The Waltons Episode Guide

Episode Guide

The Waltons: Season 9 (1980 - 1981)

• Season 9 Episode 22: The Revel

  John-Boy's hopes to have his book published in New York are dashed; the Baldwins plan a lavish ball, but it appears no one will come.

• Season 9 Episode 21: The Hostage

  The Baldwins' cousin Octavia visits and causes havoc; a man who thinks Mary Ellen took his child bride kidnaps Elizabeth instead.

• Season 9 Episode 20: The Lumberjack

  Ike and Jim-Bob hunt for uranium; Erin falls for Ben's competitor, a mysterious lumberjack concealing a secret about his family.

• Season 9 Episode 19: The Heartache

  Rose's happiness with Stanley is threatened by her heart condition; Cindy finds work isn't exactly what she expected.

• Season 9 Episode 18: The Indiscretion

  Old love letters make Corabeth think Ike is guilty of adultery and want a divorce; Drew wants Elizabeth to spend a night with him.

• Season 9 Episode 17: The Threshhold

  John-Boy prepares a television presentation for the university while Jim-Bob attempts to build a set; Rose thinks she is overweight.

• Season 9 Episode 16: The Victims

  The Waltons come to the rescue of a woman whose drunken husband beats her; Jim-Bob invests in war surplus.

• Season 9 Episode 15: The Pearls

  Corabeth's sister drops in on Ike while Corabeth is away; Elizabeth, feeling lonely for her parents, makes up her mind to leave home.

• Season 9 Episode 14: The Beginning

  A new minister (Kip Niven) arouses Corabeth's suspicions and gives advice when Toni decides she can't wed Jason because she's Jewish.

• Season 9 Episode 13: The Gold Watch

  Rose's old suitor returns, concealing a secret about his health; Jason and Jody hire a singer to bring business to the Dew Drop Inn.

• Season 9 Episode 12: The Hot Rod

  Jim-Bob and Jody return from the service and decide to avoid responsibility for a while; the Baldwins find their grandfather's still.

• Season 9 Episode 11: The Carousel

  Cindy learns she was adopted and sets out to find her natural mother; Drew's sudden lack of interest in Elizabeth irritates her.

• Season 9 Episode 10: The Tempest

  Mary Ellen finds her husband, Curt (Scott Hylands), in Florida, but he's not the man she remembers; J.D. begs Erin to come back.

• Season 9 Episode 9: The Whirlwind

  After accepting another man's (Richard Gilliland) proposal, Mary Ellen learns Curt may be alive; Jason reopens the Dew Drop Inn.

• Season 9 Episode 8: The Move

  Ben returns with plans to study engineering; J.D. interrupts Erin's vacation; Cindy's father visits; John has bad news about Olivia.

• Season 9 Episode 7: The Last Ten Days

  As the war in Japan nears an end, Ben's captor makes an unexpected move; Jason can't commit to Toni; the Army turns down Drew.

• Season 9 Episode 6: The Pursuit

  Jim-Bob, home on furlough, meets an old girlfriend (Jennifer Jason Leigh) claiming to be carrying his baby; Ben defies his captors.

• Season 9 Episode 5: The Premonition

  John-Boy falls in love with a determined French girl; Cindy sees apparitions of Ben in the house, and then learns he's been captured.

• Season 9 Episode 4: The Triumph

  A soldier in Jason's group rediscovers his courage; the Godseys are called before the ration board; word comes of a German surrender.

• Season 9 Episode 3: The Pledge

  Mary Ellen runs into opposition when she decides to become a doctor; Jason and John-Boy enjoy a birthday surprise from back home.

• Season 9 Episode 2: The Outrage

  John goes to see President Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Ga., and requests a pardon for the murder charges against Harley.

• Season 9 Episode 1: The Outrage

  A deputy sheriff accuses Harley of escaping from a chain gang to which he was sentenced for murdering a white man.

The Waltons: Season 8 (1979 - 1980)

• Season 8 Episode 24: The Valedictorian

  Jim-Bob graduates at the head of his class and prepares to go overseas to fight; Erin learns Ashley Longworth has married in London.

• Season 8 Episode 23: The Medal

  Mary Ellen is attracted to a paratrooper who brings her some mementos of Curt; Corabeth's old flame pressures her to meet with him.

• Season 8 Episode 22: The Furlough

  John-Boy returns home and tries to recall the details of his plane crash for a comrade's sister; Ike is arrested for draft evasion.

• Season 8 Episode 21: The Traveling Man

  Rose renews an acquaintance with her former dance partner, who then asks her to marry him; Jim-Bob decides he wants his own room.

• Season 8 Episode 20: The Last Straw

  John's nerves are strained to the limit as the orders pile up and his machinery breaks down; Jeffrey builds a soapbox race car.

