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Season 1 Episode Guide

Episode 1 - The Foundling

When the Waltons teach sign language to an abandoned deaf girl, the love created by their concern reunites the child with her family.

     

Episode 1 - Season 1, Episode 1: The Foundling

When the Waltons teach sign language to an abandoned deaf girl, the love created by their concern reunites the child with her family.

  

Episode 2 - Season 1, Episode 2: The Carnival

Olivia's concern over the friendship between the Walton children and four stranded carnival performers turns to respect and admiration after the family is invited to a private performance.

  

Episode 2 - The Carnival

Olivia's concern over the friendship between the Walton children and four stranded carnival performers turns to respect and admiration after the family is invited to a private performance.

  

Episode 3 - Season 1, Episode 3: The Calf

Elizabeth and Jim Bob rebel when John announces they need to sell Chance's calf.

  

Episode 3 - The Calf

Elizabeth and Jim Bob rebel when John announces they need to sell Chance's calf.

  

Episode 4 - Season 1, Episode 4: The Hunt

Unable to pull the trigger to shoot a turkey on his first hunting trip, John-Boy proves his courage by saving his father's life.

  

Episode 4 - The Hunt

Unable to pull the trigger to shoot a turkey on his first hunting trip, John-Boy proves his courage by saving his father's life.

        

Episode 5 - The Typewriter

When John-Boy secretly borrows an antique typewriter from the Baldwin sisters, his sister innocently sells it to a junkman.

  

Episode 5 - Season 1, Episode 5: The Typewriter

When John-Boy secretly borrows an antique typewriter from the Baldwin sisters, his sister innocently sells it to a junkman.

  

Episode 6 - Season 1, Episode 6: The Star

Grandpa Walton believes a shooting star is an omen of death until he learns that another superstitious belief may result in the Baldwin sisters losing their famous still.

  

Episode 6 - The Star

Grandpa Walton believes a shooting star is an omen of death until he learns that another superstitious belief may result in the Baldwin sisters losing their famous still.

  

Episode 7 - Season 1, Episode 7: The Sinner

A young preacher staying a few days with the Waltons leads John-Boy to learn the meaning of grace.

  

Episode 7 - The Sinner

A young preacher staying a few days with the Waltons leads John-Boy to learn the meaning of grace.

  

Episode 8 - Season 1, Episode 8: The Boy from the C.C.C.

An injured runaway boy who is taken in by the Waltons unexpectedly betrays their trust.

  

Episode 8 - The Boy from the C.C.C.

An injured runaway boy who is taken in by the Waltons unexpectedly betrays their trust.

  

Episode 9 - The Ceremony

A family of Jewish refugees comes to Walton's Mountain from Nazi Germany, and the family members worry that the persecution they have suffered will continue in their new country. But when John-Boy arranges for a rabbi to perform a bar mitzvah ceremony, the family regains its dignity and finds a home in America.

  

Episode 9 - Season 1, Episode 9: The Ceremony

A family of Jewish refugees comes to Walton's Mountain from Nazi Germany, and the family members worry that the persecution they have suffered will continue in their new country. But when John-Boy arranges for a rabbi to perform a bar mitzvah ceremony, the family regains its dignity and finds a home in America.

  

Episode 10 - Season 1, Episode 10: The Legend

While visiting the Walton family, an old World War I buddy of John's tries to hide his failure in life with a barrage of wartime tales about his daring deeds.

  

Episode 10 - The Legend

While visiting the Walton family, an old World War I buddy of John's tries to hide his failure in life with a barrage of wartime tales about his daring deeds.

  

Episode 11 - The Literary Man

A self-styled writer sends John-Boy's literary dreams soaring so high that the Waltons lose an important wood-cutting contract.

  

Episode 11 - Season 1, Episode 11: The Literary Man

A self-styled writer sends John-Boy's literary dreams soaring so high that the Waltons lose an important wood-cutting contract.

  

Episode 12 - Season 1, Episode 12: The Dust Bowl Cousins

The unexpected arrival of the Waltons' cousins creates havoc in the home, but John-Boy learns a good lesson from Grandpa.

  

Episode 12 - The Dust Bowl Cousins

The unexpected arrival of the Waltons' cousins creates havoc in the home, but John-Boy learns a good lesson from Grandpa.

  

Episode 13 - The Reunion

John-Boy unexpectedly becomes an undercover agent for the sheriff, when an unscrupulous relative of the Baldwin sisters uses their "recipe" for whiskey for his own gain.

  

Episode 13 - Season 1, Episode 13: The Reunion

John-Boy unexpectedly becomes an undercover agent for the sheriff, when an unscrupulous relative of the Baldwin sisters uses their, recipe, for whiskey for his own gain.

  

Episode 14 - Season 1, Episode 14: The Minstrel

Mary Ellen becomes enamored of a 19-year-old wandering minstrel and fails to help the family at a time when she is needed.

  

Episode 14 - The Minstrel

Mary Ellen becomes enamored of a 19-year-old wandering minstrel and fails to help the family at a time when she is needed.

  

Episode 15 - The Actress

A world-famous actress becomes a reluctant houseguest of the Waltons when her car breaks down and she is abandoned by her chauffeur.

  

Episode 15 - Season 1, Episode 15: The Actress

A world-famous actress becomes a reluctant houseguest of the Waltons when her car breaks down and she is abandoned by her chauffeur.

  

Episode 16 - Season 1, Episode 16: The Fire

Tragedy strikes the life of a young girl befriended by the Waltons when her drunken father burns the schoolhouse in the name of religion after he learns the children are being taught the theory of evolution.

  

Episode 16 - The Fire

Tragedy strikes the life of a young girl befriended by the Waltons when her drunken father burns the schoolhouse in the name of religion after he learns the children are being taught the theory of evolution.

  

Episode 17 - The Love Story

John-Boy Walton finds himself in love for the first time when a young girl in need of love and attention returns to her remarried father's home on Walton's Mountain.

