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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.

The family mourns Grandpa’s death–and celebrates his life. John struggles to fill a huge lumber contract, while Mary Ellen and Erin become roommates in Charlottesville. Corabeth opens a tearoom.

When Jim-Bob comes home on furlough, he is soon followed by Kathy Seales with the news that he will be a father. Meanwhile, Ben is still a POW in the Pacific.

The Walton family befriends a young, black preacher who wants to earn money to start his own church by becoming a professional prizefighter.