"PLAGUE"

I like this episode, it kept me on the edge of my seat wondering if Pa, Doc Baker or the preacher were going to get sick or if Mr. Edwards was going to make it.

Seing those rats creeps me out. Gross.

Good thing, they burn the feed seed place down.

Spanky wrote:

Seing those rats creeps me out. Gross.

Last year, we had ad a rat infection , because they are making a building just beside our own, and rats appeared all over our balconies from some long, long moths. They will come every single day soon before sunset and were around until sunrise...Happulym they didn't live in our balconies but they visited them just to see if there was something to eat. Since we had two paraquets they would come to eat their food...and eventually to eat them . Once, they jumped over their jail, throwed it, and the two paarquets flyed away leaving me very sad...but at least relieved because they wouldn't eat them up.

However, I must said they were very polite rats....THey never went into our house. They never tried it...They would only visit our balcony and you could see them hiding behind our plants and flowers. All our bulidig had the same problem and we must call a Plague Enetreprise to get rid of all those little beast . They poisoned them and we didn't see a single rat any more...they found them all dead in the last floor. Ugh...And they were not little mice. They were HUGE rats. Every time I saw them, I remembered the "Plague" episode...

Vanesa.

oh men.not good at all.

I don't think Charles ever got sick did he? Not with anything contagious.

littlehouselover wrote:

I don't think Charles ever got sick did he? Not with anything contagious.

No; he never got sick. And Doc Baker, neither...So, if you don't want to get sick, just , please, be a doctor...

Vanesa.

Or the star of the show. Charles did get shot by accident though and broke some ribs but overall fared pretty well during epidemics.

I remember a show where Mr. Edwards is asking him about his leg/limp, that must have been when it happened. Great picture, where was that from?

Taken on the set of "The Rivals" in  January 1978.

Solid episode - it's easy to forget that many people died young back then, and from a myriad of causes including typhus. No effective vaccine until the 1930s, and of course it killed many during WWII, amongst them Anne Frank.

MankatoJoe wrote:

Solid episode - it's easy to forget that many people died young back then, and from a myriad of causes including typhus.  No effective vaccine until the 1930s, and of course it killed many during WWII, amongst them Anne Frank.

You are certainly right about the rate of death back then. There is a cemetery close to where I live that dates back to the early 1800's. It's chocked full of infants and kids under ten that died back then. We take a lot for granted now days. Common flu was a killer along with everything else.

I like this episode a lot. I always tend to like those episodes with really tragic things happening to the whole town......may sound weird, but kind of like what Revd. Alden says at the end, I feel like it strengthens the people (those who survive). I also love seeing how they really pull together and are all "in it together." I also blurted out "social distancing" when Doc Baker told everyone to stay home. While I think it is common knowledge to fans that Leslie Landon portrays "Leslie" (one of the typhus victims), my husband wondered if one of the actors whose last name was "Greene" (credited at the end of the episode) may be related to Lorne Greene.

Yeah, they didn't have any hope of having a vaccine for their illnesses - smallpox, etc. And not much hope for any medical cures. Just mainly seemed like you had to treat symptoms and pray and see what happened.