Nov 072008
The government of Finland says “Little House on the Prairie” shouldn’t be shown publicly to children.
That would be a show of good judgment if it had been based on the content of the program. I’ve long said that if we’re going to have censorship of television, that should be the first program to go. The producers took good literature and ruined it. Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter Rose had given us some interestingly drawn characters in their books. In the TV series they were turned into typical Hollywood ninnies.
But, alas, it’s only that the government hasn’t reviewed the series. Universal Studies decided not to ask for the Nihil Obstat or the Imprimatur