The Waltons DVDs

Buy Now	The Waltons - Season 1 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.
Buy Now	The Waltons - Season 2 Year two of Earl Hamner's The Waltons still finds the original cast complete and the show humming along nicely on nostalgia for an earlier America, specifically the Depression-era 1930s, a time of sacrifice and family unity as The Waltons portrays it.
Buy Now	The Waltons - Season 3 The Waltons: The Complete Third Season finds series creator Earl Hamner's running story about the proud, Depression-era family living and working on Walton's Mountain going through some changes. The big news is that oldest son John-Boy (Richard Thomas) is now a freshman at Boatwright University, pursuing his dream of becoming a writer but encountering a lot of tough challenges and distractions.
Buy Now	The Waltons - Season 4 The Waltons: The Complete Fourth Season finds life on Walton's Mountain changing in some significant ways. The first episode, "The Sermon," sets the tone with a story in which oldest son John-Boy Walton (Richard Thomas) is asked by the local preacher (John Ritter) to substitute for him at one Sunday service.
Buy Now	The Waltons - Season 5 The Waltons: The Complete Fifth Season finds the Depression-era, Blue Ridge Mountains family a little more in touch with the outside world, largely because of the aspirations of the growing Walton children.
Buy Now	The Waltons - Season 6 It's a big year for welcomes on Walton's Mountain. Welcome back to John- Boy, visiting from New York, and to Grandma, finally home from the hospital. And welcome to the family for Mary Ellen and Curt's baby boy John Curtis. But all that joy is set against the tragedy of events in the outside world.
Buy Now	The Waltons - Season 7 World War II has a profound impact on The Waltons: The Complete Seventh Season, as does the absence of John-Boy Walton (Richard Thomas), central figure in the first six years of the popular television drama.
Buy Now	The Waltons - Season 8 Narratively speaking, The Waltons: The Complete Eighth Season is overwhelmingly defined by World War II and its impact on the Walton family and their friends. Make that the Waltons' extended family: a new character, Rose Burton (Peggy Rea), cousin to matriarch Olivia (Michael Learned), moves into the Virginia clan's home with two troubled grandchildren, Jeffrey (Keith Mitchell) and Serena (Martha Nix). Their numbers swell the household considerably.
Buy Now	The Waltons - Season 9 The final season of The Waltons is notable for the ever-changing number of people sitting at the family's long dinner table. Early in the season, with all four boys at war in Europe and Japan, plates are set for John Sr. (Ralph Waite), cousin Rose (Peggy Rea)--the de facto woman of the house with matriarch Olivia (Michael Learned) gone away--and sisters Mary Ellen (Judy Norton-Taylor), Erin (Mary Beth McDonough), and Elizabeth (Kami Cotler), plus brother Ben's wife Cindy (Leslie Winston).
Buy Now	The Waltons - The Complete Series Product Description Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 04/28/2009

The Waltons follows the daily lives of the various members of the Walton family as they make a living working their humble saw mill on Walton's Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Set in the 1930's, the series unfolds through the eyes of John Boy (Richard Thomas). An aspiring writer, John Boy chronicles life on Walton Mountain where his parents, John Sr. (Ralph Waite) and Olivia (Michael Learned), raise their seven children (John Boy, Jason, Mary Ellen, Erin, Ben, Jim-Bob, and Elizabeth) with the aid of live-in grandparents Esther (Ellen Corby) and Zeb (Will Greer) Walton. A wide array of supporting characters live near the Waltons, including Reverend Fordwick (portrayed by Three's Company star John Ritter), the Godseys, the Baldwins, and various others. As the trials of the Great Depression fade into the tribulations of World War II, the Waltons connect with every facet of the human experience - love, marriage, birth, death, aging, social ills, and the numerous travails of life, making The Waltons one of the most popular shows in television history…

The Waltons (Season 1) DVD features a number of memorable episodes including the series premiere "The Foundling" in which a young girl named Holly is left on the doorstep of the Walton family. Following a checkup with the family pediatrician, they learn that Holly is deaf. John Boy takes the initiative and teaches Holly a form of sign language so the two can communicate, a skill which proves to be quite important when Holly warns the family that its youngest member is in urgent danger… Other notable episodes from Season 1 include "The Literary Man" in which John Boy meets noted author A.J. Covington when the truck breaks down, and "The Courtship" in which Olivia's Uncle Cody falls in love with a four-time divorcee when he comes to visit the family…

Below is a list of episodes included on The Waltons (Season 1) DVD:

Episode 1 (The Foundling) Air Date: 09-14-1972
Episode 2 (The Carnival) Air Date: 09-21-1972
Episode 3 (The Calf) Air Date: 09-28-1972
Episode 4 (The Hunt) Air Date: 10-05-1972
Episode 5 (The Typewriter) Air Date: 10-12-1972
Episode 6 (The Star) Air Date: 10-19-1972
Episode 7 (The Sinner) Air Date: 10-26-1972
Episode 8 (The Boy from the C.C.C.) Air Date: 11-02-1972
Episode 9 (The Ceremony) Air Date: 11-09-1972
Episode 10 (The Legend) Air Date: 11-16-1972
Episode 11 (The Literary Man) Air Date: 11-30-1972
Episode 12 (The Dust Bowl Cousins) Air Date: 12-07-1972
Episode 13 (The Reunion) Air Date: 12-14-1972
Episode 14 (The Minstrel) Air Date: 12-21-1972
Episode 15 (The Actress) Air Date: 01-04-1973
Episode 16 (The Fire) Air Date: 01-11-1973
Episode 17 (The Love Story) Air Date: 01-18-1973
Episode 18 (The Courtship) Air Date: 01-25-1973
Episode 19 (The Gypsies) Air Date: 02-01-1973
Episode 20 (The Deed) Air Date: 02-08-1973
Episode 21 (The Scholar) Air Date: 02-22-1973
Episode 22 (The Bicycle) Air Date: 03-01-1973
Episode 23 (The Townie) Air Date: 03-08-1973
Episode 24 (An Easter Story: Part 1) Air Date: 04-19-1973
Episode 25 (An Easter Story: Part 2) Air Date: 04-19-1973

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