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The year is suggested by a reference to the opening of the Century of Progress exposition in Chicago, a brief shot of an automobile registration, and it is divulged in episode 18 that the date is in the spring of The year takes two seasons to cover, while some successive years are covered over the course of a few months.
The series finale, "The Revel", revolves around a party and the invitation date is given as June 4, A span of 13 years is therefore covered in nine seasons.
There are some chronological inconsistencies, which do not hinder the storyline. Kennedy 's assassination; A Walton Wedding , made in , is set in ; A Walton Easter , filmed in , is set in The series began relating stories that occurred 39 years in the past and ended with its last reunion show set 28 years in the past.
The story is about the family of John Walton Jr. John-Boy is the oldest of the children 17 years old in the beginning , [5] who becomes a journalist and novelist.
Each episode is narrated at the opening and closing by a middle-aged John Jr. John Sr. The family income is augmented by some small-scale farming, and John occasionally hunts to put meat on the table.
In the simpler days of their country youth, all of the children are rambunctious and curious, but as times grow tough, the children slowly depart from the innocent, carefree days of walking everywhere barefoot while clad in overalls and hand-sewn pinafores , and into the harsh, demanding world of adulthood and responsibility.
The family shares hospitality with relatives and strangers as they are able. The small community named after their property is also home to folk of various income levels, ranging from the well-to-do Baldwin sisters, two elderly spinsters who distill moonshine that they call "Papa's recipe"; Ike Godsey, postmaster and owner of the general store with his somewhat snobbish wife Corabeth a Walton cousin; she calls her husband "Mr.
Godsey" ; an African-American couple, Verdie and Harley Foster; Maude Gormley, a sassy octogenarian artist who paints on wood; Flossie Brimmer, a friendly though somewhat gossipy widow who runs a nearby boarding house; and Yancy Tucker, a good-hearted handyman with big plans but little motivation.
The entire family except for John attends a Baptist church, of which Olivia and Grandma Esther are the most regular attendees. In the signature scene that closes almost every episode, the family house is enveloped in darkness, save for one, two or three lights in the upstairs bedroom windows.
Through voice-overs , two or more characters make some brief comments related to that episode's events, and then bid each other goodnight, after which the lights go out.
After completing high school, John-Boy attends fictional Boatwright University in the fictional nearby town of Westham.
He later goes to New York City to work as a journalist. During the latter half of the —77 season, Grandma Esther Walton suffers a stroke and returns home shortly before the death of her husband, Grandpa Zeb Walton reflecting Ellen Corby's real-life stroke and the death of Will Geer, the actors who portrayed the characters.
During the series' last few years, Mary Ellen and Ben start their own families; Erin, Jason and John-Boy are married in later television movie sequels.
Younger children Jim-Bob and Elizabeth struggle to find and cement true love. World War II deeply affects the family.
All four Walton boys enlist in the military. Mary Ellen's physician husband, Curtis "Curt" Willard, is sent to Pearl Harbor and is reported to have perished in the Japanese attack on December 7, Years later, Mary Ellen hears of sightings of her "late" husband, investigates and finds him alive played by another actor , but brooding over his war wounds and living under an assumed name.
She divorces him and later remarries. John-Boy's military plane is shot down, while Olivia becomes a volunteer at the VA hospital and is seen less and less; she eventually develops tuberculosis and enters an Arizona sanitarium.
Olivia's cousin, Rose Burton, moves into the Walton house to look after the family. Two years later, John Sr. Grandma appears in only a handful of episodes during the eighth season she was usually said to be visiting relatives in nearby Buckingham County.
Six feature-length movies were made after the series' run; set from to , they aired between and The following is a brief summary of the main characters.
See List of The Waltons characters for a more complete list. Earl Hamner's rural childhood growing up in the unincorporated community of Schuyler, Virginia , provided the basis for the setting and many of the storylines of The Waltons.
His family and the community provided many life experiences which aided in the characters, values, area, and human-interest stories of his books, movies, and television series.
Hamner provided the voice-over of the older John-Boy, usually heard at the beginning and end of each episode. The Homecoming: A Christmas Story was not made as a pilot for a series, but it was so popular that it led to CBS initially commissioning one season of episodes based on the same characters, and the result was The Waltons.
Goldsmith also scored several episodes of the first season, but the producers believed his TV movie theme was too gentle and requested he write a new theme for the series.
The town of Walton's Mountain was built in the rear area of the main lot at Warner Bros. Studios, bordering the Los Angeles River , but the mountain itself was part of the Hollywood Hills range opposite Warner studios in Burbank, California the reverse side of which, and slightly to the east, is Mount Lee and the Hollywood Sign.
After the series concluded, the set was destroyed. The Waltons' house is still used as scenery at Warner Brothers. For example, it served as the Dragonfly Inn on Gilmore Girls.
Some sources indicate CBS put the show on its fall schedule in response to congressional hearings on the quality of television.
