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The Waltons

Season 1 1972 - 1973
TV-G

  • 1972-09-15T00:00:00Z on CBS
  • 45m
  • 21h 40m (25 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Drama
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, during the Great Depression, the Walton family makes its small income from its saw mill on Walton's Mountain. The story is told through the eyes of John Boy, who wants to be a novelist and go to college. The saga follows the family through depression and war, through growing up, school, courtship, marriage, employment, birth, aging, illness and death.

25 episodes

Series Premiere

1972-09-15T00:00:00Z

1x01 The Foundling

Series Premiere

1x01 The Foundling

  • 1972-09-15T00:00:00Z50m

When a young girl is left on the doorstep of the Walton's home, they take her in. Not Before learning she is deaf after taking her to the doctor. One night while the Walton family listen to the radio John boy takes matters into his own hands when Holly (the deaf girl) runs up to her room crying. He teaches her sign language...or really Sign spelling! This new skill comes in handy when the youngest of the Walton family gets locked by accident in a box in the Haunted House, which later turns out to be the house of which Holly lives!

1972-09-22T00:00:00Z

1x02 The Carnival

1x02 The Carnival

  • 1972-09-22T00:00:00Z50m

A Carnival troupe comes to Walton's Mountain. When the manager absconds with the money, four members are stranded at the Walton house. They thank the Waltons with a private performance.

1972-09-29T00:00:00Z

1x03 The Calf

1x03 The Calf

  • 1972-09-29T00:00:00Z50m

The Family cow, Chance gives birth to a healthy calf but John announces that it must be sold to make ends meet. Elizabeth and Jim Bob hide the Calf to save it. John relents and the family keeps the calf.

1972-10-06T00:00:00Z

1x04 The Hunt

1x04 The Hunt

  • 1972-10-06T00:00:00Z50m

John Boy prepares to go on his first hunt and distress over taking an animals life. During the hunt he saves John's life from an attacking bear. Meanwhile Mary Ellen debates over a new dress or a baseball mitt.

1972-10-13T00:00:00Z

1x05 The Typewriter

1x05 The Typewriter

  • 1972-10-13T00:00:00Z50m

John Boy borrows an antique typewriter from the Baldwin sisters so he can send a story to a magazine. Mary Ellen mistakenly sells it to a junk man, but through diligence, gets it back for her brother.

1972-10-20T00:00:00Z

1x06 The Star

1x06 The Star

  • 1972-10-20T00:00:00Z50m

When a meteorite falls on the Baldwin's house, Zeb believes his time has come. The Baldwin sisters are hoaxed by their cousin until Zeb and John come to the rescue.

1972-10-27T00:00:00Z

1x07 The Sinner

1x07 The Sinner

  • 1972-10-27T00:00:00Z50m

The Reverend Matthew Fordwick comes to Walton's Mountain and upsets the family with his strict and forceful preaching. He innocently samples "the recipe," and John helps him to be accepted within the community

1972-11-03T01:00:00Z

1x08 The Boy from the C.C.C.

1x08 The Boy from the C.C.C.

  • 1972-11-03T01:00:00Z50m

Gino, a boy from the slums of New York City runs away from a CCC Camp and learns about trust and love from the Waltons.

1972-11-10T01:00:00Z

1x09 The Ceremony

1x09 The Ceremony

  • 1972-11-10T01:00:00Z50m

A Jewish family, escaping refugees from Nazi Germany, come to Waltons Mountain for safety. Their 13 year old son loses respect for his father in the sons attempt to maintain his religious beliefs and practices.

1972-11-17T01:00:00Z

1x10 The Legend

1x10 The Legend

  • 1972-11-17T01:00:00Z50m

John's old army buddy, Tip Harrison, tries to cover his lack of success with childish actions and comments culminating in an accidental fire and the shooting of reckless the family dog.

1972-12-01T01:00:00Z

1x11 The Literary Man

1x11 The Literary Man

  • 1972-12-01T01:00:00Z50m

John-Boy's truck breaks down and he meets the author, A.J. Covington. John-Boy jeopardizes a timber contract badly needed by the family.

1972-12-08T01:00:00Z

1x12 The Dust Bowl Cousins

1x12 The Dust Bowl Cousins

  • 1972-12-08T01:00:00Z50m

The Walton's distant cousins arrive on the mountain and immediately upset everyone's life by their shiftless dishonest ways.