  

Episode 17 - Season 1, Episode 17: The Love Story

John-Boy Walton finds himself in love for the first time when a young girl in need of love and attention returns to her remarried father's home on Walton's Mountain.

  

Episode 18 - Season 1, Episode 18: The Courtship

When Olivia's uncle, a fastidious man of 64, visits Walton's Mountain after an absence of 30 years, he becomes involved with a divorcée who is eager to marry again.

  

Episode 18 - The Courtship

When Olivia's uncle, a fastidious man of 64, visits Walton's Mountain after an absence of 30 years, he becomes involved with a divorcée who is eager to marry again.

  

Episode 19 - Season 1, Episode 19: The Gypsies

Despite dire predictions that a band of gypsies will steal from the Waltons, John-Boy invites them to live in the family home until they can fix their wagon.

  

Episode 19 - The Gypsies

Despite dire predictions that a band of gypsies will steal from the Waltons, John-Boy invites them to live in the family home until they can fix their wagon.

  

Episode 20 - The Deed

John-Boy leaves home to get a job to help pay legal fees when the Waltons are in danger of losing the mountain because their forebears never filed a deed.

  

Episode 20 - Season 1, Episode 20: The Deed

John-Boy leaves home to get a job to help pay legal fees when the Waltons are in danger of losing the mountain because their forebears never filed a deed.

  

Episode 21 - Season 1, Episode 21: The Scholar

John-Boy demonstrates love and understanding as he teaches a proud but uneducated woman how to read and write.

  

Episode 21 - The Scholar

John-Boy demonstrates love and understanding as he teaches a proud but uneducated woman how to read and write.

  

Episode 22 - Season 1, Episode 22: The Bicycle

When John-Boy puts into poetic words the heartfelt thoughts of the local blacksmith, the letters win the stoic mountaineer a bride. But the bride, dreaming of the man in the letters, is shocked when she meets the blacksmith. Olivia, who has always had dreams of becoming a professional singer, devotes so much time to singing in church that her family begins to feel neglected.

  

Episode 22 - The Bicycle

When John-Boy puts into poetic words the heartfelt thoughts of the local blacksmith, the letters win the stoic mountaineer a bride. But the bride, dreaming of the man in the letters, is shocked when she meets the blacksmith. Olivia, who has always had dreams of becoming a professional singer, devotes so much time to singing in church that her family begins to feel neglected.

  

Episode 23 - Season 1, Episode 23: The Townie

John-Boy is caught in an emotional whirlwind when an innocent afternoon movie date with a pretty girl opens the floodgates of her suppressed and impassioned desires.

  

Episode 23 - The Townie

John-Boy is caught in an emotional whirlwind when an innocent afternoon movie date with a pretty girl opens the floodgates of her suppressed and impassioned desires.

  

Episode 24 - Season 1, Episode 24: An Easter Story

Olivia develops polio and the stunned family unites to help her and each other. Olivia dedicates herself to two goals: she'll fight through the pain of therapy to walk again by Easter and now, more than ever, she wants to inspire her children to fulfill their potentials.

  

Episode 24 - An Easter Story

Olivia develops polio and the stunned family unites to help her and each other. Olivia dedicates herself to two goals: she'll fight through the pain of therapy to walk again by Easter and now, more than ever, she wants to inspire her children to fulfill their potentials.

  

Episode 25 - Season 2, Episode 1: The Journey

John-Boy sacrifices a date with the girl of his dreams to escort an elderly woman on the last and most important journey of her life: a return trip to the sea.

  

Episode 26 - Season 2, Episode 2: The Odyssey

Trying to write a short story, John-Boy leaves home for a short time to seek privacy but finds himself in the awkward position of having to deliver a baby.

  

Episode 27 - Season 2, Episode 3: The Separation

The Walton family has a monetary crisis, causing a grave misunderstanding that leads Grandpa to take Grandma and leave the family.

  

Episode 28 - Season 2, Episode 4: The Theft

The integrity and pride of the Waltons is severely challenged when the head of a seemingly well-to-do, fashionable family accuses John Walton of being a thief.

  

Episode 29 - Season 2, Episode 5: The Roots

When a migrant worker and his son come to Walton's mountain for work, the boy enjoys the Walton's family life so much that he strives to convince his father to stop roaming.

  

Episode 30 - Season 2, Episode 6: The Chicken Thief

John-Boy faces a tough decision when he discovers a friend stealing chickens from a farmer who is shot by a thief the following night.

  

Episode 31 - Season 2, Episode 7: The Prize

Olivia Walton must consider what might have been when one of her childhood suitors comes home as a wealthy, successful politician ... still attracted to the girl who turned him down.

  

Episode 32 - Season 2, Episode 8: The Braggart

John Walton is asked to negotiate a professional baseball contract for a teenage orphan boy who pays a return visit to the Waltons, the only family he has ever known.

  

Episode 33 - Season 2, Episode 9: The Fawn

Erin nurses an ophaned fawn, while John-Boy takes a job as a rent-collector for a hated landlord.

  

Episode 34 - Season 2, Episode 10: The Thanksgiving Story, Pts. 1 & 2

The anticipated joy of Thanksgiving turns to sorrow for the Walton family when John-Boy suffers a head injury that prevents him from taking his college scholarship examination.

  

Episode 35 - Season 2, Episode 11: The Substitute

A substitute teacher creates havoc among her young charges until she begins to learn some of the facts of life from the Waltons.

  

Episode 36 - Season 2, Episode 12: The Bequest

Grandma Walton inherits $250 and with it a host of problems.

  

Episode 37 - Season 2, Episode 13: The Air Mail Man

Olivia's surprise birthday party is attended by two unexpected guests when a United States Airmail plane makes an emergency landing in the Waltons' meadow--and Olivia is treated to her first ride in an airplane.

