Full Episode I Do Again on Little House

In Season viii of "Little Business firm on the Prairie," which ran from 1981 to 1982, we get to relive some of the nigh endearing moments and encounter some significant changes in the little town of Walnut Grove. Adam and Mary leave for New York where Adam intends to practice police force, Percival and Nellie go for New York to accept over his begetter's business, Willie starts growing up and irresolute his ways, and Almanzo suffers a stroke and nearly becomes permanently disabled. Season eight is the last season with the focus on Charles and Caroline Ingalls and their family unit's life.

For the first time since their original TV circulate, all twenty-two Season 8 episodes are presented complete and uncut and newly restored and remastered for optimal picture and audio quality! In this Season 8 episode guide, you'll relive all of the heartwarming adventures and learn some new facts along the style. Some of our favorite facts and tidbits come from Alison Arngrim's autobiography and Melissa Gilbert's memoir. Below is a complete index with links to the Season 8 episodes:

• Season 8, Episode 1 – The Reincarnation of Nellie Pt. 1
• Season eight, Episode 2 – The Reincarnation of Nellie Pt. two
• Flavour 8, Episode 3 – Growin' Pains
• Flavour viii, Episode 4 – Dark Sage
• Season eight, Episode 5 – A Wiser Heart
• Season 8, Episode 6 – Gambini the Great
• Season eight, Episode 7 – The Legend of Black Jake
• Flavour viii, Episode 8 – Chicago
• Season 8, Episode 9 – For the Love of Nancy
• Flavour eight, Episode 10 – Wave of the Time to come
• Season viii, Episode 11 – A Christmas They Never Forgot
• Season 8, Episode 12 – No Beast So Tearing
• Season 8, Episode thirteen – Rock Soup
• Season viii, Episode fourteen – The Legacy
• Season 8, Episode 15 – Uncle Jed
• Season 8, Episode sixteen – Second Chance
• Season 8, Episode 17 – Days of Sunshine, Days of Shadow Pt. 1
• Flavour viii, Episode eighteen – Days of Sunshine, Days of Shadow Pt. two
• Season viii, Episode nineteen – A Promise to Go on
• Season 8, Episode 20 – A Faraway Weep
• Season 8, Episode 21 – He Was Only Twelve Pt. 1
• Season 8, Episode 22 – He Was Only Twelve Pt. ii

Season 8, Episode 1 – The Reincarnation of Nellie Pt. 1

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Percival takes over the family unit concern when his begetter dies, which means that he and Nellie will remain in New York permanently.

Fun Fact!
This is the start and only episode in which Harriet acknowledges out loud that her daughter Nellie had been mean, spoiled, and conniving as a child.

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In Harriet and Nancy'south first scene together, when Harriet is baby talking to her and saying, "I'm your new mommy!" the angry kid punches her right in the nose. If yous watch and heed carefully, you can tell that the punching sound is heard a split second before Nancy's fist touches Harriet's nose.

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In the scene where Nancy and Cassandra are at the h2o pump behind the school, find how uneven Cassandra'south braids are. One is significantly thicker than the other. Then, in her next scene with the family at dinner, her braids are normal once again.

Season 8, Episode 2 – The Reincarnation of Nellie Pt. 2

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Nels and Harriet's newly adopted daughter Nancy settles in quickly at her new domicile. Harriet delights in spoiling her, only the child is a diabolical monster who creates major trouble everywhere she goes.

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This is the second time that an Oleson girl gets doused in a dunk tank. In Season 4's "Come across Me at the Fair," Nellie has her plough getting soaked in 1 of those tanks. Too, in both cases, Laura is responsible for setting the whole thing up without Nellie or Nancy's cognition.

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Later tending to Belinda, Doc Baker tells her parents that she'south awake, merely she has difficulty talking. But when her parents go in to see her, Belinda talks merely fine and fifty-fifty manages to tell them the entire story nigh how she came to be locked in the ice house.

