Pa and Mr. Edwards find some gold and decide to stay and keep looking even though their discovery brings many more people to the area. But a few violent acts in the neighborhood have Pa wondering if he's risking too much.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After yet another crop failure, the Ingalls and Edwards families head to the hills of South Dakota to pan for gold and make their fortunes. Will they get there in time to strike it rich? And if they do, will the money change them?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To try to win the boys' votes and split the girls' votes in the school election, two bullies convince a sweet and gentle boy named Elmer to run for class president against Nellie and Mary. Elmer thinks the bullies are his friends until they convince him otherwise, by pushing him into a pig sty.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Nellie refuses to let Anna join her exclusive club (due to her stutter), Laura steals Nellie's music box, and then accidentally breaks it. Nellie finds out and blackmails Laura into excluding Anna, causing Anna to cry. Will Laura figure out how to get her revenge on Nellie?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A young Todd Bridges plays Solomon, a runaway son of former slaves who helps the Ingalls family realize that even though slavery has ended, racism and bigotry have not.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pa struggles to find a job to help him pay Mary's bills, but finally finds work doing dangerous blasting through a mountain for the railroad. The bosses push him to go faster, even if it's unsafe, and because he's desperate, Pa doesn't hesitate, and alienates the entire crew, including Mr. Edwards. So who will come to his rescue when he gets trapped? And will he make enough money to save Mary?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mary gets injured by a horse and seems fine at first, but then Doc Baker realizes she needs an operation in the fancy hospital in Rochester. The town takes up a collection to help the Ingalls family, but it's not enough when Mary has a setback, so Pa sets out to make money by any means possible...even dangerous ones.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Local resident Jeremy welcomes home his daughter Amelia, who has been living with a Sioux tribe; and anti-welcomes home his grandson, Spotted Eagle, the product of Amelia's marriage to one of the Sioux. As you can imagine, the residents of Walnut Grove don't take kindly to this kid living in their midst: especially loathsome is guest star Willie Aames as the bigoted Seth.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Miss Beadle lets the kids act out scenes from their favorite books, Laura and Mary team up with their new buddy Ginny to portray the March sisters of Little Women. But Nellie gets her paws on the production and ruins everything. Also, Ginny's mom is a mean old crab.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The nearby town of Elmsville is decimated by Spotted Fever, so Walnut Grove goes into quarantine to try to avoid the same fate; unfortunately, Mr. Edwards brings the disease home, and Alicia becomes ill. And then Laura starts showing symptoms as well.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mary's boyfriend, John, gets offered a full scholarship to college on the strength of his sappy poems, but he decides not to accept it so that he can stay home and farm with his adopted father, Mr. Edwards, and marry Mary when she turns fifteen.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A sudden blizzard blasts into Walnut Grove on Christmas Eve, right after Miss Beadle let the kids out of school early. The menfolk form a search party, but given all the redshirts introduced in this episode, you know not everyone will make it out alive and unfrozen.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laura finally gets to go on Pa's hunting trip and all is going great until Pa leaves his loaded rifle against a tree and Laura knocks it over and Pa gets shot. And then their horse dies. And the only person available to help in the area is Burl Ives, and he's blind. Will Pa make it? And more importantly, will he be able to keep his episodic shirtless streak unbroken?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Gallendar boys are bullies and swindlers, and they're wreaking havoc on the trusting and friendly residents of Walnut Grove. First, they cheat the Olesons and Mr. Hanson out of merchandise. The youngest slaps Mary right in the face when she tries to stand up to him. And in their worst offense of all, they manhandle Ma when she refuses to sell them eggs. How will Pa handle these bullies? And will Reverend Alden approve?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laura saves Fred the goat from going to the goatherd in the sky, but Fred has some bad habits. First, he eats anything that's not nailed down, including the feed meant for the horses. Second, anyone who bends over facing away from him will get butted in the rear end and go flying. While this makes for a hilarious episode, it's probably not that fun in real life, and Laura has to come up with a way for Fred to prove his usefulness, or else see Fred made into purses and wallets.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Once Lansford is settled in Walnut Grove, he and Laura become fast friends. But when her horse, Bunny, is injured, Lansford promises he can fix her, and he can't. Laura gets mad, Lansford gets sad, and they both try to run away from home.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Pa's mother dies back in Wisconsin, Pa decides it's high time his father moved in with them in Walnut Grove. But his father has apparently been depressed for years, and this recent trauma hasn't improved his state of mind any.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laura sees Nels using a sword to decapitate a female mannequin (go with it) and thinks he's murdering his wife. Nellie uses this information to set up Laura and Carl for a big scare.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Carrie falls down an abandoned mine shaft while chasing a butterfly, as kids do, and Mr. Hanson thinks he can lead the town's effort to save her. What Mr. Hanson won't do is listen to the town drunk, his former romantic rival, even though it turns out the drunk knows what he's talking about for once.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laura is excited to be reunited with her horse, Bunny, and she enters a horse race, hoping to win both a prize and some glory. When Nellie gets wind of the race, though, she wants Bunny back; Nels says no, so Harriet goes out and buys Nellie a thoroughbred, like that's fair. Harriet and Nellie are out to win this race at all costs, which is bad news for Laura.