John-Boy is bothered when the Rev. Fordwick begins to court Miss Hunter; Ben prepares to fight for a girl's affections.

Grandma, troubled by age, suffers a hearing loss; Mary Ellen falls for a college student (James Carroll Jordan).

Sparks fly between a single mother and a professional football player when they coincidentally meet again on her daughter's flag football field.

Sarah Bloom, a highly successful wedding planner, returns to her hometown to plan the season's biggest wedding. Much to Sarah's surprise, the bride's brother happens to be her first love.

The Walton family befriends a mail pilot forced down by engine trouble; Olivia feels depressed.

John-Boy is bothered when the Rev. Fordwick begins to court Miss Hunter; Ben prepares to fight for a girl's affections.

Grandma, troubled by age, suffers a hearing loss; Mary Ellen falls for a college student (James Carroll Jordan).

Walnut Grove citizens vow to destroy their homes after learning that Eastern financiers own their town.

Dr. Mike, Sully and Matthew team up with a legendary marshal in order to nab the thieves who wounded Matthew during a bank robbery.

A severe storm bears down on Colorado Springs, disrupting the arrival of Preston Lodge II and Dr. Mike's attempts to prepare a Thanksgiving dinner.

The angels help a minor-league baseball player realize his major-league dreams by making him understand the importance of family.

The Waltons work together to teach sign language to a 6-year-old whose mother abandoned her.

The children befriend four performers stranded on the mountain after the carnival moves on; guest Billy Barty.

The Walton children learn the family cow's calf, sold to a neighboring farmer, is due to be slaughtered.

John-Boy struggles with his beliefs about killing but proves his courage on a turkey hunt with his father.

John-Boy's sisters unknowingly sell a museum-piece typewriter he borrowed from the Baldwins to a junkman.

Grandpa interprets a shooting star that crash-landed at the Baldwins as an omen of his death.

The Waltons welcome a visiting preacher (John Ritter) and his mentor (Collin Wilcox-Horne), a fiery missionary.

An injured runaway betrays the Waltons' trust; Elizabeth accuses her father of not helping care for an ailing raccoon.

A Jewish family which fled Nazi Germany tries to live isolated in a mountain cabin; guest Radames Pera.

An old World War I buddy of John's tries to hide his failure in life by bragging about his daring wartime deeds.

A colorful, self-styled writer (David Huddleston) dazzles John-Boy who jeopardizes a timber contract.

The Denby cousins move in unexpectedly and take advantage of hospitality.

The sheriff asks John-Boy's help when the Baldwin sisters' cousin (Denver Pyle) plans to bootleg their "recipe.".

Mary Ellen falls for a minstrel and resists helping the family fulfill a vital contract.

The Waltons aid an actress (Pippa Scott) whose chauffeur robbed and abandoned her after her car broke down.

The drunken father of a young friend of the Waltons burns down the schoolhouse in the name of religion.

John-Boy falls for a woman (Sian Barbara Allen) who left home to return to her father's house on Walton's Mountain.

John-Boy and Grandpa play matchmaker for Olivia's visiting uncle, but the women disapprove of their choice.

John-Boy invites Gypsies to camp on the Waltons' land, despite dire predictions; guest Gregory Sierra.

John-Boy seeks city employment when a legal mix-up threatens the Waltons' lumber rights; guest Garry Walberg.

An illiterate woman (Lynn Hamilton) whose daughter is graduating from college asks John-Boy to teach her.

John-Boy helps a blacksmith (Ned Beatty) write to a woman; Olivia neglects the family to sing in a choir.

John-Boy's casual date for the movies decides to unleash her considerable feminine charms on him.

The faith of the Walton family is sorely tried when Olivia contracts polio, and the doctor says that she may never walk again.

Olivia tries a radical polio treatment developed by Sister Kenny of Australia.

John-Boy must choose between an important date and escorting a dying neighbor to a favorite seaside spot.

