Karen GrassleFilmography

Born:: February 25, 1944 in Berkeley, CA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Karen Grassle entered the University of California-Berkeley as an English major, but active participation in school plays led her to change her field of interest and to graduate with a BA in drama. Supporting herself with menial jobs, Grassle went on to study in a San Francisco acting workshop...Read More

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Wyatt Earp

Actors: Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Jeff Fahey, Mark Harmon

Synopsis: Directed by Lawrence Kasdan, this epic version of the legendary western sheriff-gunslinger's life story stars Kevin Costner as Earp, who lived from 1848 to 1929. Growing up on a farm in Iowa, Earp tries to run away to join the Union Army in the Civil War, but he is turned away because of his Read More

1994
Murder, She Wrote: Harbinger of Death

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) accepts the invitation of her niece Carrie (Kate McNeil), the wife of astronomer Leonard Palmer (Dean Jones), to be on hand for the return of a long-lost comet. Thrilled at the prospect of witnessing this stellar phenomenon, Leonard takes a long look through his telescope Read More

1988
Murder, She Wrote: Murder in a Minor Key

Synopsis: In the first of the series' "novel" episodes, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) invites the viewers to listen in as she narrates her latest mystery story, involving a group of very intelligent graduate students. One of the protagonists is aspiring composer Michael Prentiss (Paul Clemens), who is outraged Read More

1987
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Synopsis: Local bullies find themselves the recipients of a Christmas miracle when they perform in the Christmas pageant. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1986
Between the Darkness and the Dawn

Actors: Lori Birdsong, Karen Grassle, Dorothy McGuire, Elizabeth Montgomery

Synopsis: Elizabeth Montgomery plays a woman who awakens from a 20-year coma. Her adjustment to the new world around her is made doubly difficult by the knowledge that her long-ago sweetheart has married her sister (Karen Grassle). Worse still, Montgomery learns that her reawakening may be temporary, and Read More

1985
Little House on the Prairie: The Last Farewell

Actors: Karen Grassle, Michael Landon

Synopsis: Little House: The Last Farewell was the third and last TV movie based on the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder (which also inspired the long-running TV series), though it was telecast out of sequence, shown before the second film, Little House: Look Back to Yesterday. This valedictory adventure of the Read More

1984
Cocaine: One Man's Seduction

Synopsis: This made-for-TV message drama presents the dangers of cocaine addiction as it follows one man's descent from successful real estate salesman and father, to red-eyed, runny nosed, coke head. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1983
Little House on the Prairie: He Was Only Twelve, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, James (Jason Bateman) heads to the Sleepy Eye bank to make a deposit. The bank is robbed and James is shot, leaving him comatose. Seething with grief and rage, James' adoptive father, Charles (Michael Landon), persuades his friend Mr. Edwards (Victor French Read More

1982
Little House on the Prairie: A Promise to Keep

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Still grieving over the death of his son John, Mr. Edwards (Victor French) has begun drinking again. Ordered out of his own home by his long-suffering wife, Grace (played by Corinne Camacho, replacing former series regular Bonnie Bartlett), Edwards returns to Walnut Grove and his friends the Read More

1982
Little House on the Prairie: Days of Sunshine, Days of Shadow, Part 2

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, the troubles that have recently beset the Wilders continue unabated. Their crops have already been wiped out by hail, and Almanzo (Dean Butler) has been partially paralyzed in an accident. Now, a tornado destroys the couple's home, injuring Laura (Melissa Gilbert Read More

1982
Little House on the Prairie: A Faraway Cry

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: With Dr. Baker (Kevin Hagen) in tow, Caroline (Karen Grassle) responds to a call for help from a prospector's camp. Here she finds her old friend Louisa (Ruth Silveira) now pregnant and suffering from the influenza that has spread throughout the camp. Though Louisa dies, her baby survives Read More

1982
Little House on the Prairie: The Legacy

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: This story begins in 1982, with a set of old blueprints discovered in a Minnesota auction barn. Flashing back a century or so, the audience discovers that the blueprints were drawn up by Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon), who has taken up cabinet-making as a means of establishing a legacy for his Read More

1982
Little House on the Prairie: Stone Soup

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: A pregnant Laura (Melissa Gilbert) insists that she can take care of the Wilders' farm in the absence of her husband, Almanzo (Dean Butler). Unfortunately, the land is hit with a drought, and Laura is felled by a heat stroke. It's up to the local schoolchildren to save the crops -- not to mention Read More

1982
Little House on the Prairie: No Beast So Fierce

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: James (Jason Bateman) befriends Gideon (played by Peter Billingsley of A Christmas Story fame), the new kid in school. Alas, when the other students make fun of Gideon's stammer, James bows to peer pressure and joins in on the ridicule. Heartbroken, Gideon runs away, and it is up to James' Read More

1982
Little House on the Prairie: Days of Sunshine, Days of Shadow, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In this special 90-minute episode, the first in a two-part story, the Wilders are beset by one calamity after another: A hailstorm destroys their crops, and Almanzo (Dean Butler) suffers a stroke that leaves him semi-paralyzed. Amidst all this strife, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) gives birth to her Read More

1982
Little House on the Prairie: Second Chance

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Hester-Sue (Ketty Lester) is astonished when her ex-husband, Sam Terhune (J.A. Preston), who left her years ago for another woman, suddenly shows up in Walnut Grove. Insisting that he has giving up drinking, gambling, and womanizing, Sam tries to charm his way back into Hester-Sue's heart. Read More

1982
Little House on the Prairie: Uncle Jed

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: It has been several months since Charles (Michael Landon) adopted the orphaned James (Jason Bateman) and Cassandra (Missy Francis), and the children are now fully and happily settled in the Ingalls household. This may soon change, however: The youngsters' grand-uncle Jed (E.J. Andre) suddenly Read More

1982
Little House on the Prairie: He Was Only Twelve, Part 2

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, James (Jason Bateman) remains in a coma after being shot in a bank robbery. Everyone has given up hope for the boy's recovery except his adoptive father, Charles (Michael Landon), whose obsessive belief that a "miracle" will occur alienates him from his Read More

1982
Little House on the Prairie: The Lost Ones, Part 2

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Rev. Alden (Dabbs Greer) finds a foster home for the orphaned Cooper children. Charles (Michael Landon) has a bad feeling about this setup -- a feeling that is borne out when it is revealed that the children's new guardians merely want to use them as cheap Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Oleson versus Oleson

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: A clash between Mr. and Mrs. Oleson (Richard Bull, Katherine MacGregor) leads to a town referendum to decide if the women of Walnut Grove should have property rights equal to the men. Not surprisingly, the referendum splits the town right down the middle, male vs. female. Ultimately, a Lysistrata Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Come, Let Us Reason Together

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: It's in-law vs. in-law when the Olesons meet the parents of their son-in-law, Percival (Steve Tracy), for the first time. Inevitably, the hidebound Harriet Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) clashes with Percival's Jewish father, Benjamin (E.M. Margolese), over whether or not Nellie (Alison Arngrim) Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: The Reincarnation of Nellie, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Season eight of Little House on the Prairie is marked with the conspicuous absence of several familiar characters, among them Mary and Adam Kendall and Nellie and Percival Dalton, all of whom have moved from Walnut Grove to New York. Mooning over the departure of daughter Nellie, the insufferable Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Dark Sage

