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'La casa nella prateria' è un film per la televisione del 1974 considerato il pilota della serie TV 'La casa nella prateria'. È strettamente basato sul romanzo 'La piccola casa nella prateria'; secondo della serie di libri "Little House" di Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Nell'America del 1870, dopo la guerra di secessione, la famiglia Ingalls, composta da Charles, sua moglie Caroline e le figlie Laura, Mary e Carrie, decide di metter su casa in una località pianeggiante vicino ad un ruscello (Plum Creek) a qualche miglio da Walnut Grove, un paesino del sud Minnesota di qualche centinaio di abitanti; l'intenzione di Charles è di fare il contadino e mantenere la sua famiglia principalmente coi proventi derivati dalla coltivazione del grano, ed il lavoro col legname (in cui l'uomo è molto abile) nella ditta del signor Hanson; quindi la prima spesa da fare è un aratro..

Laura e Mary iniziano a frequentare la scuola, trovano una dolce e brava insegnante (Miss Beadle) e fanno amicizia con nuovi compagni tranne che con i viziati figli dei commercianti più ricchi del paese: Nellie e Willie Oleson.

Una forte grandinata distrugge quasi totalmente il primo raccolto di grano degli Ingalls e Charles è costretto a partire in cerca di lavoro. Troverà un pericoloso impiego per le ferrovie, mentre a Walnut Grove le donne, guidate da Caroline, escogiteranno un modo per salvare quel che resta del grano.

Mentre Charles è a Mankato, incontra il signor Edwards e lo invita a Walnut Grove. Caroline cerca di incoraggiare un avvicinamento tra Edwards e Grace Snider, ma riesce solo ad essere d'intralcio perché Edwards è perfettamente in grado di conquistarla da solo.

Laura s'innamora di un nuovo studente, Johnny Johnson. Johnny però, che è molto più grande di Laura, è interessato a Mary. Benché Mary non lo ricambi, il comportamento di Laura crea tensioni fra le sorelle.

Un'anziana signora decide di fingersi morta per far tornare i suoi figli lontani e riunire la sua famiglia un'ultima volta. Gli Ingalls e il dottor Baker saranno costretti ad aiutarla nell'impresa...

A scuola arriva una nuova bambina di nome Olga che zoppica e se ne sta sempre in disparte senza partecipare mai ai giochi dell'intervallo. Un giorno per il compleanno di Nellie Laura ci fa amicizia, perché si è fatta momentaneamente male alla caviglia, e scopre che l'amica non è poi tanto male come sembrava.

Charles e Caroline decidono di partire per una seconda luna di miele e affidano le figlie al signor Edwards. La vacanza però non va troppo bene perché Caroline continua a preoccuparsi per le figlie e il signor Edwards, più di una volta, si trova in difficoltà con le ragazze.

Caroline avendo un passato da insegnante deve sostituire temporaneamente la signorina Beadle. E si imbatterà in diverse imprese.

Mary si sente in colpa per aver causato la rottura della bambola di Laura e quando nel bosco trova un cucciolo di procione, decide di regalarlo alla sorella. Laura lo addomesticherà ma verrà morsa assieme al cane Jack che inizierà a stare male. Mary racconta tutto a suo padre che teme che la figlia abbia preso la rabbia..

La chiesa del paese (lo stesso edificio che durante la settimana è adibito a scuola) necessita di una campana. La signora Oleson si offre per donare una grande campana, in cambio di una targa che ne ricordi la generosità. Mentre la metà dei residenti si rifiutano di accettare, l'altra metà li ritiene degli ingrati.

Mary vuole a tutti i costi vincere un premio scolastico, ma per ottenerlo deve mentire alla madre.

Caroline rimane incinta e dà alla luce il piccolo Frederick Charles, finalmente un maschietto dopo tre femmine; Laura prova sentimenti di gelosia per le attenzioni del padre nei confronti del fratellino e si rifiuta di pregare per la sua buona salute.

Charles disperato cerca la figlia con Isaiah, mentre Laura sale su una montagna dove conosce Jonathan, un eremita a cui racconta tutto.

Gli Ingalls fanno di tutto per mantenere segreti i propri regali di Natale, perfino la piccola Carrie riesce a dare un piccolo contributo. Però Laura per fare felice la madre dovrà rinunciare a qualcosa di veramente prezioso...

Per gli Oleson è tempo di crisi: e quando Caroline porta le uova ad Harriet assiste al litigio che determinerà l'imminente separazione. Nonostante le incomprensioni tra gli Oleson e gli Ingalls saranno proprio questi ultimi a farli ragionare e impedire il divorzio...

Il circa cinquantenne dott. Hiram Baker si innamora della giovane Kate, nipote di Harriet Oleson, e comincia a corteggiarla. Purtroppo la differenza d'età per lui diventa un problema...

Il tifo contagia gli abitanti di Walnut Grove. Alla fine si scopre che erano i topi sui sacchi di grano che tutti mangiavano. Charles ed il Dottor Baker scoprono tutto, guariscono con dell'incenso e con le medicine i contagiati sopravvissuti ed uccidono i topi, bruciandoli come i sacchi di grano e come tutto l'edificio dove stavano tutti insieme.

Gli Ingalls conoscono O'Hara, un girovago a cui permettono di sostare col suo carro nella loro proprietà. Oltre a fare spettacoli con un corvo ed una scimmia, O'Hara pubblicizza una polvere miracolosa che conquisterà gli abitanti di Walnut Grove facendo concorrenza ai rimedi del dottor Baker.

La signorina Beadle scopre che un suo studente viene maltrattato dal padre alcolizzato e che, nonostante tutto, vuole rimanere con lui.

Joseph Coulter è un agronomo che ha messo in pratica i suoi studi coltivando dell'ottimo granturco. Assieme a Charles riunisce i contadini del paese proponendo di fare come lui per abbattere i costi sostituendo il mais al grano e acquistando i semi ad un buon prezzo dal suocero a Minneapolis.

La famiglia Ingalls di ritorno da Mankato viene sorpresa da una improvvisa tormenta di neve e trova riparo in una baita abbandonata, i viveri non sono sufficienti e Charles è costretto ad uscire per andare a caccia.. Viene salvato dall'assideramento da un indiano, a cui qualcuno dà la caccia...

Johnny Johnson si sente oppresso dal padre e decide di andare a vedere il mondo, suggestionato dai racconti del signor Edwards. Sarà proprio lui, sentendosi responsabile, a seguire il ragazzo per convincerlo a tornare a casa.

Il signor Tyler non accetta di essere invecchiato e vuole nuovamente vincere la gara di taglialegna a cui partecipa anche Charles. Quando Ingalls sta per vincere, la signora Tyler gli parla del marito a cuore aperto...

La famiglia Ingalls è in grosse difficoltà finanziarie, Charles non può essere pagato per il lavoro svolto dal signor Hanson perché una banca è fallita e intanto il debito nel negozio degli Oleson cresce. Sarà l'unione della famiglia e l'intraprendenza dell'uomo a farli uscire da questa situazione.

Mary ha uno strano calo di rendimento a scuola, i genitori dapprima immaginano che la causa sia un ragazzo, poi Charles si rende conto che si tratta di un problema di vista.

Arriva in città il nuovo banchiere che fin dall'inizio risulta piuttosto scostante. Charles vorrebbe chiedere un prestito che gli viene però negato. Quando Laura va a pescare conosce l'uomo senza sapere chi è e i due diventano molto amici.