Backlash from a decision to purge most rural-oriented shows from the network lineup may have also been a factor. The network gave The Waltons an undesirable timeslot — Thursdays at 8 p.
They thought, 'We can just tell Congress America doesn't want to see this'," Kami Cotler , who played Elizabeth Walton, said in a interview.
Radically increased ratings were attributed to this ad, saving The Waltons. Ralph Waite was reluctant to audition for the part of John Walton because he didn't want to be tied to a long-running TV series, but his agent persuaded him by saying, "It will never sell.
You do the pilot. You pick up a couple of bucks and then you go back to New York. Ellen Corby was also a three-time winner in the Supporting Actress category, winning in , , and After she is unable to sell the farm, the two of them break up, and John-Boy finds Marsha a better job.
Olivia fills in as a substitute teacher at the school, and buys inexpensive eyeglasses for a neglected, older boy who badly needed them.
Olivia's niece returns to Walton's Mountain after the recent death of her husband. She grieves continually until finding some relief helping with a litter of kittens.
Covington George Dzundza returns [4] to Walton's Mountain with a movie company, filming a movie he has written.
John-Boy offers the director James Karen some suggestions on how to fix this, so the man asks him to rewrite the problem dialogue. The director and the film's stars are so impressed with the result that he fires Covington and offers John-Boy a screenwriting job.
John-Boy is upset that his friend was fired, so he "abdicates" the offer. In a subplot, Mary Ellen is romantically attracted to A.
She cites a drastic change in Wade's behavior since the government forced them off their property, [5] which causes her to suspect Wade is cheating on her.
In fact, he is transporting moonshine for his grandfather Boone, and quits his other job in anger when his boss speaks to him about his declining performance.
After the sheriff arrests Wade, John-Boy persuades Boone to bail him out, and John offers him a new job making use of his woodworking skills, he comes to his senses and patches things up with his wife.
Meanwhile, Ben starts a home business shipping individual pine seedlings, but has to stop after the sheriff tells him the seedlings were all too immature to thrive, and furthermore he has no sales license.
Mary Ellen leaves home for the weekend to take her entrance exam for nursing school. Unfortunately she finds she's not properly prepared.
The county nurse offers to tutor her in the algebra and chemistry she needs to pass the test, in exchange for her help caring for a sick mother and her children.
In the process, Mary Ellen tenderly breaks the news of her mother's death to her little daughter.
Walton's Mountain ain't big enough for two sawmills! A rival sawmill comes to town and Ben begins working for them, not realizing he is undermining his father's business.
Grandpa makes up for this by cleverly devising a sneaky plan to deliver Walton lumber faster than their competitor can.
Olivia, Jim Bob and Elizabeth find themselves stranded in the middle of the woods, with a storm brewing, after having a flat tire, and chasing after a hen.
Searching for help, they encounter a cabin of hostile bootleggers. Jim Bob cannot find his birth record on file, and suspects he may have been adopted.
On further investigation, he learns a secret: that he had a twin who had died at birth. Richard Thomas. Ben plans on going into the fur business when a fox starts nosing around the farm.
Meanwhile, Grandpa doesn't seem to want to go to the Spanish—American War veterans' reunion, even though he talks so much about his charge up San Juan Hill.
In a two-hour episode, a fire severely damages the second floor and kitchen of the Walton house. Having taken up the habit of smoking, John-Boy fears he may have started it by leaving a lit pipe , but the more likely cause is a space heater that Grandpa forgot to turn off.
As John, Grandpa and John-Boy make repairs, the family must parcel out the younger children to friends and neighbors. John-Boy finally is able to restart the manuscript of his novel, which was destroyed in the fire.
Ben moves into Yancy Tucker's cabin, oversleeps, and goes fishing with Yancy rather than to school. Grandma and Grandpa stay at a boarding house whose women enjoy Grandpa's storytelling.
A traumatized Elizabeth doesn't want to return home from the Godseys. 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.
Maude, who gave her goat to the Waltons earlier in the series, doesn't adapt well to her strict confinement in the retirement home, while Olivia gets a job as a seamstress in a high-end fashion store.
Olivia resigns after the store owner Abby Dalton wants her to take on management responsibility and travel extensively.
Lawrence Dobkin. Mary Ellen refuses to follow the country tradition of making a quilt to announce her eligibility to date boys, and Grandma doesn't like her attitude.
John-Boy finally persuades Mary Ellen to go along. Grandma begins a petition to save the old Whitley house, while Grandpa has been contracted by the county to tear the house down before any children are hurt playing in it.
John-Boy, as editor, writes to suggest that people salvage parts out of the house. Jason plays piano in a music recital. John-Boy is offered an amazing printing press for a good price by a retiring newsman.
Despite being a college student, he gets a full-time job to pay for the press and a boarding house room near his college. After a while, however, he begins to realize that he's working too hard.
John-Boy meets with the wealthy Selina again when she comes home from Vassar College. Her enthusiasm for the War in Spain and those reporting on the conflict cause John-Boy to struggle to decide where he belongs: Walton's Mountain or Spain.
