episodes
Season One:
September 14, 1972: A moving story about John-Boy's (Richard Thomas) efforts to communicate with a deaf girl.
The Carnival:
September 21, 1972: A carnival in the Walton barn.
The Calf:
September 28, 1972: The pet calf is headed for the slaughterhouse.
The Hunt:
October 5, 1972: An initiation into manhood: John-Boy's first turkey hunt.
The Typewriter:
October 12, 1972: An antique typewriter plays a crucial role in this story about John-Boy's writing career.
The Star:
October 19, 1972: How a shooting star touched the Waltons' lives.
The Sinner:
October 26, 1972: John Ritter as a stiff-backed minister who stumbles off the straight and narrow.
The Boy from the CCC:
November 2, 1972: The family attempts to gain the trust of a runaway (Michael Rupert) from a CCC camp.
The Ceremony:
November 9, 1972: A story of Jewish refugees who can't escape the fear of persecution.
The Legend:
November 16, 1972: A study of an old Army buddy still reliving his adventures in the Great War.
The Literary Man:
November 30, 1972: John-Boy's hopes for a literary career get a boost from a world-traveling author.
The Dust-Bowl Cousins:
December 7, 1972: The plight of dust-bowl refugees who lost their values as well as their farm.
The Reunion:
December 14, 1972: Denver Pyle as a con artist with great plans for the Baldwin sisters' hooch.
The Minstrel:
December 21, 1972: Mary Ellen's (Judy Norton) bad case of wanderlust is made worse by the tales of an itinerant minstrel.
The Actress:
January 4, 1973: Mary Ellen's star struck, Grandma's (Ellen Corby) scandalized... predictable reactions to a flamboyant actress stranded at the Waltons'.
The Fire:
January 11, 1973: Laurie Prange as a student caught in a parent-teacher clash over evolution.
The Love Story:
January 18, 1973: An old-fashioned love story: John-Boy and "just about the prettiest thing I ever laid eyes on."
The Courtship:
January 25, 1973: John-Boy plays matchmaker for an unlikely pair (Eduard Franz, Danna Hansen).
The Gypsies:
February 1, 1973: A Gypsy family's encounter with prejudice.
The Deed:
February 8, 1973: Big-city adventure for John-Boy in a timber-rights battle with a lumber company.
The Scholar:
February 22, 1973: John-Boy as a tutor to a woman too proud to admit she can't read or write.
The Bicycle:
March 1, 1973: John-Boy plays John Alden for a shy blacksmith courting a starry-eyed city girl (Ivy Jones).
The Townie:
March 8, 1973: Sissy Spacek plays John-Boy's romantic classmate, who's part tiger, part pussycat — and anxious to get married.
The Crisis, Part 1:
April 19, 1973: The Waltons are grief-stricken when a doctor pronounces Olivia (Michael Learned) a disabled victim of polio.
The Crisis, Conclusion:
April 19, 1973: Olivia attempts to overcome the effects of polio.
SEASON: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
