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John-Boy leaves home to get a job to help pay legal fees when the Waltons are in danger of losing the mountain because their forebears never filed a deed.

John-Boy defies his mother to enter a week-long dance marathon with a pretty, young stranger.

A desperate and despondent book salesman takes Olivia Walton’s money under false pretenses in order to bring a little joy to his own daughter.

A weary Olivia embarks on a one-woman “sit-down” strike, prompting her husband to take her on a belated honeymoon–after 19 years of marriage. John-Boy is hesitant to allow his relationship with Marcia to become serious.

The limitations of age are sharp to both Grandma, on the eve of her 68th birthday, and to a 14-year-old Mary Ellen in love with a college boy.

Tragedy strikes the life of a young girl befriended by the Waltons when her drunken father burns the schoolhouse in the name of religion after he learns the children are being taught the theory of evolution.

John-Boy sacrifices a date with the girl of his dreams to escort an elderly woman on the last and most important journey of her life: a return trip to the sea.

When John-Boy puts into poetic words the heartfelt thoughts of the local blacksmith, the letters win the stoic mountaineer a bride. But the bride, dreaming of the man in the letters, is shocked when she meets the blacksmith. Olivia, who has always had dreams of becoming a professional singer, devotes so much time to singing in church that her family begins to feel neglected.