As he tries to define courage, Selina's family's financial problems suddenly come to light, causing a change in her own plans. Meanwhile, Elizabeth is jealous of another schoolgirl who has fancier possessions.
The only problem is, the paper embarrasses the family, as it reports that Ben and his friends were caught breaking into a house.
Meanwhile, Corabeth realizes she had only a "false pregnancy" and, believing she is barren and has disappointed Ike, almost deserts him.
Grandma's struck ill. Trying to prove herself as a nurse, Mary Ellen treats her for influenza. But it turns out the problem is different—and life-threatening.
Mary Ellen feels guilty over her misdiagnosis. Jason becomes the new piano man at the Dew Drop Inn, much to chagrin of Olivia and Grandma who disapprove of drinking.
He persuades a former bandleader named Red Merle Haggard , who had been sequestered after the death of his son Seth played by Ron Howard in a previous episode , to return to the stage.
For the subplot, Yancey Tucker loves Cissy but is uneasy at the thought of marriage, so Cissy pretends interest in John-Boy in order to get Yancey to propose.
A famous revival preacher guest star John Karlen is coming to town, and Esther and Olivia hope that John and Ben will be converted and baptized.
John is almost struck by lightning during a storm, which some see as an omen. A peacock wanders onto the home place and is adopted by Jim-Bob who nicknames him "Rover".
John-Boy's attempts at keeping Walton's Mountain residents up to date with current events don't work out so well, especially after his highly controversial attempt to copy excerpts of Mein Kampf in his newspaper.
Erin enters a beauty contest. A mysterious being stalks Walton's Mountain, seeming to spy on people. Jason books his band to play in Ike's new dance hall, but people are afraid to come.
The prowler is finally found to be the mute son of a new neighbor. In a double-length episode, Mary Ellen surprises everyone with the announcement of her engagement to hospital intern David Spencer.
Meanwhile, a new doctor, Curtis Willard Tom Bower arrives to practice in the community, though he and Mary Ellen don't get along well. He dislikes her attempts to reorganize his office, and she feels he talks too bluntly to patients.
But she comes to decide she doesn't really love David, and her love-hate relationship with Curtis ends up in marriage, after Curt returns from testifying in the capital about mine safety conditions.
John-Boy sells most of his meadow to pay off his printing press so he can continue the Blue Ridge Chronicle, deeply upsetting Grandpa. He then is alarmed at learning the land company plans to buy up more small plots so they can do hydraulic gold mining in the community.
After fainting while watching Curt perform an emergency tracheotomy, Mary Ellen is later encouraged when she successfully delivers Mrs. Fordwick's baby.
John Joseph [6]. Jim-Bob, though inexperienced, uses Ike's motorcycle to enter a local bike race, to Olivia's great alarm.
Meanwhile, Ike and Corabeth go to the adoption agency to bring home their promised baby boy but return instead with year-old Aimee Louise.
Corabeth worries when Aimee does not immediately bond with them, but she finally shows affection. Ralph Senensky. The irascible Martha Corrine Walton, in her 90s, makes an unexpected return to Walton's Mountain, and reminisces about her early life as the bride of a Civil War veteran.
As John-Boy takes her to visit her husband's grave, she has a heart attack. Olivia sets about making this Christmas 'the best we ever had', but a variety of emergency circumstances arise to keep each of the Walton children from coming home.
John-Boy, as newspaper editor, gets tangled up in the coming sheriff's election, in which a handsome, polished stranger John Fink runs against the incumbent, down-to-earth Ep Bridges.
When editor John-Boy refuses to endorse the new candidate, his staff threaten to retaliate by undermining the Waltons' lumber business. Meanwhile, Grandpa tries to help 'The Last Mustang' after it is captured and then breaks free again.
Olivia, yearning for change, contemplates cutting her hair. When John protests, she decides on a perm from Corabeth instead, which is disastrous and ridiculed.
Grandma, happy with things just the way they are, threatens to become a Methodist when she is asked by the preacher to share organ duties with one of her fiercest rivals.
Grandpa lands in hot water when he tries to mediate the dispute. Note : This was the last episode Ellen Corby completed before suffering a stroke in November Her first appearance after recovering is the final episode of the sixth season, "Grandma Comes Home" see below.
Chad Marshall returns to Walton's Mountain and proposes to Erin. They flee at night to awaken a Justice of the Peace , but she has a change of mind just before reciting the vows.
The Walton children, minding Ike's store, inadvertently extend credit to Maude Gormley. When John-Boy visits Maude about her store debt, he discovers she paints beautiful bird pictures.
John gets a city job in Charlottesville, working in a stuffy government office for a tyrannical, controlling boss who is feared by his staff.
They sometimes must stay overtime. Despite the money, John realizes the job is not for him and quits.
