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When her grandmother begs Charles for help, he has an idea for a way to help Olga, despite her embittered father Jon's (Jan Merlin) lack of support. Jon happens to be overly protective of his child's safety and doesn't want his daughter to go anywhere in her condition, even to a point of wanting to keep her isolated, much to his mother's (Olga's grandmother) dismay. Then, when the Ingalls girls have their own party with their friends from school, Laura exacts her revenge on Nellie.
Season 1, Episode 4 – Mr. Edward’s Homecoming
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While staying with Charles and his family, Lansford begins to form a special relationship with his granddaughter Laura, and this is strengthened when he tells Laura that she was named after her grandmother, Lansford's wife. Season 1 had moderate ratings, season 2 was the lowest ranked season of the series. From season three through season seven it was one of NBC'S highest rated scripted series. By seasons 8 and 9 the ratings were dropping and it was no longer NBC'S highest rated scripted series.
Season 1, Episode 11 – The Voice of Tinker Jones
Caleb Hodgekiss, an ex-convict, finds him and takes him to his house where his wife takes care of him. Hodgekiss volunteers to get the donations from Walnut Grove, but plans to take the donations for himself. However, his experiences with the people of Walnut Grove, especially Mary, bring about a change of heart. 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.
Post-series movie specials (1983–
Charles and Caroline decide to also move to Winoka in order to be near Mary. 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. At the last church service, Mary shares her testimony with the congregation.
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Jason makes plenty of happy memories with his friend before her death. Hester-Sue's ex-husband, Sam Terhune, comes to Walnut Grove claiming he has reformed himself from his drinking and gambling and asking for a second chance with her. Although she is initially suspicious and cautious, Hester-Sue eventually gives in to her feeling that she still loves him, and it is not long before they plan to re-marry. However, on the wedding day, some surprise visitors show up, and Hester-Sue sadly realizes that, despite his good intentions, Sam has not changed. 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". 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.
Season 3 Episode 18 “The Wisdom of Solomon”
Sarah eventually grows tired of being told what to do, and stands up to her father. Sarah's father eventually sees the error of his ways and lets Sarah and her family stay in Walnut Grove. A farmer named Mr. Stark is denied a loan at the bank and soon goes bankrupt. He flies into a terrible rage and shoots his wife and daughter, and takes off.
Jennifer and Michelle Steffin (Rose Wilder)
Laura becomes frustrated with Jack and gives up trying to take the foxtails out of his ears. Mary, Laura, Nellie, and Willie visit Kezia and find out what a unique yet kind person she is. Charles assumes Jack knew his time was coming and decided to spare everyone the sadness of watching him die, but Laura feels guilty about neglecting him.
Leslie Landon (Etta Plum)
There, Mary meets up with John Jr., who has started a job as a cub reporter for a newspaper. Former lovebirds John and Mary soon find their lives headed in separate directions, especially for John Jr., who has a new girlfriend. Meanwhile Charles has problems with the corruption he witnesses at the Grange meetings.
Michael Landon
Mr. Edwards falls for a young woman who is half his age, only to realize that marriage would eventually be a burden to her. In this episode, three-year-old Carrie has two significant one-on-one scenes with Charles; first when she asks Charles what Christmas is, and again when she and Charles are talking about Santa in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve. We don’t see Carrie interact this much with her father again until Season 5’s “The Godsister“. When Kate accompanies him on a visit to deliver a baby to a woman whose own birth he had handled, their age difference is magnified for both of them.
But later, one of his tables with his 'CI' mark is bought as a prized antique at an auction approximately 100 years later in the then present day (1982). The characters Mary and Adam had taken a back seat and only appeared a handful of times in the 7th season. Melissa Sue Anderson decided to leave the show, and only appeared in 2 episodes of season 8. She appeared briefly in The Reincarnation of Nellie Part 1, and as a guest star in The Christmas They Never Forgot. Subsequently, the shots of her running down the hill with her sisters were removed from the opening theme.
The beloved television series starring Melissa Gilbert and Michael Landon originally aired on NBC from 1974 to 1982. (Boy, do we feel old! 🤯) It followed the life of the charming Ingalls family— husband Charles, his wife Caroline, and their three daughters—after they migrated westward to settle on a farm in Minnesota in the 1800s. When Laura announces that she is expecting a baby, Caroline says that she is also. Later, she finds out from Doc Baker that she is not expecting but is experiencing an early menopause and cannot have any more children.
Coulter was played by the daughter of Lee J. Cobb, Julie Cobb who later married Victor French (Mr. Edwards). The in-town part of this two-part episode was filmed before the Tinker Jones episode. You can see that the church doesn’t have a bell early in the episode. Barney was the dog who played Jack, and even though he wasn’t a bulldog as described in the books, Michael Landon fell in love with him. Edwards is a character in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House book series.
Lars Hanson summons his final strength and appears before the townspeople to thank them for revitalizing the town he founded. Laura explains that Mr. Hanson died peacefully a few months later, happy in the knowledge that the town he loved would live on. This marks the first appearance of Linwood Boomer as Adam Kendall, and the final appearance of Charlotte Stewart as Mrs. Beadle-Simms. Ebenezer Sprague (Ted Gehring), the banker, is also said to leave Walnut Grove in the wake of the town going bankrupt. Season 4 was rumoured to have been the final season of the series, ending with Mary losing her eyesight. However, high ratings during the seasons run prompted the network to greenlight at least another season.
