- Season Seven Believing the Depression will soon end, John and Zebulon have plans to expand the lumber business into "Walton and Sons," depending on Jason to be a major partner. However, after discovering she has a heart condition, she breaks the engagement, not wanting to keep him from his dream of traveling. But he changes his mind and agrees to stay in the sawmill after the family receives the unwelcome news that Olivia's tuberculosis has recurred; she has to go to an Arizona sanatorium, and John decides to go with her. Jason bites off more than he can chew when he buys the Dew Drop Inn and tries to repair it for reopening. Additional Cast: Guest star: Merle Haggard (Red Turner), Pat Quinn (Wilma Turner) with: Cissy Wellman (Cissy Walker), Jay Robinson (Professor Thaxton), Dorothy Shay (Thelma), Joe Conley (Ike Godsey), Robert Donner (Yancy Tucker) Music from this episode: TV Guide Ad Meanwhile, Grandpa doesn't seem to want to go to the SpanishAmerican War veterans' reunion, even though he talks so much about his charge up, In a two-hour episode, a fire severely damages the second floor and kitchen of the Walton house. - Season One That was her first Waltons episode. Drama, Family. Richard Thomas, who played eldest child John-Boy and was the show's focal point along with the actors who played his parents, Michael Learned and Ralph Waite, was treated better by the studio,. ------------------ Meanwhile, Ann, the wife of town blacksmith Curtis Norton (, The Waltons bring Luke, a boy whose mother he loved very much has died, into their home while his father tries to find work out of town. As Carrie walked home, the kids who played the prank with the pigs blood try to run over her with their car. When Sarah's Mother and Ted's father arrives at the Walton's home looking for their children Olivia gives them both a piece of her mind for their poor parenting. The Waltons(1972-1981) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Series Directed by Series Writing Credits Series Cast complete, awaiting verification Series Produced by All the children win an award except for Jason and Ben who sulk. Genre: Jason meets a beautiful young, Grandma returns home and meets the new housekeeper, Rose. ------------------ On the way home Sarah shares strong feelings for John-Boy. Remember Carrie, the high school girl with telekinetic powers? She became involved with a college boy. She works as a switchboard operator, briefly as a waitress in a roadhouse, and buys John-Boy a typewriter. 1972 -2020. Two British children escape the London Blitz to find safety in Walton's Mountain with the Baldwins and the Waltons for Christmas. John and Ben lock horns over their old run-down truck, Cindy tries to convince Ben to adopt a child, Corabeth refuses to have anything to do with Aimee after she marries a mechanic, and Toni is tired of Jason going away on concert tours. Picture of The Waltons - Latest The Waltons Photo. Elizabeth tries different ways to get a certain boy to ask her to an upcoming dance but ends up going with someone else (. But he seems to be hiding some personal secret. ------------------ She storms off when they get back to her house. Spencer's Mountain He also convinces Red Turner to pick up the guitar and perform again after the death of his son Seth. After 19 years of marriage, John takes Olivia to, Olivia is pregnant for the eighth time and fears bringing another child into the world during the Depression. director of photography Film Editing by Casting By Pam Polifroni Art Direction by Ed Graves Set Decoration by James Cane Makeup Department Production Management Nightmares get the better of Elizabeth, who dreams she is trapped at the top of a carnival Ferris wheel. ------------------ John-Boy finally persuades Mary Ellen to go along. Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] I will never forget the first time I took a girl to a motion picture show. Meanwhile, Olivia teaches school for Mrs. Fordwick. It's a decision that the now 81-year-old still regrets. Tensions run high between Grandpa and John as they take on too big a furniture contract to fill without Ben's help. The Waltons find an English girl (, Mary Ellen is taken to the hospital with only false. Jason begins his stint at the Dew Drop Inn which includes drinking the beer that lands him in bed with a hangover. TODAY's . When the motor from the old power saw blows out, it becomes the "last straw" for John, and he quits the lumber business. Ben takes the pony cart to her to visit her husband's grave; she has a heart attack. Rose's grandchildren adopt a cat which has a litter of kittens. DETAILS, DETAILS: Which of the actors who played the adult Waltons played the same roles in the series forerunner--the TV movie The Homecoming? Meanwhile, Elizabeth spends her time with her new horse Molly; Corabeth resigns from the general store when Ike accuses her of being too much of a businesswoman and not enough of a wife. Shes having a tough time, but you can relax; she will not have a demonic child. On further investigation, he learns a secret: that