The Waltons
The life and trials of a 1930s and 1940s Virginia mountain family through financial depression and World War II.
Cast:Jon Walmsley , Mary Beth McDonough , Eric Scott , Kami Cotler , Judy Norton , David W. Harper , Earl Hamner Jr. , Ralph Waite , Joe Conley , Michael Learned , Ellen Corby , Will Geer , Richard Thomas , Ronnie Claire Edwards , Sassa Sofou , Mary Jackson , Helen Kleeb , Michael Reed
S1.E1 ∙ The Foundling
The family takes in a deaf girl who was abandoned by her mother.
S1.E2 ∙ The Carnival
Four carnival performers are stranded after the carnival leaves Walton's Mountain, so they stay with the Waltons while they try to get back home.
S1.E3 ∙ The Calf
The children are upset when their father sells a newborn calf to another farmer who intends to slaughter it for beef.
S1.E4 ∙ The Hunt
John-Boy goes on his first turkey hunt with his father and two of his friends.
S1.E5 ∙ The Typewriter
John-Boy secretly borrows a typewriter from the Baldwin sisters, and Mary Ellen inadvertently gives it to a junk dealer.
S1.E6 ∙ The Star
When a meteorite falls through the Baldwin sisters' roof, it has strange effects on the people of Walton's Mountain; the sisters are convinced by their cousin Polonius that the star is a sign from their father saying that they should stop making "the recipe," while Grandpa believes he is going to die soon.
S1.E7 ∙ The Sinner
Reverend Mathew Fordwick arrives in Walton's Mountain, but his credibility is tarnished even before his first service after drinking "the recipe" at an afternoon with the Baldwin sisters.
S1.E8 ∙ The Boy from the CCC
A cynical New York teenager ends up staying on Walton's Mountain.
S1.E9 ∙ The Ceremony
A family of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany move to Walton's Mountain, where they try to hide their Judaism for fears of antisemitism.
S1.E10 ∙ The Legend
For years John has thrilled his family with tales of his old Army buddy "Tip". Now Tip has come to Walton's Mountain for a visit. Is the children's hero all he's cracked up to be?
S1.E11 ∙ The Literary Man
A writer comes to Walton's Mountain and impresses John-Boy with his tales of literary connections and accomplishments.
S1.E12 ∙ The Dust Bowl Cousins
Cousins from Kansas come to visit while they await news of possible employment in Newport News.
S1.E13 ∙ The Reunion
The Baldwin sisters' cousin Homer Lee Baldwin visits them, and inspires the sisters to organize a family reunion.
S1.E14 ∙ The Minstrel
The Waltons have a contract to pick an apple orchard, but Mary Ellen shirks it to listen to a traveling musician who convinces her that her dreams are more important than her responsibilities.
S1.E15 ∙ The Actress
Alvira Drummond, a glamorous actress of the stage and screen, is stranded on Walton's Mountain by her chauffeur whom she claims has stolen all of her money and her belongings.
S1.E16 ∙ The Fire
Miss Hunter is threatened by Lutie Bascomb for teaching the origins of the human race, accusing her of filling his daughter Lois Mae's head with "blasphemy" and "atheism".
S1.E17 ∙ The Love Story
John-Boy falls in love with Jenny Pendleton, a young girl staying with the family while her father and stepmother are in Richmond.
S1.E18 ∙ The Courtship
The family sets up their cousin Cody, a 64-year-old bachelor, on a date with Cordelia Hunnicutt, who has been married four times.
S1.E19 ∙ The Gypsies
A band of traveling Gypsies face prejudice from some of the townspeople.
S1.E20 ∙ The Deed
The validity of the Waltons' claim to their land is questioned when they cannot produce a legal deed to the property. To sort out their legal troubles they must raise $200 and John-boy assists by taking a job in the city of Wheeling.
S1.E21 ∙ The Scholar
When Verdie Grant learns her daughter is graduating from college, she feels embarrassed by the fact that she never learned to read or write. She asks John-Boy to teach her, on the condition that he keeps it a secret.
S1.E23 ∙ The Townie
John-Boy refuses to take friendship with a neighbor's sheltered daughter to the next level.
S1.E24 ∙ An Easter Story
When Olivia is stricken with polio, John-Boy refuses to accept the doctor's prognosis that she may never walk again.
S2.E1 ∙ The Journey
An elderly neighbor reinforces John-Boy's feelings that despite hard times he is lucky to be surrounded by a loving family.
S2.E2 ∙ The Odyssey
John-Boy seeks some solitude to write his stories, but finds a life-altering situation.
S2.E3 ∙ The Separation
A misunderstanding and plain stubborn pride causes a rift between the Walton grandparents.
S2.E4 ∙ The Theft
The disappearance of some valuable silver pieces throws suspicion on one of the Waltons.
S2.E5 ∙ The Roots
An itinerant worker and his young son stay with the Waltons, causing the son to want his father to give up life on the road.
S2.E6 ∙ The Chicken Thief
A local "Robin Hood" who steals from the "haves" and gives to the "have-nots" causes a crisis of conscience for John-Boy
S2.E7 ∙ The Prize
As the Waltons prepare their entries for the local fair, an old suitor of Olivia's visits.