• Season 8 Episode 19: The Inspiration

  Mary Ellen and John enlist Grandma's help to convince Mamie Baldwin to have cataract surgery.

• Season 8 Episode 18: The Remembrance

  The family isn't sure what to do with Grandpa's cousin, who came to collect an old debt from Zeb; Jason pursues a girl named Toni.

• Season 8 Episode 17: The Prodigals

  Jeffrey and Josh break into Ike's store to retrieve their confiscated gambling winnings; Ben considers going to war.

• Season 8 Episode 16: The Idol

  Elizabeth falls for a new teacher, but is devastated to find he doesn't have long to live. Meanwhile, Ben worries about his new responsibilities as a father as Cindy gives birth to a girl

• Season 8 Episode 15: The Unthinkable

  One of Jason's fellow recruits, a Jewish Polish-American, tells how his grandfather was arrested and killed by Germans in Warsaw.

• Season 8 Episode 14: The Fastidious Wife

  Cindy endangers her unborn baby trying to be the perfect wife; Jeff names his new cat Harold, then finds 'he' is expecting kittens.

• Season 8 Episode 13: The Spirit

  As Christmas nears, Jeffrey befriends an escaped German POW hiding on Walton's Mountain; Corabeth's holiday pageant is canceled.

• Season 8 Episode 12: The Wager

  Elizabeth coaches Erin and Mary Ellen in a run-and-ride race being held to raise war-bond money; Jeff dreams of meeting a movie star.

• Season 8 Episode 11: The Silver Wings

  Jim-Bob helps a newcomer, the wife of an Air Corps pilot, refurbish an old cabin and finds himself falling hopelessly in love.

• Season 8 Episode 10: The Waiting

  Olivia works as a Red Cross volunteer while watching over seriously injured John-Boy's (Robert Wightman) recovery.

• Season 8 Episode 9: The Violated

  Olivia searches for the man who raped an Army wife; Corabeth expects an inheritance; news comes of missing John-Boy.

• Season 8 Episode 8: The Lost Sheep

  Ashley Longworth Jr. returns to ask Erin to marry him, but their plans are disrupted when he confesses to her that he's an atheist.

• Season 8 Episode 7: The Journal

  A publisher wants to print John-Boy's manuscript, although the author is missing in action; Jeff doesn't want Reckless put to sleep.

• Season 8 Episode 6: The Starlet

  A director making a documentary about the Pickett Plant gains Erin's cooperation by telling her she could be a star.

• Season 8 Episode 5: The Innocents

  Olivia campaigns for a day nursery; plans for the Godsey's anniversary are almost ruined by jealousy.

• Season 8 Episode 4: The Diploma

  Mary Ellen substitutes as the county nurse; John searches for his diploma to prove to the Army that he graduated from high school.

• Season 8 Episode 3: The Kinfolk

  Cousin Rose comes with her grandchildren and a determination to make Olivia's life easier; Ike enlists Jim-Bob for a secret project.

• Season 8 Episode 2: The Home Front

  Erin confronts Pickett; Jason shapes up his recruits; a grieving father attacks Jim-Bob; John-Boy is missing in action.

• Season 8 Episode 1: The Home Front

  Olivia returns home to find many changes; John helps locate a recruit gone AWOL; Erin considers asking for a raise.

The Waltons: Season 7 (1978 - 1979)

• Season 7 Episode 24: Founders' Day

  Jason composes a final music project for the conservatory; the families of Walton's Mountain argue over who was the first settler.

• Season 7 Episode 23: The Tailspin

  Jim-Bob's dreams of flying in the Air Corps are shot down; Mary Ellen tries to match Erin with Curt's old friend, an Army sergeant.

• Season 7 Episode 22: The Torch

  The Waltons try to protect their father from an old flame; Elizabeth and Cindy open a canteen for the soldiers of Camp Rockfish.

• Season 7 Episode 21: The Outsider

  Ben shocks the family with a new bride, and finds married life is not that easy; Ike surprises Corabeth with the wrong fountain.

• Season 7 Episode 20: The Legacy

  Emily Baldwin thinks the Army-officer son of her old love is his father, returned to court her; Elizabeth struggles with adolescence.

• Season 7 Episode 19: The Attack

  Ike is hospitalized after a heart attack, leaving Elizabeth in charge of his store; Ben and Jim-Bob go into the molasses business.

• Season 7 Episode 18: The Pinup

  Mary Ellen becomes overprotective of her son and neglects her career; Ben's photo of Erin is turned into Camp Lee's official pinup.

• Season 7 Episode 17: The Burden

  An incredible bit of luck saves reckless Jim-Bob from possible serious injury, causing a drastic change in his rebellious attitude.

