WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.320 --> 00:00:06.280 It's Night Side with Dan on WBS Causton's new radio. 2 00:00:06.679 --> 00:00:13.080 Good evening, everybody. I have a nice four hours of comfort, 3 00:00:13.119 --> 00:00:15.839 fun and trolic plans for you. And before I go 4 00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:18.760 any further, Nicole, thank you for plugging that I am 5 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:22.199 on tonight and I've enjoyed working with you this week. 6 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:25.320 We've got one more night, Nicola, you want tomorrow night 7 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:25.760 as well. 8 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:28.199 I believe it or not, AM off tomorrow night. 9 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:31.120 So this is the last night we have together this week. 10 00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:33.600 Darn it. And I'm sorry. I had a subject for 11 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:37.079 tomorrow that I'm leading with that I think it would 12 00:00:37.079 --> 00:00:39.880 have been great to incorporate you to start it off, 13 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:43.200 but that we're going to be talking about breakfast cereals 14 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:45.920 that we when we were kids. I love breakfast cereal 15 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:47.560 on corn call in. 16 00:00:48.119 --> 00:00:49.679 You know I very well, mind, I'll give it my 17 00:00:49.719 --> 00:00:53.439 best shot. You know the inside numbers and I know 18 00:00:53.479 --> 00:00:55.880 the outside number two and I'll be traveling so I'll 19 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:57.399 be listening on the iHeartRadio app. 20 00:00:57.439 --> 00:00:58.240 So I'll give it a shot. 21 00:00:58.399 --> 00:00:59.960 I look forward to it. You take care and have 22 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:03.640 a good night. Likewise, my friend. All right, everybody, I've 23 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:10.400 promised you on Monday or last Thursday, I promised you 24 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:13.599 every time I try to fill in or we'll be 25 00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:18.480 filling in for Dan Ray, which periodically happens, I promised 26 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:22.359 to get somebody that I've never had before, and this 27 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:28.640 is a good get. Pardon the grammar. You all used 28 00:01:28.680 --> 00:01:34.879 to watch this show and the line that blurred between 29 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:40.239 what we saw on the TV screen and reality, and 30 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:45.000 this actress, because of the character she played on TV, 31 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:52.280 periodically was attacked, physically attacked, cut nasty letters from people, 32 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:59.359 all because of that little Nellie Olsen out on the prairie. 33 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:03.920 I've got Allison. I'm grim here, Allison, thank you for 34 00:02:03.959 --> 00:02:05.799 coming on. This is a true pleasure. 35 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:09.199 Thank you so much. I know I'm terrible. It's like 36 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:11.680 Nelly also is holding out on you. I just you know. 37 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:16.360 I was running around carting people from hospitals to pharmacy 38 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:18.199 to back and going, oh my god, I'm never going 39 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:18.759 to make it out. 40 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:21.319 No, no, I'm not even I'm not even going to 41 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:23.800 go there. You're here now, and that's all that matters. 42 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:28.120 But I'm here and here, I'm live. It's happening, and. 43 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:32.080 If people want to call in. Normally, the first segment 44 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:34.719 we take right after the news and go to about 45 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:39.080 quarter pass the hour, and after that I take phone calls. 46 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:41.599 I'm going to give the phone number now because I 47 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:45.400 know that there are a cartload of people that would 48 00:02:45.439 --> 00:02:49.159 love to say booty you Nelly Olsen six. 49 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:51.599 I think they should two. 50 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:53.919 Five four ten thirty or eight eight eight nine, two 51 00:02:54.039 --> 00:02:56.360 nine ten thirty if you want to speak, I have 52 00:02:56.599 --> 00:02:58.919 my producers speaking to make sure I give the right 53 00:02:58.919 --> 00:03:02.879 phone number. And oh he does and he is a 54 00:03:02.919 --> 00:03:04.919 fan of yours. I know you got to speak to 55 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:09.240 him as he called you to set you up. And 56 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:14.520 for those of you who don't clearly remember, her character 57 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:20.479 was the daughter