Season 1 · Episode 17
Plague
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- 17 (17 overall)
- First aired
- January 29, 1975
- Network
- NBC
Who’s in it: Charles IngallsDoc BakerReverend Alden
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A deadly typhus outbreak strikes Walnut Grove, and the sick are quarantined in the church. Doc Baker, Reverend Alden and Charles work around the clock to care for the patients as the death toll grows.
Charles sets out to find the source of the disease before it spreads further, and the trail leads somewhere no one expected. The town has to act fast to stop the plague. A tense, serious episode about community in a crisis.
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