• Season 7 Episode 16: The Parting

  Olivia, worried John is overworking himself, suggests a vacation, only to learn disturbing news about herself after returning home.

• Season 7 Episode 15: The Obstacle

  The Walton family takes in an old school friend of John-Boy's who is confined to a wheelchair after suffering an injury in the war.

• Season 7 Episode 14: The Conscience

  Jason grapples with his misgivings about joining the Army; Jim-Bob gets a military tattoo after being told he is too young to enlist.

• Season 7 Episode 13: The Boosters

  Ben decides to take advantage of a wartime increase in traffic by opening an auto court; Yancy studies barbering through the mail.

• Season 7 Episode 12: The Yearning

  Elizabeth finds love when the Waltons house the new minister after a skunk strikes the parsonage; the Baldwins write their memoirs.

• Season 7 Episode 11: Day of Infamy

  The Pearl Harbor attack shakes everyone, especially Mary Ellen, whose husband, Curt, is stationed in Hawaii.

• Season 7 Episode 10: The Beau

  Grandma is visited by a former suitor (Arthur Space); Jim-Bob starts a business with Yancy to produce fuel from alcohol.

• Season 7 Episode 9: The Illusion

  Verdie's daughter Esther (Joan Pringle) arrives with her child, bitter over the frustrations of being a college-educated black woman.

• Season 7 Episode 8: The Captive

  Jim-Bob tries to teach Elizabeth to drive; Corabeth's business ventures are ruined by her secret drinking. Directed by Ralph Waite.

• Season 7 Episode 7: The Portrait

  Erin is strangely attracted to a troubled artist (Jared Martin) just returned from Paris; Grandma gets a canary that refuses to sing.

• Season 7 Episode 6: The Changeling

  Elizabeth's refusal to grow up causes strange occurrences around the Walton home; Jason conducts a radio show for the lovelorn.

• Season 7 Episode 5: The Obsession

  Desperate to do well on her exams, Mary Ellen becomes dangerously dependent on amphetamines; Cissy walks out on her husband, Yancy.

• Season 7 Episode 4: The Moonshiner

  Jason tries to reform disreputable relative Boone Walton (Morgan Woodward); Daisy, John-Boy's ex-fiancee, comes to Walton's Mountain.

• Season 7 Episode 3: The Calling

  Jim-Bob's new love, the Baldwin's cousin, has more things than him on her mind; Ben unknowingly hires a drunkard to work at the mill.

• Season 7 Episode 2: The Empty Nest

  Both Matt Sarver (Michael Conrad) and the lumbermen at home offer John good business deals; Erin and Mary Ellen return.

• Season 7 Episode 1: The Empty Nest

  John struggles to fill a huge lumber contract; Erin and Mary Ellen move to Charlottesville; guest Michael Conrad.

The Waltons: Season 6 (1977 - 1978)

• Season 6 Episode 26: Grandma Comes Home

  An unhappy Grandma returns home to a loving and excited family and an overprotective Grandpa; a shy boy makes plans to see Elizabeth.

• Season 6 Episode 25: The Revelation

  John-Boy announces his engagement to Daisy and is offered an assignment in London; Grandpa 'helps' Elizabeth's lemonade business.

• Season 6 Episode 24: The Return

  Erin's secret second job is revealed; a sudden cave-in traps John, Jim-Bob, Ben and others in the reopened mine shaft.

• Season 6 Episode 23: The Return

  John-Boy decides to revive his hometown's economy by opening an abandoned coal mine; Erin conceals her second job.

• Season 6 Episode 22: The Ordeal

  The Waltons adjust to Elizabeth's injuries after she returns from the hospital and devise ways to help her walk again.

• Season 6 Episode 21: The Ordeal

  Ben and Jim-Bob feel guilty after Elizabeth breaks her legs in a fall from a log pile they stacked improperly.

• Season 6 Episode 20: The Family Tree

  Jason helps Verdie investigate her family history; Elizabeth tells a soldier pen pal she is 18 and sends him a photograph of Erin.

• Season 6 Episode 19: The Anniversary

  John makes secret plans to celebrate his and Olivia's 25th anniversary; Curt and Mary Ellen stave off temptation while separated.

• Season 6 Episode 18: The Festival

  Despite prejudice, Jason encourages Josh Foster to audition with him for the Spring Festival; Elizabeth likes a new boy in her class.

• Season 6 Episode 17: Spring Fever

  Mamie Baldwin fears it will be her last spring when she discovers her rosebush is dying; Jim-Bob and Ben date each other's girls.

• Season 6 Episode 16: The Rumor

  A newly arrived German family arouses suspicions that are increased by Elizabeth's overactive imagination. Directed by Ralph Waite.

