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Little House on the Prairie Season 7 Episodes
Season 7 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1980 - 1981
Episode 1
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Part I
Mon, Sep 22, 198050 mins
Almanzo tries to buy some land, but the man who sells it to him cheats him by blocking off the water source that goes towards that land, knowing his crop won't grow and Almanzo will fail to pay off the land by the end of the year and will lose it back to the owner. He had planned to get married to Laura and build their first home and have their first land. Now, he wants to wait, but Laura wants to take a teaching job to help raise some money. Almanzo wants to be the sole provider for their family. So, she gives him back his ring.
Episode 2
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Part II
Mon, Sep 29, 198050 mins
Eliza Jane fibs and says that she is getting married to Harve Miller who had come to help Almanzo take care of their property while Almanzo was working on the new land. She says this so that Laura will take over the Walnut Grove school and she won't have to go away to teach. Since she is leaving, that leaves the house for Almanzo and Laura. They decide to get married on Adam and Mary's anniversary so that the men can help each other remember when it is! When Charles goes to get the priest he sees Harve Miller in town and asks if he wants to surprise Eliza Jane and have a double wedding, but Harve tells him that he got married to someone last Sunday and Eliza Jane knew it. Charles doesn't spoil the news.
Episode 3
A New Beginning
Mon, Oct 6, 198050 mins
Jonathan has some break-ins at the freight office, so he becomes part time sheriff to help catch the bad guy. When they bring the boy's father in and tell them they are pretty sure he's the one who's been stealing from everyone they ask to search his room. Sure enough, he's been hiding stuff in his attic. Unfortunately, the self-proclaimed personal security guy who claims that he's helping out by taking a night watch for the business owners who pay him to, has been helping to unload and sell the stuff they sell, so they bust him too.
Episode 4
Fight Team Fight!
Mon, Oct 13, 198050 mins
Walnut Grove's obsessive new football coach pressures his players to win at any cost, locking horns with Laura over homework assignments, ignoring dangerous injuries and alienating his family.
Episode 5
The Silent Cry
Mon, Oct 20, 198050 mins
Two young brothers, deserted by their parents and desperately trying to stay together, run away from the Sleepy Eye orphanage on the eve of an adoption that will separate them, and find an unlikely ally in grumpy old handyman, Houston Lamb.
Episode 6
Portrait of Love
Mon, Oct 27, 198050 mins
Believing that she was abandoned at an orphanage as a child because she was losing her sight, blind artist Annie Crane angrily refuses her seriously ill birth mother's request to meet her.
Episode 7
Divorce, Walnut Grove Style
Mon, Nov 10, 198050 mins
A girl who likes Almanzo but whom Almanzo doesn't like back is back in town. She wrote a song that she got published and she told Almanzo the title "My Only Love". Almanzo wrote the title down and the name of the girl. Laura saw it and thought he was cheating on her and they have many misunderstandings. Charles is trying to install a picture window. He buys three of them because Laura keeps breaking them when she slams the door at the "little house" when she goes home because she doesn't even want to sleep at the same house, and then the next time when she climbs on top of it in the back of the wagon, and the next time when she drives her buggy too fast and Charles drops the window in the bushes.
Episode 8
Dearest Albert, I'll Miss You
Mon, Nov 17, 198050 mins
As part of a school project, Albert becomes pen pals with a girl in Minneapolis named Leslie (Suzy Gilstrap). Both of them fabricate stories about themselves to appear more attractive to the other; Albert postures as a tall athlete, while Leslie portrays herself as a ballerina and hides her paraplegia which confines her to a wheelchair.
Episode 9
The In-laws
Mon, Nov 24, 198050 mins
Charles and Almanzo both encounter unexpected obstacles when each challenges the other to find the fastest freight route between Walnut Grove and Sleepy Eye.
Episode 10
To See the Light (Part One)
Mon, Dec 1, 198050 mins
Adam goes to pick up some braille school books at the Freight office. Someone left some highly dangerous nitroglycerin in the way and when he bumps it accidentally it explodes. When he wakes up in the hospital, he can see. Adam becomes interested in law and decides that he wants to be a lawyer.
Episode 11
To See the Light (Part Two)
Mon, Dec 8, 198050 mins
Now that Adam can see, he wants to take his law exam. Unfortunately after the first day of the 3-day exam, he is waiting in the rain on the train to come to the depot and he is mugged. His friend takes care of him but he misses the end of the exam and has to take it later. He passes. Mary worries that he won't be the same person now that he's a sighted-lawyer, but she deals with her worries.
