Frances is Olivia's sister, who lives in Edgemont. The Walton family elder, Grandpa Walton (Pilot, Edgar Bergen; seasons 16, Will Geer), husband of Esther Walton (ne Morgan), and father of Benjamin Walton, who was killed in World War I, John Walton, Sr., and an unknown Walton child (early in the first season, Zeb is showing John Boy military medals stored in a trunk, and mentions that they belonged to John Boy's Uncle "Matt" (S1E5). This is a constant source of friction and arguments. Together, they have a daughter named Mary Margret after Mary Ellen. He is a mechanically inclined dreamer who desires to become a pilot. "We expected a big crowd but nothing like The museum has brought a renewed sense of pride to the community and were all very just right.". His parents were forced to bury him in a way that no one, not even him, had expected, and Erin mourned him deeply. John Walton Jr. (Richard Thomas, pilot, seasons 15, two guest shots in season 6; and three 1990s movies; Robert Wightman, seasons 89, 1982 movies). Grandma (Ellen Corby), practical but feisty, quick-tempered and devout. Esther often complained about his rotund figure and tried to get him to diet, worrying about his heart. - Season Six FAQ ------------------ He refuses to discuss his war service until John-Boy researches an "Honor Day" celebration and discovers Ep was decorated for valor with the Medal of Honor, the French Croix de Guerre, and several others for destroying an enemy machine gun nest with a grenade, wounding himself in the process. During later seasons, she marries Harley Foster (Hal Williams), an itinerant laborer (who it is later revealed was on the run trying to avoid conviction for a murder which he had not committed) and becomes stepmother to Harley's young son. John deeply loves and respects his wife, and calls her Liv or Livie., John graduated high school in 1911 (implying he had been born about 1893) and served in World War I. John will do anything to protect his family; he also wishes to see all of his children graduate from college, which he was unable to do. Mary Ellen finally lets go of Curt upon seeing he no longer wants to be a doctor or a husband, but keeps him as a friend who still shows affection towards their baby. Uncle Ben was much like his nephew, John Sr.s son. from California to check out details and to confirm that an idea was plausible. He is particularly close to his younger sister Elizabeth. These personality traits sometimes cause him to be stern with his children and wife on occasion, and when greatly stressed he is prone to "workaholism." An older John-Boy would go on to mention that "both of my grandparents are no longer alive", suggesting that Esther died in the later future, but no earlier than 1969 (the same year her son John was said to have died). plants from this one. He lovingly responded to an ad in the papers Cindy placed to find her mother, and although the woman was remorseful about the situation and reluctant to claim her daughter, Cindy wanted her back in her life and the two reconciled. was the opening of The Walton's Mountain Museum here in Schuyler" Jim said as he He was really quite good portraying the difficult side of adolescence. Later, she becomes the plant's assistant manager. She learned that she had been adopted at birth. This Web site was designed by the editor of The No one's life is probably He was fiercely against the idea of Ashley Longworth getting involved with his daughter Emily and served to quash their relationship in more ways than one. He is the husband of Olivia Walton (ne Daly) and father of John "John-Boy" Walton Jr., Jason Walton, Mary Ellen Walton, Erin Esther Walton, Benjamin "Ben" Walton II, James Robert "Jim-Bob" Walton and his stillborn twin brother Joseph Zebulon Walton, and Elizabeth Tyler Walton. Their heartbreak at losing their child and the emptiness that followed nearly tore them apart, but both of them tearfully admitted they needed to move on and find a new child to love, causing Ben to accept the idea of adoption after much resistance. First appearing early in the first season ("The Sinner"), Rev. In season eight, Ben joins the Seabees and is taken prisoner by the Japanese. He and a fellow soldier, Norm, are taken to American troops during the episode The Last Ten Days (season nine) by a Japanese prison guard, who surrendered to them to preserve his life. As G.W. lives. family. Jim