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Season 4 |
| 76 :04x01 - The Sermon (Sep/11/1975) | | As Rev. Fordwick and Miss Hunter prepare for their upcoming wedding and short honeymoon, Olivia and John Boy prepare to take their places as teacher and preacher while they are gone. While both Olivia and he are nervous, John Boy is concerned that he doesn't know what to speak about. However, as he observes his family and friends during the week, John Boy is able to find the inspiration needed to speak in front of the church congregation. | | Guest Stars: Cindy Eilbacher as Martha Rose Coverdale, Basil Hoffman as Prof. Ranney, Nora Marlowe as Flossie Brimmer, John Ritter as Rev. Matthew Fordwick, Mariclare Costello as Rosemary Hunter | Director: Harry Harris (1)
Writer: Kathleen Hite | | | |
| 77 :04x02 - The Genius (Sep/18/1975) | | When a dean at Boatwright University becomes concerned with John Boy's physics grade, he has Lyle, a young genius tutor him. When he asks John Boy to take him home for the weekend to experience family life, Lyle and the rest of the Walton's begin disagreeing, especially when the young man expresses his beliefs regarding religion. When the family starts planning a church bazaar to help out a neighbor, Lyle unexpectedly has to help out, resulting in the Walton's learning that he is actually a nice young man with a good sense of humor. | | Guest Stars: Alexis Jacks as Little Girl, Tim Haldeman as Student, Kim O'Brien as Secretary, George D. Wallace (1) as Dean Beck, Dennis Kort as Lyle | Director: Harry Harris (1)
Writer: Robert Weverka | | | |
| 78 :04x03 - The Fighter (Sep/25/1975) | | When a fighter comes to the Walton’s home looking for work, room and board, Olivia and Grandma aren’t happy when they learn he is a fighter. However, their view of him changes when they learn he plans to use his winnings to build a church for his congregation. | | Guest Stars: Martin St. Judge as Church Elder, Gary Mclargy as Comet Kid, Charles Picerni as Sparring Partner, Jimmy Nickerson as Iron Mike, Brett Hadley as Radio Announcer Billy Walker, Erin Blunt as Jody Foster, Dave Shelley as Sam Mumford, Cleavon Little as James Travis Clark, Russ Grieve as Ring Announcer, Lynn Hamilton (1) as Verdie Foster, James Gammon as Zack Rosswell, Zachary Charles as Ben Rafferty | Director: Ivan Dixon
Writer: Andy White | | | |
| 79 :04x04 - The Prophecy (Oct/02/1975) | | As John's high school reunion approaches, he is reluctant to attend, since he feels that his classmates have become more successful than him. However, when he and Olivia are at the party, he soon finds out that his classmates are envious of how he has a loving wife and family. | | Guest Stars: Nicole Henzel as Ernestine, Nobel Willingham as B.C. Graddy, Brian Part as Melvin Graddy, James Ray as G. Cleveland Cathcart, Beaumont Bruestle as Dr. Porter, James Gammon as Zack Rosswell, Deanna Lund as Mrs. Graddy, Jeff Cotler as B.C. Graddy Jr., Sandra Deel as Rachel, Lynn Carlin as Eula Mae, William Phipps as John Martin Renshaw | Director: Harry Harris (1)
Writer: Marion Hargrove | | | |
| 80 :04x05 - The Boondoggle (Oct/09/1975) | | When a journalist comes to the mountain looking to write a guide book of Virginia, John Boy takes him to talk to the Baldwin sisters. However, when some secrets regarding their father come to light, Miss Mamie and Emily are embarrassed and vow to become recluses. Fortunately, upon further investigation, John Boy and the journalist find records clearing Judge Baldwin's name, making the sisters happy. | | Guest Stars: Derek Triplett as Benny, David Clarke (1) as Abel Bingley, Nora Marlowe as Flossie Brimmer, Kevin Lee (3) as Buck, Richard McKenzie (1) as Porter Sims | Director: Ralph Waite
Writer: Claire Whitaker, Rod Peterson | | | | | | |
| 82 :04x07 - The Wing-Walker (Oct/23/1975) | | When John Boy is sent to the local fair to cover the story of a wing-talker, he becomes intrigued with her and invited her to come up to Walton's Mountain to stay with the family for a few days. From that point on, things get emotionally entangled when the girl starts getting flowers and thinks they were sent by John Boy. However, the truth comes out and she learns that Jim Bob is the young man who has a crush on her. | | Guest Stars: Tom Bower (1) as Rex Barker, Lee Purcell as Bobbie Strom, John Mitchum as The Announcer, Merie Earle as Maude Gormley | Director: Harvey Laidman
Writer: Andy White | | | | | | |
| 84 :04x09 - The Emergence (Nov/06/1975) | | With Olivia working as the substitute teacher while Miss Hunter is on her honeymoon, the Walton children find it difficult to share her with the other students. After a few days in class, Olivia starts to help a student that the other children calls slow. Upon learning the reason why he does poorly in class is due to needing glasses, Olivia goes to his parents and persuades them to buy the boy glasses. As this is occurring, John Boy learns that his former girlfriend Marcia has come back to the mountain to sell her father's house to finance her fiancé’s new business. | | Guest Stars: Tammi Bula as Marcia Woolery, Cindy Eilbacher as Martha Rose Coverdale, Penelope Sudrow as Annie, Bob Marsic as Samuel Miller, Jackie Earle Haley as Tom | Director: Alf Kjellin
