Seasons & episodes
S4 · E16The Secret 1976-01-08 · 50 min
Jim-Bob thinks he was adopted. He searchs his birth records and finds out he's a twin. Jim-Bob's twin brother died at birth.
S4 · E17The Fox 1976-01-15 · 50 min
Grandpa enjoys telling tales of his days with Teddy Roosevelt in the Spanish Amercian War, but he balks about attending a reunion of the Rough Riders. Ben decides to go into to business trapping and selling animal skins.
S4 · E18The Burn Out 1976-01-22 · 100 min
The Walton's house is nearly destroyed by fire and the children must live temporarily with friends. John-Boy has a difficult time to begin the task of rewriting his lost novel.
S4 · E19The Big Brother 1976-01-29 · 50 min
John-Boy meets up with a runaway girl named Muffin who's 12 years old. Muffin tells him that she was abused and is trying to find her mother. John-Boy takes her home and she fools everyone but Grandpa.
S4 · E20The Test 1976-02-05 · 50 min
Olivia gets a job as a dress maker.She does very well & soon she gets full time work.She is pleased with the attention but realizes she wants too be home more than at work .Maude Gormley is put in an old folks home and loses her zest for life
S4 · E21The Quilting 1976-02-12 · 50 min
A quilting is to announce that a woman is of marrying age. Grandma is determined to have one for her granddaughter Mary Ellen who is just as determined not to participate in what she considers an insulting custom.
S4 · E22The House 1976-02-19 · 50 min
Esther wants to save an old house from being torn down. Grandpa wants the contract to destroy it for the old wood. They both argue until Zeb realizes that house holds sentimental memories for grandma.
S4 · E23The Fledgling 1976-02-26 · 50 min
John-Boy sure trys to raise the down payment for an old printing press to publish his own newspaper
S4 · E24The Collision 1976-03-04 · 50 min
Selena Linville comes back to Walton's Mountain & lights a fire under John-Boy to go to Spain & write all about Rebel cause
S5 · E1The First Edition 1976-09-23 · 50 min
The first edition of The Blue Ridge Chronicle is published by John-Boy. He publishes a story about Ben and it makes his mother mad.
S5 · E2The Vigil 1976-09-30 · 50 min
Mary Ellen, aspring nurse, makes a diagnosis about Grandma's illness which almost costs Grandma her life.
S5 · E3The Comeback 1976-10-07 · 50 min
Jason gets news that his scholarship has been cancelled. Jason begins to hang out at the Dew Drop Inn. He is trying to interest Red Turner, a musician, into making a come back since his son's death.
S5 · E4The Baptism 1976-10-14 · 50 min
John refuses to visit the tent meeting or get baptised, even with the presence of a famous evangelist.
S5 · E5The Fire Storm 1976-10-21 · 50 min
John-Boy tries to keep the community updated about the news in Europe sohe decides to print excerpts about Hitler's Mein Kampf in his paper. A great outcry ensues and the town is torn apart over the issue of publishing unfavorable items in the Blue Ridge Chronicle.
S5 · E6The Nightwalker 1976-10-28 · 50 min
A unknown person prowls through the night on Walton's Mountain. Godsey's Hall is open up by Ike Godsey & Jason decides to have a dance for the community
S5 · E7The Wedding 1976-11-04 · 100 min
Mary Ellen surprises her parents saying that she and Dr. David Spencer are getting married. At the same time the family makes preparations, Dr. Curt Willard arrives and complicates matters.
S5 · E8The Cloudburst 1976-11-11 · 50 min
John-Boy sells his Meadow to a mining company to meet payments on his printing press. Ike and Corabeth follow suit. What everybody doesn't know is that the company plans to strip mine which will ruin the land.
S5 · E9The Great Motorcycle Race 1976-11-18 · 50 min
Jim-Bob fixes up Ike's old motorcyle & he enters a motorcyle race. The Godsey's want to adopt a baby but instead adopt a young girl named Aimee
S5 · E10The Pony Cart 1976-12-02 · 50 min
Auntie Martha Corrine Walton comes to Walton's Mountain to visit and soon interupts everybody's life. She and Ben make an old fashioned pony cart and she comes to the realization that she is about to die.
S5 · E11The Best Christmas 1976-12-09 · 50 min
The 11 members of the Walton family are together for Christmas This would be the last time that all of the Waltons would be together
S5 · E12The Last Mustang 1976-12-16 · 50 min
The Waltons are emersed in a controversial election for sheriff and Grandpa fights to release a wild mustang that he says was caught on Walton property.
S5 · E13The Rebellion 1976-12-23 · 50 min
Corabeth gives Olivia a permanent that turns out badly. Grandma is up against a new competition for playing the church organ.
S5 · E14The Ferris Wheel 1977-01-06 · 50 min
Elizabeth has nightmares of an unknown experience of being stuck on the very top of a ferris wheel. Ben starts to seriously worry about his height.
S5 · E15The Elopement 1977-01-13 · 50 min
Erin's 1st love, Chad Marshall, comes back and asks Erin to be his wife. She agrees but John emphatically says no so Erin and Chad run off to elope.