John-Boy heads for a mountain cabin to write, but ends up delivering an old schoolmate's (Sissy Spacek) baby.

Planning a surprise for the family with the Baldwin sisters, Grandpa makes Grandma jealous.

A widow accuses John of stealing while he was working in her mansion; guest Dennis Dugan.

Widow Verdie Grant (Lynn Hamilton) seeks help to win an itinerant laborer (Hal Williams) with a young son.

John-Boy catches a friend stealing chickens, then learns that the man who was robbed has been shot.

The family prepares for the county fair; Olivia has a visit from her childhood sweetheart (Peter Donat), now wealthy.

A teenage orphan who once stayed with the Waltons returns with news of a tryout with a professional baseball scout.

John-Boy becomes a rent collector for a neglectful, dishonest landlord; Erin nurses an orphaned fawn. Directed by Ralph Waite.

While the family makes Thanksgiving preparations, John-Boy awaits a visit from his girlfriend (Sian Barbara Allen).

A severe head injury, which prevented John-Boy from taking his college entrance exams, now requires surgery.

A brilliant but insecure substitute (Catherine Burns) makes drastic changes in the school routine.

Grandma makes plans to distribute her wealth after a friend leaves her $250.

The Walton family befriends a mail pilot forced down by engine trouble; Olivia feels depressed.

John-Boy is bothered when the Rev. Fordwick begins to court Miss Hunter; Ben prepares to fight for a girl's affections.

Grandma, troubled by age, suffers a hearing loss; Mary Ellen falls for a college student (James Carroll Jordan).

John schemes to take overworked Olivia on a belated honeymoon; Marcia quizzes John-Boy about his intentions.

John considers selling Walton's Mountain to a developer (Noah Beery) planning to build a resort over its hot spring.

Jason can't cope when he learns his close friend (Ron Howard) has only a year to live.

News that she is pregnant cuts short Olivia's debut as a door-to-door saleswoman, throwing the family into turmoil.

The town blacksmith (Victor French), whose wife cannot have children, becomes fast friends with an 8-year-old orphan boy.

The Walton children receive mysterious Ouija-board messages concerning the family's 8-year-old houseguest. Directed by Ralph Waite.

The Waltons get ready for John-Boy's high-school graduation, but the death of the cow interrupts preparations.

A broke salesman buys a doll for his daughter with Olivia's down-payment on a set of books.

John-Boy needs a car to travel to and from college; he makes a deal with Hyder Rudge for his spare car, but Rudge hides the car and refuses to sell it.

The Waltons' loyalty is tested by a conflict between family members.

The Waltons rally to help their aunt fight a government eviction.

A highly anticipated first day at college starts with John-Boy giving a pretty coed a ride but ends in total disaster.

John-Boy enters a mule in the annual cross-country race and finds himself competing for Selena's affections.

When the rest of the Walton family fails to pay attention to a personal tragedy in his life, Jim-Bob runs away from home.

John-Boy challenges Olivia to take a night school course in art, but she gets more than she expected when the instructor kisses her.

Mary Ellen discovers a beautiful ring in a secondhand purse she bought for a date with John-Boy's best friend.

John-Boy defends a freshman football player he tutored after having to report him for cheating on a history exam.

A former New York stockbroker and his family move to Walton's Mountain and upset the equilibrium of the residents; guest Linda Purl.

Against Olivia's wishes, John-Boy enters a dance marathon with a girl he met in a neighboring town; guest Charles Haid.

John-Boy's feelings of inadequacy are washed away when circumstances lead to the publishing of a book of his short stories.

Grandpa becomes upset with John, and his stubborn pride leads him to pack, take Grandma by the hand and leave home.

Feeling "put out to pasture," John seeks adventure by leaving to work in a Norfolk shipyard.

The Waltons help prepare for the return of an old friend's wife, but strange circumstances surround the visit.

Grandpa is stricken by a heart attack and is desperately despondent about his condition; the entire Walton family makes every effort to restore his will to live.

