Grandpa loses his will to live after a near fatal heart attack; the family takes desperate measures.Grandpa loses his will to live after a near fatal heart attack; the family takes desperate measures.Grandpa loses his will to live after a near fatal heart attack; the family takes desperate measures.
Michael Learned
- Olivia Walton
- (as Miss Michael Learned)
Mary Beth McDonough
- Erin Walton
- (as Mary Elizabeth McDonough)
Earl Hamner Jr.
- The Narrator
- (voice)
- (as Earl Hamner)
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- TriviaThe song Grandpa sings a bit of when he's being moved outside into the tent is "Tenting on the Old Camp Ground," also known as "Tenting Tonight." It was written in 1863 by Walter Kittredge and was popular during the Civil War.
- GoofsGrandpa Walton is celebrating his 73rd birthday, and the year is 1935, which means he would have been born in 1862. However, after he dies his grave marker shows he was born in 1865.
- Quotes
Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] The spring of 1935 was a particularly good one on Waltons Mountain. Peach blossoms exploded in a pink mist and the mallards built their nest early along the Rockfish River. Spring's arrival was so magnificent that it left us unprepared for anything that might in any way deny the beauty of life.
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Another Important Episode Dealing With People Issues
If you watch this and think that people do not act this way, then you haven't been around many people. But in the depression era, there weren't as many "psych meds" and most people faced reality the way we see it portrayed in this episode. They simply worked things out over time.
I knew a lady who spent 20 years dying. She knew her time was short and spent 5 presidential terms spread out over two decades convinced of that fact. She finally did pass away at the young age of 85. Thankfully, in this episode, Grandpa Zeb doesn't take quite that long to snap to and, without injecting a "spoiler", I will just say that this episode was a good treatment of matter.
Richard Thomas and Will Greer worked well together, even as Greer and Ellen Corby provided a lot of great banter throughout these first few seasons. Brings back a lot of old memories of my Georgia-born and bread grandfather and his more proper and prim Yankee bride of around 7 decades of marriage.
I knew a lady who spent 20 years dying. She knew her time was short and spent 5 presidential terms spread out over two decades convinced of that fact. She finally did pass away at the young age of 85. Thankfully, in this episode, Grandpa Zeb doesn't take quite that long to snap to and, without injecting a "spoiler", I will just say that this episode was a good treatment of matter.
Richard Thomas and Will Greer worked well together, even as Greer and Ellen Corby provided a lot of great banter throughout these first few seasons. Brings back a lot of old memories of my Georgia-born and bread grandfather and his more proper and prim Yankee bride of around 7 decades of marriage.
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- Sep 7, 2019
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