Sylvia and Albert

I love this two part episode and watched it yesterday!  All I can say is how the ending gets me every time into tears..... the other two part episode that does this to me is Albert's morphine addiction.

            Yes this is a very powerfully sad  two-part episode that tugs at your heartstring. I enjoy the differences between the books and tvseries, because Laura gets a brother on tv in Albert, but in the books I enjoy seeing more of Laura's relationship with Mary and how she describes the world around her to Mary.

           So even though I am a bookpurist I enjoy with how well everyone plays the characters from the books/real-life adapted onto screen and also the characters added to "Little House" were enjoyable and right for the show. I think it's fantastic getting two perspectives of "Little House" from Laura's actual accounts to the t.v. series adaptation.

justalong -- Remember, Albert's morphine addiction episode took place about a year before his "curtain call".  He was getting ready to go to medical school when he found out about his incurable illness.  Sorry if I burst your bubble.  I thought Albert was a great addition to the series, too.

Albert so takes me by surprise when he has his morphine addiction........ in all of the other episodes he plays in I would not have even guessed that he would do such a thing..... but, he does!  The two parter shows how controlling this drug of this type can be and how it just "takes" over your life and everything else is down on the list.  That is why this episode is very powerful to me.  Yes, I too have a couple of episodes that I could be okay without watching cause they are not really my fav's...... like the two part episode of "he was only twelve"  That one I could probably turn off.

i agree with you natasha..both these episodes are my least favorites (along with he was only twelve) and i never watch them when they're on...but psa is right..ml liked to include controversial topics of the day into all his scripts....