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The Waltons
Season 1
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The life and trials of a 1930s and 1940s Virginia mountain family through financial depression and World War II.
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Cast of Season 1
Richard Thomas
John Walton Jr.
Ralph Waite
John Walton Sr.
Michael Learned
Olivia Walton
Ellen Corby
Esther Walton
Will Geer
Grandfather Walton
Jon Walmsley
Jason Walton
Mary Elizabeth McDonough
Erin Walton
David W. Harper
Jim-Bob Walton
Earl Hamner, Jr.
Narrator / Producer
Eric Scott
Ben Walton
Kami Cotler
Elizabeth Walton
Joe Conley
Ike Godsey
Judy Norton
Mary Ellen Walton
Robert L. Jacks
Producer
Lee Rich
Executive Producer
Jerry Goldsmith
Main Title Theme Composer
The Waltons • Season 1 Ratings & Reviews
New York Times
John J. O'Connor
The Waltons deserve an audience. Competing with Mod Squad and The Flip Wilson Show at the same hour, it won't get one easily. If nothing else, it will be interesting to see if the public has any appetite for good family entertainment.
Tampa Bay Times
Erica Meyer
The Waltons is the kind of story that Walt Disney used to do so well. It has the feel of "Old Yeller," minus the dog.
San Francisco Examiner
Dwight Newton
Here, for the first time since, The Monroes, we have a gentle and much, much better family situation drama.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Win Fanning
The Waltons will have a hard time bucking Flip Wilson and Mod Squad, but for your own children's sake, at least give it a try. You may be as pleasantly surprised as was I.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Harry Harris
There was warmth -- a rare TV commodity -- aplenty, many affecting touches via Depression-time nostalgia and dialog, and appealing performances by both adults and red-headed kids.
New York Daily News
Kay Gardella
While tonight's opening drama does not have all of the qualities of the special, enough has been retained to make one care about The Waltons.
Newsday
Marvin Kitman
When you're not crying, you're laughing. I grew up in Pennsylvania during the Depression, but it sure wasn't as much fun as being poor in Virginia.
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Bill Morrison
[The] premiere was enchanting and realistic as good folk drama can be both real and dreamlike.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Will Jones
An exercise in plastic tenderness.
Los Angeles Times
Cecil Smith
It is quite frankly the class of the season.
United Press International
Rick Du Brow
It is merely, on the basis of the debut, exactly what viewers keep saying what they want: A great family program. And now we will see whether viewers mean what they say. For this is a show for everyone in the family -- young, old and in between.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Jerry Coffey
If The Waltons somehow should manage to build a sustaining popularity, it will be an even stronger indication of rising independence and maturity in the television audience than was signaled by the acceptance of All in the Family.
Detroit Free Press
Bettelou Peterson
The Waltons has avoided the slick artificiality that marred so much of Disney. It is gentle, humorous and honest, a "family show" in the best sense of the description.
Chicago Tribune
Clarence Petersen
The Waltons breaks all the rules. Except one: It's entertaining. What makes it so is the characters. They are made of flesh and bone, not plastic. They are worthy of respect and concern.
Boston Globe
Percy Shain
I found it quite wonderful in every respect -- exciting in its dramatic hook, beautiful in its conjuring up of a more innocent day, poignant in its relationships, a perfect gem of a tale filled with small triumphs and the milk of human goodness.
Associated Press
Jay Sharbutt
It's a quiet, gentle show about the same kind of farming family, a sort of hard-times Bonanza without a .45. And it nicely catches the Thirties flavor in big and little ways.
Baltimore Sun
Judy Bachrach
The main problem with The Waltons is not the concept but the format. It is a show of an hour's length during which virtually nothing happens.
Arizona Republic
Phil Strassberg
The initial segment fails to convey the feeling that they are that hard-pressed by the times, thereby retarding emphatic response which would elevate the program.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Paul Jones
The opener will bring tears to your eyes tears because of love, not sadness. And The Waltons will win a place in your regular viewing habits.
LIFE
John Leonard
I liked The Waltons. Only a churl would not. The pace is slow at first, and never achieves more than a lope, but the emotions seem basically honest and the details of feeling are accurate.
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