Episode 12
Oleson vs Oleson
Mon, Jan 5, 198150 mins
Caroline Ingalls joins in protest with the rest of the Walnut Grove women to try to convince Charles and the other men to sign a petition addressing the injustice of a law that transfers a woman's property rights to her husband after marriage.
Episode 13
Come Let Us Reason Together
Mon, Jan 12, 198150 mins
Percival's domineering father and Nellie's overbearing mother drive the expectant couple to distraction as they battle over whether their unborn grandchild will be raised Jewish or Christian.
Episode 14
The Nephews
Mon, Jan 19, 198150 mins
Royal Wilder thinks of a perfect solution when he needs a break from dastardly duo Myron and Rupert, his spoiled, undisciplined sons...send the terrible two to Walnut Grove for a visit with unsuspecting Uncle Almanzo and Aunt Laura!
Episode 15
Make a Joyful Noise
Mon, Jan 26, 198150 mins
Timothy is a little blind boy who thinks he is above everyone and acts like he isn't blind. He doesn't want to be at the blind school, so he refuses to participate in anything, even choir, although he sings well. Joe Kagan is working in Sleepy Eye, so he stops by the school and visits Timothy when he can. He's also interested in Hester Sue, who's about to marry a funeral director. Joe doesn't approve because the man is not right for Hester Sue and she doesn't love him, and he tries to show her the error of her ways before it's too late.
Episode 16
Goodbye, Mrs. Wilder
Mon, Feb 2, 198150 mins
The school superintendent told Mrs. Olesen that they would have to be teaching subjects like French and Art Appreciation to be in the category of earning more spending money for some much needed work on the school and new supplies. Laura doesn't know French and doesn't think that Art Appreciation would be appreciated in this area so she quits her job. Mrs. Olesen takes over.
Episode 17
Sylvia (Part One)
Mon, Feb 9, 198150 mins
New student Sylvia Webb, who has physically matured faster than most of her classmates, piques the physical curiosity of some of her male classmates. Albert goes along at first, but quickly becomes friends with Sylvia. However, he is unaware that she is trapped in a horrifying world: She's being stalked (and is eventually attacked by) a masked rapist; her father has a cold, uncaring attitude toward Sylvia's ordeal; and her cruel classmates continue to taunt her. Eventually, Sylvia collapses at school from exhaustion.
Episode 18
Sylvia (Part Two)
Mon, Feb 16, 198150 mins
Mrs. Olson spreads word that Albert had gotten Sylvia pregnant. Caroline knows this isn't true and confronts her nemesis over this misinformation. Mr. Webb decides that, because of the shame his daughter's ordeal brought him, they will move from Walnut Grove. Sylvia decides she'd be happier with Albert, and the two decide to get married. When Mr. Webb finds out Albert had visited her (despite a no-guests rule), he calls Sylvia a whore, and she runs away. Albert - who had gotten a job as at the blacksmith's shop - later helps search for Sylvia, but lets it slip as to her whereabouts to the blacksmith. It all leads to one final confrontation.
Episode 19
Blind Justice
Mon, Feb 23, 198150 mins
Adam and Mary move back to Walnut Grove now that Adam is a lawyer and for his first case, he tries to prove that a person who swindled people out of their money for some bad property is innocent until he finds out it was on purpose, even though it was for a good cause.
Episode 20
I Do, Again
Mon, Mar 2, 198150 mins
Pregnancy symptoms hit both Laura and her mother Caroline. Caroline, after bearing four daughters, really wants a son. But when it turns out Caroline is not pregnant at all, but is beginning menopause, she sinks into a deep depression. Her husband and daughters desperately try to convince her that they love her for the person she is, not for the person she wanted to be. Finally, Charles proposes that he and Caroline renew their wedding vows.
Episode 21
The Lost Ones (Part One)
Mon, May 4, 198150 mins
Charles and Albert are driving an extra wagon for the Cooper family and the Cooper kids are riding with them. Unfortunately, The Coopers' wagon has a terrible accident and both of their parents die. Charles takes the kids on to their uncle who they were all going to live with but he lives in a mining community and can't take care of two kids and keep earning a living. (It would've been different if their parents were still alive.) So, Charles takes the kids home with him until he can find a place for them to live.
Episode 22
The Lost Ones: (Part Two)
Mon, May 11, 198150 mins
While the Ingalls, Charles especially, have gotten attached to James and Cassandra, they are already crowded with Grace, Carrie and Albert living at home. So, Charles continues to look for a family that will take them on, with the help of Reverend Alden. They find a couple who want to take both kids. They don't know that the father is going to be abusive, so eventually James and Cassandra run away. Charles ends up taking them back to his house.