S2.E8 ∙ The Braggart
When a grownup Hobie Shanks visits the Waltons, John Boy seems to be the only one put off by his outlandish claims.
S2.E9 ∙ The Fawn
Erin adopts a wild animal while John Boy gets a life lesson with a new job
S2.E10 ∙ The Thanksgiving Story
Thanksgiving time on Walton's Mountain means a turkey shoot, a school play about early settlers, and the big meal. One year it also included a rekindled love affair and a life-threatening accident.
S2.E11 ∙ The Substitute
When Miss Hunter is called away unexpectedly, a substitute teacher with ways of her own takes over.
S2.E12 ∙ The Bequest
The promise of inherited money is behind some happy moments and unusual conflicts for the Walton Family.
S2.E13 ∙ The Air Mail Man
Engine trouble on the air mail transport plane means the Waltons have a guest for a few days.
S2.E14 ∙ The Triangle
John Boy's growing attachment to Miss Hunter is rocked when she becomes interested in someone else.
S2.E15 ∙ The Awakening
Grandma is turning 68 and concerned about getting old. She may have a hearing loss. Mary Ellen is attracted to a college man.
S2.E16 ∙ The Honeymoon
Olvia and John finally get a chance to take their postponed honeymoon to Virginia Beach.
S2.E17 ∙ The Heritage
An offer to buy their land makes the Waltons think about what it would be like to have more money than they need.
S2.E18 ∙ The Gift
Jason and John Boy's friend Seth is diagnosed with leukemia. Seth wants to teach Jason how to play a recorder he made for him before he dies.
S2.E19 ∙ The Cradle
Olivia is happy to learn that she is pregnant again, but John worries that having another baby will be hard for her.
S2.E20 ∙ The Fulfillment
Curtis and Ann are unhappy to learn that they are unable to have children of their own. However, an orphan boy visiting with the Waltons shows them that they can still have a family by adopting him.
S2.E21 ∙ The Ghost Story
Strange things are occurring at the Walton home. The family uses a Ouija board to ask questions about the happenings. A small boy staying at the home is to leave to meet his father. Things happen to prevent this.
S2.E22 ∙ The Graduation
John Boy's high school graduation approaches, and he needs a new suit. Olivia and Grandma struggle to come up with one.
S2.E23 ∙ The Five Foot Shelf
A broke salesman buys a doll for his daughter with Olivia's down payment on a set of books.
S2.E24 ∙ The Car
Now that he is in college, John Boy is in need of a car. He finds a good car owned by a neighbor and makes a deal to trade the car for work he does on the neighbor's house.
S3.E1 ∙ The Conflict
Grandpa's sister in law is being forced out of their home by a government project. The Waltons go to their land to help defend the homestead. John-Boy is torn between his ideals and the family loyalty.
S3.E2 ∙ The First Day
John-Boy experiences mishaps on his first day as a freshman at Boatwright University while Jason does his best to take charge of the Walton kids.
S3.E3 ∙ The Thoroughbred
John Boy and his mule aim to get the Walton family name on a local race's trophy for the first time since Grandpa won the race years ago. It seems to be a sure victory until a well-to-do college mate and his thoroughbred racehorse enter.
S3.E4 ∙ The Runaway
Everyone in the Walton house is too busy to pay attention Jim Bob so he takes matters into his own hands.
S3.E5 ∙ The Romance
John-Boy teaches Olivia to drive so she can take an art class, and the art teacher takes a personal interest in her.
S3.E6 ∙ The Ring
Mary Ellen discovers a beautiful ring in a secondhand purse she bought for a date with John Boy's best friend.
S3.E7 ∙ The System
John Boy tutors another person on a scholarship. He cheats during test and has to be turned in. John Boy acts as his lawyer to keep him in college rather than be expelled.
S3.E8 ∙ The Spoilers
A mountain man moves his family back to Walton's Mountain. The family members (except the father) are city folks and do not enjoy the mountains. Spoiled brats, they try to show the Waltons they are country hicks.
S3.E9 ∙ The Marathon
John Boy participates in a dance marathon with Daisy. Daisy turns up later in the series as a visiting friend and love interest for John Boy.
S3.E10 ∙ The Book
The publication of John Boy's book of short stories gives John-Boy a swelled-head and overshadows Jason's debut as a musician. Complications arise because of that.
S3.E11 ∙ The Job
John Boy gets a job reading to a blind woman. He encourages her to live instead of sulk because of her blindness.
S3.E12 ∙ The Departure
Feeling "put out to pasture," John Walton seeks adventure by taking a job at a shipyard in Norfolk.
S3.E13 ∙ The Visitor
An elderly former neighbor comes back to Walton's Mountain to live. Everyone helps get the house ready for his wife's return, but strange circumstances surround the visit.
S3.E14 ∙ The Birthday
Grandpa loses his will to live after a near fatal heart attack; the family takes desperate measures.
S3.E15 ∙ The Lie
John Boy tries to unravel the circumstances of a hit and run charge brought against Ben in a nearby town.
S3.E16 ∙ The Matchmakers
John's unmarried cousin Corabeth Walton (Ronnie Claire Edwards) comes for a visit after the death of her mother. Ike Godsey takes a liking to her and decides he is tired of the bachelor life.
