Television Series of the 1970s by Vincent Terrace

Author:Vincent Terrace [Terrace, Vincent]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2017-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

THE OLESON FAMILY

Parents: Nels and Harriet.

Children: Nellie and Willie.

Character Information: Nels and Harriet are owners of the town’s general store, Oleson’s Mercantile (the store’s icehouse served as the jail). Harriet is also a reporter for the town newspaper, The Pen and the Plow (she writes the “Harriet’s Happenings” column), and was the first to bring the telephone to the town through a franchise she purchased.

Nellie and Willie attend the Plum Creek School. Nellie, while very pretty, is rather nasty (Harriet calls her “mean, spoiled, and conniving”), while Willie is very mischievous. Nellie relishes the fact that her family is wealthy and continually brags about having the best of everything (much to Harriet’s delight but Nels’s chagrin).

Harriet tried to reform Nellie by giving her the responsibility of running the restaurant section of the store (called Nellie’s Restaurant; it later became Nellie’s Restaurant and Hotel, run by Harriet, when Nellie fell in love with [and married] Percival Cohen [Steve Tracy], a Jewish accountant. This especially upset Harriet, as she is Protestant). Nellie and Percival became the parents of twins (Jenny and Benny) and moved to New York to help Percival’s mother (“Mama Kelly”) run the family business (hotel and store) after the death of his father (“Papa Kelly”). It is at this time that Caroline Ingalls becomes the owner and changes the name to Caroline’s Restaurant and Hotel (with help from Hester Sue, the former teaching assistant to Adam and Mary).

Without Nellie, Harriet fell into a state of depression until she and Nels adopted a girl (from the county orphanage) named Nancy, a pretty Nellie look-alike who was twice as obnoxious, selfish, and mean. Willie also settled down and married Rachel Brown (Sherri Stoner). Ann Hall appeared as Harriet’s cousin Miriam.

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