Season 9 · Episode 6
The Wild Boy (Part 1)
- Season
- Season 9
- Episode
- 6 (185 overall)
- First aired
- November 1, 1982
- Network
- NBC
Who’s in it: LauraAlmanzoJenny Wilder
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A traveling medicine man named McQueen keeps a boy as a sideshow “wild boy,” beating him and treating him like an animal. The boy, who doesn't speak, escapes and hides in the Wilders' barn.
Jenny discovers him and slowly earns his trust, and she learns that his name is Matthew. Laura and Almanzo have to decide how to protect him.
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