113/114. Back To School [2 parts] 09/17/79, 09/24/79
The school's new teacher is Ms. Wilder. Laura falls in love with Ms. Wilder's brother Almanzo. She schemes to have him drive her to school, and she carves their names in a tree. Everything is going fine until, Nellie invites Almonzo to dinner, Laura is crushed. Laura gets even with Nellie by volunteering to cook dinner for them. Laura adds some hot spices to the chicken instead of cinnamon and since Nellie had said that she cooked the meal, Almanzo stays away from Nellie. Laura desperately wants Almanzo to notice her. She decides to take the graduation test so that she may graduate, and therefore, appear older. She turns to Nellie for help. Nellie loans her the books she needs to study for the examination. However Nellie is still upset about the Almanzo chicken fiasco so she gives Laura the wrong study tips. Laura discovers this during the examination and fails. She confronts Nellie and they get into a fight, rolling in a big mud puddle. Almanzo separates them and takes Laura home with him to help her clean up Nellie goes home and tells Caroline and Charles about the fight, and about Laura leaving with Almanzo. Thinking the worst, Charles drives over to his place and punches Almanzo because he believes Almanzo has taken advantage of his daughter, as Laura is dressed in Almanzo's robe while waiting for her clothes to dry. Almanzo doesn't blame Charles for wanting to protect his little girl. Laura yells at both of them and declares she is a woman not a child.

 

115. The Family Tree 10/01/79
Each student must trace their family tree for a school assignment. Albert is unsure how he can do the assignment. The Ingalls decide to legally adopt Albert, but run into problems when Mr. Quinn, Albert's father shows up. He wants Albert until he sees him. Albert pretends to be blind with the hope that his father wouldn't want him. The blindness does the trick. Albert is legally adopted by the Ingalls.

 

116. The Third Miracle 10/08/79
After the stagecoach is involved in a very serious accident, Mary must save the life of a woman and her unborn child.

 

117. Annabelle 10/15/79
A circus comes to Walnut Grove. Everybody is helping set up, except Nels Oleson. His long, lost sister is in the circus. Only Mrs. Oleson believes her husband's story about his sister. But she wants to keep it a secret. Nels is nominated to be the announcer at the circus. When he announces his sister, he says, "My sister, Annabelle." These words lead to Nels and Annabelle becoming very close siblings

 

118. The Preacher Takes A Wife 10/22/79
Mrs. Craig is in love with Reverend Alden. Although Mrs. Oleson tries to stop Reverend Alden from marrying Mrs. Craig, by saying she will make sure he loses his job, the wedding goes on as planned

 

119. The Halloween Dream 10/29/79
Albert's imagination starts to get the better of him when he dreams that he and Laura are taken by Indians

 

120-123. The Little House Years [3 parts] [Thanksgiving series special!]
The Ingalls are together for Thanksgiving. They each tell stories about some things that stick out in their minds. This special shows clips from the preceding episodes.

 

124. The Return Of Mr. Edwards 11/05/79
Charles and Laura rush to the aid of Mr. Edwards.

 

125 The King is Dead 11/12/79
Jonathan is tricked into believing that he is a good wrestler. The guy that tricks Jonathan into believing that is just trying to make money off of Jonathan. In the end, Jonathan has somebody take his place in the wrestling ring.

 

126 The Faith Healer 11/19/79
A faith healer comes to Walnut Grove. He is able to convince people that he is better than the Reverend or Doc Baker. He is found out to be a fake when a little boy dies from a ruptured appendix, after his dad takes him to the faith healer instead Doc Baker.

 

127 Author, Author 11/26/79
Caroline's mother dies while traveling on a train heading for Walnut Grove. Caroline's father is in so much grief that he takes to the sod house for weeks. Albert is the one that convinces him to go fishing with him. Caroline's father tells great stories of raising his kids in the Big Woods. Charles persuades him to write them down but they only problem is that the publisher wants $32.00 to publish the book. The Ingalls work hard to save up enough money to get the book published. Caroline's father leaves knowing that he is a published author. He was never told that they had to pay to have the book published

 

128 Crossed Connections 12/10/79
Harriet Oleson causes trouble between Alice and Jonathan Garvey when the telephone is first introduced in Walnut Grove. Mrs. Oleson listened to a conversation between Alice Garvey and her mother. They were discussing Alice's first husband. Mrs. Oleson tells Willy who in turn tells all the other kids. They news gets back to Jonathan. Jonathan decides to leave for a while to cool off. While on a delivery with Charles, Jonathan meets Alice's ex-husband and finds out why Alice didn't talk about him. He is a drunk who has been in prison many times and married Alice when she was very young.  Jonathan returns home and asks his wife and his son to forgive him

 

129 The Angry Heart 12/17/79
Todd was a boy who got beaten up by his drunk father. Now Todd is 17 and is visiting his grandparents in Walnut Grove. Todd quickly gets into trouble, he mean to everyone in the town and hits his grandpa few times.  Charles puts Todd in jail after Todd steals his watch. Todd is forced to work on Mr. Ingalls' farm. This causes Todd to learn to become a nicer person.