Ogni anno Walnut Grove sfida la vicina cittadina ad una partita di baseball e normalmente...perde. Questa volta però forse le cose andranno diversamente perché hanno scoperto che il signor Mumford è un lanciatore fortissimo. Purtroppo però sua moglie gli impedisce di giocare, a causa delle scommesse d'azzardo che girano intorno alla partita.

I bambini giocano intorno ad una casa lugubre in cui vive il signor Pike, solitario e piuttosto poco propenso ai contatti umani. Laura ovviamente accetta la sfida degli altri bambini ed entra nella casa ma scopre un'altra realtà.

Laura è delusa, perché tutti i suoi compagni hanno ricevuto un invito per la festa di primavera, tranne lei, Nellie e Willie. Laura cerca di far capire ad un ragazzo che a lei piacerebbe molto farsi invitare. Sua madre cerca di darle consigli, ma talvolta non sono i ragazzi a farsi avanti per primi...

Julia Sanderson una vedova amica della famiglia Ingalls capisce che non ha molto da vivere e chiede a Charles di occuparsi dell'adozione dei suoi tre bambini.

Dopo la morte della donna non è facile trovare una famiglia disposta a prendere tre ragazzini. L'unica soluzione sarebbe quella di separarli, a meno che il signor Edwards, che si è molto affezionato ai ragazzi, non trovi il coraggio di chiedere a Grace di sposarlo.

La maestra Beadle assegna ai ragazzi il compito di trovare tante foglie diverse in campagna e alla fine la più bella sarà premiata. Laura e Mary sono contente, dato che stanno per andare a fare un pic-nic con tutta la famiglia vicino al fiume, ma Nellie è invidiosa e chiede alla madre di poter avere le stesse possibilità delle sorelle Ingalls.

Laura e il suo amico Jonah rimangono affascinati dai racconti dei cercatori d'oro sentiti a scuola. Mentre pescano scoprono che sul fondo del fiume c'è della sabbia che brilla come l'oro. La circospezione e la segretezza a cui devono fare ricorso fa loro comprendere meglio l'origine dei duri racconti riguardo alla ricerca dell'oro.

È il compleanno del Reverendo: i bambini vogliono fare un regalo coi soldi raccolti. Laura e Mary hanno il compito di acquistare una nuova Bibbia. Laura ha la brillante idea di usare i soldi per comperare delle medicine che dovrebbero curare qualsiasi male.

Mr. Edwards e John Jr. si sentono estranei. Isaiah porta il ragazzo a caccia per trovare un punto d'incontro, non tenendo conto del desiderio del figlio di diventare poeta.

All'emporio arriva una strana macchina che registra le voci. Laura e Nellie sono innamorate dello stesso ragazzo il quale è affascinato dalle invenzioni tecnologiche.

Mary vuole partecipare a un concorso di matematica indetto dallo Stato. Ma la famiglia non può sostenere le spese e così Walnut Grove raccoglie una somma che permetterà a Mary di rappresentare la cittadina nella gara.

Un banale graffio con un fil di ferro arrugginito, rischia di avere esiti disastrosi per Caroline, rimasta per qualche giorno sola in casa, mentre il resto della famiglia è in viaggio.

Laura, Mary e Carl Edwards si ritrovano a giocare su un vagone del treno. Questo parte e rimane senza controllo.

L'insegnante della scuola di Walnut Grove viene accusata di non essere in grado di gestire i ragazzi più grandi; viene sostituita da un maestro che prende subito in antipatia Laura. I ragazzi più grandi mettono in atto diverse azioni di disturbo che ricadono sempre sulla piccola Ingalls.

Charles ed Edwards partono per un lavoro pericoloso: devono trasportare esplosivo.

Charles accetta di fare, segretamente, dei lavori extra presso una giovane vedova per poter fare un regalo alla moglie Caroline. La donna, dato lo strano comportamento del marito, inizia a credere che si sia invaghito della vedova.

Un immigrato russo giunto da poco a Walnut Grove scopre che a causa della sua incompetenza deve abbandonare casa e terreno, su cui gravano sette anni di tasse non pagate. Nonostante tutto è convinto che l'America sia la terra della "seconda possibilità".

Il figlio della sarta di Walnut Grove torna dal fronte, è piuttosto malconcio e fa uso di morfina per attenuare i dolori causati dalle ferite di guerra. Mary si affeziona subito all'uomo che a sua volta la prende come aiutante per le sue lezioni di musica. Ma il dolore è troppo forte per riuscire a imbastire dei rapporti.

In seguito ad ingenti danni alla casa e al raccolto causati da un tornado Charles prende la decisione di vendere tutto ed andare via da Walnut Grove. Mentre Mary e John si scambiano il primo bacio, arriva una coppia di anziani che vuole acquistare la fattoria, rivelando di essere i vecchi proprietari che molti anni prima avevano deciso, come Charles, di abbandonare tutto...

Il reverendo Alden si ammala durante un viaggio; mentre il religioso è degente, un uomo indossa i suoi abiti e si sostituisce a lui...

I maltrattamenti di Nellie nei confronti di Bunny, il cavallo di Laura, le provocano un grave incidente durante la corsa, che costringerà la ragazza a letto a causa di una commozione cerebrale.

Ora che il suo amato cavallo Bunny le è stato restituito, Laura può allenarsi per partecipare ad una gara locale. La data della competizione si sta avvicinando e la ragazza inizia a temere che Nellie ed il suo nuovo cavallo possano battere lei e Bunny, ma il supporto della famiglia e degli amici la incoraggia a perseverare con l'allenamento.

A Walnut Grove torna Wendell Loudy, un vecchio "rivale in amore" del sig. Hanson, ormai vedovo e dipendente dall'alcol, proprio a cercare un lavoro al mulino; i due cominciano subito a beccarsi, fin quando un incidente sconvolge la calma di tutto il villaggio: infatti, la piccola Carrie Ingalls, durante una passeggiata in campagna con Mary e Laura, purtroppo, precipita in un pozzo.

Nella notte di Halloween, Laura e Mary hanno il permesso di uscire per la festa e di fare qualche piccolo scherzo in paese, ma spiando dalle finestre degli Oleson vedono Nels tagliare la testa alla moglie! Sarà vero?

Charles è sconvolto dalla notizia della morte di sua madre, ma, nonostante il dolore, riesce ad affrontare una questione ben più grave con suo padre Lansford che ha ormai perduto la voglia di vivere. Dopo averlo salvato da un tentativo di suicidio, Charles si rende conto che la soluzione migliore è quella di portarlo con sé a Walnut Grove.

Lansford, deluso per non essere riuscito a salvare il cavallo di Laura ed aver fatto soffrire la sua nipotina, decide di lasciare Walnut Grove. Ma Laura, compreso che il nonno aveva fatto il possibile per salvare Bunny, gli chiede di restare.

Una famiglia si vuole disfare di un caprone dispettoso e Laura decide di portarlo a casa sua...

Un ragazzo che abita insieme ai suoi due fratelli maggiori, arriva a scuola dove comincia a fare il bullo, picchiando perfino le compagne, tutte meno Nellie che si è comprata la sua fiducia. Intanto i due fratelli imbrogliano tutto il paese lasciando debiti in ogni negozio. Ma ce la faranno le ragazze a far capire che non bisogna approfittare di loro? E a dare una lezione al piccolo bullo?

