https://www.metv.com/stories/jon-walmsley-didnt-miss-having-a-regular-childhood-when-he-was-on-the-waltons

"I wanted to do what I did very much and it was important to me."

Jon Walmsley said that this was the one thing that bothered him about The Waltons (https://www.metv.com/stories/jon-walmsley-said-that-this-was-the-one-thing-that-bothered-him-about-the-waltons)

Walmsley loved his time on the series, save for one aspect.