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: The normally open-minded Doc Baker (Kevin Hagen) is a bit put off when his new assistant, Dr. Caleb Ledoux (Don Marshall), arrives in town -- not because Ledoux is unqualified (certainly not the case), but because he is black. Reluctant to entrust his patients to a man of color, Baker assigns Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Growin' Pains

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: The Ingalls' newly adopted son, James (Jason Bateman), is desperate to "belong," and even more desperate to emulate his older adoptive brother, Albert (Matthew Laborteaux). After breaking Albert's razor, James tries to make amends by getting Albert another one. Unfortunately, he doesn't bother to Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: The Reincarnation of Nellie, Part 2

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Little House on the Prairie's two-part season eight opener, the Olesons' newly adopted daughter, Nancy (Allison Balson), not only looks like a younger version of biological daughter, Nellie, but is just as bratty and troublesome. The kids at the Walnut Grove school have their Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: The Nephews

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: The Wilders are in for quite a time when Almanzo's brother Royal (Woody Eney) decides to take a vacation -- and deposits his troublesome sons, Myron (Ham Larsen) and Rupert (Rossie Harris), in the home of Almanzo (Dean Butler) and Laura (Melissa Gilbert). Before long, the nasty nephews have turned Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Blind Justice

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Adam (Linwood Boomer) and Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) return to Walnut Grove, where Adam wants to set up his law practice. His first client turns out to be the most hated man in town: Edgar Mills (Jeff Corey), who is accused of swindling the townsfolk in a wide-ranging scam. At first believing in Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: I Do, Again

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Believing that she is pregnant again, an exultant Caroline (Karen Grassle) pays a visit to the doctor. There she learns the awful truth: She can never again have any children. Charles (Michael Landon) tries to console Caroline by taking her on a trip to her hometown, where the couple tearfully Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: The Lost Ones, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Charles (Michael Landon) and Albert (Matthew Laborteaux) accompany the Cooper family while making a delivery. En route, Mr. and Mrs. Cooper are killed in an accident, leaving their children, James (Jason Bateman) and Cassandra (Missy Francis), orphans. Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Sylvia, Part 2

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Albert's classmate Sylvia (Olivia Barash) has been impregnated by a masked rapist, whereupon her "disgraced" father forcibly removes her from town. Already suspected of being the father of Sylvia's unborn baby, Albert (Matthew Laborteaux) courts further Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Make a Joyful Noise

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Black farmer Joe Kagan (Moses Gunn) sells his Walnut Grove property and moves to Sleepy Eye, where he gets a job at the blind school. Joe's primary motivation is his love for schoolteacher Hester-Sue (Ketty Lester), but she would prefer a wealthier and more worldly husband. Only when she realizes Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Goodbye, Mrs. Wilder

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Fed up with Harriet Oleson's (Katherine MacGregor) constant criticisms about her work, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) quits her schoolteaching job -- and invites Harriet to take over. Basking in the opportunity to bring culture to Walnut Grove, Harriet immediately sets up classes in French and art Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Sylvia, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Albert (Matthew Laborteaux) develops a crush on his classmate Sylvia (Olivia Barash), a 14-year-old girl who has developed early. Sylvia's stern father disapproves of Albert's affections and orders his daughter to ignore the boy. Later on, Sylvia is raped Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: A Wiser Heart

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: While attending a literature seminar in Arizona, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) is reunited with her sister-in-law Eliza Jane (Lucy Lee Flippin). This happy reunion is compromised when, failing to land a local tutoring job, Laura is forced to take menial work at a local restaurant. Before long, Laura and Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Season 08

Synopsis: Season eight of Little House on the Prairie finds Mary Ingalls Kendall (Melissa Sue Anderson, formerly a series regular and now a "special guest star") moving to New York, where her husband, Adam (Linwood Boomer), has joined his father's law firm. Back in Walnut Grove, Mary's father, Charles (Michael Landon Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Wave of the Future

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Harriet Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) thinks she has it made when she sells her restaurant to a national franchise. Before long, however, Harriet is being run to a frazzle in her efforts to live up to the franchise's lofty and exacting standards. Meanwhile, Harriet's husband, Nels (Richard Bull) Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: The Christmas They Never Forgot

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Snowed in by a Christmas blizzard, the Ingalls family, including married daughters Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) and their respective husbands, Almanzo (Dean Butler) and Adam (Linwood Boomer), pass the time by telling stories about their lives. Also on hand is family Read More

1981
Harry's War

Actors: Edward Herrmann, Geraldine Page, Karen Grassle, David Ogden Stiers, Salome Jens

Synopsis: Harry's War is a "feel good" movie--and you'd better feel good or else. Edward Herrmann plays an postman whose aunt (Geraldine Page) is victimized by the Internal Revenue Service. Uncle Sam has made an error on her return, insisting that the poor old pensioner must pay 190 grand in back taxes. Try Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Chicago

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Victor French returns to the series in the role of Isaiah Edwards. When his adopted son John a copy boy with a big Chicago newspaper, dies under mysterious circumstances, Edwards is comforted through his grief by his old friend Charles (Michael Landon). By and by, several clues indicate that John Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: The Legend of Black Jake

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Nels Oleson (Richard Bull) is kidnapped by two dimwitted amateur crooks, who demand a 100-dollar ransom. When Nels' wife, Harriet (Katherine MacGregor), refuses to pay, the outraged Nels decides to become the leader of the crooks' "gang." Under Nels' less than expert leadership, the two bumblers Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Gambini the Great

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Jack Kruschen guest stars as Gambini, an aging circus artist in whose footsteps his sons are reluctant to follow. When Gambini's show comes to town, Albert (Matthew Laborteaux) is fascinated with the old man's "escape" act -- so much so that he tries to be Gambini's protégé. This proves to be a Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: For the Love of Nancy

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: J. Brennan Smith is cast as Elmer, a chubby new student at the Walnut Grove school. Mercilessly ridiculed because of his weight, Elmer gravitates to the only person willing to be nice to him -- bratty Nancy Oleson (Allison Balson). In truth, however, Nancy doesn't care a fig about Elmer; she just Read More

1981
Little House on the Prairie: Fight Team Fight!

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Pete Ellerbee (William Traylor), Walnut Grove's legendary football hero, returns to town to coach the high school team. To Pete, winning isn't everything, it's the only thing -- and this attitude proves to be hard thing for the team members to live up to, especially his own son. Pete's Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: Sweet Sixteen

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Newly certified as a schoolteacher, 16-year-old Laura (Melissa Gilbert) accepts a temporary teaching job in a nearby town. Almanzo (Dean Butler) offers to drive Laura to her new assignment -- a gesture made strictly out of friendship for the girl. But in the course of the journey, Almanzo suddenly Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Part 2

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Little House on the Prairie's two-part season-seven opener, the wedding of Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert) and Almanzo Wilder (Dean Butler) is still on hold due to financial problems. When Almanzo's schoolteacher sister, Eliza Jane (Lucy Lee Flippin), has her heart broken by Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, Part 2

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) tries to get over the departure of her fiancé, Almanzo (Dean Butler), by helping her sister Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) and brother-in-law Adam (Linwood Boomer) set up a new school for the blind in the town of Sleepy Eye. As fate would Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: A New Beginning