of the woman that owned the general 58 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:28.479 store in town, and all kinds of storylines would grow 59 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:34.400 from little elementary age school Nellie Olsen and how she 60 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:37.080 interacted with the Ingles kids and the other kids in 61 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:45.360 the community, and trouble ensued every Monday night. And it's 62 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:49.919 been fifty years since that show came on our TV sets? 63 00:03:50.759 --> 00:03:53.919 How does that feel when you hear that fifty years ago? 64 00:03:54.840 --> 00:03:59.919 It is absolutely like mind blowing after just you know, 65 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:04.400 all of these years, if you had told us fifty 66 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:07.199 years ago that people were going to still be watching 67 00:04:07.240 --> 00:04:10.719 the show, let alone discussing the show ad nauseum, being 68 00:04:10.759 --> 00:04:15.439 excited about the show and coming to fans later. Never 69 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:19.279 in a million years, we didn't remember when we started 70 00:04:19.279 --> 00:04:22.319 the show. We're in nineteen seventy four. We started the show. 71 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:27.199 There was no cable television, There were no DVDs. There 72 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:29.519 was no such thing as a VC or VHS tape. 73 00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:31.759 There was a cable TV hadn't been invented yet. There 74 00:04:31.800 --> 00:04:33.959 or three channels, and certainly there was no such thing 75 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:37.120 as streaming, et cetera, et cetera. We didn't know how 76 00:04:37.279 --> 00:04:39.800 someone was going to watch the show fifty years from now, 77 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:40.920 let alone that they would. 78 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:45.439 You had to see it that night or wait five 79 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:49.600 six months later, maybe for the rerun of your favorite episode. 80 00:04:49.639 --> 00:04:50.199 And that was it. 81 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:52.680 Summer reruns. Summer reruns, yeah. 82 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:54.639 Oh my goodness. 83 00:04:54.759 --> 00:04:57.720 And then and then we had like they started doing stuff. 84 00:04:57.720 --> 00:05:00.160 We're okay, there was enough of it. It made syndica, 85 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:02.360 you go best fives. Oh, now they can show it 86 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:04.839 like in the afternoons after school. That was like a 87 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:07.439 big jump that they did that. And then they invented 88 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:09.720 cable TV and suddenly we were on that. And then 89 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:12.079 they came out with VH and suddenly started selling TV 90 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:14.800 shows at VHS tapes like, oh my god, what is happening? 91 00:05:14.959 --> 00:05:18.800 We had no idea, And I'm telling you it is 92 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:21.120 more popular now fifty years later than it was where 93 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:23.560 the damn thing was on. I mean, we are also floored. 94 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:28.160 And I'm going to say this, when I mentioned that 95 00:05:28.279 --> 00:05:31.199 you have been physically attacked, that's. 96 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:34.480 True, can you It's crazy. 97 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:37.000 Stories for us real quick. 98 00:05:37.040 --> 00:05:40.519 Before that, I mean, the dumbest thing I did was 99 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:43.160 go in costume once I was. It was for this 100 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:45.920 big charity thing for an Eastern fair, and Catherine McGregor 101 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:49.720 the Brilliant would have played missus Olsen. We were talked into, 102 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:51.240 oh yes, it'll be fun. I think somebody from the 103 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:54.480 network's kids went to the school. So we went in costume. 104 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:56.000 They got us all done up at the studio and 105 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:58.720 everything well, people were terrified of us. No one wanted 106 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:00.959 to autograph, no one would come near. And then two 107 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:02.839 little girls ran it behind me and kicked me in 108 00:06:02.839 --> 00:06:06.360 the button, knocked me to the pavement. And then there 109 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:09.120 was a time I was in the Christmas parade. Mind you, 110 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:11.480 I was about sixteen at least I was older, and 111 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:14.920 I going down the street yelling Mary Christmas had a 112 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:17.399 great time, and someone threw a McDonald's cup of orange 113 00:06:17.399 --> 00:06:21.920 soda at my face direct hit oh my goodness, and 114 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:24.759 I mean, of course, my reaction was like, you know, first, okay, 115 00:06:24.759 --> 00:06:26.920 well list it's not a beer bottle, so I'm not dead. 116 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:29.439 But then I was like, oh my god, this thing's 117 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:31.800 like half fold as a buck seventy five of centa left. 118 00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:36.519 Someone's just so angry at the sight of me, and 119 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:40.800 that's what I still damn. I must be good doing something, right. 