he had a twin brother who had died at birth. Having just been discharged from the military, Jim-Bob and Jodie carouse and cause much trouble with their new 'hot rod' car until the sheriff straightens them out. John visits from Arizona to help Ben and Paul save the family lumber business. John-Boy, as a newspaper editor, gets tangled up in the coming sheriff's election, in which a handsome, polished stranger (, Chad Marshall returns to Walton's Mountain and proposes to Erin. John-Boy and Janet are about to have their first child, and the entire family and community are looking forward to Easter. Spencer's Mountain This was in 1973. The ladies conspire to find a match for Reverend Buchanan; he shocks them by dating Marsha Woolery. Jason's strict music professor (, John becomes the local draft-board director while Erin tries to get a raise from J.D. He is best known for his leading role as budding author John-Boy Walton in the CBS drama series The Waltons for which he won an Emmy Award. Ben plans on going into the fur business when a fox starts nosing around the farm. Despite the money, John realizes the job is not for him and quits. Meanwhile, Jason and Toni consider marriage, but embarrassment over religious differences threatens their plans. Approaching Thanksgiving Day 1947, Elizabeth feels sad about those who cannot be there, including her boyfriend Drew, her parents, and John-Boy. After she cannot sell the farm, the two break up, and John-Boy finds Marsha a better job. Played by: Robert Donner (The Sinner) s1/e7. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! Grandma begins a petition to save the old Whitley house, while the county has contracted grandpa to tear the house down before any children are hurt playing in it. Aperu: John-Boy heads for a mountain retreat and finds an old school mate who is expecting.The baby arrives with John-Boy's help. However, they were gay in real life and were involved in homosexual relationships. She was forced to deal with a miserable family life. Actor Will Geer and actress Ellen Corby have co-starred as an inseparable on-screen pair on the American beloved drama series, "The Waltons." The show never even considered recasting the elderly couple when each had health issues. As the family prepare a surprise party for Grandma's birthday, they reminisce (via flashbacks) about various events in their lives. Sarah feels that Ted is her way out from her back water life. The Wild, Wild West (Sunday at 3 p.m. on KDOC Channel 56) is in black and white as it starts a fresh run. Henry Fonda was in "Spencer's Mountain" in 1963, which served as inspiration for " The Waltons." Fonda was potentially going to play the father of the Waltons, and CBS executives thought that he could be a great fit. John comes home wobbly legged from the tavern. John-Boy waits for Jason who is late to leave for school at the Kleinberg Conservatory of Music. The Waltons: Will Geer 1978 at age 76 of respiratory arrest in LA. This is our first look at the Dew Drop Inn which will become a regular location on the show. You might even have pleasant dreams. Mary Ellen and Erin try to prove they can do anything as well as men, so they enter the 1st Annual Run and Ride Race in Rockfish and eagerly exercise (with Elizabeth coaching) to train for the race. "It was such an honor to get to work with her early on in her career," Norton said of Spacek. Everythings in place at Ellyn and Billys wedding on Thirtysomething (Monday at 11 a.m. on Lifetime)--except the bride and groom. Elizabeth becomes pen pals with a soldier. He goes there by bus to discover his manuscript lying in a stack waiting to be read. Played by: Robert Donner ( The Sinner) s1/e7 Friend of John Sells the Waltons some Rhode Island Red chickens for ten cents apiece s1/e7 Accidently sets the Walton barn on fire after drunkenly falling from a ladder with a lighted lantern s1/e7 Is nearly driven off the road by Ham Denby, Cora's husband s1/e12 ", Jim-Bob falls for the Baldwins' pretty visiting Catholic cousin (. John and Olivia try to teach the idealistic Mr. Hanover (, On a whim, John-Boy decides to enter a seven-day, John-Boy stretches himself academically by taking an advanced writing class but soon gets the feeling he's gotten himself in too deep. Meanwhile, Ben is concerned that he is not growing in height. - Season Seven He continually quotes Bible verses until realizing that ordination, unfortunately, requires years of training. Ted's father arrives in time to put an end to his immature actions. But after his manuscript is rejected, he feels sorry for himself and returns home feeling like a failure. They visit him in the hospital, finding him bandaged, unconscious, and, incidentally, with a completely different face. ------------------ Meanwhile, Erin and a fellow school employee are trying to get over their unfaithful spouses. Grandpa Walton takes it as a sign of his impending death; Ben takes it as a sign he will win the fourth-grade spelling bee. John-Boy refuses to take friendship with a neighbor's sheltered daughter to the next level. She