John's World War I buddy (Jim Antonio) visits. Grandpa convinces the father not to deny his faith and to honor his son by attending. John-Boy discovers the family secret and helps the boy find a rabbi to conduct his bar mitzvah while the others open their home for the ceremony. The paranoid couple rebuff the Waltons' every attempt at a visitation. Expecting to find similar antisemitism in America, the bitter, distrustful father, Professor Mann, chooses to protect his family by hiding their faith, and cancels plans for his son's impending bar mitzvah. The Waltons take him in and teach him that he can trust some people, and he doesn't have to fight (literally) for everything he gets.Ī Jewish Nazi-refugee family moves to Walton's Mountain from Germany. His tee-totaler church superior fires him, but after he humbly apologizes to John-Boy for his hypocrisy, Grandpa and John convince the congregation to look at the forgiving side of the gospel and accept him.Ī troubled teenager from Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, whose father was murdered by a gangster, runs away from the Civilian Conservation Corps to Walton's Mountain. He happens to be a Baldwin relative, and after a visit, succumbs to the effects of their "Recipe". A Cousin Polonius Baldwin ( Iggie Wolfington) at first plans to exploit the meteorite for financial gain, then tries to steal their "Recipe machine".Ī young preacher, Matthew Fordwick ( John Ritter), comes to Walton's Mountain fresh from seminary, where he has learned the currently-popular fire and brimstone style of preaching. Grandpa Walton takes it as a sign of his impending death Ben takes it as a sign he will win the fourth-grade spelling bee. Fortunately, Sheriff Bridges is able to help her track it down.Ī meteorite crashes through the roof of the Baldwin sisters' "Recipe" room, which they take as some kind of sign from their dead Papa. Mary Ellen inadvertently sells the typewriter to a traveling junk dealer ( George Tobias). John-Boy borrows an antique typewriter from the Baldwin sisters so he can submit a proper manuscript to a magazine. However, he has no trouble killing a bear when it attacks his father. John-Boy is anxious to prove himself on a turkey hunt with his father and two friends but finds he can't shoot a turkey, which he equates with premeditated murder. He can buy it back after he learns the man he sold it to ( Leonard Stone) plans to butcher it. The Waltons' cow gives birth to a bull calf, which John decides must be sold for truck repair money, much to his children's disappointment. When the troupe becomes stranded by their dishonest ringmaster, John and Olivia allow them to stay temporarily in their barn, and the family is rewarded with a private show.
While they search for her family, they start teaching her sign language, which she uses to help Elizabeth when an emergency arises.Ī traveling carnival comes to Walton's Mountain, but the children choose to sacrifice the money they had saved for it so that Grandma can replace her broken glasses. The Waltons shelter a deaf girl (Erica Hunton) left on their back porch by her mother because her father insists on institutionalizing her.
Mamie Baldwin was played by Josephine Hutchinson, replaced by Helen Kleeb in the series. David Huddleston who played Sheriff Ep Bridges in the movie, would return in the first season "The Literary Man" as writer A.J.Covington. The cast includes: Patricia Neal as Olivia Walton, Edgar Bergen as Grandpa Zeb Walton, William Windom as Charlie Snead, Woodrow Parfrey as Ike Godsey, and Cleavon Little as Hawthorne Dooley. Note: Several of the lead actors (excluding all of the children and Grandma Walton) are different from those in the series.
However, John Walton ( Andrew Duggan), who has taken work in Waynesboro, Virginia, about 50 miles away, is late returning home, and his family is becoming increasingly worried. On Christmas Eve 1933, the Waltons are preparing for the holiday. ^ Tied with Little House on the PrairieĮpisodes Pilot (1971) Title.^ Tied with The Partridge Family and Medical Center.
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