said he and his mother loved The Walton's and watched it every The character briefly appears in the 1993 reunion special, A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion, (set in 1963), as an employee of Erin's former in-laws, the Northridge family. She appears in two more episodes, including season five's "The Pony Cart. (which won an Emmy for her portrayer, Beulah Bondi in 1977). It is implied she had John-Boy within a year or so of her marriage, setting her birth year around 1897-98. Kathy Seals. walking along the road one day and I brought it home. Ben got along with John the same way that Ben gets along with John-Boy. As hardworking as son John, Grandpa is much more easygoing in general and has a mischievous yet wise and vibrant personality. Jason has a good relationship with all his siblings, but is especially close to his older brother John-Boy. 's attentions fall on Erin as she matures, and this time he falls in love. Jim-Bob has several girlfriends throughout the series, including Ike and Corabeth's adopted daughter (and Elizabeth's friend and adoptive cousin) Aimee Godsey and a foreign woman who feigned pregnancy to trick him into marrying her and just as quickly was sent out of his life (though John-Boy wonders if Jim-Bob is still seeing her in secret and not telling the rest of his family), but he never truly settles down with anybody to the knowledge of his family. He did work for a period as a driver for his fellow on-screen brother's (Eric Scott) courior company and more recently he has become active at Walton Reunion events much to the delight of his fans. Should Sheriff Bridges makes his last appearance in the second-to-last series episode, "The Hostage" (season 9, episode 20). Like her mother-in-law Esther Walton, she is a devout Southern Baptist, although her husband doesn't share her commitment to the organized religion of the church. 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He elopes with sweet, pretty Cindy Brunson and together they have two children, daughter Virginia (Ginny) and son Charles Benjamin (Charlie), who was born in the second reunion movie. Even as an adult, running the sawmill in partnership with his father, he makes deals that don't turn out well. This humbling experience causes him to adopt a more forgiving nature, and he serves as the pastor of the local Baptist church through season five. Later Corabeth attempted to set him up with several women and caused him to realize that he needed to marry and he leaves and returns married to Doris (Joanna Kerns). Although this engagement is threatened once, she ends up marrying him in the second reunion movie, Mother's Day on Walton's Mountain. Later, G.W. Advisor. The reality: Jim-Bob received an "F" on his report in English. The Episodes John-Boy then turned his attention to reporting news instead and gained a steady means of living once more, but would one day have to break the news of the John F. Kennedy assassination. Verdie discovered they were both plague victims and her grandfather's involvement with slavery.

Mary Ellen has a special relationship with each of her six siblings, but over the years grows especially close with her younger sister Erin. Later she travels in Europe and gets into a relationship that dissolves right as she plans to get married; she joins the Peace Corps in one of the sequel movies. The Movie Specials After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he enlists in the military and writes as a war correspondent for the U.S. Army's newspaper Stars and Stripes.

In season 8, he is formally reintroduced to the story once his parents learn he is missing in action. Towards the end of the series, Rose moves in to help John, Mary Ellen, Erin, and Elizabeth with the housekeeping and cooking while John-Boy, Jason, Ben, and Jim-Bob are away at war. He often joked that he would live to 100, but in the end, he suffered a second and final heart attack three years later, missing his goal by about a quarter of a century. Saturday mornings we would look out the windows and the yard would be full of fans and He had a twin brother, Joseph Zebulon who died at birth. A talented folk artist, she discovered an artistic talent late in life, and began painting local scenes on pieces of plywood (which were later displayed and sold in Ike's store). He was a harsh and stern man, always wanting things done a certain way.

