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Last Updated: April 12, 1998

• The theme music has changed again, and the credits certainly scroll faster now. Notice that Melisa Sue Anderson is no longer listed in the opening credits. In fact, her name is only mentioned in the closing credits as a co-star with the people who played "Customer #1" and "Customer #2". This doesn't seem very fair to poor Mary, who after seven years, in one of her last apearences to be listed in the closing credits. At least Linwood Bloomer who plays Adam was listed in the opening credits.
• Another case of who does the cooking: Mrs. Olsen tells Mr. Olsen that Willie still needs his dad because Mr. Olsen does the cooking. Yet we have still seen numerous episodes now that show Mrs. Olsen doing the cooking. GOODBYE, MRS. WILDER and THE ELECTION are too good examles of this.
  Contributed by Alex Trenta, May 17, 1997.

• Mary & Adam left Walnut Grove and as they were saying their goodbye's, Laura said to Mary something along the lines of: "I'll be sure to write to you in Braille so Adam can't read them." Ummmmmmmm........wasn't Adam the one who taught Mary to read Braille in the first place. I highly doubt that regaining his sight as he did would block out his ability to read Braille!!! Maybe I'm overanalyzing, but.......
  Contributed by Nathan, June 1, 1997.
  Additional: I think Laura means she'll write in Bralle so that Mary can read it herself and not have to have Adam read it.
  Additional by Jennifer R, July 1, 1997.

• This episode, we assume from the Timeline, takes place in 1885, six months after "The Lost Ones" (the season finale to the previous season), because in the first act Adam makes a back-reference to Mr. Mills & the land swindle in "Blind Justice".
  Contributed by Hiphats, July 1, 1997.

• At the beginning of the second act, as we see the wagonmaster walking across the town, we can still see the sign for "Irv Hartwig, Blacksmith", who was slain eight years earlier (as deplicted in the previous season's two-parter, "Sylvia"). Gosh! How long does it take to replace a blacksmith in a small town like this??? (The answer would come in "Times Are Changin'").
  Contributed by Hiphats, July 10, 1997.

• In the second part of the reincarnation of nellie it's been established that Nancy deliberately tried to get schoolmate Melinda frozen to death in the icehouse by tricking Willie into locking the icehouse door. The town upon finding out Nancy's real backround and the truth about the icehouse schemes revenge via a mermaid booth,however while revenge is achieved for reason Nancy even as ajuvenile is never actually arrested or prosecuted-not even by the victim's family! Apparently premediated attempted murder is not against the law in Walnut Grove even where a minor is the culprit!
  Contributed by Chuck, December 30, 1997.

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• The house in which "Mr. Tibbs" puts James and Albert up for the night is the same house that Laura and Almanzo later acquire as the boarding house, and the same one they blow up in the last episode. They acquire the house from an old woman who lived there for decades. Mr. Tibbs also lived there for decades, yet we know the two can't be husband and wife, since they have different names and Mr. Tibbs said his wife had already died. Who actually owned this house, or do we have two identical houses in the same area?
• When Albert and James run away, they look for shelter when it starts raining. You can see a covered bridge in the background. Why don't they go under the bridge instead of getting soaked out in the woods?
• When James runs away and Albert goes looking for him, the rest of the Ingalls make the assumption that Albert has found James, and don't seem to show the same level of concern as in other episodes when someone runs away. Sure, they're worried, and Pa even goes looking for them once, but overall they seem a bit more nonchalant about it than in other episodes where they gather search parties and stay out all night looking.
  All 3 Contributed by Steve C, October 10, 1997.

• Isn't the house that Albert and James spend the night in the same one used in "Welcome to Olesonville" where Mr. Hansen lived, in addition to being the same one used in various other episodes that called for a big house, such as "Welcome to Olesonville," Laura's boarding house, the blind school, et al? There must have been a whole subdivision of these houses!
  Contributed by Jack R, December 19, 1997.

