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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What happens

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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