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Would-be newspaper publisher John-Boy battles to scrape together enough money for an old printing press.

Ben leaves the mill and starts a business of his own. Yancy Tucker takes a correspondence course to become a barber.

John’s military security clearance is threatened when it is discovered he did not graduate from high school. Mary Ellen takes over for the county nurse and encounters difficulties with the mountain folk.

John-Boy returns home, still suffering memory loss and deeply troubled by his ordeal. Meanwhile, Ike is arrested for draft evasion.

During the depression years of the mid-1930s in the Blue Ridge Mountains area of Virginia, the faith of the large but close-knit Walton family is tested when the mother contracts polio and the doctor pronounces her a hopeless cripple. Although discouraged many times by setbacks in her battle against polio, Olivia, with the help and encouragement of her family, develops a tremendous will to walk, resulting in a sudden breakthrough.

John-Boy returns to a pre-war, impoverished Walton’s Mountain and tries to reopen a long forgotten mine. Meanwhile, Erin hides her second job from the family, attempting to earn more money for the family. Part 1 of 2

Family loyalty is stretched to the breaking point when Walton family kin call for help to fight against the United States Government’s notice of eviction.

Jim-Bob builds a television set so that the family can see John-Boy’s experimental television project. Rose’s crash diet raises complications for herself, the family and friends.