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Just before her thirteenth birthday, Elizabeth becomes reluctant to grow up, and she generates a poltergeist, which causes mischief. Jason has an advice-to-the-lovelorn radio show and gets into more trouble than he can handle.

A former girlfriend of John's buys the Dew Drop Inn, and the children worry that he will be vulnerable to her charms. Meanwhile, Elizabeth and Cindy open a canteen for the troops from Camp Rockfish.

Jason takes responsibility for cousin Boone when he gets in trouble with the law, and Daisy comes back for a visit.

Jason considers becoming a conscientious objector to military service, and Jim Bob gets a military tattoo.

Ben shocks the family when he comes home with a new bride, but the first days of their marriage are difficult until Grandma intervenes.

Olivia and John take a vacation together, but after the vacation, Olivia learns that she has tuberculosis and must go away to a sanitarium.

Erin becomes the pin-up girl of Camp Lee when Ben enters her photo in a contest. Meanwhile, Mary Ellen becomes obsessed with her role as a mother to John Curtis.

Elizabeth has trouble learning to drive. Corabeth's drinking gets worse.

Mary Ellen becomes dependent on drugs while preparing for her final exams for nursing school. Sissy wants to divorce Yancy.

Excitement and romance come to Walton's Mountain with the arrival of Ashley Longworth, Jr. Elizabeth experiences adolescent insecurity.

Verdie Foster's daughter comes home, bitter toward her mother for educating her beyond her social level as a young black woman. Erin seeks a job locally.

Elizabeth is horrified when an old suitor of Grandma's comes calling. Yancy switches his still to produce fuel instead of moonshine.

Elizabeth falls in love with the new Reverend. Erin helps the Baldwin sisters compile their memoirs.

News of the Pearl Harbor attack affects each of the Waltons--especially Mary Ellen, as her husband is a doctor stationed in Hawaii and she is about to join him there.

Jason struggles to complete a major musical composition, and a plan for a Walton's Mountain Founders' Day develops.

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. Part 1 of 2

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. Conclusion.

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

Jim Bob narrowly escapes death and decides to become a minister. Meanwhile, Elizabeth works on a science project that involves collecting insects.

Jim Bob is despondent when he fails an eye exam--which will bar him from entering the Air Corps.

The Walton family helps an old friend of John-Boy's who is convinced he has no future because has been physically disabled during World War II. Ben and Ike become "song and dance men" as their contribution on the war effort.

Ike has a heart attack from the stress of war-time shortages, and the Waltons pitch in to keep the store going. Meanwhile, Ben and Jim-Bob build a sorghum mill to produce molasses.

Jim-Bob falls in love with a young woman who is struggling to decide whether or not to become a nun. Meanwhile, Ben hires a mill hand with an alcohol problem.

Erin becomes involved with a brooding artist who is mentally ill. Grandma is given a canary that will not sing.