Doc Baker drafts Charles to help townspeople quarantined during a typhus outbreak.
Mary and Nellie (Melissa Sue Anderson, Alison Arngrim) run against each other for class president. With Michael Landon and Karen Grassle.
Mary must get help when a stagecoach accident traps Adam and endangers a pregnant woman; Laura and Albert offer a beehive to their rivals.
Laura's college class brings romantic pressure from the professor and a confrontation with Eliza Jane.