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Widowed farmer Jonathan Garvey (Merlin Oleson) and his son Andy (Patrick Laborteaux) move to the town of Sleepy Eye so that Jonathan can start a freight business. Unfortunately, he is repeatedly robbed of his meager belongings by a gang of local toughs. Deciding to end this crime wave on his own Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Almanzo (Dean Butler) asks Charles' permission to marry Laura (Melissa Gilbert), but Charles insists that she cannot wed until she is 18 -- two years from now. Upset that Laura concedes to her father's wishes, Almanzo leaves town. Meanwhile, Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: May We Make Them Proud

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In this special two-hour episode, a fire at the blind school claims the lives of both Mary's baby and the wife of farmer Jonathan Garvey (Merlin Olsen). In the aftermath of the tragedy, Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) goes into a state of shock and Jonathan angrily rails against God. The only person Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: Wilder and Wilder

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Charles Bloom guest stars as Perley, the younger brother of Almanzo Wilder (Dean Butler). Hoping that his daughter Laura (Melissa Gilbert) will get over her infatuation with the older Almanzo, Charles (Michael Landon) encourages a romance between Laura and Perley -- but things changes dramatically Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: Second Spring

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Tired of his wife's nagging and his children's prankishness, long-suffering Nels Oleson (Richard Bull) decides to sell his wares in another town. There he meets the much-younger Molly Reardon (Suzanne Rodgers), with whom he falls in love. Certain that everyone will "understand" his decision to Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: Silent Promises

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Alban Branton, a deaf child, makes his acting debut in the role of hearing-impaired Daniel Page. Taking it upon herself to teach Daniel sign language, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) never dreams that the boy will fall in love with her -- but that is precisely what happens. This dramatic situation is Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: The Werewolf of Walnut Grove

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: The schoolchildren of Walnut Grove face a new nemesis in the form of an overgrown bully named Bart (Sandy Ward). To teach his tormentor a lesson, Albert (Matthew Laborteaux) contrives to throw a good scare into the boy. But when his "wolf-man" disguise comes a cropper, Albert decides to leave Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: What Ever Happened to the Class of '56?

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Liam Sullivan, Lynn Benesch

Synopsis: Charles (Michael Landon) and Caroline (Karen Grassle) journey to faraway Milwaukee to attend two important events: a farmers' convention and their 25th high school reunion. At the convention, Charles exhorts his fellow small farmers to stand up to the "big boys," while at the reunion, Caroline is Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: Darkness Is My Friend

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: On a stormy night, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) are held captive at the blind school by three escaped convicts. Since one of the men is wounded, Laura is permitted to go to town to get a doctor -- with the warning that Mary will suffer should she alert the authorities. Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: To See the Light, Part 2

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Adam Kendall (Dean Butler) decides to try for a scholarship now that his eyesight has been restored. En route to apply for the scholarship in Minneapolis, Adam is beaten, robbed, and contracts a fever. Meanwhile, back at home, his still-blind wife, Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: To See the Light, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, an accident unexpectedly restores Adam Kendall's (Linwood Boomer) eyesight. Although Adam is exultant, his still-blind wife, Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson), is worried that he will fall out of love with her. Meanwhile, Percival Dalton (Steve Tracy) proves to Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: Season 07

Synopsis: After many setbacks, Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert) finally marries Almanzo Wilder (Dean Butler) in the two-part opener of Little House on the Prairie's seventh season. Wedding bells also ring for Laura's childhood nemesis (but now good friend), Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim), who weds Percival Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: The first episode of Little House on the Prairie's two-part season-seven opener takes place some six months after the end of season six. Although Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim) has wed Percival Dalton (Steve Tracy), her childhood rival, Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert), must still wait until she is Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: Divorce, Walnut Grove Style

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: New bride Laura (Melissa Gilbert) suspects that her husband, Almanzo (Dean Butler), is cheating on her. Worse still, she is convinced that the other woman is her dear friend Brenda Sue Longworth (Tisch Raye). The disconsolate Laura moves back with her parents, and before long she has made her Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: Portrait of Love

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Future film star Madeleine Stowe (here billed as "Madeline") is cast as Annie Crane, a blind woman who miraculously achieves fame as a painter. An emotional crisis develops when Annie's long-lost biological mother shows up in hopes of a reconciliation. The embittered Annie refuses to have anything Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: The In-Laws

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Charles (Michael Landon) enters into a rivalry with his son-in-law Almanzo (Dean Butler). The bone of contention is an argument over the quickest method to deliver goods from Walnut Grove to Sleepy Eye. To settle the matter, Charles and Almanzo agree to a race; whichever man loses will have to Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: Dearest Albert, I'll Miss You

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Matthew Laborteaux, Jonathan Gilbert, Suzy Gilstrap

Synopsis: Albert (Matthew Laborteaux) inaugurates a pen-pal relationship with a girl named Leslie Barton. Hoping to impress one another, the two correspondents tell fibs about themselves. This apparently harmless deception leads to a dramatic denouement in which Leslie refuses to meet Albert face to face Read More

1980
Little House on the Prairie: Back to School, Part 2

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the concluding episode of Little House on the Prairie's two-part season six opener, the rivalry between Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and Nellie (Alison Arngrim) over the affections of their teacher's handsome brother, Almanzo (Dean Butler), reaches a fever pitch when the two girls come to blows. Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: The Odyssey

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the final episode of Little House on the Prairie's fifth season, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and Albert (Matthew Laborteaux) promise to honor the last wish of their friend Dylan (Steve Shaw), who is suffering from terminal leukemia. This promise, however, turns out to be a tall order, since Dylan Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: Back to School, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Season six of Little House on the Prairie begins with introduction of Dean Butler as Almanzo Wilder, future husband of series narrator Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert). The brother of Walnut Grove's new schoolmarm, Eliza Jane Wilder (Lucy Lee Flippin), Almanzo immediately upon arrival becomes the Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: Annabelle

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Although the people of Walnut Grove are delighted when a carnival comes to town, Nels Oleson (Richard Bull) is in despair. It seems that the carnival's fat lady, Annabelle (Harriet Gibson), is Mr. Oleson's long-estranged sister. Elsewhere, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) has a new rival for the affections Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: The Third Miracle

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) accompanies her husband, Adam (Linwood Boomer), on a stagecoach trip to an awards ceremony where Adam will be honored. En route, the coach is involved in an accident in a remote area. As the only passenger who is unhurt, Mary must save the lives of Adam, a pregnant Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: The Family Tree

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Albert (Matthew Laborteaux), the Ingalls' foster son, is frustrated by his efforts to trace his family tree as part of a school project. Equally frustrated is Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon), who, in attempting to legally adopt Albert, is stymied by the sudden arrival of the boy's natural father (Michael Pataki Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: Mortal Mission

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In desperate need of quick cash, two men knowingly sell mutton infested with anthrax to the citizens of Walnut Grove. When most of the community falls ill, Charles (Michael Landon) and Jonathan (Merlin Olsen) head to Springfield for medical supplies. En route, they are held up by a man whose Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: The Sound of Children

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: News that Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) is pregnant reaches New York, the home of Giles Kendall (Philip Abbott), the estranged father of Mary's husband, Adam (Linwood Boomer). Apparently hoping to mend the rift between himself and his son, Giles invites the couple to move in with him, and even Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: Dance With Me