Erin has finally graduated high school; now she must decide where her future lies. She works as a switchboard operator, as a waitress briefly in a road house, and buys John-Boy a typewriter.
Family members sneak a look at John-Boy's novel about them and the community. John-Boy locates a lady wartime ambulance driver who had been Ep's first love, and brings her to the community's memorial day ceremony.
After witnessing the airship burst into flames, he returns home traumatized and unable to write about the disaster. Meanwhile, Curt and Mary Ellen are frustrated at not having private time alone from the family.
Jason falls deeply in love with Curt's young sister Linda Purl who joins as a singer with their band, and flatters and admires him.
He doesn't realize that she takes relationships rather lightly and she soon dumps him for another band member. Grandpa, after complaining loudly about conditions in the hospital, is banned by the staff from further visits with Grandma there.
He feels down, until he discovers that Aimee Godsey needs a grandfather. The Baldwin sisters' cousin has just come back home after 17 years of living in Germany.
Because she keeps avoiding John-Boy's questions about current events in Germany, John-Boy thinks she's hiding something. Meanwhile, Jason joins the National Guard , against his mother's wishes.
Ben becomes a used car salesman, smooth-talking customers to buy old clunkers, acting cocky and making fun of Jim-Bob's jalopy.
Sheriff Bridges takes his date a nurse he knew in World War I to a movie and to dinner at the Waltons, then they set off to marry, to everyone's delight.
Note : This is Richard Thomas 's farewell episode. He would make two more guest appearances before the role was recast to Robert Wightman.
As John-Boy reminisces about his experiences, flashback clips are shown from previous episodes, including two from the original The Homecoming pilot, in which Learned and Waite are edited in to replace Patricia Neal and Andrew Duggan , who played Olivia and John in the pilot.
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.
A young black boy Todd Bridges is found in the Walton barn. Not knowing where he came from or who his parents are, the Waltons take him in for a while.
He is found to have traveled alone from North Carolina. He tries to help with chores and by catching fish. Although he begs to be adopted by the Walton family, Verdie and Harley decide it more acceptable to adopt him instead.
Walter Alzmann. Ben leaves home to work at a Norfolk defense factory. Tensions run high between Grandpa and John as they take on too big a furniture contract to fill without Ben's help.
Grandpa and Ben visit a Norfolk restaurant with hula dancers. Meanwhile, Jason makes friends with a reclusive woman Linda Marsh , and leads her out of depression back into the world.
A Cherokee Indian man Jerado Decordovier and his grandson come to stay with the Waltons; the man claims a sacred tribal burial ground is beneath the Walton barn, which he tries to burn down at night to "purify" the ground.
Contracted to fix the Baldwin sisters' beach cottage, John will be gone for at least a week, so Olivia decides the whole family needs a vacation there except Ben.
The Waltons find an English girl Vickery Turner squatting in the cottage who seems to be hiding a secret; she and Jason are questioned by a suspicious Coast Guard.
Meanwhile Ben is home doing all the family chores, and frustrated not to have time alone with his girlfriend. When Erin declines G.
Haines's David Doremus marriage proposal, he decides to join the U. The Walton parents reluctantly let Erin go to visit G.
Maude Gormley Merie Earle sells her first painting at Ike's store, and offers more paintings for sale through an art dealer. Mary Ellen is taken to the hospital with only false labor , and the family and neighbors are relieved when she finally delivers a baby, John Curtis, some days later.
She had been scared to death of omens after encountering a very superstitious woman Beth Raines. The woman, who'd recently had a stillborn baby, then kidnaps John Curtis out of jealousy.
Meanwhile, a fire at the Dew Drop Inn leaves Jason jobless. He finds a job playing piano at a Charlottesville burlesque house, whose show Grandpa, Ben, and Jim Bob see.
Jason later settles for a gospel band instead, to his mother's relief. Curt is called into the U. Yancy Tucker hastily marries Sissy Cissy Wellman and then goes to enlist in the service, but is not accepted.
Sissy tries to decorate and adapt to Yancy's rustic home and his animals. Olivia enters her scenic paintings in a local art show, whereupon Grandpa secretly buys them back to keep.
Jim-Bob becomes friends with a boy who says he's joining the Air Corps, but he seems to be hiding something. It turns out that he came to the area to check on his sister, who was adopted by a nearby family.
Maude Gormley takes Elizabeth's goat, hoping that Elizabeth will come visit her. Olivia suddenly becomes emotionally fragile and runs away from her home, going to her Aunt Kate Louise Latham in her birth town for help.
Meanwhile, Jason contemplates whether he can fight in the impending war and Olivia has a faith crisis as she can't understand how God could allow war.
The Waltons are excited to find out that after two more payments, John will own the mill and be completely clear of debt.
However, Ike has a financial emergency when he is unable to sell a large supply of refrigerators, so John agrees to lend Ike the money so his store will not be foreclosed.