È da tanto tempo che Laura spera di andare a caccia con suo padre e questa volta il suo desiderio viene esaudito. Peccato però che succeda un brutto imprevisto per Charles...

A Walnut Grove una tormenta di neve mette in pericolo la vita dei bambini di ritorno dall'ultimo giorno di scuola, proprio a Natale.

John, innamorato di Mary, riceve grazie alle sue poesie una borsa di studio per studiare 4 anni all'università di Chicago. Il suo futuro però viene condizionato dal fidanzamento con Mary e dal desiderio del padre di insegnargli il suo mestiere.

Il signor Edwards porta a Walnut Grove una malattia pericolosa, che colpisce la figlioletta Alicia, con la quale si rinchiude nel capanno per non contagiare gli altri membri della sua famiglia. Laura gli si avvicina inavvertitamente e in seguito alla comparsa di macchie sul corpo, credendo di essere contagiata, rimane con loro in isolamento. Il signor Edwards si lascia andare al doloroso ricordo della perdita della prima moglie e della figlia.

A scuola si organizza una recita e si decide di mettere in scena il dramma "Piccole donne". Non mancano le battute pungenti di Nellie nei confronti di una compagna, Ginny Clark che si vede costretta a tagliare i capelli per poterli vendere.

A Walnut Grove ritorna dalle praterie forestali Amelia, la coraggiosa figlia di Jeremy Stokes, un vecchio signore che credeva che gli indiani, dieci anni prima, l'avessero rapita, quando invasero per un po' Walnut Grove, prima che arrivassero gli Ingalls, diventati amici di Stokes. Ma Amelia, in realtà, si è sposata con il capo-indiano dei Sioux, Bufalo Pezzato, ed ha avuto un figlio, anch'esso indiano, Aquila Bianca. Ora che Bufalo Pezzato è stato ucciso da alcuni cowboy per razzismo legale, lei è tornata con il figlio di dieci anni, ma il nonno lo chiama "meticcio" e non accetta la religione del nipote che, pur essendo il primo della classe, viene mandato a scuola con il nome di Joseph Stokes.

Mary fa una brutta caduta, le conseguenze sono più serie di quanto ci si aspetti e deve essere operata.

Charles, aiutato dal signor Edwards, cerca lavoro per poter pagare la nuova operazione di Mary. Si ritrova a scavare gallerie con la dinamite...

Per sfuggire alla dura vita di lavoro quasi schiavistico nei campi, che gli ha portato via il padre prematuramente, Salomone, ragazzo di colore, vuole farsi "comprare" da Charles Ingalls per lavorare nella fattoria ed avere la possibilità di frequentare la scuola...

Laura non vista, ruba un carillon dalla camera di Nellie che in seguito lo scopre ed inizia a ricattarla, fino a costringerla a ferire moralmente Anna Gillberg, già vittima delle angherie di Nellie che ne è gelosa. Questo fatto rattrista Laura che è sua amica ed aggiunto alla voce della sua incorruttibile coscienza, la induce a confessare l'accaduto al padre che la consiglia su come porre fine al suo incubo.

Elmer è un ragazzo apparentemente ritardato che viene preso in giro dai suoi compagni di scuola. Quando si tratta di eleggere il capoclasse, i ragazzi contrappongono alla candidatura di Nellie, quella di Mary e dello stesso Elmer, che si illude di essere stato accettato.

Una stagione piovosa crea molti disagi agli abitanti di Walnut Grove. Charles e il Signor Edwards decidono di partire con le rispettive famiglie alla ricerca dell'oro per poter superare il brutto periodo.

Charles capisce che l'oro corrompe l'animo umano e decide di tornare a casa.

When Laura's dog, Jack, dies, her Pa gives her a new dog, Bandit, after the dog follows him home. Although the dog seems very friendly to Laura, Laura doesn't want it. When Laura later visits Aunt Kezia, a lonely women, she realizes that she really loves Bandit.

After going to Chicago for the first time, Charles and Mary are very disappointed in what life in the city is really like.

A mother is in deep denial over her daughter's death in a tragic drowning. To comfort herself, she kidnaps Laura, hoping she will take her late daughter's place.

Charles must take a delivery to Mankato immediately and is unable to finish the addition to his house. Caroline hires a handsome man, Chris, to finish the house. Mary suspects that her Ma and Chris are falling in love.

Charles and Caroline go away and leave Mary in charge. Laura and Andy find some baby wolves.

Things are being stolen in Walnut Grove. Laura and Andy try to figure out who's the crook. They end up getting a lot of people mad at them, including Mr. Ingalls, especially after his hair turns green.

When Doc Baker is unable to save a patient of his, he believes that he is unhappy being a doctor. He finds a new doctor for the town. Doc Baker stays on when he realizes that the new doctor really doesn't care about his patients.

Jesse and Frank James hide out in Walnut Grove. The people of Walnut Grove find out who they really are when bounty hunters come looking for them.

After Mr. Garvey's barn burns to the ground with the crops inside, his wife, Alice, takes a job at the post office. Mr. Garvey opposes this believing that a man should be able to support his family. He is ready to get a divorce until he realizes what his stubborn pride was doing to his family.

People in Walnut Grove are betting on a big boxing match in town. Mr. Ingalls does not know that he will be fighting an extremely sick person. That's why Charles is surprised in the ring when he is able to defeat his opponent so quickly. After his opponent collapses, he is brought to Doc Baker. Doc Baker is able to save him but warns him that he needs to stop fighting.

The Ingallses and Olesons take a trip to the fair. Patrick, a carnival worker and Mary's boyfriend, and his boss, Cass (a balloonist and suave ladies man) vie for Mary's attention; Charles and Nels entering a jackass riding contest; and Carrie has her own adventure.

Adam Simms and his son Luke move into town. Adam falls in love with Miss Beadle, while Luke and Nellie Oleson fall for each other. After Miss Beadle talks to Nellie about love and marriage, Nellie and Luke decide to get married.

An Indian boy comes to Walnut Grove trying to get help for his sick father. The people of Walnut Grove become very hostile toward the Indians. Thanks to Mr. Ingalls' help the Indians are able to escape.

Charles must try to save his business from a competitor. Laura, who is love with Jimmy Hill, must compete with somebody else for him.

Mary eagerly accepts a teaching job in a backwoods community, only to face the sternest test of her career and life when she meets the community's leader: an elderly woman who is totally against education but has concealed a shameful secret.

Mr. Ingalls is severely delayed when a wheel breaks on his wagon in the pouring rain. This is the day of Charles and Caroline's wedding anniversary. Everything had been all prepared and set up for that day. When Charles doesn't show up in time, Caroline tells the children how hard it was to get Charles to notice her and how many heartbreaks she had before she finally knew that Charles loved her.

When Laura is playing along a creek, she finds a bottle with a note in it. The note read, ""Be my friend."" Laura convinces Pa to help her look for the person who sent the note. They end up finding a baby. Charles then searches for the parents of the child. The baby belongs to teen parents. The reason the mother left the baby for the Ingalls to find was because her dad was opposed to her being with the guy she conceived the child with. The young parents take the baby and try things again.

Mrs. Olesen may finally get to drive those ""homely"" Ingalls from Walnut Grove for good when the family gets an inheritance from a wealthy relative. Against their better judgement, Charles spends the money on farm equipment and other things before finding out he used worthless Confederate funds to make the purchases.