Writer: Hindi Brooks | | | |
| 85 :04x10 - The Loss (Nov/13/1975) | | When young Olivia comes back to Walton's Mountain after the death of her husband, she asks Olivia and the rest of the family for help to get over her loss. Unsure of how to help the grieving young widow, it isn't until Calico, the family's old cat, delivers a litter of kittens that helps young Olivia come to terms of Bob's death. | | Guest Stars: Vernon Weddle as Dr. Culler, Bruce Davison as Bob Hill, Deborah White as Young Olivia | Director: Alf Kjellin
Writer: Joanne Court | | | | | | |
| 87 :04x12 - The Estrangement (Dec/04/1975) | | When the Walton's cousin Vera leaves her husband, she goes to stay with them, telling the family that Wade doesn't love her anymore. Upon learning Vera is with her family, Wade confesses to her that he was only making some extra money running moonshine made by his uncle. After Wade gets arrested for running the shine, he realizes that he and Vera weren't at home in the city and they ultimately move to Walton's mountain, where Wade begins to work for John. | | Guest Stars: Burton Gilliam as Paulson, John Bellah as Corky, Tommy Bush (1) as The Worker, Paul Linke as Pete, John Crawford (1) as Sheriff Ep Bridges, Lindsay V. Jones as Vera, Richard Hatch (1) as Wade | Director: Harry Harris (1)
Writer: Michael Russnow, Tony Kayden | | | |
| 88 :04x13 - The Nurse (Dec/11/1975) | | When Mary Ellen is sent a letter from the Nursing School at the University of Virginia, she tries to take a test to be let in the program, only to learn she needs to take Chemistry and Algebra to be prepared for the nursing course load. After being turned away, she goes to Nora Taylor, the county nurse, for tutoring in those subjects. When she offers to help Nora with her work in exchange for learning the subjects, Mary Ellen soon sees that becoming a nurse in order to help the folks of the mountain is what she was meant to do. | | Guest Stars: Stephanie Silver as Joyce, Shannon Terhune as Violet, Elizabeth Rogers (1) as Nurse Smith, Tamar Cooper as Essie Basham, Ann D'Andrea as Nurse Collins, Jon Lormer as Lait Basham, Charlotte Moore as Nurse Jenny Stevens, Barbara Eda-Young as Nora Taylor | Director: Alf Kjellin
Writer: Kathleen Hite | | | |
| 89 :04x14 - The Intruders (Dec/18/1975) | | Wanting to prove he is a mature adult, Ben decides to moves out and ultimately begins working at a competing lumber mill, only to find out he’s being used to get a lucrative lumber contract from the railroad. Seeing the mistake he made, Ben returns home to help his family win a contract from the railroad. | | Guest Stars: Don Freeman (1) as Workman, Paul Harper as Grier, Tom Howard as Parsons, Karen Purcill as Courtney Wallace, Hal Riddle as Willis, James E. Brodhead as Store Manager, Cal Haynes as Ferris, William Lucking as Cobbs, Wilford Brimley as Horace | Director: Richard C. Bennett (1)
Writer: Seth Freeman | | | |
| 90 :04x15 - The Search (Jan/01/1976) | | As Olivia, Elizabeth, and Jim Bob are on their way to visit a friend of Olivia's, car trouble strands them in the woods, where they soon get lost. As a search party is busy looking for them before a storm hits, Erin and Mary Ellen are busy doing house work, waiting to hear news regarding Olivia, Elizabeth, and Jim Bob. | | Guest Stars: Edmund E. Villa as Second Flagman, Wilford Brimley as Horace, Bill Smillie as First Flagman, Red Currie as Younger Son, Robert Sorrells as Older Son, Helen Craig as Mountain Woman | Director: Harry Harris (1)
Writer: Paul West
Story: Ellen Corby | | | |
| 91 :04x16 - The Secret (Jan/08/1976) | | After being teased by Erin and Ben for not looking like the rest of the family, Jim Bob begins to suspect that he might not be a Walton. As he begins to ask questions on whether he could have been adopted, Jim Bob learns that several people on the mountain remember clearly remember the day he was born and he learns about the difficulties Olivia had while in labor and was never talked about afterwards. To make him feel better, John Boy takes Jim Bob to the county records office so he for himself that he is truly a Walton and to learn about his birth. | | Guest Stars: Adrienne Marden as Mrs. Breckenridge, Nora Marlowe as Flossie Brimmer, Eddie Ryder (1) as The Yo-Yo King | Director: Harvey Laidman
Writer: Rod Peterson, Claire Whitaker | | | |
| 92 :04x17 - The Fox (Jan/15/1976) | | When John Boy decides to organize a re-enactment of the Battle of San Juan Hill, Grandpa sternly says he will have nothing to do with it, because of how he embellished his old stories of what his duties where in it. However, a special guest to the re-enactment informs Grandpa that he truly was a hero in the battle in his eyes. | | Guest Stars: Frank Ferguson (1) as Allen McCreary, Merie Earle as Maude Gormley, Arline Anderson as Elaine Allerton, George Chandler as Bob Allerton | Director: Richard Thomas (1)