120 00:06:41.480 --> 00:06:44.360 We can't go after Godzilla at s gwiff Nelly Elson 121 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:45.920 right right? 122 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:49.000 People were I thought, what am I doing? And it 123 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:50.680 did occur to me even at a young age, because 124 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:53.240 he came from a family of actors, went what am 125 00:06:53.279 --> 00:06:57.399 I doing that? People think this is so real that 126 00:06:57.480 --> 00:06:59.639 they're flipping out when they see me and doing crazy 127 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:01.759 stuff like this, What the hell did I do? 128 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:02.319 Well? 129 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:08.439 And you're interpreting a writer's words on page, a director's 130 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:12.399 telling you do this, don't do that, but you were 131 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:16.120 doing it in such a way that you are tremendously convincing, 132 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:17.600 and thank. 133 00:07:17.439 --> 00:07:19.600 You, thank you. I went all out. I did my best, 134 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:20.319 and well. 135 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:20.480 There you go. 136 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:22.959 I'm going to take my break when we come back. 137 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:27.160 I also want to bring into the conversation your parents, 138 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:33.040 because your father managed people like Labaraci, Debbie Reynolds and 139 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:36.319 what can Chariton do for you? Miss Susan Antone, that 140 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:41.399 was one of her commercial lives. And aren't cloaky? How 141 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:43.480 many people raise your hands? If you know who are cloaky? 142 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:46.720 As people raise your hands, Nancy sitting next to me, 143 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:51.360 raise your rams. Aren't cloaky? Helped create Davy and Goliath, 144 00:07:51.959 --> 00:07:57.000 Gumby and Pokey, and your mother was the voice to 145 00:07:57.199 --> 00:08:05.240 Davy and Gumby can't and Casper the Friendly Ghost and Casper. 146 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:08.720 The Friendly Ghost and sweet pallidirr Bread Underdog's girlfriend. 147 00:08:08.920 --> 00:08:12.240 Oh where, oh where has my underdog guard? She had 148 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:13.680 to sing that every episode. 149 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:15.399 Let me she did, and she would do it. She 150 00:08:15.399 --> 00:08:17.079 would do it for friends. My friends would go, could 151 00:08:17.079 --> 00:08:18.680 your mom do? Could she do the voice? Could you 152 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:20.879 do the voice? She would go, where where is what? 153 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:22.000 She would do it? It was great. 154 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:24.480 Let me let me take my break. People, if you 155 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:26.519 want to call in, we're gonna have fun right here. 156 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:31.560 Alice yes and arm grim a r M. I am 157 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:34.279 is here, so come on give us a call. Six 158 00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:38.440 one seven, two, five, four, ten, thirty eight, eight, eight, nine, two, nine, 159 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:42.639 ten thirty Time and Temperature at w b Z. Oh 160 00:08:42.679 --> 00:08:46.639 my goodness, I'm late eight seventeen sixty five degrees. 161 00:08:49.039 --> 00:08:52.000 Now back to Dan Ray Mine from the Window World 162 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:55.200 Night Sike Studios on WBZ News Radio. 163 00:08:55.559 --> 00:08:58.919 Alison arm Grim is my guest here. Remember Little House 164 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:03.360 on the Prairie. It's thing the fiftieth anniversary, nineteen seventy four, 165 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:08.600 That show hit NBC and it just hang on and 166 00:09:08.679 --> 00:09:12.320 people love it, loved it and do love it now. 167 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:16.360 And my producer just told me my headphones there are 168 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:21.000 stations dedicated to a single show twenty four to seven. 