable at times, so cool!
As I’m watching this interview, I have Little House on the Prairie on tv. It’s the Founders Day episode right now. I really wanted to go to the 50th anniversary get together that ended today in CA.
Great to hear! I think every Little House fan wishes they could have gone to the 50 th Reunion, looked fantastic!
My elementary school had 2 classrooms. I,2,3 and 4,5,6.
That is pretty wild😀
Great Interview.
Thanks Pamela! Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow...thanks for answering my question about Troublemaker!
You’re very welcome Kelsey! Thanks for sending it in😀
I wonder how many times Miss Beadle put Willy in the corner😂
Very funny, glad you enjoyed the interview😀
Great Interview👍 Little House is the Best!
Thanks Curly, the stories about Little House are pretty awesome😀
She is so sweet and looks great! 😇
I agree, Charlotte is wonderful😀
We love you Ms. Stewart!!!!
I love her too😀
It is very true about the teachers and being married. My grandmother was a teacher and she was married and she lied about it so she could teach. I don’t know if they ever found out. I don’t know how it ended, but I should’ve asked her that before she passed away I just didn’t think to ask grandma these questions. She was born in 1910 so you figure maybe 1929 or 30 because my mom was born in 34 and my grandfather had been in the war as a seebee and mom remembers when she was 10 him coming home from the war. She had gone to the store to grab some thing for her mom and she saw my grandfather walking towards her and she dropped everything she had and there was a glass thing of milk in it, and it broke. I’m so blessed to have my mom that I can ask questions to.
Beautiful story😀
Really enjoyed this interview. I must say I do remember the Little House set had rooms to rent out, its in the episode "Family Quarrel" and Nells leaves and rents a room.
So glad to hear you enjoyed the interview😀Love hearing about the rooms they rented out.
great stories! Thanks for another great interview!🇨🇦❤
Definitely Debra, my pleasure😀
Thank you for this. It was brilliant.
Thank you so much, really appreciate it😀
Although Ms. Stewart's mental powers otherwise appear to be flawless, she confuses on two occasions Catherine Colson--the Log Lady from "Twin Peaks"--with Katherine "Scottie" Macgregor who played Mrs. Olson. Ms. Macgregor was not into Zen Buddhism but the Vedanta Society that teaches the Advaita philosophy of Swami Vivekananda and Sri Ramakrishna. Other than this, thanks for an enjoyable second interview with this amazing woman!
You are right she did confused the two women. Your in-depth fact on Ms. Macgregor was exceptional. Thanks!
Great interview - thank you. Charlotte as Miss Beadle was the best of the Walnut Grove schoolteachers, though I do have a soft spot for Eliza Jane, played by Lucy Lee Flippin, an excellent actor. The rest ranged from boring (Miss Plum) to cranky (Laura) to downright nasty (Alice Garvey).
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the interview! I love your breakdown of the teachers😀
It was really great to hear and see from Charlotte. The show was on such a long time ago and you just never know what became of the actors. It's rare that you might see and actor from back in the 70s doing something new or current. Glad to see Charlotte so active and vibrant. Thanks again for bringing us this interview. Now try for Melissa Sue Anderson. I know it might be a stretch.
Glad you are enjoying the channel. Melissa Sue Anderson is a tough one but I will continue to try. Always feel free to suggest someone😀
@@ThatsClassicTV Thanks I will
What a beautiful woman. Stunning.
She really radiates a great spirit😀
The pig farmer episode was my favorite too.
Without a doubt I am sure that has to be in everyone's top ten😀
@@ThatsClassicTV When they wake up the J of the Peace to get married, he asks what their names are: Adam and Eva. LOL He must have had a migraine after that. haha
@@julier.1902 That is very funny:)
Just adding some clarification to two questions asked in this interview @ 32:48 and 33:43 . The "Wisdom of Solomon" starred Todd Bridges as the poor, runaway black child who wanted a better life and education who was spotted by Laura looking in the school window. Spotted Eagle was an Indian boy born to a white woman and her Indian husband- who was killed in the episode "Injun Kid" Also, Miss Beadle didn't give birth to "Luke" Luke was Adam's son from a previous marriage. In a previous episode, "Luke and "Nellie eloped to get married much to the dismay of the "Olesons" who then had their marriage annulled. Matthew was the name of Mrs. Simms (formally Miss Beadle) and Adam (her husbands) baby. Little House is my favorite show of the "70's and I love all the interviews with the cast. I've watched them all and follow a Little House Facebook page that Alison helps moderate. I look forward to more interviews with different actors of LHOTHP if you are able to get them. :)
Thanks Beth, what an amazing detailed breakdown, great info. Glad you are enjoying the interviews and more are on the way...
My favorate early years The Talking machine
That was a good one as a favorite episode😀
Ty very much for this interview! I wish there was beadle bag of Kevin Hagen, I could buy. I used to have a crush on him... (me blushing now).
We never hear anything about Dr. Baker and the sort of man that Kevin was. I once heard, but might be wrong that he was as kind as his character and also, had a good sense of humor.
