Season 2

Widow Margie Simmonds

Allyn Ann McLerie
stars in The Odyssey

Sarah's Mother who is a widow and hoping to offer her daughter a better chance has made the decision to send her daughter to a family that promised to pay for her education and give her a better home life in exchange for some light labor.

Oscar Cockrell

Peter Donat
stars in The Prize

Oscar is an old school friend of John and Olivia's. He is running for the State legislature. He is unsatisfied with his life and looking for purpose. He is quite taken by Olivia when he sees her again after many years and makes various passes at her.

Actor Peter Donat was in fact married to actress Michael Learned from 1956 until 1972. They divorced just prior to the first season of The Waltons. They have 3 children together. Peter starred in The Flamingo Road and appeared as Fox Mulder's father in The X-Files.

Hobie Shank

Michael McGreevey
stars in The Braggart

Hobart Shank is a former orphan who had stayed at the Waltons for one summer in 1929. He returns to the mountain when a visit from a scout for the St. Louis Cardinals lands him a chance to play pro baseball.

Actor/Writer/Director Michael McGreevey is the son of writer John McGreevey who wrote 20 episodes of the Waltons. Michael himself wrote 4 episodes of the show in Season8/9.

Graham Foster

Charles Tyner
stars in The Fawn

Graham Foster is a miserly landlord that John-Boy works for as a rent collector.

Mr. Hennessey

Matt Clark
stars in The Fawn

Mr. Hennessy, is a Game Warden who helps Erin to release her pet deer back into the wild.

Jenny Pendleton

Sian Barbara Allen
stars in The Thanksgiving Story

Jenny returns to Walton's Mountain for a visit at Thanksgiving. This is the first time she has seen John-Boy since their brief romance in The Love Story (s1-ep17).

Eula Pendleton

Diane Shalet
stars in The Thanksgiving Story

Eula returns with her step daughter Jenny after the death of her husband Dave Pendleton, Jenny's father in season one. The Love Story (s1-ep17)

Miss Megan Pollard

Catherine Burns
stars in The Substitute

Megan Pollard is a substitute teacher that arrives from New York while Miss Hunter is away tending to a family emergency. She is a young and inexperienced teacher but her high standards and strict rules causes upset for the students and parents.

Todd Cooper

Michael Glasner
stars in The Air Mail Man

Todd is a Air Mail Pilot who uses the Walton home as a visual landmark to get his bearings. The family helps to fix his plane and marriage after they both break down.

Paul Michael Glasner would go on to star a few years later in Starsky & Hutch.

Sue Cooper

Julie Cobb
stars in The Air Mail Man

Sue Cooper is the wife of a Air Mail Pilot who abandons her once she becomes pregnant. He fears that the baby will tie him down.

Julie Cobb is the daughter of Hollywood legend Lee J. Cobb.

Charles Harmon

Noah Beery (1913-1994)
stars in The Heritage

Charles Harmon represents a company that wants to buy John Waltons home and land and turn it into a resort.

Noah Beery has 186 screen credits to his name and is remembered for playing Jim Rockford's Dad, Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford on The Rockford Files.

Seth Turner

Ron Howard
stars in The Gift

Seth is the son of a country singer. He becomes good friends with Jason Walton but he is dying from ...

Ron Howard played Opie the son The Andy Griffith Show for 9 years. 9 days prior to appearing in this episode he began his 11 year role as Ritchie Cunningham on Happy Days. Ron is now one of Hollywood's top Film Directors.

Red Turner

Ken Swofford
stars in The Gift

Red Turner is a traveling country musician who's son is diagnosed with Leukemia.

Stevie, the orphan boy

Tiger Williams
stars in The Fulfillment

Stevie is an orphan boy who attaches himself to John Walton. Curtis and Ann Norton decide that they want to start a family and they decide to adopt Stevie.

Curtis Norton

Victor French
stars in The Fulfillment

Curtis Norton is a local blacksmith who has married Ann Harris and finds himself considering adoption.

Victor French also played one of Clay Spencer's (aka John Walton's) brothers in Spencer's Mountain. He is well known for co-starring with Michael Landon in Little House on the Prairie and Highway to Heaven.

Ann Norton

Ivy Jones
stars in The Fulfillment

Ann is now married to blacksmith Curtis Norton. She has everything she needs but desires to start a family.

George Reed

Ben Piazza
stars in The Five Foot Shelf

George Reed is a door to door salesmen who sells Olivia a five foot stack of books but uses her down payment to buy a present for his daughter.