• Season 6 Episode 15: The Celebration

  One more big order will clear the Walton's sawmill of all debts; the girls busy themselves playing match maker for the Rev. Buchanan.

• Season 6 Episode 14: The Milestone

  Olivia visits a relative (Louise Latham) as she struggles with menopause; Jim-Bob considers using deceit to get a job.

• Season 6 Episode 13: The Children's Carol

  Olivia's faith is tested; Verdie is attacked by a robber; the English children stow away in an Army truck.

• Season 6 Episode 12: The Children's Carol

  As Christmas approaches, Mary Ellen and the baby leave to be near Curt; the Baldwins shelter two English children.

• Season 6 Episode 11: The Flight

  Jim-Bob makes friends with a runaway boy and his little sister; Elizabeth finds elderly Maude to be a fine replacement for Grandma.

• Season 6 Episode 10: The Battle of Drucilla's Pond

  The peace and serenity of Walton's Mountain is disturbed when it becomes the site for a round of realistic Army tactical maneuvers.

• Season 6 Episode 9: The First Casualty

  World War II reaches Walton's Mountain as Curt is called to serve; Yancy decides to enlist; G.W. confesses his fear to Erin.

• Season 6 Episode 8: The Grandchild

  Frightened by a false alarm, Mary Ellen finally delivers her baby, but later the infant vanishes.

• Season 6 Episode 7: The Grandchild

  Pregnant Mary Ellen believes she is under a terrible spell after a close friend loses her baby.

• Season 6 Episode 6: The Volunteer

  Erin's refusal causes G.W. to leave and join the Army; Maude seeks to market her paintings.

• Season 6 Episode 5: The Seashore

  The family meets an English girl on a trip to Virginia Beach; Ben plans a night alone with Darlene.

• Season 6 Episode 4: The Warrior

  An ancient burial ground that an elderly Cherokee seeks is under the Waltons' barn.

• Season 6 Episode 3: The Recluse

  Graduate Ben leaves home to find work; John takes on a huge contract; Jason encounters a lonely recluse.

• Season 6 Episode 2: The Stray

  An orphan (Todd Bridges) found hiding in the barn takes a liking to the Waltons and decides he wants to stay.

• Season 6 Episode 1: The Hawk

  Jim-Bob sets a trap for a troublesome hawk; Olivia has reservations about the choice for a new minister.

The Waltons: Season 5 (1976 - 1977)

• Season 5 Episode 25: The Achievement

  John-Boy travels to New York to get his first novel published and is torn between the city and home.

• Season 5 Episode 24: The Go-Getter

  As an aggressive used-car salesman, Ben loses loved-ones' respect; Olivia plays Cupid for Sheriff Bridges.

• Season 5 Episode 23: The Hiding Place

  The Baldwins' niece arrives from war-threatened Vienna; John joins the National Guard, over Olivia's objections.

• Season 5 Episode 22: The Long Night

  Grandma's hospitalization troubles the family, especially Grandpa, who becomes depressed and withdrawn.

• Season 5 Episode 21: The Heartbreaker

  Jason falls for Curt's sister (Linda Purl), who left her husband to become a singer. Directed by Ralph Waite.

• Season 5 Episode 20: The Inferno

  John-Boy wins a newspaper contest to cover the landing of the Hindenburg; Curt wants more private time with Mary Ellen.

• Season 5 Episode 19: The Hero

  John-Boy's plans for a memorial celebration for the Jefferson County war heroes uncovers a secret.

• Season 5 Episode 18: The Career Girl

  Erin's high school graduation forces her to face adulthood, including a career direction.

• Season 5 Episode 17: John's Crossroad

  Grandma's medical bills and the mill's deterioration force John to work in Charlottesville. Directed by Richard Thomas.

• Season 5 Episode 16: The Elopement

  Erin decides to elope after her parents refuse her permission to marry; Jason runs into problems managing Ike's store.

• Season 5 Episode 15: The Ferris Wheel

  An unconscious early memory of Elizabeth's returns as a dream to haunt the entire household and endanger her life.

• Season 5 Episode 14: The Rebellion

  Grandma refuses to share church-organist duties with her arch rival; restless Olivia resolves to make a change in her life.

• Season 5 Episode 13: The Last Mustang

  John-Boy is drawn into the controversial election of a sheriff; Grandpa opposes the capture of a lone wild horse.

• Season 5 Episode 12: The Best Christmas

  Bad weather, calamities and emergencies threaten the family's plans to honor Olivia with a Christmas gathering.

• Season 5 Episode 11: The Pony Cart

  A Walton matriarch, Aunt Martha, visits and imposes her way of doing things on everyone.

• Season 5 Episode 10: The Great Motorcycle Race

  Jim-Bob enters a race on Ike's motorcycle; the Godseys decide to adopt a child. Directed by Richard Thomas.