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Nancy sings embarrassingly off-fundamental in front of the mirror in 1 scene. Ironically, Allison Balson (Nancy) went on to exist an accomplished musician, so this scene does not reverberate her real singing vocalism.

Season 8, Episode 3 – Growin' Pains

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After adopting two more children, Charles and Caroline must arrange to managing v young children. The family unit tension mounts when James runs abroad afterward getting into an argument with Albert.

Fun Fact!
The abandoned firm that Albert and James find in the storm is the same house that Laura and Almanzo subsequently own in Season nine. The same sets were used for both instances.

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Charles makes an inconsistent comment to Albert when he expresses resentment toward James: "I'm certain glad Laura and Carrie didn't experience that style when y'all first came to live with u.s.a.." Nevertheless, in Season 5's "Fagin," Laura becomes jealous of the attending Albert receives from Charles, and information technology even prompts Albert to run away.

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In Season 7's "The Lost Ones, Part 2", James shares that his biological father had taught him not to steal. Yet, James seems to resort to stealing when desperate or terrified of punishment. He plans to take Tompkins' money before running away with Cassandra (merely does not go the opportunity). In this episode, he steals a razor from the mercantile to comprehend upward breaking Albert'south razor after using it without permission.

Season 8, Episode 4 – Dark Sage

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When Doc Bakery'due south workload becomes too much for i person, arrangements are made for an African-American physician and his wife to join the community.

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The first names of Dr. Ledoux and his wife are Caleb and Mattie. These are the exact same first names of the married couple that Johnny Greenbacks and June Carter Cash play in the Season iii opener, "The Collection."

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If you lookout closely, at 1 indicate, you volition notice that Medico Baker picks upward his telephone to speak, and still the base is not wired to the wall. The only wire is between the base and the earpiece.

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In this episode, before coming together Dr. and Mrs. Ledoux, Harriet Oleson ignorantly assumes that they are French. You'd remember she would take learned her lesson in Season 5's "Bullheaded Journey" when she mistakes Hester-Sue Terhune.

Flavour 8, Episode five – A Wiser Heart

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At the invitation of Eliza Jane. Laura attends a writing seminar in Arizona, only the experience is marred by a rude professor who cuts her down at every turn.

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When Eliza Jane asks Laura if she believes in beloved at first sight, Laura hesitates before proverb, "I suppose." In Flavour six'southward "Back to School", she takes i await at Almanzo and immediately knows she will marry him one day.

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This episode marks the start of Laura'south somewhat strained relationship with her new sis-in-law, Eliza Jane, who is clearly biting over her ain unhappy life and is eager for control. This attitude is revealed here for the get-go time (remember that Eliza Jane is repose and cocky-sacrificing in Flavor 7's "Laura Ingalls Wilder"), and she only gets worse in Flavor 8's "Days of Sunshine, Days of Shadow".

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When Laura pushes Mrs. Pierce, she lands in a pail of water, and her hair remains dry out. Two shots later we see Mrs. Pierce still sitting in the bucket, but at present her hair is soaked. Since she landed on her behind, her hair should not take gotten moisture, and there was no time for anyone to have poured h2o over her head, realistically.

Season 8, Episode 6 – Gambini the Great

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Aging circus daredevil Gambini the Great has a hypnotic issue on the children of Walnut Grove, particularly Albert and Willie. A tragedy during ane of Gambini's stunts volition provide a chilling lesson in hero worship.

Fun Fact!
When Gambini escapes from being tied up in the creek and is underwater for over a infinitesimal, he finally breaks the surface and walks up to the praise of the on-lookers. You might notice that he isn't breathing hard, nor does he appear overexerted in any way.

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Actress Martha Nix plays a sweetness, quiet new pupil named Amy in this episode. Amy is never seen again, only Nix also appears as a girl names Holly three years earlier in Season 5's "The Sound of Children". Ironically, in that Flavour 5 episode, Zip'south character was a piffling girl who had a huge beat on the older Albert who is not interested. Now in this episode, it is Albert who actually likes her, simply though she is prissy to him, she is non lovestruck.