  

Episode 38 - Season 2, Episode 14: The Triangle

John-Boy jealously competes for the attentions of his favorite schoolteacher against Reverend Fordwick.

  

Episode 39 - Season 2, Episode 15: The Awakening

The limitations of age are sharp to both Grandma, on the eve of her 68th birthday, and to a 14-year-old Mary Ellen in love with a college boy.

  

Episode 40 - Season 2, Episode 16: The Honeymoon

A weary Olivia embarks on a one-woman, sit-down strike, prompting her husband to take her on a belated honeymoon--after 19 years of marriage. John-Boy is hesitant to allow his relationship with Marcia to become serious.

  

Episode 41 - Season 2, Episode 17: The Heritage

The Walton family heritage is threatened when a corporation offers John a modest fortune to sell the mountain and John-Boy objects strenuously.

  

Episode 42 - Season 2, Episode 18: The Gift

Jason Walton faces one of life's most difficult lessons when he learns that his close friend is suffering from a terminal illness and has only a year to live.

  

Episode 43 - Season 2, Episode 19: The Cradle

Olivia Walton surprises her family when she announces that she intends to earn extra money as a door-to-door saleslady and then has to give it up when she discovers she's pregnant.

  

Episode 44 - Season 2, Episode 20: The Fulfillment

Through the Waltons, an eight-year-old orphan boy finds a home.

  

Episode 45 - Season 2, Episode 21: The Ghost Story

Curiosity over a Ouija Board and the memory of an unexplained phenomenon that Olivia experienced after the death of a childhood friend create an eerie scene in the Walton household.

  

Episode 46 - Season 2, Episode 22: The Graduation

The Walton family is so proud of the eldest son, John-Boy, graduating from high school, that everyone sacrifices to buy him a new suit for the commencement ceremony. But when the family cow dies, John-Boy returns his new suit for the cash to buy another cow.

  

Episode 47 - Season 2, Episode 23: The Five Foot Shelf

A desperate and despondent book salesman takes Olivia Walton's money under false pretenses in order to bring a little joy to his own daughter.

  

Episode 48 - Season 2, Episode 24: The Car

Needing transportation to college, John-Boy agrees to work for a local man in exchange for his car. But though John-Boy does the work, the man refuses to part with the vehicle.

  

Episode 49 - Season 3, Episode 1: The Conflict Pts. 1 & 2

Family loyalty is stretched to the breaking point when Walton family kin call for help to fight against the United States Government's notice of eviction. But the sight of blood has a sobering effect on all the Waltons.

  

Episode 50 - Season 3, Episode 2: The First Day

The first day at Boatwright College is full of complications for John-Boy Walton.

  

Episode 51 - Season 3, Episode 3: The Thoroughbred

John-Boy and the family mule compete against a rich young man and his thoroughbred in a traditional cross-country race that was won many years earlier by Grandpa Walton.

  

Episode 52 - Season 3, Episode 4: The Runaway

When the rest of the Walton family fails to pay attention to a personal tragedy in his life Jim-Bob runs away from home.

  

Episode 53 - Season 3, Episode 5: The Romance

Olivia is challenged by John-Boy to take a night school course in art but she gets more than she expected when the instructor kisses her.

  

Episode 54 - Season 3, Episode 6: The Ring

On her first date with a college man Mary Ellen must choose between making a good impression and telling the truth.

  

Episode 55 - Season 3, Episode 7: The System

John-Boy tempers honor with mercy when he defends a freshman football player whom he has accused of cheating. Ben discovers the dangers of smoking.

  

Episode 56 - Season 3, Episode 8: The Spoilers

A sophisticated but emotionally confused New York family arrives on Walton's Mountain with devastating results for the Walton family.

  

Episode 57 - Season 3, Episode 9: The Marathon

John-Boy defies his mother to enter a week-long dance marathon with a pretty young stranger.

  

Episode 58 - Season 3, Episode 10: The Book

John-Boy's feelings of inadequacy are washed away in a flood of pure vanity when circumstances lead to the publishing of a book of his short stories. Jason gets a paying job playing music in a band but no one in the family seems to notice.

  

Episode 59 - Season 3, Episode 11: The Job

A part-time job catapults John-Boy into the middle of a desperate emotional battle raging in the heart of a hopelessly blind young woman.

  

Episode 60 - Season 3, Episode 12: The Departure

Convinced that life has passed him by John Walton leaves home for an adventure.

  

Episode 61 - Season 3, Episode 13: The Visitor

An old family friend comes home to Walton's Mountain drawn there by the haunting memory of his dear wife.

  

Episode 62 - Season 3, Episode 14: The Birthday

Grandpa is stricken by a heart attack and desperately despondent about his condition causing the entire Walton family to make every effort to restore his will to live.

  

Episode 63 - Season 3, Episode 15: The Lie

John-Boy turns detective to piece together the truth behind a hit-and-run charge brought against his younger brother Ben.

  

Episode 64 - Season 3, Episode 16: The Matchmakers

Ike Godsey is smitten when cousin Corabeth visits and with John and Olivia's help love grows between the two. Erin enters the Jefferson County Sweetheart Contest.

  

Episode 65 - Season 3, Episode 17: The Beguiled

A beautiful but unprincipled girl causes problems for John-Boy.

  

Episode 66 - Season 3, Episode 18: The Caretakers

Grandpa becomes upset with John and his stubborn pride leads him to pack take Grandma by the hand and leave home.

  

Episode 67 - Season 3, Episode 19: The Shivaree

Olivia Walton arranges a warm family wedding for the daughter of an old friend and her city-bred fiancée but a fun-loving mountain custom threatens to destroy the marriage.

  

Episode 68 - Season 3, Episode 20: The Choice

John Walton's dream of a Walton & Sons lumber business is shattered when Jason like his elder brother John-Boy decides to pursue his own career.

