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Post by goodnight on Oct 24, 2018 18:33:15 GMT -5
Wasn't the episode Someone Please Love Me where Laura found an abandoned baby where the unwed teenage mother was afraid to tell her father? So Melissa Gilbert would have had to have been in that. No - that one was called "Be My Friend". "Someone Please Love Me" was the one where Charles sorts out the marriage problems of the couple on the ranch. It's a pretty tedious episode, and is a reworking of a "Bonanza" story (i.e. "We've run out of ideas and need a plot quick"). It's well away from Walnut Grove, and the husband is drinking, and Charles flirts with the wife a bit: lhop.steve-p.org/seas5.php#22someoThey can't even be too bothered with the casting - the daughter in "Someone" is the Alicia Edwards (nee Sanderson) actress, Kyle Richards, which must have confused the viewers as Richards played Alicia both before and after this episode! Ok, I recall it now. The slight similarity of the titles confused me. And Someone Please Love Me was a forgettable episode to me anyway. The first one I mentioned (where Doc Baker quits his practice when he loses a patient), was it the one titled To Run and Hide? The reason I noticed Melissa Gilbert's absence in that one was because Mary and Carrie were seen and the inside of the Ingalls house was seen when the dying man's wife runs to the Ingall's farm for help at night.
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Post by sambda on Oct 25, 2018 2:55:27 GMT -5
The first one I mentioned (where Doc Baker quits his practice when he loses a patient), was it the one titled To Run and Hide? The reason I noticed Melissa Gilbert's absence in that one was because Mary and Carrie were seen and the inside of the Ingalls house was seen when the dying man's wife runs to the Ingall's farm for help at night. LHOP did most plots twice. The ones where Doc. Baker "resigns" after he can't save somebody are "To Run And Hide" (as you say) and also "A Child With No Name".
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Post by goodnight on Oct 25, 2018 18:18:13 GMT -5
The first one I mentioned (where Doc Baker quits his practice when he loses a patient), was it the one titled To Run and Hide? The reason I noticed Melissa Gilbert's absence in that one was because Mary and Carrie were seen and the inside of the Ingalls house was seen when the dying man's wife runs to the Ingall's farm for help at night. LHOP did most plots twice. The ones where Doc. Baker "resigns" after he can't save somebody are "To Run And Hide" (as you say) and also "A Child With No Name". There is a thread somewhere on this board where it was discussed how many Little House scripts were recycled Bonanza scripts.
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Post by flyaway on Oct 27, 2018 9:16:01 GMT -5
I was just watching a Bonanza episode the other day and the music in it was the theme song for LHOTP. Don't remember the episode but I believe it was 1970 or 71
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Post by awesomemixtape10 on Oct 28, 2018 20:46:48 GMT -5
LHOP did most plots twice. The ones where Doc. Baker "resigns" after he can't save somebody are "To Run And Hide" (as you say) and also "A Child With No Name". There is a thread somewhere on this board where it was discussed how many Little House scripts were recycled Bonanza scripts. yeah, and it was several episodes
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Post by Kyle on Oct 29, 2018 17:09:08 GMT -5
Oh god, yes. Sometimes Michael Landon didn’t even try to hide it. The “He Was Only Seven” episode of Bonanza was remade on LHOTP as “He Was Only Twelve”. LOL.
And how many times did Charles Ingalls have to find homes for some orphans? That was a very popular plot.
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Post by nedandres on Oct 31, 2018 9:15:07 GMT -5
That idea has been used all over TV, not just by Michael Landon. It goes to the viewers' emotions immediately.
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Post by sambda on Oct 31, 2018 11:32:52 GMT -5
Oh god, yes. Sometimes Michael Landon didn’t even try to hide it. The “He Was Only Seven” episode of Bonanza was remade on LHOTP as “He Was Only Twelve”. LOL. And how many times did Charles Ingalls have to find homes for some orphans? That was a very popular plot. Not just Charles. He gave home himself to Albert and the two Cooper kids. But Mr Edwards was also in on the act with the three Sanderson kids, and the "Wild Boy" later. Even the Olesons gave houseroom to Nancy. And Laura took in Jenny. Such philanthropy in such hard times! Except for Rev. Alden - he married that woman and then did away with her! Doc. Baker did in that black doctor, too. Anyhow, I notice there was a different philosophy between "The Waltons" and "LHOP" regarding these "one episode" kids that featured on the show. "The Waltons" tended to imply they were runaways or with a family staying short-term "in the old Evans place" or something. "LHOP" always tried to make out that such guest artists had always been there, part of the permanent community, even though you never saw them before or after the episode in question!
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Post by Zedxclon on Nov 4, 2018 8:52:57 GMT -5
Anyhow, I notice there was a different philosophy between "The Waltons" and "LHOP" regarding these "one episode" kids that featured on the show. "The Waltons" tended to imply they were runaways or with a family staying short-term "in the old Evans place" or something. "LHOP" always tried to make out that such guest artists had always been there, part of the permanent community, even though you never saw them before or after the episode in question! This is one of the biggest things which make me enjoy The Walton much more than Little House. It makes the world of The Waltons feel much more real and believable, whereas it makes Little House feel more like a TV show. I remember one where an adult with learning difficulties is in the school and we're just supposed to believe that he's always been one of the students - I think an adult among the children would have stood out enough for us to spot him! Little House introduced characters and elements to tell a story which was almost always completely self-contained. The Waltons introduced characters and elements which added to the overall tapestry of Walton's Mountain - each episode a new chapter in an unfolding story (with the odd exception.)
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