169 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:25.440 All they do is a show. Now, Rob said, there's 170 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:29.840 a network that plays Happy Days of Vernon Shirley all 171 00:09:29.879 --> 00:09:33.679 the way through. But there are I'm gonna say, there's 172 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:38.759 at least a station that does nothing but show Little 173 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:41.720 House on the Prairie morning, noon and night. 174 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:46.440 This is true. This is the one that just blows 175 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:48.399 our minds, all of us in the show. So you've 176 00:09:48.440 --> 00:09:50.720 got your channels that show a lot of Little House 177 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:53.120 and a few other shows here, the Hallmark, Cozy TV, 178 00:09:53.320 --> 00:09:55.600 me TV, I those a Little House and like and 179 00:09:55.679 --> 00:09:57.600 the Waltons and nn but there's a Little House like 180 00:09:57.679 --> 00:10:01.320 Mad the Marathons, but now with Roku and all and 181 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:04.360 Pluto and all of these things, there is an all 182 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:07.360 Little House all the time. And I think there's now 183 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:11.440 at least two of them that are literally all only 184 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:13.200 show episode of the Little House in the Prayer. I 185 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:15.559 mean it streams on Amazon, you can order it on 186 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:18.039 the streaming networks. But there's a couple where literally this 187 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:20.039 Little House in the Prey all the time, twenty four 188 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:22.080 hours a day, seven seven days, three week. 189 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:25.000 Oh my goodness. And you know I had one of 190 00:10:25.039 --> 00:10:28.399 your co stars on roughly four weeks ago. I had 191 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:30.320 Dean Butler on he as well. 192 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:32.039 Was we lovely. We loved Deane. 193 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:37.080 He was talking about fifty years of Little House. How 194 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:40.720 were you chosen? I know, anything and everything to do 195 00:10:40.759 --> 00:10:44.840 with that show went through Michael Landon would every single 196 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:47.759 half there was to wear on that show. Tell me 197 00:10:47.799 --> 00:10:50.519 about how you get chosen to be Nelly? 198 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:53.720 I it was so incredible. We had you know Susan 199 00:10:53.759 --> 00:10:56.240 who was a Susie Suckman and later married Kent McCray, 200 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:59.480 a Producerus McCrae, and you know Kate McCrae produced an 201 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:01.720 ed friend Lee, who had first tried to make a 202 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:05.639 show in the books than Michael Lenna. So I go in, God, 203 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:07.519 I was about love it, and I read for the 204 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:10.120 part of Laura, and I read for the part of Mary. 205 00:11:10.159 --> 00:11:11.840 I think everyone did. I used to call out the 206 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:14.720 search of Scarlett O'Hara for eight year olds, so everybody 207 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:17.960 hears this. I go in and I don't get it. 208 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:19.679 And I know I'm a kid actor. I go to 209 00:11:19.720 --> 00:11:21.440 auditions all the time. I go, well, that was nice, 210 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:23.799 but I was I knew I was not a country girl. 211 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:25.879 I went, this is so not me. And I think 212 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:27.720 I read form one of the worlds girls like dah no, 213 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:30.440 and so I didn't really think about it. And I 214 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:32.320 go about my business and they make the pilot with 215 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:34.960 of course Melissa Gilberts and Melissa to Andrew, so they go, well, 216 00:11:34.960 --> 00:11:37.840 they're perfect, Okay. So I go on with my and 217 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:39.360 then I get a call to come read for The 218 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:41.559 Little House on the Prairie again at Paramount Studios, and 219 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:43.559 I'm like, how many people are on the show. I 220 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:45.840 already did this, but I at least may make it 221 00:11:45.879 --> 00:11:49.039 the series. It's more people. I like an idiot, have 222 00:11:49.159 --> 00:11:51.840 not read the books. I have no clue. I have 223 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:54.039 no idea. I don't know there is an Ally Elson. 