S3.E17 ∙ The Beguiled
John-Boy encounters a sassy, spoiled, selfish gal whose selfish ways cause problems for John Boy and even for Jim Bob's friend.
S3.E18 ∙ The Caretakers
Grandpa and Grandma feel left out and move to house-sit for for a neighbor. John has to hire someone to help at the mill who turns out to be no good.
S3.E19 ∙ The Shivaree
Olivia plans a wedding for a friend's daughter, but the city-bred fiance (Bruce Davison) objects to the proceedings.
S3.E20 ∙ The Choice
John wants to expand the mill and call it Walton and Sons, but Jason wants to study music. He tries to get a scholarship. John-Boy is told he should write a novel.
S3.E21 ∙ The Statue
John Boy's story, if published, may devastate Emily Baldwin. Grandpa wins a statue at a raffle. The statue resembles his old girlfriend, and Grandma does not like having it around.
S3.E22 ∙ The Song
Ben and Jason's relationship is strained when Ben suggests Jason hire a girl who Ben likes, Sally Ann (Erin Moran), to sing his new song with him in Bobby Bigelow's band. The plan backfires on Ben when Sally falls for Jason instead.
S3.E23 ∙ The Woman
John-Boy falls for a poet who is visiting his college. Meanwhile, John and Olivia celebrate their anniversary by renewing their vows.
S3.E24 ∙ The Venture
The family may lose its considerable investment in a new business when John gets hospitalized with pneumonia.
S4.E1 ∙ The Sermon
The reverend and teacher get married. Olivia is asked to be the substitute teacher and John Boy is asked to preach the sermon.
S4.E2 ∙ The Genius
John-Boy's dean asks him to take care of a 16-year-old genius college student for a weekend. The genius is gifted in all academic areas, but woefully lacking in social graces.
S4.E3 ∙ The Fighter
A prize fighter arrives searching for work, living and training in the Waltons' barn. Some are put off by his fighting, but he wants to build a church in the community.
S4.E4 ∙ The Prophecy
John's 25th high school reunion is being planned, but he is apprehensive about facing his highly successful classmates. John-Boy fears he will never make a living as a writer. Jim-Bob makes a profound comment.
S4.E5 ∙ The Boondoggle
A traveling reporter visits the mountain to write story about Judge Baldwin. What he finds upsets the Baldwin sisters and disturbs the community.
S4.E6 ∙ The Breakdown
Jason spends too much time playing with a band. His school work, music lessons, and health begin to suffer. Meanwhile, John-Boy gets a part-time job in a library; the librarian wants him to choose it as a profession.
S4.E7 ∙ The Wing-Walker
John-Boy and Jim-Bob fall in love with a visiting wing walker who is hiding a dark secret.
S4.E8 ∙ The Competition
Mary Ellen and Erin both fall for a forestry student (Michael O'Keefe). He is there to study the trees on Walton's Mountain. Erin and the forestry student date.
S4.E9 ∙ The Emergence
Marsha, John-Boy's old girlfriend, returns to sell her family home at the urging of her fiance. Wedding plans end when the fiance realizes the home is in debt. Olivia helps a disadvantaged student get glasses.
S4.E10 ∙ The Loss
Cousin Olivia, who married on the mountain in The Shivaree episode, returns to Walton's Mountain following her husband's sudden death. Family cat has kittens and dies giving birth. Elizabeth and Cousin Olivia both have to heal.
S4.E11 ∙ The Abdication
King Edward VIII abdicates the throne and the Waltons follow the story. Meanwhile, a movie production team is in town and John-Boy reconnects with a friend who's part of the production crew. John-Boy is offered a job.
S4.E12 ∙ The Estrangement
The family helps Vera Walton and her husband, Wade, navigate a rough patch in their marriage. She cannot get used to the city and he is too used to it. He has fallen into the criminal element.
S4.E13 ∙ The Nurse
Mary Ellen is eager to begin nursing school, but is unhappy to learn that she lacks the education in algebra and chemistry needed to enter.
S4.E14 ∙ The Intruders
Ben is upset at how he is treated at the mill. He gets a job at another lumber company, not realizing they are competing for the same jobs.
S4.E15 ∙ The Search
Olivia and Elizabeth take a car trip; Jim-Bob is forced to also go. They have car trouble. Elizabeth wanders off. Olivia and Jim-Bob find her but by now, all are lost. Jim-Bob uses his skills to keep everyone safe till they are found.
S4.E16 ∙ The Secret
Jim-Bob wonders if he is adopted because he does not look like other family members. No one wants to talk about his birth, so he investigates and uncovers a long hidden family secret.
S4.E17 ∙ The Fox
Ben starts to hunt animals for their skins to sell for profit. Meanwhile, the Rough Riders are holding a reunion. Grandpa, for all his talk about charging up the hill with Teddy Roosevelt, does not want to attend.
S4.E18 ∙ The Burnout
A fire breaks out and burns most of the house. John-Boy loses his completed novel in order to save Erin. As John, Grandpa and John-Boy make repairs, the family must send the younger children to friends and neighbors.
