A homeless orphan named Albert, whom Laura encountered in the previous episode, continues a life of panhandling, shoe shining, and stealing. She returns to the eye doctor, who discovers she had scarlet fever a few years back. When Michael Landon decided to leave the show, it got this new name, the focus was put on the characters of Laura and Almanzo, and more recurring characters were added. James remains comatose after a successful operation to remove the bullet. He also gets along well with James and Cassandra, so he decides that he can now offer them a home with him in Minneapolis. Charles just wants to be a spectator and tells his girls that it is the taking part that is important, not the winning. 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. But when Charles is annoyed by the attitude of an aging lumberjack (. Working with Callahan (M. Emmet Walsh), deputy editor of the newspaper John Jr. was working for, their enquiries rouse their suspicions over the circumstances of his death, and lead them to uncover political and business corruption which John Jr. was investigating. Little House On The Prairie. However, they disagree when Almanzo suggests that there might be a shortcut to get to Sleepy Eye more quickly than the usual route, so the two decide to have a race to see who is right. Darkness Is My Friend. She falls into depression, so Charles, himself heartbroken upon learning that he will never have the chance of another natural son, takes Caroline on a trip to Wisconsin for the wedding of the son of an old friend, and there they decide to renew their own wedding vows. When Percival's parents visit Walnut Grove for the birth of Nellie's baby, Percival reveals that his real name is Isaac Cohen, much to Harriet's consternation. Mrs. Oleson's distant cousin, Sterling Murdoch, comes to Walnut Grove to start the town's first newspaper, "The Pen and the Plow." Disney + Pixar + Marvel + Star Wars + Nat Geo, Stream on up to 4 devices at the same time. While he is stricken with medical problems, a fight with Charles Ingalls ends his career. 9. Charles copes with his problems until a family picnic in the meadow leads to a serious setback with Charles getting injured after falling out of a tree while attempting to grab their toy kite that got stuck in a branch. Daniel makes good progress, and then he suddenly tells Laura he loves her and tries to kiss her. TVG. But what will happen if Nancy does not get the attention she normally gets? Audiobook My Little House on the Prairie Home School Workbook Kimberly M. Hartfield [DOWNLOAD] … James and Cassandra settle in happily with the Ingalls family. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983) Episode List. Reverend Alden speaks with Kezia, who decides to leave Walnut Grove because no one is accepting of her, and it is up to Laura to get everyone to change their minds before it is too late. Laura returns to her family, saying she wants to leave Almanzo, and even picks a fight with Brenda Sue. Joe starts doing odd jobs at the blind school, and he befriends and helps a blind boy called Timothy (Keith Mitchell) who has failed to respond to Hester-Sue. Our family enjoyed all nine of the Little House seasons. The Family Tree. Laura and Almanzo adopt Almanzo's niece, Jenny, following the death of his brother, Royal Wilder. Rate. Meanwhile, under Percival's tutelage, Nellie learns to cook and be pleasant to her customers, and when he is about to leave she tells Percival she loves him. At a subsequent town meeting, Laura clashes with Mrs. Oleson over what changes should be made and, when Mr. Oleson abstains and the meeting votes against her, Laura resigns and challenges Mrs. Oleson to take over the teaching, a task she gleefully accepts. Caroline, Almanzo, Laura and Hester Sue recall Christmas memories from when they were children. They vacate their home and farm without even putting it up for sale, since no one would buy it anyway considering the shape Walnut Grove is in. a law to allow married women to own property, "USFL scrambling for radio and TV coverage", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Little_House_on_the_Prairie_episodes&oldid=997611342, Lists of American drama television series episodes, Lists of American Western television series episodes, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, After the sudden death of her dear friend, 80-year old "Miss Amy" Hearn (. After Laura talks with Caroline, who understands that she is in love with Almanzo, Laura makes up with her Pa and tells him he can still call her "Half-Pint". Laura goes to Sleepy Eye to help Mary and Adam get the new blind school ready. After agreeing to join all the other farmers in insisting on what they believe is a fair price from the mill-owners for their wheat, Judd Larabee breaks his promise and makes a separate deal at a lower price, partly because of his racist antagonism against black farmer Joe Kagan. This prevents crops and other items from being sold and traded, and disables the bank, causing financial problems for the entire town. Meanwhile, Laura and Andy use the Confederate money to decorate the inside walls of their new clubhouse. Albert cleverly offers Mrs. Oleson their main beehive for the full amount promised, and she accepts. 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. Mary, who has recently gone blind, is sent to a blind school in Iowa, where she meets Adam Kendall. 3. Rate. However, the old man rejects Joseph because he feels angry and ashamed that his daughter married an Indian. Charles finds out the whole story and tells Laura. Charles is disgusted by the noisy saloon and its foul-mouthed patrons. Nels and Harriet Oleson both go a bit too far in what they say during one of their squabbles, and they decide to separate, with Harriet taking the children back east. Laura's things are found outside the house of Busby, a mentally challenged and disfigured man whom Charles had warned his daughters to stay away from, and suspicion falls on him. However, after a talk with her father, she goes back with Charles, and at a church meeting Mary takes on her opponents, and it emerges that Miss Peel cannot read, which is why she misquotes the Bible. Adam reveals to Mary that he is also blind. Season: OR ... 