Feeling lost and abandoned, Mary battles anger and self-pity at a school for the blind. Charles, Albert, James and Mr. Edwards travel to Sleepy Eye on business. Then Almanzo joins Charles in a well-paid job hauling mining equipment to Arizona which takes them away for two months. Mrs. Oleson demands that the sheriff make sure Blanche is dead this time, but the ape hides in a tree until the arrival of the zookeeper, who convinces the sheriff and Mrs. Oleson to let Blanche live. His daughter Amelia was rumored to have been kidnapped by some Indians. She and Doc Baker organize those residents of the camp remaining healthy to treat the sick. The man's ruse is exposed once he is seriously injured at the school. Annie's mother, married to her second husband, tells him not to reveal the fact that she is also blind, but the truth comes out when she is reunited with her child, who reveals that she suffered a bout of scarlet fever, and Annie's biological father passed away (possibly due to contracting the fever as). This divides opinions in the town, with strong feelings on both sides, causing Reverend Alden to feel he is to blame and so he decides he should leave. Edwards, feeling responsible, uses his own money to finance various schemes to persuade the teenage boy to return home. Jeremy Stokes lives in Walnut Grove. But Hester Sue now has, and she forgives him. Mary wins a place in a statewide math competition, but when Charles cannot afford the cost of the trip to Minneapolis for her and Caroline, Laura is pleased to play a role in getting the town council to foot the bill. All rights reserved. Albert and Bart get into a fight and Almanzo steps in after coming out of Oleson's and seeing what is happening. But Albert and Andy prove their worth, hiking for miles through woods to find a comfortable bed and meal in Sleepy Eye during a downpour. Albert cleverly offers Mrs. Oleson their main beehive for the full amount promised, and she accepts. Little House On The Prairie S04E14 The Rivals - Dailymotion 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. 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 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. Caroline, Almanzo, Laura and Hester Sue recall Christmas memories from when they were children. When there is a drought, Gray, who owns the neighbouring farm, dams the stream which also waters Almanzo's land, thereby threatening Almanzo's crop and his ability to meet the deal. This in turn contradicts the “Last Farewell” episode. Charles manages to convince his family that Brett is a good person, but needs to be sober to be so. While staying with Charles and his family, Lansford begins to form a special relationship with Laura, and this is strengthened when he tells Laura that she was named after her grandmother, Lansford's wife. Almanzo visits her, but their talk turns into another argument. When Mr. Edwards returns, Walnut Grove is placed under quarantine and Alicia, Mr. Edward's daughter, becomes ill with the disease. Mary becomes bitter over her predicament and having to rely on others for basic needs. The Ingalls can't make ends meet so they move to the city to find work. Laura continues to remind her grandfather Lansford of his deceased wife, and their relationship continues to grow. But what will happen if Nancy does not get the attention she normally gets? With Caroline and Hester Sue run off their feet at the restaurant, Harriet signs up with a franchise which promises greater efficiency and more profit, and the restaurant is renamed "Mrs. Sullivan's Kitchen". When Adam Simms (Joshua Bryant) and his shoeless son Luke move to town, Adam instantly takes a liking to Miss Eva Beadle, while Luke and Nellie fall in love. At the end, Laura reminisces about her father claiming to have reaped a harvest he did not expect: a harvest of friends. Charles and Mr. Edwards are forced to take dynamiting jobs for the railroad to fund the surgery. When it's time to make a wish and blow out the candles, everyone is brought to tears when Mary says, "I have nothing to wish for! Charles and Laura travel to visit, and after Laura seems to revive Edwards' old spirit, he suggests a hunting trip for the three. 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. In church on his birthday, the Reverend finds a silver lining to the cloud over Mary and Laura's heads. Laura and Andy become detectives to solve a series of burglaries in Walnut Grove. 