Ike has a kind heart, and often lets people have anything they want on credit, and pay him back whenever they can, much to the disapproval of Corabeth. An older woman played by Pearl Shear, resident at Flossie Brimmer's boarding house, and known for being a flirt. as interesting as depicted on television. The Waltons is an American television series that aired for nine seasons (19721981) on CBS. At various times, Ben has run the mill with his father, Elizabeth's boyfriend Drew, and Erin's husband Paul Northridge. She has seven living children: John Walton Jr., Jason Walton, Mary Ellen Walton, Erin Esther Walton, Benjamin Walton II, James Robert Walton, and Elizabeth Tyler Walton. In the fourth reunion movie, it is revealed that Ben and Cindy lost Ginny in a drowning accident and that they are considering adopting another child (Charlie is never seen nor mentioned). didn't look exactly like the TV set, but by the time they left they always said it felt While something of a tomboy who enjoyed playing baseball, Mary Ellen was also prone to melodrama and vanity, engaging in a rivalry with rich girl Martha Rose Coverdale for the affections of the awkward but warm-hearted G.W. Rose often mentions her old beau Stanley Perkins, a dancer whom she met before Burt. He later works at the Waltons' sawmill and dates Elizabeth. (Correction: In the first season Zeb is seen showing John-Boy medals in a trunk, belonging to John-Boy's "Uncle Matt". In 2004, TV Guide ranked him # 3 on its "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time" list.[2]. The other of her sons, Josh, was an orphan who wandered onto Walton's mountain and the Fosters fell in love with and adopted. Olivia Hill Deborah White is Olivia Walton's namesake (she is daughter of Olivia's deceased childhood best friend Marnie), and is the wife and later widow of Bob Hill, whom she marries on the mountain in "The Shivaree" episode. "Visitors sometimes said they were disappointed that the house It was in this profession that he finally found the love of his life in the form of Janet, and they eventually married. Flossie has the ability to tell people's fortunes with tea leaves, and stood watch over the youngest Walton children during the family's childbirths that required them to stay out mischief. Grandma, John Sr., and Olivia didn't approve of his methods. Although G.W. Homecoming.

was about to lob it. He appeared in 8 episodes from 1980 to 1981 and in 5 of 1982 to 1997 movies. everything of course. An example of this was in one episode, when one of his grandchildren tried smoking and he caught them, and got them to stop the same way his father taught him: he had the boys smoke cigarettes, one after another, until they were sick. He was haunted by the deaths he caused. This first Walton child is known throughout the series as "John-Boy," is born in 1916, is the eldest son and child of Olivia Walton (ne Daly) and John Walton Sr. John-Boy is based on author Earl Hamner Jr., who narrates the opening and closing of each episode as the present day adult John-Boy. John is so frustrated with him he even gives his permission when he's hell bent on joining the army. She works as a telephone operator early in season five while she is finishing high school. A further six TV movies aired in the 1980s and 1990s. After Corabeth refuses to listen to Ike, he has no option but to speak to John and Olivia about his problem and to ask them to speak to her. Despite his Baptist upbringing he, like his father Zeb, is ambivalent toward organized religion and otherwise agnostic. Due to war rationing he uses a still to make a petro alternative from alcohol. Metacritic Reviews. Most of the other citizens of Walton's Mountain are quite fond of the Baldwin sisters. ------------------ Along the way he builds his own car out of old parts. She cried for him both in his death, and after reading a posthumous letter he had prepared for her to receive in case he died in the war, where he told Erin he really loved her, which she reciprocated. External Reviews Pickett, a defense plant owner during the war. hesitated for a moment so he could change his trajectory, but the grenade's explosive contents were primed and the time he needed to get the grenade away from himself was lost. Erin (Mary Elizabeth McDonough), the fifth-born child and second daughter of Olivia Walton (ne Daly) and John Walton Sr. Erin grows very close to her older sister Mary Ellen, though they often fight, especially in the early seasons. S1E5). He is mentioned in "The Awakening" (season 2, episode 15), in which three children of Zeb and Esther are mentioned, and "The Hero" (season 5, episode 18) when the younger Ben made a memorial bench for Uncle Ben for Honor Day. resolves to confess his love for Erin and begin a serious relationship with her, perhaps the first one Erin was privileged to have organically transpire without it being forced upon her abruptly. Drew (Tony Becker) was first introduced in season 8 as a