Episode 1
Aired Sep 11, 1975
The Sermon
Miss Hunter and the Rev. Fordwick take a two-week honeymoon, leaving Olivia in the classroom and John-Boy at the pulpit.
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Episode 2
Aired Sep 18, 1975
The Genius
John-Boy brings home his college tutor, a 16-year-old genius who seems to possess no social skills.
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Episode 3
Aired Sep 25, 1975
The Fighter
An aspiring preacher (Cleavon Little) enters a boxing match in order to win enough money to build a church on Walton's Mountain.
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Episode 4
Aired Oct 2, 1975
The Prophecy
John is apprehensive about facing his highly successful classmates at his 25-year high-school reunion.
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Episode 5
Aired Oct 9, 1975
The Boondoggle
When an investigative reporter, arrives at Walton Mountain to write a historical guide to the State of Virginia, he uncovers a secret that angers the rest of the community.
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Episode 6
Aired Oct 16, 1975
The Breakdown
Jason stretches himself to the breaking point to prove his self-worth.
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Episode 7
Aired Oct 23, 1975
The Wing Walker
Some emotional entanglements follow when John-Boy invites a woman wing-walker to stay at the Walton home.
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Episode 8
Aired Oct 30, 1975
The Competition
Erin and Mary Ellen compete for the attentions of a visiting forestry student; Olivia cares for a foster child.
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Episode 9
Aired Nov 6, 1975
The Emergence
Olivia is a substitute teacher at Walton's Mountain School; John-Boy's old flame, Marcia, returns with her new fiance.
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Episode 10
Aired Nov 13, 1975
The Loss
When a young widow comes to stay in their home, the Walton children learn a hard lesson about how to cope with another person's grief.
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Episode 11
Aired Nov 20, 1975
The Abdication
After he helps with the filming of a writer's experiences with the Waltons, John-Boy is offered a job in New York.
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Episode 12
Aired Dec 4, 1975
The Estrangement
The Waltons offer refuge to a woman who left her husband (Richard Hatch), a Walton relative and moonshiner.
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Episode 13
Aired Dec 11, 1975
The Nurse
Mary Ellen learns about math, science and humanity as she works with a public-health nurse while preparing to enter nursing school.
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Episode 14
Aired Dec 18, 1975
The Intruders
Ben, his pride wounded by a girl, leaves home as the Waltons compete with another lumber company for an important railroad contract.
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Episode 15
Aired Jan 1, 1976
The Search
Olivia, Jim-Bob and Elizabeth set out to visit a friend but wind up becoming lost on Walton's Mountain; guest Wilford Brimley.
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Episode 16
Aired Jan 8, 1976
The Secret
Suspecting that he may be adopted, Jim-Bob investigates the circumstances of his birth and uncovers a long-hidden family secret.
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Episode 17
Aired Jan 15, 1976
The Fox
Despite his battle tales, Grandpa resists efforts to reunite him with his Spanish-American War comrades. Directed by Richard Thomas.
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Episode 18
Aired Jan 22, 1976
The Burn Out
John-Boy struggles with guilt after fire destroys part of the Walton home and the family becomes temporarily separated.
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Episode 18
Aired Jan 22, 1976
The Burn Out
John-Boy works to rewrite his lost novel; the Walton children learn lessons about themselves away from home.
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Episode 19
Aired Jan 29, 1976
The Big Brother
A 12-year-old girl tries to con the Waltons and Baldwins out of $25 in order to free her swindler grandfather from jail.
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Episode 20
Aired Feb 5, 1976
The Test
The offer of a full-time job as a dressmaker in a fashionable shop opens new opportunities for Olivia; guest Abby Dalton.
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Episode 21
Aired Feb 12, 1976
The Quilting
Defying Grandma, Mary Ellen refuses to take part in a quilting bee planned to mark her emergence into womanhood.
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Episode 22
Aired Feb 19, 1976
The House
Grandma joins with the Baldwin sisters, against her husband, to save a house in her hometown from demolition.
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Episode 23
Aired Feb 26, 1976
The Fledgling
John-Boy takes a full-time job to earn a down-payment for a printing press.
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Episode 24
Aired Mar 4, 1976
The Collision
A former girlfriend returns to Walton Mountain and challenges John-Boy to re-examine his life's goals.
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