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Stephen Manley, who portrays Marco here, went on to play a teenaged Mr. Spock in the movie "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock".

Season 8, Episode 7 – The Legend of Black Jake

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A pair of bumbling crooks kidnaps Nels and holds him for ransom. Even so, Mrs. Oleson refuses to pay the $100 ransom required to free her married man, so Nels decides to work with the crooks to get his revenge. In the procedure, well-nigh everyone in Walnut Grove finds themselves on the wrong side of the criminals.

Fun Fact!
Harriet has a record of four fainting spells in this episode, and Nancy has one, her first and merely one, in the whole series.

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When Charles puts a lock on the door, Caroline says they never had to do that before. In Season 1's "Harvest of Friends", yet, Charles gives Caroline a key to their front door, and she specifically mentions the feeling of security that information technology gives her.

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This is absolutely the commencement and only episode where we hear anybody refer to Nancy as "darling" (except her parents, of course, by and large her female parent). Charles calls her "darling" when she is fearful almost her parents' lives. You volition observe that Nancy is arguably more scared and empathetic than she'southward ever been in the serial.

Season 8, Episode 8 – Chicago

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Charles travels to Chicago to comfort a deeply grieving Mr. Edwards, whose son John Jr. had died in a tragic accident. Merely that grief soon gives manner to rage when it becomes credible John Jr.'southward decease was no blow.

Fun Fact!
When Callahan takes the ledger from the pawn banker's he put information technology under his arm. Outside, it is still in that location as he chats to Charles and Mr. Edwards. All that rain in the early on 1880's and no plastic cover for the volume! Wouldn't an investigative journalist with such important records, at least put it under his rainproof coat?

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Charles tells Laura that he will take her and John Jr. fishing and that he will surely become jealous because she will catch the bigger fish. Nonetheless, Laura generally spends time with Carl and it is clear from Season ii'due south "His Male parent's Son", that John Jr. does not like to harm animals. John besides prefers spending time with Mary.

Flavour 8, Episode 9 – For the Dear of Nancy

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A young, overweight male child named Elmer Miles is mercilessly teased at schoolhouse. However, Nancy – of all people – goes easy on him because she actually seems to similar him. Of class, she has plenty of ulterior motives up her sleeve in one case she gains Elmer's trust.

Fun Fact!
In the emotional scene where Elmer reads his essay, announces his withdrawal from school and runs out of the classroom, Laura doesn't budge from her desk-bound. Afterwards hearing something similar that from a student, a teacher should have at to the lowest degree called out to him or run afterwards him.

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Nels Oleson is usually the voice of reason throughout the serial, especially in dissimilarity to his wife. In this episode, however, when Elmer is over for dinner at the Olesons, Nels allows Willie and Nancy to laugh at Elmer's voracious eating stunt and doesn't tell them to stop. It's as if Nels doesn't know what to say, whereas in other episodes when Harriet is away, Nel normally jumps at the adventure to subject his children.

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In the scene afterwards Elmer quits school, he is having dinner with his family unit. There is a shot of their firm from the outside, and it's clear that the sun is almost completely downwards. Nevertheless, in the side by side scene, when Elmer and his male parent are exterior and the school children come to talk to Elmer, it is full daylight. These two scenes were obviously filmed at very different times.

Season viii, Episode 10 – Wave of the Future

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Mrs. Oleson decides that reopening Nellie's Eating place and Hotel as a franchised restaurant will result in large profits for the fledgling business.

Fun Fact!
In this episode, Charles strategically makes his dinners taste horrible so the kids will mutter and he can strength them to cook the side by side night, only the programme backfires. This isn't the first time Charles tries to outsmart his children and ends upwards with the joke on himself. This too happened in Flavour five'southward "Men Will Exist Boys".

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It is unlikely that the people of a Midwestern town in the 1880's would take tolerated a restaurant operating on Sundays. Additionally, it is unlikely that either Caroline or Hester-Sue would have consented to piece of work on Sundays. In fact, during "Back to School, Part 1", Caroline refuses to cook even one repast on Sunday equally a favor to Harriet.

