Little House of the Prairie Season 4 Where Is Mr. Edwards Family
Season 3 of "Lilliputian House on the Prairie" is filled with love, courage, hardships, and tests of religion. Only as in seasons past, the Ingalls must come up together to face decisions about their future and find the courage to overcome tragedies. Season iii aired from September 27th, 1976 through April 4th, 1977 and led viewers on many adventures with the Ingalls family.
For the first time since their original TV broadcast, all 21 season iii episodes are presented complete and uncut, and newly restored and remastered for optimal pic and sound quality! In this ultimate season three episode guide, yous'll relive all of the heartwarming adventures and learn some new facts along the mode. Some of our favorite facts and tidbits came from Alison Arngrim'southward autobiography and Melissa Gilbert'south memoir. Below is a consummate index with links to the Season 3 episodes:
- Season iii, Episode 1 – The Collection
- Season 3, Episode 2 – Bunny
- Flavor three, Episode three – The Race
- Flavor three, Episode iv – Fiddling Girl Lost
- Flavour 3, Episode 5 – The Monster of Walnut Grove
- Season 3, Episode 6 – Journey Into the Leap – Part i
- Flavor 3, Episode vii – Journey Into the Jump – Part 2
- Season iii, Episode 8 – Fred
- Season 3, Episode nine – The Slap-up Boys
- Flavor three, Episode 10 – The Hunters
- Season 3, Episode 11 – Blizzard
- Season 3, Episode 12 – I'll Ride the Wind
- Season iii, Episode xiii – Quarantine
- Season 3, Episode 14 – Little Women
- Flavor 3, Episode xv – Injun Child
- Flavour 3, Episode sixteen – To Alive With Fear – Part 1
- Season iii, Episode 17 – To Live With Fear – Part 2
- Flavour 3, Episode 18 – The Wisdom of Solomon
- Flavor three, Episode 19 – Music Box
- Season three, Episode twenty – Election
- Season 3, Episode 21 – Aureate Country – Longplay
Flavor 3, Episode 1 – The Collection
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Reverend Alden falls ill while collecting donations for a struggling town. He is taken in by an ex-captive named Caleb Hodgekiss and his wife. Caleb helps the Reverend by traveling to Walnut Grove and encourages everyone to donate money. He earns the community'southward trust with his sensitive and caring personality, but because of his nighttime past, it's hard to tell what he might do.
Favorite Quote:
Mary Ingalls: "Pa, can I get to boondocks with Mr. Hodgekiss? I can kinda introduce him to everybody and let him know who'due south stingy and who'due south generous."
Did y'all know?
Johnny Cash and his wife June Carter Cash play the roles of Caleb and Mattie Hodgekiss in this episode. These are too the exact same first names of African American md Caleb Ledoux and his married woman Mattie, five years subsequently, in Season eight's Nighttime Sage.
Flavor 3, Episode ii – Bunny
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Nellie'due south physical abuse toward Bunny leads to a dangerous riding blow, but as the footling girl lies in bed with a concussion and possible paralysis, her distraught mother blames Laura and orders Nels to shoot the animal. Laura secretly takes Bunny home until she can figure out a plan, but her problems run even deeper when she begins to believe that she is responsible for Nellie's condition.
Fun Fact!
In this episode, Laura pushes Nellie down a loma and she gets soaked from head to toe. Just in the terminal scene, which probable takes place the exact same afternoon, she is dry, her curls are intact and she is wearing the same blueish nightgown that got drenched previously.
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Bunny, the horse, was sometimes described as a male person and sometimes as a female. Bunny was a male in "Christmas At Plum Creek", and so female in "Bunny", then male in "The Race", so female again in "Journey Into The Spring".
Season iii, Episode iii – The Race
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Laura's beloved horse Bunny has officially been returned to her. She eagerly prepares to enter a local race. Jealous, Nellie throws a tantrum until Harriet agrees to purchase her a thoroughbred without Nels' blessing. Although Nellie and her equus caballus are expected to win the race, Laura perseveres with her training. The stakes are higher than always when Harriet donates a lavish prize for the winner.
