The Waltons

The Waltons - CBS

CBS

Series

1972

TVG

Drama

Romance

A mountain family struggles during the Great Depression and the years following.

Where to Stream

1972–1981 Series 9 Seasons 235 Episodes

Upcoming TV Airings

The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.

Thursday, April 9

The Outrage

Season 9 •

John tries to help a man accused of a crime he never committed.

Thursday, April 9

The Outrage

Season 9 •

At the White House, John voices an impassioned plea for an accused man's innocence.

Thursday, April 9

The Triumph

Season 9 • Episode 3

Jason and a member of his squad must deal with the question of killing.

Thursday, April 9

The Venture

Season 3 • Episode 24

When prosperity seems to be just around the corner, disaster strikes the Walton family.

Friday, April 10

The Premonition

Season 9 • Episode 4

Cindy has a series of nightmare premonitions about Ben, who is serving in the Seabees.

Friday, April 10

The Pursuit

Season 9 • Episode 5

An old flame claims to carry Jim-Bob's baby.

Friday, April 10

The Last Ten Days

Season 9 • Episode 6

The Waltons await word of the Japanese surrender.

Friday, April 10

The Sermon

Season 4 • Episode 1

The schoolteacher and the minister on Walton's Mountain suddenly decide to get married.

Saturday, April 11

The Move

Season 9 • Episode 7

Ben returns home from the service with plans to study engineering.

Saturday, April 11

The Whirlwind

Season 9 • Episode 8

Mary Ellen gets the news that Curt is still alive just as she is about to remarry.

Saturday, April 11

The Tempest

Season 9 • Episode 9

Mary Ellen finds her husband, Curt, in Florida.

Monday, April 13

The Genius

Season 4 • Episode 2

John-Boy brings home his college tutor, a 16-year-old genius who seems to possess no social skills.

Tuesday, April 14

The Carousel

Season 9 • Episode 10

Cindy searches for her birth parents when she finds out that she was adopted.

Tuesday, April 14

The Hot Rod

Season 9 • Episode 11

Jim-Bob and Jody return from the service.

Tuesday, April 14

The Gold Watch

Season 9 • Episode 12

Rose's beau from the past returns to Walton's Mountain carrying a strange secret.

Tuesday, April 14

The Fighter

Season 4 • Episode 3

A young black preacher turns to prizefighting to earn money for his church.

Wednesday, April 15

The Beginning

Season 9 • Episode 13

A new minister comes to the Walton's Mountain church and helps Jason and Toni.

Wednesday, April 15

The Pearls

Season 9 • Episode 14

Corabeth tries to stop her estranged sister from taking her dying aunt's coveted pearls.

Wednesday, April 15

The Victims

Season 9 • Episode 15

Mary Ellen and Erin become involved when a young local woman is brutalized by her husband.

Wednesday, April 15

The Prophecy

Season 4 • Episode 4

John is apprehensive about his upcoming 25th-year class reunion.

Thursday, April 16

The Threshold

Season 9 • Episode 16

Jim-Bob builds a TV set so the family can see John Boy's experimental television project.

Thursday, April 16

The Indiscretion

Season 9 • Episode 17

Ike is served divorce papers and Elizabeth's romance gets too difficult to handle.

Thursday, April 16

The Heartache

Season 9 • Episode 18

Rose's happiness with Stanley is threatened.

Thursday, April 16

The Boondoggle

Season 4 • Episode 5

An investigative reporter arrives at Walton Mountain to write a guide to the State of Virginia.

Friday, April 17

The Lumberjack

Season 9 • Episode 19

A charming new lumberjack captures Erin's attention but alienates her brothers.

Friday, April 17

The Hostage

Season 9 • Episode 20

A backwoodsman kidnaps Elizabeth after Mary Ellen disrupts his plans to marry a 14-year-old girl.

Friday, April 17

The Revel

Season 9 • Episode 21

The residents of Walton's Mountain prepare themselves for a gala.

Friday, April 17

The Breakdown

Season 4 • Episode 6

Jason stretches himself to the breaking point to prove his self-worth.

Saturday, April 18

The Foundling

Season 1 • Episode 1

The Waltons work together to teach sign language to a 6-year-old whose mother abandoned her.

Saturday, April 18

The Carnival

Season 1 • Episode 2

The Walton children befriend four stranded carnival performers.

Saturday, April 18

The Calf

Season 1 • Episode 3

The sale of a calf creates havoc and recovering it develops into a major project.

Monday, April 20

The Wing Walker

Season 4 • Episode 7

A beautiful young stuntwoman offers her troubled heart to John-Boy.

Tuesday, April 21

The Hunt

Season 1 • Episode 4

Unable to shoot a turkey on his first hunting trip, John-Boy convinces himself that he's a coward.

Tuesday, April 21

The Typewriter

Season 1 • Episode 5

John-Boy borrows the Baldwin sisters' treasured typewriter to work on a short story for a magazine.

Tuesday, April 21

The Star

Season 1 • Episode 6

Grandpa interprets a shooting star that crash-landed at the Baldwins as an omen of his death.

Tuesday, April 21

The Competition

Season 4 • Episode 8

Erin and Mary Ellen compete for the attentions of a visiting forestry student.

Wednesday, April 22

The Sinner

Season 1 • Episode 7

A preacher staying with the Waltons leads John-Boy to seek out the meaning of sin.

Wednesday, April 22

The Boy From the C.C.C.

Season 1 • Episode 8

An injured boy taken in by the Waltons unexpectedly betrays their trust.

Wednesday, April 22

The Ceremony

Season 1 • Episode 9

The Waltons share their Baptist heritage with a Jewish family from Germany.

Wednesday, April 22

The Emergence

Season 4 • Episode 9

John-Boy's old flame returns with a fiancé.

Thursday, April 23

The Legend

Season 1 • Episode 10

John's Army buddy, hides his troubles and regales the family with tales of his wartime escapades.

Thursday, April 23

The Literary Man

Season 1 • Episode 11

Dreaming of a writing career, John-Boy loses a much-needed woodcutting contract.

Thursday, April 23

The Dust Bowl Cousins

Season 1 • Episode 12

The Denby cousins move in unexpectedly and take advantage of hospitality.

Thursday, April 23

The Loss

Season 4 • Episode 10

The children learn about grief when they try to help a young widow.

Friday, April 24

The Reunion

Season 1 • Episode 13

An unscrupulous relative of the Baldwin sisters uses their "recipe" for his own profit.

Friday, April 24

The Minstrel

Season 1 • Episode 14

Mary Ellen falls for a minstrel and resists helping the family fulfill a vital contract.

Friday, April 24

The Actress

Season 1 • Episode 15

An actress stays with the family after her car breaks down and her driver leaves.

Friday, April 24

The Abdication

Season 4 • Episode 11

John-Boy helps with the filming of a writer's experiences; he is offered a job in New York.

Saturday, April 25

The Fire

Season 1 • Episode 16

A zealot, objecting to his daughter's curriculum, burns down the schoolhouse.

Saturday, April 25

The Love Story

Season 1 • Episode 17

John-Boy falls in love with a girl who returns to the mountain to live with her father.

Saturday, April 25

The Courtship

Season 1 • Episode 18

While visiting Walton's Mountain, Olivia's uncle becomes involved with an often-married divorcee.

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