But Hester Sue now has, and she forgives him. This leads to Charles punching Almanzo and Laura running off, before Charles finds out what really happened. Most viewed. When Laura and Nellie end up fighting in a muddy pond, Almanzo takes Laura back to his place to clean up but he leaves Nellie in the mud, much to her annoyance. When they attend the court offices, Albert meets Mr. Quinn alone and feigns blindness in front of him. Charles and Mary take jobs to obtain gifts for their loved ones, but Laura cannot think of what to give or how to raise money, until she realizes she has something of value in her horse, Bunny, which Nels Oleson (Richard Bull) wants to buy for Nellie. Meanwhile, Jenny goes swimming with a group of friends and nearly drowns while looking for her locket in the lake. Charles is disgusted by the noisy saloon and its foul-mouthed patrons. At his trial, there are several surprising developments, including Andy's confession about leaving the lamp by the barn on a windy night, which prompts the judge to throw out the barn burning charge. A farmer named Mr. Stark is denied a loan at the bank and soon goes bankrupt. When boxer Joe Kagan's career seems to be going nowhere, he chooses to continue boxing rather than keep his family with him. When Laura's new strategy does not work, her Ma persuades her that she should be true to her real self. Picking up where the previous season left off, the Ingalls family moves to Winoka, where Mary teaches at a new blind school established by Adam Kendall. When Grace Snider falls ill, Laura and Mary persuade Mr. Edwards to stay and look after the girls, but he discovers that they, and especially Carrie, can sometimes be hard work. Charles and Caroline discuss moving back to Walnut Grove, but Charles does not want to leave Mary. Edwards, feeling responsible, uses his own money to finance various schemes to persuade the teenage boy to return home. Laura and Mary come back up, but Ellen becomes trapped under the surface; she drowns and dies as a result. While Almanzo is recovering, there is a hailstorm which threatens their crop, and he rushes out into the storm in a panic and suffers a stroke. Nels brokers a truce between Benjamin and Harriet with the suggestion that a boy should be raised in the Jewish faith and a girl should be raised as a Christian. People clean and repair their homes as well as town buildings. Mary decides to 'lose' her glasses, until she sees Miss Beadle's handsome boyfriend. Charles and Caroline travel to Joannaville for the wedding (without the children, because it would be too much to pay for the train tickets). Heartwarming saga of a frontier family's struggles and triumphs on a farm near Walnut Grove, Minn., in the 1870s. Laura seeks revenge on Christie when she becomes a guest clown for the circus, dumping water on her and, after she runs off, kissing Almanzo. The citizens of Walnut Grove organize a posse to track him down, but, as they are searching for him, he chances upon the Wilders' house, and Laura and Jenny must rely on their wits to escape from a dangerous situation. However, the first of the post-series movies, "Little House: Look Back to Yesterday", features Albert's diagnosis with a fatal blood disease (presumably leukemia) before being able to achieve a degree in medicine. So Laura seeks him out at the church social, and they share their first kiss on her 16th birthday. A long time ago, drunken Joe Dortmunder abuses his wife and son, before finally storming out of his house and getting into a fight with the local dock foreman, who shoots and kills him in self-defense. A female campaigner for the equal rights of married women comes to Walnut Grove, looking for signatures on a petition to be submitted to the state legislature. The school was to merge with another blind school in Kansas which would not bring their small staff but would still retain their matron, a woman by the name of Mrs. Terhune. Sylvia and Albert meet secretly and plan to elope. Laura and Andy become detectives to solve a series of burglaries in Walnut Grove. The whole family pitches in to help: Mary sews to earn money while Laura does her chores as well as her own, Caroline helps with the farm work, and Charles toils at two jobs. Season 5, Episode 1. Albert and a friend named Clay experiment with smoking a pipe in the basement and accidentally start a fire, which destroys the building and claims the lives of Alice Garvey and Adam Jr. Unable to deal with mounting pressure by the others to let James die in peace, Charles leaves home and takes his adopted son with him. But a desperate situation soon turns deadly when a renegade U.S. Marshall, blinded by hate, shows up half-frozen at their door, only moments ahead of the man he has vowed to bring back … The church council in Walnut Grove finally vote to accept black man Joe Kagan as a member, against Mrs. Oleson's and Mr. Larabee's wishes. Jeb jumps back into the lake and is able to save her in time, but not before her brain is partly damaged and she is unable to walk, talk, and use her hands normally. When Albert falls in love with her, he determines to see her by accompanying Charles when he travels to a Grange meeting in Minneapolis but, when his father refuses, Albert resorts to desperate measures. Fearing his reaction, Anna had managed to keep secret that she was pregnant and even that she had given birth, but then realized that she could not keep the baby while staying with her father. Mr. Edwards promises to care for a dying traveler's "baby," only to discover it to be an orangutan named Blanche, which makes quick friends with everyone except Nancy, who tries to swat the animal, only for it to fight back. A young orphan boy, Sam, stows away in their