When Grace Snider falls ill, Laura and Mary persuade Mr. Edwards to stay and look after the girls, but he discovers that they, and especially Carrie, can sometimes be hard work. Part 2 - Today Show: LHOTP: Where Are They Now? Expanded episodes (90 minutes to 2 hours) have been indicated as such; many of these may not currently be shown in determined areas due to their length. 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. He takes Andy fishing and in a friendly manner talks him into owning up to what he did. 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. As Charles and Mr. Edwards search for Laura, she is looked after by Johnathan, a heaven-sent stranger (Ernest Borgnine) who helps her realize how much she really means to her father. At the train station, the children's curiosity takes them too far and they find themselves in a runaway caboose. After her earlier insults, it is what Percival has been waiting for, and they marry the next day. Joe starts doing odd jobs at the blind school, and he befriends and helps a blind boy called Timothy (Keith Mitchell) who has failed to respond to Hester-Sue. Albert goes after him and, using some, Most of the people of Walnut Grove, including Harriet Oleson, are excited by the arrival of Gambini the Great (, Laura and Almanzo have invested all their money in trees for an orchard. Sacred Lies. So Caroline moves out of the house and organizes other wives in a mass 'walk out' from their matrimonial duties. Note: As the episode ends, Michael Landon narrates a flashforward (taken from "The Little House Years"), in which his daughter Shawna Landon is the little girl running into the public library to read Laura Ingalls Wilder's third book, Little House on the Prairie. Charles and Mr. Edwards are forced to take dynamiting jobs for the railroad to fund the surgery. Adam returns to Sleepy Eye, having completed his studies and become a lawyer, but a promised job at a local law firm falls through. The men realize that they were wrong about Busby, and Laura later gives Busby a picture book. While at Nellie Oleson's birthday party, Nellie pushes Laura and hurts her ankle. The railroad is coming to Walnut Grove, and with it the promise of jobs and economic growth. Charles and Caroline manage The Dakota Hotel; Nels and Jonathan Garvey are working in the saloon; and Alice Garvey starts a school in a livery stable since the public school burned down and the only other school in town is an expensive private academy. Eliza Jane recommends Laura, despite her being two weeks short of the minimum age of 16, and she passes her teacher's exam and is given her teacher's certificate and the position. 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. An Indian tribe comes to Walnut Grove asking for medical help for their sick chief. This season is also known as Little House: A New Beginning. 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. However, Laura persuades him to stay, and he works on the farm with Almanzo and sobers up. However, when Nellie falls into a river, her later false account of what happened brings out the same Mrs. Oleson. But when Charles is annoyed by the attitude of an aging lumberjack (. Mr. Edwards decides that Blanche needs to live in a zoo. The regular series was preceded by the two-hour pilot movie, which first aired on March 30, 1974. Mrs. Oleson babies the boy, prompting a frustrated Nels to turn to Charles for assistance in rehabilitating Peter, which leads to a reconciliation between Peter and his father. After being nursed back to health by Charles, Joe decides to stay in Walnut Grove and make a new living as a farmer. When Percival's parents visit Walnut Grove for the birth of Nellie's baby, Percival reveals that his real name is Isaac Cohen, much to Harriet's consternation. Later, Blanche saves Rose from a potentially deadly house fire that Jenny puts out, and when Jenny tells the story at school, Nancy finds out that Blanche is still alive. A new girl in town, petite but buxom Sylvia Webb (Olivia Barash), gets some unwelcome attention from the older boys at school, but her father and Mrs. Oleson both accuse her of leading the boys on. Charles first locates the young father, Bobbie, and together they find the mother who is his beloved, Anna. 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. Everyone enters the church singing. This causes Mary and John much heartache, as they must decide whether to remain together or risk a separation for the sake of John's career. Nels brokers a truce between Benjamin and Harriet with the suggestion that a boy should be raised in the Jewish faith and a girl should be raised as a Christian. En route, they stop at the University of Minnesota where Albert plans on pursuing his medical endeavors; they then reunite with family and old friends in Walnut Grove. When Laura arrives home, she finds old Jack dead in the barn. James and Cassandra settle in happily with the Ingalls family. When boxer Joe Kagan's career seems to be going nowhere, he chooses to continue boxing rather than keep his family with him. After Almanzo's recovery, Charles tells him and Laura they must wait one year [rather than two] before they marry. After travelling with Jenny to Minneapolis, Laura learns that she has won the contest and she is offered the opportunity to have her novel published. He leaves the lamp by the barn which catches on fire. Later, Charles brings home a stray dog (Bandit) that followed him home from Mankato after sniffing out his food stock, but Laura refuses to bond with the dog, still grieving the loss of Jack. S2 E9 48m. He invites Mary to come with him and teach there as well. 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). Louisa gives birth to a healthy baby boy but then dies in childbirth. Laura's imagination runs wild on Halloween when she sees Nels apparently cutting off Mrs. Oleson's head, but only Carl will believe her. 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. The girls keep it a secret, but when Charles has to deal with a racoon raiding the chickens which results one of the chickens getting killed and everyone assumes that it was Jasper, it gives rise to a frightening possibility for Laura and Jack. But Caroline fears how Charles will react if the baby is a girl, especially after Mrs. Beadle-Simms has a boy herself. 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