  

Episode 69 - Season 3, Episode 21: The Statue

John-Boy is faced with the agonizing possibility of destroying spinster Emily Baldwin's lifelong romantic dream in order to make his first literary sale. Grandpa wins a statue that bears an uncanny resemblance to one of his former girlfriends.

  

Episode 70 - Season 3, Episode 22: The Song

Young Ben Walton falls in love with pretty Sally Ann Harper but his secret campaign to win her affections fails when he inadvertently sends her into the arms of his brother Jason.

  

Episode 71 - Season 3, Episode 23: The Woman

John and Olivia Walton renew their wedding vows as the highlight of their 20th-anniversary celebration and John-Boy falls in love with an older woman.

  

Episode 72 - Season 3, Episode 24: The Venture

Prosperity seems to be imminent for the Walton family when disaster strikes as John Walton is felled by pneumonia and the family may lose all for which they have worked so hard.

  

Episode 73 - Season 4, Episode 1: The Sermon

When Walton Mountain's only schoolteacher and its minister suddenly decide to get married their only chance for a honeymoon depends on Olivia taking over the classroom and John-Boy giving the Sunday sermon.

  

Episode 74 - Season 4, Episode 2: The Genius

The Walton household is upset when John-Boy brings home a teenage college-student genius with a photographic memory.

  

Episode 75 - Season 4, Episode 3: The Fighter

The Walton family befriends a young black preacher who wants to earn money to start his own church by becoming a professional prizefighter.

  

Episode 76 - Season 4, Episode 4: The Prophecy

Thinking himself a failure compared to his more successful former classmates John Walton is apprehensive and irritable as he contemplates his high school class' 25th reunion.

  

Episode 77 - Season 4, Episode 5: The Boondoggle

When an investigative reporter comes to Walton's Mountain to write a historical guide to the State of Virginia he uncovers a secret that embarrasses the Baldwin sisters and angers the rest of the community.

  

Episode 78 - Season 4, Episode 6: The Breakdown

Jason Walton stretches himself to the breaking point by working too hard to prove his self-worth.

  

Episode 79 - Season 4, Episode 7: The Wingwalker

Death-Defying Bobby Storm a beautiful young stuntwoman offers her dangerously troubled heart to John-Boy Walton

  

Episode 80 - Season 4, Episode 8: The Competition

Olivia Walton and her daughter Erin must face intense life challenges when forced to give up newfound love relationships.

  

Episode 81 - Season 4, Episode 9: The Emergence

The Walton children learn that it is not easy having their mother as a substitute teacher and John-Boy rediscovers a former girlfriend.

  

Episode 82 - Season 4, Episode 10: The Loss

When a young widow comes to stay in their home the Walton children learn a hard lesson about how to cope with another person's grief.

  

Episode 83 - Season 4, Episode 11: The Abdication

John-Boy Walton shares an inner bond with Edward the Eighth King of England when he faces the most important professional and personal decision of his life.

  

Episode 84 - Season 4, Episode 12: The Estrangement

A frightened young mother seeks refuge in the Walton home when she leaves her husband.

  

Episode 85 - Season 4, Episode 13: The Nurse

Mary Ellen's ambition to become a nurse is tested by disappointment and an experience with death.

  

Episode 86 - Season 4, Episode 14: The Intruders

A rival lumber company threatens to put Walton and Sons out of business and young Ben Walton picks the worst possible time to leave home.

  

Episode 87 - Season 4, Episode 15: The Search

Olivia Jim Bob and Elizabeth become lost on Walton's Mountain.

  

Episode 88 - Season 4, Episode 16: The Secret

Convinced he was adopted young Jim-Bob Walton searches for the truth about his birth and finds it shrouded in mystery.

  

Episode 89 - Season 4, Episode 17: The Fox

Grandpa Zeb Walton is just as surely trapped by a set of unique circumstances as a wild young mountain animal captured by Ben Walton.

  

Episode 90 - Season 4, Episode 18: The Burn Out Pts. 1 & 2

A flash fire demolishes the second floor of the Walton's house and begins a series of events that threatens to destroy the family.

  

Episode 91 - Season 4, Episode 19: The Big Brother

John-Boy undertakes an act of charity that exposes the family to the unexpected wiles of a most unlikely con artist.

  

Episode 92 - Season 4, Episode 20: The Test

Olivia Walton must choose between her family and a career when she is offered a remarkable business opportunity.

  

Episode 93 - Season 4, Episode 21: The Quilting

Grandma is determined to have a quilting for Mary Ellen to announce she's of marrying age. But Mary Ellen considers the custom insulting.

  

Episode 94 - Season 4, Episode 22: The House

Grandpa Walton wins a contract to demolish an old house that holds many dear memories for Grandma.

  

Episode 95 - Season 4, Episode 23: The Fledgling

Would-be newspaper publisher John-Boy battles to scrape together enough money for an old printing press.

  

Episode 96 - Season 4, Episode 24: The Collision

A former girlfriend returns to Walton's Mountain and challenges John-Boy to reexamine his goals.

  

Episode 97 - Season 5, Episode 1: The First Edition

John-Boy launches his first major newspaper venture as editor and publisher of the Blue Ridge Chronicle but in his search for the truth he may disgrace and divide his family.

  

Episode 98 - Season 5, Episode 2: The Vigil

Nursing student Mary Ellen makes a nearly fatal blunder when she misdiagnoses Grandma's illness.

  

Episode 99 - Season 5, Episode 3: The Comeback

Jason loses his musical scholarship because of the school's lack of money and takes a job playing music at a local roadhouse to pay his tuition. At the same time he helps a famous musician (MERLE HAGGARD) overcome the loss of his son.

  

Episode 100 - Season 5, Episode 4: The Baptism

John Walton's peace of mind is threatened when an internationally known evangelist comes to Walton Mountain to preach and lead a baptismal service.

  

Episode 101 - Season 5, Episode 5: The Firestorm

John-Boy becomes the object of public indignation when he insists on printing excerpts from Hitler's Mein Kampf.

