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| THE WALTONS COMPLETE
THIRD SEASON |
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Distributor:
Roadshow Home Entertainment
Certificate:
Not Rated |
Region 1 NTSC | 1225 minutes | 5 disc set
Available to buy
Extras:
no
ANYONE
IN IT WE KNOW?
Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, Miss Michael Lerned, Will Geer,
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WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
"When you're growing up, Septembers have a special feeling. Another carefree summer is all too quickly ended, and a new school year is about to begin. There was an extra excitement for me in the September of 1934. My years at Miss Hunter's school on Waltons Mountain were over, and I was ready to take those first faltering steps into the strange world outside. How vividly I recall the edgy excitement, the awful exilaration of preparing for my first day at Boatwright University. It was a day which showed me how little I knew about some things, and how well my parents had prepared me for others".
The familial Walton bond is loosened a little in this third season box set from Warners, the show is legend of course offering a glimpse of rural life during the depressed 1930's and 40's. The large Walton family lived on Walton Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Jefferson County. The family is headed by lumber mill owning John Walton and his wife Olivia, they had seven children, eldest John Boy (who wanted to be a writer), Mary-Ellen, Jim-Bob, Jason, Erin, Ben and Elizabeth. Also living with them were John's parent's Zeb and Esther. Other regulars included shop owners Ike and Corabeth Godsey, Sheriff Ep Bridges and the Baldwin Sisters.
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This third season starts with John Boy preparing to leave for University and Jason looking to take over John Boy's position in the lumber mill, we do get to see quite a bit of John Boy still with glimpses of his new life at Boatwright University whilst other key developments include Grandpa and Grandma getting on their high horse and leaving home (but only for a short while), Mary Ellen expanding her horizons in the game of live, Jim-Bob running away; Olivia finding herself with a suitor when she takes evening classes in art; John Walton becoming the focus in the episode The Departure when he takes a job in Norfolk to try and ease the burden at home; Jason discovering his real talent for music and Olivia and John celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary.
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Another positive about the Waltons is the casual way we learn about the times the family are living, obviously the depression is ever present but this season also manages to touch upon such topics as the Dance Marathons that were a huge craze back in the early thirties this season also sees the introduction of a future series mainstay with the arrival of Corabeth Walton,a cousin of Olivia's, who ends up marrying general store owner Ike
Godsey.
Always entertaining, even comforting in these dark times, this third season of The Waltons easily qualifies as must see TV.
ANY
SPECIAL FEATURES?
None.
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