wagon and becomes a key player in the search and its happy outcome. Instead, she falls for the flattery of Cass, a balloonist and Patrick's worldly employer. Laura makes friends with a shy classmate, but winds up jeopardizing the friendship when she makes fun of an obese man, not knowing he is the girl's father. In the end, Adam and Eva themselves marry, not only uniting them through their symbolic names, but causing now-Mrs. Eva Simms to become a stepmother, though annoying the officiator and his wife to no end at the ungodly hour they were awakened. Hester Sue's ex-husband, Sam, arrives in Walnut Grove, stating that he is reformed from his days of drinking, gambling and wild living. Sign up. After Caroline complains about the small size of her kitchen, Charles decides to build an addition onto the house, but after starting the work he has to leave to take a rush delivery to Mankato. The resulting nerve damage means Mary's vision cannot be saved, and she will soon go blind. The Olesons hire Percival Dalton to improve the operation of Nellie's failing restaurant and hotel but, even when it is temporarily renamed "Caroline's Restaurant and Hotel", Nellie stubbornly refuses to learn. After Alicia brings him lunch, she is endangered by a falling tree, and although Edwards saves her, he is hit by the tree, badly injuring one of his legs. When Sylvia and her father refuse to explain, Albert comes under suspicion. When Laura is sent to get a doctor, she goes home and tells her Pa what has happened. After Nellie talks with Miss Beadle, she and Luke run away to have a very short-lived marriage (about 10 minutes). James is shot and critically wounded, and the doctor tells Charles that the injuries are potentially fatal. His inability to stay off the bottle nearly destroys his cherished friendship with Charles when he causes an accident that nearly kills Albert. Nancy tricks her new brother Willie into locking a classroom rival in the ice-house all night. Nels goes home where he and Harriet make up. He is now wealthy, having finally hit a big gold strike, and a donation to pay for a new roof for the church makes him popular in town. He dies and leaves Jenny devastated. When the lawyer returns after winding up the estate, he explains to Charles that, because of Uncle Ned's eccentric and profligate lifestyle, his whole estate was eaten up by debts and legal costs, and all that is left is a box containing worthless Confederate banknotes. Nellie does not help him learn to study but instead shows him an even "better" way to succeed by cheating, which she has also been doing. In its final season, it was titled 'Little House: A New Beginning.' Charles visits grief-stricken Mr. Edwards in Chicago after his adopted son John Jr. dies in an apparent street accident. Rate. Later, Sylvia collapses at school, and Albert and Laura take her to Doc Baker who discovers that she is pregnant. Mr. Edwards falls for a friend of Laura's, but their age difference causes a problem. Camp resident Helen Andruss is due at virtually the same time as Louisa and she and her husband Sherman are distraught over the possibility of a breech birth - an almost always fatal condition at the time. Mr. Edwards has become prosperous owning a logging business. A happy-go-lucky man, Toby Noe (, "There's No Place Like Home: Episodes 2 & 3". The Carters buy the little house and Mr. Carter runs the blacksmith shop and Mrs. Carter starts a newspaper. Directed by Maury Dexter. He takes on as his first client a man accused of fraud, after the failure of a land investment deal resulted in many of the citizens of Walnut Grove losing their money. Then Laura teaches Jenny a 'tough love' lesson on the importance of life, like Charles had done for her. Almanzo makes a mistake in carrying too much uphill and is forced to unload, then finds his goods absconded by a desperately poor family, while Charles gets the hare-brained idea of leaving the beaten path and driving his horses into a creek and private property, picking up a hitchhiker named Kavendish (. Houston, the cantankerous caretaker at the Blind School, tries to help two orphaned boys. When they return home, they agree that they are the ones who are really successful and prosperous – with the love of their family. Rev. After Jack dies suddenly of a heart attack on the return trip, and after which his farm is sold and his nameplate casually tossed into the kindling by the new owner, Charles decides he wants to do something to be remembered for. 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. Nels later reminds Harriet that his mother similarly opposed their marriage, and he says he has never regretted it. To raise money, Albert gets a job with the town's blacksmith (Richard Jaeckel). Browse more videos. The judge initially decides to have Matthew placed in a mental hospital for his protection, but after a heartfelt and tearful speech by Mr. Edwards, he allows Matthew to stay with him in Walnut Grove as long as he keeps it quiet. Little House On The Prairie. Laura continues to clash with Eliza Jane, who wants them all to move to Minneapolis. Mary and Laura begin their first day of school at Walnut Grove and meet their school teacher, Miss Beadle (Charlotte Stewart). Almanzo's brother, Royal has … In the woods, Charles builds an altar and prays to God for a miracle. This error is entirely corrected on the "Deluxe Remastered Edition" of TV's Little House on the Prairie which bears the copyright dates from 1974 to 1983 and now 2014. Jack has a job as a powder monkey in a quarry, and enables Charles and Jacob to get work there too, where the hard and dangerous work is well paid. The story focuses on Charles' efforts to patent the table and have it mass produced. However, while