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• In "The Wisdom of Solomon," Doc Baker supported a black doctor who worked in a reservation because he had no chance to treat whites with medicine because he was not able to buy it himself. That is why I wonder why Doc Baker cannot imagine a black as a doctor and does not want Dr. Ledoux to be his partner.
  Contributed by Ramon, July 8, 1997.

• This is the second episode this season to show the sign of the slain "Irv Hartwig, Blacksmith". Looks like someone has worked a long time to keep tabs on things until John Carter arrives.
  Contributed by Hiphats, August 30, 1997.

• I think this can be easily explained. Many people have the mind set that it's okay for people who are different to function as long as it's not in their world. This justification was used to keep schools seperate. The attitude of "It's okay for blacks to get an education ... just not with my child." Same would probably go for a Doctor. Doc Baker had no problem with a Black doctor, especially one who treated Indians, but not a Black doctor treating his patients.
  Contributed by Megan H, November 10, 1997.

• There was only one more mention of Dr. Ledoux, but he was never seen again!!
  Contributed by KAREnCONN, December 12, 1007.

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• It is interesting to note that Laura's co worker at her temporary dishwashing job is none other than Miss Plumb, the school teacher.
  Contributed by Marnie J. S, May 23, 1997.
• Additional: Not only is Ms. Plumb the temporary dishwasher with Laura...but in an earlier episode (I think it's called the Third Miracle.....where Mary and Adam are on their way to another city and the stage they're on overturns...)....Ms. Plumb (Leslie Landon) is also the pregnant woman in the stage....
  Additional by Christi, June 28, 1997.
• Additional: Leslie Landon also was in 2 earlier episodes. She was in "Plague" as a dying little girl and in "The Election" as a girl who accepts Nellies bribes of candy and votes for her. In all these episodes, she never played the same person.
  Additional by HYPER, July 1, 1997.

• Why would Laura go to school in Arizona for 3 months, pregnant? Plus, she wasn't even showing any signs of pregnancy by the time she left Arizona.
  Contributed by TMTSoapop, December 25, 1997.

• Leslie Landon is Michael Landon's daughter............mmmmmm
  Contributed by Brook L, December 26, 1997.

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• Albert jumps in the pond to prove he can do the rope trick during their school lunch break. The next scene shows the outside of the house in the dark. We assume it is now evening. Inside Albert is talking to Ma and Pa about the trick. Ma tells Albert to go and get out of his wet clothes. How could his clothes possibly stay wet for that long?
  Contributed by Alan & Anita R, December 7, 1997.

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• Bill Anderson the banker mentioned that he was the only one who had the key to the bank. But then, you see Almanzo and Charles inside (the part when they pounced on Dr. Baker and the Reverand Alden). So how did they get inside?
  Contributed by Carey, May 24, 1997.

• In CROSSED CONNECTIONS, Mrs. Olsen says she does not keep her money in the bank, because she does not trust banks. Why then is all her ransom money all stored in the bank where Nancy and Willie cannot get to it? Who does she trust more, the bank, or her own family? She has the money saved in the bank, so only SHE can get it out.
  Contributed by Alex Trenta, May 23, 1997.

• I find it laughable, horrible and terribly unrealistic that Mr. Anderson would NOT give Willie and Nancy the money out of Mrs. Oleson's account so that Harriett's and Nel's lives might be spared.
  Contributed by Mr. USA, September 3, 1997.

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• When Pa, Mr.Edwards and the Newspaper Editor go into the bar to discuss John Jr's death, the editor takes a drink from what apears to be an empty cup!
  Contributed by Alishea, July 4, 1997.
  Corrected August 29, 1997.

• The newspaper man's name is spelled "Callihan" in the opening credits, but spelled "Callahan" on his office door.
  Contributed by Steve, October 17, 1997.

