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Laura begins teaching at the Walnut Grove school, but Almanzo strongly objects to the idea of her teaching after they are married, insisting that he will provide for them and will not want her to go out to work. Nellie finds out that she is pregnant, which comes as a shock to her mother. Pete begrudgingly resigns to making football practice less severe, after nearly destroying his marriage and family life. These original North American DVD sets included interviews with former cast members Alison Arngrim, Dabbs Greer and Dean Butler. Later copies of these original sets were distributed by Lionsgate Home Entertainment following their acquisition of Imavision, but these should not be confused with the Lionsgate re-releases described below.
Season 7, Episode 2 – Laura Ingalls Wilder Pt. 2
Eventually, James and Cassandra run away, and after Mr. Tompkins declines to help in searching for them, Charles sets off with Almanzo and Adam. When he finds James and Cassandra, he tells them that they will be going home with him, and they joyfully agree. When the children's Uncle Jed (E.J. Andre) tells Charles he is too old to take care of them, Charles feels he has a responsibility to find a new home for them.
Season 7, Episode 11 – To See the Light Pt. 2
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NBC owns ancillary rights and thus is the worldwide licensor for home entertainment rights as well. Sister company NBCUniversal Television Distribution (now renamed as NBCUniversal Syndication Studios since 2021) also distributes the series internationally with MGM Television handling international distribution sales. Because of its historical context and its connection to the book series, it is deemed acceptable for use by the FCC to meet federal E/I programming guidelines.
Season 6 Episode 15 “Whatever Happened to the Class of ’56?”
By seasons 8 and 9 the ratings were dropping and it was no longer NBC'S highest rated scripted series. 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. 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. James remains comatose after a successful operation to remove the bullet. Charles refuses to accept Doc Baker's prognosis that James will not recover, because he believes God has told him James will be healed.
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Part 2
However, high ratings during the seasons run prompted the network to greenlight at least another season. The show continued for another 4 seasons and a spinoff often rebranded as season 9. Carrie goes along with Laura and Mary when they go out collecting insects for a school project, but Carrie wanders off and falls into an abandoned mine shaft.
This episode has the exact same storyline from Bonanza, Season 14 Episode 10, “The Sound of Sadness,” which was also written and directed by Michael Landon. Albert and the rest of the kids are missing because Charles and Caroline had gone to visit Adam and Mary for their anniversary.
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Mrs. Oleson seems to enjoy spreading the bad news, but Charles and Caroline help to bring Laura and Almanzo back together. Meanwhile, Charles has his own problems with Laura as he tries to fit a new picture window in the house. Charles is elected to represent the farmers of Hero Township at a Grange convention in Milwaukee to consider a proposal that farming machinery should be bought directly from manufacturers, saving money for the farmers. At the same time, Caroline gets an invitation to the 25th anniversary reunion party of her school class of 1856 in the same city, so Charles and Caroline travel there together. They find that some of their old classmates have become financially prosperous, and are on the other side of the proposal by the Grange.
Laura goes to Sleepy Eye to help Mary and Adam get the new blind school ready. 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. Then Laura sees Almanzo in town with a saloon girl and thinks he has found a new girlfriend.
Season 7, Episode 9 – The In-laws
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.
Caroline orders Laura to care for her dog, Jack, before going to town to greet a newcomer, Kezia Horn (Hermione Baddeley), who lives in the ruins of a house. 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 says to Albert that the people at the Sleepy Eye orphanage seem nice. But in Season 7’s “Silent Cry,” there is a much different opinion about how the head of the orphanage doesn’t care about splitting up two brothers. Realistically, farm communities at that time had no telephone service whatsoever. Even though the telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, it was not legally recognized until the 1890s. Royal tries to bribe the boys to be good by offering them an Indian head nickel, which is a “buffalo nickel.” Those weren’t issued until 1913.
Actress Barbara Collentine, who plays Edna Mills in this episode, is the wife of Richard Bull (Nels Oleson). Charles gets mad at Albert for talking about marrying Sylvia because Albert is only 14 years old. However in the Season 3 episode “I’ll Ride the Wind,” Charles says Mary can get married a year and a half from that point. Charles does not mind Mary talking about marriage at age 13, but acts as if Albert is way too young at age 14. When Moses Gunn first appears as boxer Joe Kagan in Season 4’s “The Fighter,” Ketty Lester plays his long-suffering wife, Janie. Ms. Lester later debuts as Hester Sue Terhune in Season 5’s “Blind Journey” and plays this character for the remainder of the series.
Larabee's wife, as a result of his hatred of many people, takes their sons and leaves him. The husband in the family that gives Mary accommodation has the same harsh beliefs and is also hostile towards Mary. After one of Mary's students tries to kiss her and she hits him to stop him, Miss Peel accuses Mary of being a 'Jezebel', and, feeling outnumbered, Mary retreats home. 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. As they all sing a hymn, Miss Peel accepts the hand of friendship that Mary offers to her.
However, the old man rejects Joseph because he feels angry and ashamed that his daughter married an Indian. After Joseph gets attacked by bullies in an effort to keep him out of school, his grandfather has a change of heart and shows up at the school to defend Joseph's attendance and asks that his true (native) name be used. When Charles' mother, Laura Colby Ingalls (Jan Sterling) passes away, he travels to Wisconsin and persuades his father, Lansford Ingalls (Arthur Hill), to go back with him to Walnut Grove. 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. When Alison Arngrim (Nellie) did a commentary for this episode on the Season 7 DVD set, she offered some interesting trivia. According to Jewish tradition, a new father does not have contact with the wife for 1-2 months, depending on whether the baby is a boy or girl.
As of January 25, Little House on the Prairie will be airing every weekday on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. The network announced the exciting news on Instagram, giving longtime fans a collective freak-out. The Ingalls family leaves the little house in the Big Woods and heads West.
