ATROCIOUS! WORST 2 hours of television that ever aired.

alswindle

Not only is this by far the worst of the 209 Little House on the Prairie episodes, but this is one of the worst things I have ever seen on television EVER (and I am 45 years old). I saw this when it originally aired in 1984 and then last year on cable. This episode is totally bizarre because this was the LAST "Little House" to air on TV (and this was after the town and Laura's house were blown up!). Spoilers: Laura and Almanzo go to another town to go Christmas shopping in their wagon with Mr. Edwards and just leave toddler Rose in the hands of extremely drunk Mr. Edwards on the sidewalk while they shop. While Edwards is drunk and fighting yet again, a childless woman snatches Rose and disappears off into the desolate prairie. There is no way Laura and Almanzo would EVER be able to find Rose on the desolate prairie of 1888 South Dakota (obviously no "Amber Alert", cars, helicopters, cell phones, police, television, to help with the search). Somehow, Laura and Almanzo find Rose and the kidnapper anyways, and instead of having the kidnapper arrested and hung, they are like "whatever! Hey, no big deal that you kidnapped our toddler. Oh, and by the way, we found this random orphaned boy so we will just hand him over to you!" The orphan boy then turns to the psycho kidnapper husband and says, "Hi dad!" Who wrote this complete piece of garbage?

score 1/10

alswindle 29 February 2012

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw2573682/