Mary, Adam, Hester-Sue, and the children can do nothing but hear her scream.

You wouldn’t find thisin the real Ingalls story.

How much did the beloved NBC series change about Laura Ingalls Wilder’s story?

Albert Ingalls (Matthew Labyorteaux), Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon), Caroline Ingalls (Karen Grassle), and Mary Kendall (Melissa Sue Anderson) stand together outside in front of a tree in the ‘Little House on the Prairie’ episode

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It seems as if this horror will forever mark the lives of the Kendall and Garvey families.

But, thankfully, the two-parter doesn’t end on such a sour note.

In fact, the former even exclaims to the latter that the fire was nobody’s fault.

Alice Garvey (Hersha Parady) and baby Adam Kendall Jr. die in a fire at the blind school on ‘Little House on the Prairie.'

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Having been forgiven,Albert returns hometo his father,just like the prodigal son.

Melissa Sue Anderson, Michael Landon, and Melissa Gilbert as Mary, Charles, and Laura Ingalls of Little House on the Prairie, smiling and reading

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The life and adventures of the Ingalls family in the nineteenth century American Midwest.

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