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. En route to Minneapolis, Mary, Adam and another woman are involved in a serious stagecoach accident due to a faulty wagon wheel. Alice Garvey continues as teacher. Just as Mary falls in love with newcomer Seth Barton, her nearsightedness begins to worsen. An understanding instructor helps Mary cope with her blindness; Walnut Grove faces financial ruin. In the Hero Township horse race, Laura and her horse Bunny go head-to-head with Nellie and her new thoroughbred, which Mrs. Oleson has bought for her, against the wishes of Nels. Having to use a crutch and fearing he is crippled for life and will be a burden to his family, he falls into severe depression. Meanwhile, Adam wins a teaching award and must travel to Minneapolis to receive it, but they do not have enough money for the trip. He agrees to move to the city to work full-time on producing the tables for a trial period before selling the farm and moving the entire family and things go well at first, until a big furniture manufacturer copies the table and under-prices them. Annie's birth mother realizes who she is and tries to arrange a meeting, but Annie refuses, embittered by memories of being abandoned by her as a child. When her condition deteriorates, it becomes clear she needs an expensive surgery to save her life. Laura makes the mistake of telling Nellie and Willie, and they have some fun at Laura's expense. An excited Laura recruits Albert to help her fix up Mr. Edward's old shack for Mary and Adam to live in. Laura's imagination runs wild on Halloween when she sees Nels apparently cutting off Mrs. Oleson's head, but only Carl will believe her. However, Almanzo takes a second job so that he can secretly pay the shortfall of rent for the blind school, persuading Houston the caretaker to tell Laura that the landlord has reduced the rent. Eventually, Nels tells Molly he is married and that they cannot see each other anymore. Laura begins... Read More » Instead, she falls for the flattery of Cass, a balloonist and Patrick's worldly employer. Then, on a business trip to Sleepy Eye, Charles discovers the truth about Danforth's methods: he performs a schlemiel from town to town with the same three performers in the audience pretending to be disabled, and Reverend Alden is persuaded to stay on. The original episodes of season 5 aired from September 11, 1978 to March 19, 1979. S4 E4 48m. Laura goes to Sleepy Eye to help Mary and Adam get the new blind school ready. Anticipating a bumper return from his wheat crop, Charles is devastated when a hail-storm flattens all the crops in the area. This causes Quinn to tell him he can stay with the Ingalls, which confirms to Albert that his father does not love him as Charles does. As they search for her, Mr. Webb shoots the mystery rapist (revealed to be the town blacksmith) when he attacks Albert and subsequently escapes, but Sylvia suffers a bad fall, and she later dies in the arms of a distraught, heartbroken Albert, however the cryptic final scene (where Albert and Sylvia kiss each other) suggests otherwise, and that they may meet again. Just before Christmas in 1896, Laura and Almanzo and Mr. Edwards are shopping for gifts in Mankato when Rose is kidnapped by a grief-stricken mother, prompting a desperate search. Season 4 Episode 22 48m. When Charles' mother passes away, he travels to Wisconsin and persuades his father, Lansford Ingalls (Arthur Hill), to go back with him to Walnut Grove. Meanwhile, Mary and John are discovering they have feelings for each other. Laura has a crush on a new boy in school named Johnny Johnson, an older student in her class (Mitch Vogel) but Johnny only wants to be her friend, while he is romantically attracted to Mary who has no interest in him. Guest stars: Geoffrey Lewis, Robert Donner, Timothy Scott. When the drought continues, Almanzo loses his crop and the land. In the first episode of a two-part story, an accident unexpectedly restores Adam Kendall's (Linwood Boomer) eyesight. Then Laura encounters an even greater problem, when all the children have to write an essay for Parents' Day, but when the day comes, she creatively rises to the occasion. When Charles reluctantly has to take over the cooking at home, he gets together with Nels to work on a plan to release Harriet from her contract and get things back to normal. Guilt-ridden Laura runs to find Bandit and bonds with him. However, they are saddened by the state of some of the marriages of their old friends. S4 E3 48m. 