List of Little House On The Prairie Episodes - Season 6 (1979–1980)

A new school year begins with a brand-new teacher, and Laura meets Almanzo Wilder. Nellie and her mother also have their eye on the handsome young farmer and believe that Nellie's new restaurant and hotel will attract his attention. Nellie proves to be less than competent at hospitality when she inadvertently serves Almanzo cinnamon chicken laced with cayenne.

Laura and Albert work hard to harvest honey from a beehive after making a deal with Mr. Oleson who said he would buy it at 30 cents a pound. Meanwhile, Adam wins a teaching award and must travel to Minneapolis to receive it and they do not have enough money for the trip. Laura and Albert offer to sacrifice their earnings from selling the honey to cover most of the cost. However, Mr. Oleson is out of town on a buying trip and Mrs. Oleson attempts to swindle the children by only offering them 15 cents a pound! However, Albert cleverly offers Mrs. Oleson their main beehive for the full amount promised, and she accepts. En route to Minneapolis, Mary, Adam and another woman are involved in a serious stagecoach accident due to a faulty wagon wheel. Mary is the only one who is able to seek help, since Adam is injured and the other lady in the stagecoach is pregnant and about to go into labor. While she is climbing up a hillside, her old glasses fall out of her pocket and the lenses magnify the sunlight and soon start a fire—which acts as a signal for Charles and Jonathan, who are searching for them. Meanwhile, Laura and Albert get Mrs. Oleson and Nellie to come pick up the hive (just a small nearby log full of bees), not telling them they're actually doing it during the time the bees are the most active and mean, causing them to get attacked on the way home!

When the circus comes to town, Nels discovers that his estranged obese sister, Annabelle, whom he was always ashamed of when they were kids, is the Fat Lady, and seeks to avoid anyone knowing this. When Annabelle visits the Blind School, Nels' shame is still apparent. Meanwhile, Laura becomes depressed when she goes to ask Almanzo to the circus, only to find out that he is already taking a rude, snobby (and snooty) young woman named Christie, for whom she has been mending a dress. When she delivers the dress five minutes late, Christie refuses to pay her the full amount, and Laura seeks revenge on the girl when she becomes a guest clown for the circus. Later at the circus, Nels announces to all in attendance that Annabelle is his sister and how proud he is of her.

Rev. Alden falls in love with a member of his congregation and marries her, but almost comes at a cost when Mrs. Oleson attempts to tear their relationship apart, distressing the Reverend to illness.

Mr. Edwards has become very wealthy owning a logging empire. When Alicia brings him lunch, she is nearly crushed by a falling tree. Edwards saves her from certain injury, but his leg is crushed. He soon becomes resigned to life as a cripple, prompting Grace to write to her old friends, the Ingalls family, to help. However, neither Charles nor Laura can seem to get Edwards to snap out of his depression, which is taking its toll on the family. On two occasions, Charles has to stop Edwards from trying to commit suicide. Only when Charles pretends to have been injured in a gun accident does Edwards snap out of his deep depression. It is not long before Edwards is back to his old, irascible self.

In this three-hour special, the Ingallses spend Thanksgiving reminiscing their past years in Walnut Grove (via clips from previous episodes).

In an episode that marks the turning point for both the characters and the series in general, Albert and a friend named Clay accidentally cause a fire at the School for the Blind. Mary is in the bedroom with Adam Jr. when the fire starts, but Adam pulls her out, leaving the baby in the room. After hearing its cries, Alice Garvey goes to get the baby, but one of the students is locked in the bathroom and she lets him out first. After that, she is trapped in the bedroom with Adam Kendall Jr., trying to escape through the window, but ultimately perishes along with the baby. After the fire, Mary is in deep shock and refuses to believe that her baby is gone. Albert blames himself after Jonathan Garvey starts to drink alcohol, blaming God for his wife's death. Albert buys a music box to replace the one which Mary called "Little Adam's music"; he runs away after Mary hears the music and starts screaming for her baby. When Albert reaches his old home, he sees a grave that says "J. Quinn," which means his biological father is now dead. Later, Mr. Garvey convinces Albert that it wasn't his fault that the two had died. Eventually, Adam's father donates a plaque that reads "The Alice Garvey and Adam Kendall Jr. School for The Blind," and gives this episode its name after saying "May we make them proud."

Almanzo proposes to Laura, who accepts, but their age difference is called into question by Charles, who tells Almanzo to wait two years for him and Laura to be married. An angry Almanzo states that he will not wait and two years seem like forever and leaves Walnut Grove, but Laura refuses to go with him. Meanwhile, in an effort to improve business at Nellie's failing restaurant, the Olesons hire Percival Dalton to help straighten things out; however, Percival doesn't seem to be making much progress because of Nellie's refusal to learn the hospitality business. Only when Percival confesses his feelings for her (during a messy confrontation over her feisty demeanor) does she begin to soften and cooperate. Meanwhile, Adam learns that he did not get his expected inheritance from his newly deceased father; Adam learns his father spent nearly all of the money, and as a result most of the assets were used to pay off heavy debts. That puts an end to construction of the new blind school. Laura, however, finds an old courthouse building in Sleepy Eye for rent.