DVD : The Waltons - The Complete First Season
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790789613
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790789612
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 11, 2004
Running Time: 1249 minutes
Sales Rank: 1314
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 14, 1972
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They built their home on the timeless mountain that bears their name. They built their lives on even stronger stuff: the bedrock of family. This 5-disc set features all 24 Year-One episodes of the beloved series that ran 9 years and won 5 Emmy Awards its inaugural year, including Outstanding Drama Series. 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 father John, mother Olivia, Grandma, Grandpa and all the rest of The Waltons.
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The Waltons' nearly 10-year run on network television grew out of the popular, 1971 made-for-TV movie The Homecoming, which was derived from a Depression-era, rustic setting ("Walton's Mountain"), and characters based on Earl Hamner Jr.'s autobiographical novel Spencer's Mountain--itself the source for a very nice 1963 feature film starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara. That's a lot of entertainment sprouting from Hamner's prose. But something about his seminal story of family values, rugged independence, and big dreams amidst a hardscrabble existence captured the hearts of American audiences, many of whom personally recalled severe economic adversity in the 1930s.
The Waltons: The Complete First Season collects those initial episodes from the series building on the strengths of the Homecoming pilot, which introduced the extended Walton clan led by a strong-willed mill owner, John (Andrew Duggan), and his equally resolute wife, Olivia (Patricia Neal). The Waltons recast those key roles (as well as a few others) with Ralph Waite and Michael Learned (yup, a female), but Richard Thomas carried over as oldest child John-Boy Walton, an aspiring writer whose cusp-of-manhood view informs the series. Will Geer (Seconds) replaced Edgar Bergen as Grandpa Walton, Ellen Corby remained as Grandma, and John and Olivia's large brood (seven kids in all) were filled out by largely unknown, young actors. The episodes, still delightful and touching, strong on production values and unusually tight and polished for primetime drama, tended to focus on creator Hamner's pet themes of self-sacrifice and heroic effort when the going got tough.
Year 1 highlights include "The Carnival," in which the impoverished Waltons, who can't pay for tickets to see a circus performance, end up sheltering stranded carney folk. "The Typewriter" is a classic about John-Boy "borrowing" a museum's antique typewriter, only to have his sister Mary Ellen (Judy Norton) sell it as junk. "The Sinner" concerns the arrival of a fundamentalist minister on Walton's Mountain, finding comfort in the words of religious iconoclast John Walton after the clergyman makes a fool of himself with moonshine. That's Hamner himself providing touches of narration. During the long run of the multiple-award-winning The Waltons, there were many changes in casting and storylines. But this boxed set reveals a fine series in its pristine state. --Tom Keogh
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I never paid much attention to this series during its first run. I was a teenager and had better things to do, I guess. However, as we grow older and nostalgia becomes more important to us, I've come to really enjoy this show, particularly the first season.
The cast is great. The principal characters all have the ability to carry the show and the younger children and anncilary characters all fit in well. I enjoy the period costumes and the concerns families had during the depression. Perhaps we can all relate to this situation now that we seem to be returning to depression level unemployment and anxiety.
Some of the epidsodes are a bit predictable, but this show is genrally well written and acted. I recall as the series aged it reached its peak and then remained on air for a few more years. This eventually leads to a poorer quality show as characters leave and newcomers don't seem to have the same charm as the original characters. Grandpa Walton is a personal favorite, the kind of old man I wished I could have spent time with as a kid, or moreover as an adult.
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The Walton's is good old fashion intertainment, of a family struggling through the depression and everyday family struggles. Although the acting of some of the weekly featured actors (not the regular cast)are poor, the episodes are redeemed by the sencerity of the regular cast of actors and actresses. The overall vision of the episodes is a family that helps others, cares about others,serves and supports each other through difficult times as well as everyday matters. "The Walton's" is a role model of how we should be towards family members and members of the community as well as strangers. In our ever changing society where good, wholesome, moral uprightness is made fun of, this TV series can remind us that decent individual conduct can bring back unity, safer communities, and concern for our families and neighbors.
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I received my order for The Waltons Season 1 on time. Great service there,however, I must inform you that the first disc was labeled disc 1 and supposed to contain Episode1: The Foundling, Episode 2 The Carnival ,etc. Instead it contained Episode 13 The Reunion, Episode 14, The Minstrel, etc. Disc 3 and all the others were as they should be. Will you send me the proper disc 1 for this series please?
Thank You
Linda Lytle
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VERY HAPPY WITH THE WALTONS FIRST SEASON. PERFECT CONDITION, ARRIVED WHEN I EXPECTED. I WOULD ORDER FROM THIS SITE AGAIN.
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The Season 1 and Season 2 DVD set is just what my in-laws wanted. They are finicky TV watchers and many of todays shows are not of interest to them. They absolutely love the DVD's and thank me for them everytime I see them.
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starring: Jon Walmsley, Mary Beth McDonough, Eric Scott, Earl Hamner Jr., Judy Norton-Taylor
directed by: Alf Kjellin, Fielder Cook, Harry Harris, Jack Shea, Lee Philips
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790789613
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790789612
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 11, 2004
Running Time: 1249 minutes
Sales Rank: 1314
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 14, 1972
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