Nels' brother sends his 12-year-old son to Walnut Grove after repeated conflicts at home and school. When Mrs. Oleson interferes in her husband's plans to rehabilitate his nephew, Nels asks Charles to step in and teach the boy some values.

Charles and Caroline are going to have another baby. Caroline constantly refers to the baby as he. Caroline delivers the baby sooner than expected causing Charles to be the doctor. The baby ends up being a girl, Grace.

Mary falls in love with Seth. When Mary's eyesight starts to get worse, Charles takes her to a specialist. He is devastated when the specialist tells him that Mary will lose her sight. Charles is unable to tell Mary for a while that she is going blind. When Mary does go blind, the whole family suffers.

Charles and Caroline sign Mary up for the blind school in Iowa. At first, Mary is very reluctant to learn anything at the school. However, after being with her teacher, Adam Kendall, for a while, she turns her outlook on life around. Mary is such a great student that Adam asks her to help her teach at a blind school with him.

Poor economic conditions cause the Ingalls to move closer to Mary. Mary is now teaching at the blind school. The Ingalls move to be closer to Mary, where she helps teach the younger blind students. Laura catches an orphan, Albert, stealing from their hotel. Charles becomes friends with Albert and invites him to Mary's birthday party.

Charles even sells his fiddle to buy Mary a gift. At the party, Mary gives Pa his fiddle back. Laura gives Mary a card. Mary is so proud of Laura writing the letter in braille. Almost everyone is in tears, including Mrs. Oleson, when Mary announces that she has nothing to wish for, since she has everything that she could possibly want.

A blind student feels he is useless. He is reluctant to do anything at the blind school. The student gains self-confidence when he is talked into being the center for the Winoka football team. He is able to throw Albert across the goal line during the game to score the tying touchdown for the Winoka Warriors, keeping the Warriors from losing.

Amelia, a new girl that Laura meets in school, is ashamed of her very overweight father. Her father works at the blind school where Mary works. All the blind students like him a lot. They claim that they can see his love. One day, Laura and some other students from school, start making fun of the overweight person, not knowing that they were making fun of Amelia's father. Amelia's father pretends to leave town since his girl is so ashamed of him. He hides out at the blind school. When he is involved in an accident, Amelia reveals to her dad how much she loves him.

Toby Noe wins a lottery of $5,000 and becomes a man of means. He buys the children a cartload of fireworks, for an annual celebration. Standish dupes Toby into losing all his money using cards and drink at the saloon. Everything comes to a head as the fireworks go off in the saloon. The Ingalls, Olesons, and Garveys get tired of the bustling city life during all this (Nels getting drunk and wins a whole pile of money), and they decide quickly to return to Walnut Grove. The Ingalls take Albert along with them.

As the Ingalls, Garveys and Olesons return to Walnut Grove they discover a town that is badly in need of repair. With a lot of hard work, from everyone around them, they're able to get the town back to its old self, helping a number of people who feel they are living in a dead town, like Lars Hanson.

Laura feels ignored and left out when Charles spends all of his time with Albert and the calf given to Albert. Albert runs away after overhearing Charles and Caroline talking about Laura not feeling that she is part of the family anymore. Laura takes Albert's calf to the fair and wins first place. She dedicates the award to Albert. Albert, who is secretly hiding and watching the show, comes out when he hears Laura's heartfelt words.

Mrs. Oleson's cousin starts a newspaper in Walnut Grove, and she uses the fledgling small-town publication as her forum for gossip. It isn't long before the newspaper creates havoc and embarrassment for the townspeople, leading Charles to take matters into his own hands.

Adam finally asks Mary to marry him. She begins having second thoughts when her parents starting talking about being grandchildren and how hard it was to keep track of Mary when she was little. Mary begins to wonder if she could take care of a child. A blind child gets caught in a dust storm and is found by Mary and Adam. After this, Mary realizes that she has nothing to worry about. They get married by Reverend Alden.

Jonathan and Charles allow their boys to prove their manhood by allowing them to take a trip to Sleepy Eye by themselves. Jonathan and Charles secretly follow the boys. The boys end up making the trip with no problems at all. However, the fathers get into some embarrassing situations following their boys.

Andy Garvey's mother is embarrassed by her son's performance at school. She hires Nellie Oleson to tutor him. Nellie reveals to Andy how she gets such good grades. Nellie makes Andy keep the secret of Nellie cheating. Andy eventually admits what he has been doing and his mother makes sure that Nellie isn't able to cheat on the next test.

When the blind school closes up, the people of Walnut Grove decide to make the old Reverend's house a blind school. Charles leads the students to their new school. Mrs. Oleson comes along on the trip because she believes that a prominent person will be with them.

+ This story is in part about racism. It begins with Joe Kagan's membership to the church in Walnut Grove, something Mrs. Oleson is very much against as he is black. Elsewhere, the blind school is forced to close. Charles and Joe Kagan lead the group of blind students through the woods to their new school in Walnut Grove, but not before Harriet has joined them, willing and eager because she hears they will be joined by more blind students and their teacher, who isn't blind, Hester-Sue Terhune. Harriet says the name Terhune is very prominent and it must be a sophisticated woman with a great upbringing. She buys a new dress and even wears a fancy wig. Harriet walks as she refuses to sit next to Joe Kagan on one of the wagons.

When Mrs. Oleson meets Hester-Sue Terhune she is very disappointed to discover she is black. Hester-Sue has bought black children to join the rest of the blind school and they all continue the journey onwards to Walnut Grove. In the end it takes the words of a little blind black boy to teach her that prejudice is wrong, and Harriet comes to a crossroads in her life, whilst Adam will have to face his deepest fear as he comes to a crossing of his own.

In this episode starring twins Lindsey and Sidney Greenbush, Charles takes a job on a telephone crew that is working in southern Minnesota, which requires him to be away from home for several weeks. Carrie, heartsick for her Pa and craving attention, only manages to get into everybody else's way, so the lonesome tyke creates an imaginary friend, Alyssa, to ease the pain.

A story about bigotry. Albert becomes an apprentice of an old Jew, Isaac. The people in school call Albert a Jew-lover and beat him up. Albert learns a sense of pride from Isaac. Albert and Isaac become the best of friends.

After a boy is in an accident, he pretends to be blind to keep his parents from getting divorced. Laura discovers that the boy isn't blind, but doesn't tell his parents because the boy pleads with her not to. The boy is involved in another accident and has a concussion. The concussion causes him to not remember his pretending to be blind.

Toby Noe turns up again after the Ingalls, Garveys and Olesons decided to leave the town Standish owned (episode 93, There's No Place Like Home (1)). He makes an immediate impact, stirring things up, especially with Amanda. Laura and Albert do some matchmaking for the upcoming dance.

Mary is expecting a child. Mary is able to get Adam closer to his father because of the expectancy of a child. His father even suggests that Mary and Adam come live with him. After Mary has a miscarriage, Mary and Adam really find out that Adam's father only wanted to be with Adam because of the baby. They decide to remain in Walnut Grove.

Mrs. Olesen forecloses on the lakefront property of Kezia, and she, Nellie and Willie cause no end of grief for the elderly recluse. Laura, Andy and Albert hatch a ""get even"" plan by claiming a monster lives in the lake.

