“Little House on the Prairie” Has Surprising Crossover with “Anne of Green Gables” in New Netflix Series
“Little House on the Prairie” Has Surprising Crossover with “Anne of Green Gables” in New Netflix Series
Virginia ChamleeWed, July 15, 2026 at 9:02 PM UTC
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Megan Follows in Little House on the PrairieCredit: Netflix -
Netflix’s new Little House on the Prairie series features a cameo by Megan Follows from the 1985 miniseries Anne of Green Gables
Follows plays Laura Colby Ingalls, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s great-great-great-grandmother, in a dream sequence with Alice Halsey’s Laura
The series adapts the original books and follows the Ingalls family’s journey to build a homestead in Kansas
Little House on the Prairie is teaming up with another literary classic — Anne of Green Gables — in a new crossover.
Netflix’s new Little House series, which is now streaming, includes a cameo from Megan Follows, star of the 1985 PBS series Anne of Green Gables.
Follows, 58, appears in the show in a dream sequence, as the great-great-great-grandmother to Laura Ingalls, played by Alice Halsey.
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Megan Follows in Little House on the PrairieCredit: Netflix
Laura Ingalls Gunn (a cousin of Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder and a historical presenter and seamstress) shared a photo in an Instagram post.
“The crossover of my dreams has come true!” Gunn wrote. “The amazing @meg_follows (forever my ANNE) made a suprise cameo on the new @lhprairie portraying my great great great grandmother, Laura Colby Ingalls, (Charles’ mother).”
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As Gunn shared in the caption, the character played by Follows “comes in a fever dream to Laura, who is brilliantly portrayed by @thealicehalsey.”
Megan Follows in Little House on the PrairieCredit: Netflix
The original book series Little House on the Prairie was published between 1932 and 1943, and was based on Wilder’s childhood as a pioneer and settler.
The original series aired and starred Michael Landon (Charles Ingalls), Karen Grassle (Caroline), Melissa Gilbert (Laura), Melissa Sue Anderson (Mary) and twins Sidney and Lindsay Greenbush (Carrie), and was primarily set in Walnut Grove.
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The new Netflix series is not a reboot of the ‘70s classic but is instead grounded in the series of eponymous books, with its first season adapting 1935’s Little House on the Prairie, and following the Ingalls family’s journey to start a homestead just outside the town of Independence, Kan.
Showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine recently spoke with PEOPLE about the upcoming revival of the franchise, explaining that the stories in the show will be “focused on people doing good works and being generous and kind to each other and building community.”
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