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Ray Bolger guest stars in this special 90-minute episode as Toby Noe, a hard-drinking drifter whom the Ingalls befriended while living in Winoka. Shambling into Walnut Grove just before a much-anticipated community dance, Toby immediately sets his cap for prudish spinster Amanda Jane Cooper (Eileen Heckart Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: Blind Man's Bluff

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: When his sight is temporarily impaired in an accident, young Jordan (Ronnie Scribner) pretends to have been permanently blinded in order to keep his quarrelling parents from splitting up. At first disapproving of Jordan's charade, Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert) decides to let him keep his secret Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: Enchanted Cottage

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: When she begins to differentiate light from dark, Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) is thrilled -- perhaps, at long last, she is regaining her sight. Meanwhile, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and Albert (Matthew Laborteaux) try to fix up Mary and Adam's "dream" cottage -- with only two mismatched paint colors Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: Barn Burner

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: With wheat prices plummeting, the farmers of Walnut Grove hold a meeting to decide whether or not to fix prices. The only farmer who doesn't go along with the plan is town bigot Larrabee (Don "Red" Barry), who refuses to charge the same price as a black neighbor. Outraged by this behavior Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: The Lake Kezia Monster

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: When lovable eccentric Aunt Kezia (Hermione Baddeley) fails to pay her taxes, the old woman's property is bought up by the insufferable Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor). In a gesture of uncharacteristic generosity, Mrs. Oleson offers to let Kezia remain on the premises -- albeit as the Olesons' Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: The Preacher Takes a Wife

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Love comes into the life of Walnut Grove's Rev. Alden (Dabbs Greer) in the form of the widowed Anna Craig (Iris Korn). This turn of events outrages the insufferable Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor), who is of the staunch opinion that a minister should be "married to his work." In her efforts to Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: The Angry Heart

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: The victim of lifelong abuse at the hands of his drunken father, surly 17-year-old Tod Dortmunder (Timothy Wead) comes to live with his grandparents in Walnut Grove. Wasting no time getting into trouble, Tod soon faces a jail term for stealing Charles' watch. Rather than heap more punishment on Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: Crossed Connections

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: No sooner has Walnut Grove's first telephone been installed in the town's hotel than self-appointed operator Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) begins eavesdropping on her neighbors. Overhearing a conversation between Alice Garvey (Hersha Parady) and her mother, Mrs. Oleson is shocked to discover Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: The Craftsman

Actors: Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Hoping to contribute to the Ingalls' family coffers, young Albert (Matthew Laborteaux) becomes an apprentice to old Isaac Singerman (John Bleifer), Walnut Grove's coffin maker. Before long, Albert is subjected to the taunts of his classmates, who maliciously label him a "Jew lover." As it turns Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: Season 06

Synopsis: Season six of Little House on the Prairie bids goodbye to Mary Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) and her new husband, Adam Kendall (Linwood Boomer) -- at least on a regular weekly basis. With Mary and Adam having moved to the Dakotas, Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert) is now the oldest daughter in her Read More

1979
Crisis in Mid-Air

Synopsis: Crisis in Mid-Air is essentially a "problem drama" concentrating on a single individual. George Peppard plays a veteran air traffic controller who holds himself responsible for a mid-air collision. With an FAA investigator breathing down his neck, Peppard gets a chance to prove his value when Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: Author, Author

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: After the death of Caroline's mother, her heartbroken father, Frederick Holbrook (Barry Sullivan), moves into the Ingalls' sod house. Little Albert (Matthew Laborteaux) quickly gravitates to Frederick, who has a gift for weaving fascinating stories out of his lifetime experiences. As a means of Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: The King Is Dead

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: A slick sports promoter (Ray Walston) convinces Jonathan Garvey (Merlin Olsen) that he has genuine talent as a wrestler. It is all part of a scheme to bilk the citizens of Walnut Grove by staging a rigged wrestling match. Things get really sticky when, consumed by gambling fever, Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: The Return of Mr. Edwards

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Victor French returns to Little House on the Prairie in the role of Isaiah Edwards, now a successful logger. When he is crippled by a falling tree, Edwards loses his will to live. Though he appears to shake himself out of his doldrums when he renews his friendship with the Ingalls family, Edwards Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: The Halloween Dream

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Suffering from an extremely overactive imagination -- fueled by the Halloween season and his addiction to dime novels -- Albert (Matthew Laborteaux) dreams that he and Laura (Melissa Gilbert) are kidnapped by Indians. The plot thickens when Albert is mistaken for the chief's son and, as such, is Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: The Faith Healer

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: James Olson guest stars as "Reverend" Edward Danforth, a bombastic faith healer who descends upon Walnut Grove. So persuasive is Danforth's rhetoric and his laying-on-of-hands technique that soon both Rev. Alden (Dabbs Greer) and Doc Baker (Kevin Hagen) are shunned by the community as being Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: The Little House Years

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Telecast on Sunday evening rather than the series' customary Monday-night slot, "The Little House Years" is a three-hour compilation of highlights from the series' five previous seasons. Gathered together for Thanksgiving, the Ingalls family recalls the most memorable events of their lives, with Read More

1979
Little House on the Prairie: Fagin

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Charles (Michael Landon) spends so much time with his foster son, Albert (Matthew Laborteaux), that his biological daughter Laura (Melissa Gilbert) feels neglected. Sensing Laura's resentment, Albert sadly concludes that it would be best for all concerned if he ran away. Only after Laura has won Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: Harriet's Happenings

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Perennial busybody Harriet Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) inaugurates a gossip column in the local Walnut Grove newspaper. With her usual sensitivity toward other people's feelings, she uses her column to malign a local farming family -- for no other reason than they are recent immigrants from Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: The Wedding

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In this classic episode, Adam Kendall (Linwood Boomer) asks Laura Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) to marry her. Though Laura loves Adam, she declines his proposal, worried that a blind couple could never properly care for a family. But a crisis during a devastating dust storm reveals that Laura and Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: The Winoka Warriors

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Among the students at the school for the blind where Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) works is Tom Carlin (Brad Wilkin), whose taciturn (and sighted) farmer father, Frank (John Ireland), has given Tom up as a total loss. Hoping to build Tom's self-confidence, Mary arranges for Tom to play with the Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: The Man Inside

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Cliff Emmich guest stars as John Bevins, a warm-hearted but grotesquely heavy man who is treated as an object of ridicule by most of his neighbors. John accepts a job at the one place in town where no one can see him: the school for the blind where Mary Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) works. Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: There's No Place Like Home, Part 2

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, the Ingalls, Olesons, and Garveys, disillusioned with life in the "big city" of Winoka, have packed up and returned to Walnut Grove. Alas, the community has fallen into an appalling state of disrepair in their absence. With nowhere else to go, the returning Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: Men Will Be Boys

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: As a rite of passage, youngsters Albert Ingalls (Matthew Laborteaux) and Andy Garvey (Patrick Laborteaux) embark upon a camping trip to Sleepy Eye all by themselves. Though they don't wish to embarrass their sons, Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) and Jonathan Garvey (Merlin Olsen) secretly tag Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: The Godsister

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: With Charles (Michael Landon) out of town on a job and her siblings elsewhere occupied, little Carrie Ingalls feels lonely and neglected. Her solution: to create an imaginary lookalike friend named Alyssa, and to embark on a series of thrilling adventures. In this special 90-minute episode, the Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: Season 05

