Watch Little House on the Prairie Season 5 Episode 8: Harriet's Happenings Online

	IMDB Rating: 8.2/10 from votes
	Release: 1978 / Little House on the Prairie / Season 5 / Episode 8
	Genre: Drama \| Family \| Romance
	Director: William F. Claxton
	Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert
	Synopsis: Sterling Murdoch arrives in Walnut Grove planning to found a newspaper. The fledgling newspaper is The Pen and the Plow, and its star reporter is none other than one Harriet Olesen. At first, everyone including the Ingalls welcome the newspaper, but the completely inaccurate content of the "Harriet's Happenings" column soon has some people losing their enthusiasm. Nels reminds his wife that a reporter's job is to be accurate, but Mrs. Olesen suggests she's merely "reporting the fact that they are rumors"; he is even more frustrated when she suggests holding an unethical sale at the store. Later, Nellie loses a spot in the county's spelling bee to Erich Schiller, the son of German immigrants and outstanding student in his class. Mrs. Olesen is outraged and in her next column, writes a story suggesting that Erich's parents are illiterate. Erich is deeply upset by the story and it causes him to perform badly at the county spelling bee; he even drops out of school. With some help from ...