

John is conflicted about what to do, but announces that he has decided to stay and farm with Mr. Edwards is upset that John doesn’t want to be a farmer, and Mary is upset that they will only see each other twice a year, but she encourages him to go. He is then offered a four-year scholarship to the university in Chicago based on his writing abilities. and Mary the land he has been saving for them. “I’ll Ride the Wind” (Season 3, Episode 12) Mr. Hanson, Nels and numerous townspeople see the girls struggling and team up to stack all the grain allowing Charles to keep his oxen. He collapses and then Laura and Mary start stacking the grain.

Charles can’t afford to lose the oxen and tries to stack the grain with broken ribs. O’Neil assumes Charles won’t be able to stack the grain and takes the oxen a day early. Baker says it never ceases to amaze him the ways man can find to hurt himself. Unfortunately he falls out of a tree while trying to retrieve a kite and breaks his ribs. After completing the roof, Charles decides to take the family on an all day picnic to make up for all the time he’s spent working. He then comes home and works the farm until it’s time for bed. O’Neil makes Charles sign a chattel mortgage agreeing to give up his oxen if he fails to complete the work on time. In exchange for a plow and seed, Charles agrees to repair O’Neil’s roof and stack his grain within three weeks.

Charles asks the Olesons for credit to buy a plow and seed, but they explain that they only offer credit to farmers they’ve known for a long time. In the first episode of season one, the Ingalls settle on the banks of Plum Creek. “A Harvest of Friends” (Season 1, Episode 1) Charles thanks Mr. Meanwhile, Eliza Jane falls in love with Harve Miller and Nellie announces that she is pregnant. Gray, knowing that the land will revert back to him if Almanzo’s crop dies, dams up the creek so no water can get to Almanzo and Laura’s property. Laura later gets upset when Almanzo makes it clear that he doesn’t want her teaching once they are married. They excitedly share the news with Charles and Caroline. “Laura Ingalls Wilder: Part 1” (Season 7, Episode 1) Laura and Almanzo tell Charles and Caroline about the land deal.Īlmanzo makes a deal to buy land from Mr. Gray for him and Laura and pay it off with his first crop. When Miss Beadle starts blaming herself, Willie deviates from his normal personality and sweetly tells her it’s not her fault. The men brave the dangerous conditions and one loses his life when they go searching for the children. Unfortunately, many of the children end not being able to find their way home when the storm develops into a nasty blizzard. Miss Beadle lets the children go home early on Christmas Eve when it starts to snow and tells them she will see them at the Christmas party the next day. “Blizzard” (Season 3, Episode 11) Laura, Carrie, and Mary look for shelter from the storm. Almanzo misinterprets a situation with one of the students and punches him, but apologizes to Laura and they end up sharing their first kiss on her sixteenth birthday. Almanzo sees how maturely she handles the class and starts seeing her in a different light. Laura gets a temporary teaching job in Currie when the teacher breaks her leg. “Sweet Sixteen” (Season 6, Episode 25) Laura and Almanzo get ready to share their first kiss. Nellie gets even for the cinnamon chicken incident by telling Laura that the exam doesn’t have any history and things reach a boiling point with Laura and Nellie’s classic mud wrestling fight.ĩ.

Laura wants Almanzo to see her as an adult and decides to take the graduation exam so she can become a teacher. “Back to School: Part 2” (Season 6, Episode 2) Laura and Nellie get into a fight after arguing about Almanzo. Without any further ado, here are the top ten episodes. episodes had a huge numbers of fans that swayed the rankings, including one episode that upset many Little House fans. Predictably the Laura and Almanzo episodes did really well, but it also looks like the Mary and John Jr. I found that this method put some of the best episodes in the top ten and some of the worst in the bottom ten, but there are a few rankings you probably won’t agree with. I used weighted averages in compiling this list since it seemed like the best method to use and didn’t result in any ties. I thought it would be fun to rank the Little House on the Prairie episodes based on the ratings users gave them at IMDB and TV.com.