The ladies conspire to find a match for Reverend Buchanan; he shocks them by dating Marsha Woolery. When a bilingual Pennsylvania Dutch family moves onto Walton's Mountain, a neighbor circulates a rumor that they are German spies, especially after they show interest in Jim Bob's short-wave radio.
John Sr. The neighbors are finally convinced of the family's innocence after a suspicious package the family receives at Ike's post office turns out to be only medicine.
Ben and Jim Bob begin to act hostile toward each other, culminating in them competing to date each other's girlfriends. The family repaint the house.
Jason and Josh, the runaway boy who was found in the Walton's barn, become a great musical team, but some doors are closed to them because Josh is black.
After they are excluded from the nearby town's festival, the boy's adoptive father, Harley, counsels him bitterly to not trust white people.
However, Jason and Josh organize their own talent show instead. John and Olivia's 25th Anniversary brings many surprises: the children do too well organizing a secret party, Olivia arranges for the installation of their first phone, and John builds her a romantic gazebo.
At work, Mary Ellen reunites with the ex-fiance she jilted to marry Curt, while her absent Army husband is attracted to a lovely nurse.
At the end of the day Curt surprises them all by coming home on a weekend pass, and the party turns into a late-night picnic on Walton's Mountain.
Elizabeth becomes pen pals with a soldier. The only problem: she says she's 18 and sends him a picture of Erin, saying it's her.
Meanwhile, Jason takes Verdie to a farmhouse to find information about her ancestors who had been slaves there, but they are rebuffed by the bitter widow who refuses them access to papers in her attic.
Grandpa Zeb finally convinces the owner to allow them in the attic where they find items of great interest. Due to Jim Bob and Ben's negligence, Elizabeth has a dire accident, tumbling off a stack of loose logs she has climbed on to reach a bird's nest.
The family must help keep Elizabeth's determination high when the doctor is unsure as to whether she will ever walk again. Erin minds the house while Olivia stays with Elizabeth.
After a hospital stay, she is sent home wearing leg braces. John-Boy returns to Walton's Mountain on assignment to write a news story, after he receives a letter from Olivia saying that hard times have hit Jefferson County and jobs are scarce.
John-Boy decides to reopen the Guthrie coal mine to create more jobs; his family will begin by doing carpentry to shore up the mine shaft.
But when many of the local men including John, Jason, Ben, Jim-Bob, Harley and Ike are trapped in a cave-in while exploring the site, John-Boy seems to be the person to blame.
However, a wartime assignment for John-Boy in London and a secret about Daisy's past cut their plans short.
Daisy is revealed to have a young daughter, born out of wedlock and being raised by Daisy's mother in Lynchburg. In the subplot, Elizabeth and her friend George open up a lemonade stand and Grandpa spikes their product with the Baldwin Sisters' "recipe".
Note : This was Ellen Corby's first episode back after suffering a stroke in November during the fifth season. It was also Will Geer's last appearance, as he died before the show started its seventh season.
Jim-Bob falls for the Baldwins' pretty Catholic cousin Stacey Nelkin , who then breaks his heart by joining a convent. A pair of nuns visit the community, shocking bigoted Cora Beth.
Meanwhile, Ben hires a man at the mill, not realizing that, although friendly, he's a drunkard, sloppy and unreliable; John Sr.
Boone Walton, finally caught running his moonshine business, is convicted to a jail sentence. Jason offers to pay the fine and take Boone into his custody, hoping to reform the old man.
Boone helps the Baldwin sisters who have misplaced their father's recipe. Unfortunately Boone can't stay dry and runs off. Mary Ellen becomes dependent on amphetamines to keep her going during the stressful time leading up to her nursing exams.
Meanwhile, Cissy Tucker Cissy Wellman walks out on Yancy, tired of their dirty home and Yancy's animals, and Elizabeth attempts to reunite the couple.
Strange happenings coincide with the coming of Elizabeth's 13th birthday. Meanwhile, Jason becomes the host of a new radio show, giving relationship advice.
Erin wrestles with feelings of love and fear toward an artist Jared Martin who has devastating memories of German-occupied Paris and who attempts to paint her in a mural he has almost completed.
Meanwhile, Jim-Bob and Elizabeth buy a canary for Grandma, but can't get him to sing. Corabeth, going through a midlife crisis, tries numerous failed business endeavors such as a dance studio, all the while seeking refuge in alcohol.
Meanwhile, Jim-Bob tries to teach Elizabeth to drive. Verdie Foster's business-educated daughter, Esther Joan Pringle , comes home from New York and creates turbulent feelings with her revolutionary for the s ideas about a black woman's place in society.
Erin fights to get J. Pickett to hire Esther as personnel manager at his inefficient production plant. One of Grandma's old beaus Arthur Space , a widower from Richmond, comes to visit and begins to really bond with her, taking her on several enjoyable dates.
Meanwhile, Jim-Bob and Yancy distill alcohol strong enough to run their cars on after gas is rationed.
Corabeth adds stylish hats to the store inventory. This episode was first aired on Pearl Harbor Day. Nell Cox. Elizabeth has a big crush on the new minister.
