Laura, the Prairie Girl

*Laura, the Prairie Girl*
Laura, the Prairie Girl
	Little Laura and her family
	草原の少女ローラ
Genre	Historical drama, Old West
Based on	Little House on the Prairie; by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Written by	Masao Maruyama
Directed by	Seiji Endō ; Mitsuo Ezaki
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of episodes	26
Production
Executive producer	Koichi Motohashi
Production companies	Nippon Animation; TBS
Original release
Network	JNN (TBS)
Release	7 October 1975 –; 3 April 1976

Laura, the Prairie Girl (草原の少女ローラ, Sōgen no Shōjo Rōra) is a Japanese anime television series based on the novels Little House in the Big Woods and Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Twenty-six half-hour episodes were released between 1975 and 1976.^[1]

Plot

"Little house in a big forest" (October 7, 1975)
"A wolf cub arrives" (October 14, 1975)
"Everyone's treasure" (October 21, 1975)
"The boy in the covered wagon" (October 28, 1975)
"New house across the forest" (November 4, 1975)
"Bear cub we met at the waterfall" (November 11, 1975)
"My hero the cowboy" (November 18, 1975)
"A fawn is calling" (November 25, 1975)
"Bullets made by dad" (December 5, 1975)
"Bearded guest" (December 12, 1975)
"Lost migrating bird" (December 19, 1975)
"Where did Santa Claus go?" (December 26, 1975)
"Pa disappears in a snowstorm" (January 2, 1976)
"Dreams and hope! Departing for the prairies" (January 9, 1976)
"Big adventure! Crossing the frozen lake" (January 16, 1976)
"Jack the dog disappears" (January 23, 1976)
"Come back, Jack, my dear dog!" (January 30, 1976)
"Cute animals of the big prairies" (February 6, 1976)
"Build it quickly! Our new house" (February 13, 1976)
"A wolf pack surrounds the house" (February 20, 1976)
"New house built with Pa" (February 27, 1976)
"A cute calf has arrived!" (March 6, 1976)
"Perilous well-digging" (March 13, 1976)
"Something terrible happened!" (March 20, 1976)
"My house is burning!!" (March 27, 1976)
"Wheat, grow tall!" (April 3, 1976)

^ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 337. ISBN 9781476672939.