It all starts when a local farmer, who is hateful and bigoted, refuses to set a fair price for wheat, since black farmers would be entitled to the same price. The whole thing escalates when the farmer assaults Andy and is later accused of setting fire to the Garvey's barn.

Mary starts to be able to distinguish light from dark and the Ingalls believe she is regaining her sight. Mary is taken to the specialist only to discover that a brain impulse was causing her to see light when she felt the heat from the sun coming through a window. While Mary is away, Albert and Laura fix up Mr. Edwards' old home. However, the only colors of paint that the mercantile has is pink and purple. Mary returns and talks to Laura in the old Edwards' cabin. Laura tells Mary that her and Albert were building a club house. Mary tells Laura she is glad she can't see the room after Laura tells her what colors they used.

Charles stays with a family while looking for some horses to buy. The children of the family asks Mr. Ingalls if he could possibly do something to keep their parents from splitting up. Thanks to Charles talking to the husband and the wife, they decide to stay together and work things out.

Charles and Jonathan meet with danger as deadly as the disease they left behind them when they are sent for the medical supplies needed to battle an outbreak of anthrax in Walnut Grove.

Albert and Laura leave home to run away with their friend, Dhillon. Dhillon, who is dying from leukemia, wants to achieve his life long dream of seeing the Pacific Ocean. Mr. Ingalls catches up with the children, but when he finds out what is going on, he helps them get to the ocean.

The school's new teacher is Ms. Wilder. Laura falls in love with Ms. Wilder's brother Almanzo. Laura is crushed when Nellie invites Almanzo over for dinner. Laura gets even with Nellie by volunteering to cook dinner for them. Laura adds some hot spices to the chicken and since Nellie had said that she had cooked the meal, Almanzo stays away from Nellie.

When Laura and Nellie get in a fight about the graduation test, Almanzo separates them and takes Laura home with him. When Charles finds out that Almanzo took Laura home with him, Charles goes to Almanzo's place and punches Almanzo because he fears his daughter was being taken advantage of. Laura yells at the fighting pair and tells them that she is no longer a child.

Each student must trace their family tree for a school assignment. Albert is unsure how he can do the assignment. The Ingalls decide to legally adopt Albert, but run into problems when Mr. Quinn, Albert's father shows up. He wants Albert until he sees him. Albert pretends to be blind with the hope that his father wouldn't want him. The blindness does the trick. Albert is legally adopted by the Ingalls.

Adam wins a prestigious award. Laura and Albert give the Christmas money they had made from collecting honey, to Adam and Mary to go on a trip to receive the award. The stagecoach is involved in a very serious accident.

A circus comes to Walnut Grove. Everybody is helping set up, except Nels Oleson. His long, lost sister is in the circus. Only Mrs. Oleson believes her husband's story about his sister. Nels is nominated to be the announcer at the circus. When he announces his sister, he says, ""My sister, Annabelle."" These words lead to Nels and Annabella becoming very close siblings.

Mrs. Craig is in love with Reverend Alden. Although Mrs. Oleson tries to stop Reverend Alden from marrying Mrs. Craig, the wedding goes on as planned.

Albert's imagination starts to get the better of him when he dreams that he and Laura are taken by Indians.

When Isaiah Edwards loses his will to live after a crippling logging accident, a letter to Walnut Grove from his worried wife, Grace, brings Charles and Laura back to the big woods to try to help their old friend.

Aging professional wrestler Milo Stavroupolis comes to nearby Mankato to "fight" the locals. Stavroupolis' promoter, the shrewd Jimmy Hart, convinces Jonathan Garvey to fight the old man ... unaware that the fight was "fixed." But there's even more heartbreak ahead, as Stavroupolis is suffering emotionally (and physically) after years of fighting; his beloved wife, Anna (herself desperately ill) has begged him to retire. The old man is convinced by Jonathan to substitute for him in the upcoming championship

Mrs. Oleson invites a charismatic preacher, the Rev. James Danforth, to preach in Walnut Grove. He immediately woos parishioners away from Rev. Alden's congregation with his fiery sermons and "faith healing." But nobody is aware he is a charlatan, and it will soon have tragic results.

During a trip to Walnut Grove, Caroline's mother passes away. Her father is very grief-stricken, until son-in-law Charles - impressed with his stories about growing up in the Little House in the Big Woods - suggests he publish an autobiography.

The telephone comes to Walnut Grove, and Mrs. Olesen is hired as the switchboard operator. She takes advantage of her responsibilities to engage in her favorite pastime: gathering gossip. It will have a very damaging effect on the Garveys' marriage when she learns about Alice's hidden past.

A 17-year-old budding criminal named Tod Dortmunder is sent to Walnut Grove to live with his grandparents after his mother loses patience with his ill-tempered behavior. His behavior becomes more violent, and when he is caught stealing Charles' watch, the grandparents (in part because they fear for their safety) turn to Charles for help. Charles proves to be the role model Tod never had, and efforts to rehabilitate the lad seem to be working. But even Charles is unaware of some dark secrets from Tod's childhood that don't surface until he destroys the present he gave him.

School bully Bart begins menacing his classmates, especially Albert. Tired of the constant harassment, Albert creates a paper maché werewolf mask to terrorize Bart into ceasing his bullying behavior. It works, until Carrie opens her mouth! It takes a joint effort by all of Bart's classmates to make him stop bullying.

During a visit to a farmer's convention in Milwaukee, Charles and Caroline meet up with old school mates. Charles learns that larger farmers are trying to put his small farming friends out of business and urges them to stand up for their profession. Meanwhile, Caroline becomes envious about the financial fortunes of their one-time friends, but she soon learns there's more to their success stories than meets the eyes.

On a dark and stormy night, Laura and Mary are staying alone at the School For the Blind when they are taken hostage by a trio of escaped convicts. One of the criminals is badly injured, and his cohorts demand to see a doctor. Laura is sent to get Dr. Baker, warned that the consequences will be deadly if she tries any tricks. However, a terrified Laura tells her Pa what is happening. Charles shows up posing as Dr. Baker, but when the real Dr. Baker arrives, Charles is forced to be resourceful to disarm the crooks.

Laura takes a job tutoring a deaf boy named Daniel, teaching him how to communicate through sign language. Daniel makes more than an academic breakthrough - he develops a huge crush on Laura! Laura doesn't know quite what to do, and makes some mistakes along the way in dealing with her situation.

Albert experiments with smoking in the basement of the School For the Blind and, when shooed out of the basement, hides the still-lit pipe in some cloths. The pipes ignite and result in a late-night fire that kills Alice Garvey and Mary's baby son. As a result, several people struggle with the consequences: Albert becomes completely withdrawn when he learns his careless actions may have caused the fire, Mary in deep shock and Jonathan Garvey in an alcohol-induced state of denial.

Albert, Mary and Jonathan - all deeply impacted by the fire at the School For the Blind - continue to deal with their emotions. Charles helps Jonathan realize that his alcoholism has taken a toll on his son, Andy, while Mary snaps out of her shock when she hears the melody of the music box Albert had purchased for her as a gift. But Mary's initial panic soon becomes Albert's when he finally understands his carelessness caused the fire that killed her baby and best friend's mother. Albert runs away, leading Charles and a reformed Jonathan to frantically search for the lad.

