Albert's demise

[Nipsey Russell]

I was reading on another thread that Albert was killed off with leukemia. (Tragedy on LHOTP??? Imagine that!) Anyway, I never realized that he died on the series. Another poster, however, stated that maybe Albert didn't really die. What's the story?

[Ireneparalegal]

Originally Posted by Nipsey Russell

I was reading on another thread that Albert was killed off with leukemia. (Tragedy on LHOTP??? Imagine that!) Anyway, I never realized that he died on the series. Another poster, however, stated that maybe Albert didn't really die. What's the story?

It was revealed that Albert had leukemia, but they never actually showed the character dying or dead. It is assumed that he would eventually die. They just showed him when he was told abt the illness and how he overcame the shock of it.

[Nipsey Russell]

Did this occur on the last episode? If not, was Albert ever mentioned again?

[Ireneparalegal]

It was one of the episodes under the new titled show, "Little House-A New Beginning". Charles and Albert came to Walnut Grove to visit and Albert had been feeling sick and having alot of nosebleeds. It was Doc Baker who diagnosed him. But it wasn't the final episode of the show.

[Coffeecup]

I do remember an episode where Albert (I think it was Albert) who came back from somewhere with a drug addiction. Charles helped him through it and but I don't recall him going to die. There were scenes of Albert stealing from Doc Baker's office. It may have been a 2 parter. I am sadddened to hear the character die. I see those shows now and I end crying . They seem a bit morbid.

[Ireneparalegal]

Originally Posted by coffeecup

I do remember an episode where Albert (I think it was Albert) who came back from somewhere with a drug addiction. Charles helped him through it and but I don't recall him going to die. There were scenes of Albert stealing from Doc Baker's office. It may have been a 2 parter. I am sadddened to hear the character die. I see those shows now and I end crying . They seem a bit morbid.

Yeah, that episode was real sad. I recall when that episode first aired, they had a disclaimer right before the show started advising parental guidance. I remember the commercial for the up-coming episode where they said THE MOST SHOCKING LITTLE HOUSE EVER! It sure was considering the show was a family show. It wouldn't be shocking now. But yes, Albert had leukemia. They never showed him actually dying, the episode ended where I believe Albert was running up a hill or mountain and made it to the top and cried.

[dandelion wine]

Wouldn't be shocking now, but it sure was at the time. Watching Albert going through such pain and torment, acting as a completely different person I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I just wanted him to be ok again.

[kjsa]

Ok, you guys have two episodes mixed together, Albert and Charles visit Laura in a "New Beginning" where he is addited to the white stuff and yes he steals from Doc. Baker. Charles helps him overcome his addition by making him quite cold turkey and he goes through major withdrawls. It is a very powerful episode. But at the end of the show Albert never does drugs again and they go back home. It is later in the year when the two make another appearence on the show where Albert is having a lot of nosebleeds and is tired all the time. Charles and Isaiah take him to the doc. in Mankato and it is determined that he has a blood diease. At this point Albert had cleaned up his life and is working on becoming a doctor. Charles ask the doctor if there is maybe some mistake and that he was addited to drugs a while back and maybe this is a result of that, grasping at straws. They go back to Laura's where he wants to be, at the end of the episode he and Laura and her class are making their way up the big hill, something that is done every year by the class, Albert although tired and falls, gets nosebleeds makes it to the top. It never said if he died or what. In another episode where Laura is doing the voice over part, she says that Albert had become the town doctor of Walnut Grove. There were a few things out of wack of course. In real life for Laura, there was no Albert and Mary didn't go blind, Willie did and Nellie was actually a combination of three girls Laura knew as a child. So you have to draw your own conclusions, did Albert die young or become the doctor after Doc. Baker left.???

[dave insinga]

its bugging me because i remember the episode and i would like to see it again.

[gidgetgrape]

Albert being sick always makes me cry! It's almost too much to watch. Especially the part when Charles talks to Laura about it.

Albert discovered he was dying in the Little House TV Movie, "Look Back to Yesterday." It was the first of the three TV movies that wrapped up the series. The other two TV movies are "The Last Farewell" (the one where the town is blown up) and "Bless All the Dear Children" (the one where Laura's daughter is kidnapped). Albert isn't in either of those movies so I guess we can assume he did die even though he didn't die in "Look Back In Yesterday". I read on tvshowsondvd.com that all the movies will be released in the future. I taped them earlier this year when The Hallmark Channel had a Little House Movie Marathon.

