S2.E10

The Thanksgiving Story

Episode aired Nov 15, 1973
TV-G
50m

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Thanksgiving time on Walton's Mountain means a turkey shoot, a school play about early settlers, and the big meal. One year it also included a rekindled love affair and a life-threatening ac... Read allThanksgiving time on Walton's Mountain means a turkey shoot, a school play about early settlers, and the big meal. One year it also included a rekindled love affair and a life-threatening accident.Thanksgiving time on Walton's Mountain means a turkey shoot, a school play about early settlers, and the big meal. One year it also included a rekindled love affair and a life-threatening accident.

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Despite the plot being about Thanksgiving, the school play in this episode is about the true story of Pocahontas rather than Squanto. The real Thanksgiving Story is about the historical events of the Pilgrims arriving on the Mayflower to their new home in present-day Massachusetts. They received assistance from Squanto the only surviving Patuxet tribesman. He was introduced to them through the Abenaki chief Samoset.

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Right before John Boy is hit by the belt he turns around and grabs a board. On the right side you can see a crewman walking.

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Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] Next to Christmas, I suppose you'd have to say that Thanksgiving was our favorite time of the year. We may have been poor in worldly possessions but, at Thanksgiving, more than any other time, I think we knew, we really knew, how great was our abundance. It wasn't until the cold November of my eighteenth year, however, that I fully understood what abundance meant. It was a time of terrible questioning for all of us and when it was over we all knew a bit more about Thanksgiving.

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Featured in The 26th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1974)

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10/10

Turkey and Tests Come To Waltons Mountain

This is one of the few episodes I remember watching in prime time. I was only a Kindergartener at the time and only had an inkling of what was involved in going to school. It looked intimidating all the work John Boy had to do. The first run episodes that stick with me are ones involving health problems for the children. It makes it difficult to revisit these particular movies. I'm glad I gave this one a go. It's amazing how essential Richard Thomas is to the cast. Must not have been easy for veteran actors to let him take center stage. Still, they could see a good opportunity for their own careers. And Will Geer is brilliant in the subplot. It's absurd to think a remake of Homecoming was made with no Ben.