  

Episode 102 - Season 5, Episode 6: The Night Walker

A mysterious presence moving through the night strikes fear in the hearts of the Walton's Mountain residents.

  

Episode 103 - Season 5, Episode 7: The Wedding Pts. 1 & 2

Mary Ellen announces her engagement to young David Spencer and after the initial shock the Waltons join with the entire community to make plans for the big event. A new doctor comes to Walton's Mountain.

  

Episode 104 - Season 5, Episode 8: The Cloudburst

In a desperate attempt to save his newspaper from bankruptcy John-Boy sells his meadow to a mining company--not realizing the company's plans will devastate the local area. Mary Ellen proves her worth as a nurse.

  

Episode 105 - Season 5, Episode 9: The Great Motorcycle Race

The youngest Walton boy Jim-Bob takes his first step into the world when he enters a race riding Ike's motorcycle. Ike and Corabeth adopt a little girl.

  

Episode 106 - Season 5, Episode 10: The Pony Cart

The oldest living Walton Aunt Martha Corrine disrupts the family member's lives when she comes for an extended visit--until they realize that she is dying and then they make her last days special.

  

Episode 107 - Season 5, Episode 11: The Best Christmas

With the Walton children growing up this may be the last Christmas that the entire family can spend together. The family plans a special celebration for Olivia but a series of disasters keeps everyone away from home. Instead of becoming upset Olivia feels proud of how her children respond to help her community when they are needed.

  

Episode 108 - Season 5, Episode 12: The Last Mustang

The Waltons struggle to maintain the integrity of a local public office and to safeguard the freedom of the last local mustang.

  

Episode 109 - Season 5, Episode 13: The Rebellion

Feeling frustrated with her life Olivia desires a change. When John orders her not to change her hairstyle she goes to Corabeth for a permanent. But the results are so bad that she is embarrassed to show herself. Grandma becomes upset when she is asked to share her duty as church organist.

  

Episode 110 - Season 5, Episode 14: The Ferris Wheel

The specter of a frightening but unremembered childhood experience haunts young Elizabeth's nights and troubles the entire household. Ben worries that he is tood short.

  

Episode 111 - Season 5, Episode 15: The Elopement

Both Erin and Jason learn lessons about growing up as Erin tries to elope with Chad Marshall and Jason takes over the store while Ike is away.

  

Episode 112 - Season 5, Episode 16: John's Crossroad

Due to the breakdown of the mill and mounting bills John takes an office job in Charlottesville.

  

Episode 113 - Season 5, Episode 17: The Career Girl

For Erin Walton graduation day from high school which is an event that most people regard with great pleasure seems to be the most painful day of her life.

  

Episode 114 - Season 5, Episode 18: The Hero

Before she fell ill Grandma Walton had suggested that John-Boy publish the first commemorative Blue Ridge Chronicle to mark the day that the Jefferson County Doughboys returned from the war. Now he has decided to create a memorial of which she would be honored but the town's decorated hero Sheriff Bridges shows little interest.

  

Episode 115 - Season 5, Episode 19: The Inferno

John-Boy is deeply affected when he witnesses the crash of the Hindenburg. Curt tries to find a way to be alone with Mary Ellen.

  

Episode 116 - Season 5, Episode 20: The Heartbreaker

Jason Walton learns that love can be one of life's most painful experiences.

  

Episode 117 - Season 5, Episode 21: The Long Night

With Grandma in the hospital Grandpa feels alone and unneeded -- a feeling he shares with Aimee Goodsey -- and the two become close as their friendship helps ease their loneliness.

  

Episode 118 - Season 5, Episode 22: The Hiding Place

The Baldwins' niece Hilary arrives seeking a hiding place from the horrors of the war breaking out in her native Austria. Jason joins the National Guard.

  

Episode 119 - Season 5, Episode 23: The Go-Getter

Ben's tactics for selling used cars alienate both family and friends.

  

Episode 120 - Season 5, Episode 24: The Achievement

When six weeks pass with no word from the publisher about his novel John-Boy travels to New York and to a turning point in his personal and professional life.

  

Episode 121 - Season 6, Episode 1: The Hawk

A fierce hawk threatens peace on the Walton farm, and a handsome new minister is chosen for the Walton community.

  

Episode 122 - Season 6, Episode 2: The Stray

Mysterious events at the Walton farm lead to the discovery of a 12-year-old, black orphan boy, who attaches himself to John Walton

  

Episode 123 - Season 6, Episode 3: The Recluse

Jason befriends a mysterious recluse who loves music and Ben leaves home to look for a job in a defense plant.

  

Episode 124 - Season 6, Episode 4: The Warrior

The startling history of Walton's Mountain leads to the beginning of a new Indian burial ground and Myrtle the goat is healed.

  

Episode 125 - Season 6, Episode 5: The Seashore

The Waltons vacation at the Baldwin's beach cottage and meet a mysterious English girl. Ben tries to enjoy the carefree life home alone.

  

Episode 126 - Season 6, Episode 6: The Volunteer

John and Olivia must accept that Erin is growing up when G.W. Haines proposes marriage. But when she turns down his proposal, G.W. joins the army.

  

Episode 127 - Season 6, Episode 7: The Grandchild Pts. 1 & 2

As Mary Ellen's baby comes due, one of her friends' baby is born prematurely and stillborn. Out of grief, she torments Mary Ellen with talk of bad omens and portents about Mary Ellen's baby. Jason gets a job at the burlesque theater. Mary Ellen gives birth, but a grieving neighbor steals the baby. The leader of a gospel choir hears Jason play at the burlesque theater and offers him a job.

  

Episode 128 - Season 6, Episode 8: The First Casualty

The war deeply affects the Waltons when Curt is called into active duty and G.W. Haines is killed during training.

  

Episode 129 - Season 6, Episode 9: The Battle of Drucilla's Pond

The United States Army invades Walton's Mountain to practice maneuvers and Olivia sells all her paintings to a mysterious gentleman.

