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Solomon tells his mother he wants to learn to read and write and go to school, which his mother (Maidie Norman) and brother (David Downing) explain isn’t realistic. Solomon runs away and ends up hiding on the back of the wagon being ridden by Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) and Dr.Hiram Baker (Kevin Hagen) to Walnut Grove. This is technically a two-part episode where there is a drought and Almanzo Wilder (Dean Butler) loses his crop and the land. Laura suggests she take a teaching position to help them earn money for a new farm, but Almanzo objects and postpones the wedding. They continue to argue, and eventually, Laura breaks their engagement.
Season 5, Episode 15 “The Craftsman”
Edwards says in his final speech that two years ago, Nels extended credit to everyone in town because of a drought. He is obviously referring to Season 8’s “Stone Soup,” which wasn’t even one year ago. Actor Jonathan Hall Kovacs, who makes his first appearance in this episode as the mute Matthew Rogers, is also deaf in real life. When Jeb, Jason, Jenny, and Nancy sneak into the tent to see “The Wild Boy,” notice Nancy’s wig. Right before she goes to poke the Wild Boy, and right after Jenny pushes her to the ground, one side of her wig is hiked up as if it’s not attached tightly enough to her head.
Season 9, Episode 12 – Marvin’s Gardens
Harriet becomes very depressed, and Doc Baker suggests she and Nels adopt, but it takes a visit from Cassandra to revive Harriet's spirits. At the orphanage in Sleepy Eye, Harriet's wish is realized when she finds a young girl named Nancy who reminds her of Nellie and of Harriet herself as a child. Nancy quickly causes trouble at the school in Walnut Grove, but Laura has already worked out that Nancy is another Nellie. Milo Stavropoulis is a former Greek champion wrestler forced to become a jobber in order to pay for his ailing wife Anna's continued medical treatment. 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. After Jonathan wins a rigged preliminary bout, many of the residents of Walnut Grove bet on Jonathan to win the final, including Mrs. Oleson who risks the money entrusted to her as treasurer for the church.
Season 6 Episode 15 “Whatever Happened to the Class of ’56?”
“Bunny,” the episode where Nellie gets thrown from the horse she’d won from Laura in a previous episode and ends up paralyzed, is a fan favorite. The climactic scene occurs shortly after Laura discovers that Nellie can, in fact, walk and has been faking her paralysis just to get attention. She gets her revenge by taking Nellie to the top of a hill in her wheelchair and giving her an almighty shove. In reality, Arngrim had recently broken her wrist in a skateboarding accident, so the plaster cast on her arm was real.
Season 6, Episode 1 – Back to School Pt. 1
Meanwhile, Laura becomes depressed when she goes to ask Almanzo to the circus, only to find out that he is already taking a rude, snobby and snooty young woman named Christie, for whom she has been mending a dress. When she delivers the dress five minutes late, Christie refuses to pay her the full amount. Laura has a heart to heart with the sad clown about Almanzo and discovers the clown is the circus manager! He keeps her secret and allows her to be an unrecognizable clown at the circus. 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.
“My husband actually gave me the idea, probably about 10 years ago,” Turnbaugh said. Gilbert remained polite and professional while working with Landon on the set after he married Clerico, but she stopped socializing with him after hours. After Little House on the Prairie ended, she didn’t speak to Landon again until 1990, when she saw him at Leslie Landon’s wedding. Landon’s highly publicized breakup with Lynn also cost him some lucrative endorsement deals, including his longtime contract with Kodak. All the exterior Little House on the Prairie scenes were filmed at the 10,000-acre Big Sky Ranch in Simi Valley, California, where a “cool” day meant temperatures in the low 90s.
The Theme Of The Series
The chair was attached to safety ropes, but just prior to the second take, as the director yelled “Action! ” one of the crew members cried out “Oh no, the rope broke! ” It hadn’t, but Arngrim didn’t know that and her terrified screams as she bounced and rolled down the hill, struggling with one hand to stay in the chair, were authentic.
Episode Guide – Season 7
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. In this episode, we see Percival and Nellie snuggling and kissing shortly after the birth. Percival obviously isn’t following that custom.
Season 9, Episode 1 – Times Are Changing – Part 1
The season 1 episode “The Voice of Tinker Jones” was directed by Leo Penn, who cast his wife, Eileen Ryan, in the episode—and also brought in his 13-year-old son Sean to play an uncredited schoolboy. Laura and Almanzo share their first kiss in this episode. In an interview, Dean Butler states that everybody was so nerve-wracked for this pivotal scene that there were chaperones on the set to make sure nothing “unseemly” was going on. Melissa Gilbert’s mother was also allegedly crying, “My baby! ” from the sidelines so hysterically that she had to be consoled.
Doc Baker hires a highly qualified doctor named Caleb Ledoux, but is disconcerted to discover that he is black. Despite a friendly welcome from the Ingalls, other citizens are indifferent or openly hostile, while Doc Baker gives his new assistant only menial tasks. Eventually, when Doc Baker is unavailable for a call, Charles has to resort to desperate measures to enable Dr. Ledoux to attend to a pregnant mother experiencing complications during childbirth. Ledoux safely delivers the baby, but angrily decides he will never be accepted in the town and plans to leave.
Later, Sylvia collapses at school, and Albert and Laura take her to Doc Baker who discovers that she is pregnant. When Sylvia and her father refuse to explain, Albert comes under suspicion. Former college football star Pete Ellerbee comes to Walnut Grove to coach the town's football team and to encourage his son in playing. Albert joins the team and is inspired by Ellerbee's stirring pep talks about teamwork, responsibility and doing your best. Ellerbee's real goal is just to win, which for him proves manhood and pride, but his demands upon the boys' time leads him to a confrontation with Laura as their teacher.
However, it soon transpires that Edwards has other plans, and twice Charles has to stop Edwards from trying to commit suicide. In desperation, Charles pretends to have been injured in a gun accident, and Edwards has to walk out for help, shocking him back to his old, irascible self. Reverend Alden gets badly hurt while on his way to collect donations for a struggling town in another part of his parish.
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Yet, James seems to resort to stealing when desperate or terrified of punishment. He plans to take Tompkins’ money before running away with Cassandra (but does not get the opportunity). In this episode, he steals a razor from the mercantile to cover up breaking Albert’s razor after using it without permission. This is the second time that an Oleson daughter gets doused in a dunk tank. In Season 4’s “Meet Me at the Fair,” Nellie has her turn getting soaked in one of those tanks.
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