S4.E19 ∙ The Big Brother
John-Boy sees a young innocent looking girl who appears to be traveling alone. He takes her home. She seems to fit in, but Grandpa sees through her.
S4.E20 ∙ The Test
Olivia gets a job in the city as a dressmaker. She enjoys it but soon realizes she misses the family too much. Maude Gormley isn't adjusting well to life in a retirement home and returns to the mountain.
S4.E21 ∙ The Quilting
Mary Ellen resists joining in on a quilting when she reaches the marrying age. This hurts Grandma's feelings.
S4.E22 ∙ The House
Grandma starts a petition to save the old Whitley house, which Grandpa has been contracted to tear down. John-Boy, as editor, writes to suggest that people salvage parts out of the house. Jason plays piano in a music recital.
S4.E23 ∙ The Fledgling
John-Boy wants to buy a printing press to start his own newspaper. He takes a full time job to earn money for the down payment.
S4.E24 ∙ The Collision
And old love (Kathleen Quinlan) returns and urges John-Boy to join the rebellion in Spain.
S5.E1 ∙ The First Edition
John-Boy prepares to publish his first newspaper. It includes a story about Ben's troubles, which infuriates Olivia. She demands that he delete it, but John-Boy has to publish the story to follow his convictions.
S5.E2 ∙ The Vigil
Nursing student Mary Ellen is sure she knows what is causing Grandma's stomach pains, but it turns out the problem is different-and life-threatening. Erin begins a new job as a phone operator for Fanny Tatum.
S5.E3 ∙ The Comeback
Jason's scholarship at the music academy is canceled. He gets a job at the Dew Drop Inn. Red Turner (Merle Haggard), who lost his son in an earlier episode, is talked into performing at the Dew Drop.
S5.E4 ∙ The Baptism
A famous evangelist (John Karlen) is coming to town, and Olivia and Esther hope John and Ben will be converted and baptized. Jim-Bob finds a peacock and names him Rover.
S5.E5 ∙ The Fire Storm
John-Boy becomes the target of public indignation when he insists on printing excerpts from Hitler's "Mein Kampf" in his newspaper. Erin competes in a beauty pageant.
S5.E6 ∙ The Nightwalker
A prowler is lurking around Walton's Mountain, which threatens Jason's plans to hold a community dance at Ike Godsey's new Hall.
S5.E7 ∙ The Wedding: Part 1
Mary Ellen is engaged to Dr David Spencer and they plan the wedding. Dr Curtis Willard arrives to be the town doctor. Mary Ellen begins to have second thoughts about her engagement.
S5.E8 ∙ The Wedding: Part 2
Mary Ellen is engaged to Dr David Spencer and they plan the wedding. Dr Curtis Willard arrives to be the town doctor. Mary Ellen begins to have second thoughts about her engagement.
S5.E9 ∙ The Cloudburst
In a desperate attempt to make a loan payment on his printing press John-Boy sells his 10 acre meadow on Waltons Mountain, deeply upsetting Grandpa. Mary Ellen experiences her first challenges as a nurse.
S5.E10 ∙ The Great Motorcycle Race
Jim-Bob fixes up Ike's old motorcycle and enters a motorcycle race. The Godseys look into adopting a baby.
S5.E11 ∙ The Pony Cart
Grandpa's 90 year old sister-in-law, Martha Corrine (Beulah Bondi), comes to the mountain to visit. She's a meddlesome house guest, but her cantankerous ways mask a solemn secret. She helps Ben build a pony cart.
S5.E12 ∙ The Best Christmas
Olivia wants this Christmas to be the best ever. Everything seems to happen to prevent this.
S5.E13 ∙ The Last Mustang
Sheriff Bridges is running for re-election but an out of town opponent has more charm and threatens to put Ep out of a job. A wild mustang is captured and Grandpa is determined to make sure it can continue to run free on Walton's Mountain.
S5.E14 ∙ The Rebellion
Another woman begins to play the church organ instead of Grandma which upsets Grandma. Olivia is restless and decides to get a perm with terrible results.
S5.E15 ∙ The Ferris Wheel
As the annual carnival approaches, Elizabeth has recurring nightmares of being trapped on a runaway Ferris wheel. Meanwhile, Ben believes that his height is affecting how people see and treat him.
S5.E16 ∙ The Elopement
The forestry student who previously visited Waltons Mountain (in "The Competition") now returns, and asks Erin to marry him.
S5.E17 ∙ John's Crossroad
Grandma's medical bills and the mill's deterioration force John to take a job away from home to make more money. At the job, everyone in the office fears the manager who makes life miserable for all. Elizabeth is a tomboy.
S5.E18 ∙ The Career Girl
Erin graduates from high school still having no direction for her life. She gets a job as a switchboard operator to buy a typewriter for John-Boy. Family members sneak a look at John-Boy's novel about them and the community.
S5.E19 ∙ The Hero
The Waltons find out Sheriff Ep is a decorated war hero and John-Boy wants to write about it. Ep wants to keep it quiet. Also, an old friend of Ep's comes to visit. Jim-Boy likes to talk to her about cars and war.
S5.E20 ∙ The Inferno
John-Boy wins a journalism prize: $25 and a trip to New Jersey to cover the landing of the Hindenburg. Curt is growing annoyed with the continual presence of Mary Ellen's family.
