Distributor:
Warner Home Entertainment Certificate: Not Rated
| Region 1 | 21 hours Available to Buy Extras: No
ANYONE
IN IT WE KNOW?
RALPH
WAITE as John Walton | MISS MICHAEL LEARNED as Olivia Walton | WILL GEER
as Zeb Walton | ELLEN CORBY as Esther Walton | RICHARD THOMAS as John
Boy Walton | JUDY NORTON-TAYLOR as Mary Ellen Walton | DAVID W. HARPER
as Jim-Bob | KAMI COTLER as Elizabeth | JON WALMSLEY as JASON | MARY
ELIZABETH McDONAGH as Erin | ERIC SCOTT as Ben | JOE CONLEY as Ike
Godsey | RONNIE CLAIRE EDWARDS as Corabeth Godsey
WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
One of the most loved series of all time, The
Waltons (which ran from 1972 -
1981) follows the ups and downs
of the Walton family living on
Walton mountain in the Blue
Ridge Mountains of Virginia
during the depressed 1930's and
40's. Times were hard for
the Waltons who ran their own
barely profitable lumber mill.
The series was seen through the
eyes of oldest son John Boy
Walton but head of the household
was father John and mother
Olivia, the couple had seven
kids in all; Besides John Boy
there was Mary Ellen, Jim-Bob,
Elizabeth, Jason, Erin and Ben.
Also living with the clan were
John's parents Zeb and
Esther.
The
Walton's were a super close knit family, all pulling together whenever a
problem arose (which being episodic television tended to be most of the
time).
SO
IS IT ANY GOOD?
Wonderfully
warm, beautifully cosy The Waltons is great television from the Golden
Age, a proper family show, in every sense of the word. The Waltons
transports us back to a more simple time when family life was all.
This
five disc double sided set which includes all 24 episodes from the five
times emmy award winning first season features some stand out
television.
Highlights
include the opener The Foundling about a deaf mute child; Jim-Bob and
Elizabeth trying to save the family cow in The Calf; the Grandad
headlining The Star and the feature length season closer An Easter Story
in which Olivia develops Polio and has to learn to walk again.
It's
easy to see why The Waltons is so comforting, the world was a worrying
place back in the 1970's and its five hundred times more so now, so it's
nice to just transport yourself back into the world of the Waltons where
a wise word from Olivia or John can solve most things.
ANY
SPECIAL FEATURES?
No
extras but when the material is this good you don't miss it.
