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Closed Caption; Exclusive interviews with Dean Butler (Almanzo Wilder) and Alison Arngrim (Nellie Oleson); Audio commentary by Alison Arngrim; Interactive quiz: Season 7 trivia challenge
Full Product DetailsEven by this beloved series' own heart-wrenching standards, life in Walnut Grove takes many dramatic turns in the seventh season. Laura gets married to Almanzo and promptly faces a financial crisis. Adam miraculously regains his sight and becomes a lawyer. A considerably nicer Nellie gives birth. Caroline learns she can no longer bear children. There are orphans to be relocated, an abandoned daughter to be reunited with her mother, and an emotionally distant football hero father who risks estrangement from his more sensitive son. In one of the series' most harrowing episodes, the Emmy-nominated two-parter, "Sylvia," a masked rapist stalks one of Adam's classmates. After all this tumult, it's always a nice change of pace when Little House kicks back with a comedic episode. In "The In-Laws," getting there is all the fun as Charles and his new son-in-law bet to see which route to the town of Sleepy Eye (Mt. Pilot to Walnut Grove's Mayberry) is fastest. Through it all, Little House, based on the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, steadfastly extols the virtues of hard work, independence, honesty, responsibility, and tolerance, as the loathsome Mrs. Oleson struggles to come to term with her daughter's Jewish husband and his parents. Michael Landon, the heart and soul of this series, wrote and/or directed many of this season's most memorable episodes, including the two-parters, "Laura Ingalls Wilder," "To See the Light," "Sylvia," and "The Lost Ones." He also helmed the season finale, which adds two new young members to the Ingalls brood, including future Arrested Development star Jason Bateman, then 12 years old. "The Little House would be full," Laura narrates, "full of love." Not exactly subtle, but that's the kind of heartfelt sentiment that continues to make this home a welcome one to revisit with the family. Donald Liebenson, Barnes & Noble