Almanzo's indolent brother, Perley, comes to town. Knowing that Almanzo's interest in a much younger Laura has deepened, Charles is convinced that Perley is the better man for his "Half Pint." However, those sentiments quickly change when Perley injures one of Almanzo's horses. Two things become clear to Charles: Perley is a troublemaker, and Almanzo is a responsible young man (especially when he nurses the horse back to health).

Nels finally loses patience with his henpecked family life and begins a mobile merchant business. During one of his stops, he meets a much younger woman whom is the exact opposite of his own wife. In the process, Nels struggles with temptation and going astray as the relationship blossoms.

The school district's superintendent comes to Walnut Grove, looking for someone who can replace a teacher who has fallen and broken her leg. Eliza Jane recommends Laura. Almanzo thinks he has no chance of Laura falling in love with him.

Almanzo asks for Laura's hand in marriage. Mr. Ingalls tells Almanzo to wait until Laura was eighteen. Not wanting to wait, Almanzo forces Laura to choose him or respect her father. Laura respects her father's wishes. Almanzo leaves town and causes Laura a lot of heartache. Harriet hires Percival Dalton to help her in the restaurant. Nellie and Percival fall in love and eventually Percival asks Nellie to marry him. Adam's father dies, which means that a new blind school wouldn't be built in Walnut Grove.

Laura helps Adam and Mary set up a new blind school in Sleepy Eye to try to get her mind off of Almanzo. Almanzo gets very sick.

Almanzo purchases some land and hires Harv, a friend of his, to help him in the field. Almanzo soon learns that he was tricked into buying the land. He is unable to get any justice. This causes Almanzo to call off the wedding until he gets back on his feet. Laura gets a teaching position, but Almanzo doesn't want her to work. Laura decides to take the position anyway.

Eliza Jane falls in love with Harv, but is afraid to tell him how she feels. Eliza Jane is devastated when she finds out Harv has somebody else in his life. Since Eliza Jane doesn't want to see Almanzo and Laura break up, she decides to leave and tells Almanzo to chase after Laura to tell her that she could teach in Walnut Grove. Laura and Almanzo then get married at the blind school.

The Garveys move to Sleepy Eye to run a business. After being robbed several times, Jonathan decides to become a deputy sheriff to clean up the town of crime. When Jonathan catches a teen gang leader, Andy gets beaten up.

A former football star moves back to Walnut Grove. He agrees to become coach of the football team. His goal is to win at all costs. This kind of thinking puts Albert in great danger. Towards the end of the show the football coach starts to realize that winning isn't everything.

A story of fear (for the brothers), heartache and love. Houston, an old man, takes care of two runaway orphans. The orphans were running away because the orphanage wants to separate them. Houston talks to the adopting parents and convinces them to take both of the kids.

A blind person has a talent for painting. Her work is so good, it soon gets publicized. The person's biological mother comes and tries to make up for what happened in the past. Only after the blind person learns that her mother abandoned her so that she could have a better life did she agree to see her mother.

A friend of Laura begins liking Almanzo. Laura begins suspecting the worse. She goes so far as leaving him when she suspects he is having an affair. Laura later learns that Almanzo can love no one but her.

Albert begins writing more frequently to a pen pal of his. He tries to impress the girl he is writing to. The girl also does the same thing. Albert falls in love with her and goes to see her one time. This girl is very reluctant. Albert thinks that she doesn't like him until he sees her in a wheelchair. Both of them promise to continue writing to each other, but this time they would only tell the truth in their writings.

Almanzo and Mr. Ingalls expand their business by delivery goods to Sleepy Eye. Both of them believe they know the quickest way to get there. They even place a bet...Whoever got to Sleepy Eye first before 1 o'clock had to cook the other family dinner. Both of them experience problems almost right from the start. Both of them end up making it there after the designated time. The husbands are forced to cook their wives dinner, but that doesn't go so well either.

Adam makes a decision when his sight returns, after an accident at Jonathan's freight warehouse. Mary feels that Adam may be slipping away from her.

Adam goes for his test and hopes to get a scholarship. But far away from home, he is robbed and beaten and after racing to continue his test (2nd part), he catches a fever.

Caroline Ingalls joins in protest with the rest of the Walnut Grove women to try to convince Charles and the other men to sign a petition addressing the injustice of a law that transfers a woman's property rights to her husband after marriage.

Percival's parents decide to pay a visit. Mrs. Oleson and Mr. Percival don't hit it off so well. Mrs. Oleson is strongly against Mr. Percival's idea of raising Nellie's child as a Jew. An agreement is finally reached between the two. A girl would be Christian and a boy would be Jewish. Nellie ends up having twins, a boy and a girl.

Almanzo's brother, Royal, leaves his two kids with the Wilders while he and his wife are on vacation. Laura and Almanzo have their hands full taking care of these boys.

Joe Hagen moves to Sleepy Eye to help at the blind school. He begins to fall in love with Hester Sue. However, she is planning to marry someone that has a more promising future. One day Hester Sue hears Joe comforting one of the blind students. Hearing this makes her decide not to marry the other person.

Mrs. Oleson wants Laura to add several courses to her school curriculum, including art appreciation and French. Since Laura believes that the kids don't need to know these subjects, she quits. Mrs. Oleson is the person who takes over as teacher.

A schoolyard escapade involving Albert brands 15-year-old girl Sylvia a tease. The two fall in love, but Albert is unaware of a number of circumstances which have thrown Sylvia's life into a frightening tailspin - getting raped by an unknown assailant and the girl's domineering father.

A pregnant Sylvia finds Albert is the only one she can turn to for solace, since her father blames her for her situation. Albert and Sylvia decide they want to elope so she doesn't have to move with her father, over both their parents' objections.

Adam and Mary move back to Walnut Grove so that Adam can start a law practice there. Adam's first case involves a person who has been swindling people in Walnut Grove. Adam believes the person is innocent until he finds out the truth. Adam convinces the jury to have pity on this man who was just trying to help out his family before he dies.

Caroline is crushed when she learns she is no longer able to carry a baby, and fabricates a pregnancy to deal with the pain.

Charles and Albert travel with the Cooper family while on a delivery. A serious accident occurs while the Coopers are going down a steep hill. The Cooper parents are killed. Charles tries to find Cassandra and James a new home. When he can't find anyone to take them both in, he feels he has to send them to an orphanage. After thinking about this idea some more, Charles decides to take care of the kids himself for a short period.

Reverend Alden eventually finds someone to take in the kids. However, this family just wants them to work. When Cassandra and James run away, their adoptive father doesn't even go to look for them. When Charles finds the kids, he tells them that he will adopt them if they could stand the house being more crowded. They happily agree to stay with the Ingalls.

Percival and Nellie go to New York so that Percival can run the family business now that his father has died. Mrs. Oleson gets very depressed because of Nellie leaving. The Olesons decide to adopt a girl to take the place of Nellie. While they are in Sleepy Eye, they find a girl that looks almost exactly like Nellie when she was young.

Nancy turns out to be worse than Nellie ever was. She even locks another girl in the ice house. The students devise a plan to teach Nancy a lesson. They trick her into being the star in a dunking tank. Also during this episode, Adam and Mary move to New York so that they can earn a living and Hester Sue comes to Walnut Grove to work at the restaurant.

James is trying to be more like Albert. He even wants to shave like Albert has to. While James is shaving, he breaks Albert's razor. James steals a razor from the mercantile hoping Albert wouldn't notice the difference. When the truth is found out about the razor, James runs away. Albert takes off after him. When Albert finds James, it takes a lot of convincing before James decides to come back home with him.