224 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:56.480 I don't know what annlly Elson is, no idea. I 225 00:11:56.639 --> 00:12:00.360 get there and I'm handed these pages for something vanlie 226 00:12:00.360 --> 00:12:03.120 Elson that this character in the show. And I sit 227 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:05.240 there and I start to read these pages. My father 228 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:07.720 is sitting there with me out in the waiting room, 229 00:12:08.360 --> 00:12:10.840 and I look and I start reading and I turned 230 00:12:10.879 --> 00:12:13.240 to my father. I said, this is not a normal part. 231 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:17.000 He said, what are you talking about. I said, she's awful, 232 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:21.480 this girl, she's a bitch. And she said, just a 233 00:12:21.480 --> 00:12:24.559 total bitch. Might like that. In fact, don't rehearse it again, 234 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:27.279 don't read it again. And then he snatched the page 235 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:29.639 and said, put the pages face down, don't even look 236 00:12:29.639 --> 00:12:31.720 at them. Don't even look at them. Go in and 237 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:34.200 do that. Just do exactly what you just did it. Okay. 238 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:37.399 I go in and there's Michael Landa, there's Michael Landon 239 00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:40.720 and get McCrae said friendly. And they're all sitting there 240 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:44.399 on a couch and I I say, go ahead, and 241 00:12:44.440 --> 00:12:46.200 I'm like, oh my god, okay, it's Michael. I knew 242 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:48.480 who Michael Anna was from Bonanza, and I wasn't like 243 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:50.799 a Bonanza fan, and I knew all these people were. 244 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:54.120 And I start reading and these three grown men are 245 00:12:54.120 --> 00:12:56.200 sitting two feet away from me in this couch, start 246 00:12:56.279 --> 00:12:59.679 laughing and laughing and laughing, and they're just dying over 247 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:02.120 every word I'm reading. And remember I'm like twelve years old. 248 00:13:02.360 --> 00:13:05.639 And they said, could you do it again? Please? And 249 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:08.519 I said, oh, yes, very trained little child actor. What 250 00:13:08.559 --> 00:13:10.840 would you like me to change? And they said, no, 251 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:14.879 just read the thing about That was the get And 252 00:13:14.919 --> 00:13:18.360 it was that scene in Country Girls at first episode 253 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:21.679 where she talks about her how my home is the 254 00:13:21.720 --> 00:13:24.200 best home in all of Walnut Grove, and it is 255 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:28.559 hilarious because she has no idea how fool she sounds. 256 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:31.000 And she rattles off all this bragging about the house 257 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:33.279 and she talks about how there's three sets of dishes, 258 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:36.519 one for every day, one for Sunday, and one for 259 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:39.320 when someone's very special importance comes to visit, which we've 260 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:43.240 never even used yet. And she doesn't even realize the 261 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:46.200 insanity this statement, that like, how you don't know anybody 262 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:50.159 important you live in walder Grove, Minnesota, And she doesn't get. 263 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:53.960 And Nellie never understood that in the run of the show. 264 00:13:56.320 --> 00:14:00.159 Her that she's obviously your Minnesota, nothing is happening here, 265 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:03.080 and she doesn't realize she's just told a story on herself. 266 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:05.440 And the fact that I could play that joke that 267 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:07.120 I like, what, Oh, that's really funny. Oh my god, 268 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:10.159 that's hysterical, and I did. They couldn't believe that a 269 00:14:10.159 --> 00:14:13.080 twelve year olds had like got the joke, and so 270 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:16.559 they laughed again. They were like crying, they were laughing 271 00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:20.120 so hard, and then they said thank you, and my 272 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:22.480 father and I got out the door, into the parking lot, 273 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:25.200 into the car, drove home, maybe half an hour away. 274 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:28.759 Back and my agent was already on the phone saying 275 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:31.120 that he'd already heard from them and they'd made a deal. 276 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:34.120 In wardrobe fitting was tuesday. Yeah, boom, that was it. 277 00:14:34.360 --> 00:14:34.559 Job. 278 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:39.159 I walked out the door and they were like done, Yeah, 279 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:41.039 let me take a call, because I wanted to try 280 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:42.600 to get this call in before I have to take 281 00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:43.720 a news hit. 282 00:14:44.879 --> 00:14:49.240 As maybe Harlan told you, I hit thirty eight states. 