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The Waltons Complete Season 1 6xDVD SET 1972 Die Waltons Die Komplette 1. Staffel / Directed by Earl Hamner Jr. / Starring: Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, Michael Learned, Ellen Corby, Will Geer, Judy Norton
UPC 7321921599767
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REGION 2 PAL DVD
AUDIO: English mono, German mono
Subtitles: English, German
TOTAL RUNTIME: 1096 MINUTES (6 discs)
GERMAN LANGUAGE RELEASE
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English Summary:
The Waltons is an American drama television series about a family in rural Virginia during the Great Depression and World War II. It was created by Earl Hamner Jr., based on his 1961 book Spencer's Mountain and the 1963 film of the same name.
The story is about the family of John Walton Jr. (known as John-Boy): his six siblings, his parents John and Olivia Walton, and paternal grandparents Zebulon "Zeb" and Esther Walton. John-Boy is the oldest of the children (17 years old in the beginning), who becomes a journalist and novelist. Each episode is narrated at the opening and closing by a middle-aged John Jr. (voiced by author Earl Hamner on whom John-Boy is based). John Sr. manages to eke out a living for his family by operating a lumber mill with his sons' help as they grow older. The family income is augmented by some small-scale farming, and John occasionally hunts to put meat on the table. In the simpler days of their country youth, all of the children are rambunctious and curious, but as times grow tough, the children slowly depart from the innocent, carefree days of walking everywhere barefoot while clad in overalls and hand-sewn pinafores, and into the harsh, demanding world of adulthood and responsibility.
The family shares hospitality with relatives and strangers as they are able. The small community named after their property is also home to folk of various income levels, ranging from the well-to-do Baldwin sisters, two elderly spinsters who distill moonshine that they call "Papa's recipe"; Ike Godsey, postmaster and owner of the general store with his somewhat snobbish wife Corabeth (a Walton cousin; she calls her husband "Mr. Godsey"); an African-American couple, Verdie and Harley Foster; Maude Gormley, a sassy octogenarian artist who paints on wood; Flossie Brimmer, a friendly though somewhat gossipy widow who runs a nearby boarding house; and Yancy Tucker, a good-hearted handyman with big plans but little motivation. Jefferson County sheriff Ep Bridges, who fought alongside John in World War I, keeps law and order in Walton's Mountain. The entire family (except for John) attends a Baptist church, of which Olivia and Grandma Esther are the most regular attendees.
German Summary:
Die Waltons (Originaltitel: The Waltons) ist eine US-amerikanische Familienserie, die das schwere einfache Leben einer Großfamilie während der Zeit von der Weltwirtschaftskrise bis zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs beschreibt. Die Fernsehproduktionsfirma Lorimar (u. a. Dallas) produzierte die Serie. Sie lief von 1972 bis 1981 mit insgesamt 221 Folgen, bis auf wenige Folgen und den Pilotfilm wurden alle im Fernsehen gesendet. Zunächst wurden sie im ZDF ausgestrahlt, seit Ende der 1980er Jahre auch bei Sat.1, zuletzt bei kabel eins und aktuell bei Sat.1 Gold.
Ihr Haus bauten sie auf dem urwüchsigen Berg, der ihren Namen trägt. Ihr Leben gründeten sie auf ein noch solideres Fundament: Die unerschütterliche Basis ist und bleibt die Familie. In dieser Sammlung sind auf sechs DVDs alle 23 Episoden der ersten Staffel zur beliebten Serie enthalten, die neun Jahre lang lief und im ersten Jahr mit fünf Emmys® ausgezeichnet wurde, darunter als Hervorragende dramatische Serie. Richard Thomas spielt die Hauptrolle des John-Boy Walton, der in der Depressionszeit aufwächst und sich als Schriftsteller versucht. Er berichtet über die Lebenslektionen, die er als junger Mann lernen muss, und über die Geborgenheit, die er in seiner Familie erfährt: Im Kreise von Vater John, Mutter Olivia, Grossmutter, Grossvater und den übrigen Waltons.