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. The family moves into the hotel. Royal's wife believes a parent should never say 'No' to a child, and their boys' constant mischief tries the patience of Almanzo and Laura, who are determined to adopt a different parenting style with their own children. The promise of becoming rich is realized by only a lucky few, which leads to ill-feeling, lawlessness and even deaths. While she is climbing up a hillside, her old glasses fall out of her pocket and the lenses magnify the sunlight and soon start a fire, which acts as a signal for Charles and Jonathan, who are searching for them. Laura explains that Mr. Hanson died peacefully a few months later, happy in the knowledge that the town he loved would live on. Laura asks her to go home with her the afternoon of her first day at school to work on their essays and they go by the Blind School on the way home. The sick are treated while the storehouse containing the cornmeal is burned to the ground. 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. James and Cassandra's grand-uncle Jed comes to Walnut Grove to visit them. Alden finds a family who agree to take in the orphans, but the husband, Isaiah Tompkins, is a harsh man who works the children to exhaustion, resulting in Laura warning them that they are failing at school. Laura and Almanzo say, “I do.” Adam’s sight returns and he and Mary open a law practice. However, the eye doctor discovers that Mary is only experiencing a rare condition in which her senses perceive the heat in sunlight as light [now known as, When many Walnut Grove townsfolk, including Laura, Albert and Adam, become seriously ill after eating, Laura and Albert's friend from school Dylan-(. After Joseph gets attacked by bullies, his grandfather has a change of heart and shows up at school to reveal Joseph's father. Overhearing that his daughter is ashamed of him, the man tells his family that he got a job out of town, but instead sleeps in a storeroom in the blind school, where he works. Nels takes a job at the saloon and they move into the rooming house next door, all of which are also owned by Standish. 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. Mary is the only one who is able to seek help, since Adam is injured and the other lady in the stagecoach is pregnant and about to go into labor. Mrs. Oleson is suddenly keen to socialize with them, and other people treat them differently as well. Charles refuses to accept Doc Baker's prognosis that James will not recover, because he believes God has told him James will be healed. Charles and Caroline travel to Joannaville for the wedding (without the children, because it would be too much to pay for the train tickets). Anna is reunited with her baby, telling Laura she will keep the name Grace. Almanzo falls ill with diphtheria, and with Laura heavily pregnant, Charles goes to great lengths to help them. However, Nancy, whose mind is focused on the large reward, leads McQueen to Mr. Edwards. the result of the leaves project gives some satisfaction to Laura and Mary. In this three-hour special, the Ingalls family spends Thanksgiving reminiscing their past years in Walnut Grove (via clips from previous episodes). At the train station, the children's curiosity takes them too far and they find themselves in a runaway caboose. Meanwhile Charles has problems with the corruption he witnesses at the Grange meetings. Sarah Carter's imposing father visits Walnut Grove. The two begin a wonderful friendship, and they learn they have real feelings for each other. This season is also known as Little House: A New Beginning. Mr. Edwards, and later, Almanzo and John, become mixed up with the criminal activities of a bumbling gang of outlaws. During the trip, things do not go as planned, but a frightening encounter eventually leads to Mr. Edwards and John Jr. becoming closer. When he drunkenly causes an accident that nearly kills Albert, Charles angrily tells his old friend to leave town. An Indian tribe comes to Walnut Grove asking for medical help for their sick chief. After Nellie talks with Miss Beadle, she and Luke run away to have a very short-lived marriage (about 10 minutes). 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. Meanwhile, Laura and Andy use the Confederate money to decorate the inside walls of their new clubhouse. John is offered a scholarship in Chicago that will allow him to live his dream of becoming a writer. Mr. Edwards and Doc Baker provide help to a nearby town during a mountain fever epidemic. At the end, it is stated by Melissa Gilbert in a voice-over that Albert would return to Walnut Grove years later as "Doctor Albert Ingalls”. When she learns that a German student, Erich Schiller, beat Nellie in the school spelling bee, Mrs. Oleson claims that the lad's German immigrant parents are illiterate. 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