A Walton Easter

TV Movie
1997
TV-G
2h

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

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A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain (1982)

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In 1969, John-Boy is a TV news anchorman in New York and he is in the throes of writing a new book. He and a very pregnant Janet are making plans to return to Walton's Mountain for the celeb... Read allIn 1969, John-Boy is a TV news anchorman in New York and he is in the throes of writing a new book. He and a very pregnant Janet are making plans to return to Walton's Mountain for the celebration of John and Olivia's 40th wedding anniversary. Accompanying them to see the place J... Read allIn 1969, John-Boy is a TV news anchorman in New York and he is in the throes of writing a new book. He and a very pregnant Janet are making plans to return to Walton's Mountain for the celebration of John and Olivia's 40th wedding anniversary. Accompanying them to see the place John-Boy lived as a child is Aurora, a TIME magazine photographer who is doing a story on J... Read all

Director
- Bill Corcoran
Writers
- Earl Hamner Jr.
- Julie Sayres
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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

345

YOUR RATING

Director
- Bill Corcoran
Writers
- Earl Hamner Jr.
- Julie Sayres
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
It can be inferred from the pilot episode, The Homecoming: A Christmas Story, that John Walton, Sr., died shortly after the events of this movie, the last installment in The Waltons legacy. It was stated in the pilot that John died in 1969, the same year in which Earl Hamner's own father died.

Goofs
John-Boy comments on TV about the first moon landing during Easter of 1969, but the moon landing happened a few months later, in July.

Quotes
Elizabeth Walton: I'm not hungry.

Connections
Follows Spencer's Mountain (1963)

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3/10

Should Have Stopped With the Series

With the three TV movies, there was little doubt that Hamner and the network were trying to squeeze the last drops of blood from the stone. The anachronisms have been pointed out by others. Beyond that, the series of conflicts (John Boy and his pregnant wife, Elizabeth and Drew, money problems still, etc) were pretty much contrived to pad the script.

It was nice to see the old characters, including Ellen Corby, though. Sad thing is that most of the old timers are now gone, and died some time ago, including Hamner himself. Michael Learned is about the only one left.