Episodes / Episoden:
SEASON 1 - EPISODES 1-23
DVD 1:
01 Das Findelkind
02 Der Wanderzirkus
03 Das Kälbchen
04 John-Boys erste Jagd
DVD 2:
05 Die Schreibmaschine
06 Es steht in den Sternen
07 Der junge Prediger
08 Der Ausreißer
DVD 3:
09 Eintritt ins Mannesalter
10 Mein Freund Tip
11 Der Schriftsteller
12 Die Verwandten aus Kansas
DVD 4:
13 Der große Familientag
14 Mary Ellen und der fahrende Sänger
15 Die Schauspielerin
16 Das Feuer
DVD 5:
17 Die Begegnung mit Jenny
18 Onkel Codys Werbung
19 Vom Fremden zu Freunden
20 John-Boy und die große Stadt
DVD 6:
21 Die Schülerin
22 Das Fahrrad
23 Der feine Herr
| 1 | 1 | "The Foundling" | Vincent Sherman | John McGreevey | September 14, 1972 | |
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| The Waltons shelter a deaf girl (Erica Hunton) left on their back porch by her mother because her father insists on institutionalizing her. While they search for her family, they start teaching her sign language, which she uses to help Elizabeth when an emergency arises. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "The Carnival" | Alf Kjellin | Nigel McKeand | September 21, 1972 | |
| A traveling carnival comes to Walton's Mountain, but the children choose to sacrifice the money they had saved for it so that Grandma can replace her broken glasses. When the troupe becomes stranded by their dishonest ringmaster, John and Olivia allow them to stay temporarily in their barn, and the family is rewarded with a private show. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "The Calf" | Harry Harris | Jim Byrnes | September 28, 1972 | |
| The Waltons' cow gives birth to a bull calf, which John decides must be sold for truck repair money, much to his children's disappointment. He is able to buy it back after he learns the man he sold it to (Leonard Stone) plans to butcher it. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "The Hunt" | Robert Butler | John McGreevey | October 5, 1972 | |
| John-Boy is anxious to prove himself on a turkey hunt with his father and two friends, but finds he can't shoot a turkey, which he equates with premeditated murder. However, he has no trouble killing a bear when it attacks his father. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "The Typewriter" | Philip Leacock | Theodore Apstein | October 12, 1972 | |
| John-Boy borrows an antique typewriter from the Baldwin sisters so he can submit a proper manuscript to a magazine. Mary Ellen inadvertently sells the typewriter to a traveling junk dealer (George Tobias). Fortunately, Sheriff Bridges is able to help her track it down. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "The Star" | Alf Kjellin | John McGreevey | October 19, 1972 | |
| A meteorite crashes through the roof of the Baldwin sisters' "Recipe" room, which they take as some kind of sign from their dead Papa. Grandpa Walton takes it as a sign of his own impending death, Ben takes it as a sign he will win the fourth-grade spelling bee, and an unscrupulous relative of the sisters first plans to exploit the meteorite for financial gain, then tries to steal their "Recipe machine". | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "The Sinner" | Philip Leacock | John Furia, Jr. | October 26, 1972 | |
| A young preacher, Matthew Fordwick (John Ritter), comes to Walton's Mountain fresh from seminary, where he has learned the currently-popular fire and brimstone style of preaching. He happens to be a Baldwin relative, and after a visit succumbs to the effects of their "Recipe". His tee-totaler church superior fires him, but after he humbly apologizes to John-Boy for his hypocrisy, Grandpa and John convince the congregation to look at the forgiving side of the gospel and accept him. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "The Boy From the C.C.C." | Harry Harris | William Welch | November 2, 1972 | |
| A troubled teenager from Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, whose father was murdered by a gangster, runs away from the Civilian Conservation Corps to Walton's Mountain. The Waltons take him in and teach him that he can trust some people and he doesn't have to fight (literally) for everything he gets. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "The Ceremony" | Vincent Sherman | Nigel McKeand | November 9, 1972 | |
| A Jewish Nazi-refugee family moves to Walton's Mountain from Germany. Expecting to find similar antisemitism in America, the bitter, distrustful father, Professor Mann, chooses to protect his family by hiding their faith, and cancels plans for his son's impending bar mitzvah. The paranoid couple rebuff the Waltons' every attempt at visitation. John-Boy discovers the family secret, and helps the boy find a rabbi to conduct his bar mitzvah, while the others open their home for the ceremony. Grandpa convinces the father not to deny his faith and to honor his son by attending. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "The Legend" | Lee Philips | John McGreevey | November 16, 1972 | |
