• Air date: 21 Sep '78 24 episodes
      The Waltons is an American television.The show is centered on a family in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.
  • List of Episodes (24)
    • 1. The Empty Nest (1)

      21 Sep '78
      Everybody mourns the death of Grandpa Zeb and Flossie Brimmer. John struggles hard to fill a huge lumber contract and Mary Ellen & Erin move to Charlottesville and they get an apartment.
    • 2. The Empty Nest (2)

      21 Sep '78
      2nd part The Waltons and the rest of the townspeople think of Grandpa and Flossie Brimmer.
    • 3. The Calling

      28 Sep '78
      Jim-Bob meets the Baldwin's cousin, a young girl who is in a convent preparing to become a nun. Ben hires a mill hand who turns out to be an alcoholic.
    • 4. The Moonshiner

      12 Oct '78
      Boone Walton comes back to Walton's mountain and gets in trouble with the law. Boone gets released in Jason's custody. Daisy Garner also comes back to Walton's Mountain to visit.
    • 5. The Obsession

      19 Oct '78
      Mary Ellen gets prescription drugs and abuses them in order to study long hours for her Nurse's exam. Cissy Tucker Yancy Tucker's wife has had enough and she puts her foot down.
    • 6. The Changeling

      26 Oct '78
      Just before Elizabeth's 13th birthday, she becomes reluctant to grow up and creates a poltergeist. Jason starts a new job as a radio talk show host giving advice to the lovelorn.
    • 7. The Portrait

      02 Nov '78
      Erin is both attracted and repelled by a brooding artist who is here from Paris. As part of a war-time mural on the wall of an old house the artist asks to paint Erin's portrait.
    • 8. The Captive

      09 Nov '78
      Jim-Bob tries to teach Elizabeth to drive. Corabeth 's drinking problem becomes severe and Elizabeth has to drive Aimee and Corabeth home.
    • 9. The Illusion

      16 Nov '78
      Ester Verdie's daughter comes back to Walton's Mountain disillusioned over having a college degree & unable to land a meaningful job. Erin helps her find a job at J.D. Pickett's plant.
    • 10. The Beau

      23 Nov '78
      Grandma's ex-boyfriend comes calling on Grandma much to the horror of Elizabeth. Jim-Bob persuades Yancy Tucker to make fuel in his still instead of moonshine.
    • 11. Day of Infamy

      07 Dec '78
      Christmas 1941. Mary Ellen says she will be going to be with Curt in Hawaii. News from Pearl Harbor comes and the Waltons are told that Curt is dead.
    • 12. The Yearning

      14 Dec '78
      Elizabeth falls in love with the minister when he is forced out of the parsonage by a skunk. Erin is helping the Baldwin sisters write their memoirs and Erin finds a ring that was left by Ashley Longworth.
    • 13. The Boosters

      28 Dec '78
      Ben talks the townspeople into opening an auto court against John's advice. Yancy Tucker goes into business for himself.
    • 14. The Conscience

      04 Jan '79
      Jason has second thoughts about joining the military service and considers becoming a Conscientious Objector much to Ben's dismay. Jim-Bob gets a military tattoo.
    • 15. The Obstacle

      11 Jan '79
      Mike Paxton, John-Boy's old friend, is confined to a wheel chair and believes there is no hope for the future. Through the help of the family, he comes out of his shell.
    • 16. The Parting

      18 Jan '79
      John and Olivia are both tired so Olivia suggests a trip, but the vacation does not help Olivia. Olivia sees a doctor and is told she has TB and must go to a sanitarium.
    • 17. The Burden

      25 Jan '79
      After a car jack slips and falls and Jim-Bob escapes serious injury, Jim-Bob decides to become a minister.
    • 18. The Pin-Up

      08 Feb '79
      Ben enters a casual picture of Erin in a contest where she wins 1st prize. She finds herself the center of attention and the official pin-up girl of Camp Lee to John's dismay.
    • 19. The Attack

      15 Feb '79
      Ike has a heart attack because of the pressures and shortages of war-time shop-keeping. The Walton children pitch in and help keep Ike's store open in his absence.
    • 20. The Legacy

      22 Feb '79
      Ashley Longworth Jr, who bears striking resemblance to his dad, comes to the Baldwin home and is courted by Miss Emily and Erin.
    • 21. The Outsider

      01 Mar '79
      Ben comes home in the middle of the night with his new wife Cindy and they set up housekeeping in the shed. The early years of marriage aren't easy until Grandma steps in.
    • 22. The Torch

      08 Mar '79
      Cally May, John's ex-girlfriend, comes to Walton's mountain and buys the Dew Drop Inn. John and Olivia's kids try to protect John from Cally May's attention. Ike, Cindy and Elizabeth turn Godsey's hall into a canteen for soldiers from Camp Rockfish.
    • 23. The Talespin

      15 Mar '79
      Jim-Bob can not join the Air Corps because he fails the eye exam. Jim-Bob decides to run off and join the Army.
    • 24. Founders' Day

      22 Mar '79
      Jason tries desperately with his music professor to meet the course's requirements of an original composition. He composes Appalachian Portrait while he plans the piece.