50 minSeason 9 • Episode 22
LatestJohn-Boy comes back home after he hits upon hard times when he is in New York pursuing his writing career. The Baldwin sisters send out invitations for the lavish ball and the invitations are returned. The Waltons save the day for the Baldwins.
The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.
Writing
Earl Hamner's semi-autobiographical voiceover poetry.
Acting
Ralph Waite's understated patriarch authority.
Production
Meticulous period detail on a '70s TV budget.
Creator
Earl Hamner, Jr.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Creator Earl Hamner Jr. based the series on his own family and novel 'Spencer's Mountain'; the real Waltons' mountain was actually Schuyler, Virginia.
The 1981 finale drew 28 million viewers despite CBS burying it against Monday Night Football — a deliberate 'rural purge' victim's revenge.
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