The Waltons: Season 4, Episode 3

The Fighter (25 Sep. 1975)

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A prize fighter (Cleavon Little) arrives searching for work, living and training in the Waltons' barn. Some are put off by his fighting, but he wants to build a church in the community. Loses fight but community helps to build the church.

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A prize fighter (Cleavon Little) arrives searching for work, living and training in the Waltons' barn. Some are put off by his fighting, but he wants to build a church in the community. Loses fight but community helps to build the church.

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Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] When I was growing up during the Great Depression, I often marveled at the road which connected us with the rest of the world, and which brought us friends and strangers. The road afforded us our isolation, and at the same time provided a link wth the rapidly changing cities. Here on Waltons Mountain, there was a "Y" in the road where a fateful decision was to be made by a new friend, a decision that was to involve the entire ...
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