283 00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:51.679 I'm based in Boston, but our first call is from 284 00:14:51.879 --> 00:14:56.279 believe it or not, Michigan and Matt and Michigan has 285 00:14:56.360 --> 00:14:59.879 called in to speak to Alison matt. 286 00:14:59.600 --> 00:15:04.480 Hello, Hi Morgan, Hey Allison, it's a pleasure to speak 287 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:04.879 with you. 288 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:05.759 Hi. 289 00:15:06.159 --> 00:15:06.600 How are you. 290 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:10.879 I'm fine, thank you. As Morgan mentioned, he had Dean 291 00:15:10.960 --> 00:15:13.000 Butler on a few weeks ago, I was able to 292 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:17.279 speak with him. So now I've got you, and it's 293 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:23.200 an extreme pleasure. And I'm also pleased to remind you 294 00:15:23.399 --> 00:15:27.639 that I was a while I am a resident of 295 00:15:27.639 --> 00:15:31.240 the state of Michigan, and we were pleased to have 296 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:35.480 Melissa Gilbert as a fellow resident for about four or 297 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:41.600 five years. She I know, I know. She lives in 298 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:45.759 a town where my daughter lived in time Howell, Michigan. 299 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:48.679 And were you ever out to see her over there? 300 00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:52.960 I'm sadly no, she took off to the Catskills before 301 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:55.480 I could get over there. But the pictures at that 302 00:15:55.559 --> 00:15:58.360 little house on the lake, oh my god, it's fabulous. 303 00:15:59.240 --> 00:15:59.519 Yeah. 304 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:02.159 Yeah, I was hopeful, you know, to run into her 305 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:06.120 sometime and I could tell my daughter, Rachel. I said, 306 00:16:06.279 --> 00:16:11.200 it's half pint. I never got that opportunity, never got 307 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:15.360 that opportunity. But anyway, I just wanted to congratulate you 308 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:18.279 on the job that you did on that show. And 309 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:21.840 I saw you on an interview with a fellow. His 310 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:25.639 name was Anthony, and one of the things that you 311 00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:31.039 touched on was that you were able to continue your education, 312 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:34.840 not as a you know, with a tutor on set, 313 00:16:35.480 --> 00:16:37.919 but that you you stayed in the schools that you 314 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:41.519 were going to. And I've always heard that, you know, 315 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:45.159 the hours are so long when you do a series. 316 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:47.360 How were you able to do that? 317 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:54.480 Though though not everyone follows the rules, they did on 318 00:16:54.480 --> 00:16:56.799 the set of Little House, they followed the code, and 319 00:16:56.840 --> 00:16:59.720 the code in California was if you were under eighteen, 320 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:03.279 you could only work a total of eight hours plus 321 00:17:03.320 --> 00:17:06.200 an hour for lunch, so nine hours you were out. 322 00:17:06.279 --> 00:17:10.400 And during those nine hours it was three hours of school, 323 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:13.839 four hours of work, one hour rest and recreation, and 324 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:16.519 an hour of lunch. And that was your schedule. So 325 00:17:16.839 --> 00:17:19.319 they would break it up and it could be very confusing. 326 00:17:19.559 --> 00:17:22.000 It was still very difficult because you'd bring your work 327 00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:25.079 from school and you'd shoot a scene and they'd say, well, 328 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:26.720 we got to go set up the next scene. Why 329 00:17:26.759 --> 00:17:28.519 don't you go to school, and you'd go to the 330 00:17:28.519 --> 00:17:31.000 school room. You'd get all engrossed in writing a paper 331 00:17:31.039 --> 00:17:33.039 work and they'd say, well, now, come back and shoot, 332 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:35.400 and you'd stop doing. You go back and shoot for 333 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:36.599 and a half an hour, and then you go back 334 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:38.000 to school for half an hour, and then you go 335 00:17:38.039 --> 00:17:40.000 back and this would go on all day, and sometimes 336 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:41.960 you'd be a few minutes in there, but as long 337 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:44.359 as you got to three hours in there somehow, and 338 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:47.400 I stayed enrolled in the regular school. I was going 339 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:49.839 to Bancroft Junior High and