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. 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. A farmer named Mr. Stark is denied a loan at the bank and soon goes bankrupt. At the very last minute, Mr. Edwards makes a monumental decision: he marries Grace - and they take on all three children. In the end, the wedding goes on, with Susan as. Both sides attempt to unbalance the game in their own favor. Mr. Edwards leads a harried but courageous effort to save the two men's lives. It becomes clear that John Jr. was murdered, and Charles and Edwards and Callahan bring the villains to justice. LHOTP-Pilot Part3. Mrs. Oleson finagles a job writing a column for the fledgling newspaper, and soon pens scandalous stories about the residents of Hero Township. Meanwhile, Nels and Percival are both concerned about their wives' eating habits. Albert cleverly offers Mrs. Oleson their main beehive for the full amount promised, and she accepts. A blog dedicated to Laura Ingalls Wilder, her famous children's books, and the shows based on them. 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. Charles has an idea for a way to help Olga, despite her embittered father Jon's-(Jan Merlin) lack of support; who doesn't want his daughter to go anywhere in her condition. Back at the school. Former college football star Pete Ellerbee comes to Walnut Grove to coach the town's football team and to encourage his son in playing. Little House on the Prairie: Christmas is a compilation of two Christmas episodes from the long-running television show. Travelling with them are a black man (, To buy Caroline a new set of china, Charles secretly takes a woodworking job for an attractive young widow (. When the Garveys return home, they find their barn in flames, and Larabee is fingered as the likely culprit. A devastated Mr. Edwards decides he will move into Laura's new boarding house, where a multi-talented English writer named Sherwood Montague (Robert Casper Lilley) has also taken up residence. Eventually, Laura and the other school children scheme together to play a trick on Nancy at the school's charity bazaar and seem to succeed in teaching her a lesson. 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). In its original NBC telecast, Bless All the Dear Children ranked 18th of 65 programs in the weekly Nielsen ratings, with an 18.2 rating and 27% share of the audience. Charles confronts Murdoch about his newspaper, but his complaints fall on deaf ears. When his family and friends question if he is losing his grip on reality, Charles takes James away into the woods, and builds a shelter and a stone altar. Andy also does pretty well on the final on his own with a higher grade than Nellie. Charles is in trouble with Caroline after forgetting their wedding anniversary. Pete begrudgingly resigns to making football practice less severe, after nearly destroying his marriage and family life. Nels finds himself fighting temptation and infidelity, complicated by Charles accidentally catching him kissing a woman who is not his wife. She and Charles travel to visit the eye doctor for tests, while Adam struggles with the possibility of Mary regaining her vision and what that might mean for their future. Then Laura is injured when a tornado strikes, and she becomes angry when she discovers the calamitous effect upon their house. Charles and Caroline discuss buying an expensive hat for Mary's 16th birthday. When a new girl arrives in school who looks like a rival, Laura decides she must compete for him by giving up her 'tom-boy' behaviour and becoming more like Nellie. After Rose recovers, Laura acknowledges that she had been wrong and that Doc Baker is a good doctor, and she persuades him to stay. Kezia speaks to Laura about how the dog only wants to love her, and how she also wants to love others but hasn't been accepted. Nels takes a job at the saloon and they move into the rooming house next door, all of which are also owned by Standish. While he tries his hand at farming, a new physician, Dr. Logan, accepts a call to replace him. 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. Season 3 Episode 11 Blizzard Little House on the Prairie One Christmas episode not on the holiday DVD is from Season 3. Meanwhile, Laura has a crush on schoolmate Jason and, with Albert's counsel, tries to get him to notice her. Meanwhile, Laura and Albert get Mrs. Oleson and Nellie to come pick up the hive (just a small nearby log full of bees), not telling them they're actually doing it during the time the bees are the most active and mean, causing them to get attacked on the way home. Encountering a steep hill, Charles and Albert (with James and Cassandra in the back of their wagon) descend safely, but Alvin loses control of his wagon which overturns, killing him and Sarah instantly. The school district's superintendent comes to Walnut Grove, looking for someone who can replace a teacher who has fallen and broken her leg. Grace writes to the Ingalls asking for their help. 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'. I am 60 years old and I got “Little House on the Prairie” one Christmas and my mom’s youngest sister got “ On the Banks of Plum Creek.” I read her my book and hers and looked for every book I could find. Almanzo grows more and more depressed after his stroke and refuses to perform his therapy, and even the birth of his daughter, Rose, doesn't help. On the original Lionsgate/NBC DVD set, this episode is placed before "Bunny". 