• Season 5 Episode 9: The Cloudburst

  John-Boy sells his Walton's Mountain acreage to meet printing-press payments; Mary Ellen faces a career crisis.

• Season 5 Episode 8: The Wedding

  Mary Ellen reconsiders her wedding as her relationship with Dr. Willard deepens; the doctor vanishes with clinic funds.

• Season 5 Episode 7: The Wedding

  Mary Ellen announces her engagement to David Spencer; Dr. Curtis Willard arrives at Walton's Mountain.

• Season 5 Episode 6: The Nightwalker

  A night prowler panics Walton's Mountain, threatening the success of Jason's money-raising town dance.

• Season 5 Episode 5: The Firestorm

  John-Boy announces he will publish articles on Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' in his newspaper.

• Season 5 Episode 4: The Baptism

  A renowned evangelist (John Karlen) comes to lead the annual revival, exciting everyone but John. Directed by Ralph Waite.

• Season 5 Episode 3: The Comeback

  A former musician (Merle Haggard) is encouraged to make a comeback as part of a plan for Jason to earn his conservatory tuition.

• Season 5 Episode 2: The Vigil

  Mary Ellen diagnoses Grandma's abdominal pains as flu, but the elderly woman must be rushed to the hospital.

• Season 5 Episode 1: The First Edition

  John-Boy plans to publish two sensational stories in his newspaper's first edition; guest Conrad Janis.

The Waltons: Season 4 (1975 - 1976)

• Season 4 Episode 25: The Collision

  An old love (Kathleen Quinlan) urges John-Boy to join the Spanish Civil War. Directed by Richard Thomas.

• Season 4 Episode 24: The Fledgling

  John-Boy takes a full-time job to earn a down-payment for a printing press.

• Season 4 Episode 23: The House

  Grandma joins with the Baldwin sisters, against her husband, to save a house in her hometown from demolition.

• Season 4 Episode 22: The Quilting

  Defying Grandma, Mary Ellen refuses to take part in a quilting bee planned to mark her emergence into womanhood.

• Season 4 Episode 21: The Test

  The offer of a full-time job as a dressmaker in a fashionable shop opens new opportunities for Olivia; guest Abby Dalton.

• Season 4 Episode 20: The Big Brother

  A 12-year-old tries to con the Waltons and Baldwins out of $25 needed to free her swindler grandfather from jail.

• Season 4 Episode 19: The Burn Out

  John-Boy works to rewrite his lost novel, and the Walton children learn lessons about themselves away from home.

• Season 4 Episode 18: The Burn Out

  John-Boy struggles with guilt after fire destroys part of the Walton home and the family is temporarily separated.

• Season 4 Episode 17: The Fox

  Despite his battle tales, Grandpa resists efforts to reunite him with his Spanish-American War comrades. Directed by Richard Thomas.

• Season 4 Episode 16: The Secret

  Suspecting that he may be adopted, Jim-Bob investigates the circumstances of his birth and uncovers a long-hidden family secret.

• Season 4 Episode 15: The Search

  Olivia, Jim-Bob and Elizabeth set out to visit a friend but wind up becoming lost on Walton's Mountain; guest Wilford Brimley.

• Season 4 Episode 14: The Intruders

  Ben, his pride wounded by a girl, leaves home as the Waltons compete with another lumber company for an important railroad contract.

• Season 4 Episode 13: The Nurse

  Mary Ellen learns about math, science and humanity as she works with a public-health nurse while preparing to enter nursing school.

• Season 4 Episode 12: The Estrangement

  The Waltons offer refuge to a woman who left her husband (Richard Hatch), a Walton relative and moonshiner.

• Season 4 Episode 11: The Abdication

  After he helps with the filming of a writer's experiences with the Waltons, John-Boy is offered a job in New York.

• Season 4 Episode 10: The Loss

  The children learn about grief when they try to help a young widow.

• Season 4 Episode 9: The Emergence

  Olivia is a substitute teacher at Walton's Mountain School; John-Boy's old flame, Marcia, returns with her new fiance.

• Season 4 Episode 8: The Competition

  Erin and Mary Ellen compete for the attentions of a visiting forestry student; Olivia cares for a foster child.

• Season 4 Episode 7: The Wing Walker

  Emotional entanglements follow when John-Boy invites a woman wing-walker (Lee Purcell) to stay at the Walton home.

• Season 4 Episode 6: The Breakdown

  Jason has a breakdown after taking on too many responsibilities in an attempt to prove his worth; guest Mayf Nutter.

• Season 4 Episode 5: The Boondoggle

  A journalist finds a secret in the Baldwin sisters' family when he visits Walton's Mountain. Directed by Ralph Waite.