| John's World War I buddy (Jim Antonio) visits, but after he accidentally sets off a grass fire, for which Jason is blamed, and wounds the family dog on a hunting trip, John discovers his friend has not been able to put away the horrors of the war and continue with his life. | ||||||
| 11 | 11 | "The Literary Man" | Philip Leacock | Colley Cibber | November 30, 1972 | |
| A.J. Covington (David Huddleston), a wandering, well-read man claiming to be a writer, comes to Walton's Mountain and befriends John-Boy, helping him with his writing. But A.J. must come to terms with the fact that, after an initial success, he has spent most of his life in search of "the big story", and has avoided actual writing for fear of failure. John-Boy begins to back away from writing as well when he thinks it is interfering with the needs of his family and that it causes him to shirk his family duties, but A.J. encourages him to find value in writing about the little things, and begins to think about settling down on the mountain. Meanwhile, Jim-Bob is stricken with appendicitis, and, though his surgery is successful, his family is left with a steep bill. A.J. decides to lend them the money and moves on once more, leaving them a farewell letter signed "Andy”, the name only his closest friends may know him by. | ||||||
| 12 | 12 | "The Dust Bowl Cousins" | Robert Butler | Paul Savage | December 7, 1972 | |
| John's cousin (Jay W. MacIntosh) and her husband (Warren Vanders) and children seek refuge in Walton's Mountain after losing their Kansas farm to the Dust Bowl, but her husband has developed a bad attitude toward misfortune and has taught their son that the world owes them something. | ||||||
| 13 | 13 | "The Reunion" | Jack Shea | Earl Hamner | December 14, 1972 | |
| The Baldwin sisters plan to hold a family reunion when their cousin Homer (Denver Pyle) visits, but Homer runs off with their batch of over 100 jars of the "Recipe" intended for the reunion, planning to sell it in Charlottesville. Then, all of their invitations are returned because the intended recipients are either dead or moved away. The Waltons make up for the failed reunion with a family visit to cheer the disappointed sisters. | ||||||
| 14 | 14 | "The Minstrel" | Philip Leacock | John Furia Jr.. | December 21, 1972 | |
| A young wandering musician named Jamie visits the mountain, while John Walton gets a contract for the family to pick apples on deadline. Mary Ellen thinks Jamie will help her fulfill her dreams of travel and adventure. While picking apples, John-Boy Walton falls and breaks his wrist. Mary Ellen runs away with Jamie, then learns a hard lesson when he tells her he won't be "tied down" by anybody and continues without her. She returns home to the family, who use some of the apple-picking profits to fund her going on a trip with friends. | ||||||
| 15 | 15 | "The Actress" | Vincent Sherman | William Bast | January 4, 1973 | |
| Alvira Drummond (Pippa Scott), a famous stage and screen actress, is invited to stay at the Walton home after her car breaks down in Walton's Mountain. Contrary to the front she puts up, she is out of work and money after her agent tired of dealing with her "prima donna" attitude. After she learns a humbling lesson, the Waltons help her regain her confidence, then organize a town performance to help her raise money for a train ticket back to New York. | ||||||
| 16 | 16 | "The Fire" | Harry Harris | Earl Hamner | January 11, 1973 | |
| After learning that schoolteacher Miss Hunter is teaching evolution to his daughter, a religious fanatic breaks into the Baldwins' and steals some Recipe. He gets drunk on it and beats his daughter, and uses the remaining Recipe to burn down the school, killing himself in the process. Ike Godsey lets Miss Hunter use some extra space in his store for temporary classrooms until the county can build a new school. Olivia contacts the girl's mother, who had earlier run away from her abusive husband, and the woman returns to look after her daughter. | ||||||
| 17 | 17 | "The Love Story" | Lee Philips | Earl Hamner | January 18, 1973 | |
| Jenny Pendleton (Sian Barbara Allen), whose mother died years ago, runs away from her father and new stepmother, back to her deserted house in Walton's Mountain. Jenny and John-Boy meet and fall deeply in love, but she is soon traumatized by her father's sudden accidental death, and ultimately moves away with the stepmother. | ||||||
| 18 | 18 | "The Courtship" | Harry Harris | Jeb Rosebrook | January 25, 1973 | |
| Olivia's uncle, Cody Nelson (Eduard Franz), visits. He is a bank accountant near retirement, but put out of work by the bank closings. They attempt to cheer him up by introducing him to a lively, spirited local widow, whom he courts. Afraid to commit to her upon learning of her four marriages (including a divorce), he finally resolves to ask her to marry him. The Reverend Fordwick performs the ceremony at the Waltons', and the couple remain happily married for life. | ||||||