Synopsis: Devastating financial reverses, prompted by the closing of the town mill, force several Walnut Grove citizens to pack up and move out as Little House on the Prairie enters it fifth season. Among those leaving are Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon), his wife, Caroline (Karen Grassle), and their Read More

1978
Battered

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Karen Grassle, LeVar Burton, Mike Farrell, Chip Fields, Joan Blondell

Synopsis: Battered concentrates upon three female victims of spousal abuse. Chip Fields is the new wife of struggling young Levar Burton. Joan Blondell is the alcoholic middle-aged spouse of the equally bibilous Howard Duff. And Karen Grassle (who cowrote the screenplay) is married to Ivy leaguer Mike Farrell Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: The Cheaters

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: With Mrs. Simms having retired, Alice Garvey (Hersha Parady) has taken over as Walnut Grove's schoolteacher -- a task made difficult by the fact that Alice's son, Andy (Patrick Laborteaux), is a classic underachiever. Hoping to improve Andy's grades, Alice hires her best pupil, Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: Blind Journey, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: When the blind school at Winoka is sold by the bank, the people of Walnut Grove decide to establish a new school at the former home of Rev. Alden. Meanwhile, pompous Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) is doing her best to keep Joe Kagan (Moses Gunn), a black man, from joining the town's church. As Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: Blind Journey, Part 2

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, the imperious Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) is shocked to discover that Hester-Sue Terhune (Ketty Lester), the prestigious new teacher at Walnut Grove's school for the blind, is a black woman. Ultimately, Mrs. Oleson learns a valuable -- and, it is hoped Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: As Long As We Are Together, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: Season five of Little House on the Prairie opens as the financially strapped Ingalls family moves from Walnut Grove, MN, to Winoka in Dakota Territory. In addition to the possibility of better times ahead, the Ingalls will now be closer to their blind daughter, Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson), who is Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: The Rivals

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Actually, there are two sets of rivals in this episode. While farmers Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) and Jonathan Garvey (Merlin Olsen) must square off against some tough professional competitors in a freight-hauling contest, Charles' daughter Laura (Melissa Gilbert) finds herself battling with Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: Whisper Country

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) lands a teaching job in an isolated rural community ruled by religious zealot Miss Peel (Anita Dangler). Declaring that education is the tool of Satan, Miss Peel rallies the townsfolk in opposing the school, going so far as to spread malicious lies about Mary. As it Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In this first episode of Little House on the Prairie's two-part season four finale, Mary Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) is diverted from her blossoming romance with Seth (Robert Kenneally) by her rapidly failing eyesight. What Mary doesn't yet know, but her father Charles does, is that she will Read More

1978
The President's Mistress

Actors: Beau Bridges, Susan Blanchard, Larry Hagman, Karen Grassle, Don Porter, Gail Strickland

Synopsis: Made for television, this little gem was based on a novel by Patrick Anderson. The title character, the sister of a government courier, barely has time to acquaint herself with the audience before she is murdered - leading us to wonder who did it, and if it is, in fact, true that the dead woman Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: There's No Place Like Home, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Matthew Laborteaux

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) refuses to withstand one more humiliation from his new employer Standish (Leon Charles) after the hateful man cheats a heavy-drinking oldster (Ray Bolger) out of a lottery prize. With his family in tow, Charles leaves Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: I Remember, I Remember

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: On the day of Charles and Caroline Ingalls' wedding anniversary, Charles (Michael Landon) is unable to come home on schedule due to a broken wagon wheel. While everyone waits for the festivities to commence, Caroline (Karen Grassle) regales her children with a story about her youthful romance with Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: The Stranger

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: The Oleson family is saddled with Mr. Oleson's obnoxious nephew Peter (Michael Sharrett), who has been sent to Walnut Grove in hopes that he will learn the proper values in life. Somehow or other, Peter ends up on the Ingalls farm, where he rapidly proceeds to rub everyone the wrong way. Even so Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: A Most Precious Gift

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Charles (Michael Landon) and Caroline (Karen Grassle) are thrilled to learn that she is expecting another child. But will Charles be disappointed if the baby turns out to be another girl? To find out what is in store, Caroline goes against her better judgment and consults a gypsy fortune teller Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away, Part 2

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the concluding episode of Little House on the Prairie's two-part season four finale, Mary Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) cannot quite come to terms with her blindness. Reluctantly, she agrees to go to Iowa, there to attend a school for the blind. Ultimately she does so well in her studies, and Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: The Inheritance

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: When Charles (Michael Landon) comes into an unexpected inheritance, everyone tries to tell him how best to spend the money -- including the troublesome Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor). Only after getting deeply into debt with the Olesons does Charles discover that his windfall consists of Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: Be My Friend

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In search of the person who stuffed a note reading "Be My Friend" in a bottle, Charles (Michael Landon) and Laura (Melissa Gilbert) come upon an abandoned baby. It soon develops that the child's unwed, teenaged parents were forced to part by the girl's resentful father. While Charles tries to Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: Little Women

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: The Walnut Grove schoolchildren put together a stage production in which snooty Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim) lands the leading role. Meanwhile, another student, Ginny Clark (Rachel Lonaker), hopes to use the play to help her widow mother, Della (Kay Peters), a faded debutante, get back into the Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: Quarantine

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: After helping Doc Baker (Kevin Hagen) tend to a mountain fever epidemic in another town, Mr. Edwards (Victor French) returns to Walnut Grove, which has already been quarantined. Unwittingly, Edwards has brought the fever virus into town, and as a result, his adopted daughter falls seriously ill. Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: Injun Kid

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Young Joseph Stokes (Caesar Ramirez), the son of a Sioux Indian father and a white mother, arrives in Walnut Grove to live with his maternal grandfather, Jeremy (George Murdock). Unfortunately, Jeremy is still bitter over the fact that his daughter married an Indian, and treats his grandson with Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: The Wisdom of Solomon

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Tired of his family's grinding poverty and of being treated as a freak by the local white bigots, 11-year-old black youngster Solomon Henry (played by future Diff'rent Strokes co-star Todd Bridges) runs away from home. Showing up at the Ingalls home, Solomon offers to sell himself as their slave Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: To Live With Fear, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Mary Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) is in dire need of a life-saving operation. Lacking the necessary funds, Mary's father, Charles (Michael Landon), signs up for a high-paying -- and highly-dangerous -- new job. Working shoulder to shoulder with his neighbor Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: I'll Ride the Wind

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: John Jr. (Radames Pera), the adopted son of Mr. Edwards (Victor French), astonishes 13-year-old Mary Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) by proposing marriage. Naturally, John expects Mary to wait for him until she comes of age -- but then he is offered a colleague scholarship that will keep him away Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: Season 04

Synopsis: Season four of Little House on the Prairie finds the Ingalls' household increased from five to six after Caroline Ingalls (Karen Grassle), wife of series protagonist Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon), gives birth to another daughter, named Grace. At the same time, the Ingalls' farmer friend Isaiah Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: Here Come the Brides

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: A newcomer to Walnut Grove, hog farmer Adam Simms (Joshua Bryant) falls head over heels in love with local schoolmarm Miss Beadle (Charlotte Stewart). At the same time, Adam's hulking son, Luke (Bob Marsic), is smitten by (of all people!) spoiled brat Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim). Sneaking off Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: Meet Me at the Fair

