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Season 7, episode 15: Hester Sue leaves a lantern burning in the basement of the new blind school. She should know better as a fire in the basement destroyed the old blind school.
Season 7, episode 16: Laura tells her class of the five boroughs forming New York City. These were not consolidated until 1898. She also speaks of the Brooklyn Bridge being incomplete. She is way behind the times as it was completed in 1883 and since Laura is already married it should be at least 1885 here.
Season 7, episode 13: A night shot shows the windows of the Restaurant and Hotel reading "Nellie's." The next day, they again read "Caroline's."
As far as I can tell, this is the first episode in which Michael Landon did not appear at all.
Season 7, episodes 11 and 12: The large sign on the Restaurant and Hotel says Nellie's, and everyone refers to it as Nellie's, but the windows still say Caroline's.
Season 7, episode 12: There must have been a reuse of titles, as Hersha Parady is credited as Alice Garvey, who was killed quite awhile earlier. Also Jonathan and Andy Garvey are credited when none of the Garveys appeared in this episode.
Season 7, episode 9: the schoolchildren are calling Laura "Miss Wilder" rather than the correct "Mrs. Wilder." Also in the credits, Nellie is still Oleson rather than her married name of Dalton.
Season 7, episodes 9 and 10: Nellie eats ice cream in a cone. Ice cream cones were not invented until 1896 and patented in 1903.
Season 7, episode 7: the picture window Charles was putting in was broken and he closed the shutters until he could replace it, yet an outside shot shows the shutters open and the old window in place.
Season 7, episode 8: Albert's pen pal claims she was the captain of the basketball team. Basketball was invented in 1891 and girls' teams doubtless came later. It should still be around the fall of 1885 here. She also claims to have danced in "Swan Lake." Although "Swan Lake" was first performed in Russia in 1877, it was not performed in America until 1940.
Season 7, episode 6: This is the first episode which didn't just have a few inaccuracies but was so unbelievable it was painful to watch in places. The idea that a person who went almost totally blind at a very young age could paint such realistic landscapes beggars belief. All of the actors did the best possible job they could with this material (written by Michael Landon himself).
Although not mentioned by name, Vincent Van Gogh cutting off his ear is referenced. How many other artists cut off their ears? That didn't happen until December 23, 1888. Since Laura was married on August 25, 1885 and this is only a couple of episodes later it should still be 1885.
Season 7, episodes 1 and 2: flat disc-shaped records were not invented until 1890. Previously recordings were on cylinders. The term Victrola was first marketed in 1906. As for when it would have been socially acceptable for Nellie to discuss her pregnancy symptoms in mixed company (to a man and his unmarried date) and for the young couple to be kissing on the stagecoach, who knows, but certainly not in the early 1880s even with the laxer rules on the frontier.
Since Laura gets married in the second of these episodes, they must now be up to 1885.
Season 6, episode 24: Is Nellie's and Percival's marriage legal? Marriages can be performed by ordained clergy, a justice of the peace, or the captain of a ship, but is a doctor qualified if he is not also one of these other things?
Season 6, episode 22: The Ingalls seem to have forgotten the death of their first and only grandchild just a few episodes earlier. In fact, they seem to have forgotten his very existence. When Laura tells Ma that the teacher she is subbing for smokes a pipe, Ma laughs. One would think a pipe would be a sore subject as one caused the death of little Adam Jr. but maybe not as Pa still smokes a pipe (he is seen picking up tobacco in the previous episode). More troubling is that in discussing Laura and Almanzo potentially getting together they laugh about possibly becoming grandparents--apparently heartlessly forgetting that they were in fact grandparents until a tragedy took little Adam.
Previously Pa allowed Mary to get engaged at 13 with a promise of marrying at 15. Now he is just allowing Laura to date at 16 and saying she can't marry until 18.
Season 6, episode 15: In Season 6, episode 2, Charles claims he was out of school at age 12 to support his family as "man of the family." He must not have been out long, because in Season 6, episode 15 he attends a reunion for the Class of 1856 in which he seems to have graduated. Since this is a 25-year reunion, the year here is identified as 1881.
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