Story of Pollyanna, Girl of Love

A Dangerous Operation (1x25)

Air date: Jun 22, 1986

Once Pollyanna is bootstrapped back into reality, things quickly pick up when Dr. Chilton gets right down to business to gather the data to add a real-world perspective on the medical research he has conducted in spite of Pollyanna jumping the gun a bit on Polly and Thomas patching things up; while the damage to Pollyanna's power-train is not exactly irreparable, it does require a trip to Boston to perform the necessary hardware repairs during a major surgical operation that is somewhat of a dice roll. There is quite a lot more that has to take place before the Chilton-Harrington cold war becomes a thing of the past; still, Polly has little room to complain about Pollyanna expounding excitedly about the trip to Boston in spite of it not being a family vacation. A sentimental scene of Pollyanna being seen off at the train station by the entire town of Beldingsville gives way to Pollyanna inquiring Dr. Chilton his contrasting professional perspective on the chances of successfully repairing her damaged power-train versus that of Dr. Mead and Dr. Warren; upon arriving in Boston, Polly and Thomas are rather unnerved at their mutual proximity catalyzed by Pollyanna signaling an interest in exploring the city on foot under her own power. It is not long before Pollyanna ultimately finds that her optimistic expectations are not reflective of reality as evidenced of a little girl named Mary who is frightened of the disadvantages of her upcoming surgery; charged the delivery of the bad news from Dr. Ames of a dismal 20% successful recovery probability based on the gathered medical data; the epilogue of whether Pollyanna ever gets her power-train successfully repaired depends on how dexterously Dr. Chilton delivers Pollyanna the bad news and prosecutes the complex repair job of resolving his collaborative prologue with Polly!!!