  

Episode 130 - Season 6, Episode 10: The Flight

Jim Bob befriends a boy who claims to be joining the Air Corps. Elizabeth adopts Maud as a grandmother, and Myrtle the goat has a baby.

  

Episode 131 - Season 6, Episode 11: The Children's Carol Pts. 1 & 2

The war seems very close to Walton's Mountain as two young English orphans seek refuge from the German blitzkrieg, everyone in the family becomes involved in military preparations and Jim-Bob rebuilds an old short-wave radio, which he uses to communicate with people under siege in England. Olivia's faith in God is tested by the horrors of the oncoming war and by events within her community and her family. Christmas comes to Walton's mountain as preparations for war occupy everyone's attention. But Olivia's faith in God -- tested by the horrors on the oncoming war and by events within her community -- is reaffirmed when Jim-Bob uses his short-wave radio to located the two English children's mother.

  

Episode 132 - Season 6, Episode 12: The Milestone

Olivia is forced to deal with the loss of emotional composure as she enters menopause, and Jim-Bob struggles to reach his manhood.

  

Episode 133 - Season 6, Episode 13: The Celebration

After years of hard work, the Walton family is out of debt, and Corabeth is interested in getting the handsome new preacher married.

  

Episode 134 - Season 6, Episode 14: The Rumor

Elizabeth's vivid imagination starts a rumor that an innocent family is spying for the Germans, and the outcome threatens her family and friends.

  

Episode 135 - Season 6, Episode 15: Spring Fever

Mamie Baldwin thinks her declining rosebush is a sign of her own impending death. Jim Bob and Ben fight over each other's girlfriends.

  

Episode 136 - Season 6, Episode 16: The Festival

Jason encounters racism when he and Josh audition for the Spring Festival, and Elizabeth falls in love with a new schoolmate.

  

Episode 137 - Season 6, Episode 17: The Anniversary

John and Olivia celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary, and Mary Ellen and Curt both fight temptation during their separation due to the army.

  

Episode 138 - Season 6, Episode 18: The Family Tree

Verdie searches for her family history with Jason's help. Elizabeth stretches the truth to her soldier pen pal, letting him think she's 18 and looks like Erin.

  

Episode 139 - Season 6, Episode 19: The Ordeal Pts. 1 & 2

Elizabeth loses the use of her legs in an accident, and the Walton family members adjust to the tragedy in their own ways. Elizabeth's broken leg bones heal, but she is still unable to walk.

  

Episode 140 - Season 6, Episode 20: The Return Pts. 1 & 2

John-Boy returns to a pre-war, impoverished Walton's Mountain and tries to reopen a long forgotten mine. Erin hides her second job from the family, attempting to earn more money for the family. John is trapped inside the mine that John-Boy has stuggled to re-open to create jobs in Rockfish.

  

Episode 141 - Season 6, Episode 21: The Revelation

Daisy accepts John-Boy's proposal of marriage and he brings his fiance home to meet the family. But John-Boy learns a secret that Daisy has been hiding, which prevents their wedding. Alone, he accepts a job offer in London.

  

Episode 142 - Season 6, Episode 22: Grandma Comes Home

Grandma finally returns home after her stroke, but everyone is so protective of her that she no longer feels she is needed or has a place in the family.

  

Episode 143 - Season 7, Episode 1: The Empty Nest Pts. 1 & 2

The family mourns Grandpa's death--and celebrates his life. John struggles to fill a huge lumber contract, while Mary Ellen and Erin become roommates in Charlottesville. Corabeth opens a tearoom.

  

Episode 144 - Season 7, Episode 2: The Calling

Jim-Bob falls in love with a young woman who is struggling to decide whether or not to become a nun. Ben hires a mill hand with an alcohol problem.

  

Episode 145 - Season 7, Episode 3: The Moonshiner

Jason takes responsibility for cousin Boone when he gets in trouble with the law, and Daisy comes back for a visit.

  

Episode 146 - Season 7, Episode 4: The Obsession

Mary Ellen becomes dependent on drugs while preparing for her final exams for nursing school. Sissy wants to divorce Yancy.

  

Episode 147 - Season 7, Episode 5: The Changling

Just before her thirteenth birthday, Elizabeth becomes reluctant to grow up, and she generates a poltergeist, which causes mischief. Jason has an advice-to-the-lovelorn radio show and gets into more trouble than he can handle.

  

Episode 148 - Season 7, Episode 6: The Portrait

Erin becomes involved with a brooding artist who is mentally ill. Grandma is given a canary that will not sing.

  

Episode 149 - Season 7, Episode 7: The Captive

Elizabeth has trouble learning to drive. Corabeth's drinking gets worse.

  

Episode 150 - Season 7, Episode 8: The Illusion

Verdie Foster's daughter comes home, bitter toward her mother for educating her beyond her social level as a young black woman. Erin seeks a job locally.

  

Episode 151 - Season 7, Episode 9: The Beau

Elizabeth is horrified when an old suitor of Grandma's comes calling. Yancy switches his still to produce fuel instead of moonshine.

  

Episode 152 - Season 7, Episode 10: Day of Infamy

News of the Pearl Harbor attack affects each of the Waltons--especially Mary Ellen, as her husband is a doctor stationed in Hawaii and she is about to join him there.

  

Episode 153 - Season 7, Episode 11: The Yearning

Elizabeth falls in love with the new Reverend. Erin helps the Baldwin sisters compile their memoirs.

  

Episode 154 - Season 7, Episode 12: The Boosters

Ben leaves the mill and starts a business of his own. Yancy Tucker takes a correspondence course to become a barber.

  

Episode 155 - Season 7, Episode 13: The Conscience

Jason considers becoming a conscientious objector to military service, and Jim Bob gets a military tattoo.