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Afterward the first day of business at the faster pace of 'Mrs. Sullivans', Caroline and Hester-Sue get out. The Olesons so summate they accept made nearly $25 that day. In the next scene, Caroline tells Charles about the $25, but how would she know? It was simply totaled after she had left.

Flavor eight, Episode eleven – A Christmas They Never Forgot

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An unrelenting blizzard on Christmas Eve leaves friends and family snowbound at the Ingalls homestead. Caroline, Laura, and Hester Sue share memories of Christmases past.

Fun Fact!
The star on meridian of the Christmas tree at the Ingalls' home is not the star that little Carrie buys at the mercantile in Season 1's "Christmas at Plum Creek", although Carrie stares at it with wonder in the same way.

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Almanzo'southward story revolves effectually his belief in Santa Claus at the age of vi. In 1863, Santa was even so referred to equally Saint Nicholas. The proper name "Santa Claus" emerged in the next decade.

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This is the first Christmas episode in which the entire Ingalls family isn't together in the last scene. The concluding scene belongs to Charles and Caroline lonely.

Season viii, Episode 12 – No Beast Then Fierce

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A timid young male child named Gideon with a stuttering trouble arrives at Walnut Grove's schoolhouse and is ridiculed by the other children. James reaches out and befriends him, just their budding friendship stands to be destroyed when James makes a foolish mistake right in front of Gideon.

Fun Fact!
In previous episodes, a trip to Sleepy Eye by wagon was about a twenty-four hours'south journey, and three days to Mankato. Now, Charles and James seem to go to and from Minneapolis – almost double the distance to Mankato – with just 1 overnight terminate each mode.

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Gideon has been missing for days, withal when Caroline finds him, his clothes are spotless and his pilus is neatly combed. It is hard to believe that a child would stay that clean for that long while sleeping in the woods.

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Do you recognize the young Peter Billingsley, who went on to fame with his lead role in "A Christmas Story", one of the nigh celebrated holiday films of all time?

Flavor eight, Episode 13 – Stone Soup

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An expecting Laura has a tough time caring for the Wilder farm when Almanzo and Charles are away on a trip to Arizona. Laura has a heart-to-heart talk with Willie virtually responsibility and beingness a function model.

Fun Fact!
Afterwards Charles and Almanzo leave for Arizona, Caroline tells Laura, "Well, at to the lowest degree Charles and Almanzo don't take to put upwards with this heat", simply why would Caroline expect information technology to be libation in Arizona than in Minnesota?

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When Willie approaches Laura's desk to speak with her about history (subsequently the other children take left the classroom), he appears to be dripping with sweat. The photographic camera cuts to Laura for a moment, then switches back to Willie, whose skin is suddenly completely dry out.

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Charles tells Almanzo that they volition be making their delivery to Northern Arizona. Arizona didn't become a state until 1912. The real-life Laura Ingalls was 45 years one-time by that time.

Season 8, Episode 14 – The Legacy

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A nowadays-day couple buys an antique table with a big "I" branded on it and are curious to learn about its origins. The story focuses on Charles' efforts to patent the tabular array and have it mass-produced.

Fun Fact!
Claude Earl Jones, who plays Jack Prescott in this episode, appears again in Flavor 9's "Home Again, Part One" as a compassionate shop possessor who drops shoplifting charges against Albert in Burr Oak, Iowa.

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This episode is unique to the series in that it opens up in a futuristic fourth dimension (1982) and shows a couple bidding on a furniture particular that bears the initials "CI."

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Why would Caroline need to rent a farmhand while Charles is away when her son Albert is nearing young adulthood and pre-teen James is living at habitation? Even Mary knew how to turn a field at historic period fourteen, as she demonstrates in Flavour 4'south "To Run and Hibernate".

Season 8, Episode 15 – Uncle Jed

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Charles and Caroline are about to prefer James and Cassandra, simply their Uncle Jed comes forward demanding custody of the Cooper children.

