Season 3 · Episode 4

Little Girl Lost

Season
Season 3
Episode
4 (49 overall)
First aired
October 18, 1976
Network
NBC

Who’s in it: CarrieLars Hanson

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What happens

While out collecting bugs for a school project, little Carrie wanders off and falls into an abandoned mine shaft. The town scrambles to find her.

As the rescue effort grows desperate, old grudges between Lars Hanson and another townsman get in the way. The town has to pull together to save her. A tense, suspenseful story.

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