Elmore Vincent

Mrs. Oleson decides that reopening Nellie's Restaurant and Hotel as a franchised restaurant will result in big business for the fledgling business. Does she have what it takes to meet the demands of a tough franchiser, and can she fight off unexpected competition from Charles and Nels when they open up their own restaurant?

With the birth of a beautiful baby boy in the spring, it appears that Laura and Almanzo's family is now complete. However, when the infant dies for no apparent reason, a distraught Laura blames Doc Baker, who spent days insisting that their son was perfectly healthy. Quickly alienated by the entire Walnut Grove community, his tainted reputation forces him to consider moving his practice elsewhere.

Rosco (JAMES BEST) loses his diary (containing information on every illegal scam Boss and he ever pulled) at the Duke farm, and Boss (SORRELL BOOKE) threatens to jail Bo and Luke Duke (JOHN SCHNEIDER and TOM WOPAT) for 20 years unless it is returned to him.

The unusual case of a cunning female thief - a woman who tricks 38 unsuspecting men and robs them of a fortune is this weeks topic. Only Dan Mathews can outwit her.

Stan Warren, a smooth, dapper con-man, wanted for murder, speeds toward the desert area in a borrowed car. Dan Mathews reasons that Warren will try to elude pursuit by taking one of the desert roads out of the state. Realizing the futility of trying to catch Warren with patrol cars, Mathews orders a helicopter.

Ted Spaeth's career as a successful architect has caused him to neglect his wife Laura and their six-year old daughter Julie. The inevitable happens: two days before Xmas, Laura takes Julie and leaves...planning to stay with her sister till the problems are worked out. They stay at a motel and the next morning Julie is gone.