Season 6 · Episode 16
Darkness Is My Friend
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- 16 (128 overall)
- First aired
- January 21, 1980
- Network
- NBC
Who’s in it: Charles IngallsLauraMary
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Escaped convicts burst in on Laura and Mary and take them hostage. The men are dangerous and desperate, and the sisters have to keep their wits about them.
Laura manages to slip away and reach Charles, and Pa hatches a bold plan, posing as a doctor to get close to the convicts. A tense thriller with a happy ending: the reward money goes to the school for the blind.
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