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laura still pines for her horse, Bunny, that she sold to the Olesons back in Season 1. When Bunny throws Nellie (mostly because Nellie was hitting her with a crop), Harriet blames Laura for Nellie's resulting paralysis. But when Laura finds out that Nellie was faking the paralysis for sympathy and candy, all hell breaks loose in one of the best Laura v. Nellie incidents of all time.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reverend Alden escapes a burning neighbor town and is rescued by Johnny and June Carter Cash, and Johnny Cash says he'll help collect donations from the people of Walnut Grove. But since Johnny Cash is an ex-con, he intends to pocket those donations for himself. Will the good people of Walnut Grove convince him to mend his ways?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When his farm and crop are damaged by a tornado, Pa has had enough and unilaterally decides that God is telling him to get out. But how will this affect Mary's burgeoning relationships with John Jr.? And will the Ingalls family ever see their friends from town again? And does anyone really think the family is moving when there are so many seasons of this show left?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mrs. Whipple's son returns from the Civil War (like ten years after it ended) with two things: a desire to teach the children of Walnut Grove about music, and a serious morphine habit. Guess which one results in him dying before the end of the episode?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It takes a Russian immigrant to explain to the residents of Walnut Grove that taxes pay for roads and schools, and that they should be glad they have basic freedoms, including the freedom to protest their tax bills.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pa embarks on a secret job for Widow Thurman so that he can get Ma some new china, but he's terrible at the cover-up and leads everyone in town -- including his own family members -- to think he's having an affair. There's a lot of strange gender politics about widows and husbands, but mostly it's about Pa being a terrible liar.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pa and Mr. Edwards need to make some quick cash when their wheat crop doesn't bring in as much money as they anticipated, so they take a job hauling blasting oil, and we all learn a little something about racism, which is that it's bad and you shouldn't do it. I feel educated.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When the older boys return to school following the harvest, the school board decides that Miss Beadle can't handle the discipline, so they hire a male teacher. He's terrible, though, and Laura bears the brunt of his wrath.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Follow along as Carl Edwards almost burns down the family barn, and then manages to trap himself and the Ingalls girls in a runaway caboose, bound for a collision with a train out of Sleepy Eye, and then completely escape punishment because boys will be boys. Ugh.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kim revisits one of the greatest episodes of the series: the one where Ma is left home alone with an infection and contemplates cutting off her own leg. Meanwhile, we learn about infection sandwiches, Pa's red long johns, and Doc Baker's squeaky wheel.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Taking tests is kind of boring and watching other people take tests is super-boring, but in between Kim talks about the gothic turn this episode takes, the availability of brass bands on the prairie, and her math nemesis.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In case you thought Felicity or Mean Girls did it first, Nellie Oleson proves she is the OG Bitch when she secretly records Laura talking about her crush and plays it in front of the whole school.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mr. Edwards tries to turn his adopted son John Sanderson into a mountain man like him, but John would rather write poetry. So how will their hunting trip turn out? And why is Michael Landon having such a bad hair day?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Kim puzzles over the organizational structure of the Sunday School and compares old-timey homeopathic medicine to essential oils as Laura and Mary try to double their money to afford a better gift for Reverend Alden's birthday.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laura and her friend Jonah think they have found gold in a creek, and Laura has a great time imagining what she'll do with all her newfound wealth.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Olesons glom onto the Ingalls family's camping trip, which means that a bunch of people get poison ivy and Nellie and Laura nearly drown in the shadow of majestic Mt. Minnesota.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Pa searches in vain for a family to take in the Sanderson orphans when the answer was right in front of him the whole time. Plus, Kim has a lot of fun with the name Minerva Farnsworth.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a real bummer of an episode (and it's a two-parter!) but Kim tries to keep it semi-light with stories about pet overpopulation and depression and...yeah, this is just a bummer.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why would a gopher be jealous of Willie Oleson? Is Mr. Edwards a better catch than Doc Baker? And who will take Laura and Widow Snyder to the Spring Dance? These questions, and more, will be explored in this episode, along with the return of Sex Popcorn.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While examining the town haunted house, Laura meets the hermit who lives there, Amos Pike, and of course they become fast friends. Laura wants to help Mr. Pike reunite with his wife, who ran off to the city years ago. There's one problem. She dead.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Walnut Grove loses to Sleepy Eye every year, but this year will be different after Pa discovers that his neighbor, Mr. Mumford, has a hell of a pitching arm. But when Mrs. Mumford finds out that people will be (gasp!) gambling on the game, she forbids her husband from taking part.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a not-at-all weird storyline, Laura becomes best friends with the new town banker, an older man named Ebenezer Sprague, and no one thinks it's weird except when there's a conflict of interest because Pa needs a loan.