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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790789613
Feature: They built their home on the timeless mountain that bears their name. They built their lives on even stronger stuff: the bedrock of family.This 5-disc set features all 24 Year-One episodes of the beloved series that ran 9 years and won 5 Emmy Awards its inaugural year, including Outstanding Drama Series. Richard Thomas plays the key role of John-Boy Walton, a youth on the verge of manhood during t
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790789612
Item Dimensions: 85
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 32262
Number Of Items: 5
Publication Date: January 01, 2004
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 11, 2004
Running Time: 1249 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 14, 1972
Features:- They built their home on the timeless mountain that bears their name. They built their lives on even stronger stuff: the bedrock of family.This 5-disc set features all 24 Year-One episodes of the beloved series that ran 9 years and won 5 Emmy Awards its inaugural year, including Outstanding Drama Series. Richard Thomas plays the key role of John-Boy Walton, a youth on the verge of manhood during t
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Product Description:
Chronicles the life of a family living on a Southern mountain during the Depression.
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: WALTONS
Title: SEASON 1
Street Release Date: 09/12/2006
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Genre: TELEVISION
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The Waltons' nearly 10-year run on network television grew out of the popular, 1971 made-for-TV movie The Homecoming, which was derived from a Depression-era, rustic setting ("Walton's Mountain"), and characters based on Earl Hamner Jr.'s autobiographical novel Spencer's Mountain--itself the source for a very nice 1963 feature film starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara. That's a lot of entertainment sprouting from Hamner's prose. But something about his seminal story of family values, rugged independence, and big dreams amidst a hardscrabble existence captured the hearts of American audiences, many of whom personally recalled severe economic adversity in the 1930s.
The Waltons: The Complete First Season collects those initial episodes from the series building on the strengths of the Homecoming pilot, which introduced the extended Walton clan led by a strong-willed mill owner, John (Andrew Duggan), and his equally resolute wife, Olivia (Patricia Neal). The Waltons recast those key roles (as well as a few others) with Ralph Waite and Michael Learned (yup, a female), but Richard Thomas carried over as oldest child John-Boy Walton, an aspiring writer whose cusp-of-manhood view informs the series. Will Geer (Seconds) replaced Edgar Bergen as Grandpa Walton, Ellen Corby remained as Grandma, and John and Olivia's large brood (seven kids in all) were filled out by largely unknown, young actors. The episodes, still delightful and touching, strong on production values and unusually tight and polished for primetime drama, tended to focus on creator Hamner's pet themes of self-sacrifice and heroic effort when the going got tough.
Year 1 highlights include "The Carnival," in which the impoverished Waltons, who can't pay for tickets to see a circus performance, end up sheltering stranded carney folk. "The Typewriter" is a classic about John-Boy "borrowing" a museum's antique typewriter, only to have his sister Mary Ellen (Judy Norton) sell it as junk. "The Sinner" concerns the arrival of a fundamentalist minister on Walton's Mountain, finding comfort in the words of religious iconoclast John Walton after the clergyman makes a fool of himself with moonshine. That's Hamner himself providing touches of narration. During the long run of the multiple-award-winning The Waltons, there were many changes in casting and storylines. But this boxed set reveals a fine series in its pristine state. --Tom Keogh
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The trash that is on TV today doesn't come close to these TV series.
The waltons & little house on the prairie, Two of the best TV series in the history of TV!!
Don't forget "Highway to Heaven" another good one.
I give this DVD set a 5 of 5 stars!!
The Waltons - The Complete First Season
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My kids and I got into playing the "goodnight John Boy - goodnight Mary Ellen" saga when we went to bed at night and since they had NO idea who these people were - I purchased this DVD for them! They LOVE it! In todays fast paced - anything goes mentality on TV it's nice to let your kids watch something you know won't shock them! The worst thing that happens on this show is the Baldwin Sister's and their moonshine making !! Ha Ha
Great to hang out - watch and laugh with the Walton's!! ... Read More
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The Walton's DVD, 2nd season is an excellent quality product, packaged in a beautifully designed carrying case which is made with a heavy duty, durable material. I highly recommend this item to anyone who is a Walton's fan or anyone who just wants to sit back and watch some family oriented program whenever they feel the need.
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You can see even from this earliest of season why this show lasted for 9 seasons.
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I believe this is one of those moments where the Omnipresent Market was not invading all spaces of Media. I'm enjoying this antique every night with my 6 years old daugther and at the end, instead of correcting the junk lessons from market led stupid shows we start long conversations about values, family, love and grassroots prnciples.
It's not pure, it's not profound, but help us to remember and re-member with the soil of the grassroots culture and , in the say of Grandma "when all these modernity ... Read More
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