130 The Werewolf Of Walnut Grove 01/07/80
Walnut Grove has a school bully, Bart. He even is mean to the teacher. Albert and Laura want to teach the bully a lesson. Albert dresses up as a werewolf, but the bully doesn't buy it when Carrie comes out and tells Albert and Laura that she'll tell Ma that all of the glue was used by them. Laura and Albert come up with another plan. But in the end, it takes the joint efforts of the school children to get the bully to be nice.

 

131 Whatever Happened To The Class Of '56 01/14/80
Mr. and Mrs. Ingalls travel to a farmers convention. They want to meet up with some of their old friends. Charles tries to convince the small farmers to stand up to the larger farms. Caroline is ready to go home when she finds out that several of her friends are unhappy with the way their lives have turned out, one of the husbands even tries to flirt with Carline. The Ingalls are more than happy to go back home.

 

132 Darkness Is My Friend 01/21/80
Some escaped convicts take refuge at the blind school during a stormy night. Hester Sue and Adam are out of town.  Laura and Mary along with the students are held captive there. One of the convicts tells Laura to go get a doctor. Laura goes and gets her Charles who pretending to be the doctor, Charles is able to disarm the convicts. Guest stars: Jonathan Banks

 

133 Silent Promises 01/28/80
A deaf boy learns how to communicate with people when Laura teaches him sign language. The boy falls in love with Laura and not wanting to hurt his feelings, she pretends to love him. Eventually, she reveals to the deaf boy that she really loves someone else

 

134/135 May We Make Them Proud 02/04/80 [2 hours]
There is a picnic at the blind school. Albert and his friend accidentally leave a smoking pipe in the basement. The school catches on fire. In the fire Mrs. Garvey and Mary's baby are killed. Mary goes into shock, while Jonathan blames God for what happened. Charles talks to Jonathan and helps him deal with his loss. Albert is able to pull Mary out of her shock, he gets scared and runs away Jonathan finds and talks to Albert and helps him deal with what he had done.

136 Wilder and Wilder 02/11/80
Almanzo's youngest brother Perley, comes to Walnut Grove. Always the troublemaker, Perley breaks his promise to be good and injures one of Almanzo's best horses. Then Almanzo tries his best to save the horse and Charles gains a new respect for him. Almanzo begins to see Laura through new and interested eyes, and Laura is ecstatic.

137 Second Spring 02/18/80

Nels gets fed up with his wife and decides to peddle goods outside of town. While on the road, he meets the lovely young caretaker of a boarding house, Molly Maguire. They hit it off and Nels continues to make his trips out of town. Nels kisses Molly, and gives her jewelry, telling Harriet he lost it. Then Charles catches Nels kissing Molly. In the end, Nels has to tell the truth that he is happily married...mostly happy, anyway. When Nels returns home, he and Harriet have a newfound appreciation for each other.

138 Sweet Sixteen 02/25/80
A neighboring town is in need of a temporary teacher and Laura is given the opportunity to fill the position at Mrs. Trimble's school. Almanzo offers to drive her to the school and begins to notice how grown-up Laura was becoming. When Almanzo becomes jealous after misinterpreting a situation, Laura realizes that she finally has his affection. Almanzo gives Laura a beautiful floral scarf and finally asks her to dance. Later at a town church social at Nellie's restaurant, they open up to each other and a new romance begins to blossom.

 

139 He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not [2 parts] 05/05/80, 05/12/80
Almanzo asks for Laura's hand in marriage. Mr. Ingalls tells Almanzo to wait 2 years until Laura is eighteen. Not wanting to wait, Almanzo forces Laura to choose him or respect her father. Laura respects her father's wishes. Almanzo leaves town and causes Laura a lot of heartache. Mrs. Oleson hires Percival Dalton to train Nellie in the restaurant business. Though trying to keep his temper in check, Nellie goes too far and Percival tells her off. Strangely enough, Nellie fall in-love with him. Before he leaves town Nellie tells him how she feels and he says he loves her also and asks her to marry him. Adam's father dies, which means that a new blind school wouldn't be built in Walnut Grove. To get her mind off Almanzo Laura helps Adam and Mary set up a new blind school in Sleepy Eye. That doesn't work because Almanzo is also in Sleepy Eye and they run into each other. When Almanzo gets very sick, Laura rushes to help him. She finds out that he had been secretly helping to pay the rent for the blind school. Almanzo pulls through thanks to Laura being by his side. Mr. Ingalls decides to allow Almanzo to marry Laura in one year, instead of two.

 
 

 

 

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