Dr. Baker posts an ad for another doctor, to relieve his workload (and Mrs. Oleson's constant pestering). He hires Dr. Caleb Ledoux, but doesn't count on him being black. The Ingalls are among the very few to accept Dr. Ledoux, as others are outright hateful and racist. Even Dr. Baker struggles with his prejudice and, to show his spite, gives the young doctor minor cases.

In the end, Dr. Ledoux is the only doctor available to call on a pregnant woman who is having labor complications. The woman's husband won't allow the doctor in the house (because he's black), and can only get to her when Charles knocks the man aside. Ledoux performs a successful surgery and delivers a son to the couple. A stunned and shaken Dr. Baker witnesses the surgery and concedes that only Caleb's and his superior training could have saved the woman's life.

Dr. Ledoux later angrily tells his wife he plans to leave Walnut Grove. But only Dr. Baker's emotional speech at church convinces the good doctor to stay.

Laura goes to visit Eliza Jane because of a literature seminar that is going on in town. Laura has to find a part-time job to pay for meals and other stuff. She ends up hating the job. There is a person who Laura met on the train who begins to like Eliza Jane. Eliza Jane in turn begins to like the professor teaching the seminar and the professor likes Laura. The professor tells Laura that her writing is bad when Laura tells him she is happily married. The man on the train eventually defends Laura's writing. It only takes one punch by the man to get the professor to take off and leave.

In an episode about hero worship, Charles and Nels share deep concerns over an aging circus performer's influence on the children of Walnut Grove. Particularly since some of them - Albert and Willie in particular - have tried some of the daredevil's more dangerous stunts, with mixed results.

Nels is kidnapped by two crooks. The crooks try to get Mrs. Oleson to pay ransom for her husband, but she refuses to. This makes Mr. Oleson upset and causes him to help the crooks. The kidnappers aren't very lucky. After kidnapping several different people, the crooks decide that they need to try another line of work. They leave without hurting any of the kidnapped people.

Charles travels to Chicago to comfort a deeply grieving Mr. Edwards, whose son John Jr. had died in a tragic accident. But that grief soon gives way to rage when it becomes apparent John Jr.'s death was no accident. Charles and Mr. Edwards enlist the aid of the editor of the newspaper where John Jr. worked to uncover the truth.

An overweight boy comes to school at Walnut Grove. The schoolkids pick on him because he is so heavy. Nancy persuades the boy to bully the other school children. The jokes of the school children get so bad that the obese boy decides to quit school. The school children then decide that enough is enough. They go over and apologize to him.

Mrs. Oleson changes the restaurant into a franchise restaurant, She has a hard time living up to the agreement of the franchise. Charles and Nels get together and decide to open up a restaurant of their own, right across the street. The new restaurant forces Mrs. Oleson's restaurant out of business. The town is now back to normal, or at least as normal as it can be.

Mary, Adam, Hester Sue, the Wilders, and the Ingalls are all together for Christmas. The snow begins falling and soon they are snowed in by a blizzard. To pass time, several of them tell stories. Laura talks about the Christmas in Kansas when Mr. Edwards came.

James makes friends with Gideon Hale, a young boy who stutters. However, the budding friendship is damaged when Gideon overhears James making fun of him. A wolf that follows James and Charles on a delivery trip may hold the key for bringing Gideon out of his shell.

Laura finds that balancing her teaching duties at school and managing Almonzo's orchard, while he and Charles are gone on a delivery trip to Arizona, too much to handle. Her heart-to-heart talk with a maturing Willie may hold the key to both their futures.

Charles beings making tables so that he could pass on a legacy. While he is at this, Albert begins taking care of the farm. Charles gets very upset when someone steals his design and starts producing the tables in large quantities. Charles soon realizes that memories of his family is a lot more important.

An elderly relative of James and Cassandra tries to get custody away from Charles. He ends up being unsuccessful in the lawsuit, which means that Charles kept custody of the children.

Hester Sue's ex-husband, Sam, comes to town. He tells Hester Sue that he was no longer a drinker and a gambler. Hester Sue believes he has changed and soon decides to marry him. Hester Sue learns the truth about Sam when his wife and kids come and warn Hester Sue that Sam is still a drinker and gambler.

The Wilders' budding marriage is put to its first major test when Almonzo, soon after recovering from an illness, is felled by a stroke.

Almonzo, bitter at his apparent life-crippling illness, nearly gives up on life, despite the birth of little Rose. His attitude nearly drives Laura to consider leaving her husband. A tornado that destroys the farmstead may hold the key to both of their futures.

Mr. Edwards' alcoholism, fueled by John Jr.'s violent death, ruins his marriage, and he travels back to Walnut Grove to see solace with his old friends. However, those long-standing friendships are put to the test when an accident, caused by a drunken Mr. Edwards, nearly costs Albert his life.

A longtime friend of Caroline writes to her and asks for help. Her friend is pregnant and lives at a gold prospector's camp where there is an outbreak of influenza. Caroline finds out that her friend's husband doesn't like her wife. In fact, he wants his wife's baby to die. Caroline's friend dies during childbirth, but the child survives. In another tent, a mother's child dies while be born. Caroline decides to give the baby to the other mother since she knows that the baby will be taken care of properly.

While Mr. Edwards, Charles, and James are in Sleepy Eye, James gets shot during a bank robbery. James, who is in a coma, is taken to the hospital. While James is in the hospital, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Ingalls, and Albert look for the bank robbers. They find them and bring them to justice. Charles continues to believe that James will get better.

When Charles refuses to admit that James will likely never recover from his gunshot wound, he leaves Walnut Grove with his adopted son. He builds an altar in the woods and hopes that God will bring a miracle.

The Ingalls are forced to sell their house to the Carters and leave Walnut Grove to find a more promising life. Mrs. Carter begins printing a newspaper for Walnut Grove. Etta Plum becomes the teacher in Walnut Grove when Laura decides she wants to spend more time with Rose. Almanzo's brother, Royal, comes to Walnut Grove with his daughter, Jenny.

Royal has a very bad heart and asks Laura and Almanzo to take care of his daughter since he was going to die soon. Jenny is devastated by her father's death. After talking to Reverend Alden about heaven, she tries to commit suicide by drowning so that she could be with her father again. Jeb Carter is able to save Jenny although he can't swim. Laura convinces Jenny that she should do what would make her parents proud.

Harriet finds a bearer bond from Walnut Grove. She uses this to try to get people to follow her suggestions. She tells the town council that if she doesn't get her way, she will cash in the bond which would force the town to pay Mrs. Oleson over $10,000.

Mr. Stark has gotten himself so far in debt that he has lost his mind. He goes home and shoots his wife and daughter. Then he goes off and ends up at Laura's house. He mistakes Laura and Jenny for his wife and daughter, but when he sees Rose, he thinks that his daughter has had a baby.

A tiny circus performer, Lou, decides to look for work in Walnut Grove after his wife dies while giving birth to his baby girl. A prejudice Mrs. Oleson uses her power to make sure that the dwarf doesn't find work. She even threatens Mr. Anderson that she would close her account at the bank if he hired Lou. To keep the infant alive, the dwarf must steal food. Mrs. Oleson decides to press charges when she finds out who stole the food. When Nancy falls in a well, Lou risks his life to save the girl. That's when Mrs. Oleson decides that being small has its advantages and decides to drop all charges.

