Seasons & episodes
S1 · E1The Foundling 1972-09-14 · 50 min
When a young girl is left on the doorstep of the Walton's home, they take her in. Not Before learning she is deaf after taking her to the doctor. One night while the Walton family listen to the radio John boy takes matters into his own hands when Holly (the deaf girl) runs up to her room crying. He teaches her sign language...or really Sign spelling! This new skill comes in handy when the youngest of the Walton family gets locked by accident in a box in the Haunted House, which later turns out to be the house of which Holly lives!
S1 · E2The Carnival 1972-09-21 · 50 min
A Carnival troupe comes to Walton's Mountain. When the manager absconds with the money, four members are stranded at the Walton house. They thank the Waltons with a private performance.
S1 · E3The Calf 1972-09-28 · 50 min
The Family cow, Chance gives birth to a healthy calf but John announces that it must be sold to make ends meet. Elizabeth and Jim Bob hide the Calf to save it. John relents and the family keeps the calf.
S1 · E4The Hunt 1972-10-05 · 50 min
John Boy prepares to go on his first hunt and distress over taking an animals life. During the hunt he saves John's life from an attacking bear. Meanwhile Mary Ellen debates over a new dress or a baseball mitt.
S1 · E5The Typewriter 1972-10-12 · 50 min
John Boy borrows an antique typewriter from the Baldwin sisters so he can send a story to a magazine. Mary Ellen mistakenly sells it to a junk man, but through diligence, gets it back for her brother.
S1 · E6The Star 1972-10-19 · 50 min
When a meteorite falls on the Baldwin's house, Zeb believes his time has come. The Baldwin sisters are hoaxed by their cousin until Zeb and John come to the rescue.
S1 · E7The Sinner 1972-10-26 · 50 min
The Reverend Matthew Fordwick comes to Walton's Mountain and upsets the family with his strict and forceful preaching. He innocently samples "the recipe," and John helps him to be accepted within the community
S1 · E8The Boy From the C.C.C. 1972-11-02 · 50 min
Gino, a boy from the slums of New York City runs away from a CCC Camp and learns about trust and love from the Waltons
S1 · E9The Ceremony 1972-11-09 · 50 min
A Jewish family, escaping refugees from Nazi Germany, come to Waltons Mountain for safety. Their 13 year old son loses respect for his father in the sons attempt to maintain his religious beliefs and practices.
S1 · E10The Legend 1972-11-16 · 50 min
John's old army buddy, Tip Harrison, tries to cover his lack of success with childish actions and comments culminating in an accidental fire and the shooting of reckless the family dog.
S1 · E11The Literary Man 1972-11-30 · 50 min
John-Boy's truck breaks down and he meets the author, A.J. Covington. John-Boy jeopardizes a timber contract badly needed by the family.
S1 · E12The Dust Bowl Cousins 1972-12-07 · 50 min
The Walton's distant cousins arrive on the mountain and immediately upset everyone's life by their shiftless dishonest ways.
S1 · E13The Reunion 1972-12-14 · 50 min
The Baldwin sisters and The Recipe play a pivotal role in this story involving their unscrupulous scheming cousin, Homer Lee Baldwin.
S1 · E14The Minstrel 1972-12-21 · 50 min
Mary Ellen meets a traveling troubadour, Jamie and neglects her responsibilities of helping pick fruit.
S1 · E15The Actress 1973-01-04 · 50 min
When her car breaks down, the famous extravagant actress, Alvira Drummond finds herself stranded on Waltons Mountain. The Children, especially Mary Ellen, are fascinated by her "Hollywood" ways.
S1 · E16The Fire 1973-01-11 · 50 min
A young girls father objects to Miss Hunter's teaching Evolution. During a drunken rage he burns down the school and is killed in the fire.
S1 · E17The Love Story 1973-01-18 · 50 min
John Boy falls in love with Jenny Pendleton who returns to Walton's Mountain. Jenny's father and new step-mother follow her to the mountain. Her father is killed in an auto accident and Jenny returns home with her step mother. John-Boy suffers his first lost love.
S1 · E18The Courtship 1973-01-25 · 50 min
Olivia's uncle Cody Nelson comes to visit with the Waltons and finds love with a woman who has been divorced four times.
S1 · E19The Gypsies 1973-02-01 · 50 min
A gypsy family is stranded, but the leader refuses to accept help from the Waltons. His pride almost costs the life of his baby son.
S1 · E20The Deed 1973-02-08 · 50 min
It seems that the Waltons never officially registered the deed to Waltons Mountain. In order to help pay the legal fees, John-Boy leaves home for a job in the city. He meets new friends, gets mugged and earns a reward to help the family keep their home.
S1 · E21The Scholar 1973-02-22 · 50 min
A neighbor lady, Verdie Grant asks John-Boy to teach her to read and write. He agrees to teach her as he helps Elizabeth. Things go wrong, however, and feelings get hurt.
S1 · E22The Bicycle 1973-03-01 · 50 min
Local blacksmith, Curtis Norton has John-Boy write letters to his bride-to-be. When she arrives on Walton's Mountain, life and Curtis are much different than she expected. Meanwhile, Olivia is feeling new pangs for freedom and something "different" in her life.
S1 · E23The Townie 1973-03-08 · 50 min
John-Boy's friend Sarah sees him as a way to escape her "trapped" life with her demanding mother. When John-Boy rejects her advances, she runs off and plans to elope with a townie.
S1 · E24An Easter Story 1973-04-19 · 100 min
The entire family suffers a crisis when Olivia is stricken with polio. Dr Vance prescribes the accepted treatment, but Olivia does not get better. John-Boy learns of a new treatment practiced by sister Kenny and the family tries it to success in time for the Easter service.