in Hollywood High, which Holly 340 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:52.720 has very good school. And they what I would do 341 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:54.680 is come to them say, well, because I was I 342 00:17:54.720 --> 00:17:57.480 was seven out of thirteen episodes. So I would come 343 00:17:57.480 --> 00:17:59.480 to them say, Okay, I'm in next week's episodes. I'm 344 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:01.000 going to be gone for a week or two. I 345 00:18:01.079 --> 00:18:03.480 need my assignments, and they would give me that, let 346 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:05.079 me know all the stuff that was supposed to be 347 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:07.440 done in that time period, and I could get makeup 348 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:10.599 exams and all of this. But it was still difficult 349 00:18:10.599 --> 00:18:12.319 because I'd leave and go, Okay, I know I need 350 00:18:12.359 --> 00:18:14.720 to get from page nine to page thirty two, but 351 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:16.920 you know, if it's algebra and you're not there for 352 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:22.039 the lectures, it's like really difficult. I slogged through, and 353 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:24.559 then I'd come back to school too. It was It 354 00:18:24.599 --> 00:18:28.960 was great because I had friends I'd had my god 355 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:31.640 since the third grade, who I knew in junior high 356 00:18:31.640 --> 00:18:35.079 in high school, who knew me as me long before 357 00:18:35.079 --> 00:18:37.319 I got Little House, and they just didn't care. They would, oh, 358 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:39.799 Alison got a job. They were Hollywood kids, people got 359 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:42.079 jobs on TV. They went, oh, that's nice. I'd actually 360 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:44.480 got work, but they really did not care. I'd come 361 00:18:44.519 --> 00:18:46.200 back to school and say, well, I've been filming, and 362 00:18:46.200 --> 00:18:48.480 they'd say that's good. And then they kept me caught 363 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:50.720 up on like who was dating who, and who'd broken 364 00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:52.960 up and who took her to the dance because that 365 00:18:53.079 --> 00:18:54.480 was the important news. 366 00:18:55.119 --> 00:18:59.759 Naturally, Matt, I know. 367 00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:02.160 And man, I hate to do it. I'm already late 368 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:05.200 to my news hits. So thank you for coming again. 369 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:10.400 Okay, good evening, Allison. Keep by the great work and 370 00:19:10.880 --> 00:19:12.039 the partners speaking with you. 371 00:19:12.440 --> 00:19:13.480 Thank you, thank you so much. 372 00:19:13.599 --> 00:19:15.880 Take care of Allison. Let me do my news hit. 373 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:19.680 I'll be right back, I promise, and uh, Peter in 374 00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:22.680 New York, you will be next, I promise you. With 375 00:19:22.920 --> 00:19:27.359 Alison Armgrim here, I'm busy with the time and temperature 376 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:31.160 eight thirty one sixty five degrees. 377 00:19:33.119 --> 00:19:37.400 You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's 378 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:38.880 news radio. 379 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:43.240 I'm going to read this off stage. She's an activist 380 00:19:43.359 --> 00:19:47.319 for AIDS, also on the board for the National Advisory 381 00:19:47.359 --> 00:19:52.079 Board of the National Association to Protect Children, giving children 382 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:56.680 a legal and political voice in the war against child abuse. 383 00:19:57.319 --> 00:20:01.200 Alison Armgrim is here from Little House on the Prairie 384 00:20:01.599 --> 00:20:04.720 and I was told to tell you hello by mister 385 00:20:04.759 --> 00:20:05.480 William Keck. 386 00:20:06.920 --> 00:20:07.240 Oh. 387 00:20:07.359 --> 00:20:10.359 Hi, Oh, he's he's such a terror. He has a 388 00:20:10.359 --> 00:20:13.720 book out though he's marvelous, where he's confessed to everything 389 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:17.160 he has. He has begged all everyone's forgiveness for everything 390 00:20:17.200 --> 00:20:18.519 he did at a national. 391 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:21.079 And he mentioned that he was on a show with 392 00:20:21.240 --> 00:20:24.680 you and you apologize. No, he apologized to you and 393 00:20:24.720 --> 00:20:26.599 you accepted his apology. 394 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:30.640 Did We had a complete, complete, like throwdown on my 395 00:20:30.759 --> 00:20:34.680 show because he said he's on this like forgiveness work. 396 00:20:34.799 --> 00:20:38.359 Basically it's kind of hilarious. But I said, okay, here's 397 00:20:38.400 --> 00:20:40.319 what happened. He's like, oh my god, okay, I am 398 00:20:40.319 --> 00:20:44.319 officially sorry. As he said, yeah, the National inquire mentality 399 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:46.960 and he was in this whole zone with the tabloids 400 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:50.519 and they asked him to do outlandish things because a 401 00:20:50.559 --> 00:20:53.519