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 letter from Ashley Longworth to Miss Emily.
Wanting to make a profit off of the now heavy traffic near Walton's Mountain, Ben, Ike, and Corabeth decide to build an auto court and landscaped town square.
They mistakenly believe a busy factory is coming. Yancey studies barbering, practicing on his reluctant neighbors.
Trouble breaks out in the community and the family when Jason considers signing up as a conscientious objector. Jim-Bob can't wait to join the Air Corps, however, and gets a tattoo.
Note : This is Michael Learned 's last episode of the season. She returns in the season eight episode "The Home Front".
With Olivia away, Jim-Bob runs wild carousing until a near-death experience convinces him it's a sign from God to join the ministry. He continually quotes Bible verses, until realizing that ordination unfortunately requires years of training.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth bothers the family with her bug collecting. Ben begins dabbling in photography and jokingly takes a revealing picture of Erin which quickly becomes the popular pin-up picture at Camp Lee.
Though Erin enjoys the fan mail, John strongly disapproves. Meanwhile, Mary Ellen becomes overly protective of John Curtis and neglects her nursing career.
With the stress of the price freeze, food rationing, and extra business, Ike suffers a heart attack.
Corabeth blames herself for Ike's attack. The Walton children offer to run the store while he recovers in the hospital.
They sell a mule. Meanwhile, Ben and Jim-Bob enter the molasses business to resolve the sugar shortage at Walton's Mountain. Miss Emily's memories of her old beau Ashley Longworth are stirred up when his handsome son Ashley Jr.
Jonathan Frakes arrives on leave from the Navy, with news of his father. A confused Miss Emily thinks he is her Ashley returning to her, which causes problems for Erin who also falls for him.
Elizabeth has her own problems with just growing up. The entire Walton family is shocked when Ben returns from a trip with a wife, Cindy.
The young couple settle into the shed next to the house and have petty disagreements until the others convince Ben that he is bossing her and should back off.
Ike buys Corabeth a decorative outdoor fountain. John's old high school flame Dorothy Tristan buys and operates the Dew Drop Inn, while Elizabeth, Erin, and Cindy attempt to open a canteen for the soldiers on leave from the camp at Rockfish.
Cora Beth tries to tutor him in classic literature. He gets prescription glasses, but will not wear them. He finally leaves to enlist in the Army, but at the last minute decides to stay home and study aircraft mechanics.
Meanwhile a friend of Curt's Kevin Geer from his hometown, stationed nearby, visits and after some hesitation, Mary Ellen joins him on a date.
Jason's strict music professor Dean Jagger criticizes his new composition, until he hears Jason play it on Founders Day. John becomes the local draft-board director while Erin tries to get a raise from J.
John must deal with a furious father George DiCenzo whose son whom John drafted dies on his troop transport headed for Europe, and also with his own feelings of loss when he receives a telegram stating John-Boy is missing in action.
Cousin Olivia's aunt Rose Peggy Rea and her two mischievous grandchildren, Jeffrey Keith Coogan and Serena Martha Nix Wade , arrive at the Waltons' house; the children repeatedly cause trouble including shoplifting, driving a car into a fence, and starting a brush fire.
Ike and Jim-Bob build an air-raid siren, which Jeffrey sets off accidentally. John discovers that he never received his high-school diploma because he enlisted for World War I before he would have graduated, and the Army refuses to do business with him if he cannot produce it, so he must take an equivalency exam.
Mary Ellen takes over for the county nurse who has joined the army , and must earn the trust of the skeptical backwoods people Lane Bradbury and Les Lannom.
Olivia creates a daycare facility for the children whose mothers are working at J. Pickett's steel plant, instead of Mr.
Pickett's Lewis Arquette proposal to use the space for a tavern. Ike takes dancing lessons from Rose, but Corabeth starts to suspect he is having an affair.
A Hollywood director Henry Darrow shooting a war film at Pickett's plant tells Erin she could have a career in the movies.
She and Mary Ellen decide to move to California after they realize the defense plants there pay more than J. Pickett does. But Mr. Pickett and the family are eventually relieved when the girls realize the movie director was only flattering Erin.
The Baldwin sisters organize a party for soldiers at their home, but are disappointed when no one comes, so Jason takes some drastic action. With John-Boy still missing in action, the manuscript he wrote prior to the assignment is waiting to be published but John and Olivia must sign in John-Boy's absence; they try to locate him through the Red Cross.
The family's hound dog Reckless, whom Jeffrey has become attached to, dies of old age while romping through the woods with Jeffrey. After experiencing combat, Ashley Longworth Jr.
Jonathan Frakes visits on leave and proposes to Erin that they marry immediately, but Erin has difficulty adjusting to his loss of his faith and the changes in his behaviour.
Rose's granddaughter Serena becomes Elizabeth's shadow. In part one of a two-part story, Olivia is shocked when she discovers the reason Darcy Thatcher Antoinette Stella , wife of a young soldier, is no longer responding to his letters.