16 Nov. 1981 The Legend of Black Jake. 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. Times Are Changing Part 2. First of two parts. Laura and Almanzo's daughter Rose is baptized and Mr. Edwards becomes her godfather. A traveling minister, Jacob Danforth, comes to Walnut Grove on a 'healing' crusade and attracts a large attendance at his meetings where some people make miraculous recoveries. The campaigner is called Elizabeth Smith, which was also the name of a real-life advocate and financial supporter of the women's rights movement in the nineteenth century. After the funeral, Ellen's grief-stricken mother blames Laura for the tragedy and rebuffs the efforts of several people to cheer her up. Charles is forced to address Albert's recent criminal behavior. Little House On The Prairie Season 9 Episode 16 Home Again (Part I) Little House on the Prairie. S5 E1 48m. With her Ma away, Laura keeps the home fires burning! Rage. When a serious snowstorm threatens to strand the children in the schoolhouse on the last day before Christmas vacation, Miss Beadle dismisses the children early. After Julia Sanderson's death, her three children stay with Grace, with help from Mr. Edwards. So Caroline moves out of the house and organizes other wives in a mass 'walk out' from their matrimonial duties. Laura and Grace Snider both need dates for the annual Spring Dance, but those they have their eyes on seem not to be interested. Charles and Jonathan compete against another team to win a freighting contract. Mrs. Oleson realizes how wrong she was and gets the charges dropped against Lou, who gets the job at the bank. Alice Garvey continues as teacher. The Ingalls family is delighted by the birth of a baby boy, Charles Frederick Ingalls, but Laura becomes jealous about the attention he receives from Charles and refuses to pray for her new brother's good health. Eventually, Nels tells Molly he is married and that they cannot see each other anymore. James is shot and critically wounded, and the doctor tells Charles that the injuries are potentially fatal. The Ingalls family (apart from Laura) leave Walnut Grove and move to Iowa. The Ingalls, Oleson, and Garvey families are all set to return home. Alden; he is arranging a house for him in Walnut Grove. This worries Mary, who starts to believe Adam will not want to stay with a blind wife now that he has rejoined the world of the sighted. Unable to summon help, she is about to succumb to her illness, but she is inspired by a passage in her Bible to perform a painful procedure, which later impresses even Doc Baker. Charles explains to Laura that Almanzo acted out of jealousy, which means that he is now returning her feelings for him. Laura grows jealous when Charles starts giving more attention to Albert. The family moves into the hotel. This marks the first appearance of Linwood Boomer as Adam Kendall, and the final appearance of Charlotte Stewart as Mrs. Beadle-Simms. Caroline nurses her and sees loathingly to her husband Horace's basic needs until he threatens her with bodily harm after which she lashes back with a fire torch. The Olesons get themselves invited onto the Ingalls family campout, after Nellie complains that it will give Laura and Mary an advantage for the school holiday project of leaf-collecting. Little House on the Prairie S9e15 Once Upon a Time. Houston hides the boys, and they become attached to him and he wants to adopt them, but is told that would not be possible for him. However, this causes Mary to worry she will let down the whole town if she fails to win, but her return to Walnut Grove dispels her fears. The regular series was preceded by the two-hour pilot movie, which first aired on March 30, 1974. Inspired by learning about the railroads at school, Mary, Laura, and Carl resort to underhand tactics to join their fathers on a haulage trip to Springfield, so that they can see real trains. The Ingalls family moves to the banks of Plum Creek, near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, and Charles gets a job at Hanson's mill for the lumber to build the 'Little House'. When Charles is unable to find someone to adopt all three children, he has to make the difficult decision to place them in separate homes. As Long as We're Together Part 2. Charles temporarily takes the role as the family man while he tries to sober Harper up, but his touch may have worked too well: Harper's wife and children like Charles better than drunken Brett (who had become that way after his son had died). But for one particular family, it will not be a merry Christmas. 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 (. Their disagreement grows to the point where they intend to divorce. S6 E1 48m. Little House on the Prairie S01E12 The Award by Little House on … Adam and Mary decide to leave the blind school in the care of Hester-Sue, and they return to Walnut Grove, where Adam opens a law firm of his own. This initiates a custody battle between McQueen and Mr. Edwards. After travelling with Jenny to Minneapolis, Laura learns that she has won the contest and she is offered the opportunity to have her novel published. Nellie and Percival move to New York City to run Percival's family's store after the death of his father. The Garveys arrive and move in right behind the Ingalls family, though Jonathan initially cannot find a job. Charles and a friend, Jack Prescott, deliver some tables, hand-made by Charles, to a store in Minneapolis, for which Charles makes a few "as a hobby". Both sides attempt to