The Waltons

1972
4.9
34 reviews
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Season 7 episodes (23)

1 The Empty Nest - Part I&2
9/21/78
Season-only
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.

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.
2 The Calling
9/28/78
Season-only
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.
3 The Moonshiner
10/12/78
Season-only
Jason takes responsibility for cousin Boone when he gets in trouble with the law, and Daisy comes back for a visit.
4 The Obsession
10/19/78
Season-only
Mary Ellen becomes dependent on drugs while preparing for her final exams for nursing school. Sissy wants to divorce Yancy.
5 The Changling
10/26/78
Season-only
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.
6 The Portrait
11/2/78
Season-only
Erin becomes involved with a brooding artist who is mentally ill. Grandma is given a canary that will not sing.
7 The Captive
11/9/78
Season-only
Elizabeth has trouble learning to drive. Corabeth's drinking gets worse.
8 The Illusion
11/16/78
Season-only
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.
9 The Beau
11/23/78
Season-only
Elizabeth is horrified when an old suitor of Grandma's comes calling. Yancy switches his still to produce fuel instead of moonshine.
10 Day Of Infamy
12/7/78
Season-only
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.
11 The Yearning
12/14/78
Season-only
Elizabeth falls in love with the new Reverend. Erin helps the Baldwin sisters compile their memoirs.
12 The Boosters
12/28/78
Season-only
Ben leaves the mill and starts a business of his own. Yancy Tucker takes a correspondence course to become a barber.
13 The Conscience
1/4/79
Season-only
Jason considers becoming a conscientious objector to military service, and Jim Bob gets a military tattoo.
14 The Obstacle
1/11/79
Season-only
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.
15 The Parting
1/18/79
Season-only
Olivia and John take a vacation together, but after the vacation, Olivia learns that she has tuberculosis and must go away to a sanitarium.
16 The Burden
1/25/79
Season-only
Jim Bob narrowly escapes death and decides to become a minister.

Elizabeth works on a science project that involves collecting insects.
17 The Pin-Up
2/8/79
Season-only
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.
18 The Attack
2/15/79
Season-only
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.
19 The Legacy
2/22/79
Season-only
Excitement and romance come to Walton's Mountain with the arrival of Ashley Longworth, Jr. Elizabeth experiences adolescent insecurity.
20 The Outsider
3/1/79
Season-only
Ben shocks the family when he comes home with a new bride, but the first days of their marriage are difficult until Grandma intervenes.
21 The Torch
3/8/79
Season-only
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.
22 The Tailspin
3/15/79
Season-only
Jim Bob is despondent when he fails an eye exam--which will bar him from entering the Air Corps.
23 Founder's Day
3/22/79
Season-only
Jason struggles to complete a major musical composition, and a plan for a Walton's Mountain Founders' Day develops.

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