Corabeth receives a large inheritance, buys a luxury car and talks of retiring. The Waltons receive news about John-Boy.
This is Michael Learned's last appearance in the original series; she will reappear in four of the six reunion movies. Jim-Bob falls for an attractive older woman, the wife of an Air Corps pilot, and helps her do home repairs.
After he gives her perfume, she realizes he has become too smitten and tells him they must just be friends.
Then she learns her husband was killed in action. This story resembles the earlier movie " Summer of '42 ". Jim-Bob takes his first ride in a biplane.
Rose's granddaughter Serena works on scout merit badges, then wanders into the woods at night. 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.
A series of thefts worries the community, while Jeffrey makes friends with a mysterious visitor Ned Bellamy on Walton's Mountain, who is an escaped German prisoner.
Corabeth's holiday pageant is cancelled. Cindy follows a book's advice on how to be a good wife, but ends up exhausting herself. Rose's grandchildren adopt a cat which has a litter of kittens.
Jason realizes the full horrors of war when his Jewish fellow soldier Ted Lupinsky Todd Susman reveals that his grandfather was killed in a Nazi extermination camp.
Jason invites him to stay with the Walton family over the weekend. Meanwhile, Elizabeth must deal with being teased and called a "teacher's pet" by her friends when she earns straight A's on her report card.
Elizabeth makes great friends with the new progressive school teacher, Ms. Lamphere Susan Krebs , but then discovers her friend has a terminal illness.
Meanwhile, as the time nears for Cindy and Ben's baby to arrive, Ben waits it out drinking. Ben cannot be found when Cindy goes into labor, so the Waltons escort her to the hospital where she gives birth to daughter Virginia.
Josh and Jeffrey get into major trouble when they crap shoot. Jeffrey steals money from Ike's store, and Josh is blamed for the theft.
The truth finally comes out after Jeffrey tries to run away. Meanwhile Ben, although married, wrestles with whether to join the Navy.
Grandpa's childhood friend, the independent Cousin Zadok Woody Chambliss , comes to Walton's Mountain to keep a year-old appointment.
Zadok wills his experimental orchard to the University, and gives the Waltons a family-heirloom fiddle. Jason meets a beautiful young WAC officer on base.
Grandma returns home and meets the new housekeeper, Rose. Miss Mamie refuses to have cataract surgery, so John and Mary Ellen move Grandma in with the Baldwins to convince the sisters that surgery is the right thing to do.
Elizabeth tries different ways to get a certain boy to ask her to an upcoming dance, but ends up going with someone else Tony Becker.
One thing after another goes wrong for John, who is swamped with orders at the mill. When the motor from the old power saw blows out, it becomes the "last straw" for John and he quits the lumber business.
Herbert Hirschman. Stanley Perkins William Schallert , an old beau of Rose's who danced the nights away with her back in Baltimore , comes to Walton's Mountain and proposes to her, even planning to buy a house nearby.
However, she realizes he really wants to move to California. John-Boy returns to Walton's Mountain physically healthy but mentally tormented by the fact that he cannot remember the plane crash he was in.
Ike ignores his military-draft notice and is arrested for evasion. He gets into a scuffle with some sailors who insult him at Godsey's Store.
Corabeth encounters a former admirer who begs her to meet him for a romantic tryst at his hotel before he is sent overseas. Note : This is Ellen Corby's last appearance in the regular series; she will return in five of the six reunion movies.
As the family prepare a surprise party for Grandma's birthday, they reminisce via flashbacks about various events in their lives. 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.
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 business woman and not enough of a wife.
John fights to clear Harley's name by traveling to Warm Springs, Georgia where he gets President Roosevelt to issue Harley an official pardon, just before the President's sudden death which is mourned by the nation.
Mary Ellen attempts to enroll in medical school in order to become a doctor after the community's beloved "Sweet Billy" Richard Lineback dies, but she is discouraged by the school's sexist Dean.
Meanwhile, Jason receives many presents for his birthday as he and John-Boy fight in France. Germany surrenders in the war but Jason and his squad must contend with a German sniper who doesn't know it's over.
In other subplots, Ben still deals with the Japanese in the Pacific, Jim-Bob and his friend consider being conscientious objectors and Ike's store is robbed.
Bernard McEveety. John-Boy falls deeply in love with a French girl in Paris. Cindy dreams she sees a vision of Ben, then learns that he and some of his fellow seamen are captured by the Japanese.
Jim-Bob comes home on furlough, but runs into trouble when a girl Jennifer Jason Leigh arrives claiming to be pregnant with his child.
Mary Ellen finds the girl is only faking pregnancy. Ben and his fellow POWs are worried they might be executed after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ensure an end to the war.
Meanwhile, Jason and Toni have differing plans for their future together. Note : This is Ralph Waite 's final appearance in the regular series; he returned for all six reunion movies.