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mary's grades start to fall and Pa figures out that she needs glasses. But once she gets them, the other kids tease her and she worries that she will end up a spinster like Miss Beadle (oh no!). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When the mill shuts down, Pa has to scramble to find jobs so that he can pay off their debts at the Mercantile, and Harriet and Nellie let the insults fly because they hate poor people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If watching kids jumping rope and rolling hoops and watching adults play tug of war and chop wood is your idea of excitement, have we got the episode for you! And of course, there's also a lesson about competition and fairness. And Nels in the mud pit.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Remember Johnny Johnson, Fug Face Frankenstein? Well, he's back, and now he's planning to run away from home to see the world and it's up to Mr. Edwards to convince him that he's not ready yet.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How problematic will the show's portrayal of US/Native American relations be? And also, will there be a lot of chopping wood? Very, and yes!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When all of the farmers in Walnut Grove entrust their seed money to a new neighbor, and that neighbor is late returning from buying the seed, will they form an angry mob and take it out on Pa? Probably!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Step aside Dr. Drew! Look out Mackenzie Phillips! Charles Ingalls has figured out how to cure addiction more than a century before either of you were born!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When traveling circus man Willie O'Hara claims his magic powder can cure all ills, people want to believe in him, especially Laura.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When people start getting typhus, Doc Baker and Pa team up to turn the church into a hospital and try to combat the disease. But until they find the source of the illness, townspeople will keep dying, including maybe some of their friends!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Harriet's visiting niece falls in love with Doc Baker, of all people, and he's all about it, but the rest of the townspeople are worried about their age difference.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nels moves out and Harriet considers moving back East with the children and for some reason, the whole town wants to stop this from happening.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Like so many other television families, the Ingalls family falls prey to "Gift of the Magi" syndrome when attempting to buy meaningful Christmas gifts for one another.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Ingalls family welcomes a baby boy, and Laura thinks she has been replaced in Pa's heart. When the baby dies, Laura runs away to the mountains of Minnesota to try to trade her life for the baby's, where she is helped by a mountain man named Jonathan (Ernest Borgnine).Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mary wants to win a prize dictionary by taking an exam at school, but after she nearly burns down the barn, Ma forbids it. What lengths will Mary go to to get her hands on that golden book?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reverence Alden suggests getting a new bell for the church but none of the townsfolk can agree on how to purchase it, so it's up to local tinware salesman Tinker Jones and the kids of the town to save the day.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Laura's doll is ruined, Mary brings home a baby raccoon for her over Pa's protests. Laura loves her new pet, but her new pet grows up and causes trouble around the farm, and might infect both Laura and Jack with the rabies.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Miss Beadle is injured, Ma fills in as teacher. But none of her amazing methods work on Dumb Abel, who never learned to read. Meanwhile, Harriet Oleson is trying to sabotage her at every turn.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pa invites Ma to join him in scenic Mankato for a few days, but the only sitter available is Mr. Edwards. Ma reluctantly agrees, and Mr. Edwards has trouble with Hurricane Carrie while they are gone. Ma and Pa end up cutting their vacation short because they're so worried about their kids.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Ingalls girls attend Nellie's birthday party and then throw a party of their own but it's all overshadowed by Pa nailing some wood to a shoe and being hailed as a genius.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Old Miss Amy misses her children something fierce but they won't come visit her because if you think it's rough finding a decent flight to another city, imagine traveling by covered wagon! So she fakes her own death with the help of the Ingalls family so that her kids will show up for her funeral.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laura has heart eyes for the new boy in school, scarecrow fug face Johnny Johnson. But not only does he not return her affections, Johnny is interested in Laura's older sister Mary! Laura tries to mimic how Ma snared Pa back in the day, and learns a lesson about being herself, of course.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On a delivery in Mankato, Pa meets up with his old buddy from their Kansas days, Mr. Edwards. Turns out Mr. Edwards is a bit of a scoundrel, but the Ingalls family loves him anyway. Ma schemes to hook him up with Widow Snyder, but Mr. Edwards's lack of religion might sour the relationship before it starts.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The day before they're ready to harvest their abundant wheat crop, the Ingalls family is devastated when hail ruins their potential fortune. Pa must set out on a road trip to find work, and hooks up with a powder monkey named Jack who teaches him a thing or two about explosives. Meanwhile, Ma is a genius who figures out how to harvest the ruined wheat.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laura and Mary start school for the very first time, where they are introduced to the wonders of schoolyard bullying, blackboards, and lemon verbena.Meanwhile, Ma tries to make a few pennies by selling eggs, not realizing that Harriet Oleson is an egg racist.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pa Ingalls works night and day (literally) to build a house for his family, but the brutal schedule takes its toll on family togetherness. When a kite-flying injury leaves him bedridden, not all of his employers are understanding, especially the Irish ones.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices