On
Christmas Eve 1933 in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia the Walton family
are preparing for the holiday, but they are becoming increasingly worried
because John Walton
(Andrew Duggan),
who has been forced to take work in a different part of the state because of
the depression, is long overdue getting home.
John
promised Olivia
(Patricia Neal) he would be home early on Christmas Eve, and then she and the
grandparents Zebb and Esther (Edgar Bergen and Ellen Corby) hear about a bus
crash on the radio but kept it from the children.
However
later she sends her eldest, John-Boy (Richard Thomas) to Charlottesville to
look for his father.
However,
on the way he runs out of gas, then he got a ride with Pastor Hawthorne Dooley
(Cleavon Little) and the Baldwin sisters, Emily and Mamie (Dorothy Stickney and
Josephine Hutchinson) on their sleigh until they have to turn back due to a
fallen tree.
When
he returns home empty handed, he is chastised by his mother who is now rather
panic-stricken with fear.
When
Grampa Zebb heads out to ring the church bells, John-boy offers to take the
children to the barn to hear the Christmas miracle of the animals speaking but
when he opens the door, he finds his father standing there.
The
rest of the Waltons are played by Jon Walmsley, Judy Norton, Mary Beth
McDonough, Eric Scott, David W. Harper and Kami Cotler and other guest stars
include William Windom, David Huddleston and Woodrow Parfrey.
The
prologue and epilogue and narrated by the author Earl Hamner Jr.
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