John-Boy tries to unravel the circumstances of a hit-and-run charge brought against Ben in a nearby town.

Ike Godsey falls in love with the Waltons' cousin Corabeth; John-Boy arranges for Erin to be photographed.

An unscrupulous student at Boatwright University steals John-Boy's notes; the blame falls on a good friend of John-Boy's, causing a great deal of hurt and distrust.

Grandpa gets angry and moves out with Grandma after John suggests he take life a little easier.

A fun mountain wedding threatens to destroy the marriage of a family friend.

Amid plans to expand his business, John considers Jason's desire to study music a waste of time.

John-Boy's story, if published, may devastate Emily Baldwin; Grandpa's raffle prize is a statue of a woman.

Ben's plans to win the heart of a special girl backfires, and sends her into the arms of Jason.

John and Olivia prepare for their 20th anniversary; John-Boy falls for an older woman writer and plans to leave.

The family may lose its considerable investment in a new business when John is hospitalized with pneumonia.

Miss Hunter and the Rev. Fordwick take a two-week honeymoon, leaving Olivia in the classroom and John-Boy at the pulpit.

John-Boy brings home his college tutor, a 16-year-old genius who seems to possess no social skills.

An aspiring preacher (Cleavon Little) enters a boxing match in order to win enough money to build a church on Walton's Mountain.

John is apprehensive about facing his highly successful classmates at his 25-year high-school reunion.

When an investigative reporter, arrives at Walton Mountain to write a historical guide to the State of Virginia, he uncovers a secret that angers the rest of the community.

Jason stretches himself to the breaking point to prove his self-worth.

Some emotional entanglements follow when John-Boy invites a woman wing-walker to stay at the Walton home.

Erin and Mary Ellen compete for the attentions of a visiting forestry student; Olivia cares for a foster child.

Olivia is a substitute teacher at Walton's Mountain School; John-Boy's old flame, Marcia, returns with her new fiance.

When a young widow comes to stay in their home, the Walton children learn a hard lesson about how to cope with another person's grief.

After he helps with the filming of a writer's experiences with the Waltons, John-Boy is offered a job in New York.

The Waltons offer refuge to a woman who left her husband (Richard Hatch), a Walton relative and moonshiner.

Mary Ellen learns about math, science and humanity as she works with a public-health nurse while preparing to enter nursing school.

Ben, his pride wounded by a girl, leaves home as the Waltons compete with another lumber company for an important railroad contract.

Olivia, Jim-Bob and Elizabeth set out to visit a friend but wind up becoming lost on Walton's Mountain; guest Wilford Brimley.

Suspecting that he may be adopted, Jim-Bob investigates the circumstances of his birth and uncovers a long-hidden family secret.

Despite his battle tales, Grandpa resists efforts to reunite him with his Spanish-American War comrades. Directed by Richard Thomas.

John-Boy struggles with guilt after fire destroys part of the Walton home and the family becomes temporarily separated.

John-Boy works to rewrite his lost novel; the Walton children learn lessons about themselves away from home.

A 12-year-old girl tries to con the Waltons and Baldwins out of $25 in order to free her swindler grandfather from jail.

The offer of a full-time job as a dressmaker in a fashionable shop opens new opportunities for Olivia; guest Abby Dalton.

Defying Grandma, Mary Ellen refuses to take part in a quilting bee planned to mark her emergence into womanhood.

Grandma joins with the Baldwin sisters, against her husband, to save a house in her hometown from demolition.

John-Boy takes a full-time job to earn a down-payment for a printing press.

A former girlfriend returns to Walton Mountain and challenges John-Boy to re-examine his life's goals.

John-Boy plans to publish two sensational stories in his newspaper's first edition; guest Conrad Janis.

Mary Ellen diagnoses Grandma's abdominal pains as flu, but the elderly woman must be rushed to the hospital.

Jason loses his musical scholarship because of the school's lack of money; he takes a job playing music at a local roadhouse to pay his tuition.

