| The Waltons: Season 8 | |||||
| Lorimar Productions (1979) | |||||
| TV Series / Drama, Family, Romance | |||||
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| Ralph Waite | John Walton / Sr. | |
| Joe Conley | Ike Godsey | |
| Ronnie Claire Edwards | Corabeth Godsey | |
| David W. Harper | Jim-Bob Walton | |
| Jon Walmsley | Jason Walton | |
| Mary Beth McDonough | Erin Walton | |
| Judy Norton | Mary Ellen Walton | |
| Kami Cotler | Elizabeth Walton | |
| Eric Scott | Ben Walton | |
| Earl Hamner Jr. | The Narrator | |
| Leslie Winston | Cindy Brunson Walton | |
| Michael Reed | John Curtis Willard | |
| Keith Coogan | Jeffrey Burton | |
| Peggy Rea | Rose Burton | |
| Marshall Reed | John Curtis Willard | |
| Martha Nix | Serena Burton | |
| Michael Learned | Olivia Walton | |
| Lewis Arquette | Jefferson Davis 'J.D.' Pickett | |
| Mary Jackson | Emily Baldwin | |
| Helen Kleeb | Mamie Baldwin |
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| Producer |
Earl Hamner Jr.
Claylene Jones Rod Peterson Lee Rich |
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| Writer |
Earl Hamner Jr.
Kathleen Hite Ernie Wallengren Juliet Law Packer |
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| Cinematography |
Gene A. Talvin
Serge Haignere |
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| Musician |
Alexander Courage
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In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, during the Great Depression, the Walton family makes its small income from its saw mill on Walton's Mountain. The story is told through the eyes of John Boy, who wants to be a novelist and go to college. The saga follows the family through depression and war, through growing up, school, courtship, marriage, employment, birth, aging, illness and death. |
| 60 mins 9/20/1979 1. The Home Front: Part 1 | |
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John has been appointed to the local draft board. John convinces a young soldier who went AWOL to return to his unit and the boy is subsequently lost when a troop ship is torpedoed. The boy's father wants revenge. Also, there's bad news about John-Boy.
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| 60 mins 9/20/1979 2. The Home Front: Part 2 | |
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The family members all seem involved in the war effort. John helps with the draft board. A soldier who signed up because of John is killed in the war, and the father wants to take revenge. Bad news about John-Boy.
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| 49 mins 9/27/1979 3. The Kinfolk | |
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Rose arrives at the Waltons' home with her grandchildren. The grandchildren always cause trouble and get into mischief on purpose. Jim-Bob and Ike build an air raid siren; Jeffrey finds it and causes trouble.
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| 49 mins 10/4/1979 4. The Diploma | |
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John has to prove he graduated from high school in order to continue getting contracts and security for government contracts. Mary Ellen becomes the nurse for the mountain folk when Nora is called into the service.
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| 60 mins 10/11/1979 5. The Innocents | |
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The parents who work at Picket's defense plant leave their children in the parking lot while the parents work. Olivia wants to open a day care in Picket's bar room for the workers. Ike learns to dance.
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| 49 mins 10/18/1979 6. The Starlet | |
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Film makers film a documentary at Picket's Plant and make Erin the "star". She thinks she might have a future in movies; one of the assistants gives her the truth. The Baldwin sisters host a dinner for the soldiers. Jason helps.
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| 49 mins 10/25/1979 7. The Journal | |
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John-Boy is still missing, but a publisher has his journal and wants to publish it. It is told from a soldier's point of view. John and Olivia have to decide.
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| 49 mins 11/1/1979 8. The Lost Sheep | |
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Ashley Longworth Jr returns to the mountain. He proposes to Erin and she accepts. Problems arise when he says he does not want to be married in a church. Serena (Rose's granddaughter) follows Elizabeth all the time.
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| 49 mins 11/8/1979 9. The Violated | |
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A soldier is sending his wife mail, but getting no replies. Olivia looks into it and finds something bad happened to the wife. Corabeth Godsey learns she will receive an inheritance. It is not what she expects.
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| 49 mins 11/22/1979 10. The Waiting | |
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John-Boy is no longer missing in war. He is in a coma in a hospital in Alexandria. John and Olivia go to see him. Rose is left at home to make the Thanksgiving meal and tries to cheer everyone up.
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| 50 mins 11/29/1979 11. The Silver Wings | |
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Jim-Bob helps a newcomer, the wife of an Air Corps pilot, refurbish an old cabin and finds himself falling hopelessly in love.
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| 50 mins 12/13/1979 12. The Wager | |
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A run (on foot) and ride (on horse) race is being held. Mary Ellen and Erin bet two guys that they will win. Elizabeth becomes a taskmaster in training Mary Ellen and Erin. Jeffrey gets a signed picture from a movie star.
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| 49 mins 12/20/1979 13. The Spirit | |
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A series of thefts worries the community. Jeffrey makes friends with a mysterious visitor (Ned Bellamy) on Walton's Mountain. He's an escaped German prisoner. Corabeth's holiday pageant is canceled.
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| 49 mins 12/27/1979 14. The Fastidious Wife | |
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Corabeth tries to sell a book at the store about being a perfect wife. She gives Cindy a book. She tries to follow all the instructions and ends up exhausted. Jeffrey and Serena find a pregnant cat and want to keep her and the kittens.
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| 50 mins 1/3/1980 15. The Unthinkable | |
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A soldier in Jason's company is Jewish. He tells the Waltons what is happening to Jews by the Nazis. Meanwhile, Elizabeth is getting teased for being such a smart student at school.
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| 60 mins 1/10/1980 16. The Idol | |
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Elizabeth is fascinated by the new schoolteacher, a modern thinker who dares to teach her students where babies come from. Cindy is reaching the final stage of her pregnancy.
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| 50 mins 1/17/1980 17. The Prodigals | |
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Jeffrey and Josh steal from Ike's store. Josh gets caught. Ben decides to enlist in the service even though he is exempt due to working at the mill.
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| 49 mins 1/24/1980 18. The Remembrance | |
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Grandpa's Cousin Zadok pays the family a visit to settle his affairs. At Camp Rockfish, Jason tries to break the ice with an officious female sergeant.
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| 50 mins 1/31/1980 19. The Inspiration | |
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Mamie Baldwin refuses to have cataract surgery, so Grandma moves in with the Baldwins and shows them what it is like to be blind. Elizabeth starts seeing Drew (Tony Becker).
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| 49 mins 2/7/1980 20. The Last Straw | |
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John thinks about giving up the lumber mill when it seems like everything is going wrong. Jeffrey builds a soapbox and enters a race.
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| 49 mins 2/14/1980 21. The Travelling Man | |
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A former boyfriend and dance partner of Rose's comes to visit. Rose and Stanley Perkins resume their relationship. The open road still calls out to Stanley. Meanwhile, Jeffrey has a new dog who is in the teething stage.
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| 49 mins 2/21/1980 22. The Furlough | |
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John-Boy is released from the hospital and returns to Walton's Mountain. Ike is arrested for draft evasion.
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| 49 mins 2/28/1980 23. The Medal | |
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Mary Ellen receives a medal that was awarded to Curtis after he died. A former friend of Corabeth visits; he and Corabeth begin to see each other. Ike is concerned.
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| 49 mins 3/13/1980 24. The Valediction | |
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Jim-Bob's class is graduating and he has the high grade. He is the valedictorian. His class prepares a graduation ceremony that is fitting for war time. (June 1944)
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