unbalance the game in their own favor. The following is a list of episodes for the television show Little House on the Prairie, an American Western drama about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota from the 1870s to the 1890s. Sarah becomes jealous over the blossoming friendship, until Ruthy reveals her that she is dying. The series began on the NBC network on September 11, 1974, and ended on May 10, 1982. Jonathan helps Andy resolve his feeling that Mary and Adam are to blame for his mother's death. However, as they return through Sleepy Eye, Laura spots an old courthouse building available for rent. Adam travels with Hester-Sue, Caroline and Harriet to Redwood Falls to apply for state funding for the blind school. Meanwhile, Charles gives Albert a different lesson in cheating...cheating within the heart, as he is trying to barely pass or make just fair/satisfactory grades in school to be more popular. 5. However, on the wedding day, some surprise visitors show up, and Hester Sue sadly realizes that, despite his good intentions, Sam has not changed. In the end, Kezia stays, as well as Bandit. Rate. However, Laura persuades him to stay, and he works on the farm with Almanzo and sobers up. A widowed circus man and young father named Little Lou (Billy Barty) makes a promise to his wife to quit the circus and move to Walnut Grove to try to make a living after his wife dies during childbirth. 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. However, Harriet overhears a secret from Alice Garvey's past regarding a hidden divorce and broadcasts it, which causes problems for the Garveys and sends Jonathan on a quest to Minneapolis to find Alice's ex-husband, a failed gambler who was in prison for a failed bank robbery. Finally, Albert, Laura, Michele, Miss Plum and the local school children make their annual climb to 'the keepsake tree' at the top of Harper's Bluff, where Laura and Albert place their own keepsake in the box hidden there. Then an obesely overweight boy, Elmer, joins the school and is teased by his classmates, but he is a bright student and Nancy exploits his attraction to her. His boss, an unscrupulous professional wrestling promoter persuades Jonathan to compete for a large money prize in his shady wrestling competition in Mankato, duping him into facing the current champion Hans. 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 the Garveys' barn burns down and they lose their entire harvest, Alice wants to take a job at the post office to bring in some money, but Jonathan believes that it is a man's role to support his family and forbids it. Charles decides to bring Albert back to Walnut Grove after police arrest him for theft in Chicago, and Charles discovers Albert's morphine addiction. Meanwhile, Charles, Jonathan Garvey, and the rest of the town of Walnut Grove have another problem as the whole township is threatened by an escalation of a dispute between The Grange and the railroads. En route, they stop at the University of Minnesota where Albert plans on pursuing his medical endeavors; they then reunite with family and old friends in Walnut Grove. The following is a list of episodes for the television show Little House on the Prairie, an American Western drama about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota from the 1870s to the 1890s. Patrick helps to rescue her, and Mary finally chooses him over Cass. This last season, however, was not comparable to the others. 2. Andy confesses in front of the entire class and Mrs. Olesen (who walked in on the class and is on the school board and insists on offering an award to the best student, whom she presumes will be her daughter Nellie). While in Mankato, Charles encounters a drunken Mr. Edwards in the midst of a bar fight and takes him back to Walnut Grove. Then Charles has the idea of trying to get it published. 53:29. The 1st Annual Charity Picnic is held at The Harriet Oleson Institute for the Advancement of Blind Children to raise funds to extend the building. Albert and Laura get the help of the bank manager, Mr. Anderson, in teaching Harriet an expensive lesson, which includes Harriet giving her share of Oleson's Mercantile to Nels, making him the sole owner. They manage to convince him that Albert did not make Sylvia pregnant, but Sylvia has run off. Guest star: Ernie Hudson as a ditch worker. Year: Season 6. Unfortunately, many are unable to get home and the men of Walnut Grove must organize a search party. Helen's birth is indeed a breech and the baby dies. In fact, John Jr. doesn't want to kill animals and prefers reading and writing poetry, but Mr. Edwards is reluctant to accept that and insists they go on a hunting trip. S5 E6 73m. The adventures of the Ingalls Family continue in Season Nine of “Little House on the Prairie.”The original episodes aired from September 27, 1982, to March 21, 1983. He is forced to relent, however, when he is told that the leaders and businessmen of other nearby towns, having heard what happened in Walnut Grove, announce they will do the same thing. Little House on the Prairie – Episode Guide – Season 4. But Hester Sue now has, and she forgives him. When Caroline finds out the truth, she prepares for a showdown with Mary, but there is another surprise in the offing for her, and mother and daughter are reconciled. He gets a ride with Mr. Edwards on a delivery trip to Mankato, and gets involved with a poker game and a dance hall girl. Seeing her anger, Almanzo is inspired to pitch in and help rebuild the house. Doradebiane. However, Nellie does not properly prepare for the race, so the stage is set for a close finish. Laura writes Mary a card in Braille. In flashback: the day they met, Charles' troubles in school, and their first dance. Rate. Sales dry up and Charles decides that his greatest legacy will be his children. 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