• Season 4 Episode 4: The Prophecy

  John is apprehensive about facing his highly successful classmates at his 25-year high-school reunion.

• Season 4 Episode 3: The Fighter

  An aspiring preacher (Cleavon Little) enters a boxing match in order to win enough money to build a church on Walton's Mountain.

• Season 4 Episode 2: The Genius

  John-Boy brings home his college tutor, a 16-year-old genius who seems to possess no social skills.

• Season 4 Episode 1: The Sermon

  Miss Hunter and the Rev. Fordwick take a two-week honeymoon, leaving Olivia in the classroom and John-Boy at the pulpit.

The Waltons: Season 3 (1974 - 1975)

• Season 3 Episode 25: The Venture

  John is rushed to hospital with pneumonia, leaving the rest of the family to cope with their financial hardship

• Season 3 Episode 24: The Woman

  John and Olivia prepare for their 20th anniversary; John-Boy falls for an older woman writer and plans to leave.

• Season 3 Episode 23: The Song

  Ben tries to win the attention of a special girl, but his attempts backfire miserably as she goes running into the arms of Jason

• Season 3 Episode 22: The Statue

  Grandpa wins a raffle, but Grandma is upset to learn that his prize is a statue which reminds him of one of his ex-girlfriends

• Season 3 Episode 21: The Choice

  Jason looks to develop his musical skills further by applying to win a scholarship for the Klineberg Conservatory

• Season 3 Episode 20: The Shivaree

  Olivia helps a friend's daughter arrange her wedding, but the groom has one or two reservations concerning their plans

• Season 3 Episode 19: The Caretakers

  John manages to upset Grandpa, who decides to pack his clothes and leave home : with Grandma in tow

• Season 3 Episode 18: The Beguiled

  An unscrupulous coed (Darleen Carr) steals John-Boy's notes, but blame falls on a male student (Willie Aames).

• Season 3 Episode 17: The Matchmakers

  Ike Godsey falls in love with the Waltons' cousin Corabeth; John-Boy arranges for Erin to be photographed.

• Season 3 Episode 16: The Lie

  John-Boy tries to unravel the circumstances of a hit-and-run charge brought against Ben in a nearby town.

• Season 3 Episode 15: The Birthday

  Grandpa loses his will to live after a near-fatal heart attack; the family takes desperate measures.

• Season 3 Episode 14: The Visitor

  An old friend of the family turns up on Walton's Mountain, but it soon transpires that he has an ulterior motive for paying them a visit

• Season 3 Episode 13: The Departure

  John complains that his life is dwindling away before his eyes, so decides to leave home and embark on an adventure

• Season 3 Episode 12: The Job

  John-Boy's new part-time job hurtles him into the throes of an emotional battle raging in the heart of a hostile young blind woman

• Season 3 Episode 11: The Book

  John-Boy's book is accepted for publishing, ensuring his feelings of inadequacy are completely erased : and upstaging his brother Jason in the process

• Season 3 Episode 10: The Marathon

  Against Olivia's wishes, John-Boy enters a dance marathon with a girl he met in a neighboring town; guest Charles Haid.

• Season 3 Episode 9: The Spoilers

  A former New York stockbroker and his family move to Walton's Mountain and upset the equilibrium of the residents; guest Linda Purl.

• Season 3 Episode 8: The System

  John-Boy defends a freshman football player whom he previously accused of cheating, and Ben discovers the dangers of smoking

• Season 3 Episode 7: The Ring

  Mary Ellen goes on a date, but faces a troublesome dilemma between making a good impression and telling the truth

• Season 3 Episode 6: The Romance

  John-Boy urges Olivia to take up night-school classes in art, but she gets more than she bargained for when her instructor kisses her

• Season 3 Episode 5: The Runaway

  Jim-Bob runs away after all ignore his sadness over the death of a guinea pig entrusted to his care.

• Season 3 Episode 4: The Thoroughbred

  John-Boy challenges a rich young man in the traditional cross-country race that was won many years earlier by Grandpa Walton

• Season 3 Episode 3: The First Day

  A highly anticipated first day at college starts with John-Boy giving a pretty coed a ride but ends in total disaster.

