Season 5 · Episode 8

Harriet's Happenings

Season
Season 5
Episode
8 (96 overall)
First aired
October 30, 1978
Network
NBC

Who’s in it: Charles IngallsHarriet Oleson

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What happens

Mrs. Oleson gets a gossip column in the new town newspaper and loves the power it gives her. Her column takes aim at the Schillers, a family she claims can't read.

When the cruel story hurts innocent people, Charles stands up in church and calls out Harriet, and the whole town, for the harm gossip can do. A comic episode with a sharp message.

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