Season 4 · Episode 19

The Stranger

Season
Season 4
Episode
19 (85 overall)
First aired
February 13, 1978
Network
NBC

Who’s in it: Nels Oleson

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What happens

Peter, a spoiled, troublemaking boy from the city and a relative of Nels Oleson, is sent to Walnut Grove in hopes that farm work will straighten him out. He lands on the Ingalls farm.

Peter fights every chore and every rule, but slowly the honest work and the Ingalls way of life start to change him. When his father comes for him, both of them have learned something about what a son needs.

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