Laura and Almanzo were both stricken with diptheria. She fully recovered but he was left partially paralyzed. He used a cane to walk for the rest of his life.
In her book Prairie Tale: A Memoir, Melissa Gilbert commented that in this episode she played a pregnant married woman while she was a virgin and later when she filmed the movie Zoya, she played a virgin while she was 3 months pregnant with her son, Michael Garrett.
Rose Wilder was born December 5, 1886 in DeSmet in the Dakota Territory
The fifth and the last episode with a duration of 90-minutes.