Writer: Max Hodge | | | |
| 93 :04x18 - The Burn Out (1) (Jan/22/1976) | | When a fire breaks out at the Walton's home, the children are scattered around the mountain, staying with their generous neighbors as John, Olivia, and their grandparents rebuild the house. | | Guest Stars: Loutz H. Gage as The Man from Wilkes Barre, Paul Jenkins as Prof. Parks, John Ritter as Rev. Matthew Fordwick, Mariclare Costello as Rosemary Fordwick, Nora Marlowe as Flossie Brimmer, Robert Donner as Yancy Tucker, Pearl Shear as Zuleika Dunbar, Victor Izay as Dr. Vance | Director: Harry Harris (1)
Writer: John McGreevey | | | | | | | | | |
| 96 :04x21 - The Test (Feb/05/1976) | | When Olivia starts making dresses for the Baldwin sisters to make some money after some milling equipment breaks, her sewing skills get noticed by a woman who owns a dressmaking shop. Once Olivia gets offered a full time job, she gets the close friendships of other women that she has been looking for. However, when the owner of the shop talks about expanding the business and have Olivia manage the new shops, she decides that the place she truly wants to spend her time at is at home. | | Guest Stars: Nancy Gallant as The Waitress, David Clarke (1) as Abel Bingley, James O'Connell as Ed Knightly, John Wheeler as Leonard Gormley, Merie Earle as Maude Gormley, Abby Dalton as Stella Lewis | Director: Harvey Laidman
Writer: Kathleen Hite | | | |
| 97 :04x22 - The Quilting (Feb/12/1976) | | After Grandma arrives home from visiting a sick friend, she immediately starts planning Mary Ellen's quilting, a custom that announces when a young lady is ready to accept gentlemen callers. However, when Mary Ellen finds out what Grandma has planned, she refuses to partake in the custom, which causes a rift between her and Grandma. It isn't until when John Boy explains Grandma's intentions of planning the quilting that Mary Ellen finally agrees to attend the gathering. | | Guest Stars: Art Gilmore as The Radio Host, Robert Donner as Yancy Tucker, Nora Marlowe as Flossie Brimmer, David Doremus as G.W. Haynes, Merie Earle as Maude Gormley | Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Writer: Claire Whitaker, Rod Peterson | | | |
| 98 :04x23 - The House (Feb/19/1976) | | When Grandma finds out that the old Whitley house is about to be demolished, she teams up with the Baldwin sisters to help save it so all the community can use it for various functions. However, not realizing that Grandma wants to save the house, Grandpa is in favor of tearing down the house and salvaging some of the better lumber from the house, resulting in a huge argument between the couple. To make matters worse, John Boy has to write an editorial for his school paper about whether or not the house should be saved. Ultimately, Grandma and Grandpa mend their fences and the Whitley house gets remodeled. | | Guest Stars: Rusty Keller as Hollis, Jane Lambert as The Secretary, Robert Sorrells as Mr. Wheeler, Sherry Hursey as Felicia, Jay Robinson as Prof. Thaxton | Director: Harvey Laidman
Writer: Kirby Timmons | | | |
| 99 :04x24 - The Fledgling (Feb/26/1976) | | After a nearby newspaper decides to shut down, John Boy is given the chance by his old boss to start his own paper on Walton's Mountain. | | Guest Stars: F. William Parker as Man #2, Beth Peters as Woman in Line, Norman Andrews as Man #1, Ted Jordan as The Carpenter, Michael J. McDonough as Boyd, Lucille Benson as Tillie Shanks, Dennis Redfield as Michael Paxton, Billie Bird (1) as Mrs. Cox, Paul Jenkins as Prof. Parks, Walter Brooke as Mr. Johnson, Virginia Gregg as Mrs. Butterworth, Eddie Firestone as Rudyard Davis | Director: Harry Harris (1)
Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr. | | | |
| 100 :04x25 - The Collision (Mar/04/1976) | | When Selina Linville, an old flame of John Boy's, comes back to Walton's Mountain, the two start going together. However, things aren't the same between them, especially when Selina calls John Boy a coward when he won't go with her to write about the Spanish Civil War. Things ultimately get better when John Boy speaks his mind and tells Selina that he's already fighting a war, a war against the depression and asks her to stay on the mountain and transfer to Boatwright University. Also, while this is going on, Elizabeth feels that her new friend Ariel is always bragging about what beautiful things she has to make her feel jealous. However, when Elizabeth learns that Ariel is an orphan and lives with her aunt, she isn't mad and still wants to be friends with her. | | Guest Stars: Eduard Franz as Colonel Linville, Kathleen Quinlan as Selina Linville, Doreen Lang as Meg Phillips, Virginia Capers as Vesper Oakes, Karen Teitelman as Ariel "Effie" Robins | Director: Richard Thomas (1)
Writer: John McGreevey | | | |
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