S5.E21 ∙ The Heartbreaker
Jason falls in love with Curt's restless sister, Vanessa (Linda Purl), who has left her husband to become a singer. John-Boy publishes a story from his novel in his newspaper that upsets his grandfather.
S5.E22 ∙ The Long Night
Grandma's hospitalization troubles the family, especially Grandpa, who becomes depressed and withdrawn.
S5.E23 ∙ The Hiding Place
The Baldwin's niece arrives from war-threatened Vienna. John-Boy wants to interview her about events in Europe, but she objects. Jason joins the National Guard and Olivia is upset.
S5.E24 ∙ The Go-Getter
John and Ben again come to blows about work at the mill. Ben quits and becomes a used-car salesman. He does a good job - but with questionable sales tactics.
S5.E25 ∙ The Achievement
John-Boy sent his novel to a publisher and does not hear anything. He travels to New York to get an update. There, he is torn between the city and home.
S6.E1 ∙ The Hawk
A hawk is attacking the Waltons' chickens. Grandpa and Jim-Bob try to catch it. Also, a new minister joins the community.
S6.E2 ∙ The Stray
The Waltons find a 12 year old runaway in their barn. He fits into the family and they want to keep him - but he is black. It would never work out with the way society is.
S6.E3 ∙ The Recluse
Jason helps a woman named Fern; she is withdrawn from the world because of a past relationship. He helps her come out of the shell. Meanwhile, Ben goes to find work in Norfolk.
S6.E4 ∙ The Warrior
An elderly Indian and his grandson visit the mountain to find their family burial ground. It is on the Waltons' land.
S6.E5 ∙ The Seashore
The Waltons visit the seashore and stay at the Baldwin's beach home. An English girl is staying there. Meanwhile Ben stays home, hoping to enjoy time alone. He is anything but alone.
S6.E6 ∙ The Volunteer
GW Haines proposes to Erin. She says no. GW joins the army. Meanwhile, Rover, the family peacock, is in heat and making a lot of noise.
S6.E7 ∙ The Grandchild
Mary Ellen gives birth to the Waltons' first grandchild, John Curtis Willard. However, Cassie, a lonely and superstitious teenage neighbor whose premature baby girl was stillborn, believes John Curtis was sent to replace her own baby and she kidnaps him. It is up to Olivia to gently explain to Cassie that someday Cassie will have another baby, but that John Curtis is really Mary Ellen's.
S6.E8 ∙ The First Casualty
Curt is called to serve in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, and Walton's Mountain receives its first war casualty when G.W. is killed in a training exercise. Yancy Tucker marries Cissy and tries to enlist.
S6.E9 ∙ The Battle of Drucilla's Pond
Soldiers practice war at Drusilla's pond. Corabeth teaches a tap dance routine to Elizabeth and Aimee. They put on a show.
S6.E10 ∙ The Flight
Jim-Bob meets a boy who is on his way to join the Air Corps, but the boy never actually leaves. Turns out he is a runaway. Meanwhile, Elizabeth misses Grandma, and thus builds a grandmotherly relationship with Maude Gormley.
S6.E11 ∙ The Children's Carol
As Christmas approaches, Mary Ellen and the baby leave to be near Curt; the Baldwins shelter two children from England; Verdie bakes and sells cakes to raise money for the needy overseas.
S6.E12 ∙ The Milestone
Not understanding why she suddenly feels emotionally fragile, Olivia turns to her Aunt Kate (Louise Latham) for advice. Jim-Bob tries to get a job dishonestly.
S6.E13 ∙ The Celebration
The Waltons have one remaining payment on their mortgage. John and the family rush to complete one big lumber job to pay it off. As they celebrate, Ike Godsey faces financial trouble.
S6.E14 ∙ The Rumor
Members of Flossie Brimmer's family visit the mountain. The community does not welcome them due to their German accent. Elizabeth starts a rumor about them. (April 1940)
S6.E15 ∙ Spring Fever
Ben and Jim-Bob get on each other's nerves. They end up dating each other's girlfriends. Meanwhile, Mamie Baldwin sees a rose bush dying and thinks it means she will die. Grandpa finds a way to help her feel young again.
S6.E16 ∙ The Festival
In spring of 1940, Jason practices his music for a town festival. He finds Josh, Verdie's son, plays the horn. They practice together. The festival organizers do not want Josh. Elizabeth and Aimee Godsey compete for the same boy.
S6.E17 ∙ The Anniversary
John and Olivia celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. Mary Ellen and Curtis begin to feel the stain of separation due to the war.
S6.E18 ∙ The Family Tree
Jason helps Verdie research her family tree. They find people who knew her family. Elizabeth starts writing to a soldier at Camp Lee, pretending she is 18 years old by sending Erin's picture as her own.
S6.E19 ∙ The Ordeal
Elizabeth breaks both legs in a fall from a log pile. When she comes home from the hospital, the family must adjust to her injuries and devise ways to help her walk again, something the Doctors aren't sure she'll be able to do.
S6.E20 ∙ The Return
John-Boy returns to Walton's Mountain to write about the failing economy and lack of jobs. He talks Mr Guthrie into opening the old mine. As the menfolk are in the mine, it collapses. John makes a decision about working at a defense plant.
