The Clown Rape Episode ("Sylvia") of Little House on the Prarie is on Hallmark Channel at 2 AM on Monday

How did she find out she was pregnant?

I'm I right when I remember Carolyn was molested in an episode too, when collecting eggs?

LHOP was before my time, though I've seen some episodes in syndication but never this one . I had seen this referenced here and thought it was a ongoing inside joke . Is there any context as to why a predatory clown was stalking the prairie?

Little Albert turned wild after that. Hanging with the wrong kids, drinking, smoking. Buggery will change a boy.

I haven't seen it since I was a kid but I think the whole thing was just to cash in on the horror film craze at the time and there wasn't much explanation as to why a rape-y clown was in Walnut Grove.

Such a crush I had on these two as a little gayling!

They were both very cute, R5. I crushed hard as well.

r5 ‘s photo is from the golden age of seventies Hollywood meat market teen boy photography.

Who did the clown rape?

And how did the town handle it?

Did they call Dr. Phil?

Jesus, me too R2. I thought it was satirical because LHOP was so tame. What the everloving fuck?

What R4 wrote. Michael Landon loved slasher movies and this was his attempt at one.

Dang, my listings show I Love Lucy.

When these people bathed in their shed on the prairie, what was to stop someone walking in and seeing them in the altogether? They had a tin tub in the kitchen?

The clown was a local who wore a clown mask when he grabbed and raped (off-screen) Sylvia, a teenaged girl whose body developed earlier than her peers. She collapsed one day, which was when her pregnancy was discovered by the doctor. Albert was accused of doing the deed but was ultimately cleared once the rapist was revealed.

I didn't remember how dark this story was.

Link to plot description, part 1

Link to plot description, part 2