* Merlin Olsen played the recurring role of Jonathan Garvey, a blacksmith and friend of the Ingalls family, from 1979 to 1983.
* Victor French played the recurring role of Isaiah Edwards, the kind, but stern, schoolmaster in Walnut Grove, for four seasons, from 1974 to 1978.
Their roles were during different periods on the show, so they never had the opportunity to appear together.