Earl Hamner, Jr.
Director
The Waltons (1972)
Season 7
The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.
Released Sept. 14, 1972
Episode 52 min
7+
Genres: Drama, Family, Romance
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Production Companies: Lorimar Productions
Network: CBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S7E1 - The Empty Nest
Everybody mourns the death of Grandpa Zeb and Flossie Brimmer. John struggles hard to fill a huge lumber contract and Mary Ellen & Erin move to Charlottesville and they get an apartment.
Sept. 21, 1978, midnight
S7E2 - The Calling
Jim-Bob meets the Baldwin's cousin, a young girl who is in a convent preparing to become a nun. Ben hires a mill hand who turns out to be an alcoholic.
Sept. 28, 1978, midnight
S7E3 - The Moonshiner
Boone Walton comes back to Walton's mountain and gets in trouble with the law. Boone gets released in Jason's custody. Daisy Garner also comes back to Walton's Mountain to visit.
Oct. 12, 1978, midnight
S7E4 - The Obsession
Mary Ellen gets prescription drugs and abuses them in order to study long hours for her Nurse's exam. Cissy Tucker Yancy Tucker's wife has had enough and she puts her foot down.
Oct. 19, 1978, midnight
S7E5 - The Changeling
Just before Elizabeth's 13th birthday, she becomes reluctant to grow up and creates a poltergeist. Jason starts a new job as a radio talk show host giving advice to the lovelorn.
Oct. 26, 1978, midnight
S7E6 - The Portrait
Erin is both attracted and repelled by a brooding artist who is here from Paris. As part of a war-time mural on the wall of an old house the artist asks to paint Erin's portrait.
Nov. 2, 1978, midnight
S7E7 - The Captive
Jim-Bob tries to teach Elizabeth to drive. Corabeth 's drinking problem becomes severe and Elizabeth has to drive Aimee and Corabeth home.
Nov. 9, 1978, midnight
S7E8 - The Illusion
Ester Verdie's daughter comes back to Walton's Mountain disillusioned over having a college degree & unable to land a meaningful job. Erin helps her find a job at J.D. Pickett's plant.
Nov. 16, 1978, midnight
S7E9 - The Beau
Grandma's ex-boyfriend comes calling on Grandma much to the horror of Elizabeth. Jim-Bob persuades Yancy Tucker to make fuel in his still instead of moonshine.
Nov. 23, 1978, midnight
S7E10 - Day of Infamy
Christmas 1941. Mary Ellen says she will be going to be with Curt in Hawaii. News from Pearl Harbor comes and the Waltons are told that Curt is dead.
Dec. 7, 1978, midnight
S7E11 - The Yearning
Elizabeth falls in love with the minister when he is forced out of the parsonage by a skunk. Erin is helping the Baldwin sisters write their memoirs and Erin finds a ring that was left by Ashley Longworth.
Dec. 14, 1978, midnight
S7E12 - The Boosters
Ben talks the townspeople into opening an auto court against John's advice. Yancy Tucker goes into business for himself.
Dec. 28, 1978, midnight
S7E13 - The Conscience
Jason has second thoughts about joining the military service and considers becoming a Conscientious Objector much to Ben's dismay. Jim-Bob gets a military tattoo.
Jan. 4, 1979, midnight
S7E14 - The Obstacle
Mike Paxton, John-Boy's old friend, is confined to a wheel chair and believes there is no hope for the future. Through the help of the family, he comes out of his shell.
Jan. 11, 1979, midnight
S7E15 - The Parting
John and Olivia are both tired so Olivia suggests a trip, but the vacation does not help Olivia. Olivia sees a doctor and is told she has TB and must go to a sanitarium.
Jan. 18, 1979, midnight
S7E16 - The Burden
After a car jack slips and falls and Jim-Bob escapes serious injury, Jim-Bob decides to become a minister.
Jan. 25, 1979, midnight
S7E17 - The Pin-Up
Ben enters a casual picture of Erin in a contest where she wins 1st prize. She finds herself the center of attention and the official pin-up girl of Camp Lee to John's dismay.
Feb. 8, 1979, midnight
S7E18 - The Attack
Ike has a heart attack because of the pressures and shortages of war-time shop-keeping. The Walton children pitch in and help keep Ike's store open in his absence.
Feb. 15, 1979, midnight
S7E19 - The Legacy
Ashley Longworth Jr, who bears striking resemblance to his dad, comes to the Baldwin home and is courted by Miss Emily and Erin.
Feb. 22, 1979, midnight
S7E20 - The Outsider
Ben comes home in the middle of the night with his new wife Cindy and they set up housekeeping in the shed. The early years of marriage aren't easy until Grandma steps in.
March 1, 1979, midnight
S7E21 - The Torch
Cally May, John's ex-girlfriend, comes to Walton's mountain and buys the Dew Drop Inn. John and Olivia's kids try to protect John from Cally May's attention. Ike, Cindy and Elizabeth turn Godsey's hall into a canteen for soldiers from Camp Rockfish.
March 8, 1979, midnight
S7E22 - The Talespin
Jim-Bob can not join the Air Corps because he fails the eye exam. Jim-Bob decides to run off and join the Army.
March 15, 1979, midnight
S7E23 - Founders' Day
Jason tries desperately with his music professor to meet the course's requirements of an original composition. He composes Appalachian Portrait while he plans the piece.
March 22, 1979, midnight
Network: CBS
Episode Runtime: 52 min.
Season Runtime: 11039 min.
Released: Sept. 14, 1972
Last Air Date: June 4, 1981, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-G
Common sense age: 7+
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