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Yeah, this was one of the better Outer Limits episodes with the nice Twilight Zone-ish twist with social commentary about how ****** up we are as a species... 
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For my money, the Twilight Zone always owned The Outer Limits, mainly because there was always some kind of social commentary going on in The Twilight Zone and often there wasn't in The Outer Limits. Here's an exception to the rule.
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97
LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE
"I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away"
February 6 & 13, 1978
Under trying frontier conditions, Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) does the best he can for his wife and four daughters. And he is usually up to the challenge, except in the two-part "I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away" -- when he learns that his beloved eldest daughter, Mary, is going blind, the result of an arduous bout with scarlet fever. The devoted father almost comes undone when he has to give the girl the news. Television series, even those that pride themselves on realism, rarely make the afflictions of leading characters permanent conditions. But however gentle Little House's spirit, the show doesn't take the easy way out here. Blind Mary is, and blind she will stay; both she and her family learn to cope and hold on to hope in this deeply affecting episode.
I remember this one.. I used to watch this show all the time when I was a kid. I've read and own all of Laura Ingalls Wilder's novels. Moving episode.
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97
LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE
"I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away"
February 6 & 13, 1978
Under trying frontier conditions, Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) does the best he can for his wife and four daughters. And he is usually up to the challenge, except in the two-part "I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away" -- when he learns that his beloved eldest daughter, Mary, is going blind, the result of an arduous bout with scarlet fever. The devoted father almost comes undone when he has to give the girl the news. Television series, even those that pride themselves on realism, rarely make the afflictions of leading characters permanent conditions. But however gentle Little House's spirit, the show doesn't take the easy way out here. Blind Mary is, and blind she will stay; both she and her family learn to cope and hold on to hope in this deeply affecting episode.
I remember this one.. I used to watch this show all the time when I was a kid. I've read and own all of Laura Ingalls Wilder's novels. Moving episode.
I used to watch it as a kid too, and also remember the episode. Very moving for sure.
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I remember crying at a Little House on the Prairie, I suppose this was the episode I was watching?
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97
LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE
"I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away"
February 6 & 13, 1978
Under trying frontier conditions, Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) does the best he can for his wife and four daughters. And he is usually up to the challenge, except in the two-part "I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away" -- when he learns that his beloved eldest daughter, Mary, is going blind, the result of an arduous bout with scarlet fever. The devoted father almost comes undone when he has to give the girl the news. Television series, even those that pride themselves on realism, rarely make the afflictions of leading characters permanent conditions. But however gentle Little House's spirit, the show doesn't take the easy way out here. Blind Mary is, and blind she will stay; both she and her family learn to cope and hold on to hope in this deeply affecting episode.
I remember this one.. I used to watch this show all the time when I was a kid. I've read and own all of Laura Ingalls Wilder's novels. Moving episode.
It, uh, might have been a bit dusty in the dp4m household that evening... 
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Haven't watched this show, actually.
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Every episode of that show was a tear jerker.
I think she did get her sight back eventually.
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Wilderness_Comedian posted:
Every episode of that show was a tear jerker.
I think she did get her sight back eventually.
Nope. stayed blind, went to the Helen Keller school, and became a teacher there, IIRC.
There was an episode where it seemed she might be getting her sight back, but it turns out to be an anomaly.
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Her husband regained his sight.
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Is there a link to this list?
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Didn't Linwood Boomer have a role on this show? As the blind girl's husband, I think.
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Yes, that was the role he played...
... this is another one of those things that absolutely kills my rock star image, isn't it? 
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PICKET FENCES
Heart of Saturday Night
October 27, 1995
What happens when you explore the "Heart of Saturday Night" in Rome, Wisconsin? Nothing much…just love and death and friendship and dreams and stars. Just life. Young Matthew Brock (Justin Shenkarow) goes cruising with the guys, ends up at a party with the in-crowd, and acts as a go-between in a domestic dispute. Jimmy and Jill (Tom Skerritt and Kathy Baker) try to rekindle their romance until a zipper accident douses their ardor. Judge Bone and Wambaugh (Ray Walston and Fyvush Finkel) see a friend die and end the night standing in a lake, their pants rolled up like Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, contemplating eternity. Saturday night in Rome: boring, sad, frustrating, ethereal -- a miracle. And based on this marvelously subtle, sweet, and profound episode -- which has the strength and integrity of TV's Golden Age dramas -- it's hard to imagine a better place to spend an evening.
I've never seen an episode of Picket Fences... anybody care to take this?
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Picket Fences was a really nice show, a bit ahead of its time, but ultimately not... enough. Don't know how better to describe it other than that. A GREAT cast however, though this episode doesn't stand out for me...
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