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: The Ingalls and the Olesons attend the fair at Mankato, MN (though the episode was actually filmed near Tucson, AZ). Losing her money in a crooked shell game, Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert) accepts a temporary sideshow job that requires her to be periodically dunked in a tub of water -- much to Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: Blizzard

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Just before the Christmas vacation, Walnut Grove is threatened by a driving snowstorm. Schoolteacher Miss Beadle (Charlotte Stewart) decides to let her students go home earlier than usual so that they can avoid the impending blizzard; only the Oleson children remain behind to help their teacher Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: Freedom Flight

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: The townsfolk of Walnut Grove are in an uproar when a local Indian chief, Spotted Wolf (Guillermo San Juan), jumps his reservation to lead his people out of town. When Spotted Wolf suffers a stroke, his son Little Crow (Nick Ramus) seeks out help from the white townspeople -- but to no avail. It Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: The Music Box

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Laura (Melissa Gilbert) befriends a new schoolmate named Anna (Katy Kurtzman), who has a pronounced stutter. Hoping to humiliate Anna, bratty Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim) agrees not to snitch on Laura when the latter "borrows" and breaks one of the Olesons' precious music boxes -- but in return Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: To Run and Hide

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Sue Anderson, Kevin Hagen

Synopsis: Doc Baker (Kevin Hagen) wonders if he is truly cut out for his job after losing one of his patients, the husband of a pregnant woman (Collin Wilcox). Dolefully, Baker decides to relinquish his practice to the younger and seemingly more efficient Dr. Logan (Burr deBenning). But Doc's defection Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: The Wolves

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) takes charge of the Ingalls household while her parents are away. Unfortunately, Mary's well-meaning sister Laura (Melissa Gilbert) has joined forces with the equally idealistic Andy Garvey (Patrick Laborteaux) in providing shelter for an injured wolf and her pups Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: The Aftermath

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Two worldly "land speculators" calling themselves Dankworth (Dennis Rucker) and Hobbs (John Bennett Perry) arrive in Walnut Grove. There is something decidedly strange about these two newcomers, especially since Hobbs is apparently suffering from a recent wound. By the time "Dankworth" and "Hobbs" Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: The Fighter

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In this special 90-minute episode, Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) replaces the injured Jonathan Garvey (Merlin Olsen) in a high-stakes boxing match. Charles wins with astonishing ease -- only to discover that his opponent, a black man named Joe Kagan (Moses Gunn), is in no condition to be in the Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: The High Cost of Being Right

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: When Jonathan Garvey's crops burn, leaving his family destitute, his wife, Alice (Hersha Parady), decides to take a job at the local post office. But the stubbornly proud Jonathan (Merlin Olsen) is outraged that his wife must support his family, and threatens to divorce her if she doesn't quit her Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: The Handyman

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: With Charles (Michael Landon) in Mankato on business for two weeks, Caroline (Karen Grassle) must find someone to complete the new kitchen in the Ingalls house. She hires a handsome handyman named Chris Nelson (Gil Gerard) to do the job. Outraged at the apparent too-friendly relationship between Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: Castoffs

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the opening episode of Little House on the Prairie's fourth season, Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert), grieving over the death of her beloved dog Jack, rejects the efforts by her father, Charles (Michael Landon), to replace her pet with a scruffy cast-off pooch named Bandit. Ultimately, however Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: Times of Change

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Called to attend the Grange convention in Chicago as a representative of Walnut Grove, Charles (Michael Landon) offers to take his daughter Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson). At first, the two visitors are in awe of the beauty and glamour of the "big city" -- especially Mary, who is reunited with her Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: The Election

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: The classroom rivalry between Mary Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) and Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim) reaches its peak when both girls run for school president. Also in the electoral race is nerdy, unpopular student Elmer Dobkins (Eric Olson), who was nominated as a cruel practical joke. Things Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: Gold Country

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the two-hour finale of Little House on the Prairie's third season, the Ingalls family faces yet another crisis when their crops are destroyed. In desperation, Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) packs up his brood and heads to the nearby gold mines, hoping for better luck. Surprisingly, the family Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: My Ellen

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: While skinny-dipping with Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson), little Ellen Taylor (Mia Bendixsen) accidentally drowns. Arriving at the Taylor home after the funeral to offer her condolences, Laura is kidnapped by Ellen's grieving mother, Eloise (Corinne Michaels), who is Read More

1977
Little House on the Prairie: His Father's Son

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Mr. Edwards (Victor French) is disappointed that his eldest adopted son, John Jr. (Radames Pera), would rather read books than go hunting. When Edwards gives John a gun as a birthday gift, the boy writes a letter explaining his reluctance to kill any living creature. Despite the letter, Edwards is Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: Journey in the Spring, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Arthur Hill guest stars as Lansford Ingalls, the father of farmer Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon). Sensing that his dad has lost the will to live since the death of his wife, Charles invites Lansford to move in with his family at Walnut Grove. At first Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: The Talking Machine

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim) vie for the attentions of Jason (Eric Shea), a would-be scientist. Using the Olesons' new-fangled phonograph machine, Nellie and her brother, Willie (Jonathan Gilbert), conspire to record a conversation guaranteed to humiliate Laura in Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: A Matter of Faith

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: With the rest of the family elsewhere, Caroline (Karen Grassle) is left alone on the farm for a day. Scratching her leg on a rusty nail, Caroline at first thinks nothing of this minor injury. But as infection sets in, Caroline grows weaker and weaker -- and it looks as though neither Charles (Michael Landon Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: The Pride of Walnut Grove

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: The Walnut Grove town council agrees to bankroll Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) when she has a chance to participate in statewide mathematics competition. Armed with confidence of her friends and neighbors, Mary, accompanied by her parents, heads to Minneapolis with the certainty that she will win Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: The Hunters

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: While on a hunting trip, Laura (Melissa Sue Anderson) accidentally shoots and wounds her father, Charles (Michael Landon). The only other person within miles of the accident is Sam (Burl Ives), a blind recluse who is reluctant to offer assistance, feeling that he is totally worthless. It is up Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: Journey in the Spring, Part 2

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, an embittered Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert) holds her widowed grandfather, Lansford (Arthur Hill), responsible for injuries sustained by her beloved horse Bunny. Sadly concluding that moving in with his son Charles (Michael Landon) was a mistake, Lansford Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: Season 03

Synopsis: Victor French and Bonnie Bartlett, heretofore guest stars in the roles of Isaiah and Grace Edwards, graduate to regular status as Little House on the Prairie enters its third season. The opening episode, "The Collection," features country legend Johnny Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, in the Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: Fred

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Laura (Melissa Gilbert) is hoodwinked into bringing a billy goat named Fred into the Ingalls household. Alas, Fred is not only cantankerous but voracious as well, eating everything in sight -- including the family's crops. Sadly, Laura agrees with her father, Charles (Michael Landon), that the Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: The Bully Boys

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Walnut Grove is held in the grip of terror when the three Galender brothers move into town. Before long, the bullying brothers have run up enormous bills that they refuse to pay, spread malicious and injurious lies, and beaten up anyone who gets in their way. The limit comes when the brothers try Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: The Runaway Caboose