• Season 3 Episode 2: The Conflict - Part Two

  Part two of two. The family's relatives ask for help to fight the US Government's eviction notice, but the sight of blood gives them each cause for concern

• Season 3 Episode 1: The Conflict - Part One

  Part one of two. The family help their relatives to make a stand against the authorities, following the issuing of an eviction notice

The Waltons: Season 2 (1973 - 1974)

• Season 2 Episode 25: The Car

  John-Boy agrees to work for a local man in exchange for a car - but ends up being taken for a ride when the scoundrel reneges on the deal

• Season 2 Episode 24: The Five Foot Shelf

  A travelling book salesman convinces the all-American family to part with their hard-earned cash and buy a small library's worth of novels, essays and poems. But when the books don't arrive, they soon begin to wonder if he's strictly on the level. Richard Thomas stars

• Season 2 Episode 23: The Graduation

  John-Boy returns his new high-school graduation suit so the family can afford to buy a new cow when Chance dies. Richard Thomas and Ralph Waite star

• Season 2 Episode 22: The Ghost Story

  The Walton children receive mysterious Ouija-board messages concerning the family's 8-year-old houseguest. Directed by Ralph Waite.

• Season 2 Episode 21: The Fulfillment

  The town blacksmith (Victor French), whose wife cannot have children, becomes fast friends with an 8-year-old orphan boy.

• Season 2 Episode 20: The Cradle

  News that she is pregnant cuts short Olivia's debut as a door-to-door saleswoman, throwing the family into turmoil.

• Season 2 Episode 19: The Gift

  Grandpa offers a few words of wisdom to Jason, who's just discovered a close friend has been diagnosed as suffering from a terminal illness. Ron Howard guest stars

• Season 2 Episode 18: The Heritage

  Charlie Harmon throws John a financial lifeline by offering him £5,000 for Walton's Mountain : but the deal has some unsettling strings attached. With Ralph Waite and Noah Beery

• Season 2 Episode 17: The Honeymoon

  Olivia embarks on a one-woman strike, prompting her husband to take her on a belated honeymoon after 19 years of marriage

• Season 2 Episode 16: The Awakening

  Grandma, troubled by age, suffers a hearing loss; Mary Ellen falls for a college student (James Carroll Jordan).

• Season 2 Episode 15: The Triangle

  John-Boy is bothered when the Rev. Fordwick begins to court Miss Hunter; Ben prepares to fight for a girl's affections.

• Season 2 Episode 14: The Air Mail Man

  An airmail plane has engine trouble and the pilot has to take emergency measures by landing the craft in the Waltons' meadow

• Season 2 Episode 13: The Bequest

  Grandma inherits an old friend's legacy and promptly decides to share the proceeds between her grandchildren - but her well-meaning action has unforeseen results

• Season 2 Episode 12: The Substitute

  The children are unhappy when Miss Hunter needs to take leave because of a family emergency and a substitute teacher is sent to take over her job. Catherine Burns guest stars

• Season 2 Episode 11: The Thanksgiving Story : Part Two

  Part two of two. John-Boy is rushed into hospital to have a blood clot removed from his brain. Bittersweet American drama, starring Richard Thomas and Michael Learned

• Season 2 Episode 10: The Thanksgiving Story : Part One

  Part one of two. The anticipated joy of Thanksgiving turns to sorrow for the family when John-Boy suffers a head injury

• Season 2 Episode 9: The Fawn

  Erin finds an orphaned fawn and decides to nurse it back to health, while John-Boy's new job as a rent collector makes him extremely unpopular with the locals. Starring Richard Thomas and Charles Tyner

• Season 2 Episode 8: The Braggart

  Orphan Hobart Shank comes to stay and John-Boy attempts to get him a contract as a professional baseball player - but tragedy strikes when he breaks his arm in a fall, destroying his one chance at fame

• Season 2 Episode 7: The Prize

  A forthcoming county fair brings out a streak of competitiveness in the family, and Olivia is surprised to hear her childhood sweetheart, the now wealthy Oscar Cockrell, is to be one of the judges. Drama series, starring Richard Thomas and Michael Learned

• Season 2 Episode 6: The Chicken Thief

  John-Boy catches his friend Yancy Tucker stealing two chickens and agonises over whether to report him. With Richard Thomas and Robert Donner

• Season 2 Episode 5: The Roots

  A farm labourer and his son meet the family and are invited to stay for a few days. However, when the time comes to leave, the young boy refuses to go

• Season 2 Episode 4: The Theft

  John-Boy is accused of stealing a widow's collection of silver to pay for new truck tyres. Richard Thomas stars

• Season 2 Episode 3: The Separation

  A family misunderstanding prompts Grandpa to walk out, leaving everyone else in a state of shock. Will Geer stars

• Season 2 Episode 2: The Odyssey

  John-Boy's peace and quiet is disrupted by an old schoolfriend who desperately needs his help. Richard Thomas stars

• Season 2 Episode 1: The Journey

  Kind-hearted John-Boy gives up a date with a beautiful woman to accompany an elderly Scottish lady on the most important journey of her life

The Waltons: Season 1 (1972 - 1973)

• Season 1 Episode 25: An Easter Story - Part Two

  Part two of two. John-Boy researches new polio treatments, and as Easter arrives, Livvy regains her strength

