Susan French

A visiting ambassador conceals the deadly secret to his successful negotiations as he attempts to use Troi to further his reputation.

A boy named Todd spent much of his childhood being beaten by his alcoholic father. Now Todd is an angry teenager who arrives in Walnut Grove to spend time with his grandparents. He quickly runs into trouble and even lands in jail after stealing, but when Charles begins to sympathize with the boy, he hires him as a farmhand to teach him some values.

Mrs. Oleson's prejudice troubles a former circus dwarf (Billy Barty) who is trying to raise his daughter alone.

Sam experiences racism firsthand when he leaps into the body of an elderly black man in the pre-civil rights South of 1955.