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: While visiting a train station with their families, Ingalls sisters Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) and Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and the Edwards' adopted son, Carl (Brian Part), sneak into an empty caboose. Carl accidentally discouples the car from the rest of the train, thereby propelling himself and Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: Bunny

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In this first episode of a two-part story, Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert) is given a wonderful horse named Bunny -- which of course is great source of envy for spoiled-brat Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim). While being permitted to ride Bunny, Nellie falls off the horse, whereupon she pretends to Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: Going Home

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Having endured any number of setbacks, Charles (Michael Landon) can stand no more when a tornado wipes out his crops. Thoroughly discouraged, Charles decides to sell the farm and return to Wisconsin -- but he doesn't tell his family about this decision. On a happier note, Charles' daughter Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: Soldier's Return

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Seriously wounded at the battle of Shiloh 12 years earlier, former army bugler Granville Whipple (Richard Mulligan) returns to his home town of Walnut Grove and to the house of his mother, Mrs. Whipple (Queenie Smith). Frustrated in his efforts to forget his past and become a music teacher Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: The Monsters of Walnut Grove

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: While passing the Oleson home on Halloween night, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) thinks she witnesses a murder -- specifically, Mr. Oleson (Richard Bull) decapitating Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) with a long sword. Fully aware that their mother is merely out of town, the Oleson kids -- Nellie (Alison Arngrim Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: Little Girl Lost

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) are outraged when their little sister, Carrie (played by twin actresses Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush), lets loose a collection of bugs that the girls have been gathering for a classroom project. But their anger gives way to terror when, while Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: The Race

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert) wants to enter her horse Bunny in an upcoming race, but is short the money to have the horse properly shod. Meanwhile, Laura's nemesis, Nellie (Alison Arngrim), cajoles her snobbish mother, Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: For My Lady

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Mariette Hartley guest stars as the Widow Thurman, for whom Charles (Michael Landon) does some carpentry work. As previously agreed upon, the widow pays Charles with a set of expensive china, intended as a surprise gift for Charles' wife, Caroline (Karen Grassle). In order to keep the surprise Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: Centennial

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Walnut Grove's upcoming centennial celebration is threatened by a sudden upsurge in taxes and road assessments. Angry over having to dig deeper into their pockets, the citizens seriously consider cancelling the celebration altogether. It takes the humble words of a recent Russian immigrant (Theodore Bikel Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: Troublemaker

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Thanks to the interference of Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor), Walnut Grove's schoolteacher Miss Beadle (Charlotte Stewart) is replaced by Mr. Applewood (Richard Basehart), a harsh disciplinarian. Wrongfully convinced that Laura (Melissa Gilbert) is a troublemaker, Applewood (or "Crabapple," as Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: The Long Road Home

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: It's The Wages of Fear, prairie style, in this tension-laden episode. When the price of grain plummets precipitously, Charles (Michael Landon), Edwards (Victor French), and two other men must seek out employment in a hurry. The four men accept a high-paying but highly dangerous job, transporting Read More

1976
Little House on the Prairie: At the End of the Rainbow

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and her friend Jonah (Shane Sinutko) find some shiny metal particles during a fishing expedition. Convinced that they've struck gold, the youngsters begin to imagine what it would be like to be rich beyond their wildest dreams. Before long, several others in town have Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: The Gift

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: The children of Walnut Grove pool their Sunday school funds to purchase an expensive Bible for Reverend Alden's (Dabbs Greer) birthday present. Entrusted with the money, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) and Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) attempt to double the amount by purchasing, then selling, a supply of Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Family Quarrel

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Things have come to an impasse in the home of the eternally bickering Nels and Harriet Oleson (Richard Bull, Katherine MacGregor). The couple decides to split up, and nothing will convince either one of them to try mending their differences. The entire community bands together to bring Nels and Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Plague

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: A new supply of expensive cornmeal, infested with rats, sparks a typhus outbreak in the town of Walnut Grove. Unaware of the source of the scourge, the townsfolk converge at the church, which has been converted into an emergency hospital. By the time Mr. Edwards (Victor French) reveals that his Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Doctor's Lady

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: The focus in this episode is on Dr. Baker (Kevin Hagen), Walnut Grove's unmarried, middle-aged general practitioner. Despite the considerable difference in their ages, Dr. Baker falls in love with Kate Thorvald (Anne Archer), the visiting niece of Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor). It takes a Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: The Spring Dance

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Laura (Melissa Gilbert) hopes that Henry Henderson (Clay O'Brien) will take her to the spring dance. Similarly, Grace Snider (Bonnie Bartlett) is waiting for Mr. Edwards (Victor French) to ask her to the big event. But when neither man extends an invitation, Laura and Grace conspire to make their Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: The Creeper of Walnut Grove

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Who is the mysterious marauder that is going around stealing food -- but nothing else -- throughout Walnut Grove? Their minds filled with dime-novel mysteries, Laura Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) and Andy Garvey (Patrick Laborteaux) decide to play detective, hoping to capture the elusive Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: The Campout

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) is determined that the Ingalls children will not get the better of her own kids during a school leaf-gathering competition. To that end, Mrs. Oleson packs up her family and her precious tea set and joins the Ingalls for a weekend camping trip. The presence of the Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Remember Me, Part 2

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Charles (Michael Landon) continues seeking out good homes for the orphaned Sanderson children. Mr. Edwards (Victor French) would like to adopt all three kids, but there's one hitch: He's a bachelor. Undaunted, Edwards solves the problem by proposing to the Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Season 02

Synopsis: Season two of Little House on the Prairie opens with Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) losing his "outside" job when Lars Hanson (Karl Swenson) is forced to close Walnut Grove's mill. Back at home, Charles' daughter Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) begins to notice signs that her eyesight is fading (she Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Remember Me, Part 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Patricia Neal guest stars as Julie Sanderson, a terminally ill widow. On the threshold of death, Julia asks Charles (Michael Landon) to find good homes for her three children. In his efforts to honor Julia's wishes, Charles is faced with the depressing Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Founder's Day

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Walnut Grove's annual Founder's Day celebration brings a host of visitors to compete in a wide variety of contests. As the Ingalls' and the Olesons' jealously squares off elsewhere (Mrs. Olesen [Katherine MacGregor] is quite a sight at the three-legged race), elderly but proud logger Jim Tyler (Forrest Tucker Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: The Richest Man in Walnut Grove

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: In the first episode of Little House on the Prairie's second season, the main customer of Charles Ingalls' (Michael Landon) employer goes bankrupt. Denied two months' back wages, Charles and his wife, Mary (Karen Grassle), are forced to take several jobs to pay their mounting bills. Meanwhile, the Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Survival

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Jack Ging

Synopsis: In this episode from the television series Little House on the Prairie, Charles and Caroline Ingalls (Michael Landon and Karen Grassle) are traveling with their daughters, Laura (Melissa Gilbert), Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson), and Carrie (Lindsay Greenbush), when they're caught in the middle of a Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: To See the World

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Victor French

Synopsis: Having lived most of his life on a farm, Johnny Johnson (Mitch Vogel) sets out to experience what the world has to offer. Mr. Edwards (Victor French) tags along to make sure that Johnny doesn't get in over his head. Even so, Johnny succumbs to the charms of a young barmaid named Mimi (Jane Alice Brandon Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: In the Big Inning