S6.E21 ∙ The Revelation
John-Boy proposes to Daisy and she says yes. Daisy reconnects with her mother and learns some surprising news. Elizabeth and her friend George open a lemonade stand. Grandpa finds a way to increase sales.
S6.E22 ∙ Grandma Comes Home
An unhappy Grandma returns home to a loving and excited family and an overprotective Grandpa; a shy boy makes plans to see Elizabeth.
S7.E1 ∙ The Empty Nest
Grandpa Zeb (Will Greer) has died and everyone is mourning. Neighbor Flossie Brimmer has also died. Mary Ellen and Erin move to Charlottesville into an apartment to be on their own. John tries to get a large lumber contract.
S7.E2 ∙ The Calling
Jim-Bob falls for the Baldwin sisters' pretty young cousin who's visiting from a convent school, but her plans may not include long-term romance. Ben hires a mill hand with a drinking problem.
S7.E3 ∙ The Moonshiner
Boone Walton is placed in the care of Jason after being charged with bootlegging. John-Boy's old love, Daisy Garner, arrives on the mountain with her daughter Melissa.
S7.E4 ∙ The Obsession
Mary Ellen becomes dependent on amphetamines while studying for her nursing exam. Fed up with his lifestyle, Sissy Tucker leaves Yancy.
S7.E5 ∙ The Changeling
Elizabeth is turning 13 years old - not quite a child, not quite a woman. Strange things begin to happen due to her being unsettled. Jason has a job giving love advice on the radio.
S7.E6 ∙ The Portrait
Erin meets a painter who wants to paint her portrait. He is troubled by events he saw in Paris.
S7.E7 ∙ The Captive
Corabeth Godsey feels trapped by her unchanging life on Walton's Mountain. She begins to drink.
S7.E8 ∙ The Illusion
Verdie Foster's daughter Esther returns to the mountain. Graduated with honors from college, she cannot find a job. Erin helps her get a job at Pickets Plant. Ike Godsey puts up a board of the local boys in the war.
S7.E9 ∙ The Beau
A former boyfriend of Grandma's comes to visit. He understands her struggles with a stroke. Elizabeth is upset that someone seems to take Grandpa's place.
S7.E10 ∙ Day of Infamy
Just as Mary Ellen prepares to join Curt in Hawaii, the attack on Pearl Harbor occurs, forcing the U.S. into World War II and leaving Mary Ellen and Verdie concerned for their loved ones stationed there.
S7.E11 ∙ The Yearning
A new minister joins the community at Walton's Mountain. Elizabeth helps him settle in, and begins to fall for him. Erin helps the Baldwin sisters with their memoirs.
S7.E12 ∙ The Boosters
Ben starts an autocourt venture with Corabeth. Then they find out the government stops all new constructions. Ben comes up with a clever plan to use old cabins. Meanwhile, Yancy takes a mail course to become a barber.
S7.E13 ∙ The Conscience
Jason expresses doubt to the army recruiters that he could ever kill a person. Ben is embarrassed by his hesitation to serve. Meanwhile, Jim-Bob cannot wait to serve.
S7.E14 ∙ The Obstacle
John-Boy asks his family to help Mike Paxton, a friend who was recently handicapped. They show him being in a wheelchair is not the end of his life and show him how to adjust. Erin helps him get a job at Pickets.
S7.E15 ∙ The Parting
Olivia is always tired these days. When a rest does not help, she sees a doctor and learns what is wrong. Jim-Bob tries to show that he can do more than just work on machines.
S7.E16 ∙ The Burden
While Jim-Bob is working underneath a car, it falls and Jim-Bob has a close call with death and decides to become a minister. Elizabeth catches bugs for a school project and keeps them in the house.
S7.E17 ∙ The Pin-Up
Ben has a new camera. Erin walks in the room with shorts and cute top. She poses coyly, and he takes a picture. The picture becomes a pin-up for the soldiers at Camp Lee. Since losing Curt, Mary Ellen is overly protective of John Curtis.
S7.E18 ∙ The Attack
Ike has a heart attack and is hospitalized. The Walton family children help out by running his store for him. Ben and Jim-Bob make molasses due to the sugar shortage.
S7.E19 ∙ The Legacy
Ashley Longworth returns to Emily Baldwin. Ashley Longworth Jr, that is. Miss Emily blends her beau with Ashley Jr and sometimes loses reality. Erin and Ashley begin a relationship. Elizabeth wonders if she should wear a bra.
S7.E20 ∙ The Outsider
Ben surprises his family by bringing home a woman - his new bride. It takes a while, but the family welcomes her. Corabeth Godsey wants Ike to purchase a fountain she remembers so well from her youth.
S7.E21 ∙ The Torch
An old girlfriend of John Walton buys the Dew Drop Inn where Jason works. John stops at the Dew Drop to visit with her. She still has feelings for him, but he loves his wife. Ike Godsey opens a canteen for the soldiers.
S7.E22 ∙ The Tailspin
Jim-Bob finds out he is not eligible to fly in the Air Corps due to bad vision. He realizes he can join to work on the planes even if he cannot fly them. Mary Ellen has doubts about starting to go out again.
