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* Granville Whipple, the title character from "Soldier's Return", comes home to stay with his mother, only to reveal he's addicted to morphine, a situation many Civil War veterans faced in real-life. To make things worse, he's haunted by a Dark Secret: He ran away from the battle and that's why he was the SoleSurvivor from his batallion. When he meets the family of his friend, whom he abandoned in battle, it makes his addiction worse, and in the end, he tells his his mother he's going to confess and get rid of his guilt, only to steal more morphine from Dr. Baker's office and overdose, leaving Mrs. Whipple hearbroken with the loss of her only son.
* Everything in Season 7's "Sylvia": The title character is assaulted by a stranger in a disguise, and forbidden to tell anyone by her controlling father, who already mistreated because of her receiving unwanted attention from the boys, and being bordeline blamed by her situation. She finds comfort in her secret relationship with Albert, until she finds she's pregnant from her attack, which everyone believes is from her boyfriend, icnluding her own father. Then, when she tries to elope with Albert, her attacker reappears, and tries to rape her a second time, culminating in a fall from a ladder as she tries to escape him which leads to her death. An episode that lives up to the most tragic examples of CartwrightCurse in its predecessor series ''Series/{{Bonanza}}''.
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** While Mrs. Oleson's grief is the focus of the episode, Nels' subdued reaction to finding that Nellie won't come back from New York is quite heartbreaking. He understands the situation, but it's clear that having his daughter move far away from his reach and incapable of visiting for a while breaks his heart.
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** While Mrs. Oleson's grief is the focus of the episode, Nels' subdued reaction to finding that Nellie won't come back from New York is quite heartbreaking. He understands the situation, but it's clear that having his daughter move far away from his reach and incapable of visiting for a while anytime soon breaks his heart.
