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Seasons 1 thru 5: Fantastic! TV drama at it's best.

Seasons 6 thru 9: Watchable at best but still better than most shows on today.

oh, yeah, i forgot how Liv used to tell everyone not to chop wood, run errands, breathe on Sunday. Funny thing is next scene she and grandma are cooking up a storm!

"goodnight, john boy"
"goodnight, grandpa boy"
"goodnight, erin boy"
"goodnight, jim bob boy, maybe God will fix your face overnight"

would say this show JTS in the episode where Grandma received a letter saying that she would be getting an inheritance of $300. So she promised each of the children $3 when her check came. The children all began to make plans for their money, and they were quite excited. Unfortunately, Grandma received another letter saying that she would not be getting the inheritance after all. After she told the children that she could not keep her promise of $3 each, John-Boy filed a class action lawsuit against Grandma on behalf of his brothers and sisters. The courtroom scenes were really depressing, with Grandma completely confused by the Walton kids lawyer screaming at her, "Did you or did you not promised these kids $3 dollars??!!! Grandma would then start to cry, and Jim-Bob, his face contorted with outrage, would yell from the gallery, "She's fakin! Make that witch gives the money! I don't care what she has to sell! She owes us!" It was a really awful episode. The jury found against Grandma, and the judge sentenced her to hang.

I just finished watching the Director's Cut of Season Two. I like how they included the omitted scenes between Grandpa (Will Geer) and Jim-Bob. I never understand family love until seeing those episodes.

Interesting how in the later episodes, ALL of the women had distinctively 70s hairstyles despite the series being set in the 30s . . .

The Waltons gave me the creeps.

It jumped the shark (bigtime!) when they brought back Curt after he had supposedly died at Pearl Harbor, and this time he was impotent because of war wounds and it was a different actor, and he didn't want anything to do with Mary Ellen, and had been hiding from her all this time, etc., etc., etc.....
What a dumb plot!
Definitely, JTS.

This show was technically well done, but doesn't it bug you that the "lesson" of every episode is always the same?

A newcomer to Walton's Mountain (most likely city folk) is approaching life all wrong in some crucial way - usually having to do with their having received "too much schoolin'" and therefore becoming agnostic or being too intellectual rather than emotional or having a career in the creative arts, etc. You know...stuff that pegs them as desperately unhappy weirdos in dire need of social adjustment by those poor-but-happy, simple-but-wise Waltons.

Yuck.

As I sit here watching the show I have to say that the new John Boy makes the show jump. I watched the show with my parents when I was younger and I loved it-I still do and now my 3 yr old son loves it. I will continue watching even tho I have seen them already even with crappy new John Boy!

Susan Lawrence,

Mary Ellen WAS 13 in the Minstrel episode. She lied and told him she was 16 so he'd think she was grown.

People can't complain about Grandma having a stroke and Grandpa dying. That is what happened to the actors in real life! It couldn't be helped!

I love the Waltons and my son loves the show too. Replacing John Boy JTS.
Nuff said.

Oh Mary Ellen rides the bus, definitely! Other great jts moments: Aunt Rose, can I have more of that vegetble stew? Also, when noone was supposed to notice that JohnBoy was being probed by aliens, and there was an imposter in his place.

I followed all of the original shows. Now at age 57 I still watch in the morning getting ready for work. My personal less liked character was Grandma. She was a crabby, negative, too straight laced woman, until she came back from her stroke. She became quieter and kinder. I now work in a retirement community and we have a woman living here who has the personality of the pre-stroke Grandma Walton. So when my boss and I are talking about this particular woman and what she said or did today, we refer to her as Grandma Walton.

I just saw the episode where Elisabeth turning 13 somehow creates the presence of a poltergeist in the house! I thought in the end it would reveal who was behind it but left the viewer to believe that it had really been a poltergeist. If they wanted rid of it, they should have called up the Pentecostals!!

Peace out.

This is by far a down to earth look back at a time gone past. I remember watching this as a kid and being scared of the grandma, her coldness and grouchiness were a bit too much. Although I love the show and will always watch it in syndication