in Walnut Grove, Albert starts suffering from serious nosebleeds and exhaustion and is soon diagnosed with leukemia. At the orphanage in Sleepy Eye, Harriet's wish is realized when she finds a young girl named Nancy who reminds her of Nellie and of Harriet herself as a child. Matthew's (Jonathan Hall Kovacs) natural father arrives in Walnut Grove, wanting to reclaim custody after years of searching for him. Everyone is excited at the prospect until they find out that some families would be evicted. Almanzo's brother, Royal, has a serious heart condition. (John and Sarah Carter - they have two sons, Jeb and Jason.) He also gets along well with James and Cassandra, so he decides that he can now offer them a home with him in Minneapolis. The two begin a wonderful friendship, and they learn they have real feelings for each other. Laura has to battle all kinds of adversity and needs a pep-talk from her Pa when she begins to feel sorry for herself. Albert eventually seeks out his estranged father Jeremy, only to stumble upon a freshly-dug grave at his homestead and realize Jeremy has just died, and he has nowhere else to go now. On the cold, rainy evening of his wedding anniversary, Charles is stuck in the middle of nowhere with a broken wagon wheel. Guest Star: Laura has taught Matthew, Jenny and Mr. Edwards sign language and Matthew has become accepted by many of the adults and children of the town. Expanded episodes (90 minutes to 2 hours) have been indicated as such; many of these may not currently be shown in determined areas due to their length. However, Dr. Logan proves to be ill-tempered and has no compassion for his patients, prompting Charles to go all out to convince Dr. Baker that he really is a good doctor and that the people of Hero Township need him. 50:15. Nellie returns to Walnut Grove, and most of her family try to make it the best visit ever. Her parents decide to send her off to a blind school in Iowa. But first, they must face Albert's birth father, Jeremy Quinn, who wants a son who can help him on his farm. As a result, he has to travel away from home to find work and make some money, and meets up with Jack (Don Knight) and Jacob. Aging professional wrestler Milo Stavroupolis comes to nearby Mankato to "fight" the locals. Harriet finds some old Walnut Grove bonds under a loose step when they are fixing up Mr. Hansen's old house. Almanzo's continued morose outlook on life during his recovery from a crippling stroke, not to mention Eliza Jane's pampering, takes its toll on the Wilder marriage. In this three-hour special, the Ingalls family spends Thanksgiving reminiscing their past years in Walnut Grove (via clips from previous episodes). He completes the sale of their homestead to the Carter family from New York, and is given a farewell party by his friends. Then Adam and Mary also move there when Adam takes a position at his late father's law firm. 49:45. … This causes Mary and John much heartache, as they must decide whether to remain together or risk a separation for the sake of John's career. When Doc Baker makes an impassioned plea at the next church service and is supported by the congregation, Dr. Ledoux decides to stay. He leaves the lamp by the barn which catches on fire. Joe Kagan gives up his farm and moves to Sleepy Eye to work with Jonathan Garvey in his freight business and hoping to persuade Hester-Sue to marry him. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983) Episode List. When Mrs. Oleson leaves town for a week on a buying trip for the Mercantile, Nancy again feels that everybody hates her so she gets in being nasty first, including fighting with Cassandra (which has been a counterpart to the past fights between Laura and Nellie). However, the party is threatened when the state taxes are increased to pay for a road construction scheme. Little House On The Prairie S09E21 May I Have This Dance. This prevents crops and other items from being sold and traded, and disables the bank, causing financial problems for the entire town. Later, Eliza Jane is dismayed when she finds out the truth about the professor, but when Mort stands up for Laura against the professor, Eliza Jane says she will support Mort's application for a vacant teaching post at her school in Minneapolis, and they leave together on the train. Caroline hears that her mother and father are coming for a visit, but her mother passes away during the train journey. During a horse-buying trip to Sleepy Eye, Charles meets up with Brett Harper, one of the state's best horse breeders. As Louisa is now no longer there to stick up for her son and Horace is openly hostile toward children, especially girls, Caroline and Doc Baker are faced with a moral dilemma but eventually make the decision to let Helen and Sherman raise the Beckwith boy as their own in a loving home with two parents. Adam reveals to Mary that he is also blind. Charles first locates the young father, Bobbie, and together they find the mother who is his beloved, Anna. Browse more videos. Playing next. Mrs. Oleson decides that reopening Nellie's Restaurant and Hotel as a franchised restaurant will result in big business for the fledgling business. When Laura accidentally breaks her toy doll while playing catch with Mary, Mary finds an orphaned baby raccoon and takes it home, where Laura decides to take care of it. A grief-hardened Charles enlists Mr. Edwards (and later, Albert, after he disobeys a direct order to stay in Sleepy Eye) to track down the men responsible. Meanwhile, a Russian immigrant, Yuli Pyatakov, receives an unexpected large bill for back-taxes on his new farm. 10. 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. 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