Actor Patrick Labyorteaux has reflected on the reasons why he was cut from the hit '70s series Little House on the Prairie . Patrick opened up about his years playing Andrew "Andy" Garvey from Seasons 4 to 7, and revealed that he was ultimately let go after Season 7, Episode 21, "The Lost Ones." He explained that after Andy's mother, Alice Garvey (played by Hersha Parady), died in a fire, Andy and his father Jonathan (Merlin Olsen) were written out of Walnut Grove . According to Patrick, the storyline was designed to set up "a backdoor pilot that they didn't pick up."

"The idea was that Merlin would be the sheriff of a town, and I was going to be his son," the actor told Buzzfeed . The network said, 'We want Merlin, but we don't want him as part of Little House.' So they did t

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