Fun Fact!
You rarely hear any reference to Medico Bakery'due south family unit, but in this episode, he tell'south Laura he is going to Sleepy Eye to visit his female parent for her birthday.
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In this episode, Producer Kent McCray fabricated a cameo appearance. He is the guy on the carriage during the race saying "Go, Nellie, become!"
Flavour 3, Episode iv – Lilliputian Daughter Lost
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Frustrated that Carrie has insisted on tagging along for a schoolhouse assignment, Mary and Laura fail to go on a close eye on her. They alive to regret this when the little girl wanders off and falls into an underground mine shaft.
Fun Fact!
Michael Landon, who was always known for his wacky sense of humor, used to refer to episodes like this one as "Miss Beadle kills the kids again". Read more nigh Charlotte Stewart's (Miss Beadle) recollections of working with Michael Landon here.
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Emotionally distraught after her picayune daughter has fallen down a mine shaft, Caroline Ingalls instinctively blames someone else (in this instance, Miss Beadle). Fifty-fifty considering the magnitude of the state of affairs, this is incredibly out of character for Caroline. And you never run into her do such a matter once more.
Season 3, Episode 5 – The Monster of Walnut Grove
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On Halloween night, Laura and Mary get permission from their parents to walk into town and pull off a picayune prank at the mercantile. Laura's imagination runs wild when she peeks into the Olesons' window and witnesses Nels committing an unspeakable offense. Scarred by what she has seen, Laura tin't seem to become anyone to believe her.
Fun Fact!
In this episode and at least ane other, restless tree branches are seen and heard correct up against the front upstairs window next to the girl's bed. Simply there was never a point in the testify where in that location was a tree that close to the business firm.
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In the scene where Laura and Carl run across up at the cemetery, Laura spots Carl from a distance of about v anxiety and tentatively says, "Carl?" Simply if you lot will notice, Carl is standing in the open, and in the light of the full moon; in fact, the two of them comment on its effulgence just a infinitesimal later on.
Season iii, Episode 6 – Journey Into the Spring – Part i
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In the wake of his mother'due south death, a devastated Charles travels domicile with the intention of bringing his begetter back to Walnut Grove. Lansford Ingalls is devastated after his wife's death and would rather commit suicide than continue his life with someone else. Meanwhile, with Thanksgiving approaching, Mary and Laura aren't quite sure how to tell Carrie the truth nigh the turkey they just purchased.
Fun Fact!
Interestingly enough, in this episode, young Charles says he has two sisters, but in Flavour 4'southward "I Remember, I Remember", he merely has one, Polly.
Did you know?
Charles' brother Peter has a daughter and son in this episode, Amelia and James. The real Peter and Eliza Ann Ingalls had six children, named Alice, Ella, Peter, Lansford, Edith, and Edmond.
Flavor 3, Episode 7 – Journey Into the Bound – Part 2
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Although he is still struggling with his wife's death, Lansford adjusts well in Walnut Grove and bonds with everyone in the family unit, especially Laura. Unfortunately, another tragedy threatens to tear them all apart only when things are really starting to look up.
Favorite Quote:
Laura Ingalls: Nosotros got a problem, Pa.
Charles Ingalls: What is it?
Laura Ingalls: Carrie and the turkey.
Charles Ingalls: Looks alright to me. He'll look even better in a couple weeks on the dinner table.
Laura Ingalls: Well, that's the problem. Carrie doesn't know he'south gonna be ON the table. She thinks he'south gonna be AT the tabular array.
Did you know?
Nosotros dear the fact that in that location were iii or 4 sets of siblings on the set of "Little House on the Prairie" every 24-hour interval and that many different roles were played by siblings or relatives of the actors.
Season 3, Episode viii – Fred
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After working temporarily for some neighbors, Laura decides to accept their problematic billy caprine animal instead of money. The neighbors are thrilled to have "Fred" off their hands, only now the Ingalls family is forced to deal with him – and he's not exactly the ideal family pet.
Fun Fact!
I think as parents, many of united states of america can relate to what Caroline and Charles are going through in this episode. Laura'south love for modest animals got her in a bit of hot water with more than a few people!