S7.E23 ∙ Founders' Day
The town prepares for a Founder's Day Celebration. Who settled there first? The Baldwins, the Waltons, or the Godseys? Jason has to prepare a piece of music for graduating from the Kleinberg Conservatory.
S8.E1 ∙ The Home Front: Part 1
John has been appointed to the local draft board. John convinces a young soldier who went AWOL to return to his unit and the boy is subsequently lost when a troop ship is torpedoed. The boy's father wants revenge. Also, there's bad news about John-Boy.
S8.E2 ∙ The Home Front: Part 2
The family members all seem involved in the war effort. John helps with the draft board. A soldier who signed up because of John is killed in the war, and the father wants to take revenge. Bad news about John-Boy.
S8.E3 ∙ The Kinfolk
Rose arrives at the Waltons' home with her grandchildren. The grandchildren always cause trouble and get into mischief on purpose. Jim-Bob and Ike build an air raid siren; Jeffrey finds it and causes trouble.
S8.E4 ∙ The Diploma
John has to prove he graduated from high school in order to continue getting contracts and security for government contracts. Mary Ellen becomes the nurse for the mountain folk when Nora is called into the service.
S8.E5 ∙ The Innocents
The parents who work at Picket's defense plant leave their children in the parking lot while the parents work. Olivia wants to open a day care in Picket's bar room for the workers. Ike learns to dance.
S8.E6 ∙ The Starlet
Film makers film a documentary at Picket's Plant and make Erin the "star". She thinks she might have a future in movies; one of the assistants gives her the truth. The Baldwin sisters host a dinner for the soldiers. Jason helps.
S8.E7 ∙ The Journal
John-Boy is still missing, but a publisher has his journal and wants to publish it. It is told from a soldier's point of view. John and Olivia have to decide.
S8.E8 ∙ The Lost Sheep
Ashley Longworth Jr returns to the mountain. He proposes to Erin and she accepts. Problems arise when he says he does not want to be married in a church. Serena (Rose's granddaughter) follows Elizabeth all the time.
S8.E9 ∙ The Violated
A soldier is sending his wife mail, but getting no replies. Olivia looks into it and finds something bad happened to the wife. Corabeth Godsey learns she will receive an inheritance. It is not what she expects.
S8.E10 ∙ The Waiting
John-Boy is no longer missing in war. He is in a coma in a hospital in Alexandria. John and Olivia go to see him. Rose is left at home to make the Thanksgiving meal and tries to cheer everyone up.
S8.E11 ∙ The Silver Wings
Jim-Bob helps a newcomer, the wife of an Air Corps pilot, refurbish an old cabin and finds himself falling hopelessly in love.
S8.E12 ∙ The Wager
A run (on foot) and ride (on horse) race is being held. Mary Ellen and Erin bet two guys that they will win. Elizabeth becomes a taskmaster in training Mary Ellen and Erin. Jeffrey gets a signed picture from a movie star.
S8.E13 ∙ The Spirit
A series of thefts worries the community. Jeffrey makes friends with a mysterious visitor (Ned Bellamy) on Walton's Mountain. He's an escaped German prisoner. Corabeth's holiday pageant is canceled.
S8.E14 ∙ The Fastidious Wife
Corabeth tries to sell a book at the store about being a perfect wife. She gives Cindy a book. She tries to follow all the instructions and ends up exhausted. Jeffrey and Serena find a pregnant cat and want to keep her and the kittens.
S8.E15 ∙ The Unthinkable
A soldier in Jason's company is Jewish. He tells the Waltons what is happening to Jews by the Nazis. Meanwhile, Elizabeth is getting teased for being such a smart student at school.
S8.E16 ∙ The Idol
Elizabeth is fascinated by the new schoolteacher, a modern thinker who dares to teach her students where babies come from. Cindy is reaching the final stage of her pregnancy.
S8.E17 ∙ The Prodigals
Jeffrey and Josh steal from Ike's store. Josh gets caught. Ben decides to enlist in the service even though he is exempt due to working at the mill.
S8.E18 ∙ The Remembrance
Grandpa's Cousin Zadok pays the family a visit to settle his affairs. At Camp Rockfish, Jason tries to break the ice with an officious female sergeant.
S8.E19 ∙ The Inspiration
Mamie Baldwin refuses to have cataract surgery, so Grandma moves in with the Baldwins and shows them what it is like to be blind. Elizabeth starts seeing Drew (Tony Becker).
S8.E20 ∙ The Last Straw
John thinks about giving up the lumber mill when it seems like everything is going wrong. Jeffrey builds a soapbox and enters a race.
S8.E21 ∙ The Travelling Man
A former boyfriend and dance partner of Rose's comes to visit. Rose and Stanley Perkins resume their relationship. The open road still calls out to Stanley. Meanwhile, Jeffrey has a new dog who is in the teething stage.
S8.E22 ∙ The Furlough
John-Boy is released from the hospital and returns to Walton's Mountain. Ike is arrested for draft evasion.
S8.E23 ∙ The Medal
Mary Ellen receives a medal that was awarded to Curtis after he died. A former friend of Corabeth visits; he and Corabeth begin to see each other. Ike is concerned.