Fun Fact!
Early in the episode, Jed talks nigh how he struck information technology rich, panning for golden. Ironically, the aforementioned player appeared as a character named Zachariah in Season 3's "Gold State", where he was living on a bed of gilded and hated the style money changed people.

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Audiences may be surprised how well-written young Cassandra's essay is. For an 8-year-old, her writing is well beyond her years, much amend than many older students are able to produce.

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In this episode, Cassandra (Melissa Francis) becomes the only Ingalls kid (other than Mary) to win a prestigious award at school in Walnut Grove.

Season 8, Episode xvi – Second Take chances

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Hester Sue's ex-married man, Sam, arrives in Walnut Grove, stating that he is reformed from his days of drinking, gambling and wild living. Sam appears to be reformed and Hester Sue believes him plenty to agree to re-marry him.

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It is very unlikely that Hester Sue, a black female person, could have purchased state and concluded the transaction and so quickly. Following the Civil War, 19 of 24 northern states nonetheless did not allow black people to vote, and women were generally considered the property of their husbands.

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Upwards until the very concluding scene, in that location are admittedly no children who announced in the episode. They appear briefly at the end with no speaking lines, only that's it. The same goes for Laura and Almanzo.

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Information technology is very out of character for Harriet Oleson to take hold of Sam (a blackness human) by the hand in excitement after the work he does for her, and then insist he eat at the eating house for half price a couple weeks in a row. Based on her history of stinginess and racist behavior, she seems out of character in this episode.

Flavour 8, Episode 17 – Days of Sunshine, Days of Shadow Pt. 1

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The marriage between Almanzo and Laura faces its starting time test when he falls seriously sick with diphtheria and later suffers a crippling stroke. Eliza Jane arrives to assistance intendance for her brother but makes matters worse past babying him.

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In this episode (also equally "A Wiser Middle", which aired earlier in season 8), the audition actually gets to come across more than of the type of relationship that Laura and Eliza Jane had in real life. On the Television serial, the two of them were shut for the most function, merely in episodes like this, Eliza Jane is rude, disrespectful, and not always kind to Laura, which is how Laura portrayed her in real life.

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Laura gives nascence in this episode after announcing her pregnancy in the previous season. She is the only character on the bear witness who ever has a baby and goes through the actual nine-calendar month pregnancy on the evidence. With Charles Jr. and Grace Ingalls, and Laura's second child Baby Wilder, they were all born in one episode, and Mary'south two pregnancies took their full course within just a few episodes.

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This episode marks the offset time that we run into Charles Ingalls hold ane of his grandchildren–Rose, who is his third grandchild. Remember that Mary miscarries her get-go son and her 2d baby son is killed in a burn down during Flavor 6, and we never encounter Charles actually concord and enjoy him.

Flavor 8, Episode 18 – Days of Sunshine, Days of Shadow Pt. two

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The arrival of her beginning child should be a cute time for Laura, merely it is tainted by Almanzo's increasingly bitter mental attitude, likewise every bit the possibility that Laura and Almanzo might lose their home. Frustration meets with acrimony as Laura feels that her matrimony is slipping away.

Fun Fact!
According to Laura Ingalls Wilder's posthumously-published book, The First 4 Years, the last installment in her 9-book serial, it was actually a fire that destroyed her and Almanzo'south domicile. Also, the special "Give us this day our daily breadstuff" plate really did exist, and information technology was i of the few things that survived the fire. In reality information technology did non belong to Caroline; the plate was purchased past Laura and Almanzo to commemorate their starting time Christmas together. Later on their daughter Rose Wilder Lane died in 1968, the plate was discovered among her possessions and placed in the Laura Ingalls Wilder Domicile Clan in Mansfield, Missouri, where information technology remains today for visitors to come across.

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Did you detect, later on Laura angrily smashes the special plate to pieces, Caroline magically presents it to her later, and information technology looks as good as new.