A traveling side-show comes to Walnut Grove. The main attraction is a wild boy. The wild boy escapes and becomes friends with the Wilders. The boy turns out to be Matthew Roger and the reason he acts wild is become he is given morphine.

Mr. Edwards keeps Matthew at his place, but Nancy Oleson tells on him. A judge comes and rules that Matthew be placed in an institution. Then Mr. Edwards makes a statement that everyone is crazy sometime. He convinces the judge to allow the boy to stay with Mr. Edwards.

Nellie returns to Walnut Grove and discovers that Nancy is a lot worse than she ever was. When Nancy isn't the center of attention, she runs away. Nels and Nellie search until they find her. Just when they think Nancy has learned a valuable lesson, she proves that she really hasn't.

The people of Walnut Grove are at first excited when the railroad wants to build through the town. This excitement doesn't last long. The railroad tells several people that they must leave their houses. The people make a stand at the Carter's place. This delay in building convinces the railroad to find a different route.

Laura's childhood friend, Jane Canfield, comes back to Walnut Grove. Although she is blind, she falls in love with Mr. Edwards, a person who was old enough to be her father. Jane then undergoes an operation which allows her to see again. After a lot of soul searching, Mr. Edwards tells Jane that she should go out and find herself a better life. At the end of the show, we see Mr. Edwards in the distance watching Jane leave on the stagecoach.

A minister that is passing through Walnut Grove arouses the suspicions of Reverend Alden and Mr. Edwards. Reverend Alden believes that he will lose his congregation to the other reverend. Mr. Edwards notices that this minister spends a lot of time with Mrs. Carter and Laura, which causes him to suspect the worse.

Jenny looses a necklace in a pond and almost drowns trying to get it. After the incident, she has partial brain damage and has to retrain herself to talk and walk. Jenny's friend, a retired doctor, helps Jenny to force herself to get better. Thanks to him, Jenny makes a complete recovery.

When Mrs. Carter's mother dies, Sarah Carter's father comes to town. He tries to get the Carters to come with home back to New York. He wants the Carters to have a better life. The Carters tell him that home sweet home is in Walnut Grove. After a while, Sarah's father begins to understand while the Carters feel this way.

The Older Brothers is a gang that used to have a notorious reputation. First they hold up Mr. Edwards but end up losing the money. Then they try to get ransom money for Mr. Edwards but that doesn't go very well.

Laura writes a book for a book writing contest. Her book is chosen. She travels to Minneapolis to work out a deal with the publisher. However, when the publisher wants her to change some parts in her book, she withdraws from the contest and goes back home.

When Albert continually breaks the law, Charles takes him out of the big city and back to Walnut Grove. Albert doesn't change in Walnut Grove because he is addicted to morphine. Charles finally forces Albert to stop using morphine. He stays with Albert while he goes through withdrawal. Thanks to Charles, Albert is no longer addicted to morphine. We find out at the end of the show that Albert will become Dr. Albert Ingalls.

When Albert continually breaks the law, Charles takes him out of the big city and back to Walnut Grove. Albert doesn't change in Walnut Grove because he is addicted to morphine. Charles finally forces Albert to stop using morphine. He stays with Albert while he goes through withdrawal. Thanks to Charles, Albert is no longer addicted to morphine. We find out at the end of the show that Albert will become Dr. Albert Ingalls.

Laura gives birth to a baby boy. The baby is fine and healthy for a while. Then for no apparent reason the baby dies. To ease her mind of the death, she blames Doc Baker for what happened to her baby. Doc's reputation declines so much that he must leave town to find work. Just before Doc Baker leaves, Rose comes down with small pox. Doc must stay quarantined with the Wilders for two weeks. Watching the Doc save Rose's life causes Laura to rethink her attitude about Doc Baker. Laura and the rest of the town convince him to stay on.

Jason Carter starts working for an old lady. Jason becomes great friends of the lady. However, Jason's mom believes the lady is being too nice. Jason is forbidden to work for the old lady until Sarah finds out that the lady will soon die.

Mr. Edwards and the residents of Walnut Grove make friends with an orangutan. But the friendship and the fun-loving primate's life may be short-lived when Nancy and Mrs. Olesen cause trouble.

No longer a mama's boy, Willie announces his engagement and plans to marry his sweetheart. All this upsets his mother greatly, who makes several attempts to get her way.

Mr. Montague stays at the Wilder boarding house while he is at Walnut Grove researching for a book that he is writing. Matthew Roger has a hard decision to make when his biological father shows up. Matthew decides to leave Mr. Edwards and go with his father. Mr. Edwards moves into the boarding house so he wouldn't be lonely anymore.

In Burr Oak, Iowa, Charles gets a promotion as a Purchasing Agent, and he takes Albert with him on a buying trip to Minnesota. En route, they stop at the University of Minnesota where Albert plans on pursuing his medical endeavors, then they reunite with family and old friends in Walnut Grove. Albert finds romance with a girl called Michele Pierson, and Charles encourages the local farmers to start a cooperative to enable them to compete with the big farms. However, Albert starts suffering from serious nosebleeds and exhaustion and is diagnosed with leukemia. Ultimately, he chooses to go back to Walnut Grove, where he spends his time making special memories and receives the offer of a four-year scholarship from the university he had planned on attending. Finally, Albert, Laura and Michele join Miss Plum and the local school children in their annual climb to 'the keepsake tree' at the top of Harper's Bluff, where they join hands and raise them in a celebratory salute.

Charles and Caroline visit Walnut Grove and are pleased to be able to stay in the 'Little House' when John and Sarah Carter go out of town. Then the townspeople learn that a land development tycoon, Nathan Lassiter (James Karen), has acquired title to all the land in Hero Township, which they had believed to be homesteading land. Having failed to defeat his claim on legal grounds and even with guns against an army cavalry unit, the townspeople are inspired by Laura to vent their anger at what they see as an injustice, and they decide upon a drastic plan of action. When Lassiter arrives to claim the town, he finds all the town buildings dynamited, and the townsfolk leave to start new lives elsewhere, as many of them have done before.

During preparation for Christmas baby Rose Wilder is kidnapped by the woman who recently lost her child. Looking for her Laura, Almanzo and Mr Edwards meet lonely orphan boy, who finally stays with that woman.

Part 1 of Gary Leva's thoughtful and informative six-part documentary history of the Little House on the Prairie television series, narrated by Dean Butler and produced for Lionsgate in celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the iconic series.

Part 2 of Gary Leva's thoughtful and informative six-part documentary history of the Little House on the Prairie television series, narrated by Dean Butler and produced for Lionsgate in celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the iconic series.

Part 3 of Gary Leva's thoughtful and informative six-part documentary history of the Little House on the Prairie television series, narrated by Dean Butler and produced for Lionsgate in celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the iconic series.

Part 4 of Gary Leva's thoughtful and informative six-part documentary history of the Little House on the Prairie television series, narrated by Dean Butler and produced for Lionsgate in celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the iconic series.

Part 5 of Gary Leva's thoughtful and informative six-part documentary history of the Little House on the Prairie television series, narrated by Dean Butler and produced for Lionsgate in celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the iconic series.

Part 6 of Gary Leva's thoughtful and informative six-part documentary history of the Little House on the Prairie television series, narrated by Dean Butler and produced for Lionsgate in celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the iconic series.