Michael Landon was notorious for recycling storylines for "Little House on the Prairie" and "Highway to Heaven." This two part episode begins with "Touch of Blue" showing the blind girl - under the same tree no less - in distress and a stranger comes to assist her but bec. of her blindness an important fact about him she doesn't know. Add in some "Beauty and the Beast, and you have the storyline. There is an LDS genre film called "Rigoletto" that granted Landon wouldn't have seen where the townspeople comes after the monster for sins supposed just bec. of his disfigurement. Evidently, that is a well used storyline. There is also an LDS genre film called "Blind Love" (ya gotta love actress Barta Heiner) from the '70's where the girl who thinks she is unattractive dates and married a blind man. When he has an opportunity to receive his sight she is distressed. Landon would likely not seen that film either, but it too I am sure is a storyline used more than once.
In spite of Landon's unoriginality though, you can't but love him however for giving us family fare and fare that teaches moral and social lessons.
In spite of Landon's unoriginality though, you can't but love him however for giving us family fare and fare that teaches moral and social lessons.