About Look Back To Yesterday:
When Charles found out about Albert's leukemia he told the doctor about Albert's drug use, but the doctor assured him that the drugs didn't have anything to do with it. When Albert found out he was dying he wanted to stay in Walnut Grove (he and Charles were visiting as an earlier post stated) and do the things he did when he was a kid. Charles wanted him to go back and be with Caroline and his sisters. Laura gets upset when he starts to date a former classmate and helps with the latest town project. She wanted him to stay home and rest. Eventually, she decided to support him in whatever he wanted to do. Laura and Albert are last seen holding hands at the top of a mountain they climbed. It was a tradition for each class to climb the mountain and leave behind something for a future generation. Albert decided he wanted to climb the mountain one more time.

[Ireneparalegal]

Originally Posted by kjsa

Ok, you guys have two episodes mixed together, Albert and Charles visit Laura in a "New Beginning" where he is addited to the white stuff and yes he steals from Doc. Baker. Charles helps him overcome his addition by making him quite cold turkey and he goes through major withdrawls. It is a very powerful episode. But at the end of the show Albert never does drugs again and they go back home. It is later in the year when the two make another appearence on the show where Albert is having a lot of nosebleeds and is tired all the time. Charles and Isaiah take him to the doc. in Mankato and it is determined that he has a blood diease. At this point Albert had cleaned up his life and is working on becoming a doctor. Charles ask the doctor if there is maybe some mistake and that he was addited to drugs a while back and maybe this is a result of that, grasping at straws. They go back to Laura's where he wants to be, at the end of the episode he and Laura and her class are making their way up the big hill, something that is done every year by the class, Albert although tired and falls, gets nosebleeds makes it to the top. It never said if he died or what. In another episode where Laura is doing the voice over part, she says that Albert had become the town doctor of Walnut Grove. There were a few things out of wack of course. In real life for Laura, there was no Albert and Mary didn't go blind, Willie did and Nellie was actually a combination of three girls Laura knew as a child. So you have to draw your own conclusions, did Albert die young or become the doctor after Doc. Baker left.???

We don't have two episodes mixed up. The poster was asking abt Albert having a drug addiction, in addition to the episode where Albert was dying. We were posting our info on BOTH EPISODES.

[gidgetgrape]

Here are some (bad) screencaps from "Look Back." The first one is of Albert putting his offering into the treasure box.

[Sterling Holobyte]

Since Albert didn't exist in real life, therefore he couldn't have died.
There!!

[dave insinga]

i knew it was something like that .i m hoping for all those end movies on dvd.

[Cashodeen]

Originally Posted by kjsa

Ok, you guys have two episodes mixed together, Albert and Charles visit Laura in a "New Beginning" where he is addited to the white stuff and yes he steals from Doc. Baker. Charles helps him overcome his addition by making him quite cold turkey and he goes through major withdrawls. It is a very powerful episode. But at the end of the show Albert never does drugs again and they go back home. It is later in the year when the two make another appearence on the show where Albert is having a lot of nosebleeds and is tired all the time. Charles and Isaiah take him to the doc. in Mankato and it is determined that he has a blood diease. At this point Albert had cleaned up his life and is working on becoming a doctor. Charles ask the doctor if there is maybe some mistake and that he was addited to drugs a while back and maybe this is a result of that, grasping at straws. They go back to Laura's where he wants to be, at the end of the episode he and Laura and her class are making their way up the big hill, something that is done every year by the class, Albert although tired and falls, gets nosebleeds makes it to the top. It never said if he died or what. In another episode where Laura is doing the voice over part, she says that Albert had become the town doctor of Walnut Grove. There were a few things out of wack of course. In real life for Laura, there was no Albert and Mary didn't go blind, Willie did and Nellie was actually a combination of three girls Laura knew as a child. So you have to draw your own conclusions, did Albert die young or become the doctor after Doc. Baker left.???

Mary Ingalls did go blind in real life. It just did not happen the same way it happened on the show.