  

Episode 156 - Season 7, Episode 14: The Obstacle

The Walton family helps an old friend of John-Boy's who is convinced he has no future because has been physically disabled during World War II. Ben and Ike become, song and dance men, as their contribution on the war effort.

  

Episode 157 - Season 7, Episode 15: The Parting

Olivia and John take a vacation together, but after the vacation, Olivia learns that she has tuberculosis and must go away to a sanitarium.

  

Episode 158 - Season 7, Episode 16: The Burden

Jim Bob narrowly escapes death and decides to become a minister. Elizabeth works on a science project that involves collecting insects.

  

Episode 159 - Season 7, Episode 17: The Pin-Up

Erin becomes the pin-up girl of Camp Lee when Ben enters her photo in a contest. Mary Ellen becomes obsessed with her role as a mother to John Curtis.

  

Episode 160 - Season 7, Episode 18: The Attack

Ike has a heart attack from the stress of war-time shortages, and the Waltons pitch in to keep the store going. Ben and Jim-Bob build a sorghum mill to produce molasses.

  

Episode 161 - Season 7, Episode 19: The Legacy

Excitement and romance come to Walton's Mountain with the arrival of Ashley Longworth, Jr. Elizabeth experiences adolescent insecurity.

  

Episode 162 - Season 7, Episode 20: The Outsider

Ben shocks the family when he comes home with a new bride, but the first days of their marriage are difficult until Grandma intervenes.

  

Episode 163 - Season 7, Episode 21: The Torch

A former girlfriend of John's buys the Dew Drop Inn, and the children worry that he will be vulnerable to her charms. Elizabeth and Cindy open a canteen for the troops from Camp Rockfish.

  

Episode 164 - Season 7, Episode 22: The Tailspin

Jim Bob is despondent when he fails an eye exam--which will bar him from entering the Air Corps.

  

Episode 165 - Season 7, Episode 23: Founder's Day

Jason struggles to complete a major musical composition, and a plan for a Walton's Mountain Founders' Day develops.

  

Episode 166 - Season 8, Episode 1: The Home Front Pts. 1 and 2

Olivia returns to find her family deeply involved in the war effort. When the Satterfields receive news of the death of their son, John is told he can expect to pay this loss with the life of one of his own sons. Jim-Bob is threatened by the father of a man who lost his son in the war--after John approved the boy's draft by the military. But the news that John-Boy has been taken as a prisoner of war in Europe brings the families together in their grief.

  

Episode 167 - Season 8, Episode 2: The Kinfolk

Olivia's cousin Rose arrives for a visit, bringing her two grandchildren--and problems--with her. Ike and Jim Bob build a huge air raid siren.

  

Episode 168 - Season 8, Episode 3: The Diploma

John's military security clearance is threatened when it is discovered he did not graduate from high school. Mary Ellen takes over for the county nurse and encounters difficulties with the mountain folk.

  

Episode 169 - Season 8, Episode 4: The Innocents

Olivia seeks help from the Pickett defense plant for a day nursery for the children of the defense workers but encounters much difficulty. When Corabeth discovers a perfumed handkerchief in her husband's pocket, she suspects the worst of Ike.

  

Episode 170 - Season 8, Episode 5: The Starlet

When Erin gets involved with a documentary film being made at the Pickett Defense Plant, she is led to believe that can become a star in Hollywood

  

Episode 171 - Season 8, Episode 6: The Journal

John and Olivia must make a decision about publishing a manuscript John-Boy wrote while overseas. Jeffrey becomes very attached to the dog, Reckless, which is suffering from old age.

  

Episode 172 - Season 8, Episode 7: The Lost Sheep

Home on leave from his ship in the South Pacific, Ashley Longworth, Jr. asks Erin to marry him immediately. Erin is thrilled, but begins to have doubts when Ashley tells her he has vowed never to enter a church again.

  

Episode 173 - Season 8, Episode 8: The Violated

While the Waltons wait for news about John-Boy, who is missing in action in Europe, Olivia does volunteer work for the Red Cross. A young GI's wife is raped, and Olivia tries to comfort her.

  

Episode 174 - Season 8, Episode 9: The Waiting

While John-Boy lies in a coma, Olivia accepts a job as a Red Cross volunteer, never losing faith or patience for a sign of his recovery. Rose plans a big Thanksgiving feast.

  

Episode 175 - Season 8, Episode 10: The Silver Wings

Encouraged with his dreams of flying, Jim-Bob finds himself in love with a young married woman whose husband is overseas as a pilot in the air corps.

  

Episode 176 - Season 8, Episode 11: The Wager

Erin and Mary Ellen enter a Run and Ride race, challenging a traditionally all-male domain.

  

Episode 177 - Season 8, Episode 12: The Spirit

A German POW escapes from a North Carolina camp and hides on the mountain. When Jeffrey befriends him, the family asks him in for Christmas Eve.

  

Episode 178 - Season 8, Episode 13: The Fastidious Wife

When Cindy is introduced to the book The Fastidious Wife, she follows its instruction exactly and almost goes into premature labor due to exhaustion.

  

Episode 179 - Season 8, Episode 14: The Unthinkable

A Jewish recruit in Jason's company tells how his grandfather was arrested and murdered by German soldiers in Warsaw.

  

Episode 180 - Season 8, Episode 15: The Idol

Elizabeth's favorite teacher and good friend Hazel must reveal that she is dying of a fatal illness, and Elizabeth must learn to live with another loss -- and learn to forgive Hazel.

  

Episode 181 - Season 8, Episode 16: The Prodigals

Jeffrey and Josh break into Ike's store, and Ben decides to enlist after being humiliated by a soldier.

  

Episode 182 - Season 8, Episode 17: The Remembrance

Zadok Walton, Grandpa's cousin, arrives unannounced to keep a date he made with Zeb twenty-one years ago.

  

Episode 183 - Season 8, Episode 18: The Inspiration

Miss Mamie Baldwin refuses to have an operation for cataracts -- until John brings home a secret weapon: Grandma.

