Distributor:
Warner Certificate: Not Rated |
1248
minutes | Region 1 | NTSC Extras: No
ANYONE
IN IT WE KNOW?
Richard
Thomas, Ralph Waite, Michael Lerned, Ellen Corby, Will Geer,
WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
The
ultimate feel good family show
has it’s second season from
1973 released on DVD by Warner
Home Video. It’s great to look
back with the rosy glow of
nostalgia at the life of the
Walton family doing their best
to survive in the depressed
1930’s. Living in rural
Jefferson County in the Blue
Ridge Mountains of Virginia The
Waltons run a small lumber mill
and head of the family is John
Walton (Ralph Waite) and his
wife Olivia (Michael Lerned) –
they had a big family, oldest
was would be writer John Boy
(Richard Thomas) as well as
daughters Mary-Ellen, Erin and
Elizabeth, they also had three
more sons in the shape of Jason,
Ben and Jim-Bob (obviously the
nights must have been cold up on
Walton’s mountain). The family
also includes John’s parents
Zeb and Esther.
Throughout
the whole run of the Waltons the emphasis is on family and the episodes
themselves are seen through the eyes of John Boy who naturally enough is
at the centre of many of the episodes, series creator Earl Hamner Jr
provides an opening and closing narration for each episode as a
supposedly older John Boy and the series itself if apparently heavily
based on his own growing up.
This
handsome 5 disc set includes all 24 season two episodes including the
feature length Thanksgiving Story (which won an Emmy for best writing),
other key episodes include The Seperation which sees Zeb and Esther
having a falling out because Esther thinks Zeb has been unfaithful
(which of course he hasn’t) as well as The Prize which is centred
around preparations for the county fair, The Substitute sees stand in
teacher Miss Hunter creating problems for John Boy and his writing
wishes whilst The Air Mail Man features a young Paul Michael Glaser;
A
genuinely nice show The Waltons hasn’t dated a jot and makes you yearn
for a simpler time, a time when life may have been hard but at least you
appreciated what you had. Do yourself a favour and kick back with some
classic TV in the shape of The Waltons Complete Season Two.