• Season 1 Episode 24: An Easter Story - Part One

  Part one of two. Livvy is diagnosed with polio - prompting the whole family to rally round in support

• Season 1 Episode 23: The Townie

  John-Boy receives a proposal of marriage from his insecure friend Sarah. However, when he fails to take her seriously she elopes with another boy instead - and he sets out to find the errant couple before they tie the knot. Sissy Spacek guest stars

• Season 1 Episode 22: The Bicycle

  Budding writer John-Boy helps a local blacksmith compose a poem that will win the hand of his sweetheart. Starring Richard Thomas

• Season 1 Episode 21: The Scholar

  Kind-hearted John-Boy helps an illiterate woman learn to read and write in time for her daughter's college graduation. Richard Thomas stars

• Season 1 Episode 20: The Deed

  John-Boy takes a trip to the city to raise the $200 required for his family to register their right to the land, while his siblings do their bit at home

• Season 1 Episode 19: The Gypsies

  John-Boy offers shelter to a gypsy couple with a sick child, but is shocked by the reaction of the rest of his family

• Season 1 Episode 18: The Courtship

  Olivia's timid uncle Cody Nelson pays a visit to the family after losing his job in a bank, and John-Boy and Grandpa set out to find him a wife. However, much to the disapproval of Olivia and Grandma, he falls in love with Cordelia Hunnicutt, who has been married four times already

• Season 1 Episode 17: The Love Story

  John-Boy falls for young Jenny Pendleton, who has run away from her home in Richmond and taken refuge on Walton's Mountain : but his romantic bliss proves short-lived

• Season 1 Episode 16: The Fire

  A bitter father threatens Miss Hunter for teaching his daughter Darwin's theory of evolution. After a drunken night out he decides to burn the school down, but ends up collapsing in the fire

• Season 1 Episode 15: The Actress

  A famous film star is stranded on the mountain when her car breaks down and is invited to stay with the Waltons, putting on a one-woman show to raise her train fare back to the city. While she charms most of the family, Olivia is not convinced by her tall tales. Pippa Scott and Dorothy Neuman guest star

• Season 1 Episode 14: The Minstrel

  After meeting an itinerant singer, a restless Mary Ellen decides to run away from home. However, when he does not take kindly to her following him, she disappears again and is left up to John-Boy to find her. Meanwhile, the rest of the family work hard picking apples to save enough money to send her on a trip to Washington to cure her wanderlust

• Season 1 Episode 13: The Reunion

  John-Boy receives a visit from cousin Homer, but the Baldwin sisters are unaware of his criminal record until he makes off with much of the stock for their reunion banquet recipe

• Season 1 Episode 12: The Dust Bowl Cousins

  Light-fingered cousins Ham and Job come to stay on Walton's Mountain : but despite their biblical names, they prove to be out-and-out crooks

• Season 1 Episode 11: The Literary Man

  Jim-Bob ends up in hospital with a nasty case of appendicitis, forcing Grandpa and John-Boy to rely on a famous author to help them complete an important contract. Richard Thomas and David Huddleston star

• Season 1 Episode 10: The Legend

  An old army friend of John's visits, and causes havoc among the Walton clan by starting a fire and accidentally shooting their dog

• Season 1 Episode 9: The Ceremony

  The family are puzzled by the cold manner of their new neighbours : until it turns out they suffered at the hands of the Nazis and still daren't reveal their ancestry

• Season 1 Episode 8: The Boy From The CCC

  The kids prevent an injured orphan from killing a raccoon and take him under their wing - but soon wonder if they've made the right decision

• Season 1 Episode 7: The Sinner

  A well-to-do minister comes to stay with the Waltons, but his presence soon sparks off all manner of religious ructions

• Season 1 Episode 6: The Star

  A meteorite lands in the Baldwin sisters' recipe room, causing quite a stir among the locals who believe it to be a heaven-sent omen of hope

• Season 1 Episode 5: The Typewriter

  Budding author John-Boy secretly borrows a typewriter to further his career, but sister Mary Ellen causes him no end of trouble by selling it to the local junk collector. Starring Richard Thomas and Judy Norton

• Season 1 Episode 4: The Hunt

  After finding himself unable to shoot a turkey while on a hunting trip, John-Boy displays his courage by saving his father's life

• Season 1 Episode 3: The Calf

  Rumblings of discontent over the sale of a new-born calf prompt the family to join forces in a determined effort to get it back. Drama, starring Richard Thomas

• Season 1 Episode 2: The Carnival

  The children agree to buy Granny a new pair of glasses instead of spending their money at the carnival - and get a fitting reward for their big-hearted gesture

• Season 1 Episode 1: The Foundling

  The family take in a deaf girl and teach her sign-language. First-ever episode of the popular drama