The Waltons

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

The Walton children befriend four stranded carnival performers.

Elizabeth and Jim Bob rebel when John announces they need to sell Chance's calf.

Unable to pull the trigger to shoot a turkey on his first hunting trip, John-Boy proves his courage by saving his father's life.

When John-Boy secretly borrows an antique typewriter from the Baldwin sisters, his sister innocently sells it to a junkman.

Grandpa Walton believes a shooting star is an omen of death until he learns that another superstitious belief may result in the Baldwin sisters losing their famous still.

A young preacher staying a few days with the Waltons leads John-Boy to learn the meaning of grace.

An injured boy taken in by the Waltons unexpectedly betrays their trust.

A family of Jewish refugees comes to Walton's Mountain from Nazi Germany & worry that the persecution they suffered will continue in their new country. But when John-Boy arranges a bar mitzvah, the family regains its dignity and finds a home in America.

John's Army buddy, hides his troubles and regales the family with tales of his wartime escapades.

A self-styled writer sends John-Boy's literary dreams soaring so high that the Waltons lose an important wood-cutting contract.

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

An unscrupulous relative of the Baldwin sisters uses their "recipe" for his own profit.

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

A world-famous actress becomes a reluctant houseguest of the Waltons when her car breaks down and she is abandoned by her chauffeur.

Tragedy strikes the life of a young girl befriended by the Waltons when her drunken father burns the schoolhouse in the name of religion after he learns the children are being taught the theory of evolution.

John-Boy Walton finds himself in love for the first time when a young girl in need of love and attention returns to her remarried father's home on Walton's Mountain.

When Olivia's uncle, a fastidious man of 64, visits Walton's Mountain after an absence of 30 years, he becomes involved with a divorcée who is eager to marry again.

Despite dire predictions that a band of gypsies will steal from the Waltons, John-Boy invites them to live in the family home until they can fix their wagon.

John-Boy leaves home to get a job to help pay legal fees when the Waltons are in danger of losing the mountain because their forebears never filed a deed.

John-Boy teaches a woman how to read and write.

When John-Boy puts into poetic words the heartfelt thoughts of the local blacksmith, the letters win the stoic mountaineer a bride. But the bride, dreaming of the man in the letters, is shocked when she meets the blacksmith.

John-Boy goes to the movies with a woman.

The faith of the Walton family is sorely tried when Olivia contracts polio.