Episode
Little People, Big World: Friend of the Family
Overview
Family friend Mike Detjen is as involved with the Roloff family as ever: building a new trebuchet, coaching the twins' soccer team. When a heart condition suddenly takes Mike's life, the family must face coping with the loss of their friend.
Details
- Series
- Little People, Big World
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 20
- Air date
- 2008-12-22
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Friend of the Family is Episode 20 in Season 4 of Little People, Big World. It aired on 2008-12-22. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 19: A Roloff Winterland Part 2
Matt and Amy's families gather for their holiday celebration. Coordinating a meal for 25 guests is a lot to manage. The family get-together includes Matt's brother Sam (a little person), Amy's parents Gordon and Pat, and a guest appearance by Santa.
Episode 21: Death in the Family
In the aftermath of losing their dear friend Mike Detjen, the Roloff family recalls his special place in their lives. They prepare for his funeral and turn an already planned housewarming party into an emotional get-together to honor his memory.
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Episode 18: A Roloff Winterland Part 1
It's been over 2 years since both Matt and Amy's families got together, so they invite the Knights and the Roloffs to the farm for an early holiday celebration. Amy attempts to deck the halls and transform their home into a "Roloff Winterland".
Episode 22: Back to Iraq: Part 1
Matt and an orthopedic surgeon return to the Middle East to perform leg straightening operations on Ali and Bara'a, two of the dwarf children Matt met on his first trip to Iraq.
Episode 17: Big Sister, Little Brother
Amy joins her siblings in Taos, New Mexico to celebrate her sister's birthday. They ride horses, raft whitewater rapids and experience a Native American sweat lodge, but the fun grinds to a halt when the chaos at the farm finds its way back to Amy.
Episode 23: Back to Iraq: Part 2
Episode 16: Twins at Eighteen
Zach and Jeremy have reached adulthood-sort of. They're 18, but they don't seem ready to leave the nest. Amy prepares a pool party for the twins, but when Matt drags his feet on getting the pool in working order, the whole party is put in jeopardy.
Episode 24: The Graduate
Matt and Amy's great expectations are realized when Molly is named valedictorian of her 8th grade class. But Amy has her hands full when Molly refuses to give a speech and picks a graduation dress that violates the school dress code.
Episode 15: Surprising Amy
Amy visits an little people friend in Napa, California, where she speaks at a local church group for Mother's Day. Back home, Matt tries to organize a big surprise for her: a gazebo built on her favorite spot on the farm
Episode 25: Michigan Knights
Amy takes the kids to visit her family, the Knights, in Michigan. Amy's father, Gordon, takes his grandkids hiking in the woods but the idyllic scene turns to chaos when Jacob gets a tick, and no one seems to know how to get rid of it.
Episode 14: The Bug Is Back
Now that their old, yellow Volkswagen Beetle has been overhauled at a body shop. Matt takes Zach and Jeremy on a road trip to trailer it home. For Matt and his oldest sons, it's a journey of male bonding, discovery and discomfort.
Episode 26: Somewhere in Time
Amy and the kids continue their visit with her parents in Michigan. There, she takes the kids to see the house she grew up in. It's an emotional moment for Amy as she tearfully recalls her decision to leave Michigan to start a new life in Oregon.