| Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Certificate:
Unrated | Region: 1 | 1380 minutes
Extras:
No
cast
Ralph Waite, Michael Learned, Will Geer, Richard Thomas
Warner continue with their release schedule of one of the best and most loved family drama series of all time The Waltons, this fourth series, following life for the large Walton family living in the hills of Virginia in the small town of Jefferson County during the depressed 1930's. Head of the household John Walton runs a sawmill with most of the boys in the family helping out. The series is seen through the eyes of eldest son John Boy (Earl Hamner who created and narrates the series, based on his own upbringing was the model for John Boy), a somewhat fey young man with ambitions to become a writer. Olivia Walton keeps the family on an even keel and also living with them were John's parents Zeb and Esther.
By this fourth season the show was riding high in the ratings and the action has moved on to 1936 with Hitler and Mussolini threatening the world, King Edward gives up the English throne for love, Gangbusters is on the radio, a movie crew hires John-Boy as a scriptwriter, Mary Ellen applies to nursing school, Jim-Bob discovers a shocking fact about his birth and a fire drives the Waltons from their home. |
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Events large and small, far off and near touch the lives of all 11
Waltons, from Grandpa down to little Elizabeth. They bring tests, tears and triumphs...and bring the closely knit Waltons even closer together.
The Waltons is a wonderful series, highly deserving of its place in the TV Hall of Fame and in todays increasingly violent world, both off and on screen, there is a definite need for more family centered series and in the meantime The Waltons more than fits the bill. It's the close knit small scale dramas that drive along proceedings, domestic troubles and the problems of growing up being the order of the day but there is also a real sense of the world moving around the family as outside influences start to exert their sway.
Season four ran on CBS from September 11, 1975 to March 4, 1976, and garnered two Emmy Awards. Ellen Corby won the Emmy for Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, while Michael Learned earned her statue for Lead Actress in a Drama Series and comes with a big Memorable TV recommendation.
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