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• In the most infamous conclusion of all the "Little House" episodes, we meet a man who is listed in the closing credits only as "Bearded Man". Almost any 10-year old who grew up on Kentucky Fried Chicken knows this character is Col. Sanders, the company's founder! But wait! This episode is set in 1885, and Col. Sanders wasn't even born yet, and obviously Kentucky Fried Chicken did not exist then! It's a good thing the circus episodes "Annabelle", "The Great Gambini", and "Little Lou" did not feature Ronald McDonald or Ray Kroc's heirs would have been up a creek!
  Contributed by Hiphats, June 29, 1997. Corrected July 18, 1997.
  Additional: I found this on the Kentucky Fried Chicken Home page: 1939 Colonel Harland D. Sanders perfects secret blend of 11 herbs and spices in Corbin, Ky. and in 1952 Pete Harman in Salt Lake City becomes the first Kentucky Fried Chicken franchisee, opening the first KFC.
  Addional by Michael, July 11, 1997.

• Notice that the white-haired man at the end of the episode is supposed to be Colonal Sanders, the guy behind the KFC restuarants!!! Mrs. Oleson sure turned down a profitable offer!!! :-)
  Contributed by HYPER, July 1, 1997.

• Note the scene where Caroline returns home after the grand opening of Mrs. Oleson's new restaurant. She tells Charles that they made almost $25. How could she know? She and Hester Sue left while Mr. and Mrs. Oleson were still counting the money.
  Contributed by Lori J, July 11, 1997.

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• In this episode, everbody is having christmas celebration at the little house. When Ma is telling her favorite or memorable christmas when she was a child, you see her in a nice, big house with a nice dress, so this gives me the impression that her family had money. But in "I Remember, I Remember", she is living with her family on a farm, out in the country. Did her parents run into financial problems?
  Contributed by Gabbie T, July 27, 1997.

• In this episode, Ma said that she wore her necklace given to her by her stepfather every Christmas, yet in the Premeire movie during the Christmas part she wasn't wearing the necklace.
  Contributed by Beth N, August 22, 1997.

• Once again, Melissa Sue Anderson, in her last television episode appearence has her name listed in the closing credits, while Adam, played by Linwood Bloomer, gets his name in the opening credits. To me this does not seem fair. Mary had more screen time then James, Albert, or Cassandra (whom all of which were listed in the opening credits), and was even in a flashback, yet after eight years on Little House, has her name at then end.
  Contributed by Alex Trenta, August 29, 1997.

• In the episode "A Christmas They Never Forgot," they seem to forget about James. He only appears in the last couple of minutes of the show when Pa goes out to the barn to get the Christmas presents. He is not at the dinner table. He is not there to hear the Christmas stories. When Pa tells Albert he'll have to give up his bed so the adults can use it, James is nowhere around. James would also have to give up his bed.
  Contributed by Lisle J, December 24, 1997.

• In the later Christmas episode, during the flashback to Hester Sue's parents, they are sitting at the table in their cabin talking with Hester Sue about Santa Claus being white, etc. At one point the camera cuts away from the parents to Hester Sue, then back to the parents, and they have switched places at the table. Clearly, they had not had time to get up and sit back down. This drives me crazy every time.
  Contributed by Ellen B, January 23, 1998.

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• According to Charles, "half the town" is looking for Gideon at first. How does Caroline know that "no one has checked the old Taylor place"? Also later, the whole school searches for four hours and no one finds Gideon. Then later, how does Caroline know to search "Pine Lake"? She must have presumed that no one had looked there, yet it can't be too far from the school, since she mentions that it is on her way home. If the whole school had searched for four hours and Pine Lake was close by, it seems like Caroline would have assumed someone had looked there. In any case, it's remarkable that Caroline has such good luck twice in a row!
  Contributed by Steve C, October 23, 1997

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• In this episode, Almonza goes away with Pa, leaving pregnant Laura behind to tend to the orchard. Laura got sick due to the reason that she was always tending to the orhard in a heatwave. Why couldn't Ma have Albert stay with Laura and he can help or even do it for her? Did Ma need Albert at home all the time to help around the house that she couldn't have Albert help by staying at his pregnant sisters home for the time Almonzo was away.
  Contributed by Belle T, July 17, 1997.