John Walton's peace of mind is threatened when a well-known evangelist comes to Walton Mountain to preach and lead a baptismal service.

John-Boy becomes the target of public indignation when he insists on printing excerpts from Hitler's "Mein Kampf.".

A night prowler panics Walton's Mountain, threatening the success of Jason's money-raising town dance.

Mary Ellen announces her engagement to David Spencer; Dr. Curtis Willard arrives at Walton's Mountain.

Mary Ellen reconsiders her wedding as her relationship with Dr. Willard deepens; the doctor vanishes with clinic funds.

John-Boy sells his Walton's Mountain acreage to meet printing-press payments; Mary Ellen faces a career crisis.

Jim-Bob enters a race on Ike's motorcycle; the Godseys decide to adopt a child. Directed by Richard Thomas.

The oldest living Walton, Aunt Martha Corrine, disrupts the family member's lives when she comes for an extended visit.

Bad weather, calamities and emergencies threaten the family's plans to honor Olivia with a Christmas gathering.

John-Boy is drawn into the controversial election of a sheriff; Grandpa opposes the capture of a lone wild horse.

Grandma refuses to share church-organist duties with her arch rival; restless Olivia resolves to make a change in her life.

An unconscious early memory of Elizabeth's returns as a dream to haunt the entire household and endanger her life.

Erin decides to elope after her parents refuse her permission to marry; Jason runs into problems managing Ike's store.

Grandma's medical bills and the mill's deterioration force John to work in Charlottesville.

For Erin Walton, graduation day from high school, which is an event that most people regard with great pleasure, seems to be the most painful day of her life.

John-Boy is determined to create a memorial to mark the day that the Jefferson County Doughboys returned from the war.

John-Boy wins a newspaper contest to cover the landing of the Hindenburg; Curt wants more private time with Mary Ellen.

Jason falls for Curt's sister (Linda Purl), who left her husband to become a singer. Directed by Ralph Waite.

Grandma's hospitalization troubles the family, especially Grandpa, who becomes depressed and withdrawn.

The Baldwins' niece arrives from war-threatened Vienna; John joins the National Guard, over Olivia's objections.

As an aggressive used-car salesman, Ben loses loved-ones' respect; Olivia plays Cupid for Sheriff Bridges.

John-Boy travels to New York to get his first novel published and is torn between the city and home.

Jim-Bob sets a trap for a troublesome hawk; Olivia has reservations about the choice for a new minister.

Mysterious events at the Walton farm lead to the discovery of a 12-year-old orphan boy, who attaches himself to John Walton.

Graduate Ben leaves home to find work; John takes on a huge contract; Jason encounters a lonely recluse.

A startling revelation about the history of Walton's Mountain leads to the beginning of a new American Indian burial ground.

The family meets an English girl on a trip to Virginia Beach; Ben plans a night alone with Darlene.

Erin's refusal causes G.W. to leave and join the Army; Maude seeks to market her paintings.

The joy surrounding the birth of the Waltons' first grandchild is diminished when Mary Ellen's baby is stolen.

The joy surrounding the birth of the Waltons' first grandchild is diminished when Mary Ellen's baby is stolen.

World War II reaches Walton's Mountain as Curt is called to serve; Yancy decides to enlist; G.W. confesses his fear to Erin.

The peace and serenity of Walton's Mountain is disturbed when it becomes the site for a round of realistic Army tactical maneuvers.

Jim-Bob makes friends with a runaway boy and his little sister; Elizabeth finds elderly Maude to be a fine replacement for Grandma.

As Christmas approaches, Mary Ellen and the baby leave to be near Curt; the Baldwins shelter two English children.

Olivia's faith is tested; Verdie is attacked by a robber; the English children stow away in an Army truck.

Olivia visits a relative (Louise Latham) as she struggles with menopause; Jim-Bob considers using deceit to get a job.

One more big order will clear the Walton's sawmill of all debts; the girls busy themselves playing match maker for the Rev. Buchanan.

