Episode where Albert is a morphine addict

Somehow I missed the reason why they were living there

As I recall, the Ingalls were having a tough time making ends meet in Walnut Grove, so they sold their farm to the Carter’s, and moved to the big city.

I think that the idea was for Charles to bring Albert back to WG, to get him away from the bad crowd that he was hanging out with, and to get cleaned up. I generally didn’t care for the character of Albert, but thought that he did a first rate job of playing an addict in these episodes.

What big city is there in Iowa?

This is where there’s a bit of a goof. The “big city” that they were said to have moved to, was supposed to be Burr Oak Iowa, which I’m pretty sure is still a small town to this very day.

This is also where there’s an overlap between the real life Ingalls family, and the television Ingalls. The real Ingalls family indeed lived in Burr Oak Iowa for a year. They left Walnut Grove and moved there to help their friends run The Masters Hotel. They were unhappy there, and missed their friends in Walnut Grove, so they moved back.

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