"The Waltons" The Heartache (1981)

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Director:

Herbert Hirschman

Writers:

Earl Hamner Jr. (creator)
Kathleen Hite (writer)

TV Series:

"The Waltons" (1972)

Original Air Date:

15 May 1981 (Season 9, Episode 19)

Genre:

Drama | Family | Romance

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

1930s | Great Depression | Virginia | Mother Daughter Relationship | Male Female Relationship

Cast

Jon Walmsley	...	Jason Walton
Judy Norton-Taylor	...	Mary Ellen Walton
Mary Beth McDonough	...	Erin Walton
Eric Scott	...	Ben Walton
David W. Harper	...	Jim-Bob Walton
Kami Cotler	...	Elizabeth Walton
Joe Conley	...	Ike Godsey
Ronnie Claire Edwards	...	Corabeth Walton
Peggy Rea	...	Rose Burton
Leslie Winston	...	Cindy Brunson Walton
Mary Jackson	...	Emily Baldwin
Helen Kleeb	...	Mamie Baldwin
Robert Wightman	...	John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr.
Earl Hamner Jr.	...	Narrator
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Corinne Camacho	...	Mrs. Bassett (as Corinne Michaels)
Kip Niven	...	Rev. Tom Marshall
Marshall Reed	...	John Curtis Willard
Michael Reed	...	John Curtis Willard
Ken Sansom	...	Dr. Cole
William Schallert	...	Stanley Perkins
Claire Schoene	...	Virginia "Ginny" Walton (as Clare Schoene)
Elizabeth Schoene	...	Virginia "Ginny" Walton

Quotes:

Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] There was a growing independence in our family as we grew older. With the years we became more individual, often holding firm and differing opinions, approaching life from diverse directions. But let joy or sorrow come to one, it always came to us all, to be faced, to be shared, to be experienced together. When the Waltons needed to be a family we came together as one.

Soundtrack:

Bridal Chorus