high school student and friend for Elizabeth. Search Site She, along with Olivia and Corabeth, serves the Baptist church as part of a committee appointed to find a replacement for Reverend Fordwick. Erin fondly remembers him in part two of "The Empty Nest", remarking that her now-deceased grandpa is up in Heaven with G.W. Tony Becker portrays her boyfriend Drew, who goes through a failed marriage in spite of not getting together with Elizabeth when she goes off to Europe, leading them to rekindle their original romantic feelings like they really wanted to; in the final sequel movie, she and Drew get engaged. Schuyler Virginia. Her character is later written out of the series at the same time as Zebulon Walton, having died around the same time he did. He and Joseph Zebulon were born on January 13, 1924 but only he survived as his twin was stillborn. This was exemplified in the episode "The Birthday"; as he was about to turn 73, he suffered a major heart attack and was bedridden for weeks on end. The two became very close when John-Boy began college and their bond grew even stronger as the years went by. Though the two brothers have very different personalities and interests, they get along very well. She survives polio in a two-hour special at the end of the first season, and develops tuberculosis later in the series. Olivia, also known as Liv, Livie, or Mama, (pilot, Patricia Neal; series, Michael Learned) is John Walton's soft-spoken, patient, loving wife, who complements his tough-skinned, opinionated nature. Boone Walton is very set in his ways and has a cantankerous disposition. Later she married, and her husband figured out that she had a child out there somewhere. Prior to World War II breaking out, John-Boy is the only member of his family seriously concerned about the rise of Adolf Hitler, and is infuriated when his community attempts to burn German books in response to hearing about Nazis doing the same to American books. Rose Burton (Peggy Rea) is a Walton cousin who was introduced in season 8. Ben (Eric Scott) is named for his father John's brother Ben, who was killed in France during World War I. In season seven, Mary Ellen receives a telegram notifying her that Curt has been killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, but in season nine she learns he is still alive, using an assumed name. In season three, John's second cousin Corabeth Walton (Ronnie Claire Edwards) arrives in Walton's Mountain after her mother's death. Olivia also suffered a miscarriage in season two. and now both will be watching over her. Mary Ellen was also influenced by the county nurse, Nora Jones. Haines (David Doremus). Verdie Grant (Lynn Hamilton), is a middle-aged African-American widow (ne Harris), with two adult sons and three daughters, the youngest of whom, Claire, is graduating from college in Richmond, and later suffers a failed marriage for her education. Unbeknownst to them, his plane, the Katey Anne, was shot down and crashed into the sea near Britain while he was out looking for war stories. to fly. In a 1999 Archive of American Television interview, executive producer Earl Hamner Jr. stated that, when transitioning from the film to the TV series, he chose to recast the role of Olivia because he did not think that Patricia Neal's health would allow her to commit to the grind of a weekly television series. He threw a paper airplane from his bedroom window. Sarah Jane Simmonds is an overly protected young girl being raised by her widowed mother. Ben then returns home.

secrets" on television, but then the family got used to it and it was fun. His goal of flying in the air corps has dried up and the hopes he's had since a child are gone. reflected back to October of last year. However, when she ends up taking care of the people out in the country by herself, she concludes they need more medical expertise than she can offer them and continues studying medicine until she succeeds in becoming a fully-fledged doctor. He first appears in the two-part season three episode "The Conflict, and is happy with Zeb's involvement in the fight against the government officials. He appeared in The North and the South and the Chevy Chase comedy Fletch but then fell into relative obscurity. Like her husband, Grandma has plenty of wisdom to share with family and friends, peppered with the occasional "Good Lord!" from so much use. He has a bright mind and an entrepreneurial spirit but sometimes falls for get-rich-quick schemes and needs his father or John-Boy to bail him out. Elizabeth Walton had an idea: Jim-Bob needed to obtain individual sessions with Corabeth Godsey in reference to reading some useful books for his English class -- in which they would be seeing each other on Tuesdays and Fridays for discussions on a particular book. On the front porch was a huge Christmas cactus. She drives a characteristic red car and has a provocative reputation that earned her the nickname "Sinful Cindy" based on people's