The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.
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- Seasons
- 9
- Episodes aired
- 210
- Latest aired
- S09E22
- Total runtime
- 7d 15h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 September 1972 – April 1973 24 episodes
- Season 2 September 1973 – March 1974 24 episodes
- Season 3 September 1974 – March 1975 24 episodes
- Season 4 September 1975 – March 1976 24 episodes
- Season 5 September 1976 – March 1977 24 episodes
- Season 6 September 1977 – March 1978 22 episodes
- Season 7 September 1978 – March 1979 23 episodes
- Season 8 September 1979 – March 1980 23 episodes
- Season 9 November 1980 – June 1981 22 episodes
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S04E01 The Sermon
September 11 · 50min find the promo
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Reverend Fordwick asks John-Boy to deliver the Sunday sermon, and Miss Hunter asks Olivia to act as the substitute teacher. It proves to be an interesting experience for both as Reverend Fordwick and Miss Hunter plan their wedding and honeymoon
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S04E02 The Genius
September 18 · 50min find the promo
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John-Boy's Dean asks him to take care of a 16 year old genius college student for the weekend. It seems that Lyle is wonderful with science and math, but woefully lacking when it comes to dealing with people.
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S04E03 The Fighter
September 25 · 50min find the promo
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Young prize fighter James Travis Clark from Richmond arrives on Walton's Mountain looking for work. He lives in the Walton's barn while training for his next fight. Grandma and Olivia are upset with the whole idea until they find out that James is a minister.
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S04E04 The Prophecy
October 2 · 50min find the promo
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Father and son struggle with personal crisis: John approaches his 25-year high school reunion regretting he is not a greater success; and John-Boy fears he will never be able to make a living as a writer.
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S04E05 The Boondoggle
October 9 · 50min find the promo
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Porter Sims, a reporter from New York, comes to get material for a guide book on Virginia. John-Boy takes him to see the Baldwin sisters who allow him to look through the late Judge Baldwin's private papers. These reveal that their father was accused of treason for harboring Yankee soldiers during the Civil War. Deeply shocked and hurt, they decide not to leave their house ever again.
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S04E06 The Breakdown
October 16 · 50min find the promo
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Jason is attending Klineberg Conservatory while playing with the Haystack Gang & the Sunrise Gospeleers. He is not doing too well and decides to slow down. John-Boy takes a new job in Boatwright's library.
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S04E07 The Wing-Walker
October 23 · 50min find the promo
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John-Boy is doing a story on a female wing-walker who is performing at the local fair. He invites her to stay at the Walton home. Jim Bob is soon madley in love with the flyer. Maude Gormley gives Mytrle the goat to the Waltons.
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S04E08 The Competition
October 30 · 50min find the promo
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A handsome forestry student name Chad Marshall arrives on Walton's Mountain. Both Erin and Mary Ellen are smitten and a competition delelops between them. Each is sure that she is the chosen one. Mary Ellen realizes that it is Erin thats truly in love.
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S04E09 The Emergence
November 6 · 50min find the promo
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John-Boy's old girlfriend Marica Woolery returns to Walton's Mountain with her fiance to sell some inherited property. She plans to invest the money in her fiance's proposed business. John-Boy exposes the fiance as a braggart and not in love with Marcia. Olivia subs. A student obtain a pair of much needed eye glasses.
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S04E10 The Loss
November 13 · 50min find the promo
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Olivia Hill, Olivia's young cousin, returns to Walton's Mountain to grieve the sudden death of her husband. The family attempts to cheer her up. It does not work until Elizabeth's cat, Calico, gives birth to kittens.
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S04E11 The Abdication
November 20 · 50min find the promo
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John-Boy renews his friendship with A.J. Covington who is working with a movie company. The Walton family intently follows the abdication of King Edward while following the activities of a movie company fliming on Walton's Mountain.
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S04E12 The Estrangement
December 4 · 50min find the promo
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Vera Walton has left her husband Wade and moves into the Walton home. Wade has been abusive and is running moonshine. John gives Wade a job at the mill to help the young couple get on their feet and get back together.
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S04E13 The Nurse
December 11 · 50min find the promo
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As Mary Ellen nervously awaites word on her acceptance to nursing school, the rest of the Waltons prepares surprise good-bye gifts. Mary Ellen is accepted, but she needs more work in math and science and ends up studying with John-Boy and Miss Nora Taylor, the county nurse.
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S04E14 The Intruders
December 18 · 50min find the promo
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Ben gets angry and leaves home at the same time Grandpa and John enter a competition with another lumber mill for the big contract. Without knowing, Ben goes to work for the other firm. Grandpa devises a clever scheme to get their lumber to market first.
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S04E15 The Search
January 1 · 50min find the promo
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Olivia and the two youngest children, Jim-Bob and Elizabeth, go up on Walton's Mountain and become lost. They experience many challenges. Jim-Bob saves the day using woodsman skills taught to him by Grandpa.
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S04E16 The Secret
January 8 · 50min find the promo
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Jim-Bob thinks he was adopted. He searchs his birth records and finds out he's a twin. Jim-Bob's twin brother died at birth.
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S04E17 The Fox
January 15 · 50min find the promo
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Grandpa enjoys telling tales of his days with Teddy Roosevelt in the Spanish Amercian War, but he balks about attending a reunion of the Rough Riders. Ben decides to go into to business trapping and selling animal skins.
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S04E18 The Burn Out
January 22 · 100min find the promo
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The Walton's house is nearly destroyed by fire and the children must live temporarily with friends. John-Boy has a difficult time to begin the task of rewriting his lost novel.
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S04E19 The Big Brother
January 29 · 50min find the promo
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John-Boy meets up with a runaway girl named Muffin who's 12 years old. Muffin tells him that she was abused and is trying to find her mother. John-Boy takes her home and she fools everyone but Grandpa.
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S04E20 The Test
February 5 · 50min find the promo
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Olivia gets a job as a dress maker.She does very well & soon she gets full time work.She is pleased with the attention but realizes she wants too be home more than at work .Maude Gormley is put in an old folks home and loses her zest for life
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S04E21 The Quilting
February 12 · 50min find the promo
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A quilting is to announce that a woman is of marrying age. Grandma is determined to have one for her granddaughter Mary Ellen who is just as determined not to participate in what she considers an insulting custom.
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S04E22 The House
February 19 · 50min find the promo
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Esther wants to save an old house from being torn down. Grandpa wants the contract to destroy it for the old wood. They both argue until Zeb realizes that house holds sentimental memories for grandma.
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S04E23 The Fledgling
February 26 · 50min find the promo
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John-Boy sure trys to raise the down payment for an old printing press to publish his own newspaper
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S04E24 The Collision
March 4 · 50min find the promo
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Selena Linville comes back to Walton's Mountain & lights a fire under John-Boy to go to Spain & write all about Rebel cause