A newly arrived German family arouses suspicions that are increased by Elizabeth's overactive imagination. Directed by Ralph Waite.

Mamie Baldwin fears it will be her last spring when she discovers her rosebush is dying; Jim-Bob and Ben date each other's girls.

Despite prejudice, Jason encourages Josh Foster to audition with him for the Spring Festival; Elizabeth likes a new boy in her class.

John makes secret plans to celebrate his and Olivia's 25th anniversary; Curt and Mary Ellen stave off temptation while separated.

Jason helps Verdie investigate her family history; Elizabeth tells a soldier pen pal she is 18 and sends him a photograph of Erin.

Ben and Jim-Bob feel guilty after Elizabeth breaks her legs in a fall from a log pile they stacked improperly.

The Waltons adjust to Elizabeth's injuries after she returns from the hospital and devise ways to help her walk again.

John-Boy decides to revive his hometown's economy by opening an abandoned coal mine; Erin conceals her second job.

Erin's secret second job is revealed; a sudden cave-in traps John, Jim-Bob, Ben and others in the reopened mine shaft.

John-Boy announces his engagement to Daisy and is offered an assignment in London; Grandpa "helps" Elizabeth's lemonade business.

An unhappy Grandma returns home to a loving and excited family and an overprotective Grandpa; a shy boy makes plans to see Elizabeth.

John struggles to fill a huge lumber contract; Erin and Mary Ellen move to Charlottesville; guest Michael Conrad.

Both Matt Sarver (Michael Conrad) and the lumbermen at home offer John good business deals; Erin and Mary Ellen return.

Jim-Bob's new love, the Baldwin's cousin, has more things than him on her mind; Ben unknowingly hires a drunkard to work at the mill.

Jason tries to reform disreputable relative Boone Walton (Morgan Woodward); Daisy, John-Boy's ex-fiancee, comes to Walton's Mountain.

Desperate to do well on her exams, Mary Ellen becomes dangerously dependent on amphetamines; Cissy walks out on her husband, Yancy.

Elizabeth's refusal to grow up causes strange occurrences around the Walton home; Jason conducts a radio show for the lovelorn.

Erin is strangely attracted to a troubled artist (Jared Martin) just returned from Paris; Grandma gets a canary that refuses to sing.

Jim-Bob tries to teach Elizabeth to drive; Corabeth's business ventures are ruined by her secret drinking. Directed by Ralph Waite.

Verdie's daughter Esther (Joan Pringle) arrives with her child, bitter over the frustrations of being a college-educated black woman.

Grandma is visited by a former suitor (Arthur Space); Jim-Bob starts a business with Yancy to produce fuel from alcohol.

The Pearl Harbor attack shakes everyone, especially Mary Ellen, whose husband, Curt, is stationed in Hawaii.

A new minister joins the community at Walton's Mountain; Elizabeth helps him settle in, and begins to fall for him; Erin helps the Baldwin sisters with their memoirs.

Ben decides to take advantage of a wartime increase in traffic by opening an auto court; Yancy studies barbering through the mail.

Jason grapples with his misgivings about joining the Army; Jim-Bob gets a military tattoo after being told he is too young to enlist.

The Walton family takes in an old school friend of John-Boy's who is confined to a wheelchair after suffering an injury in the war.

Olivia, worried John is overworking himself, suggests a vacation, only to learn disturbing news about herself after returning home.

An incredible bit of luck saves reckless Jim-Bob from possible serious injury, causing a drastic change in his rebellious attitude.

Mary Ellen becomes overprotective of her son and neglects her career; Ben's photo of Erin is turned into Camp Lee's official pinup.

Ike is hospitalized after a heart attack, leaving Elizabeth in charge of his store; Ben and Jim-Bob go into the molasses business.

Emily Baldwin thinks the Army-officer son of her old love is his father, returned to court her; Elizabeth struggles with adolescence.

Ben shocks the family with a new bride, and finds married life is not that easy; Ike surprises Corabeth with the wrong fountain.