Favorite Quote:
Laura Ingalls: I judge I but sort of feel deplorable for Fred.
Charles Ingalls: Sorry for Fred? What about me? I didn't barrel Fred!
Laura Ingalls: Well what I mean is… well… possibly Fred thought he was doing a good affair. Maybe he thought you were a robber and he was protecting the barn.
Flavor 3, Episode ix – The Corking Boys
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The townspeople of Walnut Grove have no thought what they're in for when the iii Galender brothers settle in. The oldest ii run up large bills at the mercantile and mill and the youngest boy causes problems at school. Everyone tries to accept Reverend Alden'due south advice and requite the Galenders a chance, but when their crimes plough fierce, the customs's religious loyalties are tested.
Fun Fact!
This episode features guest appearances from Geoffrey Lewis (Sam Galender) and Roy Jenson (George Galender). Lewis later returns in Season 9 as a cartooned version of Cole Younger. Lewis appeared in well-known shows such as "Police force & Gild: Criminal Intent", "In the Rut of the Night", and "My Name is Earl".
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Early on in this episode, just before Bubba gives Mary a blackness eye, he throws the ball at a girl named Cindy. He knocks her to the ground, where she stays lying for quite some time. When this happens, instead of panic and anarchy, which is normal of children, they calmly walk over and hunker down adjacent to Cindy to see if she is okay. As children, they exercise not seem to realize that she could be seriously injured.
Season 3, Episode x – The Hunters
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Despite being a flake too young, Laura convinces her male parent to help sweet-talk Caroline into letting her back-trail him on a hunting trip. Laura delights in this rare i-on-in one case with Charles, and everything is going beautifully until she accidentally knocks over his loaded gun. With her beloved father very close to death, Laura must find help all on her ain.
Fun Fact!
If you will retrieve dorsum to the airplane pilot episode, there was a scene where Pa says to Laura "One of these days, I'll sweet talk your Ma into letting you go hunting with me." At present, four years later, that day has finally come.
Did you lot know?
If you volition expect closely at the scene where Sam and Laura are going to go help from Mr. Edwards, in that location is a shot where Laura'south plaits are coming undone, and in the adjacent shot they have been re-done and are neat and tidy.
Flavor iii, Episode xi – Blizzard
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On Christmas Eve, Miss Beadle decides to surprise the schoolchildren by letting them go domicile early. This proves to exist a grave mistake when the kids are trapped by a fell blizzard outside, and none of them tin can find their mode home. Every bit Doc Baker turns the school into a makeshift hospital for frostbitten victims, the men must dauntless the extreme weather conditions and track down their loved ones.
Fun Fact!
Little Carrie – who is near v years quondam here – comes to school on Christmas Eve with her older sisters as a "special visitor." She does not start schoolhouse until the following yr, Flavour 4. Today, nigh children start school at the age of v.
Did you know?
This is the but Christmas episode on "Little House on the Prairie" that ends on a somber note. The airplane pilot movie, Flavour i's "Christmas at Plum Creek," Season 8's "A Christmas They Never Forgot," and Season ten's "Bless all the Dear Children" all had happy endings.
Season 3, Episode 12 – I'll Ride the Air current
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Grace and Isaiah Edwards' adopted son, John receives a four-year scholarship to a academy in Chicago. Isaiah would rather accept a son to share his farming lifestyle. John and Mary have immediate matrimony plans that will not be possible if John decides to follow his ultimate dream. Torn between 2 worlds, John is forced to make the nearly difficult conclusion of his life.
Fun Fact!
Mary becomes engaged to John Jr. at 13 and has Charles' permission to marry at the historic period of 15. Charles is considerably stricter with Laura, and when Almanzo proposes to her at the age of sixteen in Season six, Charles initially insists that she wait until she's eighteen.
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The quilt on John Jr.'south bed is the aforementioned one that the Rev. Alden uses at the Hodgekiss' house in the previous episode, "The Collection."