  

Episode 184 - Season 8, Episode 19: The Last Straw

The pressures of wartime and changing values finally affect John Walton. Jeffrey builds a soapbox derby racecar, but then learns the race has been suspended for the duration of the war.

  

Episode 185 - Season 8, Episode 20: The Travelling Man

Mr. Stanley Perkins, a traveling salesman, arrives on Walton's Mountain to rekindle an old romance with Aunt Rose.

  

Episode 186 - Season 8, Episode 21: The Furlough

John-Boy returns home, still suffering memory loss and deeply troubled by his ordeal. Ike is arrested for draft evasion.

  

Episode 187 - Season 8, Episode 22: The Medal

Mary Ellen and Corabeth both encounter men who bring romance into their lives.

  

Episode 188 - Season 8, Episode 23: The Valediction

Jim-Bob graduates as valedictorian from high school just as the Allied Forces invade France. He joins his three brothers as all of them march off for duty overseas.

  

Episode 189 - Season 9, Episode 1: The Outrage Pt. 1

Racing against time, John tries to help a black veteran accused of a crime he never committed. In Europe, John-Boy meets Jason's friend Toni in a recreation room in Paris. In the South Pacific, Ben and his friend Norman have trouble with Sergeant Butler.

  

Episode 190 - Season 9, Episode 2: The Outrage Pt. 2

John asks President Roosevelt to help Harley, who has been falsely convicted of murder.

  

Episode 191 - Season 9, Episode 3: The Pledge

When a favorite patient dies, Mary Ellen decides to become a doctor. Meanwhile, the Waltons plan birthday gifts for Jason in France.

  

Episode 192 - Season 9, Episode 4: The Triumph

While the home front copes with shortages and regulations, Jason and a member of his squad must deal with the question of killing as the war in Europe draws to a close.

  

Episode 193 - Season 9, Episode 5: The Premonition

In Paris, John-Boy becomes a witness to the ongoing carnage of land mines, even though the war in Europe is over, and writes an article for Stars & Stripes to publicize the need for their removal. While in Paris, he falls in love but must return home to Walton's Mountain. Cindy has a premonition of Ben being captured by the Japanese--which proves to be true when the family receives a telegram saying he is a prisoner of war.

  

Episode 194 - Season 9, Episode 6: The Pursuit

When Jim-Bob comes home on furlough, he is soon followed by Kathy Seales with the news that he will be a father. Ben is still a POW in the Pacific.

  

Episode 195 - Season 9, Episode 7: The Last Ten Days

The Walton family hears of the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and awaits word of the Japanese Army's surrender. Jason, home on leave but believing he will soon be sent to the South Pacific, alienates his girlfriend. Ben and his buddy Norm are prisoners of a fanatic Japanese guard who uses them to gain his own freedom as the war comes to an end.

  

Episode 196 - Season 9, Episode 8: The Move

Ben returns home from military service with plans to study engineering. Erin's vacation is disrupted when she gives Cindy her gas stamps and J.D. Pickett claims he can't handle the business without her. John tells the family he must take Olivia to Arizona for her health.

  

Episode 197 - Season 9, Episode 9: The Whirlwind

Mary Ellen is about to give up school to marry a restless young veteran when she gets the shattering news that her husband, Curtis, is still alive. Jason re-opens the Dew Drop Inn.

  

Episode 198 - Season 9, Episode 10: The Tempest

Mary Ellen finds Curt alive in Florida, but he's a very different man.

  

Episode 199 - Season 9, Episode 11: The Carousel

The death of Cindy's father reveals she was adopted, and a search for her real parents begins. Due to the lack of attention from Drew, Elizabeth looks elsewhere for romance.

  

Episode 200 - Season 9, Episode 12: The Hot Rod

Released from military service, Jim-Bob and his friend, Jody, refuse to settle down until an accident forces them to see things differently. The Baldwin sisters discover a secret room.

  

Episode 201 - Season 9, Episode 13: The Gold Watch

Stanley Perkins returns to Rosebut he's not well. A new singer at the Dew Drop pays too much attention to Toni.

  

Episode 202 - Season 9, Episode 14: The Beginning

A new minister comes to Walton's Mountain church and quickly disturbs the congregation. But he soon becomes an important member of the community, especially as he helps Jason and Toni make an important decision about marriage.

  

Episode 203 - Season 9, Episode 15: The Pearls

While Corabeth is out of town, her sister comes to visit Ike. Elizabeth, feeling left out of the lives of her family, decides to run away from home.

  

Episode 204 - Season 9, Episode 16: The Victims

A local girl is brutalized by her husband, and Mary Ellen and Erin are soon involved. Jim-Bob schemes to make money by selling war surplus goods.

  

Episode 205 - Season 9, Episode 17: The Threshold

Jim-Bob builds a television set so that the family can see John-Boy's experimental television project. Rose's crash diet raises complications for herself, the family and friends.

  

Episode 206 - Season 9, Episode 18: The Indiscretion

Corabeth files for divorce over some old love letters. Drew wants a night with Elizabeth.

  

Episode 207 - Season 9, Episode 19: The Heartache

Rose's wedding is nearly canceled when she discovers that she has a heart condition. Cindy takes a job and finds that she's happier at home.

  

Episode 208 - Season 9, Episode 20: The Lumberjack

Erin falls in love with a young lumberjack with a mysterious past. Ike and Jim-Bob hunt for uranium on Walton's Mountain.

  

Episode 209 - Season 9, Episode 21: The Hostage

Mary Ellen interferes in the mountain tradition of promising young girls in marriage, and the frustrated groom retaliates by kidnapping Elizabeth. The Baldwins welcome their eccentric cousin Octavia.

  

Episode 210 - Season 9, Episode 22: The Revel

John-Boy goes to New York to pursue his writing career, and the Baldwin sisters plan a fancy dress ball -- but both plans go awry.

  



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