surface judgments of her. When she was little her mother became ill and died, which greatly upset her, and she becomes angry whenever people show disrespect for their mothers, or disregard for their children, she becomes angry. She investigated the matter further until she was able to make contact with the woman again and discover that this was her biological mother, who had been forced to give her up because Cindy's father had died before she was born and she wasn't able to raise a child alone. lived in this house her whole life and I have lived in Schuyler all but a brief time. "The Tailspin" started with Jim-Bob Walton's disgust on his school work. G.W. He had a twin brother, Joseph Zebulon who died at birth. It is later revealed (in the fourth of the six post-series reunion movies) that they are divorced as Paul had become unfaithful. Born in 1921, Fourth-born Ben seems to get into trouble at precisely the wrong times and possesses fiery red hair and a temper to match. He is sensitive and empathetic with a drive to succeed in his chosen profession. User Ratings the Walton's kitchen and just talked. In fact, the doorbell wore out "The Sinner" and "The Dust Bowl Cousins" in 1972; "The Deed" and "The Chicken Thief" in 1973; "The Heritage" in 1974, "The Shivaree" in 1975; "The Best Christmas", "The Wedding: Parts 1 and 2", "The Baptism", "The Comeback", "The Quilting" and "The Burnout" in 1976; "The First Casualty" in which he marries Sissy (Cissy Wellman), "The Grandchild", and "The Hawk" in 1977; "The Boosters", "The Beau" and "The Obsession" in 1978. The New Waltons

Her war experience as an ambulance driver gave her a knowledge of how to fix cars, which earns her Jim-Bob's adoration. After Esther's role in the series begins to diminish and the Walton children are grown up, she and her grandchildren Jeffrey and Serena show up at their house looking for a place to stay, and Rose is desperate to find a safe haven from their old residence in Baltimore. In season seven, Ashley's son Ashley Jr. (Jonathan Frakes), shows up at Walton's Mountain with news that his father has died (but also that he loved Miss Emily for the remainder of his life). ------------------ James Robert (David W. Harper), better known as Jim-Bob, is the youngest Walton boy and sixth child of John and Olivia Walton. He is implied to pass away many years later when an older John-Boy remarks that "Ike's gone now." - Season Seven In Season 8, Episode 22 ("The Furlough"), his full name is revealed as Isaac Aloysius Godsey, after a clerical error at an Army induction center transposed numbers in his birth date, which was revealed as September 24, 1901. | Miss Hunter (Mariclare Costello) is Walton's Mountain's schoolteacher, teaching all ages from first grade through high school. He is found living in Florida under the name Curtis Packer. Grand Marshall in a parade in Appomattox Va. and rode in the parade with Lady Bird Aimee (series & A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion, Rachel Longaker; Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain & A Day for Thanks on Waltons Mountain, DeAnna Robbins) is the adopted daughter of Ike and Corabeth Godsey and best friend of Elizabeth Walton. For weeks, John-Boy's location and condition is unknown to his family. After years of caring for her invalid parents, Corabeth is nervous and shy and has retreated into a shell. She is the sister of Frances Daly of Edgemont. | David's Wikipedia Page He told Jim-Bob that an "F" did not stand for funny. Without his wife to help raise his children, he lapsed into alcoholism and became horribly abusive to his children; after he hit Jeffrey with a belt, Rose immediately took her grandchildren as far away from their father as she could even though it pained her to never want to see her own son again. Despite his rejection of the Baptist church (we later learn he never underwent baptism during his lifetime), his wife calls him "the most God-fearing man I know."[1]. G.W. It can be logically assumed that since the medals are in Zeb's possession, rather than Olivia's parents, that this is the name of the third child, and that since they are military in nature, like Ben the elder, he never made it home from the great war.) "She was in the audience when Earl received his People's Choice Award and she was the In the German dubbed version, the name of Zebulon "Zeb" Walton was changed to Samuel "Sam" Walton. After resolution of a misunderstanding caused by Elizabeth unknowingly revealing her secret to Miss Hunter, she completes her lessons and becomes a close friend of the Waltons, appearing in a total of 17 episodes. They eventually marry and adopt a daughter, Aimee Louise. Though she is mostly grounded and content with her life, Olivia also displays a dreamy side of her personality and a thirst for novelty, as seen, for example, in The Airmail Man (season two) where she dreams of flying in an airplane, and in The Rebellion (season five) when she gets a perm.