I'll try to get this ball rolling by asking everybody what their favorite episodes are?
I have few that I don't like--and, I can't name any right now that I especially like, because, I like all of them!!:)

Here are some of my favorite episodes of The Waltons!!!


1. The Five Foot Shelf :where the encyclopedia salesman tries and sells the Waltons encyclopedias so that he could buy his little girl a doll
2. The Separation: When they turn the power off at the Waltons' house, Grandpa goes to the Baldwins and helps out,and when he gets back Grandma is mad because he forgot to get the candles at Ike's store,and they get into an argument,and she locks Grandpa out of the bedroom and he goes and stays at Ike's store
3. Day Of Infamy: The Pearl Harbor Episode
4: The Quilting: Mary Ellen is upset at Grandma because Mary Ellen doesn't want to join in the tradition of having a quilt
5: The Holiday Episodes
6: The House: Grandma has sentimental ties to the house where she first met Grandpa and learns that they are tearing it down
7: Grandma Comes Home
8: The Empty Nest

There are many more!!! Every episode is a favorite!!!:wave:

Most of the episodes from the first five seasons are gems. The majority of those episodes are simple and understated, with the occasional honest-to-goodness crisis ("The Burn-Out", where the house catches on fire, or "The Easter Story" where Olivia contracts polio) thrown in. Later on in the series, the writers started running out of story ideas, and upped the melodrama (Mary Ellen gets hooked on painkillers; Olivia goes through menopause; faux John-Boy is injured in the war; presumed-dead Curt turns up alive).

I particularly like the episode in the first season that introduces Rev. Fordwick. He is staying with the family in preparation for a revival meeting, and John is not pleased with his fire-and-brimstone speeches to the children, placing him at odds with Olivia. I also like "The Cloudburst", where John-Boy unwittingly sells the land that Grandpa gave him to a strip-mining firm, in order to raise money for his newspaper. That episode has a bittersweet ending that is refreshingly realistic.

I like the first Thanksgiving episode in which John Boy gets hurt and ends up in the hospital.


Also the one where Elizabeth turns 13 and a poltergeist appears in the house.