Jason bites off more than he can chew when he buys the Dew Drop Inn and tries to repair it for reopening.
Reopening night proves a success as the neighbors come and celebrate. Mary Ellen, believing her husband was killed at Pearl Harbor, accepts Jonesy's marriage proposal until she receives some shocking news that makes her break the engagement.
Mary Ellen goes in search of her supposedly late husband in a little town in Florida after receiving information that a Curtis Packer is alive and the spitting image of her own Curt now played by Scott Hylands.
When she finds him, he initially pretends amnesia, then reveals his identity and admits that due to his injury in the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he cannot father any more children.
Meanwhile Jonesy is hired by J. Pickett and is immediately made Erin's boss, but she resigns, until Pickett begs her to return, offering a substantial raise.
Jonesy then resigns, reunites with a returning Mary Ellen, and becomes a geology professor at Boatright. Corabeth starts a realtor business and tries to convince the Baldwins to sell and move.
After Cindy's father dies in a car accident, she discovers that she was adopted. She goes about finding out about her past, eventually meeting her birth mother.
Meanwhile, Drew moves in with the Waltons while his family visits his ill grandmother in Richmond, much to the delight of Elizabeth.
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.
Stanley Perkins, Rose's salesman beau, returns from his 'dream sales territory' out west. But he seems to be hiding some personal secret.
He is hired at Godsey's store and proves very helpful, until an incident causes nervous flashbacks. Walton's Mountain receives a new minister, Reverend Tom Marshall, who proceeds to renovate the dilapidated church with the assistance of the Waltons and friends.
Meanwhile, Jason and Toni consider marriage, but religious differences threaten their plans. Corabeth's flapper -like sister Orma Lee Ronnie Claire Edwards in a dual role arrives and creates fun and concern in the community, while Elizabeth tries running away to visit her parents, who are at an Arizona sanitarium.
She is found at the nearby bus station. The Waltons involve the sheriff as they help rescue the battered wife Carol Jones of a violent veteran Ben Andrews who has flashbacks of combat, while Jim-Bob is cheated as he tries his hand in the war surplus market.
John-Boy returns home, and tries out for a job in Boatwright University's brand new television department, but must convince the trustees with a speech.
Another woman competes with Rose for Stanley's affections. Rose tries to lose weight, and the Walton girls make her a stylish dress.
Ike and Corabeth come to blows after she finds old love letters and suspects Ike is seeing another woman. Ike talks her into staying in the marriage.
Drew boldly asks Elizabeth to spend the night together, but she declines. Stanley Perkins once again proposes to Rose and she accepts.
However, after she discovers she has a heart condition, she breaks the engagement, not wanting to keep him from his dream of traveling. Will they ever recover their relationship?
Cindy discovers she dislikes working at the dress shop and would rather stay at the farm. Erin falls for Paul Northridge, the handsome son of a wealthy lumberman.
Ike and Jim-Bob try a get-rich-quick scheme by hunting for uranium with a geiger counter. After Mary Ellen saves a minor from an arranged marriage, the Walton family must contend with a very disgruntled groom.
John-Boy goes to New York City again to see if his third book is to be published; but after running into many obstacles, and being evicted, he returns home feeling like a failure.
Meanwhile the Baldwin sisters plan an elegant reunion ball for their finishing school class, but no one comes except the neighbors.
It is and plans for Erin and Paul's wedding are disrupted by the unexpected return of her ex-beau Ashley Longworth Jr. John visits from Arizona to help Ben and Paul save the family lumber business.
Mary Ellen and Jonesy finally marry. However, as Mother's Day approaches, she finds herself missing her mother Olivia, who is still recovering in a sanitarium in Arizona.
After Mary Ellen is hurt when her car collides with a deer and is advised by a doctor never to get pregnant again, she becomes afraid that her new husband will lose interest in her.
Meanwhile, Aimee Godsey [played by DeAnna Robbins in this and the following movie] returns home from boarding school, but her flirtatious and sophisticated behavior alienates her local friends.
John Curtis continuously runs off to a spot in the woods to meet an invisible "friend", and the family is surprised to find out who it is while looking through a family album [Note: This is Robert Wightman's last appearance as John-Boy.
Rachel Longaker returns as Aimee Godsey in her final appearance. Robert Ellis Miller. John-Boy and Janet are about to be wed on Walton's Mountain, though Janet's overbearing Aunt Flo Holland Taylor has put herself in charge of planning the ceremony and may drive everyone crazy in the process.
In the subplots, Olivia enrolls in an American Studies course at Boatwright, John is at odds with Ben and Drew over a deal Ben made with a nearby developer, Toni is expecting yet another child, Corabeth attempts to become a writer through a mail-order correspondence course, and Grandma Walton becomes upset at an article John-Boy is writing about her father.
It is and John and Olivia are looking forward to celebrating their 40th anniversary, John-Boy and Janet are about to have their first child, and the entire family and community are looking forward to Easter.
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