"The Waltons"
The Threshold (1981)

Director:

Herbert Hirschman

Writers:

Earl Hamner Jr. (creator)
Scott Hamner (writer)

TV Series:

"The Waltons" (1972)

Original Air Date:

2 April 1981 (Season 9, Episode 17)

Genre:

Drama | Family | Romance

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Male Female Relationship | Multiple Actors For One Character | Family Relationships | Great Depression | Intimacy

Cast

Jon Walmsley	...	Jason Walton
Judy Norton-Taylor	...	Mary Ellen Walton Willard
Mary Beth McDonough	...	Erin Walton
Eric Scott	...	Ben Walton
David W. Harper	...	James Robert 'Jim Bob' Walton
Kami Cotler	...	Elizabeth Walton
Joe Conley	...	Ike Godsey
Ronnie Claire Edwards	...	Corabeth Walton Godsey
Peggy Rea	...	Rose Burton
Leslie Winston	...	Cindy Brunson Walton
Robert Wightman	...	John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr.
Earl Hamner Jr.	...	Narrator
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Colleen Casey	...	Melpomene
Mindy Dow	...	Urania
Ivor Francis	...	Dean Raymond Beck
Marshall Reed	...	John Curtis Willard
Michael Reed	...	John Curtis Willard
William Schallert	...	Stanley Perkins
Karey-Louis Scott	...	Erato
Pearl Shear	...	Zuleika Dunbar
Jonathan B. Woodward	...	Young Boy (as Jonathan Woodward)

Quotes:

Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] The post-war world is an era of innovation. We stood upon the threshold of a new age which was ruled by sudden change. Technical advancements in medicine, science, and electronics had a profound effect on the way we lived and thought. None of us dreamed how deeply we would be affected by those advancements even though we were close by when it all began.