The Waltons try to protect their father from an old flame; Elizabeth and Cindy open a canteen for the soldiers of Camp Rockfish.

Jim-Bob's dreams of flying in the Air Corps are shot down; Mary Ellen tries to match Erin with Curt's old friend, an Army sergeant.

Jason composes a final music project for the conservatory; the families of Walton's Mountain argue over who was the first settler.

Olivia returns home to find many changes; John helps locate a recruit gone AWOL; Erin considers asking for a raise.

Erin confronts Pickett; Jason shapes up his recruits; a grieving father attacks Jim-Bob; John-Boy is missing in action.

Cousin Rose comes with her grandchildren and a determination to make Olivia's life easier; Ike enlists Jim-Bob for a secret project.

Mary Ellen substitutes as the county nurse; John searches for his diploma to prove to the Army that he graduated from high school.

Olivia campaigns for a day nursery; plans for the Godsey's anniversary are almost ruined by jealousy.

A director making a documentary about the Pickett Plant gains Erin's cooperation by telling her she could be a star.

A publisher wants to print John-Boy's manuscript, although the author is missing in action; Jeff doesn't want Reckless put to sleep.

Ashley Longworth Jr. returns to ask Erin to marry him, but their plans are disrupted when he confesses to her that he's an atheist.

Olivia searches for the man who raped an Army wife; Corabeth expects an inheritance; news comes of missing John-Boy.

Olivia works as a Red Cross volunteer while watching over seriously injured John-Boy's (Robert Wightman) recovery.

Jim-Bob helps a newcomer, the wife of an Air Corps pilot, refurbish an old cabin and finds himself falling hopelessly in love.

Elizabeth coaches Erin and Mary Ellen in a run-and-ride race being held to raise war-bond money; Jeff dreams of meeting a movie star.

As Christmas nears, Jeffrey befriends an escaped German POW hiding on Walton's Mountain; Corabeth's holiday pageant is canceled.

Cindy endangers her unborn baby trying to be the perfect wife; Jeff names his new cat Harold, then finds "he" is expecting kittens.

One of Jason's fellow recruits, a Jewish Polish-American, tells how his grandfather was arrested and killed by Germans in Warsaw.

Elizabeth learns a new, progressive schoolteacher she admires is dying; Ben drinks to forget fears of fatherhood.

Jeffrey and Josh break into Ike's store to retrieve their confiscated gambling winnings; Ben considers going to war.

The family isn't sure what to do with Grandpa's cousin, who came to collect an old debt from Zeb; Jason pursues a girl named Toni.

Mary Ellen and John enlist Grandma's help to convince Mamie Baldwin to have cataract surgery.

John's nerves are strained to the limit as the orders pile up and his machinery breaks down; Jeffrey builds a soapbox race car.

Rose renews an acquaintance with her former dance partner, who then asks her to marry him; Jim-Bob decides he wants his own room.

John-Boy returns home and tries to recall the details of his plane crash for a comrade's sister; Ike is arrested for draft evasion.

Mary Ellen is attracted to a paratrooper who brings her some mementos of Curt; Corabeth's old flame pressures her to meet with him.

Jim-Bob graduates at the head of his class and prepares to go overseas to fight; Erin learns Ashley Longworth has married in London.

A deputy sheriff accuses Harley of escaping from a chain gang to which he was sentenced for murdering a white man.

John goes to see President Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Ga., and requests a pardon for the murder charges against Harley.

Mary Ellen runs into opposition when she decides to become a doctor; Jason and John-Boy enjoy a birthday surprise from back home.

A soldier in Jason's group rediscovers his courage; the Godseys are called before the ration board; word comes of a German surrender.

John-Boy falls in love with a determined French girl; Cindy sees apparitions of Ben in the house, and then learns he's been captured.

Jim-Bob, home on furlough, meets an old girlfriend (Jennifer Jason Leigh) claiming to be carrying his baby; Ben defies his captors.