Earl Hamner

A young man searches for his missing father on Christmas Eve in this sequel to Spencer's Mountain, the novel that inspired The Waltons. It's the night before Christmas, but Clay Spencer has failed to return home. Leaving his worried family to keep watch at the homestead, his son, Clay-Boy, takes to the snowy Virginia hills in search of his father. Along the way, he will meet an irate deer, a threatening county sheriff, a congregation of African...

Charlotte the spider teaches Wilbur the pig, Templeton the rat and the other barnyard animals lessons on friendship, trust and love.

In ordinary Somerset County, a young farm girl named Fern rescues the runt of a litter of pigs from her father's ax. Fern names the pig Wilbur, takes care of him, and continues to visit him every day after he is moved to her Uncle Homer Zuckerman's barn across the road. But it's Wilbur's friendship with Charlotte the spider that ultimately saves him from the "smoke house" when Charlotte's talent for weaving praiseworthy words about Wilbur into her...

Five-disc set contains all 24 year-one episodes of the series about John-Boy Walton, a youth on the verge of manhood during the Great Depression.

Chronicles the life of a family living in rural Virginia during the Depression. The Waltons plunge into the chaos and heroism of World War II. John-Boy reports from London for Stars and Stripes; Mary Ellen nurses the war wounded; Jason, Ben, and even Jim-Bob debate joining up.

Chronicles the life of a family living in rural Virginia during the Depression. John-Boy becomes a publisher, Mary Ellen becomes a bride, old friends return, new friends arrive, and the family bedrock of love endures in the fifth season of this classic series.

Chronicles the life of a family living in rural Virginia during the Depression. It's a big year for welcomes on Walton's Mountain. Welcome back to John-Boy, visiting from New York; to Grandma, finally home from the hospital; and to Mary Ellen and Curt's baby boy, John Curtis.

Chronicles the life of a family living in rural Virginia during the Depression. In the final season, World War II ends and the Walton family members return to their lives on Walton's Mountain to face the new challenges peace brings.

Six made-for-TV movies chronicling the life of the Walton family from the late 1940s to the late 1960s.

Richard Thomas plays the key role of John-Boy Walton, a youth on the verge of manhood during the Great Depression and a fledgling writer whose observations are filled with the growing-up lessons and love he receives from his family. Chronicles the life of a family living in rural Virginia during the Depression.