Season 4 · Episode 17

Be My Friend

Season
Season 4
Episode
17 (83 overall)
First aired
January 30, 1978
Network
NBC

Who’s in it: Charles IngallsLaura

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What happens

Laura finds a note in a bottle floating in the creek and goes looking for the person who wrote it. What she finds instead is a baby, abandoned and alone.

The Ingalls family takes the infant in while Charles sets out to trace where the child came from. The search leads him to a young couple, Bobbie and Anna, who have been pulled apart, and to a chance to bring a family back together.

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