The Waltons

1972
4.9
34 reviews
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Season 1 episodes (24)

1 The Foundling
9/14/72
Season-only
When the Waltons teach sign language to an abandoned deaf girl, the love created by their concern reunites the child with her family.
2 The Carnival
9/21/72
Season-only
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.
3 The Calf
9/28/72
Season-only
Elizabeth and Jim Bob rebel when John announces they need to sell Chance's calf.
4 The Hunt
10/5/72
Season-only
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.
5 The Typewriter
10/12/72
Season-only
When John-Boy secretly borrows an antique typewriter from the Baldwin sisters, his sister innocently sells it to a junkman.
6 The Star
10/19/72
Season-only
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.
7 The Sinner
10/26/72
Season-only
A young preacher staying a few days with the Waltons leads John-Boy to learn the meaning of grace.
8 The Boy From The C.C.C.
11/2/72
Season-only
An injured runaway boy who is taken in by the Waltons unexpectedly betrays their trust.
9 The Ceremony
11/9/72
Season-only
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.
10 The Legend
11/16/72
Season-only
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.
11 The Literary Man
11/30/72
Season-only
A self-styled writer sends John-Boy's literary dreams soaring so high that the Waltons lose an important wood-cutting contract.
12 The Dust Bowl Cousins
12/7/72
Season-only
The unexpected arrival of the Waltons' cousins creates havoc in the home, but John-Boy learns a good lesson from Grandpa.
13 The Reunion
12/14/72
Season-only
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.
14 The Minstrel
12/21/72
Season-only
Mary Ellen becomes enamored of a 19-year-old wandering minstrel and fails to help the family at a time when she is needed.
15 The Actress
1/4/73
Season-only
A world-famous actress becomes a reluctant houseguest of the Waltons when her car breaks down and she is abandoned by her chauffeur.
16 The Fire
1/11/73
Season-only
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.
17 The Love Story
1/18/73
Season-only
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.
18 The Courtship
1/25/73
Season-only
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.
19 The Gypsies
2/1/73
Season-only
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.
20 The Deed
2/8/73
Season-only
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.
21 The Scholar
2/22/73
Season-only
John-Boy demonstrates love and understanding as he teaches a proud but uneducated woman how to read and write.
22 The Bicycle
3/1/73
Season-only
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.
23 The Townie
3/8/73
Season-only
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.
24 An Easter Story
4/19/73
Season-only
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.

About this show

Winner of 13 Emmys®, including Outstanding Drama Series, this beloved, heartwarming and long-running family drama is set in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where young John-Boy (Golden Globe nominee Richard Thomas) and his close-knit family struggle together from the Depression to World War II. Money is scarce, but love and pride is plentiful.

Ratings and reviews

4.9
34 reviews
Diane Scribner
December 10, 2016
Thank you for adding "All" the season's for this show. I remember watching this show as a kid, it brings back great memories for me. It's right up there with "Little House on the Prairie, Leave it to Beaver, The Andy Griffith Show, Wonder Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Lone Ranger to The Beverly Hillbillies" and so many More! Great Family Shows for Best Entertainment and (Learning) Value....With "No Foul Language"! A Must to watch again and again. (We NEED More of these shows NOW for our Next Generation's of Children to watch and Learn from. It's a Shame these days with Having to Pay so Much for Cable - That Companies "Don't Bother" to put more shows like these above, there would be less fighting in the world today...with a heavy heart, thank you. God Bless - Diane
Jarrett H.
May 20, 2015
Awesome! Thanks for adding all the seasons. This is an amazing show for the whole family.
HØŁŁŸ
August 30, 2019
Love the Walnuts♥️Lol