| 19 | 19 | "The Gypsies" | Harry Harris | Paul Savage | February 1, 1973 | |
| A gypsy family, stranded with a broken wagon during a thunderstorm, break into the temporarily unoccupied Baldwin house for shelter. Despite hostility from others in the community, the Waltons allow them to camp on their property while Grandma tends--successfully--their sick baby. | ||||||
| 20 | 20 | "The Deed" | Vincent Sherman | James Menzies | February 8, 1973 | |
| When a lumber company tries to claim the Mountain, the family discovers that their ancestors never filed for legal title to their land. They must raise $200 to obtain the deed, and the entire family try to chip in. Against his father's wishes, John-Boy decides to take time off from school to work in the city of Wheeling. On payday, he is robbed of his pay by two men while leaving a tavern. He encounters the same pair a few days later and asks a nearby policeman to arrest them. | ||||||
| 21 | 21 | "The Scholar" | Lee Philips | John McGreevey | February 22, 1973 | |
| Verdie Grant asks John-Boy to teach her how to read and write, on the condition that he keep it a strict secret. She is motivated by the desire to travel to Richmond to see her youngest daughter Sarah graduate from college. A misunderstanding causes Verdie to assume John-Boy betrayed her confidence, and she angrily stops the lessons, despite his attempt to explain. She relents after she has to ask him to read Sarah's letter to her, which implores her to come to the graduation. She completes the lessons and makes the trip to Richmond, becoming a good Walton family friend. | ||||||
| 22 | 22 | "The Bicycle" | Alf Kjellin | Nigel McKeand | March 1, 1973 | |
| Frustrated with the burden of her domestic obligations, Olivia buys a used bicycle, which awakens some of her dormant dreams as she starts singing in the church choir again. Meanwhile, John-Boy helps blacksmith Curtis Norton (Ned Beatty) woo a "mail-order bride" by ghost-writing letters for him. When the city-raised girl arrives with big dreams, she becomes disillusioned with Curtis' bucolic ways, becomes angry when she discovers John-Boy wrote the letters, and cancels the engagement. Olivia's experience reminds her that dreams don't always work out and don't replace the benefits of family. She convinces the girl to accept Curtis and loans her the bicycle to go after him. | ||||||
| 23 | 23 | "The Townie" | Jack Shea | Richard Fielder | March 8, 1973 | |
| John-Boy's friend Sarah Jane Simmonds (Sissy Spacek) wants to marry him to escape her strict, overprotective mother, but he rejects the idea. She then secretly dates a "townie", a spoiled rich boy named Theodore "Ted" Albert Claypool Jr. (Nicholas Hammond), who drives a LaSalle coupe, and exasperates John-Boy by expressing admiration for the notorious John Dillinger. He steals money and a gun from his father and takes Sarah Jane off to Maryland to elope. John-Boy pursues them and finds them both injured outside the overturned LaSalle. Ted pulls the gun on John-Boy and tries to take the Walton truck, but then John and Ted's father show up. | ||||||
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"An Easter Story" | Philip Leacock | Story by : Earl Hamner Teleplay by : John McGreevey |
April 19, 1973 | |
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Olivia is stricken with polio after returning from church in February. When pain and fatigue turn into numbness and paralysis, she faces the prospect of permanent disability with courage. Meanwhile, Jason enters an amateur talent show, playing and singing a song which Grandma inspires him to compose with her housework: “The Ironing Board Blues”; he wins the contest and a new guitar. The family watch him perform, and back at home they reenact the contest for Olivia and Erin. When John-Boy checks in to apply at the University of Virginia, he seeks out a doctor who specializes in the treatment of polio, and he tells John-Boy of an unorthodox, experimental treatment. Olivia tries the exercises, against the realistic and pessimistic advice of the local doctor. At first, she has hope of recovery by Easter, but then she becomes discouraged and resigns herself to life in a wheelchair. However, shortly before Easter, she dreams that Elizabeth calls out to her for help, and she gets up out of bed without effort. She attends the Easter sunrise service on the mountain with her family, celebrating the apparent miracle. |
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| Genre | Drama |
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| Created by | Earl Hamner Jr. |
| Based on | The Homecoming by Earl Hamner Jr. |
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| Narrated by | Earl Hamner Jr. |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 9 |
| No. of episodes | 221 (list of episodes) |
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| Running time | 45–48 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Lorimar Productions |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Television Distribution |
