A familiar face from Walnut Grove is coming to Hope Valley. Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie , will guest star in the upcoming season of When Calls the Heart . Melissa Gilbert to guest star in ‘When Calls the Heart’ Season 12 Gilbert will appear in two episodes of When Calls the Heart Season 12 , which will air in 2025 on Hallmark Channel.
She will play Georgie McGill, who has a surprising past with a special resident of Hope Valley, according to Deadline . The announcement took place at the Hearties Family Reunion, a fan event in Vancouver, Canada. Gilbert’s casting came about thanks to her role on Little House on the Prairie , which ran for nine seasons from 1974 to 1983 on NBC.
That show starred Michael Landon as her character’s father, Charles “Pa” Ingalls. Landon’s son, Michael Landon Jr., is a co-creator of When Calls the Heart, which premiered in 2014.
He and Gilber reconnected at the Little House on the Prairie 50th Anniversary Cast Reunion and Festival earlier this year, which is where they came up with the idea for her cameo. Michael Landon Jr. ‘can’t stop thinking’ about what Gilbert’s casting would mean to his father In a Sept.
15 post on X , Landon said he “was honored and thrilled to announce my dear friend Melissa Gilbert is on the series!” “I can’t stop thinking about what this would mean to my dad,” he added. “When Calls the Heart has long drawn comparisons to Little House on the.