Trivia / Little House On The Prairie S 4 E 4 The Handyman

• Reality Subtext: Chris and Caroline's tension turned out to transcend fiction: Karen Grassle revealed that she had a fling with Chris' actor Gil Gerard just as it's implied to be happening between Caroline and the handyman, and like Caroline, Grassle resisted Gerard's natural charms as she had a boyfriend of her own at the time (though Caroline is implied to have no intention to be unfaithful to Charles regardless).
• What Could Have Been: There was supposed to be a fight between Mary and Nellie after the former slaps the latter for provoking her and Laura with double entendres about the gossip involving Caroline and the handyman, but the relationship between Melissa Sue Anderson (Mary) and Alison Arngrim (Nellie) was very hostile, so when they decided to warm-up by trash talking and commenting on what they'd do to one another, the crew realized that they were getting a little too invested in the idea to fight each other, so they cut the scene in the last minute and changed it to Nellie running away after being slapped instead.