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Reverend Alden's birthday is coming up, and the Sunday School children have raised enough money to purchase a gift. School treasurer Mary is elected to order the gift and present it to the Reverend, but with only $1.67 to spend, it's obvious that they can't afford anything fancy...until Laura coaxes Mary into taking a dangerous gamble to double the money.moreless
 Melissa Gilbert |
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls/Wilder |
 Dabbs Greer |
Reverend Alden |
 Melissa Sue Anderson |
Mary Amelia Ingalls/Kendall (1974 - 1981) |
 Kevin Hagen |
Dr. Hiram Baker |
 Richard Bull |
Nels Oleson |
 Karl Swenson |
Mr. Lars Hanson (1974 - 1978) |
 Lurene Tuttle |
Agnes Molson |
Guest Star |
Anne Gee Byrd |
Mrs. Hobson |
Guest Star |
David Byrd |
Faubus |
Guest Star |
 Alison Arngrim |
Nellie Oleson |
Recurring Role |
 Jonathan Gilbert |
Willie Oleson |
Recurring Role |
 Ruth Foster |
Mrs. Foster |
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Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions
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TRIVIA (5)
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In the church scene at the end, if you look closely to where Doctor Baker is sitting, you can see the heart shape that says "Jason Loves Laura" from the episode The Talking Machine, also from Season 2, which is unusual since this episode was aired before The Talking Machine.
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Lurene Tuttle, here playing the elderly Mrs. Molson, was a very well-known radio actress. She went on to become an acting coach as well, and her only child, a daughter, married famous movie score composer John Williams ("Star Wars", "Superman", and many others.)
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Isn't it ironic that Laura's the one who suggests that the Sunday School children keep their gift idea a secret from everyone, but then she's the first one to almost blab it to her parents in the very next scene?
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It seems a little strange that Laura actually expected that the woman wouldn't recognize her when she posed as a dirt-poor child in rag clothes. In a town that small, don't you pretty much know everybody?
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As Laura and Mary are walking down away from the lake to pick berries, you can see they are wearing different clothes than when they were talking to Pa just seconds earlier.
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Laura: Ma'am, I'm a poor child, and I need your help. My Ma died, and my Pa's awful sick.
Woman: Oh, that's terrible!
Laura: That's why I'm doing everything I can to help. I'm selling Dr. Briskin's Homopathic Remedies.
Woman: Selling? You?
Laura: Yes, ma'am. This one is for colic, and this one is for diseases of the heart, and this one is for stomach troubles. Any sickness you have, I've got the cure for it.
Woman: If that's true, why is your mother dead and your father sick? -
Mary: Laura, it's not our money!
Laura: But we'll be doubling it. What's wrong with that?
Mary: Laura!
Laura: Well, you know what Pa said about taking chances. You just have faith and work hard, and everything will turn out all right.
Mary: He said mostly.
Laura: Well, there's two of us, and that's a lot of mostly! -
Laura: You just have to take a chance sometimes, don't you, Pa?
Charles: That's part of being alive.
Laura: Like when we came across the prairie?
Charles: Sure. Some folks would have been afraid of what they might run into, so they just didn't try it.
Laura: And everything worked out, didn't it, Pa?
Charles: That it did.
Mary: What if it hadn't?
Charles: Well, then you just take a deep breath and start over.
Laura: But mostly, everything works out, doesn't it, Pa?
Charles: Yeah, mostly--if you have faith and work hard. -
Nellie: (about the expensive Bible she wants to get for the Reverend) It was twelve dollars.
Harriet: Twelve dollars?!?!?
Nellie: Marked down to three.
Harriet: Oh....well, that's more like it.
Nellie: For a dollar extra, we can have his name stamped in gold on the front cover.
Nels: Which will make the prayers more welcome, I am sure. -
Laura: Why didn't you tell Pa?
Mary: I thought I'd wait.
Laura: For what?
Mary: A miracle! -
Laura: Why don't you just be like the rest of the children and join in?
Nellie Oleson: My mother says we're not like the rest of the children!
Laura: I suppose she's right. -
Willie: I vote for a new tie!
Laura: You can't vote because you didn't give any money. And besides, reverends don't wear ties, silly. They can't with a backwards collar! -
Charles: How was Sunday school?
Mary and Laura: Good.
Charles: What you learn about?
Laura: We learned about the new Bible!
Caroline: What?
Mary: Uh, she means the New Testament. -
Laura: We have laryn-geetis.
Charles: You have what?
Mary: La-RANG-utus.
Charles: Larangutus. Well, how long do you think this "larangutus" is going to last?
Laura: We should be feeling better soon, Pa.
Charles: I mean, by the time your Ma and Carrie and I get back from Church, you think you'll be feeling better by then?
Mary: I'm sure we will, Pa. We just need to get our strength back.
Charles: Yeah. First of all, it's pronounced "laryngitis," and it means you can't talk. What's this all about? Why don't you want to go to Church? Come on, you certainly can talk, so tell me.
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Filming Locations: Filmed at Big Sky Ranch, Simi Valley, with Sierra location scenes filmed at Basin Creek, Tuolumne and 1975 stock clip of Shay Locomotive No. 3 at Red Hills, Chinese Camp, California, and Paramount Studios, Hollywood, California.
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