Little House On The Podcast

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

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