The Waltons was a TV show which aired in the 1970's and ran for almost a decade. Set in the 1930's, the drama depicts the struggles of an American family living through the depression. At the end of the first episode of the first season John Boy states: "Those were lean years and for many Americans a harsh and bitter time. On Walton's mountain we were sustained with poems and gingerbread and laughter." I love the simple goodness of their lives and adore the idea of their loving, close family determined to live their lives with integrity, honesty and fairness. Yes, you have to suffer through some bad acting. Yes, you have to sit through some big time cheesiness and at times boring/slow plot development. Yes, it is worth enduring all of that for the gems that are to be found in many an episode.
(I must advise though, once Grandma has a stroke in both real life and in the show and then is for some reason brought back onto the show - it does become almost intolerable to sit through the scenes where they are trying their best to include her character but all that happens is that you have to sit there for way too long listening to Grandma trying to grunt out basic vocabulary. I have NO idea what they were thinking there.)
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The Waltons were around during my college and early marriage years so I considered myself either too busy or too sophisticated at the time to become part of the family but I've heard from many sources that I definitely missed out. Most famous line? "Good night, John Boy"
A show this wholesome would undoubtedly be laughed off the airwaves in our cynical times. It is an indication of how much our society has changed over the last 30 years.
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