The Silent Cry

This episode, I think, is a mixture of sweet and emotional. I always love the episodes written by Mike Landon!!!!
He really brings out his "family-centered" nature in this one....

I agree.It was a good one.

The orphanage in Sleepy Eye faces a difficult situation when two young brothers meet with a potential adoptive family. The younger child refuses to speak and shows symptoms of emotional trauma, so the family is only interested in taking the older child. Rather than be separated, the boys run away to the nearby blind school, where the kindly Houston agrees to help. Although the aging Houston would love to adopt them himself, it creates problems that he cannot handle by himself, so Charles and Jonathan must intervene


I loved this episode

Me to.They should have not tired to separte the kids.But least in the end things worked out.

The Walton's had a similar episode in 1977, The Christmas Carol, about 2 orphaned English children and the younger one wouldn't speak after a traumatic experience and his older sibling took care of him. I have a feeling Michael saw or heard of this when he wrote the script in 1980.

Both shows were very good and had happy endings with the mute child speaking.

^Thats a good episode of The Waltons. The little boy, who played Pip. That's Kami Coutler (Elisabeth) younger brother. She mention it, on her Favebook page.


This is a good episode. We got to see cutie pie, Albert.

If you would like to watch the identical copy of Silent Cry on Bonanza it is below. Michael simply tweeked the script a little and put it on Little House...He wrote and directed both............................

Yes, he did a lot of re-tweaking Bonanza episodes, didn't he?