1972-12-15T01:00:00Z

1x13 The Reunion

1x13 The Reunion

  • 1972-12-15T01:00:00Z50m

The Baldwin sisters and The Recipe play a pivotal role in this story involving their unscrupulous scheming cousin, Homer Lee Baldwin.

1972-12-22T01:00:00Z

1x14 The Minstrel

1x14 The Minstrel

  • 1972-12-22T01:00:00Z50m

Mary Ellen meets a traveling troubadour, Jamie and neglects her responsibilities of helping pick fruit.

1973-01-05T01:00:00Z

1x15 The Actress

1x15 The Actress

  • 1973-01-05T01:00:00Z50m

When her car breaks down, the famous extravagant actress, Alvira Drummond finds herself stranded on Waltons Mountain. The Children, especially Mary Ellen, are fascinated by her "Hollywood" ways.

1973-01-12T01:00:00Z

1x16 The Fire

1x16 The Fire

  • 1973-01-12T01:00:00Z50m

A young girls father objects to Miss Hunter's teaching Evolution. During a drunken rage he burns down the school and is killed in the fire.

1973-01-19T01:00:00Z

1x17 The Love Story

1x17 The Love Story

  • 1973-01-19T01:00:00Z50m

John Boy falls in love with Jenny Pendleton who returns to Walton's Mountain. Jenny's father and new step-mother follow her to the mountain. Her father is killed in an auto accident and Jenny returns home with her step mother. John-Boy suffers his first lost love.

1973-01-26T01:00:00Z

1x18 The Courtship

1x18 The Courtship

  • 1973-01-26T01:00:00Z50m

Olivia's uncle Cody Nelson comes to visit with the Waltons and finds love with a woman who has been divorced four times.

1973-02-02T01:00:00Z

1x19 The Gypsies

1x19 The Gypsies

  • 1973-02-02T01:00:00Z50m

A gypsy family is stranded, but the leader refuses to accept help from the Waltons. His pride almost costs the life of his baby son.

1973-02-09T01:00:00Z

1x20 The Deed

1x20 The Deed

  • 1973-02-09T01:00:00Z50m

It seems that the Waltons never officially registered the deed to Waltons Mountain. In order to help pay the legal fees, John-Boy leaves home for a job in the city. He meets new friends, gets mugged and earns a reward to help the family keep their home.

1973-02-23T01:00:00Z

1x21 The Scholar

1x21 The Scholar

  • 1973-02-23T01:00:00Z50m

A neighbor lady, Verdie Grant asks John-Boy to teach her to read and write. He agrees to teach her as he helps Elizabeth. Things go wrong, however, and feelings get hurt.

1973-03-02T01:00:00Z

1x22 The Bicycle

1x22 The Bicycle

  • 1973-03-02T01:00:00Z50m

Local blacksmith, Curtis Norton has John-Boy write letters to his bride-to-be. When she arrives on Walton's Mountain, life and Curtis are much different than she expected. Meanwhile, Olivia is feeling new pangs for freedom and something "different" in her life.

1973-03-09T01:00:00Z

1x23 The Townie

1x23 The Townie

  • 1973-03-09T01:00:00Z50m

John-Boy's friend Sarah sees him as a way to escape her "trapped" life with her demanding mother. When John-Boy rejects her advances, she runs off and plans to elope with a townie.

1973-04-20T01:00:00Z

1x24 An Easter Story

1x24 An Easter Story

  • 1973-04-20T01:00:00Z1h 40m

The entire family suffers a crisis when Olivia is stricken with polio. Dr Vance prescribes the accepted treatment, but Olivia does not get better. John-Boy learns of a new treatment practiced by sister Kenny and the family tries it to success in time for the Easter service.

Season Finale

1973-04-19T05:00:00Z

1x25 An Easter Story 2

Season Finale

1x25 An Easter Story 2

  • 1973-04-19T05:00:00Z50m

The entire family suffers a crisis when Olivia is stricken with polio. Dr Vance prescribes the accepted treatment, but Olivia does not get better. John-Boy learns of a new treatment practiced by sister Kenny and the family tries it to success in time for the Easter service.

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