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• Timeline-wise, since this episode takes place in 1885 (as evidenced by the tombstone of Jack Prescott seen in the first act), this story would have to take place between "Wave Of The Future" and "The Christmas They Never Forgot", since Christmas is at the end of 1885, and the preceding story ("Stone Soup") and the following episode ("Uncle Jed") takes place at the beginning of 1886. Also, the actor who playes Jack Prescott (Claude Earl Jones, no relation to James Earl Jones) is the same one who is seen in "Home Again" as the man who sets Albert free after being in jail.
  Contributed by Hiphats, July 18, 1997.

• Also, Jack Prescott's tombstone says that he was born in 1833. From the conversation between him and Charles prior to Prescott's death, we learn that Charles is some years younger than Jack, since Jack says to Charles, "wait till you get to be my age." This means that Charles would have to be born after 1833, and not in 1827 as the timeline indicates.
  Contributed by Steve C, October 26, 1997.

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• Jed Cooper also played in 2 other episodes.. Going home and the episodes where the Ingalls are gold mining...Jed playes a old gold miner who's wife dies... Then he does also... What gives?????
  Contributed by Jim R, August 30, 1997.

• Uncle Jed is the same old man who plays the man buying the house from Pa in "Going Home." He is also the man who plays Zachariah in "Gold Country." I think he might be in a couple more episodes as well.
  Contributed by Mr. USA, September 3, 1997.

• Someone had commented that they wanted to know how far the Ingalls house is from Walnut Grove. In this episode, Uncle Jed asks Nels how are it is to the Ingalls farm. Nels answered about 3 miles.
  Contributed by Alex Trenta, October 31, 1997.

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• In "The Wave of the Future," everyone is relieved when the "Mrs. Sullivan's Kitchen" restaurant doesn't work out, and the work load can lighten by not having to be open all day. Yet in this episode they appear to be serving all three meals again. It seems the work load would be just as heavy, and even more so if the town prefers the current menu to Mrs. Sullivan's.
  Contributed by Steve C, October 28, 1997.

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• By the time of "A Promise To Keep", the restaurant and inn have officially become "Caroline's". But just before the end of the first act, we see a wagon passing in front of "Nellie's" Restaurant and Inn. I guess the producers must have used stock footage from an earlier episode to avoid costs. Also, in the beginning of the second act, we see Isaiah walking into Caroline's Restaurant And Inn, then we see him ordering medicine from Olsen's Mercantile. Since when has Nellie's/Caroline's inn looked like Olsen's Mercantile? Maybe the producers should have re-shot the beginning of the second act.
  Contributed by Hiphats, June 29, 1997.
• Correction:  This is in answer to Hiphats' nitpick above. First of all, didn't the sign on the building that says "Nellie's" remain there all throughout? I could be mistaken, but I was thinking that it was only the painting on the window that was changed to "Caroline's." Also, at the beginning of the second act, Isaiah isn't walking into the inn, he is walking out. Since he was staying at the inn, I think we are to presume that he is leaving the inn and walking toward Oleson's Mercantile.
  Contributed by Steve C, October 30, 1997.

• In a shot where Laura leaves Isaiah to care for baby Rose, you can see the destroyed Wilder house on the left of the screen (remember what happened in the previous episode, "Days Of Sunshine, Days Of Shadow"?). Some LHOTP affiliates (such as Q58 in Sacramento, CA and TBS Superstation) skip that previous story in continuity, so the meaning of the shot is totally incomprehensable to its viewers.
  Contributed by Hiphats, August 30, 1997.

• Grace, Mr. Edwards' wife, is not played by the original actress. In fact she is played by the mother whose daughter dies in "My Ellen". Also Mr. Edwards' middle son, Carl, is played by a new actor.
  Contributed by Sarah M, October 29, 1997.

• When Mr. Edwards receives the letter from Grace and opens it, the camera briefly shows the letter and with still-frame you can read most of it. The voice of Grace reading the letter leaves part of it out.
  Contributed by Steve C, October 30, 1997.

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