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Original Airdate: December 14, 1972 Writer: Earl Hamner Jr. Director: Jack Shea |
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Prologue: |
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"Walton's Mountain had been in our family for generations, a silent witness to all the bright and wonderful days I knew as a boy. If mountains remember events then surely it must treasure as I do the memory of that day during the Depression when my sister Mary Ellen got into a fight after school and the events that followed." |
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Synopsis: |
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Mary-Ellen is fighting boys at school again in an attempt to defend Jim-Bob who is wearing a hand-me -down blouse that his mother tried to turn into a shirt for him. At home John-Boy notices that his mother could use some help with doing the laundry so he negotiates a low price to buy a second hand washing machine from Ike. The Baldwin sisters overhear his need to raise money for the machine and offer to hire him to help run errands and deliver supplies as they prepare for a family reunion. Their cousin Homer Lee has arrived after 20 years they they intend to reunite of the Baldwins to celebrate. John-Boy tries to hide his new job from his mother who doesn't approve of the ladies and their bootleg whiskey recipe. Homer Lee though has convinced them to make a large batch of the “Recipe” for the reunion but instead he has other plans for the whiskey. |
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He devises a plan to take the sisters to Charlotteville to see their first talking picture show. John-Boy and Grandpa get caught up in the affair as well and when they don't come home for dinner John and Olivia go searching for them. Meanwhile cousin Homer excuses himself from seeing the picture show and brings a batch of the “Recipe” to his friend Daisy Burgess. They make a plan to clear the sisters out of their stock for their own profit. When Grandpa and John-Boy return home Sheriff Bridges is waiting for them. He suspects that Homer Lee is up to no good and asks John-Boy to keep an eye on him. |
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Epilogue: |
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"When we were living through them we called them bad times and thought that we were poor. Only after we had all grown up were we to realise what good times they had been and how very rich we were. Often in memory I return to that house and to the echoes of those voices." |
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Guest Stars: Denver Pyle (Homer Lee Baldwin) with: Mary Jackson (Emily Baldwin), Helen Kleeb (Mamie Baldwin), John Crawford (Sheriff Bridges), Adele Clair (Daisy Burgess), Iler Rasmussen (Frank Winston)
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