Season 1
24 episodes · Sep 13, 1972
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S1E1The Foundling
Sep 14, 197250mWhen a young girl is left on the doorstep of the Walton's home, they take her in. Not Before learning she is deaf after taking her to the doctor. One night while the Walton family listen to the radio John boy takes matters into his own hands when Holly (the deaf girl) runs up to her room crying. He teaches her sign language...or really Sign spelling! This new skill comes in handy when the youngest of the Walton family gets locked by accident in a box in the Haunted House, which later turns out to be the house of which Holly lives!
S1E2The Carnival
Sep 21, 197250mA Carnival troupe comes to Walton's Mountain. When the manager absconds with the money, four members are stranded at the Walton house. They thank the Waltons with a private performance.
S1E3The Calf
Sep 28, 197250mThe Family cow, Chance gives birth to a healthy calf but John announces that it must be sold to make ends meet. Elizabeth and Jim Bob hide the Calf to save it. John relents and the family keeps the calf.
S1E4The Hunt
Oct 5, 197250mJohn Boy prepares to go on his first hunt and distress over taking an animals life. During the hunt he saves John's life from an attacking bear. Meanwhile Mary Ellen debates over a new dress or a baseball mitt.
S1E5The Typewriter
Oct 12, 197250mJohn Boy borrows an antique typewriter from the Baldwin sisters so he can send a story to a magazine. Mary Ellen mistakenly sells it to a junk man, but through diligence, gets it back for her brother.
S1E6The Star
Oct 19, 197250mWhen a meteorite falls on the Baldwin's house, Zeb believes his time has come. The Baldwin sisters are hoaxed by their cousin until Zeb and John come to the rescue.
S1E7The Sinner
Oct 26, 197250mThe Reverend Matthew Fordwick comes to Walton's Mountain and upsets the family with his strict and forceful preaching. He innocently samples "the recipe," and John helps him to be accepted within the community
S1E8The Boy From the C.C.C.
Nov 2, 197250mGino, a boy from the slums of New York City runs away from a CCC Camp and learns about trust and love from the Waltons
S1E9The Ceremony
Nov 9, 197250mA Jewish family, escaping refugees from Nazi Germany, come to Waltons Mountain for safety. Their 13 year old son loses respect for his father in the sons attempt to maintain his religious beliefs and practices.
S1E10The Legend
Nov 16, 197250mJohn's old army buddy, Tip Harrison, tries to cover his lack of success with childish actions and comments culminating in an accidental fire and the shooting of reckless the family dog.
S1E11The Literary Man
Nov 30, 197250mJohn-Boy's truck breaks down and he meets the author, A.J. Covington. John-Boy jeopardizes a timber contract badly needed by the family.
S1E12The Dust Bowl Cousins
Dec 7, 197250mThe Walton's distant cousins arrive on the mountain and immediately upset everyone's life by their shiftless dishonest ways.
S1E13The Reunion
Dec 14, 197250mThe Baldwin sisters and The Recipe play a pivotal role in this story involving their unscrupulous scheming cousin, Homer Lee Baldwin.
S1E14The Minstrel
Dec 21, 197250mMary Ellen meets a traveling troubadour, Jamie and neglects her responsibilities of helping pick fruit.
S1E15The Actress
Jan 4, 197350mWhen her car breaks down, the famous extravagant actress, Alvira Drummond finds herself stranded on Waltons Mountain. The Children, especially Mary Ellen, are fascinated by her "Hollywood" ways.
S1E16The Fire
Jan 11, 197350mA young girls father objects to Miss Hunter's teaching Evolution. During a drunken rage he burns down the school and is killed in the fire.
S1E17The Love Story
Jan 18, 197350mJohn Boy falls in love with Jenny Pendleton who returns to Walton's Mountain. Jenny's father and new step-mother follow her to the mountain. Her father is killed in an auto accident and Jenny returns home with her step mother. John-Boy suffers his first lost love.
S1E18The Courtship
Jan 25, 197350mOlivia's uncle Cody Nelson comes to visit with the Waltons and finds love with a woman who has been divorced four times.
S1E19The Gypsies
Feb 1, 197350mA gypsy family is stranded, but the leader refuses to accept help from the Waltons. His pride almost costs the life of his baby son.
S1E20The Deed
Feb 8, 197350mIt seems that the Waltons never officially registered the deed to Waltons Mountain. In order to help pay the legal fees, John-Boy leaves home for a job in the city. He meets new friends, gets mugged and earns a reward to help the family keep their home.
S1E21The Scholar
Feb 22, 197350mA neighbor lady, Verdie Grant asks John-Boy to teach her to read and write. He agrees to teach her as he helps Elizabeth. Things go wrong, however, and feelings get hurt.
S1E22The Bicycle
Mar 1, 197350mLocal blacksmith, Curtis Norton has John-Boy write letters to his bride-to-be. When she arrives on Walton's Mountain, life and Curtis are much different than she expected. Meanwhile, Olivia is feeling new pangs for freedom and something "different" in her life.
S1E23The Townie
Mar 8, 197350mJohn-Boy's friend Sarah sees him as a way to escape her "trapped" life with her demanding mother. When John-Boy rejects her advances, she runs off and plans to elope with a townie.
S1E24An Easter Story
Apr 19, 1973100mThe entire family suffers a crisis when Olivia is stricken with polio. Dr Vance prescribes the accepted treatment, but Olivia does not get better. John-Boy learns of a new treatment practiced by sister Kenny and the family tries it to success in time for the Easter service.