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. But Caroline fears how Charles will react if the baby is a girl, especially after Mrs. Beadle-Simms has a boy herself. A Matter of Faith (Season 2 Episode 15) Not wanting to delay the family camping trip, Ma sends Pa off with the girls, promising to join them later. Things get worse when Laura sets some traps to catch the culprit, but winds up catching Charles instead (at one point, causing him to be doused with green paint). When Standish refuses to give Charles a pay advance, he sells his fiddle to get enough money for the hat without telling Caroline. Miss Beadle and Doc Baker discover that a boy in school named Graham Stewart gets beatings from his alcoholic father John (, A university-educated farmer named Joseph Coulter (, While returning from a spring family trip to Mankato, the Ingalls receive a twofold warning from a Federal Marshal (. Sarah becomes jealous over the blossoming friendship, until Ruthy reveals her that she is dying. She returns to Walnut Grove temporarily in order to say goodbye. A young orphan boy, Sam, stows away in their wagon and becomes a key player in the search and its happy outcome. 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. Meanwhile, Mary and John are discovering they have feelings for each other. Charles has always wanted a son, and has another chance to get one when Caroline announces she's pregnant. In the event, she does go, but theatrically dressed in black funeral clothes. Larabee's wife, as a result of his hatred of many people, takes their sons and leaves him. However, Nancy, whose mind is focused on the large reward, leads McQueen to Mr. Edwards. 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. So Caroline moves out of the house and organizes other wives in a mass 'walk out' from their matrimonial duties. In church on his birthday, the Reverend finds a silver lining to the cloud over Mary and Laura's heads. It is up to the townspeople to rebuild Walnut Grove and rekindle the spirit of both the town and Mr. Hanson. John is offered a scholarship in Chicago that will allow him to live his dream of becoming a writer. Charles and Albert return to Walnut Grove after Albert has repeated run-ins with the law for curfew violations and theft. Mary gets her first teaching job in the backwoods community of Willow Prairie, but she is met with stern opposition from Miss Peel, an elderly woman who has thwarted a previous attempt to establish a school and justifies her actions with a flawed understanding of the Bible. Charles goes to the school and poses as Doc Baker, and he manages to overcome the villains. James remains comatose after a successful operation to remove the bullet. Meanwhile, Albert builds a doghouse for Bandit, who seems not to understand its purpose. After the death of his father, Joseph Strokes, the half-breed son of a Sioux Indian and a white woman, moves to Walnut Grove. Anticipating a bumper return from his wheat crop, Charles is devastated when a hail-storm flattens all the crops in the area. Meanwhile Almanzo and Mr. Carter travel to San Francisco for the Grange with a series of humorous adventures including the culture shock of a Japanese hotel, bathhouse, and eating with chopsticks, getting arrested after a false accusation by the very old lady who pick-pocketed them, and sneaking home aboard a dingy cattle car with a single apple to split. Then Adam and Mary also move there when Adam takes a position at his late father's law firm. Now, Joe's biggest challenge is to figure out how to keep his son from making the same mistake he did. Laura and Nellie vie for the affections of a new schoolboy named Jason (. 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. Albert is unofficially adopted in this episode. Laura befriends a stranger while out fishing, and is stunned to later discover he is none other than Walnut Grove's new banker. Eventually, it's all for naught, as Charles loves his baby Grace just the same. In this three-hour special, the Ingalls family spends Thanksgiving reminiscing their past years in Walnut Grove (via clips from previous episodes). 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". At Mary's surprise birthday party, she reveals that her "gift" from Charles and Caroline is not the hat, but her Pa's fiddle, and Mary says that the best birthday present she could have is hearing Pa play. Both episodes were written by Michael Landon. After Nellie talks with Miss Beadle, she and Luke run away to have a very short-lived marriage (about 10 minutes). However, it falls into jeopardy when Bunny, Laura's horse, is badly injured and has to be put down. 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. John Carter is the new town blacksmith and his wife Sarah starts a newspaper, the Walnut Grove Gazette. Alden to church leadership, but the tables turn when the minister representative (William Schallert) turns out to be her former fiancé, who broke their engagement when unable to commit to serving "both God and marriage". The movie was originally intended to air in December 1983 but was not aired until December 1984, 10 months after the official series finale. 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. Laura offers to teach sign language to a deaf boy, Daniel, and his widowed father. Laura and Albert work hard to harvest honey from a beehive after making a deal with Mr. Oleson, who said he would buy it at 30 cents a pound. When they hear, Mary and Charles travel to see Adam, and Mary, trying to make up for her previous lack of support for Adam's ambition, persuades the college professor to allow him to complete his examinations, and Adam wins a scholarship to study law. 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. As construction of the new school for the blind is progressing, Adam gets the news that his father has died, and when he and Laura go to New York they learn that his father's entire estate has been wiped out by his heavy debts and cannot now finance the new school building. 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. Movies. 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. Although many in Walnut Grove think he's a homicidal maniac who lives in a haunted house, brave Laura Ingalls befriends mysterious hermit, Amos Pike, and soon discovers the truth behind both the rumors and the old man's reclusive life. 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