The Waltons

They built their home on the timeless mountain that bears their name. They built their lives on even stronger stuff: the bedrock of family. For nine seasons, “The Waltons” were America’s family. Viewers’ hearts were captured by the story of John and Olivia Walton, their seven children, Grandpa and Grandma as they faced the Depression and World War II with not much more than a love of the land and the rock-solid support of one another. Richard Thomas, in the key role of John-Boy, portrays a youth on the verge of manhood and a writer whose observations are made through the filter of life in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Over the years, the heartwarming series bring tests, tears and triumphs, and “The Waltons” experience topical and timeless family issues that are specific to the times, yet forever true: holding children close and letting them go, doing without and making do.