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Cantankerous old Paul Fix lives on a mine claim that's unfortunately for him on the Ponderosa. So Michael Landon and Mitch Vogel tell him. But then Fix accidentally gets hurt and it's a lot of injuries.

Young Jewel Blanch his granddaughter lives with him and she gets like so many before her to stay at the Ponderosa. But there's an uncle and aunt in the picture, William Bramley and Madeleine Sherwood. These two are almost caricatures of every kind of bad uncle or stepmother you read in all kinds of literature.

Especially Sherwood. She made a career out of these kind of roles, very severe emotionally taut women and she does them so well like she does here.

It's the future of the juvenile child the Cartwrights are concerned about. Bramley and Sherwood want to get their hands on that mine.

In the end Michael Landon makes them an offer they cant refuse.

Paul Fix and his granddaughter played byJewel Blanch are working a mine on the Cartwrights' property. An accident and an injury to Fix cause Blanch end up with a greedy couple played by William Bramley and Madeleine Sherwood. Sherwood was memorable playing a Secretary in the Columbo movie Dawn's Early Light. This is a terrific episode for Jamie. Michael Landon does enough problem solving and mentoring to make this look like a Little House on the Prairie episode. Not that any resemblance to another series is a problem. Lorne Greene and Dan Blocker have good moments, too. Any episode celebrating family is well worth watching.