![]() The show's end sequence featured the family saying goodnight to one another before drifting off to sleep, and according to the BBC (which also aired the series) "Goodnight, John-Boy" was one of the most common catchphrases of the 1970s. Domestic Television Distribution in syndication. The Waltons was produced by Lorimar Productions and distributed by Warner Bros. ![]() #THE HOSTAGE THE WALTONS SERIES#After the series was canceled in 1981, NBC aired three television film sequels in 1982, with three more in the 1990s on CBS. Beginning in September 1972, the series subsequently aired on CBS for nine seasons. Based on its success, the CBS television network ordered one season of episodes based on the same characters and that became the television series The Waltons. The television film The Homecoming: A Christmas Story was broadcast on December 19, 1971. It was created by Earl Hamner Jr., based on his 1961 book Spencer's Mountain and the 1963 film of the same name. The Waltons is an American historical drama television series about a family in rural Virginia during the Great Depression and World War II. Elizabeth and Drew together begin to raise Molly's colt.Warner Bros. After reflecting on this, Corabeth "resigns" from the store and concentrates on looking after Ike, but after a time he yearns for things as they were, and they become "partners" in business again.ĭrew hardly sees anything of Elizabeth as she's become pre-occupied with her horse Molly, until it bolts, falls and breaks its leg badly and has to be put down. Ike Godsey feels Corabeth is too much of a business woman and not enough of a wife, and tells her so. John-Boy, working for "The Stars And Stripes" in Paris, comes across Jason's girl-friend Toni Hazelton and they both try to find out where Jason is in France. However, the Sheriff's duty is to arrest him and send him back to jail. ![]() John discovers that Harley is indeed a runaway prisoner, 9 years ago, but was jailed by a biassed trial. At home, Verdie's husband Harley Foster, is accused of being an escaped prisoner who has killed a man. John-Boy and Jason are both in France, Ben is in the Pacific, Jim Bob is in the airforce somewhere. The cost of defending our freedoms ran high, and in our patriotic fervor we sometimes failed to realise that those freedoms were too often not evenly distributed". "By the Spring of 1945 there were no young men left on Waltons Mountain, though with the Allied forces close to victory in Europe, hope grew that soon they'd be returning home. When it passed through Charlottesville my family was there to pay their last respects". Wherever it went the people who loved him gathered to mark its passing, remembering the man who led a nation out of its most crippling depression and toward victory in its greatest war, planting seeds of brotherhood along the way. "The train bearing the body of Franklin Delanor Roosevelt moved slowly from Warm Springs Georgia toward the nation's capital. Eventually John manages to get to see President Roosevelt himself, who's last act before his death was to sign Harley's pardon. ![]() John traces Harley Foster's original defence lawyer, now retired, and Harley's heroic war record comes to light. On the home front however, my father found himself in the vanguard of the battle for equality and freedom that was so long overdue in America". "In the closing months of World War Two the fighting, far from the serenity of Waltons Mountain, was beginning to wind down. ![]()
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