Flavour 3, Episode 13 – Quarantine
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Dr. Baker assists with an outbreak of mountain fever in a nearby town. The people of Walnut Grove are hopeful that the disease volition overpass their community. Grace and Isaiah'due south immature daughter Alicia becomes seriously ill, so Isaiah takes her to an abandoned business firm in town to nurse her back to health. Laura appears to have the fever as well, and Charles frantically sets out to find Doc Baker.
Fun Fact!
Every bit Charles tries to retrieve Medico Bakery and attempts to get into the makeshift hospital, he is forced to bound off a second story balcony past the men chasing him. This scene was filmed at basis level and when Charles hits the "ground," you lot can briefly encounter the corners of the inflatable yellow "stuntman'southward pillow" pop up at both bottom corners of the shot. You can also hear the sound of air being forced out if you listen closely.
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While "Fiddling Business firm on the Prairie" was a hit in its offset season, the ratings in the second season dropped and the evidence was in danger of counterfoil. NBC decided to move the series from Wednesday to Monday nights to attract a wider audience and the ratings recovered in its third season. NBC again intended to end the show later on its fourth flavor only the ratings stayed high enough to renew the prove for a fifth flavour. It remained in the top thirty until its cancellation in 1983.
Flavor 3, Episode 14 – Trivial Women
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As a special schoolhouse activity, Miss Beadle allows the children to create group skits that they will later perform for their parents. Mary and Laura squad up with Nellie and Ginny Clark, a lonely young daughter whose widowed female parent has been neglecting her daughter'southward emotional needs. Meanwhile, Willie is having toruble getting the other boys to perform "Tom Sawyer" with him.
Fun Fact!
Laura, Mary, Mrs. Oleson, Mr. Mayfield, and just near everyone in this episode refers to the piddling girl equally Ginny, but her mother clearly says, Jenny. Which pronunciation practise you think is correct?
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This is one of the first and only times that we run across Harriet Oleson really go tough with Nellie, near the end of the episode when she refuses to be in the play with her ugly curled wig. Harriet even threatens to whip her if she doesn't come out of her room, which is quite shocking coming from her!
Flavour iii, Episode 15 – Injun Child
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The immature son of a recently killed Sioux Indian, moves to Walnut Grove with his Caucasian mother Amelia. Amelia'due south male parent agrees to let them stay with him, but is ashamed that his daughter married a Native American and ostracizes the child. Spotted Eagle endures harsh treatment from his insensitive classmates, only the Ingalls girls become his only friends.
Fun Fact!
At the cease of this episode, Miss Beadle gets extremely angry at a educatee, Seth, for beating up Spotted Eagle. She slams her hand downwardly on his desk-bound and screams in his face. This is an extremely rare bout of fury from Miss Beadle, who was usually very balmy-tempered and calm, even when such problems arose in the classroom.
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Did y'all observe that the bear claw that Laura gives Spotted Eagle is the ane the Osage Indian Main gave her in the pilot movie? This serves as a very nice continuity link.
Flavor three, Episode sixteen – To Live With Fear – Role i
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Mary is kicked in the stomach by one of the family'due south horses, just insists that she is fine. Her internal injuries worsen over time. Unable to be properly treated by Doc Baker, she is hospitalized in Rochester, where she must undergo surgery. As if this weren't stressful enough, Charles and Caroline are in a position where they may not be able to afford the mounting hospital bills.
Fun Fact!
Did y'all know that in the original book series (and in real life), Jack was described as a brindle bulldog. Simply Michael Landon vicious in love with a different type of domestic dog to play Jack who was soft and shaggy. Jack was played by two dogs named Barney and Jack! Sharon Lewis Evans worked every bit the show'due south Canis familiaris Trainer from 1976 to 1978.
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In a previous interview, Melissa Sue Anderson (Mary) joked that when this episode aired on telly during her adulthood, she was flipping channels with her young daughter Piper, and she couldn't for the life of her remember what Mary was in the hospital for. "All of a sudden, I saw myself packed in ice, and I couldn't remember why!" laughed Anderson.