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At the end of this episode, Lucy Lee Flippin (Eliza Jane) flubs her lines briefly when she says, "I've forgotten how much I missed being away from all of you lot." Given the tone of the scene, this is obviously incorrect!

Flavour 8, Episode 19 – A Promise to Keep

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Mr. Edwards returns to Walnut Grove harboring some disturbing secrets, namely that his matrimony was ruined considering of his alcoholism. His inability to stay off the canteen about destroys his cherished friendship with Charles when he causes an blow that nearly kills Albert.

Fun Fact!
Corinne Camacho appeared in two Little House episodes: this one, and Flavour 4'due south "My Ellen". Ironically, in both shows, she bakes a chocolate birthday cake with white candles, is grieving the death of a child, and has a strained relationship with her husband.

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The showtime few scenes of the episode, which are filmed with Grace, Isaiah, Carl, and Alicia in their business firm, uses the exact aforementioned house sets used for Laura and Almanzo's house (before information technology was destroyed past the tornado a couple episodes before). If you wait closely, they are all sitting at the tabular array and eating block in what would be Almanzo'south parlor.

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This is the second time an Ingalls family member asks Mr. Edwards to exist the godfather to their babe. Charles and Caroline asks him to do the honors with their newborn son in Season i'due south "The Lord is My Shepherd", and Laura requests that he be that special person to babe Rose in this episode.

Season eight, Episode 20 – A Faraway Cry

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A longtime friend of Caroline writes to her and asks for help. Her friend is significant and lives at a gilded prospector'south campsite where there is an outbreak of influenza.

Fun Fact!
The blood pressure auto that Doctor Baker uses in the Army camp Hospital was not invented until the 1920's.

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This episode is the only mention of Dr. Ledoux (though he is not seen) since the episode of his introduction.

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Did you find that since this story takes place mostly abroad from Walnut Grove and involves a medical story, the just towns person in the opening credits is Medico Baker.

Season 8, Episode 21 – He Was Only Twelve Pt. 1

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Tragedy strikes when James, who is traveling with Charles, Albert and Mr. Edwards to Sleepy Eye, is shot during a fell bank robbery. When James slips into a coma, Charles goes with Mr. Edwards and Albert to track down the criminals and bring them to justice.

Fun Fact!
The kickoff part of this two-part story is a re-write of the 1972 "Bonanza" episode, "He Was Just Vii".

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When Charles is recruiting people in Sleepy Eye to aid him hunt downwards the criminals, why doesn't he seek out Jonathan Garvey? Information technology'south possible that Jonathan has left Sleepy Eye between his last appearance and this episode, merely nothing well-nigh information technology is ever mentioned.

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Hal Smith is best known equally Otis Campbell, the town drunkard, on "The Andy Griffith Show" that ran from 1960-1968.

Season 8, Episode 22 – He Was But Twelve Pt. 2

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As James lies in a coma at the Ingalls' business firm, Charles increases the distress of his family by his refusal to accept the kid'due south impending death. Aroused that nobody – not fifty-fifty Physician Baker – offers any hope for James' recovery, Charles takes his son away to the mountains, where he builds a temple and prays fiercely for a phenomenon.

Fun Fact!
Charles' character goes downward a route that nosotros have non seen in previous episodes, at least not in this manner. Though devout, Charles also knows when to accept reality and understand that not everything can be made amend simply through prayer. In this episode, still, Charles detaches himself from all reality and clings solely to his religion, depending wholly and completely on a miracle to save his son.

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This episode marks the terminal appearance of Bandit the dog. He is seen for a few seconds outside the little house during Cassandra'due south final scene.

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Notice that the past 4 season finales of the series accept involved characters dying or being near death. At that place was leukemia-stricken young Dylan in Flavour 5's "The Odyssey"; diphtheria-stricken Almanzo in Flavour 6'south "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, Office two"; the railroad vehicle blow that killed James and Cassandra's parents in Season 7's "The Lost Ones"; and at present James is near expiry from a gunshot wound in this episode.

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