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: At last year's annual baseball game with the Sleepy Eye Greenstockings, the Walnut Grove team lost 36 to nothing. Determined to avenge this humiliation, the men of Walnut Grove have placed their hopes in the hands of ace pitcher Jebediah Mumfort (Karl Lukas). The town goes so far as to plunk down Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Haunted House

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim) dares Laura (Melissa Gilbert) to venture into a "haunted" house, reputed to be occupied by a maniac. As it turns out, the house's owner, old Mr. Pike (John Anderson) is more befuddled than insane; he has stubbornly remained locked up in his home awaiting the return Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Four Eyes

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: The Ingalls family cannot understand why the hard-working Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) is falling behind in school. In turns out that Mary's eyesight is failing and she needs glasses. When she is teased as "four-eyes" by the other students, Mary contrives to lose her new spectacles, but then learns Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Ebenezer Sprague

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: Ted Gehring makes his first series appearance as Ebenezer Sprague, Walnut Grove's hard-hearted, tight-fisted banker. Although Charles (Michael Landon) was instrumental in setting up the town's bank, he finds that Sprague is hardly amenable to extending a loan to the Ingalls family. When Charles' Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Money Crop

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: The farmers of Walnut Grove place their faith -- and their future -- in the hands of Joseph Coulter (Alan Fudge), a college-educated agronomist. Coulter has told the farmers of a new hybrid that would yield rich crops, and he has been sent to Minneapolis, with a large sum of cash, to purchase Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Child of Pain

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Harris Yulin

Synopsis: The Ingalls family takes a special interest in young Graham Stewart (Johnny Lee), the son of alcoholic farmer John Stewart (Harris Yulin). Embittered over the death of his wife, John takes it out on Graham in the form of regular, brutal beatings. While Caroline (Karen Grassle) offers a safe harbor Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Circus Man

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Red Buttons guest stars as charismatic traveling circus man Mr. O'Hara. While performing magic tricks for the Walnut Grove citizenry, O'Hara leads his audience to believe that his "special" powders have marvelous healing powers. Falling for the circus man's blarney hook, line, and sinker, Mrs. Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: Ma's Holiday

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Victor French

Synopsis: The Ingalls children are left in the care of Mr. Edwards (Victor French) when Charles (Michael Landon) takes Caroline (Karen Grassle) on a second honeymoon in the city. Alas, Caroline has no fun at all, worrying as she does about leaving her daughters in the hands of an inexperienced adult. And Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: Town Party, Country Party

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Little Olga Nordstrom (Kim Richards) is left out of her classmates' gangs because one of her legs is shorter than the other. After twisting her own ankle, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) awakens to Olga's plight and befriends the lonely girl. Convinced that Olga would have a happier time of it if she Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: Christmas at Plum Creek

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: In the series' first holiday episode, the Ingalls family tries to purchase Christmas gifts with what little money they have on hand. Working in secret, the individual family members rely upon their own ingenuity to put together a proper Yuletide. In the end, it is Laura (Melissa Gilbert) who best Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: If I Should Die Before I Wake

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: With her 80th birthday approaching, Miss Amy Hearn (Josephine Hutchinson) begins to brood over her mortality, especially after the death of a close friend. She also frets over the possibility that her family has forgotten all about her. With the help of the Ingalls family, Miss Amy fakes her own Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: The Premiere

Actors: Melissa Gilbert, Karen Grassle, Michael Landon

Synopsis: This pilot for the long-running (1972-1982) family series stars all the regulars-to-be and spends half its length setting up character, setting, and mood. As with the series, the story is told from the viewpoint of Laura Ingalls Wilder (played by Melissa Gilbert), upon whose novels the film was Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: School Mom

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: With Mrs. Beadle sidelined by a sprained ankle, Caroline (Karen Grassle) volunteers as substitute teacher. She immediately focuses on the tribulations of 15-year-old Abel Makay (played by Dirk Blocker, the son of Michael Landon's former Bonanza co-star Dan Blocker), who is too embarrassed to Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: A Harvest of Friends

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Introduced as a made-for-TV movie on March 30, 1974, the popular family series Little House on the Prairie, inspired by the autobiographical works of Laura Ingalls Wilder, began its regular weekly run on September 11 of that same year. In the opening episode, the Ingalls family has moved to the Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: The Lord is My Shepherd

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Ernest Borgnine

Synopsis: Ernest Borgnine guests stars as a mountain hermit named Jonathan in this two-hour episode. Though she is a bit jealous of her new baby brother, Laura (Melissa Gilbert) is horror-stricken when the infant dies. Feeling somehow responsible for this tragedy, Laura runs away from home and climbs a Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: 100 Mile Walk

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: The Ingalls' first wheat crop is wiped out by a hailstorm, which also devastates the neighboring farms. This catastrophe forces Charles (Michael Landon) and his fellow farmers to leave town and seek out other work. While the menfolk of Walnut Grove are all laboring at a faraway quarry, it is up to Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: Country Girls

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: On their first day at school, Laura and Mary Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson) run smack dab into the snooty snobbery of Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim), who haughtily refers to the sisters as "country girls." Assigned to write an essay, Laura is unable to finish the assignment. But Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: The Love of Johnny Johnson

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Mitch Vogel, who previously co-starred with Michael Landon in Bonanza, joins the cast as Johnny Johnson, the shy new schoolmate of Laura Ingalls (Melissa Gilbert). Developing a crush on the much-older Johnny, Laura does everything she can to capture his attention. Imagine her dismay when Johnny Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: Mr. Edwards' Homecoming

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Victor French

Synopsis: Victor French makes his first series appearance as Mr. Edwards, the Ingalls' former neighbor from Kansas. When Charles (Michael Landon) invites Edwards to visit Walnut Grove, Caroline (Karen Grassle) becomes concerned over her ex-neighbor's bachelor status. Caroline tries to match up Edwards with Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: The Award

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Preparing for a special scholarship exam, Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) squirrels herself away in the family barn overnight. When she accidentally sets a fire in the barn, Mary is punished by Caroline (Karen Grassle), who tells her that she can't take the exam. But how will Mary break this news to Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: Season 01

Synopsis: Its premise established by a two-hour TV movie in March of 1974, Little House on the Prairie begins its first season with Wisconsin farmer Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon), his wife, Caroline (Karen Grassle), and daughters Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson), Laura (Melissa Gilbert), and Carrie (Lindsay Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: The Raccoon

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: When Laura (Melissa Gilbert) adopts a baby raccoon whom she names Jasper, Charles (Michael Landon) gently warns her that the animal may not ever be domesticated. Things take a perilous turn when Jacob bites both Laura and another child and escapes into the woods. With the animal nowhere to be Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: The Voice of Tinker Jones

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Chuck McCann guest stars as Tinker Jones, a mute, itinerant coppersmith. When he wanders into Walnut Grove, Tinker also finds himself in the middle of a community tiff over purchasing a bell for the church. Haughty Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) offers to purchase the bell, but only if it is Read More

1974
Little House on the Prairie: The Collection

Actors: Lindsay Greenbush

Synopsis: In this episode of the popular television series Little House on the Prairie, Johnny Cash and June Carter guest star as Caleb Hodgkiss and his wife, Mattie. Rev. Alden (Dabbs Greer) falls ill while soliciting donations in Walnut Grove, and travelers Caleb and Mattie come to his aid. But as Mattie Read More

1970

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