S8.E24 ∙ The Valediction
Jim-Bob's class is graduating and he has the high grade. He is the valedictorian. His class prepares a graduation ceremony that is fitting for war time. (June 1944)
S9.E1 ∙ The Outrage: Part 1
Verdie's husband Harley is arrested for an old crime. John tries to prove his innocence or a way to avoid prison. John-Boy and Toni try to find Jason in France. Corabeth stops working at the store. Elizabeth puts off Drew to ride her horse.
S9.E2 ∙ The Outrage: Part 2
Verdie's husband Harley is arrested for an old crime. John tries to prove his innocence or a way to avoid prison. John-Boy and Toni try to find Jason in France. Corabeth stops working at the store. Elizabeth puts off Drew to ride her horse.
S9.E3 ∙ The Pledge
Mary Ellen wants to attend medical school. The dean wants to keep her out, but she is persistent. The Baldwin sisters send The Recipe to Jason in France.
S9.E4 ∙ The Triumph
Jason faces a German sniper who doesn't know the war in Europe just ended. Back on the mountain, Ike is charged with violating rationing regulations.
S9.E5 ∙ The Premonition
While happy the war is over, Cindy has a premonition that Ben is in trouble. The family finds out Ben was captured. John-Boy is still in France and falls in love with a woman who owns a book store. He researches story on unexploded mines.
S9.E6 ∙ The Pursuit
A girl (Jennifer Jason Leigh) claims she is pregnant by Jim-Bob; POW Ben protests his captors by flying a makeshift American flag; Jason is re-stationed in Paris where he reconnects with Toni.
S9.E7 ∙ The Last Ten Days
In the Pacific, Ben fears execution when he and another POW are marched into the jungle at gunpoint; Jason and Toni seem uncertain about the future of their romance.
S9.E8 ∙ The Move
Ben returns home. He plans on leaving the Waltons' mill and becoming an engineer. Olivia has a relapse in her health and has to again leave Walton's Mountain.
S9.E9 ∙ The Whirlwind
Jonesy arrives in town and meets Mary Ellen. They have a whirlwind romance and plan to marry. Mary Ellen receives some surprising news about Curtis after all these years. Jason buys the abandoned Dew Drop Inn and reopens it.
S9.E10 ∙ The Tempest
Mary Ellen tracks down her husband, Curt, who was presumed dead after Pearl Harbor. She finds a very changed man. Erin quits Pickett Metal Products when Jonesy is hired to replace her.
S9.E11 ∙ The Carousel
When Cindy's father dies, she goes through his things and finds adoption papers. Wondering why her biological mother gave her up, she and Ben try to find her.
S9.E12 ∙ The Hot Rod
Jim-Bob and Jody open an auto repair place. The Baldwin sisters' still is discovered by the government and they come to dismantle it. Ike helps them find a way to continue making the recipe.
S9.E13 ∙ The Gold Watch
Stanley Perkins (William Schallet) reappears in Rose's life, but he seems to be hiding a somber secret. Jason hires a country singer to help business at the inn, but he's more interested in Toni than in performing.
S9.E14 ∙ The Beginning
Another new minister begins at Walton's Mountain. The church is in disarray, but he gets the community involved. The Walton family finds out Toni is a Jew and are unsure of how to react. Toni questions her own faith.
S9.E15 ∙ The Pearls
Corabeth returns to her family home to help a dying aunt. Her twin Orma Lee visits the mountain. (She is played by Ronnie Claire Edwards.) Orma Lee is quite the opposite of Corabeth. Elizabeth wants to visit Olivia and John in Arizona.
S9.E16 ∙ The Victims
The Waltons help rescue the battered wife of a violent veteran who has flashbacks of combat. Jim-Bob is cheated as he tries his hand in the war surplus market.
S9.E17 ∙ The Threshold
John-Boy needs a job. At the university, he convinces them to let him set up a television media program. He hosts a television spot. Jim-Bob builds a television so they can see the show. Zuleika tries to come between Rose and Stanley.
S9.E18 ∙ The Indiscretion
Corabeth finds a romantic letter in Ike's belongings and wants a divorce. She says she could not forgive him; he says he forgave her. Turns out he knew about her visits with former friend. Drew and Elizabeth celebrate one year.
S9.E19 ∙ The Heartache
Rose and Stanley plan to get married. Rose finds out she has a heart condition and tries to break it off. He does not mind staying on the sidelines of life with her. Cindy gets a job but soon realizes she wants to be a stay-at-home mom.
S9.E20 ∙ The Lumberjack
A new lumber company starts in the area and wants to sell wood to the Waltons. Erin falls in love with the handsome son of the owner. Ike and Jim-Bob try a get-rich-quick scheme by hunting for uranium with a Geiger counter.
S9.E21 ∙ The Hostage
Mary Ellen rescues a girl from a contracted marriage, and her enraged fiancé kidnaps Elizabeth in retaliation. Cousin Octavia visits the Baldwin ladies to help them sort out their lifestyle.
S9.E22 ∙ The Revel
In New York, John-Boy's publisher rejects his latest novel. Broke, he ends up living on the streets. Back on the mountain, the Baldwins plan an elegant party for their finishing school class.