Season iii, Episode 17 – To Alive With Fear – Function 2
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While Caroline stays with Mary, Charles sets out with Mr. Edwards to find work and transport money back to the hospital. They somewhen accept a mining task that involves building a tunnel for a railroad. Ill with fear over his daughter'southward illness, Charles disregards his ain condom and faces serious danger.
Fun Fact!
Fans of the Die Hard moving picture may recognize actor James Shigeta, who portrays the Chinese crew leader, Wing, in this episode. He played the ill-fated company president Mr. Takagi in the original Die Hard film.
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Did you notice, in the scene where Mary is in the hospital twisting and turning, she is sweating as Ma feels her forehead and runs for the doctor. But when the physician comes in Mary is however and calm.
Season three, Episode 18 – The Wisdom of Solomon
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Solomon Henry, an 11-yr-former kid runs away from home to pursue his dream of attention schoolhouse somewhere. He comes across Charles Ingalls in Mankato, hitches a ride in the back of his wagon. He somewhen becomes a invitee in the Ingalls home. Equally he helps out effectually the subcontract and goes to schoolhouse in Walnut Grove, Solomon's optimistic mental attitude is an inspiration to the whole family.
Fun Fact!
It is roughly a three-day railroad vehicle trip from Mankato. How did Charles and Md Baker not observe that Solomon was riding on the back?
Did y'all know?
Michael Landon had a unique fashion of inspiring child actors to weep when they needed it for a scene. Melissa Gilbert in one case described how he would work himself up emotionally, face her with his optics full of tears and inquire her, "Exercise you know how much I honey you?" to which she would get all teary and emotional herself.
Season 3, Episode xix – Music Box
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Laura befriends a classmate named Anna, whose excessive stuttering affects her ability to make friends. Laura stands by the daughter's side when she is excluded from Nellie's elite new club, but matters are complicated when Laura is caught stealing Nellie'due south music box. Nellie agrees not to tell anyone, merely she has ulterior motives of her ain that may threaten Laura's friendship with Anna.
Fun Fact!
Usually, Laura is the practiced girl and we see Nellie as the "bad" girl. But in this episode, Laura falls a bit out of graphic symbol by deliberately stealing a toy from Nellie's bedroom. Of course, nosotros are all human being and make mistakes. Laura never stole earlier, and she never did it once again after this.
Did you know?
Actress Alison Arngrim (Nellie) has said that the scene where Nellie engages in one of her meanest tricks yet past forcing stuttering Anna to say a tongue twister in forepart of a agglomeration of laughing classmates, gives her the creeps!
Favorite Quote!
"Laura: Mary, if I was to tell y'all something bad, would you tell Pa?
Mary: Yes.
Laura: Oh. Good dark, then."
Season 3, Episode xx – Election
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When it comes fourth dimension to elect a new classroom president, Mary and Nellie are start to compete for the position. To fifty-fifty things out a bit, the boys strategically elect a shy, mentally delayed classmate named Elmer Dopkins. The trouble is, Elmer's overprotective father is fully aware of the boys' ulterior motives, only how far can a parent go to protect their bullied kid?
Fun Fact!
Michael Landon, Jr. plays Jim in this episode. He'south the blonde male child who nominates Mary for class president. Co-ordinate to Melissa Sue Anderson, Michael Jr. had quite a shell on her at the time.
Did you lot know?
Did you notice that while there are simply 20 children shown in class, there are 25 votes for grade president?
Season 3, Episode 21 – Gold State – Longplay
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A heavy rain has been falling in Walnut Grove for two months, and shows no signs of stopping. Charles fears that his crops volition endure and his family will get hungry. He takes them on a 400-mile journey for a temporary new life in Gilded Land. Caroline opens and teaches a school in a tent, right in the middle of town, merely it proves to be a less-than-ideal learning surroundings for everyone.
Fun Fact!
In this episode the Ingalls are heading to Gold Country in their covered wagon, and we become a brief scene of them eating in the railroad vehicle ane dark while the rain is beating downwards. Did you notice that this little scene is taken directly from the airplane pilot, which was filmed four years earlier? When the camera zooms in you can clearly see a very young Mary and Laura, too as a younger Caroline and Charles, who are wearing clothes that they haven't worn since those early days.
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