If you ever do another interview with one of the LHOTP's cast , would you ask them about him??
Thank you in advance.
BTW: I really do like Charlotte Stewart. This was great. Tks again.
Will try to remember to ask as I will have other Little House interviews coming up. By the way, email Charlotte and she might be able to make you a Dr. Baker Beadle bag. Tell her I sent you!
Her email is: lottebanks@yahoo.com
Speaking of authentic as I’m watching the series on prime, they have a trivia and you can look up booths and stuff like that and there are so many. I have caught even more just watching it that they didn’t even mention. Like the barn fire when Mary went in to the barn with the lantern to study. One minute the mom has no shoes on then she has shoes the no shoes back-and-forth.. It’s so fascinating to see all the goofs. Like in the founders day episode. The band plays a song by Sousa that hasn’t even been written yet. And then the belt loops on the pants that weren’t even created for several decades after the 1870s. Also, in the founders day, they said Nels team won, but he was the first one to be dragged into the mud puddle.
I love hearing about moments like that😀
This was grt
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the interview!
Lemon verbena!
Love it😀
I thought Katherine Coleen’s last name was mcGregger
It is, Charlotte just mixed it up by accident . It is Macgregor😀
Little House, Schmizel House, this woman hung with Jimbo.
It is truly amazing that she was one of the last people to be with Jim Morrison of the Doors, incredible!
Yes. He was a beautiful man❤❤
25:00 she said stuntwoman Patty Elder did the denake stunts on lhotp and other TV shows and movies. If you look her up, she died at only around 40..what happened? Injured, drug OD, accident. Cancer?
Honestly I am not sure but that is so sad.
Speaking of beadle bags, did you know that that book wasn’t even written yet when they were reading it in the classroom?
Always fun to learn that stuff😀
I saw mys beatte house twice once caroline teaches mre beatte sprains her ankle and when charles tells mrs beattle as e bern fired there rooms for rent above dr baker s office
Good spotting and especially what was happening at the time you saw her house. Thanks!😀
Your welcome
Another goof if I might say, is the typhus episode typhus wasn’t spread human to human but in the show it was. Charles had to leave the house because he was exposed and then several times through the episode. It’s all about separating the people so other people don’t get sick, but it was actually spread from the fleas in the grain.
That is pretty wild and also cool to know that is how Typhus spread.
@@ThatsClassicTV ya I didn’t know. Always learning. Love old movies etc. movies. I grew up watching old movies with him in the 70s. I’m always fascinated with old furniture pictures and all that other stuff.
@@cyndimanka I hear you, it is always fun to find out little known facts about a television show or old movie, just plain fun.
They showed the source were the fleas and rats in the grain. It was being spread thru the grain which is why they burned it down.
Katherine macgregor aka mrs oslen
Thanks!
Your welcome
Ah, this was not super current per her mentioning the 50th anniversary event being a year from the time…Still, it was an excellent interview and she did look amazing. 82 these days sure doesn’t look like your “gramma’s gramma”-the old ladies from back in the day-whether from the 1880’s or the 1980’s! That said, she’s aged a bit since this interview as I’ve seen some current video clips of her.
Actually this interview is from October 2023 and she looks terrific then and now😀
School teaches could not be married until the 1960's in some places..
Cool fact!
❤😊
Its a fun interview!
Very interesting about them getting rid of Charlotte (Miss Beadle) after 4 years because they wanted to stick to the timeline of the book. I say that because the real life Mary they said never married and never had any kids. On the show Mary got married and had a baby. Completely off script from the book. Then they have the baby die in a fire. None of that happened in the book becase Mary never had a baby. Just odd how they changed story lines like that.
Yeah it really is interesting that they made that choice probably for a more compelling storyline and yet they stayed with a 4 year contract to follow a closer book timeline.
@@ThatsClassicTV Oh ok gotcha. That was a quick response. Thank you. It's funny as I am still watching the last 15 min of it now. LOL I might have another question coming. Hahaha. Thanks again
@@DaveD2488 My pleasure😀
Yeah, it’s weird that they were so interested in sticking to the original story for Miss Beadle when they deviated so frequently pretty much everywhere else (Albert, Mary’s baby, raping mimes, Walnut Grove blowing up, etc).
@@jaredjlinden Yeah it made no sense.
Melissa was 9/10 when the series started, but she looks 7/8. Melissa was a brilliant actress... shame she got into sex, drugs, booze and didn't get better roles in her 30s,40s, 50s
I have to say she certainly has turned her life in a wonderful direction these days so I am happy for her:)
Actor brain richards charlotte
Thanks for the fun fact that Brian Richards played John Stacey😀
Your welcome
Ah...I see she talked about the Jim Morrison fling again. Probably name dropped other guys as well.
Actually that was one of the questions regarding Jim Morrison and she answered it really well.
Melissa sue anderson mother only want ed her daughter to only talk to michael Landon
Interesting.
Melissa Sue's mom was also her manager.
@@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc That is a fun fact, thanks!
Yes I know Melisa mom was her manger
@@bigbird62873 Good to know.