grieves continually until finding some relief helping with a litter of kittens. Ike and Corabeth come to blows after finding old love letters and suspect Ike is seeing another woman. He becomes giddy and infatuated, impulsively packs his bags, and almost accompanies her back on the train to New York, finally coming to his senses only as she boards the train. The Waltons, a group of wholesome characters whose actors, in fact, faced many hurdles / Everett Collection. Meanwhile, Erin helps the Baldwin sisters write a book from their father's journals, and they are astonished to find that their father had hidden a long-ago letter from Ashley Longworth to Miss Emily. She attends the Easter sunrise service on the mountain with her family, celebrating the apparent miracle. He helped her enroll at the Actors Studio. ", This is Sissy Spacek's second appearance in the series. Erin gets a "Dear Joan" letter from Ashley Longworth Jr. Verdi's husband Harley (Hal Williams) is accused of escaping prison for a murder (which was in self-defense) 9 years ago and is reluctantly arrested by Sheriff Bridges. So when you see her in 1973's "The Townie" episode from the first season of "The Waltons" (Wednesday at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on TNN), it's natural to be a little leery. On payday, he is robbed of his pay by two men while leaving a tavern. Most everyone at the dance dies. Grandpa is thrilled but thinks there is something wrong with his "old woman." Fonda played family head Clay Spencer in the 1963 film Spencer's Mountain, which was the basis for The Waltons. But Miss Hunter (, Grandpa wins first prize in the church raffle: a statue of a young woman, donated by the Baldwin sisters. Despite hostility from others in the community, the Waltons allow them to camp on their property while Grandma tends--successfully--their sick baby. Frustrated with the burden of her domestic obligations, Olivia buys a used, Needing some alone time, John-Boy hikes up the mountain to a deserted cabin, and there finds his friend Sarah Jane Simmons (, The Waltons' electric power is shut off when they are unable to pay the bill. It made for a toxic mix for a girl with developing mental powers. When John-Boy checks in to apply at the University of Virginia, he seeks out a doctor who specializes in the treatment of polio, and he tells John-Boy of an unorthodox, experimental treatment. Jim-Bob becomes friends with a boy who says he's joining the Air Corps, but he seems to be hiding something. The Waltons is based on the rural upbringing of creator Earl Hamner Jr. who detailed his childhood memories in the 1961 novel Spencer's Mountain, which was made into a feature film two years later starring Oscar winners Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara. John-Boy takes Sarah Jane Simmonds, an overly protected school friend to her first picture show. John-Boy can't get any peace to write a story for a new magazine that is looking for submissions. John wrestles with feelings of failure as his high school reunion nears. Cindy dreams she sees a vision of Ben, then learns that the Japanese capture him and some of his fellow seamen. A runaway girl gets the attention of most of the Walton family who collects money for her bus travel home, the exception being Grandpa, who knows a con artist when he sees one. ------------------ This episode is "The Obsession," where Mary Ellen becomes dependent on drugs, and Cissy leaves Yancy Tucker. That double-crossing, J.R.-shooting Kristin returns to Dallas (Tuesday at 8 a.m., 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. on TNN). Watchlist. Erin has finally graduated high school; now, she must decide where her future lies. He got the estate instead, Sara Gilbert dissects The Conners: If theres no conflict, its not funny, The North remembers: In Northern Ireland, Game of Thrones leaves a lasting legacy, NBCs Chicago series have strong showings but CBS wins weekly TV ratings race, Whats on Khlo Kardashians face? And The Waltons helped launch her career.. Judy Norton, who played big sister Mary Ellen Walton, brought up Spacek, Monday, in her weekly web series that takes a look at the behind-the-scenes world of The Waltons. Grandpa and Jim Bob try to trap a hawk who's been terrorizing the Waltons' chickens; while a new preacher (Peter Fox) comes to town, stirring up a big 'to do' among the ladies. Verdie Foster's business-educated daughter, Esther (, Just as Mary Ellen prepares to join Curt in. The children are all requesting his time. The Waltons are excited to learn that John will own the mill after two more payments and be completely clear of debt. Mary Ellen and Erin both fall in love with a forestry student staying and working at their house, who finally kisses Erin before deciding she is too young and he had better move on, breaking her heart. They flee at night to awaken a. John gets a city job in Charlottesville, working in a stuffy, state government office for a tyrannical, controlling boss who is feared by his staff. 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