Little House on the Prairie

Charles Coulter has a college education and knows a good deal about crops and things of that nature. When he and his pregnant wife arrive in Walnut Grove, he is quick to tell the farmers of an idea he has to plant corn instead of wheat, the price of which has decreased dramatically.



Coulter, it seems, can get the seed cheaply through his father-in-law, who lives some distance away. The other farmers decide to jump on the bandwagon and give him enough money to travel a long way in order to buy seed for everybody's land.



When Joe has an accident with his wagon on his return journey, the crows, literally, start to circle, but not as viciously as those in Walnut Grove who are convinced that he has run off with their money. Only Charles and Mr. Hansen believe that all will be well, while the others whine and complain a great deal.



Finally, Charles sets out to look for him and finds him injured and the wagon upturned. When the shamefaced farmers realise what has happened, they all come along with their own ploughs to plough and sow his fields as he cannot do so due to a badly injured leg.



Pretty dull as episodes go as not a lot actually happened when it's all said and done.

The Coulters are the new farm couple in Hero Township, and there's a twist--Joseph Coulter is educated in the field of agriculture and tells the farmers of Walnut Grove that he can teach them to raise their incomes while raising a new crop--corn. The farmers all agree to give it a try and send Joe off to the big city with all of their money, where he'll order the new seed. When he fails to return within the estimated time frame, several of the farmers in town turn on his wife--a small, frail pregnant woman--verbally abusing her to the point where she collapses and nearly miscarries. Charles decides to head off to look for Joe, and finds him near death at the bottom of a gulley, where his wagon had crashed and flipped days earlier after running off the road. Flash forward to a bunch of thouroughly shamed, head-hanging farmers. To aleviate their guilt--and to keep the Coulters from leaving town--they plow his fields and plant his corn before doing their own. The episode teaches good lessons about jumping to conclusions and puting others before ones' self.

Eh, I dunno--I was expecting more from this offering, having missed it the first time and seeing it yesterday. I am not going to rave about it because it didn't float my boat. Regarding the other review on here about this episode: why is it acceptable to have

townspeople act like jerks and jump to conclusions and then plow a field (after finding out that they were wrong and yelling at a PREGNANT WOMAN!!!!) and we're supposed to think they are just wonderful human beings and smile at the show's conclusion? Sheesh...I guess I'm not that easily amused. I also wouldn't be too thrilled by a person yelling at my very pregnant wife, even if he did plow my field.